[Suxamethonium]

I agree, but things like vaccinations and consultations for 'healthy' people can be important. Likewise regular check ups are also important, and ideally in the future regular blood tests would be used help to screen for common diseases where treatment is only really effective if found early on (i.e. before symptoms are evident). Of coarse, all this should be done at a GP, leaving hospital and specialist staff for emergency treatment and intensive care- completely agree with you there.

[insane_alien]

leugi, on 29 January 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:

but normal people should not be taking any sort of vitamins pills or medicines, nor going to the hospitals for checkups every few months, the hospitals should be for people with pathological diseases not for healthy people, therefore it sometimes makes me sad that going to the hospital has become such a normal thing for people now day, and even though i don't want to ever visit a hospital i know that i probably will some day, so sometimes i think do we really need medicine or does medicine need us.

what about me? I'm healthy but i need to go to hospital every now and again to keep being healthy. My body sucks at getting rid of Iron, it keeps on building up and I have to get blood drawn to get rid of it (or take some chelation therapy which is more expensive, I'd get either for free but I like the NHS so I'm going for the cheaper option for them). If i didn't go regularly then I'd be more of a burden on their resources.

Also, the only healthy people i know who regularly go to hospitals are those who work there or provide transportation for those who are ill and need regular visits.

Plus, do people really go to hospitals for checkups? I go to my local GP.

[Suxamethonium]

insane_alien, on 29 January 2012 - 10:44 AM, said:

Plus, do people really go to hospitals for checkups? I go to my local GP.

Sadly, a lot of people go to hospital instead of going to the GP (for things like flu and mild headaches)... I think that is what he was refering to in his comment, and definately was in mine.

[Fuzzwood]

leugi, on 29 January 2012 - 08:35 AM, said:

yea, i did a lot more research and most websites say that radicals can be dangerous because of the reasons that you gave above, i just wanted to find out because radicals can also kill bacteria and therefore can be regarded as beneficial in some cases, but i understand now why it is unsafe to ingest now, i guess the best way we can fight disease is to stick with a natural nutrition, everything made by humans always seems to break the natural balance.

True, although that works better outside the body. Like cleaning your kitchen surfaces with bleach to indeed kill off harmful bacteria. Your theory about radicals killing bacteria is a sound one, but it falls in the same region as concentrated sulphuric acid curing AIDS. It is a good way to kill off the HIV virus for sure, but also yourself.

This post has been edited by Fuzzwood: 29 January 2012 - 01:00 PM