On the other hand, I subscribe to a commercial alternative-health newsletter called HSI E-alert that’s very skeptical of drugs, and at least open-minded toward nutrition and supplements. Of course, that’s the side their bread is buttered on. But people can be credulous towards big pharma at least as much as toward vitamin pushers and conspiracy theorists. This one cites studies you can track down and read.

I follow a support-group e-mail thread for and by people with J’s disease, and I’m sort of horrified by the almost automatic resort to drugs and other interventions for every problem. But I’m also aware that maybe they or their family member are sicker than J is. Not that he doesn’t take medication (L-dopa) or that it hasn’t helped, just that I try to avoid piling on more of them for every little thing, for better or for worse.

Miss you! Now that I’m not writing an obligate blog maybe I’ll have more time to read them — and will need to to see my friends. By the way, the Ambiance design continues to be very satisfying. Good choice.

Talina, I know what you mean in that what is the best for the average one is not the best for every one.

This pregnancy has opened my eyes to a number of widely accepted medical practices that claim to be science based that are just a crock. Where is the middle ground in it all? Does it really ahve to be one or the other?