alt Hacker News> "Good for fever"? Only ignorant consumers would attempt to counteract the body's very own defenses against infection and disease.
Yes, ignorant consumers and physicians across the world.
You can't just 'vibe medicine' or 'vibe biology' - please don't comment if you don't know what you're talking about.
Someone with a basic understanding of evolution and biology understands that evolution will take any free lunch it can get.
The vast majority of the time medicine can only ever help with (acute) symptoms and rarely the underlying cause unless it is something like vaccines or antibiotics.
Medicine has side effects because if there was a free lunch to be obtained from medicine, the human body would have synthesized the medicine directly. Hence medicine is always about making tradeoffs.
When it comes to general health, there is always a causal chain of cause -> primary symptom -> secondary symptom -> tertiary symptom -> ... and a lot of medicine tends to work on the secondary or tertiary symptom.
Pain evolved to be an accurate indicator of damage to encourage you to stop ruining your body and not a punishment.