Re: Water Fasting.
Originally Posted by
Zuleika
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It’s for a doctor to advise not amateurs in a forum.
The notion that doctors are or ought to be the sole purveyors of medical information is patently ridiculous. They are one of many sources of information and we would be frankly very foolish indeed if we restricted our research and data to just GPs opinions.
GPs are frequently wrong and have to follow a very rigid set of protocols handed down to them from a higher echelon of medical teaching. I have witnessed this first hand with a doctor who clearly didn't understand the purpose of a body fever and who would have caused me to suffer a gastrointestinal illness for many days if I ahd followed his advice. Aside from that any doctor who pushed the flu vaccine on you is not working for your health but rather just working for profits or blindly supporting the higher echelons.
As hard and as difficult as it is, we now HAVE to do our own research which CAN of course include talking to doctors and nurses but which should absolutely NOT be limited to that. There is a plethora of really good information to be found elsewhere. There is equally a lot of bad information out there. That's how it is. That's life.
You have to work through it all, digest it, be thorough and learn who to trust and who not to trust.
There's nothing wrong with reading people's input on forums. You can get some very good info that way, but you STILL have to do your own research. Assess everything, be disciplined and learn throught the process.