CPB and Rebelo: Doctors Spend Less Time on Nutrition Than Trainers

How much nutrition education medical school actually requires

Chris Brandlin and Rebelo discuss nutrition education in medical school — how little formal instruction the standard curriculum requires, and who ends up filling the gap.

His argument is not that physicians are uninformed. It is that nutrition occupies a small share of a curriculum built around diagnosis and pharmacology, and that patients seeking dietary guidance frequently end up getting it from trainers, coaches, and the internet instead — sources with no consistent standard at all. He treats that as a structural gap rather than a personal failing.

It is also the argument underneath the public-health side of this campaign: if prevention is mostly diet and movement, the professionals people trust most are the ones least trained in it.

Related: animal-based fat and hormone health, the SSRI conversation, and the children's health agenda. More at healthcare reform and podcasts and television.

Nothing here is medical advice.