Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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Berry’s Advice: Don’t go out of your way to eat extra fiber. Humans have mostly eaten fatty meat for thousands of years and seldom do we need to consume extra fiber to stay regular. How doctors are taught to think about nutrition and other preventative health measures-and how they should be thinking He also suggests that most people around the world can not properly digest milk. Unfortunately, he provides absolutely no evidence to support this claim. The author is a doctor who woke up one day to take action to provide better remedy to his patients instead of blindly following the bidding of capitalist, profit-making interests of the big pharmaceutical industries and government food and drug regulatory bodies. He decided to educate himself by reading books and scrutinise medical research papers, discovering how poorly-designed research methods became unquestionable truths for decades at the expense of the public's health.

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In providing support for his claim the author repeatedly uses "whole wheat" interchangeably with "whole grains," which is confusing and somewhat conflates the argument. Wheat is just one type of grain that we consume today that has recently received a lot of attention thanks to gluten, a protein contained in wheat that some people should probably avoid. I'm a little more cautions when he begins to claim HRT is 100% fine for women in menopause. There's aren't good studies that show HRT is any more of a link to breast cancer and heart disease. One has to take into account sugar and cigarettes. It depends upon the type of hormones used--were they organically the same as human hormones--then they're safe, after all women had them coursing through their bodies for decades prior to menopause.I work in software, and we understand that best practices are not necessarily universal, but the solution when you find an exception to a best practice is to implement the exception and add it as a valid edge case to the overall knowledge base, and if you see enough of them, to maybe re-evaluate the correctness of the best practice, but not to throw out the entire methodology of establishing best practices. This was a super one-sided presentation of the argument that made it sound like these standards are completely useless, which is ironic in a book accusing others of lying. So, yeah. He makes a point. Doctors need to be able to put the pieces together and not simply depend on lab tests and normal ranges to make a diagnosis. Unfortunately, in a managed care setting, doctors have become more dependent on labs. I agree with the author, clinicians are often decades behind the science. I also agree that we are giving our profession away to alternative medicine. Somewhere along the way, we forgot that medicine is an art as much as a science...partly because the science is everchanging. I also wish that more doctors and clinicians were more open-minded. It's possible to remain skeptical but still willing to hear alternative ideas. SECOND - BIGGEST RED FLAG - Dr. Berry says, and I quote “to keep the size of this book under control, I have omitted footnotes and lists of works cited….You can use Bing.com..or google.com to search any health topic” I have NEVER read a book which includes medical recommendations that did not include notations for research! That was just crazy and you can bet i followed up and did my research to verify any medical claims...

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any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result fromhereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, and in any information storage and With so much money at stake its no suprise that big business and big pharma just make stuff up to increase their profits After the third red light came on, I decided that my time is too precious to read further and only looked at some topics. The author blames as responsible for lies Big-pharma, Big-governement, Big-dairy, but somehow forgets about Big-meet, Big-fat and... what about Big-authors-writing-pseudo-health-books - he is one of them. Because this is big industry too and has a serious influence and guilt for the current boom of pseudoscience and total ignorance. I work in software, and we understand that best practices are not necessarily universal, but the solution when you find an exception to a best practice is to implement the exception and add it as a valid edge case to the overall knowledge base, and if you see enough of them, to maybe re-evaluate the correctness of the best practice, but not to throw out the entire methodology of establishing best practices. This Talk about jumping on a band wagon. Not only does the author suggest that we all need vitamin D supplements, he also suggests without evidence that our blood range should be much higher than the established safe minimum range, but offers no basis for how he arrived at that number.

Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this one yet. I heard this author in an interview on a podcast. He was very personable, funny and he had a great story to tell about his own health journey. Being a doctor himself and looking at this own need for weight loss, he was able to "wake up" and see that the advice he had been dispensing regarding weight loss to patients was ineffective.

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The first red light came on when the author declared that he would not refer to the scientific literature ... to save space. Space? Why are other authors not saving us this space, but meticulously refer to scientific articles that confirm their claims?

Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your

Does salt give you high blood pressure? Does cholesterol increase your risk of cardiovascular disease? Berry’s Advice: Don’t give cholesterol a second thought. Eat as your ancestors would have thousands of years ago and let your body take care of the rest. I ended up going to a specialist, an endocrinologist, who actually correlated my symptoms with my blood work and prescribed treatment. I have been fine for the past 2.5 decades, no thanks to my doctor. PDF / EPUB File Name: Lies_My_Doctor_Told_Me_-_Dr_Ken_Berry.pdf, Lies_My_Doctor_Told_Me_-_Dr_Ken_Berry.epubIn Lies My Doctor Told Me , Dr. Ken D. Berry highlights the biggest misconception in the healthcare industry: that doctors know everything. He explains that while some physicians advocate outdated practices because they’re too busy to keep up with new research, others blindly accept results from Big Pharma-sponsored studies. But most importantly, in this book, Dr. Berry busts more than 25 commonly-believed medical and diet-related myths and teaches you evidence-based approaches to take control of your health. About the Author author or publisher, nor does mention of specific companies, organizations, or authorities imply that they