Proper research and taking advice from actual health professionals around you will help you find the right way
Absolutely, if someone is giving health advice, they should at least disclose their background or lack of it.
Don’t follow anything blindly from social media, always research properly and also consult a professional.
Yes definetly influencers must and should show the qualifications while sharing the health
information. Otherwise many people will believe the false information was true and it will affect their health.
“Are You Taking Medical Advice from a Filtered Face or a Certified Brain?”
We’re living in a time where a 6-second reel gets more trust than 6 years of medical education.
And that’s dangerous. Deadly even.
You’re right, Nowadays, people believe health tips from short reels more than actual doctors. Some influencers share helpful and true advice, but many just post things for likes—even if it’s wrong or risky.Health is serious, so if someone shares health information on online, they should clearly mention their qualifications or trusted sources. We should make sure correct info reaches people in a simple and engaging way—because one wrong tip can really harm someone.
Influencers provide only a 1% info not the complete one which turns into messups.
So we shoudnt follow them blindly.
Absolutely, every treatment is not for everybody, its depend on individuals.
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Depends upon influencer knowledge because 15 second can give you new information about health but it doesn’t mean trusting it blindly .
It’s never good practice to believe someone without verifying their qualifications. Just like you do your due diligence before visiting a doctor, you must verify the qualifications of the influencer before trusting what they say.
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No up to now i never followed any online tip.
yes influencers should definitely need to show the qualifications while sharing the information.
According to me we shouldn’t trust any influence blindly. We should have proper resarch on it and it depends on you to apply or not.
Misinformation spreads faster than the correct information. I think every social media user should consume health information only from verified professionals. Its always on us to consume what to consume. Besides this, random influencers should be prohibited from sharing health information.
Thanks for addressing this most common but less acknowledged issue via this post. I feel that influencers while posting any health advice should list down references regarding the researches carried out regarding that advice or certifications from authorised health professionals.
There is a huge increase in people Googling their symptoms and make a conclusion themselves and then judging the doctor’s prescription according to the AI results. People are forgetting that symptoms can means a lot of things and AI do not know all of it. Add on to that are medical influencer giving tips most of them do not work and most of them are promotional stunts.
Everyone is trying to influence someone on something
Yes digital responsibility is important in today’s influencer era. Of course, there are medical practitioners who also share healthcare advice in those reels, who in my opinion can be trusted upon. But my takeaway from this is do not follow the advise blindly.