Re: Great things from the Color of Berries: From "Sham vs. Wham: The Health Insider"

On Jul 26, 1:01 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"D." wrote:

As in all supplement products, stick with major brand names
and quality vendors. Better yet, buy the brands that are sold
through your doctor or holistic healthcare practitioner.

Wrong, again. In the U.S., it's considered a violation
of medical ethics for a doctor to sell supplements to
his or her patients. It's a conflict of interest.
If your doctor tries to sell you supplements, you
need a new doctor.

This is something the spammer didn't tell you, because
any suggestion that it would be unethical for a medical
professional to sell supplements to patients is bad
for the supplement companies, which the spammer would like
to have as advertisers on his commercial blogspot website.
Naturopaths, chiropractors, and other non-MD's are not bound
by the same ethics and frequently do sell supplements.

You won't get the straight, accurate facts from the spammer,
because he allows commercial interests to slant his
poorly researched articles.

Yes, you are right, Mr. Troll. You caught me red-handed trying to sell
blueberry skins out of the trunk of my car. Gosh darn it, how did you
get so smart.

Maybe I spoke too soon, though, because obviously you aren't following
the latest trends in medicine. One of the fastest growing sectors for
nutritional dietary supplements, according to Nutraceutical World
magazine, is the "doctor market." The marketplace of doctors who buy
and sell supplements to their patients is "the fastest growing niche
for the supplement industry." The good thing about buying supplements
from a doc is that he or she is already familiar with your
prescription medicine, and the "herb/drug interaction" problem becomes
a non-issue. So many MD's buy supplements for their patients that
there is an industry association that most of them belong to, the
American Holistic Medical Association. They hold annual conventions in
which MD's talk to other MD's about their thriving supplement
businesses. Of course, the majority of MD's still don't do this, but
it's definitely on the upswing and is not considered illegal or
unethical by most of their peers (although there are probably a few
old curmudgeons like yourself who would squawk about all these new-
fangled changes in medicine).

By the way, Naturopaths and Chiropractors don't have lower ethical
standards than MDs, they are just different. Different modalities of
treatment. Just to give you an example, we have a small town of 10,000
here in Arizona where I live. Dr. Mikles and Dr. Adler, both MD's, are
the main sources for people seeking a Medical Doctor. Both of them
have dispensaries in which they offer their patients a variety of
supplement products, generally tested by them personally and of the
highest caliber. Then, we have three Chiropractors, and two
Naturopaths as well. The Naturopaths can write prescriptions, and they
are treated in the same way by the AZ state with regards to safety and
ethical issues. Plus, both the Chiropractors and the Naturopaths ALSO
sell supplements.

My guess is that you have an HMO for your medical needs, Mark, or you
aren't using a holistic-minded practitioner. I'd suggest you look into
that for your own healthcare . . . Someone who knows both Medicine, as
well as Alternative healthcare approaches can offer you a much better
"big picture view" of your options.

Dave

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