naturopathy

I need some advice over things like gluten, MSG, glutathione, grapeseed extract, vitamin C, and the like; anyone know about this sort of thing? I'm trying to detox my brain. I'd like some solid advice, outside an expensive naturopath, and have I entered the post in the right forum, or sub...

If you are so inclined, this seems to be a worthwhile petition to sign. Created by Britt Marie Hermes, former naturopath and now alt-med critic and author of Naturopathic Diaries: Confessions of a naturopathic doctor blog. Naturopaths are not doctors: stop legitimizing pseudoscience 1,869...

Naturopathy remains highly controversial and contested since it emerged in the late 1800s. That much is true. But, today I would like to post this thread explaining some of the reasons how it could be good stuff, after all! My mind started to flip on this issue after talking with a very astute...

Yesterday JREF posted a helpful policy statement on naturopath licensure (“Naturopathy Should Not Be Licensed: Statement by the JREF"). I'm in Colorado where "degreed" naturopaths are currently taking their 7th try for licensure since 1994. Sometimes we fear legislators may grant them...

Okay, there have got to be resources that show the difference between naturopath educations and actual MD and pre-med educations. The pre-med students I went to school with even had to take English courses. They had to pass chemistry, etc. Thing is, I've been to a real college that teaches...

My eldest daughter has been troubled by non-stop headaches and has tests with a neurologist coming up in a couple of months. When she asked what could be done in the meantime he referred her to a Naturopath. Now I know naturopathy is quackery and that the best we can hope for is the placebo...

ABC News poses the question "Why do we spend $34 Billion on Alternative Medicine"? According to the article, "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Thursday that Americans spent $34 billion on complementary and alternative medicine in 2007". Their coverage is fairly objective with...

Naturopathic Medicine: A feminine approach to health care

Here folks are the official fairy tales that the government is telling us. After a lot of criticism last year the National Occupational Standards for CAM are up for review. The intention appears to be to invite comment from CAM practitioners, but I see no reason why people with a few grey cells...

I was reading the weekly column written by our local naturopath, and she mentioned diagnosing a zinc deficiency by means of a "taste test". Googling gives me this: http://www.diagnose-me.com/treat/T291481.html Is there anything to this, or is it garbage? (Apart from their submoronic use of...

This is split from the "Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants" thread: Hair is not living. That aside, other then camp fire stories is there any documented proof?

Stumbled across this in my pile of Google Alerts, a good example of a local paper doing some good journalistic research and not letting a woo-woo get away with crap: Maryville Daily Times, Maryville, Tennessee "Candidate promoting questionable college degree" July 7, 2008...

Minnesota has become the latest state to allow naturopaths (NDs) to play doctor. Some blogs to check: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=141 http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/06/doctors_of_naturopathy_in_minnesota.php http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2008/06/naturopathy.php...

A friend of mine recently went to a "vitamin store" seeking iron pills because she was feeling run down, and the shop gal suggested she try painting some iodine on her skin and see how quickly it is absorbed. The shop gal provided some liquid iodine stuff for free, and painted a reddish patch on...

My dog Mallory is having surgery next week to repair a partially torn cranial cruciate ligament (the equivalent to an ACL in humans). She's a border collie, so she kind of needs her knee. However, we are opting for the simpler graft surgery as opposed to the TPLO, which is normally done on...

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/04/19/estazolam-health.html I guess this is their attempt at making sure the sleeping pills work regardless of how that batch of herbs turned out.

I am at heart a sceptic or rather my attitude towards new things that sound implausible is sceptical, at least initially. But I have found that when I actually TRY something, experiment with it to try to get to know it better, my attitude sometimes (not always) changes. I believe Homeopathy can...

A couple of months ago I was at a friend's party. While pouring myself a beer I heard a woman I'd met a couple of times before -- I'll call her Kelly -- having the following conversation with another guest: "So what do you do?" "I'm a doctor" [some follow-up question about whether she works in...

Earlier today at my college, we had this science career fair, where representatives from some companies have their booths, and you can talk to them, give them resumes, or learn about stuff they're offering. It was nothing special...only 5 or 6 different displays were there. But the worst part...

This case was being tried where I live. Can't wait to see what kind of sentencing he receives. "Brian O'Connell, 37, faced numerous counts of practicing medicine without a license, theft and manslaughter in the death of a terminally ill 19-year-old cancer patient" Can't post links yet, but...

:mad: :mad: :mad: For those who ask, "What harm it could it do to let people believe bizarre things?", wake up and smell the dead babies.