PBD Podcast | Gary Brecka
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The intro is cringe. Too many UFC/Crypto Bro douche bag bro vibes.
I prefer books n' stuff to social media.
Attia's book is on Spotify so I'm starting to listen while working.
That fucking erg was bought by UW in 2014 and trained many a national champion before being sold to Yella for a healthy "donation" to the program back in 2019.
The C2 Ergometer makes social media influencers irrelevant!
Wait so Brecka got his BS in Biology from National College of Chiropractic? JTFC
Meanwhile Attia has a MD from Stanford.
Meanwhile Attia has a MD from Stanford.
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My little cuntry club erg, of which I contribute 50-80% of the monthly meters in any given month, can't cumpete.
How much nutrition do MD's get in medical school?
(I like social media influencer Peter Atia, ftr.)
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Probably not enough (but that's the shit take of layman). And FTR podcaster/author Peter Attia MD's is entire schtick is prevention as opposed the current state of medicine which needs much re-tooling.
But if I have my pick of social media health and wellness influencers to chose from, I'm going with the Stanford MD guy over the chiropractic college guy. I'm a sucker for some elite credentials.
You wouldn’t call it a shit take if you knew what the answer is. Attia is certainly ahead of the curve, but the answer is abysmally low for the average doctor. My cousin conceded only 3 literal hours (not course hours).
Many other doctors I’ve asked conceded extremely low numbers too. Having a GI doctor tell me to change my diet than slide me a piece of paper with the food pyramid on it was an eye-opener.
Given what elitist credentials gave us in for a Covid response - among many other catastrophic failures (TITTT) - please feel free to use the appeal to authority logical fallacy on someone else who will fall for it.
I find chiropractors know far more about overall health than MDs.
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The logical fallacy poster is a kewl poster! Bob's favorite was always strawman ass fucking.
I thought Sunetra Gupta has a BA from Princeton and Phd from Imperial College London. That's a fairly elite CV.
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A lot of doctors are really stupid or aren’t trained or able to do anything without technology. A few years ago I had a shoulder issue. Got X-rays, mri, etc and no one could find anything. Randomly went to a chiropractor and he felt around a little and said I had a partially dislocated shoulder. He popped it back in and have never had an issue with it since.
Anthony Chaffee graduated from both the University of Washington as well as the Royal College of Surgeons in the UK.
Did he play rugby with @UW_Doog_Bot or something?
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@Bob_C I once blew up my shoulder, rotator cuff, humerus, and collar bone in a cataclysmic ski crash in my early 30s. Had to get put back together by some of the best ortho trauma surgeons in the world at Harborview. That’s some serious skillz.
He was a pro rugby player
Obviously some good ones. But there are plenty of average or bad out there. I was pretty floored that 2 Proliance/Swedish specialists weren’t able to detect what a chiro at my local strip mall spotted and fixed in 30 seconds with a $40 copay.
no no no … we just heard chiropractors are bad, mmmkay.
I also tore up my shoulder skiing. At the time I was a pour and couldn’t afford health insurance, let alone a trip to the surgeon. 3 mos later the chiropractor's masseuse fixed it.
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Skiing w/o health insurance? Bold strategy, Cotton!
The retail cost to fix me back in 2012 was like $90,000. Steel plait with 18 screws. No chiro was fixing that shit.
I'll post some pics in the upcoming ortho surgery poll.
I don't disagree that there are plenty of lousy MDs out there. I've dealt with some terrible MDs, DDs, who turned me off for a variety reasons. And I don't doubt that some chiros might be more knowledgeable about nutrition or PT than your average MD.
But that's not my point really. I start from a default setting of the internet and social media in general being full of cranks, quaks, snake oil sellers, etc. There be dragons here and it's best to proceed with caution.
So, when seeking out information on preventative medicine for the long haul, if I have the option to chose from a guy who went to Stanford Med School vs guy who got a BS at Chiro College, I'm going with the former. It seems like a less risky strategy IMHO. Call me old fashioned and out of step with the times, but the credentials still matter to me. @creepycoug back me up here on the academis smack talk.
If you guysm like your chiros, then more power to you. It's not for me.
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