Alternative medicine

[Wraith]

You miss the part I guess where the protocols would have set me on a path of more medication, not on a path to being more healthy. From what I understand on the assumption that people cannot change.

Well that's just bad doctoring then. They're not all great. Good on you for proving those guys wrong.

I can be more specific about the 'placebo' effect you seem to think is at work. I played around with time restrictions on eating and noticed that during times of not eating flexibility of my shoulder increased and that pain levels decreased. As I write I did not have any caloric intake for 60 hours and my shoulder function is almost entirely back to normal.

I might be about to walk back some of what I said. Fasting can be dangerous. There is a fasting high that you can get after longer stretches without food, but it's not actually making you any healthier. That's your body going into hardcore survival mode. I don't know your precise circumstances, so it could be perfectly fine for you, but be careful with the long fasts. Also be aware that you may be sabotaging yourself a bit - long fasts train your body to hold onto more of your intake after you break the fast.

I think I have good reason to question an approach of chronic problems through a fight against symptoms only, not taking root causes into account.

Yeah, you're right. You do have a good reason to question it, and you should. If your doctor won't work with you to address the underlying causes and can't give you an explanation for why that you can believe in, find a new doctor.