Maybe he shouldn’t have tried to treat Lyme disease homeopathically for months.
Qwerti wrote:
Maybe he shouldn’t have tried to treat Lyme disease homeopathically for months.
No sh*t. Where were his coach, agent, doctor, family etc making sure he treated the condition like a sane rational person instead of trying magic fairy potions.
magicfairiesandelves wrote:
No sh*t. Where were his coach, agent, doctor, family etc making sure he treated the condition like a sane rational person instead of trying magic fairy potions.
Thanks, Dr. magicfairiesandelves. So good of you to know the secret to good health lies only in a Western-trained doc. But which one? Why don't you tell us who Robby Andrews should see, because, obviously, you KNOW!
One Western-trained MD told me I was crazy to follow the more radical Lyme Disease protocol of another Western-trained MD. I also had a surgery a few years ago, and in the weeks beforehand, I consulted two experts in the field for advice. They had fundamentally different approaches and sneered at the other's way of thinking. MDs are like anyone else -- some are right, some are dangerous, some are smart, some finished last in their med school classes. Some are saints in surgical garb, while others are criminally negligent. All should accept that they know almost nothing, and that a doctor's open mind benefits his or her patients, in the long run.
Wasn't George Washington's death exacerbated by "the best" docs of his day, who removed 40% of his blood? Yep.
From one website about Washington's death: "Indeed, even in real time and for decades thereafter, critics complained that the physicians bled Washington to death. But the truth of the matter is that they did the best they could, against a pathologically implacable foe, using now antiquated and discredited theories of medical practice."
What is state of the art today in Western medicine can be passe and seen as being foolhardy, irresponsible, and deadly a few years later.
I'd venture a guess that Robby Andrews, who ain't no dummy, surrounds himself with some fairly (not fairy) forward-thinking and wise people. EVERYTHING he, and everyone else, tries is a roll of the dice. Good for him for trying what he felt was best.
Robby, if you read this, good luck, and trust your decisions on health care.
There's a big difference between two conflicting diagnoses and treatments from "Western-trained MDs" and considering using something that uses some super diluted nonsense masquerading as "medicine." The two MDs are both practicing scientific medicine in your little example. Homeopaths, rather, are frauds and quacks. Famous minds (including scientists) can and do disagree. Einstein vs Bohr, Lincoln vs Douglass, Finders vs Keepers. The list goes on. So your "two Western-trained MD" nonsense means absolutely nothing.
There is no excuse for seeking treatment from fraudulent unscientific medicine. Sorry bud. Anyone seeking homeopathic treatment is a dupe.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/homeopathy-as-nanoparticles/Article on Robby, with the above-referenced interview, is below.
The way Robby explained it, he wanted to avoid antibiotics because he didn't want his body to respond poorly to the treatment. He said that while it can be an effective treatment, sometimes in the short-term, you can feel crappy while taking the antibiotics, and that that was the case this week -- he took it on Monday but still felt crappy when it came time to race on Thursday.
If George Washington had taken your advice he'd still be dead.
Please don;t compare homeopathy with modern medicine. Lymes disease is a nasty disease with a simple solution if you get it early enough. The guy supposed to be a professional athlete, he should look for professional solutions
crumpet wrote:
If George Washington had taken your advice he'd still be dead.
George Washington isn't still dead?
What a bozo. No sympathy here.
Is it just me or is Lyme Disease the new “Thyroid disorder” of yesteryear?
Isitme wrote:
Is it just me or is Lyme Disease the new “Thyroid disorder” of yesteryear?
no
He is just smart enough to think he can play doctor reading stuff on Google. What an idiot.
To be fair, trying homeopathic remedies doesn't make you stupid. Steve Jobs was smarter than all of us and he tried to treat his cancer with alternative medicine. He lived 8 years after his tumor diagnosis when the normal life expectancy was something like 2...
Robby Andrews gonked on antibiotics, coming off surgery and lymes and runs 1:54, still faster than 99% of Letsrunners
just look at the butthurt on this thread lololol
meeme wrote:
To be fair, trying homeopathic remedies doesn't make you stupid. Steve Jobs was smarter than all of us and he tried to treat his cancer with alternative medicine. He lived 8 years after his tumor diagnosis when the normal life expectancy was something like 2...
And he’d probably still be alive if he’d not done the alternative medicine thing at all.
GW still alive in 2019? How old would that make him?
meeme wrote:
To be fair, trying homeopathic remedies doesn't make you stupid. Steve Jobs was smarter than all of us and he tried to treat his cancer with alternative medicine. He lived 8 years after his tumor diagnosis when the normal life expectancy was something like 2...
It doesn't make you stupid.
It just exposes you as stupid already
tumorlover wrote:
GW still alive in 2019? How old would that make him?
Steve Jobs would be ~64 I believe. Not sure why you replied to me talking about GW
The longer one waits to treat a lyme infection with the gold standard treatment of antibiotics, the more the infection has an opportunity to flourish and cause long-term neurological impairments.
This woman treated her Lyme with a steak-only diet starting 20 years ago. On the right is her at age 46, Lyme-symptom-free. She doesn't do workouts because she doesn't want additional muscle. Her husband does the same diet, and is jacked at age 61. Most autoimmune conditions respond well to a very low carbohydrate/high protein meat-based diet.
https://twitter.com/joecharlene8898/status/983103250852433920