Sep 15, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
Online coaches, wellness influencers, functional health coaches, chiropractors, and other non-physicians need to stay in their lane when it comes to practicing medicine. In this episode, I discuss…
And on today's podcast, I want to talk about something that apparently is way more controversial than I honestly thought it would be.
So a few days ago, I made a post that basically said, "If you're not a physician, stop telling people which labs their doctor should have ordered," right? Um, with one intention, but apparently a lot of people have some negative feelings for physicians.
You would've thought I said physicians, physicians never make mistakes, um, they never miss diagnoses, they never dismiss patients, and, and that you should blindly do whatever your doctors tell you without asking any questions.
But the response was actually fascinating because [laughs] I think it exposed a much bigger problem that's happening in the health and wellness spaces right now.
And that's basically that there's a, a, a big growing distrust of physicians, and some of that distrust comes from legitimate negative experiences, but some of it has been amplified into this completely distorted idea that doctors don't know anything, that conventional medicine is a scam, that physicians are only drug pushers, that lab ranges are meaningless, and that doctors don't understand all of health and wellness, which I guess, um, I mean, obviously there's gonna be specialties and things like that, but somehow this person on Instagram or really Facebook, Facebook's insane.
But somehow this person on there who is not medically qualified at all, or maybe they took a weekend certification, or, or, or they're listed, or they believe they're a functional practitioner, or, or they believe their online coach who, once again, maybe took a weekend certification, they believe they're more qualified to interpret your blood work.
And I want to explain why I have such a massive problem with this because here's my position.
It doesn't mean that every physician is a great physician, and it certainly doesn't mean that you shouldn't advocate for yourself.
But somehow we've reached this place where acknowledging medical experts is treated like worshiping doctors, and it's honestly, it's fucking bizarre, right? So let's get this point out of the way immediately.
Doctors sometimes can become very complacent, right? There are doctors who aren't particularly good at communicating, right? They have terrible bedside manner.
There are bad doctors, just like there's bad attorneys, bad accountants, bad teachers, bad personal trainers, bad nutrition coaches, right? And I don't understand why acknowledging expertise suddenly requires pretending every person with that expertise is perfect, because those are two completely different statements, right? And this was probably, if, if I'm looking, like, at all the comments, this was probably the most common response is, like, "Doctors aren't infallible." Okay.
If you're a doctor, if your doctor isn't listening to you, you advocate for yourself.
And on today's podcast, I want to talk about something that apparently is way more controversial than I honestly thought it would be.
So a few days ago, I made a post that basically said, "If you're not a physician, stop telling people which labs their doctor should have ordered," right? Um, with one intention, but apparently a lot of people have some negative feelings for physicians.
You would've thought I said physicians, physicians never make mistakes, um, they never miss diagnoses, they never dismiss patients, and, and that you should blindly do whatever your doctors tell you without asking any questions.
But the response was actually fascinating because [laughs] I think it exposed a much bigger problem that's happening in the health and wellness spaces right now.
And that's basically that there's a, a, a big growing distrust of physicians, and some of that distrust comes from legitimate negative experiences, but some of it has been amplified into this completely distorted idea that doctors don't know anything, that conventional medicine is a scam, that physicians are only drug pushers, that lab ranges are meaningless, and that doctors don't understand all of health and wellness, which I guess, um, I mean, obviously there's gonna be specialties and things like that, but somehow this person on Instagram or really Facebook, Facebook's insane.
But somehow this person on there who is not medically qualified at all, or maybe they took a weekend certification, or, or, or they're listed, or they believe they're a functional practitioner, or, or they believe their online coach who, once again, maybe took a weekend certification, they believe they're more qualified to interpret your blood work.
And I want to explain why I have such a massive problem with this because here's my position.
It doesn't mean that every physician is a great physician, and it certainly doesn't mean that you shouldn't advocate for yourself.
But somehow we've reached this place where acknowledging medical experts is treated like worshiping doctors, and it's honestly, it's fucking bizarre, right? So let's get this point out of the way immediately.
Doctors sometimes can become very complacent, right? There are doctors who aren't particularly good at communicating, right? They have terrible bedside manner.
There are bad doctors, just like there's bad attorneys, bad accountants, bad teachers, bad personal trainers, bad nutrition coaches, right? And I don't understand why acknowledging expertise suddenly requires pretending every person with that expertise is perfect, because those are two completely different statements, right? And this was probably, if, if I'm looking, like, at all the comments, this was probably the most common response is, like, "Doctors aren't infallible." Okay.
If you're a doctor, if your doctor isn't listening to you, you advocate for yourself.
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