Reading the information that comes up from an internet search is some research.
I am not all that enamored of expertise and certainly not the blind kind where one is discouraged from questions and deserving of a thorough answer. In lawyer land - someone can go pro se if they choose. In medical land - the lobby is much stronger and works much much harder at keeping tools out of the hands of the non-anointed. I choose to not engage with that establishment voluntarily and hope to be dead instead should anyone try and foist it upon me involuntarily - I am certainly not going to an md as a supplicant. I will read and use herbs and so forth for myself. But even there, the govt is more likely to try and interfere with some useful herbs and natural products.