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Really curious about your sources, because it doesn’t vibe with me at all (trained MD).

Statins have a phenomenal improvement in outcome on cardiovascular disease. So do many cancer drugs nowadays. Diabetes also has great improvement with good treatment.

Removing these would reduce life expectancy drastically.

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Fair enough. It's true that modern drugs are fairly effective at extending the lives of patients with certain serious chronic conditions by a few years. But at the same time, ASCVD and T2D were much less serious problems prior to the establishment of modern medicine. So to a large extent we are just patching over problems that we have created for ourselves rather than fixing the root causes.

https://www.thelancet.com/gbd

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