Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

All Roads Lead to Reducing Inflammation

19 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Robert Whitfield MD critiquing limitations of allopathic medicine for treating non-injury symptoms (aches, swelling, fatigue). He notes that because doctors often don’t know the underlying cause, typical responses are symptom-focused anti-inflammatory drugs such as oral prednisone, plaquenil, or methotrexate. The speaker frames these prescriptions as attempts to reduce inflammation rather than address root causes.

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Once again, this is, you know, these are limitations of allopathic medicine. All right? We have these tests that haven't changed since, you know, I've been around, and you have these symptoms, and then what's the program? You know, it's not an injury. So you're not going to get physical therapy and rehab, something. You have these aches and pains and. And maybe swelling and fatigue and. All right, so what are we going to do to. To deal with that? So traditionally, they'll put people on maybe steroids, something like a prednisone dose orally. They may, in fact, try you on plaquenil. Be prescribed for this would be methotrexate. And what are these all really doing? All right, so nobody knows actually what's wrong. They're just trying to decrease your inflammation.