what if believing stuff that's really controversial is good for your immune system
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tbc the mechanism i have in mind is just that believing controversial stuff is fun and having fun is good for your immune system
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it's an interesting alternative medicine confounder 🤔 potentially almost all of the benefit of alternative medicine is that it is more fun than western medicine and this could be good and important actually
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going to a hospital? negative fun
learning about herbs and feeling like a witch? extremely fun
food for thought
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heh i feel the opposite for me, the times i've been to the hospital where the high points of my childhood
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whoa really? what was fun about it?
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for me? I was away from my abusive mother and school bullies
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I remember spending most of those weeks before and after surgery reading GURPS 3e and making characters, and watching TV, and socializing with other patients, and reading Lord of the Flies