Figuring out what’s wrong with someone is like troubleshooting a computer. You do the obvious and common stuff to rule it out, then if that’s not it, the more obscure problems can be chased down. The difference is that the obvious and common thing with most people these days is weight/diet, and the doctor can’t do that for a person.
Everyone complains about doctors just giving out pills and not finding the root problem, but this is a big reason why. To figure out the root issue, all the normal stuff needs to be ruled out and most people aren’t going to do it.
My dad had a bunch of health issues that I told him were likely weight related. He assured me they weren’t and said his doctor told him so as well. After a decade of dealing with stuff he finally got on some program that led to him losing weight. All those things he’s been dealing with for 10 years went away. He cries when talking about it. When he was in the middle of it he acted like the treatment was no big deal and would tell everyone about it, telling them to get checked out, because the treatment was so good… turns out losing weight and not having it at all was a lot better. He also found the allergies he thought he had for 50+ years were a mild allergy to wheat or gluten (thanks to what was essentially an elimination diet)… when he eats bread his nose runs, Benadryl stops it. When I suggested if he ate better he might feed better, he claimed he didn’t feel bad, but he didn’t know what the alternative was, because he dealt with it his whole life and never attributed it to the food he was eating.
Figuring out what’s wrong with someone is like troubleshooting a computer. You do the obvious and common stuff to rule it out, then if that’s not it, the more obscure problems can be chased down. The difference is that the obvious and common thing with most people these days is weight/diet, and the doctor can’t do that for a person.
Everyone complains about doctors just giving out pills and not finding the root problem, but this is a big reason why. To figure out the root issue, all the normal stuff needs to be ruled out and most people aren’t going to do it.
My dad had a bunch of health issues that I told him were likely weight related. He assured me they weren’t and said his doctor told him so as well. After a decade of dealing with stuff he finally got on some program that led to him losing weight. All those things he’s been dealing with for 10 years went away. He cries when talking about it. When he was in the middle of it he acted like the treatment was no big deal and would tell everyone about it, telling them to get checked out, because the treatment was so good… turns out losing weight and not having it at all was a lot better. He also found the allergies he thought he had for 50+ years were a mild allergy to wheat or gluten (thanks to what was essentially an elimination diet)… when he eats bread his nose runs, Benadryl stops it. When I suggested if he ate better he might feed better, he claimed he didn’t feel bad, but he didn’t know what the alternative was, because he dealt with it his whole life and never attributed it to the food he was eating.