All the people in charge of heatlhcare are invested in unregulated supplements. The entire Trump dismantling of health (and the oppositions reluctance to undo it) can all be traced to the supplement and sports nutrition boom. Alex Jones walked with his lead-based brain supplements so Rogan and the others could run.
They can’t have science based medicine because that limits the range of correct answers and therefore useful products. The biotech market gets saturated and returns fall dramatically. They have to create asymmetry in the market in order to have an edge in investments. If you open up the range of correct answers then you can develop products that aren’t drugs. You can mix some turmeric and ginseng in your garage and sell it as a cure. That lower barrier to entry creates the asymmetry because the people stuck building multi-million dollar labs to make actual cures are now left behind. The supplement market explodes and grows rapidly, as we’ve seen since covid.
Speaking of covid, what a windfall for these people. Liberals failed to act, this created mistrust and anger, the cranks take advantage of that anger and get people to latch on to anti-establishment medicine. Nobody trusts their doctor. Instead of a doctor you just pay $400 a month to get any prescription you want. Supplements are shilled on every form of internet media as a cheaper and more natural alternative to prescriptions. Nobody has healthcare anyways so why not buy lion’s mane at a 500% markup? What a mess.
Nobody has healthcare anyways so why not buy lion’s mane at a 500% markup?
Literally my job. I work in sales at the largest supplement company in the US and it is so fucking bleak man. Worst part is it’s the “best” job I’ve ever had. We are so fucked.
dr hyman
(don’tsayitdon’tsayitdon’tsayit) :facepalm:
I have to upgrade my “germ theory denialist” jokes because it’s reality now. I’ll have to google. I don’t know what term to use.
Well, he can’t believe in Miasma theory, because then he would recommend everyone wear masks
Miasma theory
brb filling my N95s with rosemary & lavender
Germ denialism is wild given that we can straight up look at what germs do to human cells. It’s Flat Earth level nonsense where you can confirm or deny it yourself with maybe an hour of halfhearted observation
He’s not denying that germs exist, or at least neither the article nor the person the article is citing calling him a germ theory denialist say as much. He’s a believer in functional medicine, which the author from the publication Science Based Medicine equates to germ theory denialism because it is essentially rebranding Alternative Medicine as a physician based approach which highglights how smart and cool they are for embracing it. Which is why it has had a lot of success.
Incidentally Mark A. Crislip used to do good podcasts but then he just started pretending reading an article verbatim was a podcast.
Medieval peasant nation. What even is the material gain chuds have in denying germ theory? CHUDs deny climate change for comfort reasons, they want to consume in peace without thinking about the consequences and who’s actually paying for it, but what’s comfortable about denying germ theory?
Presumably this is more everyone is twelve now and it’s “baths are lame! I want to keep watching TV instead!”
American fascism is delusional death cult. I’m not being factitious. Also - for that guy - money.
Among the new hires at CBS announced by Bari Weiss is a doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with the kind of nutritional supplements he also sells on his online store.
There are a lot of material reason for a doctor to embrace functional medicine. Functional medicine is essentially alternative medicine mixed with some of the worst aspects of for profit conventional medicine. So a doctor will order you a bunch of unnecessary tests and scans and then give you a diagnosis for a fake disease and prescribe you stuff that doesn’t work (And which he likely sells), all resulting in thousands upon thousands of easy dollars for the doctor.
Woke modernism killed humors-based medicine but we’re bringing it back baby!
If I had no soul - I’d create…
InevitableSwing’s NHNM - NEWhumorsNEWmedicine.com - were you can find top notch snake oil to treat whatever ails ya.
I might even sell NeoSnakeOil which would be baked sawdust-and-corn-syrup SUPER premium biscuit at $10 each.
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Ninja edit. How much sawdust can you eat before you get sick or get horrific constipation? Well - that’s why I have pretend licensed medical professional equivalent doctor consultants who give me deniability. Also - perhaps I need to raise the prices of my SUPER premium biscuits to stop such side effects.
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor
Chuds think you can’t change your gender because of “biology”, but do think you can change your age
Germ theory denialist? You can buy agar (for what? 20 bucks?), leave it out at room temperature, see what grows, put your tongue on it, and see if you get sick.
Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “germ theory denialist” by the medical author Harriet Hall, and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that the oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “pure quackery”.
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The Institute for Functional Medicine, which counts Hyman as a board member, claims on its website that FM “restores healthy function by treating the root causes of disease”, and “allows clinicians to systematically identify and address the underlying processes and dysfunctions that are causing imbalance and disease in each individual”.
In practice, according to advocates, this involves seeking underlying causes of illness by testing stools, hormones and food sensitivity, and treating them with supplements, nutrition and therapies including yoga and acupuncture.
Illness is often attributed to underlying syndromes like “leaky gut” – which Hyman discusses on his website and in social media – which scientists say “cannot be accurately diagnosed by symptoms, blood work, or stool studies”, and is “not a real diagnosis”.
Scientific critics, however, say that FM is little more than a rebrand of alternative medicine, with the late oncologist Wallace Sampson characterizing it as a collection of “abandoned concepts” undergoing “resurrection under a more modern slogan, ‘Functional Medicine’”.
So that’s not a self-proclaimed title. He’s just a grifter who’s going to be bashing the FDA, CDC, WHO, and the like. That’s going to cause a lot of harm and people are going to die, whether it’s quacks who refuse life-saving treatment or they decide to withold treatment because a patient can’t afford a DEXA scan or something
What’s he a doctor of? Can’t be medicine.
He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Ottawa and completed his training at the Community Hospital of Santa Rosa in family medicine.
doctors rank a close 2nd behind engineers for falling for bullshit
There are a lot of doctors who got through med school and somehow didn’t absorb anything. Or who get through med school and start getting strange ideas.
literally anybody could do a better job than her, even at being a nazi–does she really think a bunch of libs are going to be convinced by a transparent grifter who’s going to turn every opportunity to speak into an advertisement for bullshit supplements? bribe the feds to get their ghoul appointees under RFK on your shows
So, not a doctor then?
Well, he’s a Doctor of Death.
Bah-dum
When asked by reporters why he always breathes heavily he replied “miasma”
