[phantom_oracle]

Perhaps Westerners view all non-western science as pseudoscience or made up, but it is a well-known fact in many Eastern cultures (and their medicinal practices) that the stomach is a primary source of disease (and not just depression, but all kinds) when abused through bad eating habits.

Then the wheel is re-invented with intermittent fasting, a diet with less processed foods, more veg/fruit, less meat, etc.

Whenever I see articles about health on HN, I no longer take them too seriously because the reductionist approach to medicine is why people get mistreated for symptoms instead of the disease.

Even the ancient Greeks (the so-called birthplace of "western knowledge") took a more holistic approach than what the sketchy for-profit medical/pharmaceutical cabal does.

But of course, we need to take it seriously because "the scientists say so", even though their own research system is so badly broken that a for-profit cabal runs the publishing arm of research.

Strange times we live in.

[CapitalistCartr]

"Western Science"'s insistence on procedure, double-blind studies with control groups, finding provable reasons why, etc. have debunked most of pre-modern medicine. That some elements have withstood the test of close examination is not a criticism of our methods, more a validation. As are stunning improvements in life.

[ComradePhil]

No, western science hasn't "debunked" anything with studies. They started out without accepting anything from other cultures, simply because they are from other cultures. As time has passed, the cultural medicines from various cultures have been studied poorly and patented and sold to people, mostly as long-term treatments of symptoms, never as cures. In every country, multinatinational drug cartel has made it impossible for local doctors to evem exist let alone prescribe traditional medicine, unless approved by the cartel, patented by them and sold for a huge margin.

I believe the western medicine overall has created more health problems than it has solved, if you exclude treatment of acute trauma.

[throwaway932489]

I'm sure every culture, including Western ones, has some kind(s) of food everywhere along the "healthy" to "medicinal" scale. Everyone agrees what you eat is important, nobody can agree on what that should be, hopefully this kind of research will tell us.