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Dr. Mercola is *NOT* an M.D. He an Osteopathic Doctor.
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The fact is that both DOs and MDs are fully qualified physicians in every way, licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery, and they have the same amount of education and residency requirements.
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I'm sure if he sees this thread the next thing you know his website will be warning us about the dangers of high EMF headphones and telling you to buy his special magnetically shielded headphones
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I wonder if he would approve of the shielded Ultrasones, lol; they would probably love his endorsement.
As far as the cookware goes, there are many more people singing its praises than the few that don't use it correctly and then complain about it. I could quote some of the many
satisfied customers, but then what would be the point. I wouldn't be surprised if the lid in question had "do not put in the oven" written right on it. Porcelainized cast iron is a very good, non-reactive way to cook (Le Creuset, Descoware), but if it rusted it must have had a defective coating of porcelain. Many people swear by non-coated cast iron, which has to be well-seasoned and dried on a hot stove to keep it from rusting.
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Listening to health advice from mass-media sources is just not a good idea. Most of the time they over-hype and exaggerate things or purposely write really inflammatory stuff to get people to buy. Nobody's going to read articles that say "diet and exercise best way to keep healthy", lol. It's always about some exaggerated discovery or another that's the new magic cure because that's more exciting to read.
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Mercola is just providing cutting edge research to those that want the information, as there is more and more research and discoveries daily that point out how much more we still have to learn about medicine. There are many people that have problems with the more reactive kinds of cookware for example, and it's becoming common knowledge that at least half of the U.S. population is deficient in vitamin D these days.
I know a couple of well-respected integrative MDs that regularly administer vitamin D shots after testing for deficiencies, and prescribe capsules with anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 IU's of D each day. The FDA's campaigns against vitamin C, and vitamin E in the more recent past, are grossly outdated and misleading, but they put them out there to keep us confused as healthy people are just not very profitable. These are just anti-oxidants, which neutralize free radicals in the body; many of the FDA's cited "studies" have been well refuted, especially the vitamin C/E ones.
But to each his own; there's a lot of people that dispute climate change as well, even as entire coastal villages are having to be more frequently re-located to avoid facing inundation.
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An article I read a little while ago pretty much had the author purposely choosing a super inflammatory claim for her article-claiming that it's better to not breastfeed. Because apparently breastfeeding is a conspiracy by pediatricians to keep women down in society (no, this really was her claim) and then she supported her position by quoting very questionable claims from a "researcher" she proclaimed to be an expert on the health effects of not breastfeeding even though the guy was not a physician-rather unlike the physicians who actually see sick kids in the hospital. Then she proceeded to misquote/distort what M.D.'s said-which I only know because the M.D.'s were pretty unhappy about the way they were misrepresented. Of course at the end of the article you find out she still breastfeeds her kid.
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I'm not sure where you are going with that one in regards to Dr. Mercola; he certainly supports breastfeeding. He believes that breast milk from mom is the only milk that we should drink unless it is raw, organic and from a grass-fed cow or goat (as opposed to ultra-pasteurized, genetically "enhanced" bovine mucous), but it is only actually necessary in the earliest developmental stages of human life. There are many healthier sources of calcium besides milk.
I still eat cheese and ice cream, but when I stopped drinking milk as a beverage and switched to a non-dairy alternative on my cereal my hay fever went away completely. It had been quite acute in the past, developing into sinusitus at one point.
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a legitimate doctor will usually tell you not to go overboard since you might end up finding out it's another Vitamin E fiasco (where they later found after actually supplementing people for a while that it didn't help and actually led to slightly higher death rates). A real doctor will tell you to make sure you're not deficient by taking 1000-2000IUs a day (some cardiologists will suggest slightly higher but they tend to have a higher risk population).
Someone like Mercola though will unsurprisingly suggest whatever he can sell you, thus leading to his totally unneccessary 5000IU recommendation and amounts for various ages that appear to have been pulled out of his butt-seriously what is his basis for suggesting any of these doses?
Of course not, he pulled these numbers out of his imagination to sell you more Vitamin D.
