With so much easily accessible information online, you would think everyone would be an expert in physical and mental health, diet, and fitness. However, medical professionals are seeing a huge number of worrying trends these days, and they are genuinely getting scared for the future of humanity.
Doctors took to a very candid online thread to list all the health trends they’re watching become increasingly common, and they’re getting worried. Take a look at what keeps these professionals up at night. It’s a good reminder to always prioritize your health and look after your present and future self.
#41
This isn’t a trend I’m just venting:
I just called to make my husband a doctor’s appt for a specialist. His appt is August 2027.
So yea…. This not being able to see a doctor for 14 months. And the lady on the phone said he will just have to figure out ways to deal with pain til then.
I just called to make my husband a doctor’s appt for a specialist. His appt is August 2027.
So yea…. This not being able to see a doctor for 14 months. And the lady on the phone said he will just have to figure out ways to deal with pain til then.
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13points
#42
The supplement thing gets me too. i see people at my gym downing 8 different powders and pills and they couldn't tell you what half of them actually do. a friend was spending $200 a month on gut health stuff that turned out to be mostly magnesium and sugar.
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13points
#43
Theres an article about young girls starting a skin care regimen at like 9/10 years old. Using chemicals and cleaners that are damaging their skin. Sad.
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12points
#44
Patients using ChatGPT to pre-diagnose themselves before the appointment. Bringing in pages of printed conversations discussing their medical info with AI and then asking for the specific meds 'recommended' to them, and then not believing actual medical professionals and their opinions.
12points
#46
Absolute lack of knowledge on how to cook or do any type of basic food preparation… now seeing an adult generation whose parents and grandparents didn’t cook anything ever. I’m NOT talking about underprivileged people, I’m talking educated middle class people who genuinely have never bought salad ingredients and assembled them into a salad.
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12points
#47
As a 50-year-old mom of two grown kids (and now a grandmother), one health trend that’s really starting to scare me is how young people are developing serious metabolic problems that used to only affect older adults.
I’m talking about obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease showing up in teenagers and people in their early 20s. My daughter’s friends are already dealing with things I didn’t see until people were in their 40s or 50s. The amount of ultra-processed food, sugary drinks, constant snacking, and sitting in front of screens all day is destroying their health.
It breaks my heart watching the younger generation struggle with this. I feel like we’re setting them up for a lifetime of health issues, medications, and lower quality of life.
I’m genuinely worried about my grandchildren’s future. It feels like it’s getting worse every year.
What trends are other parents noticing?
I’m talking about obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease showing up in teenagers and people in their early 20s. My daughter’s friends are already dealing with things I didn’t see until people were in their 40s or 50s. The amount of ultra-processed food, sugary drinks, constant snacking, and sitting in front of screens all day is destroying their health.
It breaks my heart watching the younger generation struggle with this. I feel like we’re setting them up for a lifetime of health issues, medications, and lower quality of life.
I’m genuinely worried about my grandchildren’s future. It feels like it’s getting worse every year.
What trends are other parents noticing?
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12points
#48
People treating sleep like it’s optional. So many try to out-supplement, out-caffeinate, and out-hustle chronic sleep deprivation instead of fixing it, and it quietly affects almost everything.
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11points
#49
Internal medicine physician here, the trend of people self diagnosing or questioning physicians. I hate to say it, but no matter how much research you do or even how much I explain it to you, you will never understand to the same level unless you go to medical school and residency like we do.
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9points
#50
GLP 1s being administered by beauty clinics or to non diabetics who don't need to lose weight.
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9points
#52
Metastatic Colon Cancers.... or just the guts in general. As well as a lot of people lately having reoccurring cancers from years and years ago... It's been insane in my opinion.
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8points
#53
My sister is a dr in the Netherlands specialised in stomach and intestinal problems. Here there is a trend for young women who claim to have stomach issues to go to Spain for super experimental operations where they get their organs reorganized. It is not proven to work and it causes other more complicated problems. She has had several young women who had done surgeries abroad come back with really bad problems because of it.
Another problem is extreme diets doing damage to the intestinal system. Diets where people only eat one type of food for so called health reasons.
Lastly the unchecked usage of these peptides for almost everything. Boys as young as 12 using hormones for muscle growth and testosterone because some American guy told them on YouTube to do it.
Another problem is extreme diets doing damage to the intestinal system. Diets where people only eat one type of food for so called health reasons.
Lastly the unchecked usage of these peptides for almost everything. Boys as young as 12 using hormones for muscle growth and testosterone because some American guy told them on YouTube to do it.
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8points
#55
Dudes need to address their health if they want kids. Unhealthy bodies equals unhealthy fertility.
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3points
