Chiropractors make like $60,000/yr. Radiologists make, like, $350,000/yr. So your chiropractor has some "radiologists" working for him in his office, like as part of his "appropriate staff?" Well . . . you were there, while I wasn't.

I think nice fragrances enhance my home environment, and I burn scented candles. I take nutritional supplements, including vitamins, minerals and protein drinks. I definitely would benefit from some exercise. Nobody disputes the value of that. What I dispute is that alternative practitioners can prescribe a particular vitamin that produces a specific desired effect that I would be able to detect. Unless one takes a vitamin to remedy a diagnosed deficiency, it's unlikely that taking the vitamin makes any difference in how one feels. That's what most doctors and I believe. But I know someone who says that, when she takes a certain vitamin supplement, her energy goes "through the roof." Her experience is her experience. Yours is yours. I take thyroid supplement for a diagnosed difficiency. Whether I take it or don't take it makes no difference in how I feel. Last year blood tests showed I was severely anemic. I wasn't feeling especially tired. After I took the intravenous iron (5 infusions,) I didn't feel especially stronger. But I've met someone who says that taking fish oil capsules greatly alleviates her depression.

I take vitamin D because my primary provider said I should. It changes nothing in how I feel, but there's some evidence that, over the long haul, my health may be the better for it.

It's not true that I "don't want traditional treatment." I take a tricyclic antidepressant because I consistently sleep better and feel better when I do. I saw therapists for years. I feel I got to the limit of what help that could provide.

I don't know what people deserve. Having health problems that make us not feel so good can be just part of life. It's not true that there is always a treatment that will make each and every person "feel good and be healthy."

Some of us have chronic problems and chronically recurring intervals of not feeling well. Yes, just about any alternative practitioner would tell me that they could do something for me that would help me. This is why I don't trust them. Alternative practitioners will never say, "Your problem is just something you have to live with." Sometimes, that's exactly what it is.