Interesting story about lifestyle changes here

[Bazza1234]

See you on my operating table! smh.com.au/healthcare/rober...

[Marz]

Yes it is certainly an interesting take on life ! No mention of the root cause of the patients raised cholesterol and blood pressure. I would put money on Low Thyroid results being involved in both ... was the thyroid cotrectly tested ? - probably not. Different Doc - different Dept ! Maybe he needs to read the book on Amazon - packed with resesearch papers - Thyroid and Heart Failure. 😊

[Markl60]

There is not detail in this article. What were the root causes, what diet did he adopt and what from of exercise. Did he stick to it or did he lapse. Did he monitor the effects of his changes eg on his BP. This scaremongering by doctors so invested in the system they will defend it with their last breath, does not help us fight the underlying causes of disease.

[sos007 Ambassador]

'When the only tool in your tool box is a hammer, every problem in the world looks like a nail'.

The paradigm of mainstream medicine is pharmacological or surgical intervention.

If 70% of the diseases in the world, as noted both in this article and in other studies, are dietary and lifestyle related, then why shouldn't they be addressed through dietary and lifestyle modification?

We don't know the degree of dietary and lifestyle changes made by her patient 'Bob'. Most people are not objective about the quality of their diet and lifestyle. We also don't know how advanced Bob's disease progression was, it may have gone beyond the point of no return in which case surgical intervention was required.

However to suggest that dietary and lifestyle changes are inferior to interventional medicine is both self-serving and irrational.

Serving up one anecdotal case as evidence of the failure of lifestyle and dietary modification is contrary to objective scientific investigation.

My own personal anecdote contradicts the good doctor and so now we have a draw.

The evidence is overwhelming that chronic diseases are a manifestation of dietary and lifestyle choices that have been gamefully manipulated by both corrupt academics and processed foods companies. They are also function of a society that has evolved away from a slow-paced agrarian paradigm to the fast-past world today with the additional complication of a 25% reduction in people's average sleep duration from 8.5 hours to 6.5 hours or less.

Sleep deprivation is a major catalyst for disease genesis which definitely falls under the category of 'lifestyle'.

The doctor failed to mention that in the U.S. alone over 120,000 people die each year from correctly-taken prescription pharmaceuticals. Where does THAT place the efficacy of mainstream medical intervention? That doesn't even include all the failed surgical interventions.

I'm not buying what that doctor is selling.

[Bazza1234]

I read it as saying - Forty years of poor lifestyle choices cannot be corrected by a new-found interest in good lifestyle choices. It is too late by then. certainly the late adoption of good lifestyle choices is worthwhile but not when they are the only action taken.