Posted by baseball55 on April 24, 2016, at 19:00:42
In reply to Re: the lost sheep » Hello321, posted by baseball55 on April 22, 2016, at 20:26:13
Follow up. I did look up info on the NIH and NIMH budget. Posted the results in a separate thread, if anyone's interested. Their funding has been cut and cut and cut.
> Sure it's true that a drug that could be taken once and permanently fix depression might be suppressed as less profitable than drugs that are taken for years. It's also true that non-drug solutions are not studied by drug companies who finance the studies.
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> I think the solution to this is to vastly increase funding for the NIH and NIMH to take on the studies drug companies have no interest in. That means not cutting taxes and demanding big cuts in discretionary programs and trying to shut down the government. I'd be very interested to see what the NIH budget is and how it's changed in recent years. I think I'll look that up tomorrow and get back to you all.
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> > I couldn't discount the possibility that a Company like Eli Lilly has knowledge of certain lesser known, unpopular lifestyle changes that were much safer and at least as effective as their drug treatments. Maybe something like a very low carb, high healthy fat diet could benefit many brain problems. But of course it wouldn't be in their interests to promote this.
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> > I dont remember the video I watching weeks ago, but it was about Cancer treatment and i just remember general info from it. It had drug company scientists talking about the advances they're making.and there was a comment one made about how beneficial a certain diet or lifestyle or something can be (dont remember exactly), and he said "If only we could find a way to take all the benefits of this and put it in a pill. I know these aren't exact details, but if a drug company does know of a better treatment, and can't put it in a pool to get rich off of. We are going to be missing out if we don't search far beyond our quest to find a better pill.
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