How much do you know about your own health?

Question

When it comes to your own health(diet, exercise, medical issues, etc) how much do you know about your own health and what is best for your body?
Do you do research on what you need and what you put in your body, or do you just trust professionals to know what is best for you?
Please explain in the comments what you chose and why.

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I started living with focusing on what affects my mental health over my physical and I feel so much better. 
I used to force myself to eat super healthy and go to the gym 6 days a week, but I wasn’t happy. Now I eat various foods, healthy and not, and only work out 3-4 days a week. Yes I’m chubby but I’m happy. My mental health affects my body way too much so even if doctors have opinions on physical health, that’s not a huge priority anymore.

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I try to look into what is healthiest, but I get confused and anxious 🤷🏼‍♀️ I have said this a bunch of times on here before but I start reading about what’s healthy and it’s extremely overwhelming because there are a ton of conflicting opinions and different answers. Right now I’m living by how I feel and I feel better than ever. There are some small things I’d like to change. For me, my mental health comes before my dietary choices because ultimately, if my mental health isn’t that great, than my physical health will decline a lot. If I feel mentally well, I’m more inclined to eat better, exercise more, and just be healthier overall.

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I used to be an extremely unhealthy teen. I was overweight due to bad eating habits and not doing any physical exercise, I would feel lethargic and tired all the time, my skin was bad, I was extremely unhappy with myself. 
When I was 17 I started throwing up my food because I hated myself so much. I lost a lot of weight over the course of a few months but still felt like shit. I would go out drinking a lot, not eating anything or throwing it up if I did. My mental health went down the drain.
About 3 1/2 years ago I started to slowly get into bodybuilding. It was a way to release stress, to forget everything for the few hours I worked out everyday. I started looking out for myself and my physical health. I stopped smoking and only drank occasionally for the taste rather than getting fucked up. I started educating myself about healthy diets, what works best to keep my physical and mental health in tact. I ate meals 3 times a day to keep my energy up. I stopped eating fast food almost entirely. I limited my sweets and savoury snacks. I finally felt good about myself.
I‘m 39 weeks pregnant (I admit I wasn’t all healthy through the last 9 months) and it was hard sometimes seeing my body change and gaining weight without  being able to do anything about this, but thinking about the miracle I’m creating helped a lot. I also can’t wait to get active again, more for my mental health than my weight.
As for overall medical health and medications, I grew up with a lot of illnesses in my family, so it was always part of life to be educated about those. I don’t take medicine unless it’s absolutely necessary (my kid will get all his vaccines before someone thinks something crazy) and I try to understand as much as possible without having a medical degree. I spent years hating and destroying my body, I’m finally at a point where I’m trying to keep it healthy and happy 🙃

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I’ve got sickle cell, so I have to know damn well everything. It is my responsibility to respect my disease and my body, and give it no cause that I can control to rebel. Sickle cell doesn’t care if it’s your wedding day, your best friend’s wedding day (I missed my best friend’s wedding day and our relationship suffered because of it), your mother’s birthday, the family outing day, that big presentation at work or whatever, it will act up whenever and however it wants to. You have to do your best to make sure you don’t give it any extra added reason to.

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I know everything I can about my medical issues, my diet isn't great but I'm a very picky eater and already limited with foods I can eat. I trusted my dr 1000% and cried when he retired, I'm currently looking for a new gp as mine doesn't take me seriously and won't help anything, I have 1 consultant I trust but the rest I'll do my own research before taking any advice they give me. I constantly get told to lose weight (the issue I went to discuss can never be caused by weight but that's all they focused on) yet when I ask for help to loose it I get given a eat sheet which is useless due to dietary issue they're aware of.

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I know a lot about my mental health, my IBS and that’s it. I also know that one ovary is bigger than the other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I try to always be mindful of what I am putting into my body; for both my physical and mental health. I have always struggled with anxiety and I notice certain things I consume heighten my anxiety, and some lower it.

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I just answered the pet one, but my answer is the same: I take my health very seriously! I eat fresh/whole, lots of nutrients, plenty of water, and very little junk food or refined ingredients. I also get plenty of rest and stay active with outdoorsy stuff.

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Very well researched ... but only since I’ve had a disability. Before that I didn’t think about it much and just made sure I stayed in a healthy weight range.

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