"...After this abberantly lethal polio epidemic, doctors and parents alike were...thus ready and willing to do whatever was necessary to eradicate polio..."
Are we living through another iteration of an old and tested playbook?
i think we may be on the verge of a health revolution... with people finally getting the motivation and information they need to learn how to support the immune system to properly defend against disease. Much like the huge leap forward that was taken when the role that sanitation was playing in disease was understood around the start of the 20th century.
It is actually my theory that increased sanitation practices is (at least part of) what initially drove the formation of the modern medicine industry. People were getting less sick due to being better sanitized, so they had to start inventing diseases to cure.
This! Can't recall the doctors name right now, but a 19th century Dr theorized that something was being transferred from the cadavers Dr's worked on to the mothers delivering babies--infant mortality was insanely high.
He advocated hand washing and was mocked mercilessly...
"...After this abberantly lethal polio epidemic, doctors and parents alike were...thus ready and willing to do whatever was necessary to eradicate polio..."
Are we living through another iteration of an old and tested playbook?
future proves past ?
i think we may be on the verge of a health revolution... with people finally getting the motivation and information they need to learn how to support the immune system to properly defend against disease. Much like the huge leap forward that was taken when the role that sanitation was playing in disease was understood around the start of the 20th century.
It is actually my theory that increased sanitation practices is (at least part of) what initially drove the formation of the modern medicine industry. People were getting less sick due to being better sanitized, so they had to start inventing diseases to cure.
Yup it was increased sanitation practices and running water that allowed for the dramatic drop in morbidity from disease.
This! Can't recall the doctors name right now, but a 19th century Dr theorized that something was being transferred from the cadavers Dr's worked on to the mothers delivering babies--infant mortality was insanely high. He advocated hand washing and was mocked mercilessly...
Dr Shiva does a great job explaining that.