Mona Sharma and a co-speaker argue that most doctors receive little to no formal nutrition education, despite nutrition being fundamental to survival and performance. The body can only perform if it gets the right fuel and knowledge to use it.
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So I think it's two things. It's like, yes, your body can do the work, but are you giving it the things to allow it to do the work in the best way possible? Are you feeding it, nourishing it, listening to the right things, learning the right things to know what to do in those situations? So it goes in two ways. Your body has the ability, but not if you're not treating it in the right way, to actually fight the way that it needs to.
Yeah, don't be silly. I know the people that you're talking about who say it's irresponsible in all of these things. But we're also waking up to the fact that western medicine is also a very antiquated form of training. Right. The fact that we now eat, you know, this past year was shining light on the fact that doctors really have no nutrition training. When nutrition and hydration is a pillar of survival, keeping your human body alive, it makes no sense.