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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to dugs, suicide

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Sure would like to know who, where and how these alleged nutritional links to so many afflictions--including suicide and drug addiction-- were arrived at.

 

Did they result from  large-scale, controlled scientific studies conducted over many years   by one or more respected institutions, using carefully monitored control groups.........  or  are they some whimsical thinking by individuals who have a theory and want to promote it?

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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to drugs, suicide

p.s.  Racing around here, there, and everywhere in a hurry.  Couldn't be too healthy.   Sort of the 'fight or flight' syndrome. 

 

Reminds me of the research featuring mice (years and years ago).  They didn't live too long after being exposed to constant stresses.  Very confused, too.  All sorts of medical problems.  Tumors, neurological issues, etc.

 

Stress is counter-productive, life expectancy-wise. 

 

Imo, of course.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).
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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to drugs, suicide

Diet did not cause my husband’s injuries during Vietnam that trashed his back, causing chronic pain and the need for morphine. It also did not cause his diabetes. That resulted from Agent Orange exposure. Diet makes a difference but it neither cures nor causes everything.
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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to drugs, suicide

I can’t blame people who feel who are in some kind of pain from finding comfort in some kind of way. 

 

I lived with such uncontrollable nerve pain that I tried to end my life. 

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Well, if that is the life expectancy, then I really shouldn't be here typing.  Going on 79.....and I'm still kicking.....not like I did a few years ago.....  But at least I'm still here and hope I will be for a while yet.

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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to drugs, suicide


@GenXmuse wrote:

I can’t blame people who feel who are in some kind of pain from finding comfort in some kind of way. 

 

I lived with such uncontrollable nerve pain that I tried to end my life. 


Oh goodness @GenXmuse I hope you are now living better days my friend . . . Heart

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@momtochloe wrote:

@GenXmuse wrote:

I can’t blame people who feel who are in some kind of pain from finding comfort in some kind of way. 

 

I lived with such uncontrollable nerve pain that I tried to end my life. 


Oh goodness @GenXmuse I hope you are now living better days my friend . . . Heart


Oh yes, after 10 years of constant pain I found a surgeon who could improve my pain enough to live a better quality of life. 

 

Thank you @momtochloe for you kindness 

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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to dugs, suicide

@Trinity11  You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned people being able to afford their medicine.  The 1st tier of my medicine prices are okay but when I go into the 2nd tier, two inhalers are $160 each.  I don't have that kind of money so luckily I get one free through a drug company and the other I do without.  That's the way it is.  I have other medications that I have to pay for too.  

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Re: Life expectancy falls recently due to drugs, suicide

@bikerbabe Did the doctors determine that Agent Orange caused your husband's diabetes? 

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