Full Transcript for S3E129. The Truth About Nutrition "Professionals": What They Don't Want You To Know

00:04:56.720 Not realising that livid experience and clinical knowledge are two very different things. 00:04:56.879 --> 00:05:04.079 Then there are the people that are money motivated who haven't bothered with any training whatsoever, not even done a fast track course. 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:14.879 And they're pitching themselves as health experts on Facebook and other socials and online forums and yeah, all over socials right now, and they're advertising their services. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:28.480 And then there's a third group, those who have done some form of training, but it's either one of those 40-hour certificates or a longer course built on pseudoscience rather than evidence-based clinical practice. 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:32.480 Even a year-long course in the wrong thing is still the wrong thing. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:36.160 This industry has become very good at looking legitimate. 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:44.720 These courses are advertised all over socials and plastered with badges, logos, and the word accredited, followed by impressive sound and acronyms. 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:47.600 And they look convincing because obviously they're designed to. 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:52.079 They want to pull people in to do these courses, and obviously they get money. 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.639 And then the person is like, Yeah, I'm qualified. 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:06.399 I'm a an amazing gut health expert, I'm a mental health expert, I'm a whatever it is title, and I can now, you know, start getting clients and helping them. 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:16.399 And they teach people with no prior clinical training or relevant qualifications, and they're supposedly allowed to then work with serious medical conditions. 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:18.399 And I find it really, really bad. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:19.439 And it's shocking. 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:30.720 And it's I find it shocking that there's companies out there, they've got courses that, like after watching a few videos, reading a few handouts and things, you're supposedly qualified. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.759 I find that shocking that there's companies out there doing that and they find that acceptable. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:47.920 And they're obviously more focused on the money than they are on the accuracy of the information that they're given and on the fact of the ripple effect of these courses. 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:55.920 Because someone can be, I don't know, they've dropped out of school, they're a cleaner, or I don't know, something where you don't need any qualifications. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:05.519 I'm not disincleaning or anything, but like something where you don't need any qualifications, no like real education or you know, academic background, and you're able to do the job. 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:18.000 And you can go from that into supposedly being a nutritionist or whatever, and helping people with clinical conditions or mental health conditions, and I find it really, really scary. 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:20.879 And or even like I don't know, a banker. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:44.079 Someone could be working in the bank and they've never done any health or anything relevant to wellness, and then they think, oh, actually, I'm gonna have a career change, and then they go and sit and watch a few videos, a handful of videos, in a day, and then supposedly they've then got a s you know, a nice shiny certificate, and they're qualified, supposedly, to help people with medical conditions and mental health disorders and stuff. 00:07:44.160 --> 00:07:56.879 And I yeah, it's I think it's really bad, but then to you guys, you don't know the difference, you don't know who is properly qualified and who isn't, and like really yeah, it worries me. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.519 You know, we're talking like inflammatory bowel disease where there is actual damage to the gut. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:20.160 And my time in the NHS, I've worked with people and they've had to have part of their gut removed because of the damage that their condition has done to them, and they've ended up needing to have a stoma, so part of the gut is removed and they've pulled, they pull a bit of the gut out through the outside of the stomach, and then there's a bag attached to it, so you you can go to the toilet. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:29.279 Yeah, there's loads of other conditions, autoimmune conditions and mental health illnesses, and like people, oh yeah, I've got IBS, I can now help them. 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:30.639 That really winds me up. 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:34.240 And just because someone's got IBS doesn't mean to say that they're qualified. 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:40.879 And yes, I know dietitians and other like doctors that have got IBS themselves, so they're helping people with IBS as well. 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:41.679 Fantastic. 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:54.320 But just John down the street who's got IBS and no clinical background or anything else, and he now thinks he's suitable and able to help people with IBS, I think is is really bad. 00:08:54.559 --> 00:09:08.240 And then you've got AI helping people with being able to look the part and sound the part, but then when they're sat there in front of someone, a client, and then yeah, it's they're just gonna end up causing more harm than good. 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:14.720 These courses that are online, and I keep seeing adverts for them, I just find it really bad. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:32.559 And probably AI has helped these companies create these courses, just like cobble together some video training and some handouts and stuff for the person to go through and then automated certificate and Bob's your uncle, awesome, they're now supposedly qualified. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:46.480 And yeah, some of these courses are on the low FODMAP diet, and the low FODMAP diet FODMAPs are fermentable, oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols, hence it's called FODMAP for short, and