Mercola ... pretty much makes up numbers by himself
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Now you're just making stuff up. I saw an MD on FOX news recommend 50,000 IU of D a day for two weeks for back pain, followed by 10,000 daily after that. This guy is a full MD, (summa cume laude), plus certified in Chinese medicine. I'm sure that FOX ran it by their lawyers first, that's what they do. It would take at least two months for a healthy adult to develop toxicity from a sustained oral intake of 50,000 IU, according to the conservative information cited in Wikipedia.
Dr. Mercola's disclaimer on vitamin D is just that, because if you get injections without testing your levels first, you could get very sick and actually die. But it is virtually impossible to overdue it with the oral supplements, primarily because of the absorption rate of D3. Of course not all doctors agree, but medicine is continuing to evolve even without many of these dodos and anyone can cite many different opinions.
Cancer treatment is very profitable, and healthy people are not. There is quite a bit of scientific criticism of the American Cancer Society, the AMA, and the American Heart Association, and "medical tourism" is rising very quickly from the U.S. as people seek out less profit-driven "care", such as the highly-successful Gerson cancer clinic in Mexico.
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Mercola on the other hand pretty much makes up numbers by himself
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You keep repeating this sentiment, but the truth is that more studies agree with him these days than those that don't. Less than 20% of practicing physicians are even members of the AMA at this point because of the AMA's bias against anything that threatens institutional profits.
I doubt you would quote anyone that has been actually
inspired to study osteopathy by Dr. Mercola, but they are definitely out there, just check out those reader comments. You can easily comment there as well, you won't be censored, but you will be corrected by the other readers in a similar way to if you were attempting to promote Skull Candies or Bose in a forum here. Give it a try!
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Mercola is a huge friggin' quack. Taking the stuff he recommends probably won't kill you but the real danger is that you start ignoring real health advice because you believe his ridiculous claims. Kinda like when Steve Jobs actually put off surgery for his pancreatic cancer because he thought he could find some kinda alternative option
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Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly types of cancer, and Steve Jobs beat it. There are many alternative cancer clinics that help beat the cancer into submission before surgery so it has a higher chance of success.
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a legitimate doctor would know that "toxins" can be good for you.
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Like the conventional chemotherapy that caused Job's liver to fail completely?
Or excess vitamin D perhaps?
Examples of where free radicals are good for you please.
But I do agree that most conventional as well as some alternative medicines are toxic in the wrong quantities, while being therapeutic when administered correctly.
How about mercury toxicity, where the ADA recently had to actually overrule their own corrupt committee's relatively recent findings, that found mercury anagrams "totally safe". They couldn't suppress the science any longer, as Federal agencies were already publishing warnings about mercury ingestion.
As far as Dr. Mercola goes, nobody is forcing anyone to buy his products, and I do not with the exception of some energy bars once. They were very good, if a bit expensive. Are you against him selling merchandise? Then don't buy any, it's that simple. But he wouldn't be able to do it if it wasn't profitable, and it wouldn't be profitable if he was full of cr@p. People buy his stuff because they trust his advice, even if you do not.
If you scroll down and read the comments section below any of Mercola's articles, which are usually just citing the research results of others, there are many people out there who are very grateful for the information, myself included. There
is a huge, conspiratorial campaign against him, precisely because he is so successful in reaching and helping so many people. This in turn threatens the profits of many financially powerful institutions that do not benefit from the progression of medical science. There are many others promoting the same things, but Mercola has been targeted for persecution because he is better at disseminating this helpful information than anyone else.
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Seriously look at all the things he's selling that the FDA had to repeatedly tell him to stop making ridiculous claims for:
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If there were any basis at all to any of the claims against him, he would be actually censored, and lose his license to practice medicine. But there isn't, and the FDA letters are just scare tactics. His many enemies have to resort to a massive disinformation and counterintelligence campaign against him. Reminds me of the tobacco companies and their "medical research" sometimes.
You seem quite passionate about promoting these disinformation campaigns against Dr. Mercola. I'm not sure what you degree is in, or what your agenda is, but I will continue to value his advice over yours as it almost always agrees with the advice of the MDs that I have sought out for myself in the real world. I have also gone to MDs that do not keep up with current developments, as they figure they learned everything they need to know in medical school 20-30 years ago and would frankly rather use their spare time to read the classics, or pursue other hobbies. It's only the true healers that are not satisfied with the status quo, as it leaves much to be desired even if it makes a lot of money.
