I was recently told by an enthusiastic salesperson of a very well known nutraceutical company ‘As a doctor, you are allowed to make comments only regarding medicines, and avoid nutrition, as you lack the ability to know the body before it came to you in an unhealthy state’…
Going by how largely the general population out there start consuming dense supplements, sometimes replacing meals, I couldn’t help but wonder…
Am I really in the dark about my patient’s pre-existing state of being?
How do we proceed in a scenario where the patient has decided they were nutritionally perfect ?