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Originally Posted by Barefoot
It's a "Dr. Oz" world out there. I have a friend who works at a Health Food Store. She says that the day after Dr. Oz recommends a supplement, the store sells out of the product.
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I believe it. I always liked Dr. Oz and enjoyed him when he was a frequent guest on Oprah. I'd have her on in the kitchen when I was preparing supper.
However, his new show, which we actually began watching during the month of November 2011 while in The Villages........has turned into a sales pitch for various supplements and health type remedies.
He's obviously earning profits from all these pitches.
Not all supplements are safe. Too much of any of this can be dangerous.
We have family members who carry along dozens of "baggies" of their daily supplements........truthfully, I could not swallow that volume of pills. Every new remedy that is mentioned , either on t.v. or in Prevention Magazine, etc. they run to the health food store to purchase.
Since so many of our foods (yes processed foods) are already supplemented, certain of these can be over dosing. Too much of a good thing?
My plain common sense tells me that our natural bodies are NOT made to handle all these chemicals.......whether in pills or chemo type treatments.*
*We've seen too many younger friends die of breast cancer lately where the treatment was worse than the cure.....all after having double mastectomies and breast restoration at top university hospitals like Dartmouth. It later spread to the rib cage and every other organ in the body. Early detection might be good for some, but harmful to many that we've known. I think most of these are caused by the birth control pills of the earlier decades. For the older women, it's the hormone replacement therapy.
Again, natural is the best way to go........re anything.
Not to be disrespectful of the vegans and vegetarians out there, but all of these "younger women in their 40's and 50's" followed that dietary plan. Obviously, it did not save their lives.
We also had a dear friend whose grandmother had the same lung condition she had. The grandmother lived to 95, dying of old age, while our friend, had invasive biopsies of her lung at another top medical center, was put on prednisone and another clinical trial drug (it wasn't cancer but a disease of the aveolar sacs in the lungs).....they punctured her ribs and lung and as she was recuperating had to be rushed back to our hospital where eventually she bled out and finally was put in a medical coma, as we stood by her bedside, family hoping for a heart lung transplant.........but it was too late. We feel had she not had the biopsy to begin with........the rest would not have happened. Her symptom was basically a chronic cough........she knew what she had and lived with it since a younger woman. Often, invasive testing does more harm than good.
I apologize for getting off the "supplements track".
So, even in doctoring...............less is more.............