Undoctored

are participating in a global experience of awareness and information that follows the rules of a new age, empowering you to reject the notion that the doctor is in charge—you are in charge

Dr. Benjamin Rush, the namesake of Rush University in Chicago, summed up attitudes of doctors toward patients: “The obedience of a patient to the prescriptions of his physicians should be prompt, strict, and universal.” In other words, you are expected to respond, “Yes, doctor, anything you say” in any and every situation, from hemorrhoidectomy to heart transplantation, since it’s assumed that you don’t know the difference between a hippocampus and an amphibious, mud-wallowing creature from Africa.
This attitude led doctors to have complete disregard for the rights of patients.

Examples of people not wanting to know more is an example of learned helplessness: passive acceptance of a situation in which circumstances are perceived to be beyond control. It is a behavior learned not just in health care but also in situations such as incarceration, torture, and depression. Psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman pioneered studies of this effect at the University of Pennsylvania. Dogs given unavoidable electrical shocks stopped looking for escape even when they were subsequently provided an escape route from the shocks. College students given challenging mental tasks interrupted by a loud noise could learn to turn off the noise by pulling a lever, but if the lever had no effect at first, they failed to retry and exert control in future experiments because of their prior experience of helplessness. They, like the dogs, learned to be helpless.3

’ve known for years that highly placed insiders in the FDA and USDA leave for jobs in the drug industry, biotech industry, medical device industry, or agribusiness, or vice versa, the so-called golden revolving door. High-level executives and attorneys have bounced back and forth from, for instance, an executive position at Merck or Monsanto to a post at the FDA or USDA. For example, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. served as FDA commissioner for 2 years from 1981 to 1983. During his brief tenure, he personally overruled the 3-3 gridlocked vote for approval of aspartame as a sweetener despite nearly 2 decades of contentious debate and animal studies demonstrating that the sweetener was associated with cancerous tumors, and then he resigned to work as a high-paid consultant for the public relations firm used by aspartame’s manufacturer, G.D. Searle, a subsidiary of Monsanto

Getting your health information through government-funded sources is no guarantee that the taint of commercial influence is not present.

MYTH #4: IT TAKES YEARS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO DEAL WITH HEALTH ISSUES
This used to be true—until the Information Age came upon us and broke all the rules.

Given the rapid rate at which medical information is increasing, the education your doctor received in medical school is obsolete by the time he finishes his internship, and the training he received in his internship is obsolete by the time he completes his residency, with the cycle continuing and accelerating every year

Health care is the system created to deliver the greatest revenue-generating products and procedures to address illness, but not provide health.

I think we’re heading towards a world of what I call “technological socialism.” Where technology—not the government or the state—will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world—for free.

you know more about your health than the doctor ever will. Your doctor knows more about drugs, medical procedures, and navigating the tangle of modern hospitals. But you will know more about healthy nutrition, the purposeful use of nutritional supplements, how to interpret basic lab values from the perspective of ideal health, and how to build a solid foundation of health applying real information.