Everyone knows you can handle jetlag, nausea, and diarrhea with pills.
People don’t actually do this because keeping the pills around is inconvenient.
Maintaining a pill organizer makes it convenient.
My guess is that #1 is actually not the case, and the main reasons people do not treat these as optional is that they don’t know these can be handled with pills, they don’t know how to handle these with pills, or handling these with pills doesn’t actually work well for them.
How often do you suffer from nausea? I’ll admit to the fact that I carry around none of these because I never need them (except for the fact that I keep a bottle of melatonin on my bed).
I get motion sickness easily, but I don’t often suffer from nausea because I avoid doing things that make me motion sick (e.g., reading in the car). If I took anti-nausea pills, I could do those things more.
Yeah, I definitely didn’t know a good chunk of the stuff listed in the OP (and in fact suspect that at least some of it is not true and/or comes with significant drawbacks not listed).
The idea here seems to be something like:
Everyone knows you can handle jetlag, nausea, and diarrhea with pills.
People don’t actually do this because keeping the pills around is inconvenient.
Maintaining a pill organizer makes it convenient.
My guess is that #1 is actually not the case, and the main reasons people do not treat these as optional is that they don’t know these can be handled with pills, they don’t know how to handle these with pills, or handling these with pills doesn’t actually work well for them.
I “know” that nausea can be handled with a pill, but it had never occurred to me to carry around a couple anti-nausea pills.
How often do you suffer from nausea? I’ll admit to the fact that I carry around none of these because I never need them (except for the fact that I keep a bottle of melatonin on my bed).
I get motion sickness easily, but I don’t often suffer from nausea because I avoid doing things that make me motion sick (e.g., reading in the car). If I took anti-nausea pills, I could do those things more.
Yeah, I definitely didn’t know a good chunk of the stuff listed in the OP (and in fact suspect that at least some of it is not true and/or comes with significant drawbacks not listed).