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“If we can’t figure it out with the tests that we have available, then it must be psychological.’ ”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“As the rate of prescribing antibiotics for a variety of ailments has gone up, though, scientists have noted the side effect in some people of a permanent alteration in the chemistry of their guts, potentially making them less capable of managing or tolerating some foods.”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“The result of Flexner’s legacy, as well as the many disciples of clinical, DSM-driven allopathy, is a medical establishment with a narrow view of what constitutes both illness and treatment, and an inequitable understanding of patients who aren’t white and/or male. “One of the bitterest aspects of my illnesses has been this: not only did I suffer from a disease, but I suffered at the hands of a medical establishment that, for too long, failed to fully credit my testimony,” Meghan O’Rourke has written of seeking treatment for a complex set of chronic conditions. “The U.S. medical system not only failed to diagnose me; it stopped my quest in its tracks.”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“Alexa, find “skinny” and replace all with “strong”; find “beauty” and replace all with “glow.”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“And of course, in the old model we go looking only when something goes wrong; our most common relationship to health is reactive. Proactive measures, like dieting and “health food,” are considered mostly cosmetic.”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“Lululemon was founded in 1998 by Chip Wilson, a Canadian American Ayn Rand fanatic who had taken up yoga earlier that year because of back pain. (Lululemon’s”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“study done in the early 1960s that looked at whether hormone supplementation after menopause could affect heart health was, puzzlingly, conducted entirely on men.”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“allopathic. Flexner encouraged the universal adoption of scientific knowledge and its advancement as the ethos of the profession: concrete answers with data to back it all up. Anything softer—osteopathy, say, or nutrition, which was considered relevant when Flexner began—was disparaged when the professions failed to produce quantifiable results. Flexner’s”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
“According to the CDC, six in ten adults have a chronic disease, with four in ten having two or more,”
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
― How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time
