Kristin, I am curious what do you accept? The whole medical model is built around what is called "evidence-based", is it the evidence pendulum that concerns you? In other words, if it goes to the right or the left? Science is a guessing game with "guessing" rules of engagement we call variables like "data", "animal models" "controls", etc. We, as a society have to either reject science or accept it. Are you proposing we reject it all together or just reject those study results that do not meet individual belief systems? Western societies embrace science that can show evidence of efficacy, that is why the pharmaceutical industry is a powerful, influencial industry. If you do not accept studies at face value, what do you accept? I am just curious.
I am the first person to admit that I do not subcribe to drugs as the answers to disease, but it is our scientific model that puts them in the market to treat illness. We need to accept them to treat certain conditions!
Many studies have been done to undertand that nature of humanity. I happen to believe that our bodies are equipped with a self-healing ability that is already programmed in our molecular structure. But no one can deny the "naturally programmed functions" our bodies suppose to perform (i.e. breastfeeding, sexual orgasms, eating, sleeping, etc)without them, we would be extint today, they are natural processes that humans perform to survive the physical experience over time.
Everyone knows that sexual activity produces chemical changes in the body that are good for our health, I do not see why the act of breastfeeding could not have chemical effects that offer health benefits to women either. If you doubt the latter, then you need to doubt the former.
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Kristin, I am curious what do you accept? The whole medical model is built around what is called "evidence-based", is it the evidence pendulum that concerns you? In other words, if it goes to the right or the left? Science is a guessing game with "guessing" rules of engagement we call variables like "data", "animal models" "controls", etc. We, as a society have to either reject science or accept it. Are you proposing we reject it all together or just reject those study results that do not meet individual belief systems? Western societies embrace science that can show evidence of efficacy, that is why the pharmaceutical industry is a powerful, influencial industry. If you do not accept studies at face value, what do you accept? I am just curious.
I am the first person to admit that I do not subcribe to drugs as the answers to disease, but it is our scientific model that puts them in the market to treat illness. We need to accept them to treat certain conditions!
Many studies have been done to undertand that nature of humanity. I happen to believe that our bodies are equipped with a self-healing ability that is already programmed in our molecular structure. But no one can deny the "naturally programmed functions" our bodies suppose to perform (i.e. breastfeeding, sexual orgasms, eating, sleeping, etc)without them, we would be extint today, they are natural processes that humans perform to survive the physical experience over time.
Everyone knows that sexual activity produces chemical changes in the body that are good for our health, I do not see why the act of breastfeeding could not have chemical effects that offer health benefits to women either. If you doubt the latter, then you need to doubt the former.
April 29, 2009 - 10:22pmThis Comment
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