Week 5 Post 1

 The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs:

• overconfidence in procedure and prescription

Lipatore: people believe it is close to 100x more effective than it is

doctors do not educate patients on effectiveness of prescriptions because the patient is less likely to comply should they be informed. 

        If heart attack medicine ensured that you would not have a heart attack, everyone would take it. Even             if it was 50% effective, most people would. If it was 10% or less, most people would not want to take that pill everyday and that's what it is, 5% effective. 

If we shared these stats, would preventative health be more appealing?

For 95% of people, Lipatore will not do anything!

Doctors and big Pharma oversell the benefits! This is what doctors are taught so they are not really analyzing this.

Food/plant-based diet: 20x more effective, risk reduction of 60%, 99.4% who stuck with healthy diet had reversal of CAD. 

90% of people said if they knew the percent effectiveness, they would not take the drug. 

Why Prevention is Worth a Ton of Cure

Overconfidence in treatment--does not reduce mortality--modern medicine can do more harm than good/no numbers should how current treatment helps chronic disease (do they want people to know?

23.3% of doctors do not wash their hands--HAI's

225,000 death due to HAI's

American medical system--good at broken bones

Lots of medical error deaths

Medical institution is third leading cause of death---mostly due to chronic disease

1) Heart Disease

2) Cancer

3) Medical Institutions and the way they handle those things

BEST WAY TO PREVENT MEDICAL ERROR is to not get sick. 

McKinney, Amanda. "Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine". DoaneX: BIOL-212X.  https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:DoaneX+BIOL-212x+2T2020/886f85ee3d284626b884d40ce7d80248/.