Doctor's Advice on Training and Nutrition?

With all due respect .... doctors have spent many years in University and Medical School, are very intelligent, and may be experts in their field of choice.

However, for the large majority of them,  fitness and nutrition are NOT their areas of expertise.  Getting advice from them in these areas is about as useful as getting automobile maintenance advice from a dentist.  Doctors will tell you such things as "don't squat below parallel ... it's bad for your knees", and other gems like "you should not press any weight over your head ... it's bad for your shoulders and neck"!  For the most part, doctors will prescribe you medications for your aches, pains and illnesses ... they are experts at that!

Years ago, I got this kind of advice from my Doctor and other people in the medical community.  Fortunately I didn't believe them and sought the advice of those who DO know something about training and nutrition and have since changed Doctors.  The result ..... I rarely need Doctors any more!

If you want to know how to eliminate your aches and pains, instead of just masking them with drugs, then you need to learn how to move and treat your body properly, increase your flexibility, and get stronger.  We were designed to use our bodies functionally - running, throwing, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, squatting, and generally doing useful things - not sitting on a couch or a shiny machine that makes us move in unnatural ways.

If you want to lessen the symptoms of many of your illnesses, or prevent them in the first place, you need to learn how to eat properly.  We were designed to eat natural foods ... what we could hunt and gather ... not processed junk food.  We ARE what we eat!

Don't take my word for it.  Educate yourself and start changing your exercise and eating habits.  There is plenty of proper advice out there, though you may have to sift through a lot of crap too!  Think "PALEO".  When you start feeling healthy again, you won't need me to convince you of the merits of functional exercise and healthy eating.  You'll be the one trying to convince others ....