it's easier. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:10:13.360 And this is one of the most evidence-based clinically complex dietary interventions available for IBS, and there's people teaching it with no formal training into this diet or in you know any clinical background which you would need to know to be able to properly help someone because they could be on medications, they might have other medical conditions going on, and so you need to factor all of that in when you're doing an assessment. 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:35.039 And also there's the risk of eating disorders and disordered eating, and there's so there's so many factors to consider when you're supposedly helping someone with a health condition, and someone's gone and done one of these charlatan rubbish courses, they aren't going to be suitably qualified and equipped to properly help that person and do a proper assessment. 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:50.799 Yes, there will be people out there who have had success by going to one of these people, and that person who's supposedly qualified, yeah, they they might have a good heart and they might genuinely want to help people and they might genuinely be able to help people, but then there'll be people that they won't be able to help. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:11:01.840 But if they're depending on the type of person they are, they might just crack on anyway and hope for the best and just kind of wing it, and then it all goes peak tongue, and then they actually cause more harm to the person. 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:03.279 I just find that shocking. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:15.200 And I think, yeah, there's there's so many issues and integrity and um standards and doing what's morally right and not wanting to cause any harm to the person. 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:25.759 And I just think it's wrong that these courses are out there, and I also think it's wrong that the people are signing up for it and thinking, oh yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm not gonna bother my ass going to college. 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.799 I'm not gonna bother to then progress to be able to go to university. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:38.320 I'm not gonna bother doing any of that because college is however many years and it's however much money, and then go to university, that's more time, that's more money, more study. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.519 I'm not gonna bother doing any of that because that's a lot of money, that's a lot of time. 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.360 Whereas I can do a course in a day or a weekend, and then I can crack on. 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:46.559 Happy days. 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:47.200 Yeah. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:48.799 A lot of these courses. 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.600 What are the entry requirements for these courses? 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:56.799 So, like university, you've got to have certain qualifications to be able to get on there. 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:09.279 You've got to be able to have, you know, you've got to have A levels and things before you can even get onto the course, and you've got to have things relevant to be able to do it, and you've got to jump through loads of hoops to be able to even get onto the course in the first place, like I did. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:17.360 And I had like interviews to get onto a course, let alone all the other qualifications that I needed to be able to even be considered to get onto the course. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:20.399 The courses that I've done were like three years. 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:32.240 That's difficult, and it's a lot of time, and I've spent a mint on getting properly qualified and experienced to be able to properly help and effectively help the guys that I work with. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:39.600 I've done, you know, I've added and done more qualifications along the way because I found gaps in being able to help people. 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:44.799 And so I've topped up my qualifications and added and improved. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:52.080 And part of being a dietitian, anyway, you've got to continually do professional development and use an evidence-based practice. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:13:01.679 Whereas these courses, some of them openly state no medical degree required, no wellness background needed, just your passion for helping others. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.399 Mmm, yeah, I really don't like the sound of that. 00:13:04.559 --> 00:13:07.039 Yeah, passion for helping people, amazing. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.799 I that's why I wanted to be a dietitian, because I wanted to help people. 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.759 But that doesn't get you, that doesn't even get you onto the course. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:18.960 If you've got nothing else, you can't even get onto the dietitian course, let alone complete it. 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:44.879 Being passionate about helping people is key if you're working in health and wellness, but it doesn't keep people safe because you don't know what you don't know, and you haven't got all that clinical knowledge and nutrition knowledge or whatever area that you work in in mental health, maybe, to be able to recognise when someone's symptoms or issues might indicate something more serious than just a dodgy diet. 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:59.279 It doesn't teach you like drug nutrient interactions or the complexity of autoimmune diseases, or why recommending the wrong dietary approach to someone with Crohn's disease, for example, can end up getting them rushing to the emergency department. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:04.799 So passion without training is just enthusiasm, and that's really risky. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:16.639 And enthusiasm and passion obviously aren't qualifications, and having the condition yourself isn't an automatic qualification that you can then help people with that either. 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:28.799 So those certificates and acronyms that these so-called qualified practitioners carry, so they come from private organizations that sound official, but they have no statutory regulatory power

