Originally Posted by #-3
Here's the thing about nutrition and supplementation,
Generally our diets are so diverse and whole, compared to what anyone of our evolutionary forbearers could have evolved to have expected. So supplements are usually superfluous, and our bodies are very efficient a purging what they don't need. The vast majority of supplements basically become really expensive pee, if not the precursors to something worse like kidney stones.
As far as nutrition goes, really the best advice you can get is eat a little bit of almost everything, I've heard it summed up as "Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables." I can't remember from where. The primary problem with this being it's a little too short to sell and book, and a little too nuanced/complicated to effectively coach a couple hours/per month. So everyone is looking for the secret sauce, and it turns out it's just no-name brand ketchup, a lost liter so cheap you can't make any money selling it.
These are billion dollar industries that offer little in tangible benefits, beyond the good feelings created by doing something (those good feelings aren't nothing, but they also aren't what you paid for).
I saw naturopaths mentioned on this thread, for those interested, I'd prefer not to get too into it, but I'd encourage you to look up Britt Hermes. She has a degree in naturopathy, and goes pretty deep into detail about what their training and practices entail. As an easy rule I would be very cautious of medical practices that make one of two claims. They have some special treatment that only they have access to, and other areas of medicine do not accept. Or they rely on a single treatment/practice that would critically endanger their profession, should it be proven ineffective.
With genetic testing, I am less aware of the positives and negatives. But for now, my default position would be the our genome it too complex to pickup informative signals from almost everything.
All of that said, these are pretty wide ranging generalizations. There are people who really do need supplements to have optimal health, and there are great diet coaches. You might experience or run into these successes, but that doesn't mean the same thing will work for everyone, and if it were me before dumping money into this industry, I would look to follow the advice in bold.
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