Below are two valuable letters regarding this issue. So far, not one primary care doctor I have dealt with knows anything about vitamins, herbs, alternate health-care methods, etc. They just look at and through me as though I have taken leave of my senses when I tell them I take vitamins. However, my ex-primary care doctor was more than willing to prescribe drugs with abandon. Primary care doctors are very often too reluctant to use specialists, and they guess, instead.
Specialists seem more likely to acknowledge the advantages of some kinds of alternate care.
Everything you read regarding health care says to be sure to check with your physician. That's only if you care to have your physician look at you as though you have taken leave of your senses. This whole subject is really a dilemma. I always do, and then I watch them dismiss me quietly as some nut for taking vitamin E, a multivitamin, etc. Nevertheless, we have somehow created a situation that is not conducive to the excellent health care we are told we enjoy.