I think it very much would be, yes.
If relevant policy-makers want to speak to me privately I'd be happy to but I had an instance of symptoms that 8+ well-recognized doctors at Stanford were unable to diagnose for a half a year, but a dietician that spoke to me was able to give me an answer to in about 10 minutes that seemed to solve my problem over a period of a few weeks after I started followed their advice.
The whole medicine study is a joke since it focuses on symptom treatment and not treatment of the cause(s) of the symptoms. Functional Medicine is the science that tries to find the causes and treat those but less than 1% of medical doctors practice functional medicine.
Re:The Big Vitamin D Mistake (2017)
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:13AM
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> whole medicine study is a joke since it focuses on symptom treatment and not treatment of the cause(s)
This is bunk. Antibiotics, chemotherapy and gene therapy are three treatments, off the top of my head, that are proven to treat causes and not symptoms.
Functional Medicine, on the other hand, has a history of being fined for false marketing [1]. I would be shocked if an entire percent of medical practitioners would touch it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_evidence
In terms of human nutrition we know how to prevent acute diseases caused by deficiencies like kwashiorkor, beriberi, scurvy, Rickets, etc. And we know that excess consumption causes weight gain. Beyond those basics we should treat most nutritional claims with skepticism, regardless of whether they come from a physician, dietician, or nutritionist.