Has anyone mentioned this already?

> Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading...

I agree with Stegenga:

> There is no place I would rather be after a serious accident than in an intensive care unit. For a headache, aspirin; for many infections, antibiotics; for some diabetics, insulin—there are a handful of truly amazing medical intervention, many discovered between seventy and ninety years ago. However, by most measures of medical consumption—number of patients, number of dollars, number of prescriptions—the most commonly employed interventions, especially those introduced in recent decades, provide compelling warrant for medical nihilism.

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I was just reading about "The China Study", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

> The China Study is a book by T. Colin Campbell and his son, Thomas M. Campbell II. It was first published in the United States in January 2005 and had sold over one million copies as of October 2013, making it one of America's best-selling books about nutrition.[1][2][3]

> The China Study examines the link between the consumption of animal products (including dairy) and chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and bowel cancer.[4] The authors conclude that people who eat a predominantly whole-food, plant-based diet—avoiding animal products as a main source of nutrition, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates—will escape, reduce, or reverse the development of numerous diseases.

Now I'm a pretty "fringe" kind of guy, and there's some stuff in there that even I have trouble with (animal protein is highly carcinogenic? Eh what?) But the basic idea of nutrition affecting health, or more accurately being the foundation of health, seems sound to me, and my attempts to eat a "whole-food, plant-based diet" have been very positive. Although I did send my digestion for a loop by "cutting over" too fast once. It takes about three days for your guts (microbiome and own) to adjust to a big change in diet, FWIW.

In any event it's batshit insane that convention medicine treats nutrition as an afterthought.

(There's a wonderful confluence between eating a whole-food, plant-based diet and the ecological repair of our food systems.)

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Now let me push the boundaries. I burned the tip of my thumb the other day taking a pan out of the oven, 450°F. I was careless and didn't quite hold the potholder correctly, burn reflex overridden so I wouldn't drop the pan, it melted the fingerprint whorls. After I finished hopping up and down, pissed off at my own carelessness, I took a few moments to "beam" Reiki to my thumb, while concentrating on communicating with my healing and immune responses telling them to "get in there and clean things up". The pain went away and didn't come back. A very modest blister formed under the melted skin. The spot was tender, and it stung a bit if I let hot water touch it the first day, but after that there was no tenderness. Two days later the blister was gone. The skin is slightly rough, but it's not peeling, nor is it a scab. Day three I woke up and forgot that I had burned myself. The flesh apparently reconstituted itself. I'm not sure it will even leave a scar. The skin still hasn't peeled.

In sum, a minor second-degree burn, apply ten seconds of Reiki, result: no pain and accelerated healing.

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet."