Complementary Meds

This article highlights really important points about integrative medicine, which is often misunderstood. It's really a marketing term rather than a valid treatment approach. It's a rebranding of complementary and alternative medicine. None of these things are effective.

Natural doesn't always mean safer. Toxicity depends on dose, not on whether something is natural or synthetic. Even common substances like caffeine, vitamin D, and salt can be lethal at certain levels. Understanding toxicology is key to rational risk assessment.

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

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Yet another study showing that #homeopathy doesn't work. The thing is, we knew that before the study was conducted because homeopathy is a fake treatment

#reiki is pseudoscientific nonsense. There is no possible way it could ever work. It is time to stop wasting time and money on such ridiculous studies

One of the most misunderstood documents in medicine may be the vaccine package insert. Dr. Paul Offit recently discussed how package inserts are often interpreted by the public—and weaponized online—as proof that vaccines “cause” every listed adverse event. But that’s not how these documents work. In large placebo-controlled trials involving tens of thousands of participants, many events occur simply because life happens: • seizures • autoimmune disease • fractures • hospitalizations • deaths If an event occurs after vaccination, it may appear in the insert even when it occurs at the SAME rate in the placebo group. Example: In the ~72,000 participant rotavirus vaccine trial, seizures appeared in both vaccine and placebo recipients at statistically indistinguishable rates. Ironically, after licensure, widespread vaccination actually REDUCED seizures overall because natural rotavirus infection itself can trigger seizures. The transcript also highlights an important concept many people struggle with: Temporal association ≠ causation. “Occurred after” does not mean “caused by.” This distinction becomes critically important in massive databases like VAERS, where millions of people naturally experience illness, injury, heart attacks, strokes, cancer diagnoses, and death every day independent of vaccination. That does NOT mean vaccines can’t cause adverse events. Some rare vaccine complications are very real: • myocarditis after mRNA COVID vaccines • clotting syndromes after adenovirus vector vaccines • vaccine-associated paralytic polio with oral polio vaccine These risks were identified precisely because large-scale post-marketing surveillance systems exist. The core challenge is distinguishing: • random coincidence from • true biological causation That requires: • placebo controls • statistical analysis • mechanistic biology • epidemiology • risk-benefit assessment Not screenshots of package inserts circulating on social media. Medicine becomes dangerous when people confuse signal with noise. @IntegralAnswers

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"Questioning the science" is important, but so is accepting the answers science provides."

The most important piece of information in the below post is underlined. Please remember that chiropractors are not doctors.

Caitlin Jensen, 28, walked into a Georgia chiropractor in June 2022. She came out with four dissected arteries, a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. It took her nine months to say "Mom" again. She had come in for lower back pain. Your brain runs on four arteries. Two carotids in front, two vertebrals in back. The vertebrals don't run free. They thread up through narrow bone tunnels inside each cervical vertebra, C6 to C1, then loop around the top vertebra in a tight horizontal curve called the V3 segment. When a chiropractor performs a high-velocity rotational thrust on the upper neck, V3 gets stretched and snapped against bone. The inner artery wall tears. Blood seeps between the layers. A flap forms. Flow blocks, or clots break off and travel to the brainstem. In Caitlin's case all four vessels tore. Paramedics worked 12 minutes restoring her pulse. Surgeons placed a stent in one artery and repaired what they could in the rest. The brain injury came from the bleed that followed the stroke that followed the dissection. One in 20,000 spinal manipulations triggers this. Arterial dissection causes 2% of strokes overall but 8 to 25% of strokes in patients under 45. In 55% of cases symptoms start within 12 hours of the adjustment. No screening test identifies who's at risk beforehand. The American Chiropractic Association's own spokesman told the New York Times patients should get vascular scans before neck manipulation. Almost none do. Informed consent matching a surgical risk disclosure isn't standard. The average victim is 40. Caitlin's back pain lived four vertebrae below the artery the thrust tore.

“Unpasteurized milk, consumed by only 3.2% of the population, and cheese, consumed by only 1.6% of the population, caused 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products.” - CDC Raw Milk Litigation: Curse or Canary? acsh.org/news/2026/05/0…

Don't trust experts Next time you board a plane, push the pilot aside and fly it yourself You've done your own research. You've watched Top Gun, right?

Almost any time someone mentions the word toxins, you can assume they’re not being factual. Everything can be toxic, including oxygen, water, sodium, glucose, and many other things essential to life. Thankfully, even scary-sounding things that can be toxic—like arsenic, formaldehyde, and even heavy metals—are also usually nontoxic in the small amounts in which they’re encountered in our diets and everyday life. The rare exceptions prove the rule that there’s really no such thing as detoxing. Your liver and kidneys are the best detox agents you have, and if those aren’t working, then you should seek medical attention. - @RyanMarino

Here is a perfect example of just ridiculous the ideas behind #homeopathy really are. What is an "irritable patient" and why would that influence the choice of treatment for something unrelated to the irritability?

If you take vitamin C for meningitis and not antibiotics you will die

This man is a chiropractor who sells books and supplements, not a medical doctor, not a psychiatrist, and not a pediatrician, yet he is confidently spreading blatant misinformation about SSRIs to millions. Mental health treatment should be guided by evidence based medicine, not conspiracy theories, social media algorithms, or people profiting from fear. SSRIs, like all medications, have risks and side effects, but they have also helped millions of patients suffering from depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and other psychiatric illnesses. We are once again entering a dangerous “anti psychiatry” era reminiscent of Thomas Szasz, where ideology and misinformation are being presented as science.

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I can't figure out if vaccines work or not. Tough one. Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.