I’ve previously written about Luck Based Medicine: the idea that, having exhausted all the reasonable cures for some issue, you are better off just trying shit rather than trying to reason more cures into existence. I share LBM success stories primarily as propaganda for the concept: the chance any one cure works for anyone else is <10% (sometimes much less), but a culture where people try things and share their results.

I’ve also previously written about my Very Unlucky Winter. My mattress developed mold, and in the course of three months I had four distinct respiratory infections, to devastating effect. A year later I am still working my way through side effects like asthma and foot pain.

But, uh, I also appear to have cured my hypothyroidism, and the best hypothesis as to why is all the povidone iodine I gargled for all those respiratory infections [...]

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First published:
December 8th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RxNDymKaqyagGyu2b/luck-based-medicine-no-good-very-bad-winter-cured-my

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“Luck Based Medicine: No Good Very Bad Winter Cured My Hypothyroidism” by Elizabeth