Normalised Darkness

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2018/01/27/what-causes-heart-disease-part-forty-five/#comment-87707 

I look in vain for journalism in such media channels of corporate PR.

Instead I find a copy and paste churnalism along with reluctance to upset one of the main advertising sectors.

In part, economic factors drive the corporate nature of maximising profits by minimising costs - where the money supply and markets are basically rigged. Nothing real is affordable - excepting in industries where it HAS to work. IE a building has to stand. (However it does not seem to have to be designed with the safety of its occupants in mind relative to fire). This is exactly like when the body cannibalises its own resources as a result of lack of nutrients and minerals.

If and I emphasise IF some people 's use of some supplements has some ASSOCIATION with some forms of heart or other disease, then allow a simple comparison with iatrogenic misery, sickness and death -  A daily, weekly, monthly, yearly fact that would spark outrage but for invested belief and identity in its protection. And of course in some cases, that protection is valid and needful at some level.

What is 'stupid' about supplements is that we used to have it and be it without knowing what we had, but now most of us have to supplement to thrive rather than survive as an ever diminishing capacity for life.

The MS joke comes to mind; How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb.

Answer: None, they declare darkness the new standard.

Regardless the company reference, the fact is that almost anything can become 'normalised' no matter how unnatural - by the adjustment of the mind. But whatever is accepted true, defends itself from threat of change.

The pharmaceutical industry did not displace quackery, so much as buy the rights to use such accusation to regulate against others healing modalities. Modern 'debates' about the provision of health (sickness?) care hardly question the assumption that this is nearly all pharmaceutical in nature.

I would have bought Peter Gøtzsche's latest book but his bias against vitamins at the outset (I read inside on Amazon) gave me a sense of cognitive dissonance. In the same way Dr David Healy seeks only a pharmaceutical 'answer' (offering a substantial prize) to the seemingly permanent loss of sexual function to psychoactive Pharma drug use. Nutrition alone is not enough - except it may be enough to bring a clarity in place of a fog, such that more aligned choices, in every area of our lives, align the health to truly live them.