4756 You Are the Meds You Take

 

We all want to be healthy, right?  So we ingest stuff. Some of it works.  Covid vaccines, for example. Some of it has side effects to die for … or of.  Some of it is just baloney.  And what you swallow defines you.

 

You all know that Big Pharma advertises heavily.  Its ads are filled with smiling happy people doing smiley happy things.  Especially in the part of the ad where they high-speed mumble the side effects.  Nonetheless, these meds undergo what passes for scrutiny by federal overseers and are prescribed by doctors.

 

Then there are the supplements.  They’re unregulated, dispensed by aging hippies in natural food stores and on line.  There’s no denying eating beets can be good for you. But do you really need a magic powder to kill the awful taste while you get an unregulated and unmeasured amount of whatever is supposed to benefit you?

 

Where do you find these ads?  On the internet and on the programs of radio and television right wing wackos.  Why are they placed there?  Because the ads work even if the substances do nothing but fatten the wallets of the companies that make them.

 

Is that a coincidence?  Not according to some. Like Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times.  Not according to Consumer Reports Magazine which recently spent a big effort debunking so-called brain supplements.

 

If you could have a private conversation with Anthony Fauci, would you ask him if beet powder could make you healthy?  He’d look at you like you just grew a third ear.  It would be like asking Drs. Salk or Sabin whether you could cure polio with Niacin or asking Christiaan Barnard whether eating oatmeal was a reasonable alternative to a heart transplant.

 

So, why do the righties think taking stuff made to prevent worms in dogs or horses will ward off covid, when a vaccine won’t?  Probably it’s because their fairytales of choice tell them to believe in magic instead of science.

 

Magic thinking kills.

 

SHRAPNEL:

--Have you noticed that pet meds now come with the same kind of warnings as people meds?  They do.  Deworming drugs are not only no-no’s for anti-vaccine folks. They may cause your dog to have digestive problems or seizures.

 

--It’s not just brain supplements that are under the microscope these days.  Even multivitamins are suspect. Not that they’ll hurt you… just that they may not do you much good.

 

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