I’ve found other examples of ailments with relatively inexpensive or simple solutions that are unknown to many.
I think many people suffer to varying degrees simply because they don’t know some important piece of information.
Sometimes historical solutions overwhelm new or lesser known yet effective solutions and this prevents people from living better lives.
Sort of like how stack overflow is overrun with answers conflating jquery with JavaScript.
With health stuff, I think sometimes the friction and expense of seeing a professional prevents people from getting answers. Though sometimes these folks don’t have the most up to date or best information either.
It is almost like we need wikihow style answers for a far broader spread over life’s many questions.
In some cases like parent’s, this can be life-changing information. And while the procedure is not free the knowledge that motivates one to find a way to greatly improve one’s own outlook is.