Sister sees my home gym

> I, an amateur weightlifter posting on a hmong waterfowl betting board, have a far better grasp of medicine than any professional

I am frankly asking why you believe what you believe

I come from a family of doctors and am one myself. If not for my own interest in nutrition and weightlifting then I would be just as misinformed.

The advice you get from a doctor is generalizations from outdated studies.

I started a kind of sports medicine program at my school, I changed majors before the year was even out, but even then this is actually a problem that we touched on a few times in a couple classes.

Medical doctors learn about ways people's bodies are injured and disordered. Right off the bat this is practically a disadvantage compared to normal people, since they will be overcautious about the potential for injury from activities outside the norm.

They have a much stronger than normal potential to fall into an even worse problem than what I sometimes hear called "engineer's disease". It kind of looks like an area where they have expert authority, so they speak with certainty, but they don't actually have it.

My question to a doctor (who was also bad in other ways; he tried to get me to do acupuncture for my chronic headache) who tried to pull this crap on me was to ask him from what specific studies he derived this idea that that was an unhealthy amount of weight training (be careful with this, I was planning to back it up because I was still in college at the time, and had access through the school to research databases). Luckily that shut him up, whether it convinced him he didn't know what he was talking about, or it just made him feel like it wasn't worth the argument.

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