Robert Whitfield MD warns against supplement powders with five or more ingredients, which often contain fillers like sunflower powder. He stresses that treatment must fit the individual: "the only thing that keeps changing is the person in front of me."
But back then we didn't even know giga boba was a thing.
Kind of snuck your radar.
Yeah, yeah, we didn't know this, but you know, just like a lot of things, you know, you have to. To your point, it is impossible to keep up with all the data. It's not even a fair fight. So, you know, someone will ask me, do I know about this? Whatever. Yeah, Supplement brand or drink or shake or whatever. And I'm like, no, I'll look at it for you and tell you what I think of it.
Right.
But I don't, I don't know it, I didn't make it. And you know, I can tell you if it has five ingredients or more. I don't trust it if that helps you because those things add fillers and all sorts of stuff to it. And as soon as I flip it over and I see it. Oh, sunflower powder. Oh yeah, no, that's a hard. No. Any powder outside of like ground up pea powder or whatever. Something basic. Like the more ingredients, the more suspicious I become. It's just a habit now. So yeah, huge, huge. I got a little tangential, but I love it.
It's good.
But those, you know, those you have to rein in, folks is they just get information. And you know, your point about bio individuality is spot on because I tell everybody the same things. Like I know all of this. The only thing that keeps changing is the person in front of me.
Exactly. You're my only variable. And there's a lot of them there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're like, why, why didn't I, you know, respond like Susie Smith on your Instagram? I'm like, because you're not Susie Smith. It's pretty simple.
Yeah. And that's the, you know, at the time my diagnosis in 91, there was no Dr. Google, there were no Facebook forums, there were no functional medicine practices or people out there. This was going it alone really in a time. And in some ways I tell folks it was probably easier because I didn't have the well meaning advice of so many people who cared about me, shouting, you know, you should do this and this and talk to this person and go to this influencer and read this book and take this supplement. And that didn't exist. And so there was not as much noise.