whatsoever. 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:40.720 So being accredited, supposedly, by one of these bodies is a world away from actually being regulated by, say, the Health and Care Professions Council, ACPC, which is what actually protects you as a client. 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:45.840 And I've done a whole YouTube video on this because I think people need to be aware of this. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:51.679 And um I'll put a link in the description, and it's about getting qualified in a weekend what you need to know. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:56.240 So the real problem, so vulnerable people don't know what they don't know, understandably. 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.960 And here's the thing that winds me up about all this as well. 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.240 You're not searching for help with your IBS for fun. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.440 Nobody does that. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:08.720 You're doing it because you're obviously struggling and you might have been struggling for quite a while. 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:10.799 And that's not a criticism, by the way. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:11.600 That's just reality. 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:13.919 You know, you might have been struggling for a long time. 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:26.159 And if you're anything like a lot of the guys that I work with, you've already been through going to the GP and having your blood stun and having scans, and they've all come back fine, which is amazing, but then you're still struggling. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.360 So you're like, well, what is it? 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:28.159 What's going on? 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.519 And maybe you get told, you know, go and manage your stress and then off you go. 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.639 So then you're looking elsewhere for someone to help you. 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:45.600 And then when you come across someone with a confident online presence and maybe impressive sound and title and a shiny certificate on their website and saying they're certified. 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:58.240 And they might even say that they're regulated by some authority, but when you look it up, you realise actually they're not worth, I was gonna say the paper they're written on, but the the screen that they're on. 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:15.440 It's really irritating because, like, you know, how on earth are you supposed to know whether that person is a regulated healthcare professional or someone who completed an online course between Netflix, and you know, you're not meant to know, you're not gonna know, not without doing your homework. 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.240 And, you know, so then you can then know what to look for. 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.519 And that's exactly why I've written an article on our website about this and why I'm covering it today. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:36.320 So then, all that I've just said, if you compare that to a registered dietitian like myself, I'm not just trained and regulated, but someone who specializes in gut health, men's health,

and getting results for our guys. 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:41.840 And a lot of people don't know what a dietitian is, and it's understandable if you don't know what a dietitian is. 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:43.919 You can probably guess what it has to do with diet. 00:16:44.080 --> 00:17:00.000 Some people think we just work with people to help them with their weight, or they think we just work in hospitals and tube feed people, so that's a tube down their nose and into their stomach or their small intestine, depending on what's going on with them. 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:09.440 Or it could be a tube straight into their stomach or small intestine from the outside, so they're not going through the nose, or even you're feeding straight into a vein. 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.839 And some people, when I say I'm a men's IBS dietitian, they don't realise the scope of what that actually means. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.279 So let me just kind of explain what a dietitian is. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:25.200 So, dietitian is a legally protected title in the UK, and you can't just call yourself one, you have to earn it. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:29.039 So, training to be a dietitian wasn't a walk in the park. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.519 So, like, here's what it took for me. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:44.079 So, I had a first class honours degree in human nutrition, which is a three-year course at university, to qualify to even get onto uh ACPC approved dietetics course. 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:52.960 So there's only a certain number of universities in the UK that run courses that are approved for dietetics. 00:17:53.200 --> 00:18:10.000 So, not just any old university does a course for dietitians, it has to be approved by the ACPC for them to, for people, you know, for students on that course to then complete it successfully, to then even have a chance of becoming a dietitian. 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:25.359 So you can finish the course, you can graduate successfully, but if you don't pass the HCPC exam and you don't register and you don't meet their criteria for registering as a dietitian, you can't call yourself a dietitian. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:30.480 Even though you've done the course at an approved university, you still can't call yourself a dietitian. 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:35.519 I'd done a postgraduate diploma in dietetics with Merit on an HCPC approved course. 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:57.039 And I studied things like biochemistry, human nutrition, nutritional medicine, human physiology, diet therapy, genetics, pharmacology, so the study of medications, food process and preservation, and food hygiene, although a lot of the food hygiene and food safety and preservation and processing, I knew a lot of that from my time as a chef when I was in the British Army. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:07.599 And epidemiology and public health, behavioural studies and communication, professional practice, research methods and data analysis, done research projects. 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:12.480 My dietetics training wasn't just theory, it was it was theory, it was all of that. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:14.319 But then you had to put it into practice. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:22.079 So you've done clinical placements in NHS hospitals, and that was seven months of full-time clinical placement. 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.240 So it was like I was going to work each day. 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:27.519 On these clinical placements, you are getting assessed. 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:32.000 So you could pass all the theory and everything that you're doing at university. 