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Oh dude I relate to this so much.
I've seen friends and family use and abuse drugs and medicines instead of fixing the root cause.
For instance one of my neighbours started to use antibiotics for even the weakest of colds. He started on this over use of antibiotics from a very young age that now as a young adult his body has developed resistance to antibiotics. He's forced to use significantly higher dosages to see any effects at all and this has negatively affected his quality of life.
My dad being a rational man taught me a cautious appreciation for modern medicine and I'm glad that my body is relatively healthy and thankfully not over reliant or depended on medicine.
Lifestyle changes do drastically improve one's life and help mitigate most health issues.
One just needs to have enough presence of mind to accept help when its needed and not go down rabbitholes of quack medicine and extreme "bio-hacking"
That last paragraph is a very good point. And I'm absolutely not saying doctors and medicine don't have a place - I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a timely injection of epinephrine when I was ten years old... but for sure, medicine (in my world view) is to be used sparingly and only when necessary.