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Dr. Mercola swears by the eating "pure" approach to solving many autoimmune diseases: no prepared food, no refined sugar, food made from scratch from the highes

Dr. Mercola swears by the eating "pure" approach to solving many autoimmune diseases: no prepared food, no refined sugar, food made from scratch from the highest quality ingredients (organic, or as close to it as you can get). One of these days when my arthritis gets too bad I'm going to give it a shot. It's expensive, and a massive change in lifestyle (no more fast food! Or restaurants!), but I can see why it'd be so effective.

nisa 10y ago
This one? https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Joseph_Mercola https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Joseph_Mercola Watch out! Looks like a scam artist that sells voodoo.
smohare 10y ago
Mercola is one of the worst promoters and profiteers of pseudoscience. https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/08/03/15-years-of-promoting-quackery/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/0... Here Mercola is ranked in the same "pure garbage"category as the Food Babe. http://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidence-based-compelling-and-wrong-1.21591 http://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidenc...
erroneousfunk 10y ago
Dr. Mercola being an absolute nut aside, what does "organic" have to do with the composition of the produce itself? I can perhaps understand wanting to avoid antibiotics in meat and animal products, but all organic fruit/vegetable production does is prohibit certain types of fertilizers and pesticides (while allowing others), which don't impact the composition of the final product anyway. It has an impact on the environment, land use, and the cost of food production, but the food is chemically the same. So how would it have any health benefit or produce a "purer" product?
smnplk 10y ago
>> It's expensive, and a massive change in lifestyle... I don't think it's expensive and not so much of a difference in life style. I went on LCHF diet (low carb, high fat). I don't even miss sugar, or pasta or bread, I don't need it. Once I had a cheat day every 10 days, but now I don't need this stuff. I enjoy amazing 0 carb deserts, that are sweet too. Plus I am lucky to have a gf who makes amazing 0 carb cakes. For breakfast I often eat egg omelette with spinach (in leaves), with sour cream and butter. It keeps me full for a long time. My energy levels are through the roof. On LCHF you can also eat out, just don't eat starchy foods, stick to fat and proteins. I think this is the easiest diet to try and tweak later.

nisa 10y ago

This one? https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Joseph_Mercola https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Joseph_Mercola Watch out! Looks like a scam artist that sells voodoo.

smohare 10y ago

Mercola is one of the worst promoters and profiteers of pseudoscience. https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/08/03/15-years-of-promoting-quackery/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/0... Here Mercola is ranked in the same "pure garbage"category as the Food Babe. http://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidence-based-compelling-and-wrong-1.21591 http://www.nature.com/news/science-journalism-can-be-evidenc...

erroneousfunk 10y ago

Dr. Mercola being an absolute nut aside, what does "organic" have to do with the composition of the produce itself? I can perhaps understand wanting to avoid antibiotics in meat and animal products, but all organic fruit/vegetable production does is prohibit certain types of fertilizers and pesticides (while allowing others), which don't impact the composition of the final product anyway. It has an impact on the environment, land use, and the cost of food production, but the food is chemically the same. So how would it have any health benefit or produce a "purer" product?

smnplk 10y ago

>> It's expensive, and a massive change in lifestyle... I don't think it's expensive and not so much of a difference in life style. I went on LCHF diet (low carb, high fat). I don't even miss sugar, or pasta or bread, I don't need it. Once I had a cheat day every 10 days, but now I don't need this stuff. I enjoy amazing 0 carb deserts, that are sweet too. Plus I am lucky to have a gf who makes amazing 0 carb cakes. For breakfast I often eat egg omelette with spinach (in leaves), with sour cream and butter. It keeps me full for a long time. My energy levels are through the roof. On LCHF you can also eat out, just don't eat starchy foods, stick to fat and proteins. I think this is the easiest diet to try and tweak later.