Good & so they should. Which is why you should have no problem with those that practice, say, integrative medicine.
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Replying to @AMC_Signpost @MaryFernando_ and
You mean things like eating a healthy diet and exercise, which have been demonstrated to work through thousands of rigorous clinical trials? That's not integrative medicine, it's medicine. But they don't stop there, do they? They get on the woo train and yell "all aboard!"
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Replying to @kevin_kehres @AMC_Signpost and
Indeed. "Integrative medicine" integrates quackery with medicine and rebrands lifestyle medicine (e.g., diet, exercise, adequate rest, etc.) as somehow being "alternative" and part of its bailiwick in order to give the appearance of scientific backing to the whole specialty.
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I have no idea where this idea that doctors don’t discuss sleep, diet and exercise etc comes from. I suspect it is propaganda from so called integrative medicine (not a real field)
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Replying to @DrJenGunter @RyanMarino and
I think in part it’s because a) doctors so rarely bring these topics up with their patients b) there are few formal avenues for preventative care in the mainstream medical system (1)
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Replying to @jenbrea @DrJenGunter and
c)doctors generally don’t treat your “subclinical” problems. Often times a mild case of X needs to become severe before you are taken seriously. And in the interim, depending on your diagnosis, doctors can gaslight the hell out of you.
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Replying to @jenbrea @DrJenGunter and
d) there is a large number of people who have completely exited the medical system because it either could not help them or drove them away through interactions that caused them harm.
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Replying to @jenbrea @DrJenGunter and
e) integrative docs can be years ahead when it comes to adopting non-prescription interventions. Eg, they were testing people for Vitamin D deficiency many many years before most MDs were paying any attention to it or how it disproportionately affects certain ethnic groups.
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Replying to @jenbrea @RyanMarino and
You might want to read this about vitamin D https://www.google.com/amp/s/khn.org/news/how-michael-holick-sold-america-on-vitamin-d-and-profited/amp/ …
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Yep. Maybe all that testing and supplementing vitamin D was actually unnecessary. 
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