The article “Media Blasts Oprah for Supporting Alternative Medicine” in today’s issue of mercola.com is simply a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in healthy hormone balance.
Dr. Mercola has provided a wealth of information, countless links to additional educational information, and even a link to the notorious article appearing in Newsweek Magazine. If you have not yet read that article, please take the time to make yourself aware.
Earlier this week I wrote an article about truth. With the ease of print today, you truly must educate yourself about the source of any information you see printed. Dr. Mercola, a hard-working advocate for our health and well-being, points out to us some background information about the author as well as the magazine:
“And one thing you won’t see mentioned in the Newsweek article is the fact that Pat Wingert is the co-author of a pharmaceutically biased book on hormones and menopause, and that Newsweek is heavily funded by pharmaceutical companies.”
The excerpt provided from the Alternet article in which Dr. Deepak Chopra responded to the Oprah bashing is simply profound:
“The criticism the medical establishment is directing at Oprah through this article only exposes their own frustration in having squandered their credibility with the public. They hope that if they can successfully attack Oprah’s immense credibility, then they can magically get some of that credibility back for themselves. However, if people still trusted the health care industry to act in their best interest the way they did decades ago, then it would be unnecessary to brand Oprah for “crazy talk” simply because she occasionally provides a forum for ideas outside of mainstream medicine.(American Medical Association). She promotes wellness and prevention, two areas that drastically need improvement. She brings up creative solutions to problems that medical science is baffled by, such as the healing response itself and the role of subjectivity in patient response. These are issues that few M.D.s are willing to explore, yet she has done so for decades.
The medical profession is burdened with a host of problems that Oprah addresses with more candor and force than the AMA
… What this tells me is that medicine needs Oprah and other patient advocates who are demanding that official medicine heal itself. To accuse them of lacking medical credibility is a red herring. Patients aren’t supposed to know more than their physicians. The fact that they often do, at least insofar as alternative treatment goes, is both a sign of hope and cause for distress.”
The link to the Michael Borkin article, Women’s Hormones, is lengthy, but well worth the read.
It is simply astounding to me how our “alternative medicine” practices got to be labeled “alternative.” The real “alternative” medical practices are those that poison us with synthetic drugs, all in the name of money and greed.
Please take some time today or this week to go to the mercola.com website to review the posted information: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/06/18/Media-Blast-Oprah-for-Supporting-Alternative-Medicine.aspx.
You and I simply must take the initiative to educate ourselves and others in order promote wellness and prevention. Your own health and well-being depend upon it.
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