It’s all so easy
Gwyneth Paltrow is still doing her home-made medical consultation thing. There was a GOOP health expo in LA last weekend.
On Gut Check panel, Dr. Steven Gundry just said 1 Advil is "like swallowing a hand grenade” & “blows giant, gaping holes in wall of ur gut"
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) June 10, 2017
“Don’t eat. I can’t stress that enough. We have the ability to store fat,” says Dr. Gundry, who doesn’t eat breakfast or lunch for 6 mos/yr.
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) June 10, 2017
Just came out of the Gut Check panel and @sweetgreen is giving out salads with corn and seeded tomatoes, which we were just told NOT to eat. pic.twitter.com/z8Bfhpzt7v
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) June 10, 2017
Jen Gunter has some objections, starting with another tweet by Amy Kaufman perhaps now deleted, that said “try magnesium instead of antibiotics, unless life threatening.” Yeah that doesn’t sound any more right than “don’t eat” or “one ibuprofen blows a huge hole in your gut.”
Magnesium in lieu of antibiotics, you know, unless it’s life-threatening. This tweet concerned a lot of medical people who saw it.
A member of Dr. Meyer’s team has since reached out by way of the comment section to clarify that the person reporting “misheard or misremembered Dr. Myers’ comments.” You can see the comment below. I have amended some of the post below to reflect that assertion, but I have also asked for a transcript.
If it is true that the comment about magnesium is not a correct recounting of Dr. Meyers’ talk that does speak to how clarity is important at these kinds of events. By several accounts the medical information seemed unclear and contradictory. For example, Meyers’ representative states she said “it is wise to do a risk benefit analysis before deciding whether or not to take a course of antibiotics.” How could you possibly translate that message in a meaningful way to an audience in a tent? Might some people think that means you shouldn’t take antibiotics unless you are really sick? Clearly someone thought that was what Meyers meant. Messages about antibiotics need more nuance than those about tomatoes (apparently a lecture on how tomatoes will kill you was followed by a meal with tomatoes). When there is so much fear mongering how could there not be confusion? Detailed medical information can be confusing even at a medical conference where doctors are the only audience.
It is important for everyone to know that taking magnesium for infections unless things are life-threatening is the medical equivalent of saying it’s okay to play in traffic just avoid the really big trucks so I am very clad to hear that Dr. Meyers would not treat infections with magnesium.
But as for autoimmune diseases…
However, I am still curious though how Dr. Amy Meyers learned how to reverse autoimmune diseases with a six-week course and one easy payment of $297!
I hope they throw in a free pair of detox socks.
Medical charlatans are some of the worst. Mainly because health and life are at risk.
I don’t think Amy Myers MD® is a real Medical Doctor.
But isn’t that what the doctor is already doing? Every suggested course of action or inaction is essentially an exercise in comparing the consequences of letting [illness / injury / etc.] continue untreated vs. the consequences of treating it in this, that, or the other manner. A drastic treatment for a trivial health issue fails the risk/benefit balance in one way, a trivial treatment for a serious issue fails it in the other way.
Oh, Holms, but doctors are so much in the pocket of BigPharma, they’re just going to throw whatever is the most expensive medicine at you, no matter how trivial! Didn’t you know that? (No, I didn’t either. But I’m sure it must be true, because people seem to be shouting it loudly on the internet, and that seems to be the standard for truth these days).
So with a single course of treatment she can cure Rheumatoid arthritis, Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) …
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Multiple sclerosis (MS), Type 1 diabetes mellitus, Guillain-Barre syndrome and many others? Wow! And presumably this is all being withheld by Big Pharma despite the fact that cures for even one of these would be worth $bns worldwide.
It’s fascinating to me how Big Pharma has so much power that it can somehow stymie Big Medical Insurance — you know, the industry that had enough clout to derail Hillarycare in the 90s and has scared Democrats off even trying for single payer. Somehow Big Medical Insurance is willing to pay out billions of dollars to Big Pharma instead of insisting that their insureds be treated with kale smoothies or whatever GOOP is peddling.
“Follow the money” isn’t a bad rule, but you’ve got to apply it consistently.