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I was a patient in the Soviet system, my family doctors in it. We could rely on no-one. The one benefit was it was so decrepit that docs had wide latitude. My uncle treated autoimmune disease with fasting and cabbage (our most abundantly reliable veggie) to reduce inflammation. Now the west is catching on. You’re right about the Soviet-style repression here. It’s very scary

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