How much does toxicology figure into epidemiology? I'm asking as I've read of and even experienced poisoning events that are identical to various 'diseases' and wonder how you would go about teasing out whether or not the patient had a disease or was toxic.
Further, how do you tease out the difference between a disease and malnutrition?
I once read many decades ago from a vet turned doctor, Joel Wallach, that he postulated that all disease was malnutrition based on his many years of being a vet mostly for big farms and observing that it was cheaper to give a breeding bull a certain (cheap) mineral supplement than to do a hip replacement or to make a 10,000 turkeys healthy with vitamin whatever it was than to do heart ops or something like that. (sorry, this may be factually incorrect but I'm going on a memory from the 80s but I hope you get the idea). He knew this about animals and humans from countless autopsies.
Thank you for your measured and science based responses to the current chaos.
How much does toxicology figure into epidemiology? I'm asking as I've read of and even experienced poisoning events that are identical to various 'diseases' and wonder how you would go about teasing out whether or not the patient had a disease or was toxic.
Further, how do you tease out the difference between a disease and malnutrition?
I once read many decades ago from a vet turned doctor, Joel Wallach, that he postulated that all disease was malnutrition based on his many years of being a vet mostly for big farms and observing that it was cheaper to give a breeding bull a certain (cheap) mineral supplement than to do a hip replacement or to make a 10,000 turkeys healthy with vitamin whatever it was than to do heart ops or something like that. (sorry, this may be factually incorrect but I'm going on a memory from the 80s but I hope you get the idea). He knew this about animals and humans from countless autopsies.