I agree. And yet, I have to continually "talk myself down" as people -- in person and online -- continue to not understand why people would self-educate, self-experiment, and venture outside of the mainstream of medical thought.

Part of it is how we are all -- at least those within reach of the internet -- are bombarded with spurious money-making schemes of all shapes and sizes. They take a single sand grain of truth and surround it with their MLM push, their specialized take on the thing, their consultant services, their cold-blooded taking advantage of the desperate. Who make the best and most lucrative customers.

I shared here about the many charlatans I encountered as I tried to treat what I was then calling Adrenal Fatigue. (Dr. Lam's Nutritional Coaching Program -- I'm looking at YOU.) And I was so not alone in that. It turns out it wasn't Adrenal Fatigue, but my own investigation of the possibilities, and basically intimidating a snotty endocrinologist, was a turning point in me figuring out what really was going on, how to treat it, and attaining the decent-level (I'm still not thriving) health I enjoy today.

It's like my own criteria, now that I've actually lost 100 pounds: I don't want to even hear about your "diet plan" unless you have also lost, and kept off, happily, a considerable amount of weight.

NOW we're talking expertise!