has anyone looked at this guy?

http://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm i find his claims shocking mercury having a 15 year half life in the body? surely its more like 50days tops...

I see nothing more than a business and a marketing gimmick here preying on the beliefs and want of well being by many people who dont do their own research.

what's your guys views? I've heard a lot of people talking about how great this guy is lately

Mercola is anti-aspartame, yet the FDA & European Food Safety Authority deems it a safe substance. Now what?

im not quite sure what your pointing out.. i personally haven't looked into the research surrounding aspartame but i will.

from your post i gather it is completely safe?
and mercola disagree?

I don't know if it's safe, but the FDA & the EFSA say so. The Mercola site however states: "Aspartame is, by Far, the Most Dangerous Substance on the Market that is Added To Foods."

this it you see, i've read some of his other claims about mercury taking forver to breakdown, now i know mercury has a half life of about 50days give or take when in the body he claims 15 yers or such nonesense.

there's a few other claims he makes which just makes me think hes trolling people into there conspiracies into buying his stuff.

I just read this article if anyone mentions this guy please share
http://www.sciencebasedm...ne.org/for-shame-dr-oz/

More to be shared on the subject of aspartame.. it mimics sugar intake and causes neurobehavioral changes that are well below the maximum acceptable daily intake level of 40-50 mg/kg body weight/day. I don't use it personally.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24700203

thanks for sharing the link, i dont avoid it, but it just happens to not be part of my diet however i have had the odd soft drink which contains it

He has good alternative health information, like the dangers of unfermented soy, GMOs, excessive sugar intake, etc. I don't see anything wrong with him claiming something, as a trained DO, anymore than reading or accepting the opinion of a MD. I don't really visit his website though, the constant adverts and self promotion is annoying to me, but I can not fault him for making a living. In my opinion he does supply good information, don't have to believe everything he says or follow blindly, as with anyone providing health information. Up to us to do our own research as well.





Also, the fda saying something is safe is like a a cop going into an interrogation room and saying, just trust me and nothing bad will happen to you. May work in some instances but I would not be willing to trust most of the time.

A friend of mine who has diabetes used to drink tons of diet coke, which is a common theme with diabetics. He would have these insane leg cramps in the middle of the night that would leave him on the floor screaming. He had some other strange symptoms that he ended up doing some research and finding aspartame in diet coke to be the most likely culprit. He quit drinking diet coke all together... ALL the symptoms that he assumed were from aspartame consumption dissipated... including the leg cramps he had had for most his life.

Who knows if this was a placebo effect but I was a witness and it seems more likely to me that aspartame was the cause.

that interesting about the aspartame I have heard of it before but never looked into it as it is not a pig part of my diet . Mercola has justified the thoughts of cancer being a fungus and is treatable with Sodium Carbonate. one of his colleagues actually killed someone by overdosing them on baking powder. injecting baking powder directly into someone's cancerous tumour.

Quackwatch & Mercola

http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/mercola.html

Be wary of taking health advice from anyone with something to sell you. However I think the FDA's track record speaks for itself about how trustworthy they are. It's important we do our own research and come to our own conclusions based on all the available evidence.

When it comes to aspartame we need to exercise some critical thinking. It's important to ask who performed this study? and who funded this study? Aspartame is an excitotoxin and after my own critical survey of the evidence it's a compound I choose not to include in my diet.

I could write 30 paragaphs here.

Ill just point out, remember, doctors are glorified salesmen. Poor ones at that. They sell procedures that dont need to be done, they sell medications that dont need to be taken by companies whose sole purpose is profit from consumers who just blindly accept what theyre told by men and women in white coats.

Anything you hear, whether alternative or not, should be taken with a grain of salt until you do further research for yourself.

But yes, aspartame is insane. Just look at those who run and head the FDA, and then do a little reading and see who theyre tied to, either relationships or what their previous positions were. That'll give you all the answers you need.

On the lighter side, Ive always loved this pic. "Politicians should have to wear their "sponsors".

indeed, let's not forget that medical care is the third leading cause of death behind cancer and heart disease in the states.

id just like to point out that this sells doctors, like our very own Corpus Collosum, who comes here and helps folks out for free, very very short.

i have never had anything but help from doctors i have seen.


lets not forget the enormous amount of people who get saved by medical care.

i pressume next time your ill your just gonna sit at home and wish yourself better

the vast majority of medical staff i have met deserve our upmost respect for doing a difficult job.

