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Some herbal medicine may work. Without proper studies we don't know.

I agree that lifestyle stuff is important, can be handled by none MD folks, and can have a huge impact on life and health in general. What gets my goat is the CAM proponents who claim they can cure anything and everything with their woo.

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But there are a bunch of studies on useful stuff. Inositol, Theanine etc. And we still don't do studies because interests don't align well for it to happen quickly. My point being that some Alt Med Practitioners actually help. I don't like it, because I heavily dislike the widespread incompetence about science/medicine in Alt Med circles. But it's still true.

Well the MDs do give you lifestyle advice. And the "professionals" that should care about this stuff (esp. dieticians) also suck badly. They often just regurgitate the food pyramid.

I completely agree otherwise.

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