how many of you have baffled your doctor with info she/he did not know ?!


Question: How many of you have baffled your doctor with info she/he did not know ?
curious here..

I follow dr Oz show and my doctor did not know about..

Milk thistle for liver
Lutein for eyes
and tons of other stuff !!!

It is like I am educating her lol !!

Answers:

MD's get no training in nutrition let alone herbal and nutritional supplements. The drug companies are essentially running the medical schools. Drugs are the foundation of managed disease care, not the prevention and cure of disease.
Once in a blue moon you'll find an MD who is genuinely interested, largely because THEY have health problems too. Happens to me all the time -- especially when you have a problem that shows up on a test, they try to tell you that it's "incurable" and by the next test the problem is gone. Tends to make them sit up and take notice.
Then there are the really intelligent MD's who go out and study holistic medicine because they're tired of not being able to actually cure anyone with drugs and realize it's a crock.



Why do you think doctors refer you to specialists all the time? It's out of their field of expertise and they send you to someone who knows all about your problem. When I found out I had liver failure from an autoimmune disease, my PCP told me right away she did not know that much about it and sent me to a gastroenterologist. When I went to that doctor, she told me my liver was too destroyed to save it and she could do nothing for me so she sent me to the top gun specialist of liver disease which was to be evaluated at a transplant center. That's when the hepatologist took over. My PCP still treated me throughout but followed my transplant doctors orders all the time on my liver issues. She told me she had learned quite a lot from me about liver disease. I considered her a brilliant doctor and still do, but she knew her limits. The doctor does not know everything about every disease, medication, and illness. That's impossible.



This is not surprising at all. Doctors are taught about symptoms of disease and drugs for that disease. I've baffled many doctors, not just with natural treatments but diagnosing my own rare autoimmune condition.

Well what i've told my doctor who amusing told me the same thing at another visit (she forgot i had told her lol) was vitamin D deficiency signficantly increases cancer risk. One study 77% increased risk.

Another doctor...i told her how studies show selenium lowers thyroid antibodies which she wasn't aware of.

But milk thistle for the liver hello! :) that's been around for years. Works a treat for oedema too! :)

RedAngel



educating them? don't kid yourself. they may put on that they're interested in what you say, but they don't give a rat's *** about natural treatments. the drug companies own them, and they likely resent your telling them about alternatives. i've seen it before, patients who get better naturally (the only way), then go back to their m.d. for their check-up. they tell them they're better now, the medic tries to take credit, but the patient corrects them, and they feign interest, even ask for a business card, but it never goes anywhere.



I once mentioned that cyclobenzaprine and amitriptyline were near-identical molecules, with the only difference being a single pi bond. Of course, that information is based on hard, objective science and is easily verified.

I wonder how many holistic whackjobs routinely test their doctors' ability to keep a straight face by name-dropping the latest impossible fad "cure" to grace their kook websites?



they shrug at a lot of stuff
i really question how much they know, some of them seem so jaded
besides, they're doctors.. they write prescription for medications. i rarely see them cover anything related to nutrition



I have, but I have a rare skin condition, so I'm always surprised if doctors know about it..(I've had one who knew a little bit) and my dermatolagist always like asks me stuff..it's pretty funny actually




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