My opinion: As a doctor and someone who takes care of health, I have seen that those who really want to recover, maintain and optimize it, when they succeed in this, it is because they have given priority attention to:
- Adopt and maintain good lifestyle habits (water, diet, exercise, sleep, breathing, etc.). - These: https://icaro.med.br/15habitos/)
- Discovering nutrient deficiencies and making up for them with good food and supplements (when necessary).
- Removing excesses from the body that overload it (detoxification).
- Resolve causes and combat excess inflammation and oxidative stress.
- In short: giving the body the conditions to repair itself, recover and become stronger against new aggressions, supporting these processes in the most natural way possible, whenever necessary (this is where medicines come in).
Logically, it seems natural and desirable that those who truly value all of this tend to seek (or should seek) advice from different health professionals who also value these precepts - after all, compatibility between what you want and who will advise you on health is fundamental to obtaining and maintaining good results.
You should know that these five fundamentals mentioned above are the pillars of orthomolecular medicine (find out more about it at https://icaro.med.br/ORTOMOLECULAR/), recognized and standardized by resolution 2004/2012 of the Federal Council of Medicine.
In other words, every health professional who uses all or part of these precepts in their work with patients is “practicing orthomolecular”, even if they don't want to, don't know or “can't” admit it; and perhaps this is one of the reasons why more and more doctors are pursuing postgraduate degrees in the subject: increasingly informed and up-to-date patients naturally demand capable, up-to-date and interested professionals, more focused on health than merely on diseases, more committed to fighting causes than merely treating symptoms.
I seriously believe that all medical practice should prioritize these pillars, along with the most humanized care possible, which is genuinely interested in the patient and in helping them. What do you think?
And I may be wrong, but it seems to me that a pickaxe is anyone who spreads myths, untruths and inaccuracies in order to serve personal interests and focuses, and thus does a disservice to the population...
Scientific evidence in orthomolecular medicine? For example, this database is one of the best: https://www.medicinacomplementar.com.br/.
For all these reasons, I suggest that you learn more about orthomolecular medicine, basing yourself on good sources for this: it has everything to bring benefits when practiced well and on a sound basis!
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