Modern medicine is reductionist and profit driven. They have reduced the human body to a simple interaction of chemicals.

At the end of the day, the medical industry makes a lot more money from sick people that it does from healthy people.

If medical advice seems to contradict centuries of human experience (such as eating meat and eggs), then I tend to suspect that it's not good advice.

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Also, I think most doctors probably see the same handful of pathologies every day, and so tend to funnel patients into a common mode of treatment.

So true