There are 2 sets of diametrically opposed viewpoints on this type of thing, both very assured of their authoritative sources and evidence, both very righteous in their accusations, both out to debunk and accuse the other, both with their esteemed practitioners and spokesmen. You can read up on both of them to bolster your chosen views, and quote them vociferously to other people. You will have a deep and abiding faith in either one of them or the other.

One is mainstream conventional medicine and the big drug companies.

The other is alternative medicine and natural cures.

Depending on your chosen form of faith, you will usually (if not always) back one of them and damn the other.

And no amount of back and forth arguing on this forum will change your opinion one iota, but it will eat up a large amount of your valuable time and possibly cause you to develop longstanding grudges against people here who think differently about it than you do. And won't that be just ducky. ;-) (rolling my eyes)

That's why I figure I'll just bail out now, instead of getting involved further in the perpetual motion machine...

Get medical help any way you want to, and go to whom you trust. That's what I do.