Yesterday I had lunch with a few neighbors from my retirement community. We began discussing MS, Huntington's, Cancer, and other maladies. One conclusion we all agreed on, from ages 50s-80s, was that all the magazine and TV ads for drugs are making us sick.
While doctors and researchers are quick to point out the power of the placebo effect, they are silent on the effect all these "informational" ads about drugs have on us.
Vitamin D levels? It seems most people are not reaching "optimum levels," but go to 4 different doctors and you will get 4 different reasons why that fact does or does not matter. "We think..." "It may be..." "Some studies have shown..." My favorite is, "It is possible that..."
Anything is possible and when it comes to upsetting us about our health, anything goes. You read about the symptoms of a disease and my oh my, YOU have had that too! It has been long known that medical students can become afflicted with: hypochondriasis.
Yessiree, after hearing about a disease so much, after talking and listening about the symptoms so much, the students start to believe they have the disease. I have a new word: Hypoadvertisilliac.
And if you don't have what you thought you might, I'm betting a doctor can find SOMETHING not 100% normal. There's a pill for that.
Where is the study on how an avalanche of illness advertisements and awareness campaigns effects a person's sense of well-being? Can you think yourself ill? If you focus all your fears on one point in your body...who knows what the brain is capable of? Ask anyone who meditates if that is not making them feel better.
Is it any wonder doctors are so busy now? Or that our health care gets more and more costly? We have so many prescriptions that we end up flushing the expired ones down into our sewer system and into our neighbor's tap water.
Whatever you do, DON'T read the "side effects," those might possibly be in some cases, deadly.
And afterall, isn't what we all want is to live to be 110? Do you? Visit a nursing home and get back to me on that.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
New Disease Epidemic: Hypoadvertisilliac
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Yesterday I had lunch with a few neighbors from my retirement community. We began discussing MS, Huntington's, Cancer, and other maladies. One conclusion we all agreed on, from ages 50s-80s, was that all the magazine and TV ads for drugs are making us sick.
While doctors and researchers are quick to point out the power of the placebo effect, they are silent on the effect all these "informational" ads about drugs have on us.
Vitamin D levels? It seems most people are not reaching "optimum levels," but go to 4 different doctors and you will get 4 different reasons why that fact does or does not matter. "We think..." "It may be..." "Some studies have shown..." My favorite is, "It is possible that..."
Anything is possible and when it comes to upsetting us about our health, anything goes. You read about the symptoms of a disease and my oh my, YOU have had that too! It has been long known that medical students can become afflicted with: hypochondriasis.
Yessiree, after hearing about a disease so much, after talking and listening about the symptoms so much, the students start to believe they have the disease. I have a new word: Hypoadvertisilliac.
And if you don't have what you thought you might, I'm betting a doctor can find SOMETHING not 100% normal. There's a pill for that.
Where is the study on how an avalanche of illness advertisements and awareness campaigns effects a person's sense of well-being? Can you think yourself ill? If you focus all your fears on one point in your body...who knows what the brain is capable of? Ask anyone who meditates if that is not making them feel better.
Is it any wonder doctors are so busy now? Or that our health care gets more and more costly? We have so many prescriptions that we end up flushing the expired ones down into our sewer system and into our neighbor's tap water.
Whatever you do, DON'T read the "side effects," those might possibly be in some cases, deadly.
And afterall, isn't what we all want is to live to be 110? Do you? Visit a nursing home and get back to me on that.
Yesterday I had lunch with a few neighbors from my retirement community. We began discussing MS, Huntington's, Cancer, and other maladies. One conclusion we all agreed on, from ages 50s-80s, was that all the magazine and TV ads for drugs are making us sick.
While doctors and researchers are quick to point out the power of the placebo effect, they are silent on the effect all these "informational" ads about drugs have on us.
Vitamin D levels? It seems most people are not reaching "optimum levels," but go to 4 different doctors and you will get 4 different reasons why that fact does or does not matter. "We think..." "It may be..." "Some studies have shown..." My favorite is, "It is possible that..."
Anything is possible and when it comes to upsetting us about our health, anything goes. You read about the symptoms of a disease and my oh my, YOU have had that too! It has been long known that medical students can become afflicted with: hypochondriasis.
