Chalo said:
Yeah, what could years and years of formal education and professional experience offer compared to that? Surely a couple of weeks/hours of reading some guys on the internet should leapfrog you right past those losers.
Well, i've been studying biology, nutrition, and pharmacodynamics in my free time ( probably 10 hours a week ) out of my own personal interest for around 14 years now.
At the 7 year mark, i really learned how to decipher what clinical trials meant. At 10 years, i learned how to read between the lines in clinical trials and went on to do drug development journalism for a minute even.
This year, i decided my own personal health experiments would be held to a clinical trial-like standard, with tracking, metrics, outcome expectations as a means of doing the best science one could do on oneself.
I would like to say that realizing how to direct your own individualized healthcare is not an impossible goal but it certainly takes longer than a week following a google rabbit hole, yes.
Thanks to this thing called the internet, i educated myself, and so please, don't talk down to the concept of educating yourself.
The only danger, as with learning any other advanced field, is the beginning portion of the learning, where you are apt to make mistakes of judgement because you don't know what you don't know.
But as with learning to ride a bicycle, no valuable learning experience comes without a scraped knee.
Knowledge = power, in any arena of life. Especially ones where it's particularly drilled into your head that thinking/acting for yourself isn't appropriate and you should only ever cede to an authority greater than yourself. Those areas of life are actually worth the most examination.