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:37.920 And yeah, there was practicals and was like cooking and stuff as well, which obviously was a breeze because I, you know, I'm qualified chef. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:43.680 But a lot of the people on these courses that are trained to be a dietitian, they have no cooking background whatsoever. 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:46.160 So it's a bit of a massive learning curve. 00:19:46.240 --> 00:19:56.319 And obviously, they don't have the knowledge and experience and wealth of experience doing that compared to what I did from working in the army for over 11 years. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:01.599 So yeah, it's a bit of a Brucey bonus for me coming into this with my background. 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:18.160 So these clinical placements, you do inpatient work, so you're on the wards with people in the hospital, you do outpatient clinics, you're doing pediatric work, so you're working with kiddies, you're working with adults, you're working with old adults, critical care, mental health, and loads more. 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:32.000 So you're covering a wide range of things on these placements, and it's putting into practice all that knowledge from university, but you're doing it throughout the whole time that you're at university, and you have to pass all of it. 00:20:32.240 --> 00:20:33.200 It's difficult. 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:54.640 And like when I was there on these placements, you have a growing caseload of real patients with real health conditions, and as you progress and as they see fit, obviously they're not gonna totally throw you at, you know, in the deep end because you know, there's real people there at the other end, and you've got to be safe, and they've got to make sure that you're doing the best by that person that you're learning as well. 00:20:54.799 --> 00:21:03.119 So you're getting the opportunity to work with these people, obviously with their consent, but it's a real person at the end of the day, and we don't want to be causing any harm. 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:11.759 But um, yeah, so you're working with real people with real health conditions, and then you get increasingly amount of responsibility at each step of the way. 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.160 And then it didn't stop there, as I just said. 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:17.440 So to register as a dietitian, I had other hoops to jump through. 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:29.279 So I had to pass

all my university exams, you know, through each of the years I was at uni, and then final exams, and then also the you had to pass the ACPC assessments as well. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:40.720 You had to collect loads of evidence, a huge portfolio of evidence of all the people that you've worked with, everything you had to collect everything together and present it in a portfolio for assessment. 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.559 And then obviously, you as I said, you had to pass the clinical placements as well. 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.240 And then, even then, like I said, you couldn't just be a dietitian. 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:59.359 You couldn't say you're a dietitian, you had to meet the criteria, the ACPC criteria, pass all their standards, and then register to be able to use a titled dietitian. 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:01.440 And And you know, why is this? 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:08.240 It's because dietitians are regulated healthcare professionals, just like physios and radiographers, for example. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:21.839 And the British Dietetic Association, BDA, states registered dietitians are the only qualified health professionals that assess, diagnose, and treat dietry and nutritional problems at an individual and wider public health level. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:52.480 So we're trained and legally allowed to help with things like IBS, irritable bowel syndrome, and other gut conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, celiac disease, diverticular disease, loads of gut conditions, diabetes, kidney disease, liver disease, heart disease, malnutrition, allergies and intolerances, eating disorders, neurological diseases like Parkinson's, motor neuron disease, cancers, HIV, recovery after injury or illness, general healthy eating and health promotion. 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:58.799 So it's not just dietitians work with people after they've got an illness, like closing the gate after the horse is bolted. 00:22:58.960 --> 00:23:02.640 Dieticians also work in health promotion as well, as a whole lot more. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:06.160 Plus, you know, I've got further qualifications, like I mentioned earlier. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.880 I've also got a master's degree in applied sports nutrition. 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:16.240 So, yes, I specialise in IBS in men, but I'm qualified and experienced to support a wide range of issues because I am a registered dietitian. 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.960 So it's not just, oh, it's IBS and that's it. 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:21.359 Yeah, you've got to work within your scope of practice. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:41.759 So there's rules and things around who you can work with within being a dietitian, but you are regulated and you have got standards of practice to abide by, unlike all these people that are doing these courses that I just mentioned, like these online courses, or people who are just reading a book, or they, you know, they're just reading a few articles online and then think, oh yeah, I fancy

