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Trying to understand what background qualifies your arguing with a PhD-MD. Generally the two types of people I pay attention to are people with the condition or people who treat the condition. Both have important perspectives. I don't always agree with doctors but I respect that they believe what they believe. I loved it when ortho surgeons would tell me I was about to have a simple surgery. Simple for them, maybe. I've never woken up in recovery and thought how simple the coming months or recovery and rehab were going to be. Ironically my wife just got back from an appointment with a nutritionist on behalf of her disabled sister, who does have endocrine issues. Lean proteins and non-starchy veggies are what's for dinner. Diabetes, cancer, auto immune diseases, cardiac issues, obesity, etc., the docs all prescribe lean protein and green veggies.
Stewart,
I have multiple graduate degrees too, but I don't go around rubbing people's noses in it or putting lots of letters behind my name, although I could. I prefer to argue science and the facts, and I prefer not to be a snob.
My background is in engineering, and my first masters was in systems and control engineering -- i.e. the dynamics of systems. Therefore, I try to understand the human body as one very complex system - not the way traditionally trained medical doctors look at it at all.
It is easy today to find out what is bullshit and what is not with the entire world's medical library at your fingertips in the form of the internet. Hey -- I can read medical papers too, the same ones that all the medical doctors can read (but 99% don't). In fact, I read a LOT of them - mostly on diabetes, atheroschlerosis and cancer.
And since I also have a background in data science and machine learning, I can do stuff with the data in those papers too (more letters behind my name I could use if I wanted to). Something most doctors can't.
Let me tell you something -- the shoddy work in many of those papers is simply astonishing, and most of the studies that get published are published because they reached the "right" conclusions - the ones that the drug companies wanted. If you want to see a lot of studies that didn't get published, go to clinicaltrials.gov - these studies didn't reach the "right" conclusions.
However, if you really want to see the results of modern medicine and doctors, just look at the exploding rates of diabetes, cancer, etc - since the ADA, AHA, and doctors started pushing "healthy whole grains", industrial vegetable oils (which didn't even exist 60 years ago) and telling people to avoid animal fats, something they were eating for at least 300,000 years with no heart disease or diabetes.
Look at the "standard of care" for type 2 diabetes -- put people on insulin, even though it is a disease caused by too much insulin, which makes it even worse! Are you really serious that we should listen to these docs just because they have "MD" behind their name??? When anyone using common sense can figure out that you shouldn't be giving more insulin to someone with hyperinsulinemia??? Oh yeah... then they tell you that you're just doomed to lose your limbs and die from this disease. Nothing could be further from the truth!
Let's talk about the "standard of care" for heart disease... give the patient statins and tell them to eat corn oil. Statins cut off an entire enzymatic pathway in your liver -- not just the liver's ability to make cholesterol (which is your body's repair mechanism for inflammation, which really causes atheroschlerosis), but also many critical things like CoQ10, vital for protecting your heart, nervous system and a bunch of other things. REALLY??? That's like cutting off your leg because of a chipped toenail! And that just as many people with low cholesterol have massive heart attacks as people with high cholesterol? Why are these illustrious doctors with all the letters behind their names doing this??? ARE THEY STUPID? Or just corrupt?
Let's talk about the "standard of care" for pancreatic cancer. Yes heavy chemo + radiation - 6 months and you're dead. Meanwhile, my friend who refused all that and basically did NOTHING (except take a few pancreatic enzymes that I was told don't work) is still alive after diagnosis almost 3.5 years. Granted not well, but alive..... if the docs actually used Otto Warburg's discoveries on cancer metabolism for which he won the Nobel prize in the 1930s, maybe my friend would have recovered by now. WHY DON'T THEY, and instead just go down a path with a near 100% death rate within 6 months, worse than if they did absolutely nothing???
People are beginning to realize that something is seriously wrong - and the good news is that you no longer are blocked by a guy with a white coat and stethoscope with some letters behind his name from accessing the truth for yourself.
BTW, some of the smartest people I know are self trained -- they have studied on their own.
And Randy -- I am not against doctors. Just ones who don't abide by the Hippocratic oath and make things worse, when there there are clear truths out there. Look at what the AHA released the other week to defend their crumbling facade against animal fats and for their dangerous advice to eat corn oil. I could go on for hours about that - the substandard studies (all old ones from the 1960s that violate basic principles of how to do studies). Chris Masterjohn (PhD for you Stewart) has done a better job than I could in dissecting the crappy science in these:
https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2017/06/24/coconut-oil-killing-us/
The good news is that this facade and barrier to good health is crumbling in the information revolution that the internet has brought about.
