What is a medical condition more serious than people realize?
What is a medical condition more serious than people realize?
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Tinnitus
Chronic ringing in the ears may seem minor, but tinnitus can severely affect mental health, sometimes driving individuals to suicide due to the constant and unrelenting noise.
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Type II Diabetes.
People joke about it, but it degrades every aspect of your life. It's ultimately fatal in a slow and most miserable way possible.
eta: specified adult onset
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Okay, but T2 diabetes has clinically proven interventions for reversal. If you don't want to stop eating animals, well, suffer, I guess.
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3/10 ragebait
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Funny you should mention it.
T2D has a demonstrated 40% reversal rate in a 5 year study using just a ketogenic diet. Animal food optional, but it won't hurt a ketogenic metabolism to eat animal foods.
Though some T2D has been resolved with the rice diet in the 1950s, which suggests that a major source of insulin resistance (a key component of T2D) is inflammation from dysfunction in the randel cycle.
TLDR: people who have T2D have a extreme form of carbohydrate intolerance, so they do much better if they don't eat carbs
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Don't worry. They'll tell you.
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Urinary tract infections in the elderly
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Eczema/rashes beyond like poison ivy and oak. I had an allergic reaction for the first time in my life, at about 30, and it was the first time I got huge rashes on my legs and feet and I could hardly walk for like 2 days. Went away pretty quick but I've got a lot more sympathy for chronic sufferers now
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I've had flare ups of severe eczema across my whole life. Sometimes it's almost impossible to do anything but wallow in the itch and the pain and the flaky yuck.
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ME/CFS
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Chronic cough. If bad enough no one wants to be around you because you just cannot keep silent in a conversation.
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Yes, I have about a 75% chance to get a cough each autumn, which typically lasts around 3-4 months. The worst is when people who you are around constantly, like family, start expressing their annoyance. Sorry, it's not like I can just stop! And everyone says "just take some cough syrup". No, the cough syrup doesn't do shit!
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Anti-medical movements are making me really worried about strep throat. Today it is mostly known as a mild infection kids get but without antibiotics it can be pretty deadly and cause permanent disabilities pretty frequently. The more parents who take their kids to chiropractors or use essential oils instead of going to real doctors, the more kids who will be permanently disabled or die from a disease that has been essentially cured. I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more of this among some religious communities already.
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Impaired metabolism affects 96% of adults in the west in 2021, I'm sure it hasn't improved since then.
Poor metabolism has huge systemic impacts over the entire body, it's the largest medical issue facing humanity
Impaired metabolic function presents with increased risk of
- hypertension
- obesity
- ectopic fat in the airway (snoring)
- type 2 diabetes
- cancer
- PCOS
- inflammation
- Alzheimer's and dementia
- gout
- cardio vascular disease
As a illustrative example there are nearly a billion people with diagnosed type 2 diabetes globally, right now. The US alone spends a over a billion USD per day dealing with diabetes complications.
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Pneumonia especially for older people
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ADHD (not a sufferer but it runs in the family). Imagine driving twenty minutes to work when, in the words of Shrek, you can't sit still for five minutes.
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Anemia. It's rare, but you can actually die from it.
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Long hulkamania. To this day I cannot wear T-shirts.
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