Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
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Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
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Re: Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
#2Did the age of oil or age of nuclear power have more unintended consequences?
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#3Tangent topic;
I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
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#4Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
I imagine the answer is different depending on whether you have agriculture. Agriculture can be back-breaking work.
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#5Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
Excerise and especially walking and running does a lot for back health but at the same time they probably did a lot heavy lifting and handicraft (weaving, shoe making, etc) in bad ergonomic positions.
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#6Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
Chiropractors are charlatans so it was the same as any other healing elixir scam that was being run (which are notable and commonplace throughout history).
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#7Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
You dont have to wonder. Look at regions with poor levels of mechanization and you will find farmers in pretty bad shape.
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#8Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
>How did they manage without chiropractors?
We've always had charlatans pretending to have solutions to our problems before chiropracty and homeopathy, we had traveling salesmen peddling fish oil as a cure-all and of course the power of prayer.
Not sure if it speaks to the gullibility of humanity or craftiness of private enterprise.
Re: Was cancer less likely in a pre-industrial world?
#9Did the age of oil or age of nuclear power have more unintended consequences?
The age of glyphosate, an antibiotic that has been sprayed so much that it’s testable in the rain and in sources of groundwater at this point. The effects of long-term antibiotic exposure are up still being learned. But it clear means a gut biome disruption.
Thanks Monsanto. Err... Bayer (same people who sold Heroin over the counter 100 years ago)
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#10Tangent topic; I have often wondered if back pain was less likely in the past? How did they manage without chiropractors?
Chiropractors don’t actually help with back pain or any of the other problems they claims to help. The practice is based on “re-aligning” subtle subluxations in the spine. Two problems: there is no evidence that these subtle subluxations exist, and there is no evidence that spine alignment even extreme ones cause any ailments other than pinched nerves. Here is a good summary about the history of this pseudo-science:
https://theoutline.com/post/1617/chiropractors-are-bullshit