Conventional health advice: you shouldn't crack your neck, you'll get arthritis
Doctors: fixing a subluxation quickly is important to prevent damage that can cause osteoarthritis and it can cause a cracking noise
Conventional health advice: you shouldn't chug water
Doctors: when someone chugs water, they activate a bodily response that can help pots patients mitigate their symptoms
Conventional health advice: you should sit still to say attention
Doctors: fidget toys and drawing can help maintain attention for things like classwork
Conventional health advice: Don't do that thing you do to feel better
Doctors: you should do that thing everyone tells you not to do to feel better
Me: hmm. This is a wild but like. Maybe trying to standardize medicine when the human body can't even agree on what it needs to be a person is bad actually. It's even worse when laypeople self-police and police others using this standardized advice for literally everyone without assuming they've tried it already. We shouldn't have to try things that we know won't work because otherwise we wouldn't have started doing the other thing.