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Re:On Weakness by KittenInABox on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:21PM (#27259888)
I wish more people, whether or not they believe they're healthy/strong or not, got annual bloodwork and general health checks done. You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels.

Imagine how much less psychological pain this guy could've been through if he had regular bloodwork enough to let him know that his vitD is getting low and to supplement before he even realized he was "failing".

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Re:On Weakness by throwawayboise on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:50AM (#27261417)
> You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels.

Well, it's been how humans have lived for the vast majority of the time we've existed. You don't even have to go back 100 years and medicine was closer to superstition than science.

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Re:On Weakness by victorwho86 on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:35AM (#27263177)
I think the difference is that now we live in an artificial environment with new problems. few people would have had vitamin D insufficiency before industrialization
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Re:On Weakness by edejong on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:57AM (#27261689)
And a lot of practiced medicine, unfortunately, still is.
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Re:On Weakness by huachimingo on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:22PM (#27259894)
We are all still humans after all :D
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