doing that. 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:49.440 I'm gonna have a career change, or I'm gonna just have a little side hustle and I'm gonna start seeing people and helping people with, I don't know, cancer. 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.119 And I find that really scary as well. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.319 It's shocking. 00:23:52.960 --> 00:24:05.519 Um so yeah, we can work in the NHS, so the National UK's National Health Service, in hospitals, GP surgeries, private practice like me, education, research, media, and public health. 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:15.920 We're trained to support a range of different people, all the way from babies, all the way up to older adults, and as I just mentioned, across a wide range of conditions. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:23.599 And many of us, like I have, chose to go deeper and specialise in a particular area, like with me, with IBS in men. 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.480 And then, so what about registered nutritionists? 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:27.519 So there is such a thing. 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:40.640 So I said anyone can call themselves a nutritionist, which is true, but there is also registered nutritionists, and they are qualified and registered, but they are not registered with HCPC. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:51.680 They're registered with in the UK, they're registered with the Association for Nutrition, but it's voluntary and they're not trained to work with medical conditions, otherwise they'd be a dietitian. 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.759 So they can't assess, diagnose, and treat nutrition problems. 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.400 And those made-up titles, well, you know, they can do whatever they want. 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:05.759 It comes down to confidence, integrity, and yeah, the size of their balls. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:14.240 You know, if they want to call themselves a registered nutritionist, then they need to be registered voluntarily through the Association for Nutrition. 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:17.039 But otherwise, anyone can call themselves a nutritionist. 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.680 And yeah, registered nutritionist isn't a legally protected title in the UK. 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.759 So you must be registered, as I said, with the new Association for Nutrition. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:31.279 But many people confuse dietitians and nutritionists and think they're kind of interchangeable terms, but they're not. 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:35.279 And nutritionists can't legally do what dietitians do. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:47.839 And even the Association for Nutrition says if you want to work with patients unsupervised andor specialise in therapeutic diets required in a hospital environment, you must train as a dietitian. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:54.720 Although, as you've now seen, the Association for Nutrition has massively downplayed the scope of what dietitians actually do. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:58.799 Because it says therapeutic diets required in a hospital environment. 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:09.759 So that makes it sound like if you want to work unsupervised andor specialise in therapeutic diets in people that are living in the community and they're not actually in the hospital, then you can just crack on. 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:10.640 But that's not the case. 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:14.160 They're not allowed to do that, they're not qualified to do that. 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:15.920 That's down to dietitians. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:23.920 Because, as I said, like dietitians work in primary care, community services, public health, private practice, education, and loads more. 00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:25.920 So, how do you protect yourself? 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:31.759 Before you hand over your money, your health history, your trust, ask yourself these questions. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.440 Are they a registered dietitian? 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.839 And you can check the HCPC register. 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:43.519 It's free to check, it's public, and it only takes like 10 seconds, so you just need to know the name and then put in that they're a dietitian. 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:47.519 But yeah, you can check like if uh a physio is registered. 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:57.519 You can check there's a you can go onto HCPC website and there's a a range of different healthcare professionals that are registered with ACPC. 00:26:57.759 --> 00:26:59.759 Do their qualifications match your condition? 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:09.759 A weekend certificate in nutrition or gut health coaching doesn't qualify someone to manage your IBS, your Crohn's disease, or any other medical condition like diabetes or mental health conditions. 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:16.079 Do their clown, do their claims, clowns, do their claims sound too good to be true? 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:24.240 If you see things like heal your gut in 30 days, detox your digestive system, cure your IBS naturally, then yeah, I suggest you run a mile. 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:33.119 So if you want help identifying who to avoid for health advice, I've written an article how to spot a fake IBS guru and why this is crucial. 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.359 I've written an article on that, so you can check that out and I'll put the link in the description. 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:45.440 So the bottom line is if you're looking for help with your diet, symptoms, or a medical condition, don't be fooled by flashy titles or clever Brandon. 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:49.279 Don't waste your time, money, and energy on unqualified advice. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:51.440 Don't risk your health on guesswork. 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:57.920 And don't assume every nutrition expert is qualified because this isn't just about food and nutrition. 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:01.119 It's your body on the line, it's your health, it's your future. 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:06.000 But obviously, it's your decision, what you do, and who you go to for help. 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:09.680 But the wrong advice can cost you way more than just money. 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.880 So you need to be savvy about who you go to for help. 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:26.640 If you want real qualified evidence-based support, then you need to talk to a dietitian, someone like myself, not just any dietitian, choose a dietitian that specializes in the area that you need because that will be the best help that you can get. 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:32.160 Because your health deserves real expertise, not just like winging it or DIYing it even. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:38.880 Hopefully, this has helped you, and there's lots of articles on our website that will help you as well. 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:41.440 So that's men'sibsmastery.com. 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.319 Thanks for listening, and I'll catch you next time.