Wild Minds Weekly: Let food be your medicine
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Hello beautiful people,
Most people would agree that 0.1% is a very, very small number.
Yet, most of mainstream society take nutritional advice from doctors as gospel.
There's a good reason for this.
Doctors go through a minimum of 5 years of training to become healthcare practicioner.
That means if you start your degree straight after school, you're there from the ages of 18-23. That's a long time.
One of the most important pillars of health is nutrition.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that what goes inside your body, is what it's made of, which can either improve or worsen disease.
So it would make sense that the people being trained to take care of our country's health would spend a good chunk of their degree studying it, wouldn't it?
And yet, they spend 8 hours studying nutrition.
8 hours, out of the 10,000 they spend on their medical education.
That's less than 0.1%.
It's ridiculously hard to get onto a medical degree, and even harder to finish it. Medical students go through an incredible amount of scrutiny, not just in their academic ability, but in their personal motivation for studying medicine. The doctors are not the issue. The issue lies in their curriculum (and the system they go on to work in).
Modern medicine is truly incredible in many ways.
Before modern medicine, if I snap my arm in half, I'd be disabled for life. Now, I can go to a doctor to get it rebuilt and strapped back into place with precision that only comes with years of training, and I'm back to normal in a month or two.
Before modern medicine, if I contracted leprosy, I would have to wait for my body to slowly rot away, after being excluded from my village, then die a painful death. Now, I can get antibiotics.
Before modern medicine, when an elderly developed hip issues and couldn't walk, that would have been the end of them. My grandma had a hip replacement in her 70s, her quality of life increased tenfold and she was walking and swimming right up until she passed away at the age of 96.
But when a doctor tells me to eat less red meat and more vegetables to lower my cholesterol, or that I shouldn't drink raw milk because of the bacteria, you best believe I'm taking it with a pinch of salt, or as much salt as I want.
My point is, nutrition is a cornerstone of a healthy life, and there is no one in your life better positioned to take charge of it than you.
There's a quote that goes,
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.", which perfectly capture the way people should approach their nutrition.
You take control of your food, you take control of your health.
To your freedom and independence,
Rob
Wild Minds Community
