Hal Elrod talks with a guest who learned nutrition after medical school and argues doctors dismiss functional medicine research. The guest says conventional medicine has misled people about nutrition, and that unlearning these beliefs is harder than learning them in the first place.
All of my nutrition knowledge was absolutely learned after medical school, after residency. Unlearning something is the hardest thing to do. You can learn something, but unlearning is harder than learning. We have been lied to and I have case study among case study proving conventional medicine wrong. But it's not changing. They're not. We are.
My theory, and I want to know if you would agree with this or see it differently is that health is not taught because it's not profitable. I'm curious, is that why? Is it that obvious?
I'm very disappointed in my profession, but I choose to believe it's less sinister and I choose to believe it's doctors that really believe they know the truth and they really believe that nutrition doesn't matter and they don't see it. And what I often encourage my patients to do when they start seeing me and they reverse their autoimmune condition or whatnot, I encourage them, you should go back and you should tell them what you did and why it worked. I don't think doctors are sinister in this, but they are guilty. They are guilty. By choosing to be closed minded, you have to have an open mind. And one of my pet peeves is when a doctor tells one of my patients or someone that goes and is interested in functional medicine and their response is, there's no research to prove that. How there's so much research to prove what we do now. So there's a difference. Because you don't know the research does not mean it's not researched. You, my friend, are the unresearched doctor.
