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>until you find the roots
That's reductivism, anon.
Holism is about boosting your immune system, making your bones stronger, etc.
Reductivism is about finding the issue and addressing it.
Let's say you have Anemia. You need to take the iron supplements and hope it goes away after a while.
A holistic approach wouldn't even reach a point where you have anemia, because it's about preventing it: eat your meat is holism.
Let's say you have cancer. A reductivist approach is to kill it with chemo and whatnot.
A reductivist approach is about eating enough antioxidants that you wouldn't even get cancer.
Let's say you have depression: a reductivist approach is to tackle the supposed root (serotonin imbalance).
A holistic approach is trying to prevent that altogether by boosting your mental health.
Holism doesn't care about symptoms and etiology of specific illnesses. It's more focused in making you healthy, rather than fixing you.
Neuro*developmental* issues such as autism have billions of reasons for why they happen. Fixing each symptom and the linked etiology is fucking useless.
You can only do something about how you develop your kids' brains.
A well fed happy mother is a better approach to autism prevention than hunting down the next Tylenol with its 20% increase in developing autism.
>lived with a "holistic medicine practicioner" for two years
I'm really sorry you had to go through the whole anti-intellectualist charade that holistic medicine has turned into, but this is like expecting a novaxxer to give you any reason as to why a certain vaccine does more harm than good.
These people are either women or hacks, they are not honest enough about what they are trying to promote. It's more about performance to them.
As I said, holistic medicine doesn't tackle fixing something, only improving.
If someone says otherwise, they are lying.
