On the flipside, there are also a small selection of unproven treatments that work better than standard care.
It’s a mistake to ignore proven, first-line treatments and skip straight to less proven alternatives, though. Some people have built an anti-mainstream bias that puts too much emphasis on the unproven, alternative treatments while downplaying the most proven treatments.
Salt is not to blame, it turns out
For example if your air quality is bad and/or ventilation is bad and may cause sleep apnea (like high CO2 concentration often makes you feel drowsy).
But the seller of CPAP machine will not monitor your air environment.
With medical problems there are often multiple factors, and when a solution is found that fix the symptoms, care is no longer taken to find the other causes, specially if the solution is generating recurring revenues.
I tried multiple doctors, treatments, tips etc and etc nothing worked. I finally visited a homeo doctor who diagnosed it right. It's deviated septum which is causing sinus infections because of regular coconut water intake. I just stopped drinking coconut water and it's been 10+ years and not another recurrence of sinus so far.
Proper diagnosis is hard and requires skill. The OP figured it by himself and in my case, someone did.
some people say to they put the lime in the coconut, then then they feel better.
Slightly related, I lived in the 3rd world with coconuts for a while growing up. Coconut water from a roadside stand practically put me in the hospital. I wish they had put the lime in the coconut.
Also line with mangoes is wonderful. =============
Anyways I self diagnosed with a fit bit a number of years ago. Doctors skeptical but yes I had sleep apnea. And it’s been a journey since then to self manage the machines and trouble shoot treatment. I was not blessed with great dme suppliers or providers.
Homeopathy doctor?
Seems even a quack can get some things right XD
The orthopedic guy sees you as a candidate for surgery a, b or c. He may miss that something else is going on. A treatment may be “unproven” for a symptom, but perfectly acceptable for a root cause.
Theres diet, sleep, exercise. Which require no studies to know that taking better care of yourself will help you regardless of the pathology.
Then there's the somewhat strange case of orthodontist John Mew, who advocates for setting your tongue posture to the roof of your mouth in order to close the jaw properly, to prevent standard treatment of various braces, teeth alignment issues and corrective jaw surgery.
Other strange therapies that I've come across that seem unhealthy but have some backing are intentional sleep deprivation to improve depressive symptoms. prolonged fasting to reduce scar tissue. Or one I personally use alot, extremely cold showers after allergene exposure.
There are alot of silly things the human body can do that at first glance might seem irresponsible or dangerous but are about as dangerous as people in the 1900's might imagine airplanes would be.
One more thing I might add, standard care does not mean 'in your best interest' some standard practise might be too cruel to accept, like chemotherapy. Even though its proven to extend your life, it might not be proven to be in your best interest.
Vs antibiotics and/or saline rinses.
That said, my depression was improved more by a couple of magic mushrooms trips than by more than a year of psychology. The results have been so good that it feels wrong to share it, makes it sound like some miracle stuff and I think any depressed person would go for it in a heartbeat completely ignoring risks.
I think the stuff people are talking about are like when Steve Jobs did the fruit diet thing to cure cancer
Aloe vs cortisol for skin issues.
While anecdota tend to be of little value, I can at least attest to the latter not working well -- at least for my condition.
It’s expensive to go through that rigorous process, and there’s no economic incentive to go through that for something that isn’t patentable. In the case of cranberry juice, it’s not sold as medicine. In the case of alcohol, you can buy very expensive wipes that have a certification if you need it for some industrial process.
https://www.healthline.com/health/baking-soda-for-uti#bottom...
Cranberry juice is no more effective on UTIs than chicken soup on colds and flus. That is, it can have an impact in part because of the placebo effect (which is substantially more powerful than is currently understood), but it is not because there is any inherent benefit to cranberry juice ("chicken soup" — that is, any clear broth — is at least partially effective because it’s warm liquid fighting diseases which cause dehydration; there’s no medicinal benefit).
Your logic is kinda faulty...
Parachutes aren't scientifically proven to work on humans.
That's not the flipside, that's the "exception to the rule". Of course the system's not perfect, but people don't live way longer now because our medicine is worse than before...
A sign that says "no parking on Sundays" logically implies that parking is allowed all other days.
The concept you're looking for is closer to "any statistical group has outlier cases".
The commenter I'm replying to is advocating for homeo- / naturo-pathy because of some statistically insignificant and probably actually not causally based relationship they've witnessed, which is generalizing from a ~singular case