Physician medical associations are lobbying groups run by doctors to advocate for their specialty.
Associations create the guidelines for their colleagues and have tremendous power over how the field operates.
It's a corrupt scam 🧵
The influence these associations wield cannot be overstated.
If they decide a treatment is the "Gold Standard," it makes alternative therapies "dangerous" to recommend. It opens physicians up to lawsuits, license challenges, and bureaucracy.
Their corruption is overt.
1) American Heart Association (AHA)
This association has existed since the clearly 1900s. In the 1940s it blew up after being supported by Procter and Gamble.
Why would a multinational manufacturing company support the AHA?
The AHA declared trans fat margarine (Crisco) was healthier than saturated fats.
P&G originally patented this product to make soap. That didn't work so they decided people should eat it instead.
The AHA agreed, and trans fats became a staple in the American diet.
We now know trans fats are probably the least healthy foods on the planet. They are no longer make them for human consumption. But the damage is done.
Why would the AHA make such an egregious error?
Their funding, of course!
The AHA is heavily supported by Big Pharma and Big Ag like P&G. I have linked an older article on their funding sources below.
By the way, now they're a partner of Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.
Microplastics are everywhere. They are ubiquitous. In your water. In your food. In the air you breathe.
Until now, the narrative focused on environmental impacts. That's a mistake.
Microplastics are slowing killing us. Some faster than others.
In this Mega-Thread I'll explain.
Microplastics are minuscule pieces of plastic, less than 5 mm in size by definition.
They are made of pretty much anything plastic:
- tires
- clothing
- rubber tubing
- cosmetic products
- anything plastic-based
They are ubiquitous in the environment. How'd they get there?
When you throw away a piece of plastic it breaks down. It gets crushed and smashed in the landfill, aerosolized by the clothes dryer, melted into food, you name it.
The plastic is so small it can travel in the air current, water droplets, and ocean currents.
Josef Mengele is the most infamous of the Nazi doctors. He was a butcher. A monster.
And sadly, he was one of the most influential doctors in history.
Let's talk about the legacy of the Nazi doctors. The good, the bad (lots), and the ugly.
Josef Mengele earned a cum laude MD from the University of Frankfurt. He was an anthropologist by training and published some unimportant papers on cleft palate.
He joined the SS and was transferred to Auschwitz in 1942, where he continued his research.
Mengele personally selected Jews for his experiments. He looked for twins, particularly.
It's widely reported that Mengele enjoyed selecting subjects to torture. Often smiling and whistling while doing so.
Over half the American population is overweight. This ranges from a little chunky to a full-on land whale.
Regardless of where I fell on this spectrum, as a doctor, here are the steps I would take to lose weight.
Let's get one thing straight, I am not your doctor. Ask them for medical advice because this isn't it.
We've all found ourselves on the heavier side at some point. How you respond to it is what matters. Follow these steps and you'll be back on track in no time.
1) Systems over Goals
@ScottAdamsSays popularized this idea over a decade ago in "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" and @JamesClear drove it home with "Atomic Habits"