Slop.

All the people in charge of heatlhcare are invested in unregulated supplements. The entire Trump dismantling of health (and the oppositions reluctance to undo it) can all be traced to the supplement and sports nutrition boom. Alex Jones walked with his lead-based brain supplements so Rogan and the others could run.

They can't have science based medicine because that limits the range of correct answers and therefore useful products. The biotech market gets saturated and returns fall dramatically. They have to create asymmetry in the market in order to have an edge in investments. If you open up the range of correct answers then you can develop products that aren't drugs. You can mix some turmeric and ginseng in your garage and sell it as a cure. That lower barrier to entry creates the asymmetry because the people stuck building multi-million dollar labs to make actual cures are now left behind. The supplement market explodes and grows rapidly, as we've seen since covid.

Speaking of covid, what a windfall for these people. Liberals failed to act, this created mistrust and anger, the cranks take advantage of that anger and get people to latch on to anti-establishment medicine. Nobody trusts their doctor. Instead of a doctor you just pay $400 a month to get any prescription you want. Supplements are shilled on every form of internet media as a cheaper and more natural alternative to prescriptions. Nobody has healthcare anyways so why not buy lion's mane at a 500% markup? What a mess.

I have to upgrade my "germ theory denialist" jokes because it's reality now. I'll have to google. I don't know what term to use.

Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

Chuds think you can't change your gender because of "biology", but do think you can change your age

Germ denialism is wild given that we can straight up look at what germs do to human cells. It's Flat Earth level nonsense where you can confirm or deny it yourself with maybe an hour of halfhearted observation

dr hyman

(don'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayit) :facepalm:

Germ theory denialist? You can buy agar (for what? 20 bucks?), leave it out at room temperature, see what grows, put your tongue on it, and see if you get sick.

Dr Mark Hyman, who has been called a “germ theory denialist” by the medical author Harriet Hall, and has been brought on as a contributor in Weiss’s revamping of CBS’s news division. He is perhaps the most prominent exponent of so-called “functional medicine” (FM), an alternative medicine that the oncological surgeon David Gorski has described as “pure quackery”.

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The Institute for Functional Medicine, which counts Hyman as a board member, claims on its website that FM “restores healthy function by treating the root causes of disease”, and “allows clinicians to systematically identify and address the underlying processes and dysfunctions that are causing imbalance and disease in each individual”.

In practice, according to advocates, this involves seeking underlying causes of illness by testing stools, hormones and food sensitivity, and treating them with supplements, nutrition and therapies including yoga and acupuncture.

Illness is often attributed to underlying syndromes like “leaky gut” – which Hyman discusses on his website and in social media – which scientists say “cannot be accurately diagnosed by symptoms, blood work, or stool studies”, and is “not a real diagnosis”.

Scientific critics, however, say that FM is little more than a rebrand of alternative medicine, with the late oncologist Wallace Sampson characterizing it as a collection of “abandoned concepts” undergoing “resurrection under a more modern slogan, ‘Functional Medicine’”.

So that's not a self-proclaimed title. He's just a grifter who's going to be bashing the FDA, CDC, WHO, and the like. That's going to cause a lot of harm and people are going to die, whether it's quacks who refuse life-saving treatment or they decide to withold treatment because they can't afford a DEXA scan or something

Woke modernism killed humors-based medicine but we’re bringing it back baby!

Medieval peasant nation. What even is the material gain chuds have in denying germ theory? CHUDs deny climate change for comfort reasons, they want to consume in peace without thinking about the consequences and who’s actually paying for it, but what’s comfortable about denying germ theory?

Presumably this is more everyone is twelve now and it’s “baths are lame! I want to keep watching TV instead!”

What's he a doctor of? Can't be medicine.

When asked by reporters why he always breathes heavily he replied “miasma”

literally anybody could do a better job than her, even at being a nazi--does she really think a bunch of libs are going to be convinced by a transparent grifter who's going to turn every opportunity to speak into an advertisement for bullshit supplements? bribe the feds to get their ghoul appointees under RFK on your shows

So, not a doctor then?