The weight of that photo sits heavy on my chest—this isn't the world we dreamed of passing down. 🕊️ Our personal diary and story from Gaza are pinned on my profile if you'd like to see.

Yeah my VA physician prescribed me a statin and I just threw it in the trash.

One might look at this and think that your position is that nothing has been learned in 30 years that could allow us to improve healthcare. I'm not arguing to be a blind follower but if you are blindly rejecting every change you are as dumb as people who are blindly following. Something that improves your odds of an adverse outcome from 5% to 1% seems small framed that way but 1 in 20 becoming 1 in 100 is the same change and looks very different. Each of these measures of your health should be considered on a personal level in the context of all of your other health markers. Only then do you decide personally if or how to do something different.

Same shit different toilet

Bitcoin (these days) be like: The famous 'if in 2026 you still trust big pharma/medicine, there is a 100% chance you are retarded'. View quoted note →

Just multiple ways to force drugs on people and get “the government “ to pay for it. Voted on by doctors on the big pharma payroll.

Specifically on the bmi thing, I'm curious to hear a practicing physicians argument for measuring and discussing with patients. If I was healthy bmi I wouldn't be able to pick a barbell up. If you but any amount of muscle on your overweight. They might argue to use it for NPC speak. But I wonder if it really is useful in any way compare to any type of body composition testing. That said blood test results return numbers not pass/fail. We can look at them ourselves and compare them and it's always up to the physician to relay them accurately to you. I spend some time recently doing that. I'm not sure what the point of "global" standards are except that I guess MD's can be NPCs as well.

BMI is a bullshit score all around, arbitrary scale completely. The history of it makes it insulting that anyone uses it for anything. It "punishes" people for being tall which is neutral and for carrying more muscle which is a positive health marker. This is mostly information that is so new that it isn't adopted yet. Will OP insist on applying the old BMI standard strictly once new guidelines that make more sense finally get approved? Poor obese Adrian Peterson had still better get his shit together.