Healthspan Live
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The first step to maximising your healthspan
Purpose of healthspan.live
- To provide a starting point for your research into questions about your health.
- To answer the question “I want to know about “x”. Where do I start?”
- To provide a brief top level summary and the key points about each subject.
- To provide a list of references to information for further research.
- To provide different points view to help YOU to make your OWN decisions.
- To help you understand why there are so many different and often contradictory points of view – even only in mainstream medicine.
Some people only want to follow the advice of experts without question.
This is nothing inherently wrong with relying only on experts.
If so, healthspan.live is not the place for you.
Healthspan.live is NOT!
- A recommendation of what you should do to improve your health. What you do is your decision!
- A replacement or a duplication of the thousands of websites providing detailed information on health issue.
- A definitive source of medical information. Any details on this website, whether stated or implied, are intended ONLY as a starting point for your own research and personal interest.
- A definitive source of “settled science”, “best practice”, “medical facts” etc.
- A claim that any particular factor is “wrong” or is a “conspiracy theory”.
- A claim that any particular factor is “right” and is what you should believe.
- A replacement for professional medical advice.
Why Healthspan.live?
The volume of medical information is huge.
The number of differing opinions and interpretations of medical data practically infinite – and that is just among the professionals!
Understanding, interpreting and deciding how to use the information is time consuming and seems at first to be impossible.
The intent of Healthspan.live is to provide some first steps in your research.
Note! Information on Healthspan.live is based on that which the author has found to be useful and interesting. The author does not claim to be any less selective and biased than any other health commentator or medical professional.
Listen to EVERYBODY. Listen to ALL points of view. Make up your own mind. Do your own research. Ask questions.
Take personal responsibility for your best asset – your life.
Why not just leave everything to the professionals?
You could simply believe the experts and do exactly as you are told. Many people do.
However, as in every part of life, unquestioning acceptance is not without its risks.
Factors that you might consider include:
- Medical practitioners are human beings. It is impossible for any person to know everything. Human Beings are not infallible.
- Even the most expert and well meaning people can fail to recognise their limitations and imperfect knowledge. Hubris and arrogance is not unknown in the medical profession.
- The history medicine is littered with errors and misunderstandings. Most misunderstandings were well intentioned ignorance. For example, Blood letting was mainstream medical treatment for hundreds of years despite having little or no basis in fact. Before anybody says that blood-letting as a universal cure ceased long ago, misunderstanding still happen today on a regular basis.
- There is only “one of you.” You only have one life. Your health is your first priority. In contrast, treatment even by the most qualified and well intentioned medical practitioner, normally means that you are only one patient of many. You medical professional has to consider many factors and priorities in addition to your needs. For example:
- Is the best treatment for you within the budget available? (Taxpayer funded, insurer funded or self-funded).
- Is the best treatment for you approved by your country’s national health bodies and local health providers?
- Is the best treatment for you approved by your practitioner’s licensing body and medical negligence insurer?
- Is your medical practitioner subject to peer pressure to use a different treatment practice?
- Will your medical practitioner be at risk of being criticised, ridiculed, ostracised or even sued, for not rigidly following officially approved protocols – even if he/she believes newer and potentially more effective treatments for you now exist?