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

Same, I rarely have caffeine but it helps me when I feel a migraine coming on

Are you on TikTok OP?

If so, go and have a look at Dr Mike's page. He is a medical doctor and calls out a whole bunch of these wellness claims, giving an medical opinion.

You can just see the frustration oozing out of him at all the false information being handed out by gurus.

I know what you mean. I have been diagnosed with refractory migraine which is when all the usual and some unusual treatments don't work.
I'm seeing a private neurologist who specialises in hard to treat migraines.

I'm so far from "caffeine and dehydration" as the triggers but I still get people trying to diagnose and advise me unsolicited.

I don't think all wellness people are spouting bollocks and I do see the value in a lot of their treatments for general wellness, not for complex health conditions.

Some of it can be useful I think. I once had dreadful period pain and a woman gave me a magnet to put on my tummy. The pain went away very quickly. No idea how it worked, but it definitely did!

but that wasn't my point at all. It's not about safety at all, I am talking about fussy.

"Water refusers" are a modern and rich society luxury from people so spoilt they prefer sugar or processed drink, the same way people prefer to eat junk food and look in horror at healthy food.

In fact, what actually makes us 'spoiled' is the very fact that any of us can talk about drinking 'simple water' without having to, at the very least, boil it first.
and none of the water is unpalatable, that's the point.

It is all bollocks that only mugs fall for

Don’t get me started on cancer stuff that pops up on Facebook the anount of unqualified people giving out rubbish and even dangerous advice. There’s a reason oncologists study for years …

Sorry but when I start feeling a headache coming on a coffee often helps stop it

If you have a problem with this, you should go back to your GP if they referred you and say the advice was inappropriate.
It would be far better than wasting your day here.

I assume this woman is the first person anyone like you (who is referred) sees and she takes a medical history.

If she goes beyond what she's qualified to do, you should take that up with a) your GP and b) the gym.

She won't be employed as a wellness guru so that's rather a silly title to ascribe to her.

Hate to tell you this, but we've been 'rejecting simple water with horror' for centuries, mostly because it's rarely been the case that everyone has access to pure, naturally filtered, uncontaminated or untreated water.

In Victorian times, people drank beer because the water wasn't fit to drink on its own. Today, the stuff that comes out of the tap for many of us won't make us ill, but in order for it not to make us ill, it has been treated with stuff that affects the taste. So many of us carry on the ancient practice of adding to it to make it palatable. It's really not new at all.

In fact, what actually makes us 'spoiled' is the very fact that any of us can talk about drinking 'simple water' without having to, at the very least, boil it first.

Most of us don't have access to naturally filtered, pure water sources. I loved somewhere with natural springs once, and the water was like nectar, but it was tested regularly and wasn't always fit for consumption.

Water isn't simple. It's easily contaminated and has a different 'taste' dependent on the chemicals/minerals it has been exposed to. Our drinking water has been through several treatments and miles of pipe. Nothing simple about it. Even rain water isn't 'simple'.

This is all rather silly.
English maths and science are compulsory parts of the national curriculum in the UK.

This doesn't mean everyone passes a GCSE in any of them- in fact a large percentage of students don't pass English or Maths!

For all this sophistication, tests and scans etc, migraines have no cure… medication can control the symptoms but does not get rid of them entirely.

Google suggests it's been a required subject since the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1988. So most under 50s would have a science GCSE.

Clearly stuck on this but I thought was a shitty comment from the OP.

Of course we could all/mostly do with drinking more water, as a race.

However this insistence that caffeine = bad, carbs = bad, etc, as blanket statements, is factually and scientifically wrong.

As for needing 'detoxes', I refer you to my previous post. Everyone already has a built-in, free, highly efficient facility for this - a LIVER.

The underlying truth of this is that we live in an age when a lot of medicine is very sophisticated and that the dimmer sort of person is incapable of accepting that the expertise is out of their reach.

Some diagnosis is by remarkable machines, scans and tests; treatments for conditions are frequently drugs created by incredibly detailed and complex research.

But some people are deep-down frightened of a part of life they can’t understand and in which they must place their trust in others. So they invent these absurd ‘health’ regimes to try to feel more in control (and more ‘in the know’ and therefore self-important). Add in a debased religious impulse - woo is just ritual - and you get pointless water drinking and bollocks about detoxing, ‘unhealthy’ food and other such nonsense.

100% hard agree!

Im interested in this, DS (now 16) started getting migraines a year or 2 ago, but weve yet to idrntify a trigger. he only drinks milk or water - and a carton of fruit juice at lunch time - but probably not enough liquid throughout the day. Hes never had tea, coffee or caffeinated drinks.

As in you were required to take it. But I think that's evident from my post. So what is your question?

Scroll past it, it's nothing that matters.

😂
So funny.
Brilliant satire.

I assume you were joking right???

The human body needs 2 litres of water a day, most of this comes from your food. Recent research has shown that it's good to 'eat' as much of your water intake as you can, through fruits and veg.
What you need to drink on top of that is quite small, and will vary depending on time of year and activity levels, and tea and coffee both count. If you fast you need to drink more fluids on fast days. You can tell whether or not you are properly hydrated by the colour and frequency of your urine. Drinking more water than you need isn't normally going to harm you, although there have been a few cases where people have taken it to extremes and done themselves some damage

YANBU OP, it's depressing that someone in a official advisory role in apparently unaware of this and was so insistent that you drink water almost immediately.

having relevant qualification is not "being a snob", don't be ridiculous. It's just a factual description.

A practicing neurologist would also have more relevant points and experience in the discussion about migraines than a plumber - nothing to do with snobbiness. (I am neither!)

I just🙄and think they're talking a load of bollocks.