Chronic ringing in the ears may seem minor, but tinnitus can severely affect mental health, sometimes driving individuals to suicide due to the constant and unrelenting noise.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Urinary tract infections in the elderly

[–] Lazerouselaseras@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eczema/rashes beyond like poison ivy and oak. I had an allergic reaction for the first time in my life, at about 30, and it was the first time I got huge rashes on my legs and feet and I could hardly walk for like 2 days. Went away pretty quick but I've got a lot more sympathy for chronic sufferers now

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've had flare ups of severe eczema across my whole life. Sometimes it's almost impossible to do anything but wallow in the itch and the pain and the flaky yuck.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Type II Diabetes.

People joke about it, but it degrades every aspect of your life. It's ultimately fatal in a slow and most miserable way possible.

eta: specified adult onset

[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca -8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Okay, but T2 diabetes has clinically proven interventions for reversal. If you don't want to stop eating animals, well, suffer, I guess.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry. They'll tell you.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

T2 diabetes has effectively been cured, but you don't want to know about it, because vegans apparently. Great, nicely done, you sure owned those vegans. There should be fucking tickertape parades in the street because no one ever has to suffer from T2 diabetes again, but when the news came out, no one gave a single fuck. T2 is self inflicted, and to get rid of it, all you have to do is stop inflicting it on yourself and allow your body to heal. Every proven intervention requires the cessation of consumption of animal products. That's just the facts. But can't do that, it's too vegan. What the fuck ever.

Vegans don't mention veganism nearly as often as carnists mention consuming animals. If your culture war is literally killing you and your loved ones, maybe you're on the wrong fucking side.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 week ago

You just can't help but live up to the stereotype, can you?

You don't even know what I eat. You just blather. Like the stereotype goes.

Don't worry. They'll tell you.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Every proven intervention requires the cessation of consumption of animal products

This doesn't match my reading if the literature. Can you share the published papers on the vegan approach to reversing T2D?

Here is a published 5 year study on reversing T2D that doesn't involve the cessation of animal sourced foods https://hackertalks.com/post/7487475

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

3/10 ragebait

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 week ago

Funny you should mention it.

T2D has a demonstrated 40% reversal rate in a 5 year study using just a ketogenic diet. Animal food optional, but it won't hurt a ketogenic metabolism to eat animal foods.

Though some T2D has been resolved with the rice diet in the 1950s, which suggests that a major source of insulin resistance (a key component of T2D) is inflammation from dysfunction in the randel cycle.

TLDR: people who have T2D have a extreme form of carbohydrate intolerance, so they do much better if they don't eat carbs

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chronic cough. If bad enough no one wants to be around you because you just cannot keep silent in a conversation.

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, I have about a 75% chance to get a cough each autumn, which typically lasts around 3-4 months. The worst is when people who you are around constantly, like family, start expressing their annoyance. Sorry, it's not like I can just stop! And everyone says "just take some cough syrup". No, the cough syrup doesn't do shit!

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 1 week ago

Pneumonia especially for older people

[–] temporal_spider@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

ME/CFS

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

ADHD (not a sufferer but it runs in the family). Imagine driving twenty minutes to work when, in the words of Shrek, you can't sit still for five minutes.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Anemia. It's rare, but you can actually die from it.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Impaired metabolism affects 96% of adults in the west in 2021, I'm sure it hasn't improved since then.

Poor metabolism has huge systemic impacts over the entire body, it's the largest medical issue facing humanity

Impaired metabolic function presents with increased risk of

hypertension
obesity
ectopic fat in the airway (snoring)
type 2 diabetes
cancer
PCOS
inflammation
Alzheimer's and dementia
gout
cardio vascular disease

As a illustrative example there are nearly a billion people with diagnosed type 2 diabetes globally, right now. The US alone spends a over a billion USD per day dealing with diabetes complications.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Anti-medical movements are making me really worried about strep throat. Today it is mostly known as a mild infection kids get but without antibiotics it can be pretty deadly and cause permanent disabilities pretty frequently. The more parents who take their kids to chiropractors or use essential oils instead of going to real doctors, the more kids who will be permanently disabled or die from a disease that has been essentially cured. I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more of this among some religious communities already.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Long hulkamania. To this day I cannot wear T-shirts.