I’m surprised as well. I expected to be downvoted to −2 or so pretty quickly, and stay around there.
As for your disagreements, I should stress that what I said is perhaps the absolute most important thing for the average person with a health issue like that to hear. All too many people get hung up on trying to target the problem specifically, when they’re dealing with an issue where doing so is not practical. Day after day, they ask, “What causes fibromyalgia? What are the new treatments suggested for it?” They remain fixated on these questions, while they sweep all sorts of other symptoms under the rug—random symptoms like headaches or splitting nails, which may be coming from the same source.
As for the Google hits, I’m not sure why you’re calling them suspect. Jon Barron is one of the best alternative health writers out there, the Weston A. Price Foundation has a huge following, PaleoHacks is perhaps the best forum on paleo (which is a diet and lifestyle with a massive following), and the other link is a blog that I’ve seen cited a bunch of times in paleo circles as being someone who is less likely than average to fall for various forms of silliness.
Is this enough evidence to suggest you should read the links and take them seriously? No idea. They have a lot of links within them though. My goal was to as quickly as possible find some articles that put the conditions for ‘tab explosion’ in place in a way I thought would be beneficial. Generally when conventional medicine doesn’t have the answer, the best place to look is where people are talking about paleo. Even stereotypically non-paleo things like raw vegan juicing, such as the Gerson Diet, will come up in paleo circles—quite simply because it seems to work.
I’m surprised as well. I expected to be downvoted to −2 or so pretty quickly, and stay around there.
As for your disagreements, I should stress that what I said is perhaps the absolute most important thing for the average person with a health issue like that to hear. All too many people get hung up on trying to target the problem specifically, when they’re dealing with an issue where doing so is not practical. Day after day, they ask, “What causes fibromyalgia? What are the new treatments suggested for it?” They remain fixated on these questions, while they sweep all sorts of other symptoms under the rug—random symptoms like headaches or splitting nails, which may be coming from the same source.
As for the Google hits, I’m not sure why you’re calling them suspect. Jon Barron is one of the best alternative health writers out there, the Weston A. Price Foundation has a huge following, PaleoHacks is perhaps the best forum on paleo (which is a diet and lifestyle with a massive following), and the other link is a blog that I’ve seen cited a bunch of times in paleo circles as being someone who is less likely than average to fall for various forms of silliness.
Is this enough evidence to suggest you should read the links and take them seriously? No idea. They have a lot of links within them though. My goal was to as quickly as possible find some articles that put the conditions for ‘tab explosion’ in place in a way I thought would be beneficial. Generally when conventional medicine doesn’t have the answer, the best place to look is where people are talking about paleo. Even stereotypically non-paleo things like raw vegan juicing, such as the Gerson Diet, will come up in paleo circles—quite simply because it seems to work.