High Cortisol Chad
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Arguably the most important thing medicine, if powerful, should be able to solve or at least be able to give a big relief, is pain. Modern medicine is a joke in terms of giving people net pain relief. Opioids? Those do not give net pain relief after withdrawal or long-term use, also opium has been known since at least 3400 BC in Mesopotamia lol. Acetaminophen/Paracetamol is basically the best that modern medicine can provide in terms of net pain relief, just pathetic. The only thing with severe pain modern medicine can do is to smoothen out the pain/suffering curve with opioids, but again that is nothing new.
The argument sometimes used is "Look how much longer people live now" but actually a lot of that is infant mortality which was much higher back then. Even 1000 years ago if you reached the age of 8-9, your expected lifespan, and certainly healthspan, was not that much different than today. It was not uncommon for people to get to the age of 70, even 1000 years ago.
Now technology is a different thing. We have impressive technology, I agree, but medicine is lagging behind
The argument sometimes used is "Look how much longer people live now" but actually a lot of that is infant mortality which was much higher back then. Even 1000 years ago if you reached the age of 8-9, your expected lifespan, and certainly healthspan, was not that much different than today. It was not uncommon for people to get to the age of 70, even 1000 years ago.
Now technology is a different thing. We have impressive technology, I agree, but medicine is lagging behind