Hi Folks,
I know it’s been about forever and a day since I posted anything here. Sorry about that. No real excuse other than life just keeping me a little busy.
I keep telling myself, “Self, you need to get busy and post some stuff!”
Every now and then, I’ll see some news story or something and think to myself that it looks like a good topic for a post, but then it seems I get distracted and it slips into faded memory.
Anyway, I saw this interesting story about blood pressure and it gave me a bit of a laugh, so I thought this was as good a topic as any to break the drought of posts.
Enjoy. Sorry for the smell.
I’ll try to do a better job with updates!
Cheers,
Sam
So, as I’m surfing the web earlier today, I happened upon the “Health & Healing” discussion forum at www.craigslist.com, which is basically a typical fun Internet free for all.
Lots of folks with lots of opinions on there.
Anyway, I came across one post from a user going by the name of “dlwhiz” that expressed the following.
“I need to find natural cures for high blood pressure. Anyone have a cure, pills are not working, they make me sick.”
There was of course a plethora of answers from all sorts of folks. These anonymous Internet posters offered all sorts of advice basically ranging from “Quit being so lazy, get some exercise!” to “Use some different medicines” to “Try these great herbal remedies!” (I’m paraphrasing here to capture the general tone of most of the posts…these aren’t actual verbatim quotes)
Some of the answers I read were better than others, but most of them had one glaringly huge flaw, one which as a physician I saw immediately and which I think most physicians would similarly pick up on immediately.
What was this horrible flaw?
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