This is the argument against pharmaceuticals, and I think it is a strong one: If defeating your body's natural systems via interfering with a single biochemical pathway makes you healthier, then your ancestors would have easily evolved such a thing. Every biochemical pathway has regulators, and natural selection can adjust them. Exogenous substances adjusting these pathways is directly in contradiction to what your body is trying to do (for example, anti-inflammatories defeat your body's natural inflammation; anti-pyretics defeat your body's natural fever; pain relievers defeating our body's natural way of avoiding further tissue damage). And clearly your body is trying to be healthy.

There are exceptions, however; pharmaceutical interventions that don't fall into that category. But businesses want to sell more things to make more money, and so they will expand into drug targets that wise people would best avoid.

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Did our ancestors not also die at an average age of like 28 tho

Woolly Mammoths vs Spears. 😀

Only statistically, if you believe even that. Statistics are useful mainly for lying. If you include infant mortality, then sure, average age at death was something pretty low. If you exclude infant mortality, then they were possibly living longer than we do now.

No that is a common misunderstanding.

In Athens, mean and median life length was 71.3 years (mean) and 70 years (median).

The reason life expectancy was about 35 was because of high infant mortality. If half of infants die, then you have to average in all these 0's into the overall life expectancy.

Modern medical science has wonderfully improved infant mortality. I cannot argue that. It is clear.

But it has done very little for the rest of us. ... antibiotics (which will eventually fail) probably accouting for the rest.

the average person is a retard who thinks their body is like a car that needs periodic oil changes and tune ups and that doctors are like mechanics

but cars were DESIGNED to be serviced whereas our bodies were DESIGNED to be left the fuck alone

this is is why i don't speak to people in the bottom 90% of IQ curve - i just tell them to fuck off and die - they are an absolute waste of time

i used a lot of drugs in my time from Alcohol, Cocaine, MDMA and LSD to Steroids, Amphetamines and Provigil

in each case i knew i am doing general damage to my body to get very specific result such as Disinhibition, Euphoria, Hallucination, Energy or increased Musculature ...

i was OK with losing about 10 years of my life to have a life that is actually worth living

how dumb one has to be to believe that you can use your body as a dumpster for drugs and actually improve your health because a "doctor" prescribed those drugs ?

Medicine is so heavily regulated that Doctors are basically government officials. If you trust doctors you basically trust the government. And if you do frankly you deserve to die.

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It’s frightening how these “experts” blatantly do not think of unintended consequences

For example I saw this today and wanted to throw up

Ever heard of Isaac Jennings?

100% this is exactly how I think about it as well. There is no free lunch, everything is a trade off. In extreme circumstances pharma and medical interventions can be helpful, but the long term solution should be not based on them.