I seem to have accumulated some dangerous Internet Algorithms. Any time I'm browsing a site like Facebook or YouTube — any site which shows me short videos by random contributors — I'm deluged with "medical advice," mostly what to eat and what not eat. Once in a while, the advisors might (might!) be doctors of some sort but usually, it's just some dude or dame standing around in the aisles of a Costco. There are very few foods on this planet that one of them won't tell you, often with a note of urgency in their voice, will kill you dead within a week.
I've said this before on this blog and I'll probably say it again many times. Years ago, I came to the conclusion that what works for me, health-wise, was to find a really good physician and build up a relationship with that physician. I do not expect this person to be infallible but he — in my case, it's a he — will be accurate a lot more often than any non-doctor, especially one of those guys standing around in a Costco telling me how eating one of their rotisserie chickens is more lethal than chug-a-lugging a Cyanide Smoothie.
So I trust my doctor and I trust any specialists to whom he refers me. It has been my experience that good doctors know who the other good doctors are.
In addition to not trusting "medical experts" whose offices seem to be in a Trader Joe's, I do not trust generic medical advice like "Everyone needs to cut out seed oils" or "Everyone should be drinking almond milk." Due to my various food allergies, there are dozens of foods you can eat that I can't, almond milk among them. The current mania to ban food dyes may be correct but it doesn't feel like it's being driven by people committed to following actual science.
I, of course, trust absolutely nothing advocated by our current Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He may well turn out to be the worst thing Donald Trump has done to us.