> MDs don't offer clinical tests for "inflammation"
Yes they do, there are a bunch of routine tests. They are typically only ordered when they are clinically relevant, but if you went to a clinic and asked for a CRP and sedimentation rate (or whatever) I doubt it would be that hard to get one.
Other good tests are IL-1 and TNFa, but I don’t think those are routine or cheap.
> allopathy / [evidence-based medicine] doesn’t recognize “inflammation” as a symptom caused by our diets, or something they can prevent, beyond prescribing ibuprofen to allegedly reduce it.
Yes it does, but it’s not so simple. The causes of inflammation are multifactorial and there usually is not a quick or easy fix.
Ibuprofen clearly does reduce inflammation, but it obviously is different than attacking the problem at the source. Most doctors unfortunately don’t have time to sit you down and make a detailed plan for improving your diet, to stop smoking and drinking, and to exercise more. Most if not all medical schools teach this in Canada/US afaik (I speak from experience), and the medical literature is certainly packed with papers on the subject… but the resource constraints (not enough time, too many patients with urgent needs) on the job mean that theory and practice are not exactly the same.
That’s not a failing of medical science, it’s a failing of our administrative and political systems.
Yes they do, there are a bunch of routine tests. They are typically only ordered when they are clinically relevant, but if you went to a clinic and asked for a CRP and sedimentation rate (or whatever) I doubt it would be that hard to get one.
Other good tests are IL-1 and TNFa, but I don’t think those are routine or cheap.
> allopathy / [evidence-based medicine] doesn’t recognize “inflammation” as a symptom caused by our diets, or something they can prevent, beyond prescribing ibuprofen to allegedly reduce it.
Yes it does, but it’s not so simple. The causes of inflammation are multifactorial and there usually is not a quick or easy fix.
Ibuprofen clearly does reduce inflammation, but it obviously is different than attacking the problem at the source. Most doctors unfortunately don’t have time to sit you down and make a detailed plan for improving your diet, to stop smoking and drinking, and to exercise more. Most if not all medical schools teach this in Canada/US afaik (I speak from experience), and the medical literature is certainly packed with papers on the subject… but the resource constraints (not enough time, too many patients with urgent needs) on the job mean that theory and practice are not exactly the same.
That’s not a failing of medical science, it’s a failing of our administrative and political systems.