Become Your Own Expert.

[MikePollard]

So, there's me on the one side, and on the other my GP.

We are facing you.

I have been researching diet and health for the past 12 years, soaking up information, good and bad like a sponge on a daily basis.

Whose advice would you take?

I'm guessing not mine, for he is the holder of the oracle, despite him having no training whatsoever and still trotting out the same old nonsense we have had to endure for decades, no doubt whilst writing a prescription.

So, you have access to the internet and a world of information at the touch of a button.

You should also become your own expert.

[Fruitandnutcase]

Couldn’t agree with you more. You should always be at least a partner in decisions made about your health. So many people just do what the doctor tells them and take anything the doctor gives them without ever questioning what they are told , ask for and keep copies of any blood test results and generally take an active interest in your health. Like you say Mike, be the expert on your own body.

[bigleg in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

We patients can help educate our medical professionals. As a volunteer I have regular conversations with patients. One told me after being sent from one specialist to another "why can't you look at me as a whole?" She knew her various symptoms were all interconnected to the same 'Root Cause'.

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to bigleg]

Had a friend who tripped over her dressing gown on the way to open the door to the postman, she fell down the stairs and knocked herself out. The doctors treated her for her heart, she told them that the problems that followed were as a result of being knocked out as she was aware of standing on her dressing gown not because she fainted but she was in her seventies (and with all her marbles) when this happened but alas she was ignored.

Nothing would make them listen to her and so she started on an endless round of heart tests etc. and no her own GP said he couldn’t /wouldn’t refer her to do anything about her head while she was being treated for her heart - she was correct, her heart was fine and eventually her head sorted itself out and she got back to normal.

Patients do need to be looked at as a whole not just a ‘body part’ or a ‘condition’ belonging to one particular medical field.

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Yes good advice just heard about LCHF way am interested done Atkins 7 years ago but my addiction to sugar and carbs got me again but need to do something any tips would be appreciated 😁