Fitness/nutrition/wellness professionals: STOP demonizing the medical profession! Weight loss medications, medical interventions and surgeries are not “cheating”. Or promoting ED. Some of the most beneficial inroads I’ve seen w/ clients have been thanks to medicine.
I don’t know if it’s ego, a Calvinist/western sense of the power of “personal responsibility” or just lack of understanding/empathy but there’s a large segment of this shared space that somehow thinks we are at odds with the medical establishment.
Weird flex from an “evidence-based” community.
Sure Drs are super busy (you think you hate insurance?). Sure they don’t have a ton of time spent on nutrition in Med school (there are quite a few things to cover). But do you really think that our insistence on calorie deficits and how to throw macros at ppl trumps medical education?
The use of medical interventions shouldn’t intimidate you. Many times these tools allow us as practitioners in the health space to better do our jobs because it allows our clients the space to do the behavioral work necessary for change. For that, I am forever thankful to the medical community.
Instead of drawing lines in the sand, how about working to create partnerships between our industries? I know this is a focus of what Nick Lambe is doing and I am forever grateful for my friendship w/ Dr Spencer Nadolsky who’s doing great work with helping patients to access GLP-1s.
And if you perpetuate this idea that surgery or weight loss drugs are cheating, you’re an un-empathetic asshole. And if you’re someone who has to deal with these bullies on the internet feel free to send them my way. I love dealing with bullies 😂.
