History as told by survivors who benefitted from the freedom. Some precious people were lost or badly damaged.To all the kids who survived the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. ...
Yes, I think you are right, there's much that has been learned and much more to be learned about specific mechanisms and conditions that can be really valuable. But altogether more than one person can keep in their conscious mind and see how it applies to their own body at that conscious explicit evidence-based level. And too slow for real life.I do think this is possible when considering each phenomenon independently, yet I find it inconceivable that a person could comprehend more than a fraction together working in symphony. Any significant event would induce changes, and changes upon those changes in a fractal manner. Yet I would think a person could comprehend just about any one particular biophysiological event should it be defined narrow enough, satisfactorily.
So choosing which of the many possible parameters to attend to and how also requires numerous human choices that are partly based on sub-conscious senses and cognition. I think listening to intuition is necessary, along with applying reason to evidence. It's good to keeping a conscious eye on intuition, in case it has got influenced by some harmful confusion or addiction, too.
This is the real tragedy.Yet since the direct curative measures implied by clear understandings are generally not profitable to anybody, they are generally ignored and certainly are never advertised.
Probably requiring both system change and ways to help people adapt to new approaches and habits.
It would be good to move towards a system that did not inherently give strong incentives for practices that conflict population health.