This is the opposite of conventional medicine. As far as I know, every major drug has serious bad side effects. The drugs often help the problem for which they are prescribed, but your health has a good chance of becoming worse sometimes much worse in other ways. Against Medical Advice (2008) by James Patterson and Hal Friedman is the true story of a boy (Friedman’s son) with severe Tourette’s. (Recommended by Alexandra Carmichael.) In an epilogue, Friedman says, “Our family is convinced that his most extreme symptoms were caused by medicines prescribed but with unhappy results, almost without exception.” The cure was worse than the disease.
The phenomenon of positive side effects isn’t mysterious. Our bodies need certain inputs to work well. The whole body evolved with the same inputs. When something crucial is missing, several things break down. And when the missing thing is supplied, several things get better. We write all our words using the same 26 letters. If one letter (e.g., “k”) is missing, many words will be misspelled. When the missing letter is supplied, many words will be spelled correctly. Fixing one word fixes many words.
The implication of positive side effects is profound. Finding the right inputs isn’t a new wrinkle on current health care, it’s a whole new way of being healthy. Public health officials haven’t had much luck selling prevention but maybe that was because their ideas about prevention have been poor telling people to eat according to the Food Pyramid, for example. And if you are sick (as Brent was), you are highly motivated to do something about it. The old saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure should be revised: a ounce of the right cure is worth a pound of prevention. The dietary improvements that cured Brent’s migraines will prevent many other problems. Going from the old saying to the new saying is like going from thinking the sun revolves around the earth to realizing the earth revolves around the sun.
What happened to Brent Pottenger when he improved his diet along ancestral lines, a serious health problem unexpectedly went away also happened to Aaron Blaisdell. He improved his diet along ancestral lines and his sun sensitivity went away . A non-nutritional version happened to me: By adopting elements of Stone-Age life, I slept much better. And, at the same time, I stopped getting colds . Another example involves flaxseed oil. My discovery that flaxseed oil made my brain work much better implied that prehistoric diets contained more omega-3. A dosage that produced brain improvement also greatly improved gum health and recovery from injury .
This is the opposite of conventional medicine. As far as I know, every major drug has serious bad side effects. The drugs often help the problem for which they are prescribed, but your health has a good chance of becoming worse sometimes much worse in other ways. Against Medical Advice (2008) by James Patterson and Hal Friedman is the true story of a boy (Friedman’s son) with severe Tourette’s. (Recommended by Alexandra Carmichael.) In an epilogue, Friedman says, “Our family is convinced that his most extreme symptoms were caused by medicines prescribed but with unhappy results, almost without exception.” The cure was worse than the disease.
The phenomenon of positive side effects isn’t mysterious. Our bodies need certain inputs to work well. The whole body evolved with the same inputs. When something crucial is missing, several things break down. And when the missing thing is supplied, several things get better. We write all our words using the same 26 letters. If one letter (e.g., “k”) is missing, many words will be misspelled. When the missing letter is supplied, many words will be spelled correctly. Fixing one word fixes many words.
The implication of positive side effects is profound. Finding the right inputs isn’t a new wrinkle on current health care, it’s a whole new way of being healthy. Public health officials haven’t had much luck selling prevention but maybe that was because their ideas about prevention have been poor telling people to eat according to the Food Pyramid, for example. And if you are sick (as Brent was), you are highly motivated to do something about it. The old saying an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure should be revised: a ounce of the right cure is worth a pound of prevention. The dietary improvements that cured Brent’s migraines will prevent many other problems. Going from the old saying to the new saying is like going from thinking the sun revolves around the earth to realizing the earth revolves around the sun.
A great change is coming.