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How I Evaluate Holistic Health Information and Avoid Being Duped
Summary: Learn how to evaluate "holistic medical" information like a professional, and avoid scams, quacks, rip-offs and as-yet-unproven therapies.
Hardly a day goes by that I am not asked, "Dr. Myatt, have you heard of
such-and-such a therapy/remedy/herb/whatever." With thousands if not
hundreds
of thousands of "cures" and "new treatments" being touted, how do I
separate
the grain from the chaff and still have time to sleep? Here's how:
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If I've never heard of it, that's
a bad sign. My research team and I
spend much of the day reading medical journals--- both conventional
and
alternative--- in addition to news, editorials and “new cure” puff
(sales) pieces. All new
breakthroughs or "just discovered" research appears someplace. If
there are no
references except those put out by the manufacturer, my "bogus meter"
starts
to buzz. Even conventional medicine and its many drug-company ploys
have
been known to set off my alarm.
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I subscribe to the "conspiracy
theory," but I don't go overboard. Yes,
the government, the FDA and Big Pharma really do ignore worthy
treatments and
cures if they can't figure out how to make a buck from them. There's a
lot of
skullduggery that goes on to be sure. But when someone tells me that
I've
never heard of a remedy because the government is suppressing it, I
know
that's bogus. Even with suppressed therapies, you'll find references
and
information about the subject in medical journals and alternative
sources.
For example, “The Black Salve" (used for melanoma skin cancer) will
never be
FDA approved. In fact, it's difficult to get hold of. But you will
find
plenty of references to it, many of them credible. Even "outlawed"
remedies
will still have plenty of references in the holistic medical
literature.
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The Cure has "Testimonials only."
Oh yeah, lots of people are saying “this works
great!” Who are these people, and how do I even know that these are
legitimate
testimonials? Further, if a lot of people say a product or remedy
works great,
someone would be taking up the cause and doing legitimate research to
see if
this "remedy" is reproducible. For any remedy you can name, I can find
several people who swear it works. But remember, even a clock that has
stopped
working tells the correct time twice a day. Testimonials are good, but
they
should not supplant reproducible studies on a drug, herb, magnet or
other
remedy.
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The only people who have studied
the remedy are the one(s) selling it.
"Dr. So-and-so" is the developer of aura-strengthening magnets which
cure all
disease. He's been researching this for twenty years and used it on
5,000
patients. It works, and you can buy it from him. And by the way, no
one else
has done independent research on this product. (Probably because the
Government is suppressing it – right?)
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I check references. (The
scientific references in support of a product or
therapy). No references? Not a good sign. One lab rat study, reported
357
times on the internet (making each of those look like separate
references) doesn't
cut it. References that don't really support the claims? ('cause they
thought
no one would bother to check references) I'm outta' here...
Life is short. I'm sure that by not examining 100 unproven remedies a
day I might
be overlooking one or two promising therapies a month. But there are
so many
proven therapies for everything that ails humankind, how much time
should I
spend on the "as-yet-unprovens"? Besides, if the "new thing" in
question is
legit, I know I'll see or hear about it again, and soon. You can't
keep a good cure
down.
Until I have confidence that a new treatment, product or other medical
cure
is effective, I'll stick with what works and is scientifically
verifiable and
clinically reproducible. There are more than enough reliable remedies
in the
entire holistic health armamentarium to cure or control almost every
disease,
and new and provable ones are added to that list every day.
And that's "the rest of the story."
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