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In reply to the discussion: My first encounter with a rabid anti-vaxxer [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,671 posts)bio-nutritionist PhDs, and Functional Medicine people who are also widely read authors of "health" books and speakers in video media have turned to the far right as a means of making just as much money off the crazies, unto death, as the bigPharma folks siphon off the rest of us! That said, a bit of common sense about what is known seems useful because most folks leave "medical learning" about their own bodies to their artful doctors and articles/advertisements in magazines and on TV. They then avoid the critical thinking skills necessary to make informed decisions. One thing for sure, we do live in a toxic environment, physically and mentally.
I've been so disappointed in the likes of Mark Hyman, MD; Sayre Ji, Andrew Saul, and others during the pandemic that now I listen to their recommendations and protestations against censorship with a much more left-leaning political ear that supports prevention of getting it and then spreading it. There's a lot to be said for helping our bodies be more resistant to disease, but The CoVid just doesn't care about anything except a new host, so where two or three are gathered together, there's always politics and an opportunity for some to make lots of money as well.