Channel: Christopher Walker

Category: Education

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Description: Check out the full podcast on Mico-Nutrients here: youtube.com/watch?v=d2UoeyewCFw&t= Do doctors have enough nutrition education? There was a bill that was introduced in California where they wanted to mandate that medical schools in California required twelve hours of nutrition education throughout the entire curriculum. If someone was in medical school for four years, they had to do twelve hours of nutrition education. All the medical associations and went nuts. They knocked it down to seven hours and they still were going crazy about it. There was all these different clips of the different medical associations like the California Medical Association, The California Orthopedic Association, and the California Academy of Family Physicians. They were all adamantly against having any sort of mandate for nutrition in medical school. It’s fascinating about the fact that these medical associations are so against teaching nutrition in medical school. Nutrition classes in public colleges don't go over the different forms of these micronutrients and their actual compatibility with the human body. For instance, the vitamin A that's found in different milks or the calcium that's fortified in a lot of different orange juices, it's not in the right form that your body's going to be able to actually be able to use it. That's another aspect that a lot of people need to look at whenever they're looking at their micronutrient intake. There are basically different forms of all of them, especially minerals. If you look at, for example, magnesium, there's going to be certain forms of magnesium that are more bioavailable than others. If you see a label that says magnesium oxide, you should probably run the other direction. Don't even waste your money because it's got a poor bioavailability. However, if you had like a glycinate, aspartate, or a citrate, those are going to be much more highly bioavailable. It's the same thing with selenium or zinc or other minerals like that. If you go with the -ates, you're going to have a higher bioavailability. Don't go with the -ides, the oxide. In terms of bioavailability, it's like a little mental hack reading the label. Most people go to their doctors. However in the younger generations right now, they don't trust the medical system as much as our parents did or grandparents did. It's the same thing as with political stuff and really any establishments: Mass media, etc. A lot of older generations like our parents and our grandparents, they go to their doctors for health advice and they have regular check-ups. They're getting their prescriptions and they ask the doctors for nutrition advice. The problem is that doctors really don't have nutrition education and there's a lot of data to back that up. The other issue is that doctors aren't interested in nutrition and don't trust the education that they do receive about nutrition. There was actually a study done on United States medical schools that showed that since the 1950s, fewer medical students have any sort of interest in nutrition. They correlated it with the fact that they think that the education that they get on nutrition while they're in medical school is wrong. If they don't trust it in the first place, they just don't even want to learn about it. They probably have good reason to not trust it because it's probably bad information that they're being told. They're conditioned to look at the body with a very reductionistic view. They're told to look at all these different symptoms and be able to name one thing that's going wrong and then be able to cover that up with a bandaid. Whether it's a pharmaceutical or a surgery or something like that, rather than looking at the body as a whole holistic self healing organism. There's a lot of the great things about doctors and the skills that are developed as a doctor, as well. Part of the problem is that the way that the education system is set up doesn't really end up serving the patient very well. A lot of people have theories about why that is in the first place. It seems obvious that a lot of it is based on the lobbying of big pharmaceuticals. The fact that the textbooks are funded by pharmaceutical companies, the fact that pharmaceutical companies are a huge part of the hospital as a business, etc. It's just clear that that's really what is underlying all of the education in the medical establishment right now. It makes sense why that wouldn't involve nutrition. It wouldn't involve things like focusing on vitamins, minerals, and amino acids and nutrient therapy because nutrient therapy is very inexpensive and it can solve the problem. If you can affordably solve your problems by measuring deficiencies and correcting them and finding imbalance patterns and that sort of thing, where do the drugs come in? They don't.