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In reply to the discussion: Babies Are Getting Brain Bleeds—Are Vaccine Fears to Blame? [View all]BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)required a large dosage in the first paragraph of my post. I also acknowledged that there are other deficiencies that require an injection. We know about other deficiencies such as goiter, scurvy and rickets. I am talking about long-term subclinical deficiencies of which even our wealthy nation is rife.
What has science said about babies born too close together? As far as I know, there is no recommendation from doctors to space out pregnancies. Only not to have sex for six weeks after labour and that is being cut down to four. I know many women who are having over three children in a row to "get it over with". Working with children, I have often seen the later children to have problems such as severe eyesight deformities, learning disabilities, and sometimes behavior problems. Over and over. I have heard doctors complain that the fad to "lose the baby weight" like a celebrity is causing breastfeeding mothers to produce deficient, dangerously low-fat milk that is causing failure to thrive in some instances. We still do not recommend women have children after a certain age, but other than that, there are very few guidelines.
The trouble is, if we rely wholly on "science" for our health, forgetting that we are organisms that have basic requirements, we are missing the big picture. New discoveries are being made all the time, meaning we are far from knowing everything. And then there is the profit motivation, where less-expensive proscriptions and the ability of the individual to be proactive in their health are discouraged and called "woo".
And no, the idea that life expectancy has gone up is a myth and has been disproven often. Yes, infant mortality has gone down and infectious diseases have been controlled, but that does not mean that people are actually living longer than ever before. If that were true, we would have people living over the age of 120 on average. Funnily enough, the people who do are often do not live in modernized societies. And there are new studies that say that this generation, the average life expectancy in number of years has gone down for the first time ever in the US.
Science has made some remarkable discoveries, but saying extreme modern interventions is the only thing keeping people alive is, well, woo.