Comment by metalman

My girlfriend had a brain tumor, and a very long complicated medical history. When we met, she rattled, from all the pill bottles and was completly unfit. I did not set out to intervene but some of it was a bit much and was just wrong. I went to dozens of medical appointments, mri, cat scan, dog scan, the machine that goes "bing",her medical records would break your toe if you dropped them. All I did was read labels and research ingredients and offer cleaner alternatives and well, keeping up with me forced her to be a LOT more active, and she found she could do without the prescription and non prescription drugs and eating junk. That was 15 years ago, when she was planning her own pallitive care facility,(under medical supervision) We are no longer together, but she has two kids, and is working and active, no drugs, tumor is not detectable. I have some very strong personal feelings about the factory food, and always advocate for , whole, single ingredient food items, no sugar or other white crystaline substances, and a great deal of physical activity/working to capacity and a bit more. It is anecdata, but it is based on actions that have no failure mode, require nothing exotic, just the incrimental replacement of bad stuff with known healthy alternatives, but ending up living absolutly free of chemicals and factory food, zero plastics,or other synthetics,which is a not an easy thing to do. Another thing is that like the guy blogging this,I felt something stronly about her condition,but the flip, she had been diagnosed with the tumor, but I felt that she was actualy ok, under all of the surface medical problems and data, and I never did dispute anything, but very strongly defended the idea of actions that can pose no harm, ie: water not syrupy glop, brown rice, I dont care how long it takes to cook, etc,etc,etc. VS the outside concensus that if you are going to die,now, then this is permission to indulge in excess and small harms are now irellivant.