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welcome to another video of Foodn
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Nourish Deep Dives, the video cast of
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foodnourish.net, where we explore topics
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like health, food, supplements, and
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alternative approaches to health and
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wellness. Today, we're diving into a
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really fascinating article that makes
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you question something we all do,
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suppressing a fever. It raises the
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possibility that our search for quick
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comfort might be setting us up for some
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serious long-term health problems. So,
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let's start with a scene we all know.
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You know that feeling, right? That achy,
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hot, just miserable feeling starts to
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creep in. A fever is coming on. Maybe a
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headache to go with it. What's your
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first move? For pretty much all of us,
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the answer is a beline straight to the
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medicine cabinet. And what do we grab?
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It's always the usual suspects, isn't
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it? Tylenol, Advil, Motrin, a leave.
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They're in every household, our first
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line of defense. Whenever we feel
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discomfort, we just pop them without a
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second thought to get on with our day.
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We just assume they're totally safe. I
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mean, they're sold over the counter,
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right? But the article we're exploring
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today makes a pretty bold claim that if
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we actually stop and look at the data, a
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much more complicated and honestly a
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pretty concerning picture starts to
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emerge. So, you know what? Let's do
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that. Let's look at the numbers. The
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whole argument here is that these
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medications we think of as basically
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harmless actually come with some major
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risks that most of us just don't know
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about. Wow. Just let that number sink in
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for a second. Over a 100,000
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hospitalizations every single year. And
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this isn't from some obscure
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prescription drug. This is from NSAIDs.
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That's non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
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drugs. You know, like the ibuprofen and
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a proxin so many of us take for everyday
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aches and pains. And what about Tylenol?
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That's often pitched as the safer
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choice, right? Well, the data shows
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56,000 ER visits, thousands of
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hospitalizations, and hundreds of deaths
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every year in the US just from overusing
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it. The big point here is that neither
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of these options is risk-free. Not even
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close. And the potential problems go
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even deeper than that. The research
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mentioned in the article links regular,
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long-term use of these drugs to a pretty
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frightening list of health issues. We're
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talking about things like heart attacks
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and strokes, kidney failure, even damage
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to your small bowel. And it might even
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get in the way of your body's natural
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ability to heal. So, this all leads to a
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really big question, doesn't it? Why are
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we so dead set on getting rid of fevers
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in the first place? We've been taught to
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see a rising temperature as the bad guy,
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but what if what if it's actually on our
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side? This really lays out the whole
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debate. On one side, you have the
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standard reasons. We suppress fevers to
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feel more comfortable and reduce stress
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on the body. But on the other side,
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you've got the biological reality. A
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fever is a powerful part of your body's
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own defense system. It kicks key immune
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responses into high gear to fight off
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infection. The article argues that
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shutting it down might actually hide
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important clues. And get this, could
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even make you sick for longer. And
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believe it or not, this is not a new
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idea. This quote is incredibly powerful.
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It takes us all the way back to the 1918
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flu pandemic. Doctors back then noticed
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that patients who were allowed to run a
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fever had a much much better chance of
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surviving. That was a huge life-saving
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lesson from history. This all builds up
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to a central idea from natural medicine
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called the suppression hypothesis. The
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theory is pretty simple. When we use
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drugs to just shut down a symptom like a
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fever, we're not actually curing
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anything. We might just be forcing the
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illness to go deeper inside our bodies.
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This way of thinking is based on a
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principle called Herring's law of cure.
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The idea is that true healing moves an
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illness from our deeper, more important
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organs out to the surface. It's a
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process of pushing things out. Symptom
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suppression, according to this theory,
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does the exact opposite. And this lays
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out the potential path perfectly. So,
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picture this. It starts with a simple
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acute illness. You get a fever or a
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rash. Step two, we suppress it with
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medication. The theory says that the
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problem doesn't just vanish, it gets
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pushed inward, only to maybe pop up
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again down the road as something much
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let's get back to it because this is
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where the article presents what is maybe
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its most startling and controversial
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point, a potential link between Tylenol
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use and neurodedevelopmental disorders.
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The source we're looking at points to a
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big systematic review of 46 different
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studies. And the findings, well, they're
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pretty sobering. Most of these studies
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found an increased risk of
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neurodedevelopmental disorders in kids
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whose moms used Tylenol while pregnant.
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And the more they used, the higher the
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risk. We're talking about disorders like
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autism, ADHD, and other learning and
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behavioral issues. I mean, just look at
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these numbers from one of the reviews
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they cite. A 29% increased risk for
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later needing ADHD medication, 37% for
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hyperkinetic disorder, and a really
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staggering 51% increased risk for autism
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with hyperinetic symptoms. These are
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correlations that are just too big to
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ignore. Now, as the source material
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points out, this isn't some fringe idea
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being kicked around in the corners of
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the internet. It highlights a 2017 press
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conference where this exact link was
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discussed at the federal level in the
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US. And as you can imagine, it kicked
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off a huge and very heated debate in the
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media. So, when you put all of these
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pieces together, what's the big picture?
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The core argument of the article is that
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this isn't just about one drug or one
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illness. It's about a fundamental shift,
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a paradigm shift in how we even think
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about being sick and getting healthy.
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This table just nails the difference
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between the two philosophies. The
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conventional approach is all about
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getting rid of symptoms. The goal is
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suppression. The natural medicine view
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is the opposite. The goal is to support
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what the body is already trying to do to
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allow for the expression of symptoms
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like a fever, hoping to get to a real
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lasting resolution. And really, it all
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comes down to this single powerful
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thought in our rush for immediate relief
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for that temporary comfort. Are we
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making a dangerous trade without even
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realizing it? If you found this
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you with that final question to think
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about. Is our modern quest for immediate
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comfort accidentally creating chronic
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illness? It's a challenging question for
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sure, but it gets right to the heart of
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what we've been talking about today.
