Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mannahnin]

I feel very mixed on this - there’s certainly real, usable drugs present in some natural remedies, but a lot of it is a bunch of bull. I do think it should be investigated in detail, so we can verify which category to put things in.

I’m extremely skeptical of any non-herbal alternative medicine: homeopathy, chiropractic, reiki, etc.

You don't have to be skeptical of all of them. Some, like homeopathy, are completely certified as pure snake oil.

The placebo effect is a thing, of course, but yeah.

Chiropractic actually does real physical things, and certainly seems to help some people, but has a lot of practitioners making unsubstantiated and sometimes absurd claims about its effects.

 

[Umbran]

If the growth conditions aren’t reproducible

"Given exactly controlled conditions of temperature, humidity, light and medium, the organism will do... exactly whatever the hell it wants," is a truism in biology.

and your metabolite ratios are off, then no amount of reproducible processing is going to fix things.

But, even with those fixed, the concentrations of any particular pharmaceutically-interesting chemicals will vary wildly. You can fix concentration in a processed product with far more accuracy and precision than you can in a bag of dried leaves.

So, yes, processing can fix many woes of growth conditions. That's actually the point - to turn natural variation into predictable product.

 

[TiQuinn]

Chiropractic actually does real physical things, and certainly seems to help some people, but has a lot of practitioners making unsubstantiated and sometimes absurd claims about its effects.

Yeah, I’m really on the fence about the benefits of chiropractic. I had back issues for years that never seemed to get even marginally better despite regular visits. A steady workout for me ended up fixing most of these ails leaving me wondering if chiropractic did anything for me.

 

[Mannahnin]

Yeah, I’m really on the fence about the benefits of chiropractic. I had back issues for years that never seemed to get even marginally better despite regular visits. A steady workout for me ended up fixing most of these ails leaving me wondering if chiropractic did anything for me.

Yeah, there's definitely a concern about some of the things it does giving apparent short-term relief without actually fixing things.

Whereas for contrast physical therapy and the prescribed exercises from it have literally fixed injuries I've had which simply were not healing on their own.

 

[The Soloist]

Yeah, I’m really on the fence about the benefits of chiropractic. I had back issues for years that never seemed to get even marginally better despite regular visits. A steady workout for me ended up fixing most of these ails leaving me wondering if chiropractic did anything for me.

I have a slight vertebral column deviation diagnose at 16 years old, nothing serious. Every time I start having back pain it's because I've become more sedentary for a while. As soon as I start walking more, stretching and doing moderate exercising, the pain goes away.

 

[RealAlHazred]

When I moved from an on-site Data Center job to a work-from-home Data Center job, my exercise went way down. But I have a two-year-old, so I am still kept plenty busy chasing after her.

 

[payn]

When I went from working in a office to WFH it hurt. I was biking into work and doing about 50-100 miles a week. I still ride as often as I can but that number was cut in half. Trying to find ways to make up for it.

I could go back to office if I wanted, but I get so much more work done from home.

 

[TiQuinn]

Yeah, there's definitely a concern about some of the things it does giving apparent short-term relief without actually fixing things.

Whereas for contrast physical therapy and the prescribed exercises from it have literally fixed injuries I've had which simply were not healing on their own.

It doesn't help that there's a number of high profile fitness influencers who are doctors of chiropractic making outlandish claims about things that have nothing to do with chiropractic at all.

 

[el-remmen]

I left many gaming FB groups recently because they slowly devolved into giant rotating gaming ads with no moderation.

As I have frequently said, despite being a part of this community, I often feel like I have no place to discuss D&D and other games I like in a way that I like or feels productive.

 

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