I absolutely agree that people should try to "know their bodies" and develop their intuitions as far as possible. It can make all the difference in terms of spo

I absolutely agree that people should try to "know their bodies" and develop their intuitions as far as possible. It can make all the difference in terms of spotting a critical illness in time (not always, but sometimes). However, health/medicine is a field rife with misinformation, rife with questionable ideas about what "intuition" can really tell you, and the dividing line between the true and the confidently incorrect can be hard to pin down. And what really sets off alarm bells, to me at least, is proposing that it should substitute these intuitions for professional expertise, or should be understood as being at cross-purposes with it. I think the best case for valuing our intutions would come from a place of treating them as complementary to professional expertise.