Dr. Mercola and concerns via another substacker
Concerns pver Mercola's health valid?
Should We Listen to Dr. Mercola Based on Recent Concerns?
Recently, Mathew Crawford (his post is below) posted a substack on concerns regarding Dr. Mercola and some decisions that he is making. Apparently, there are concerns in his inner circle about seeking psychic guidance to make employee decisions.
I am sure the issue is more than just about that.
I wanted to share this because I cite Dr. Mercola occasionally and will do so again in an upcoming article this week.
Much of what I cite from Mercola’s site is from articles re-posted and originated before 2020. I also reference his articles with credible and reliable sources that align with my holistic nutrition views.
For example. in the upcoming article, I cite a Mercola article regarding examining iron overload on blood tests and some additional options to reduce iron overload other than blood donation.
I am sure his team monitors what articles get posted, but I want to reassure you that I will only use his content if I feel it is reliable and worthy.
I do not know if he has some health issues, but he seems knowledgeable and informed in recent interviews.
What are your thoughts on Dr. Mercola based on Crawford’s post? Do you read Mercola's posts? Are you hesitant to use the information he provides?
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It is just me writing, reading, researching, and seeing clients!
I do not use mainstream social media, so please share my posts so that more people can get informed on how to get and stay healthy.
This is NOT information allopathic practitioners will share with you.
For anyone interested, my morning tea blend is (all organic) yerba mate, rooibos, green or black, and nettle leaf (and nettle seed when I have it).
We consider ourselves to be “civilized” or at least “better” than others. How does it fare against real life?
There is a guy who has managed to create a service of much help to the public - actually, one of a kind, because no-one else is presenting free health-related education in such a unified and legible format. Unlike other websites of similar contents, Joseph Mercola adds interviews with many persons somewhat related to the subjects his articles are about, and he does it on a regular basis. As a result, we have views on our health provided from two angles as a minimum. Interestingly, in his interviews, Mercola largely keeps his views in the background, allowing his guests to speak as much as they can. Now, this is super valuable, because you get a strong second opinion, not moderated by “yes, but I think that…”.
As far as I know, Mercola’s service is not paid by taxpayers, subsidies, grants, special Congress laws and similar, so I highly respect his achievement. As a sidenote, at his age, he looks way healthier and his conversation capacity exceeds what most of our “leaders” or “entrepreneurs” present - which, in a sense, confirms that he does himself what he is advocating. Health-wise or medically-wise.
I have never been interested in his business or personal views, I don’t care about it. As long as he does not provide obvious false or misleading information, I am good with his service, and grateful for the presentation of his resources free of charge - where other hide behind paywalls. How he manages his business, it’s his and only his matter. Whether he wants to hire or fire somebody just like that, that’s none of our business. It’s amazing to me why this subject is being pushed to the front, like, somebody wants to be a censor deciding for you and me whether we should listen to Mercola?
Even if he consults somebody whom you or I would not go to, for whatever reasons, are we going to declare that we know better what an adult Joseph Mercola should do? Really? Because who are we? It looks as if a subtle ad hominem attack is being orchestrated - exactly the thing that the “Freedom” movement is so much against.
On a deeper level, that may look like an attempt to discredit any alternative medical modalities other than mainstream “official” medicine.
Have you verified the gossip about the psychic “help”? I haven’t found any alleged “discovered” materials, so please provide a link if you are aware of it - it might be interesting to read or listen to it.
By the way, we all live by what we “know” (although we have only read or heard a few words), what we are “certain” about (although we only have second-hand knowledge from books, tv, internet or the education system, which we never tried to verify ourselves), or what we consider to be “true” - only to discover after some time that we were lied to and we believed blindly what we were told, the most recent example being the “safe and effective” savior drug which we now know that it is neither safe, nor effective, and does more harm than the alleged illness itself. What is worse, then, being lied to by rational scientific experts and professionals or listening to psychic “speakers”?
I did read that article by Mathew Crawford and I used to read Dr Mercola a lot. I stopped getting his emails because I tired of the fear based click bait message titles. When I am researching a topic I will search his archives. Dr Mercola has changed some of his views about diet recently that seemed odd to me, but I admit to not going down that rabbit hole. I didn't really understand Erin's post that his family was praying for him and she was too - are they not together any more? Very confusing.
As someone that was far too involved with New Age stuff for too long all I can say is, I learned to be wary of those people. Most of the advice I was given was incorrect (shocking).