<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>The standard of care doesn’t mean it’s optimal for everyone. Doctors will often explore alternative treatments when the first-line measures aren’t working optimally.&lt;p&gt;It’s a mistake to ignore proven, first-line treatments and skip straight to less proven alternatives, though. Some people have built an anti-mainstream bias that puts too much emphasis on the unproven, alternative treatments while downplaying the most proven treatments.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Out_of_Characte</author><text>On the flipside, there are also a small selection of unproven treatments that work better than standard care.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>He recognized the signs of sleep apnea and pursued treatment with sleep apnea devices, getting confirmation of the problem with the help of his doctor. The DIY part was largely related to pushing the process forward, not doing novel experimentation.&lt;p&gt;Nobody would call that “anti-science”.&lt;p&gt;Anti-science would be something like ignoring the common treatments and trying to solve the problem with natural supplements or something. Going this route often delays people from getting to proven treatments because they spend a long, long time trying underpowered or unproven things that don’t work.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>&amp;gt; The morale of the story, you need to sometimes tackle your own health and take matters into your own hands&lt;p&gt;The frustrating thing for me is that doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself. It&amp;#x27;s not anti-science to take your health into your own hands. It&amp;#x27;s anti-outdated-underfunded-medical-systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source</title><url>https://decodebytes.substack.com/p/night-of-the-living-brain-fog-dead</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>8ytecoder</author><text>Doctors do often recommend those - they just won’t touch anything that might requires FDA approval and doesn’t have it. I have indigestion issues and it’s my doctor who recommended a supplement with peppermint oil and castor oil.  Worked like a charm for me. I had tried a whole suite of meds prescribed by my GP but the GI specialist went straight to the supplement.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Out_of_Characte</author><text>On the flipside, there are also a small selection of unproven treatments that work better than standard care.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>He recognized the signs of sleep apnea and pursued treatment with sleep apnea devices, getting confirmation of the problem with the help of his doctor. The DIY part was largely related to pushing the process forward, not doing novel experimentation.&lt;p&gt;Nobody would call that “anti-science”.&lt;p&gt;Anti-science would be something like ignoring the common treatments and trying to solve the problem with natural supplements or something. Going this route often delays people from getting to proven treatments because they spend a long, long time trying underpowered or unproven things that don’t work.</text></item><item><author>yosito</author><text>&amp;gt; The morale of the story, you need to sometimes tackle your own health and take matters into your own hands&lt;p&gt;The frustrating thing for me is that doing so is often labeled as being anti-science, when the truth is, this guy was actually doing the science himself. It&amp;#x27;s not anti-science to take your health into your own hands. It&amp;#x27;s anti-outdated-underfunded-medical-systems.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source</title><url>https://decodebytes.substack.com/p/night-of-the-living-brain-fog-dead</url></story>