Yessiree, after hearing about a disease so much, after talking and listening about the symptoms so much, the students start to believe they have the disease. I have a new word: Hypoadvertisilliac.
And if you don't have what you thought you might, I'm betting a doctor can find SOMETHING not 100% normal. There's a pill for that.
Where is the study on how an avalanche of illness advertisements and awareness campaigns effects a person's sense of well-being? Can you think yourself ill? If you focus all your fears on one point in your body...who knows what the brain is capable of? Ask anyone who meditates if that is not making them feel better.
Is it any wonder doctors are so busy now? Or that our health care gets more and more costly? We have so many prescriptions that we end up flushing the expired ones down into our sewer system and into our neighbor's tap water.
Whatever you do, DON'T read the "side effects," those might possibly be in some cases, deadly.
And afterall, isn't what we all want is to live to be 110? Do you? Visit a nursing home and get back to me on that.
Yesterday I had lunch with a few neighbors from my retirement community. We began discussing MS, Huntington's, Cancer, and other maladies. One conclusion we all agreed on, from ages 50s-80s, was that all the magazine and TV ads for drugs are making us sick.
While doctors and researchers are quick to point out the power of the placebo effect, they are silent on the effect all these "informational" ads about drugs have on us.
Vitamin D levels? It seems most people are not reaching "optimum levels," but go to 4 different doctors and you will get 4 different reasons why that fact does or does not matter. "We think..." "It may be..." "Some studies have shown..." My favorite is, "It is possible that..."
Anything is possible and when it comes to upsetting us about our health, anything goes. You read about the symptoms of a disease and my oh my, YOU have had that too! It has been long known that medical students can become afflicted with: hypochondriasis.
Yessiree, after hearing about a disease so much, after talking and listening about the symptoms so much, the students start to believe they have the disease. I have a new word: Hypoadvertisilliac.
And if you don't have what you thought you might, I'm betting a doctor can find SOMETHING not 100% normal. There's a pill for that.
Where is the study on how an avalanche of illness advertisements and awareness campaigns effects a person's sense of well-being? Can you think yourself ill? If you focus all your fears on one point in your body...who knows what the brain is capable of? Ask anyone who meditates if that is not making them feel better.
Is it any wonder doctors are so busy now? Or that our health care gets more and more costly? We have so many prescriptions that we end up flushing the expired ones down into our sewer system and into our neighbor's tap water.
Whatever you do, DON'T read the "side effects," those might possibly be in some cases, deadly.
And afterall, isn't what we all want is to live to be 110? Do you? Visit a nursing home and get back to me on that.
Yesterday I had lunch with a few neighbors from my retirement community. We began discussing MS, Huntington's, Cancer, and other maladies. One conclusion we all agreed on, from ages 50s-80s, was that all the magazine and TV ads for drugs are making us sick.
While doctors and researchers are quick to point out the power of the placebo effect, they are silent on the effect all these "informational" ads about drugs have on us.
Vitamin D levels? It seems most people are not reaching "optimum levels," but go to 4 different doctors and you will get 4 different reasons why that fact does or does not matter. "We think..." "It may be..." "Some studies have shown..." My favorite is, "It is possible that..."
Anything is possible and when it comes to upsetting us about our health, anything goes. You read about the symptoms of a disease and my oh my, YOU have had that too! It has been long known that medical students can become afflicted with: hypochondriasis.
Yessiree, after hearing about a disease so much, after talking and listening about the symptoms so much, the students start to believe they have the disease. I have a new word: Hypoadvertisilliac.
And if you don't have what you thought you might, I'm betting a doctor can find SOMETHING not 100% normal. There's a pill for that.
Where is the study on how an avalanche of illness advertisements and awareness campaigns effects a person's sense of well-being? Can you think yourself ill? If you focus all your fears on one point in your body...who knows what the brain is capable of? Ask anyone who meditates if that is not making them feel better.
Is it any wonder doctors are so busy now? Or that our health care gets more and more costly? We have so many prescriptions that we end up flushing the expired ones down into our sewer system and into our neighbor's tap water.
Whatever you do, DON'T read the "side effects," those might possibly be in some cases, deadly.
And afterall, isn't what we all want is to live to be 110? Do you? Visit a nursing home and get back to me on that.
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