Quote Originally Posted by IowaSkinsFan
Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy
Don't fall prey to the uneducated hippie pseudosciences. Herbal remedies don't do shit, and dietary habits are most often not the problem, according to actual scientists.
I'm sorry but I fail to see how bolded can not help heal any problem. Are you suggesting that changes to diet would do no help to this problem? I don't think he was moving towards not listening to a doctor, just supplementing it.
What I am mainly getting at is to not pay attention to pseudoscience. The large majority of the time you hear anything about diet affecting some type of disease it comes not from medical data, but from a bunch of hippies selling organic snake oil. That's not to mention that diet doesn't play a big role, it does, but that role must be understood, and it's not some type of cure all like the hippies want us to think. Most of the data shows dietary measures to be preventative, not curative, and much of the data shows no significance with myriads of conditions; and when diet is a factor in medical conditions it is usually very cut and dry.

We are a very well nourished people, and most of our dietary problems stem partly from over abundance, like heart disease. Even then, it's hugely genetic. The role that diet plays in American health is very minor and enigmatic, but that doesn't mean that there is no role. I guess I'm just trying to point out that Max is likely well fed enough to where he could have no 'rickets cured by vitamin d supplementation' scenario. And any scenario that would be possible would be ones with a far shorter reach. Like the role of vitamin d and melanoma. Lots of recent research is coming out that a relatively high consumption of vitamin d can cause like a 40% reduced likelyhood of developing melanoma, but this type of dietary understanding is hard to discover and is preventative not curative.

Don't get me wrong. Diet plays a role, it's just that it's important to know what that role is. I could write up an entire page on results of research I know about that can improve American diet, but it's all honestly very small stuff, and I know of no research that any type of dietary measures will cause the gallbladder to inflame or reverse that cause.

Also, if diet was a well-known factor with gallbladder issues, it's very likely that the doctor would address that. If you go into see a physician for hemorrhoids he's likely going to ask you if you eat enough fiber, but if you come in with an inflamed internal organ he's not going to ask you if you eat enough b vitamins