Kamilah StevensonCEO, Healthy And Better · Health & Wellness Coach | Degreed Counselor | Published Author | Helping People Achieve Holistic Wellness

Are you relying on others to understand your body?

18 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker advocates for individuals to become "citizen scientists" of their own health, urging them to conduct personal research and develop a deep, self‑directed understanding of how their bodies function. While not opposed to formal education, the speaker criticizes the common practice of delegating all health knowledge to doctors—who, despite their training, may not fully grasp an individual's unique physiology. The core message is that gaining a personal "PhD in you" empowers better health decisions and reduces overreliance on external medical authority.

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Citizen scientists, meaning you have to do your own research, become your own doctor, get a PhD in you and how you operate, uh, how you respond to certain things. Like, forget about getting a PhD in everything else if it's not going to be a PhD in you, understanding you. I'm not, I'm not against education. Don't, don't twist what I'm saying. I'm just saying, why are you getting a PhD in all of this other stuff and you don't know you, you don't know how your body operates, you're going to leave it up to somebody who didn't create you, who don't know you, to have all the answers? Like, if they do enough study and research and they do their due diligence as doctors, yes, they may help to provide you with some answers that you don't have, but that's, that's the minority.