From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 17:59:12 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> gts wrote:
>>> All we really know, Rafal, is that modern medicine will help protect
>>> us from dying in mid-life. Given the typical American diet, I
>>> shudder to think what the national health picture would look like
>>> today without the help of antibiotics and other miracles of modern
>>> medicine.
>>>
>> ### Explain?
>
> Among other things, simple sugars suppress the immune system. This
> makes modern Americans in principle more vulnerable to bacterial and
> viral infections, and possibly also more vulnerable to cancer and
> other disease. Were it not for antibiotics, vaccines, and the huge
> advances in cancer treatments and other medical treatments over the
> last century, infectious diseases and cancer and other diseases would
> likely be much, much worse than they are now. We're living longer now
> largely because of medical science rather than diet.
### There is no evidence that medical interventions significantly reduce
midlife (30 years in our context) mortality, aside from trauma cases and a
few rare genetic conditions, mainly because there is very little midlife
morbidity to begin with.
Please provide proof that Americans suffer from a widespread immune
deficiency which makes their midlife survival largely dependent on medical
interventions.
There is no reason to believe that non-paleodiet significantly increases
midlife mortality.
Rafal
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