Yep a of people are saved, no need to state something so obvious or quote me as though I was implying otherwise. A lot of people are helped with alternative medicine too, and dietary change, ayahuasca, and yes self healing too. There are billions upon billions of people who have lived, I don't believe one method saves all. Not every doctor deserves respect. I found one I liked, but I've had many who were clearly not in it to help people, just collecting a paycheck, etc. Bad experiences.

True, while generalizing really cant represent the whole population of those generalized, I too have never met a doctor who I thought didnt really actually enjoy what they were doing and didnt want to help me.

But, over the years Ive come to find that if a person takes responsibility for what they do to their body and what they fuel it with, we can take care of ourselves. A simple diet is all we need. We're of this world. We dont need such ridiculous artificial intervention to keep ourselves going. Garbage in = garbage out.

The medical field is designed to bandaid everything. To suppress or hide symptoms rather than solve. Solving health issues means a customer is lost. And a customer lost is a struggling industry.

Prime example, I had terrible acne as a teen. The worst kind of acne, cystic acne. My dermatologist was awesome, nice guy never brash or aggressive. But, the topical ointments never worked, the medication never worked. It was always, well lets try this, lets up this dosage, do this creme plus this pill. Sell sell sell products. He was doing what he could within the limits of his field and making a living. Cant blame him.

I took my health into my own hands, I eliminated anything with an artificial ingredient or preservative, cleaned up my diet heavily (eliminated anything that could promote mucous such as dairy and also eliminated red meat from my diet), and detoxed my body with 2L minimum of lemon water or just plain water daily. Acne simply is the body crying for help in a last ditch effort to eliminate toxins right out thru our largest organ, the skin! Our bodies speak to us. I listened. I knew something needed to change. My lymphatic system needed a heavy cleanse.

My acne issue that I suffered with for 10 years POOF solved in 2 weeks flat.

I had that same experience. I stopped going to the dermatologist when the last thing they tried to give me 'may' cause severe depression and suicidal tendencies. I think it ended up being banned years later.


Edit, I also cleared up cystic acne by cleaning my diet, eventhough my dermatologist and doctor explicitly told me there's no correlation between acne and diet.

Yup thats what Id always heard too when I was young. "Rumors" that diet is linked, but docs always said no no no its just genetics, WHICH yes I certainly do believe to a degree that some people are definitely predisposed to aggressive acne forms moreso than others. A pimple here and there from the occasional clogged pore or ingrown hair, meh, not so much. My dad had cystic acne also when he was young. But, after my experience diet is absolutely the only reason for aggressive acne. The skin will filter what the body is too overburdened to handle.

Back to the acne, figuring I could curtail it as much as possible by medication I just did what I could. It wasnt fun at all, both the acne and the meds. I was on accutane (isotretinoin) which was absolute hell on multiple fronts.

I also had acne that persisted through childhood into adulthood, into my late 30s. I have sympathy for anyone that has had to go through this, because of how devastating it is to one's social life and feelings of self worth.

I went to dermatologists when I could finally afford to, only to find that they could not cure it. They would only treat the symptoms, and not even perfectly. It was my late 30s when I eventually figured out that it was something in my diet, and I cured it myself. All along the dermatologists had been useless. They don't appear to know that there is a strong link to one's diet. I try to educate everyone I find with this problem, that will listen to me.

Due to this 'appearance issue', I have spent a majority of my life without many friends or lovers, being alone. (Not due to a lack of trying, mind you. I still try everywhere I go. Oh, the pain of rejection!) And due to this, I have read a lot, educating myself about various things I am interested in, but have a difficult time with social skills. In RPG terms, I have an 11 in Intelligence but seem to have a 2 in Charisma, lol. I have become over time a classic introvert. Believe it or not, I actually started out as an extrovert.

It is only now that things are getting better, which sadly is due to the fact that I look better. My personality has not changed a bit. People are more likely to meet my eyes and smile, not look away quickly. They now want to talk to me, or be happy that I am talking to them. This has taught me a lesson about people that I find saddening. It really is all about appearances for them, no matter how much they say otherwise.