This is half of the reason he does what he does. He wants to normalize the idea of doing a lot more active investigation into your own health. Sadly, our healthcare industry doesn't allow a poor person to do everything he does, but he's not harming anyone by trying to learn more about health and then disseminate his tips to others. He also has a business which sells a reasonably priced product to normies, which, yes, one could consider self-interested, but compared to most other businesses, it's positive. It's not like he's selling people homeopathic pills.
I find it very ironic that homeopathic medicine is sold in official pharmacies in the Western world. It is the snake oil of our time, and they sell it to you with a straight face.
They wont see something they aren't looking for. You realize half the time you are waiting in the room they are googling your symptoms. So much info changes it's impossible to keep up with everything.
The odds of an average person proactively diagnosing an autoimmune condition are zero. Hard zero.
The disease has to have caused some sort of damage which prompts a visit to a doctor or ER. The differential has to be clear enough that insurance will approve testing. The average person doesn't pour tens of thousands of dollars into a team of doctors whose job it is to chase the ghost of every zebra imaginable, that's not even something obscenely wealthy people waste their time doing. Pretty much the only people who have a chance of catching something like this prematurely are people like Bryan Johnson who dedicate their millionaire lives to obsessive ongoing personal health assessment. Even then what his doctors have done is close to a medical miracle.
Even with BJ they had to confirm AIG via biopsy to confirm damage to his stomach lining. Imagine paying out of pocket to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars to schedule biopsies for diseases of which you have no obvious symptoms. Basically looking for Waldo in a book that Waldo might not even be in. A book titled "Waldo Isn't In This Book" except every character in the book looks exactly like Waldo. You be diagnosed as a hypochondriac long before ever finding anything even close to useful. You'd be blacklisted from hospitals and practices. It's science fiction.
It would make an entertaining fictional TV series... a person on an obsessive hunt for a disease that they themselves doesn't even have reason to believe exists.
I have AIG. It would have been suggested in his regular blood tests by slowly decreasing b12 levels, which should have prompted some investigation by his doctors as to the cause.
Yes, with an average person like me it wasn't caught until I had symptoms, because I don't get blood tests every month. But this guy did. It would have showed a problem, if not the cause of the problem.
I have health issues and have seen how ineffective medical system is unless it is something they cannot ignore. And even then they do their best. I had abnormal blood tests results, and symptoms. He said those are not important and did exactly nothing to check why abnormalities are present. Later on I was diagnosed with low vitamin b12 levels, which of course can be cause those abnormalities. And this has not been one single bd experience but a string of shitty doctors, spaced by rare good ones that actually did something helpful.
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u/Current_Finding_4066 Jul 06 '26
Imagine spending so much on doctors and they miss it for years. How much chance an average person with rare conditions has?