AIBU to think "Wellness gurus" are mostly spouting bollocks?

Why??

Don't tell me it means nothing her science expertise and life of research

And you have three PHDs !

The pass rate for GCSEs is quite high, no?

Was she a registered personal trainer then? You didn't indicate in the OP that you knew what her qualifications were or weren't. You don't have to like or take her advice but the snide comment was unnecessary IMO and, again, there is nothing in your OP to suggest she purported to be a guru of any kind.

What is silly exactly? Clarifying that more adults under 50 will likely have a science GCSE than not?

I was trying not to mention my degree in Biochemistry, because I didn’t want to sound like a snob.

That, right there, is the best thing I’ve read on MN this week. Brava op, I love it!

You are so funny! Especially the PhD part!

Yup a published professional with PHD... professor at red brick university... who works with herbs - very successfully in my quasi-sample of one!!!

Try to cope darling!

Why do you think water with a bit of sugar and flavouring added will have any different impact on you than drinking pure water and eating a slice of sour dough? Both end up as a mix of water and sugar in your stomach and aren’t magically absorbed before then.

wonderful wellbeing herbalist

😂🤣😂🤣

Yes agreed- health mot probs with a personal trainer whereas one of the 360s woukd be with a medical professional ...

but still would hope personal trainer to have professional knowledge / anatomy physiology and recognised qualifications

I don't 'pretend' anything, I merely admit to the apparent sin of adding something to something to make it taste better. Which we ALL DO! If you are going to go down the rather silly route of 'if you had no other option', well yes, of course, just as I'm sure you'd eat stuff you don't like the taste of if that was all that is there, but that isn't the situation, is it? Nobody has said 'I wouldn't drink plain water if I was really thirsty and there was nothing available to add. Some people have said they don't drink plain water, that's all. It's not 'spoiled' to have a preference when that preference is freely available.

If you'd voluntarily drink something you dislike the taste of for no reason other than to take the high ground, that's up to you. If, however, you are happy with the taste of the water available to you, which I suspect is the truth of the matter, then good for you. If you weren't, I'm fairly sure you, like most people, would add something to make it taste better to you, rather than forcing yourself to drink it as is when you didn't have to.

Doesn't have to be sugary, processed crap you add, either. A bit of sliced lemon in it will do me.

It's not 'spoiled' to have preferences when there is choice available, and it is in no way a modern phenomena to eat and drink with consideration to personal taste.

Something I’ve not seen you clarify is whether you do the Health MOT or the Health 360 - I know you said you were referred but by who and to what? As it’s entirely possible you booked the wrong service.

Anyway, the Health MOT isn’t medical at all and I think it is literally personal trainers peddling BS and upselling. Whereas Health 360 is carried out by medical professionals, and what you most likely thought you were going to?

I said that I'd managed to survive so far - and it had probably been about two weeks since I had an actual glass of water.

God, just get a filter jug and drink some water. Alternatively, age horribly.

Spot on. We also now have this amplified by social media endlessly focusing on scientifically reductive information which is driven by algorithms.

My personal bugbear here is being sent endless stuff about cortisol, every time I open the internet. I’m not s scientist but even I know that the “solutions” are basically snake oil which is cynically targeting people according to their demographics and often with little scientific evidence but a big commercial impetus.

I read a "health" book last year (I think) which said not only do you need to drink water, but it needs to be charged water. IIRC you do this by talking to it. Or some such.
My migraines get worse when I try and have less caffeine. So I drink as much as I want. I know it's "withdrawal" but im not bothered enough to put myself through it. Plus my manager would be royally pissed off if I took a week or more off of work.

Such a shame that your education hasn't given you skills of discernment ( checking qualifications of practioners rather than ranting on here ), decent language and self control (reducing tea intake and increasing water)

hey ho

That’s even more woo.

We’ll get opposition to ‘chemicals’ next.

" ordinary food" = squash???

Really??? Cmon do better!!! It's processed junk!!!! Either sugared or aspartame!!!

Tea is probably better than squash these days
or dilute real fruit juice
or leave the water in a open jug in the fridge as the chlorine will dissapate

…processed sugary rubbish in it (or sugar-free processed rubbish)

Here’s a prime example of woo. It’s squash. It’s not Polonium or arsenic. 🙄

You will do yourself no good by running away from ordinary food.

Alex Mytton from Made in Chelsea spouts off a load of shit on instagram now. It’s so funny. We’ve all seen him pissed, shagging all the girls (we haven’t literally seen him do this part!) and now he’s selling wellness and buying land to live in the woods. Feck off with ya!

You do what you want, but if you pretend that you COULD NOT possibly drink potable water without adding processed sugary rubbish in it (or sugar-free processed rubbish) would prove my point.

Any fussy drink-refuser is miraculously cured the day they get thirsty and don't have pops available

Yes, it is. I prefer a little squash to take the chlorine taste out of the water, here. It is, indeed, unpalatable to me to have something in my mouth that tastes of chlorine. I'm sure it is to most people, isn't it? Is it really so 'spoiled' to add something that's available to make it more pleasant to drink?

People have been doing that for centuries, as I said, because of both safety AND taste. I'm sure you season your food to your taste. I season my water to taste.

If you feel thirsty it does mean you are dehydrated. As you should be drinking enough to not feel thirsty.

and yes lots of tea and not enough plain water will contribute to headaches as will too much caffeine. Headaches can be from so many different things, you can just trial and error.

yes wellness gurus with no quals are also grifters. Both can be true.

I currently have three drinks on my desk, I maybe over hydrated 😅

Well she's right that caffeine often worsens migraine. You won't get ill from 5 cups of tea a day but as a doctor I would advise you to cut back if you have regular migraines - it won't cure them but might help a bit.

As has been covered above, caffeine can both trigger and treat migraine - the vasoconstrictor effect can narrow dilated blood vessels at the start of an attack.