Re: Peter Blowhard LIES about Dr. Mercola


"Peter Bowditch" <myfirstname@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :
Jan <jdrew63929@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Mercola is not a doctor.


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Peter Bowditch

http://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm#education

Why Trust Me?
Education

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Personal

You are wise to question who you can trust when it comes to maintaining, enhancing or rebuilding your health.

With all websites, newspapers, magazines and other publications offering health advice, with every new multi-million dollar TV ad for another proclaimed miracle drug, with any recommendation offered by traditional and natural physicians, it is essential to answer this question above all others: what is their real motivation?

Only if the answer provides you with a sense of security, move on to the next important question: what are their qualifications? The primary trick of the existing medical establishment is to get you to forget that first question - their real motivation - by dazzling you with what appears to be magnificently trustworthy qualifications.

But clinical trials conducted by heavily biased "researchers," advertisements and news stories carefully scripted to scare you into belief, highly polished corporate offices and corporate websites, and an extreme focus on whatever has the most profit potential - not lifesaving or life-enhancing potential - are not qualifications. They are scams.

Don't fall for it.

My motivation, whether you are my patient or a member of the Mercola.com community, is to make you as healthy as you can possibly be. This motivation involves:

1) Providing the health and medical knowledge and resources that will most benefit you, regardless of what category it falls under

2) Exposing the corporate, government and mass media hype that diverts people away from what is truly best for their health and often straight into an early grave

Mercola.com is not, in other words, a tool to get me a bigger house and car, or to run for Senate. I fund this site, and so am beholden to no advertisers, silent partners or corporate parents. Where I offer or recommend products, I do so because I have actively researched them and find they are the best in that category for your health; I ignore anyone with a lesser product, and products not directly pertinent to your health, no matter how much money they offer me.

And any and all money made from the sale of the products I recommend goes right back into building a better site. A site that, startling as it may be with all the greed-motivated hype out there in health care land, is truly for you.

And so, my qualifications: first and foremost, I am an osteopathic physician, also known as a DO. DOs are complete physicians who, along with MDs, are licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery in all 50 states. But DOs bring something extra to the practice of medicine. Osteopathic physicians practice a "whole person" approach to medicine, treating the entire person rather that just the symptoms. With a focus on preventive health care, DOs help patients develop attitudes and lifestyles that don't just fight illness, but help prevent it, too.

I am also board-certified in family medicine and served as the chairman of the family medicine department at St. Alexius Medical Center for five years. I am trained in both traditional and natural medicine and have been practicing natural medicine actively since 1990. For my insight on a variety of healthcare issues, I have been interviewed on national and local news, including:

ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

CNN

CBS, NBC and ABC local news shows

Dozens of Nationally Broadcast Radio Shows


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Practice Profile:

I am dedicated to finding long-term solutions for my patients who suffer from chronic illnesses. A number of prescription medications are beneficial tools that can help to provide relief from some acute illnesses, and as a fully licensed physician I occasionally prescribe them for these purposes. However, I believe that most medications provide only temporary relief at best, and as an osteopathic physician, I seek to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms.


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Education:

University of Illinois 1972-1976

Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine 1978-1982

Chicago Osteopathic Hospital 1982-1985 Family Practice Residency. Chief resident 1984- 1985

Board Certified American College Osteopathic General Practitioners July 1985

State of Illinois Licensed Physician and Surgeon


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Professional Organizations:

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (www.aapsonline.org/aaps)

Advisory Board member NOHA (Nutrition for Optimal Health Association) (www.nutrition4health.org)

Advisory Board member Price-Pottinger Nutrition Foundation (www.price-pottenger.org)

Advisory Board member Weston A. Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org)


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Affiliations:

St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, IL

Chairman, Department of Family Practice 1988-1993


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Publications:

Aspartame Can Harm Your Health British Medical Journal October 3, 2004

Fish Oil Far More Effective Than Aspirin For Pre-eclampsia British Medical Journal September 12, 2003

Managing Hypertriglyceridemia Canadian Medical Journal April 1, 2003

Nutritional Ignorance Will Sabotage Treatment British Medical Journal September 13, 2002

Dietary Manipulations That Resolve Atopic Dermatitis British Medical Journal June 7, 2002

Myopia Possible Link to Increased Refined Carbohydrate Intake and Hyperinsulinemia British Medical Journal May 17, 2002

Recent Advances in Nutritional Alternative to Parathyroid Hormone for Osteoporosis British Medical Journal February 26, 2002

Omega-3's and Childhood Asthma Thorax March 2002:57(3)281

More on Terrorism, Journal American Osteopathic Association (JAOA) January 2002

Many People are Taking Insulin Like Growth Factor Without Even Knowing It Western Journal of Medicine Vol 175 (6):378, Dec 2001

Fluoride and Apoptosis: Trading Dental Caries for Cellular Death? British Medical Journal July 20, 2001

Accuracy of Hair Analysis Journal American Medical Association (JAMA) 285:1576-77, March 28, 2001

Mercury Toxicity and Systemic Elimination Agents Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine 11:53-62, March 2001

Columnist for The Townsend Letter, a nationally prominent alternative medicine periodical, from October 1997 to June 2001

Recurrent Otitis? Think Allergy Family Practice News page 12-13; October 1, 1996

Natural Progesterone for PMS Patient Care 30:27-28 September 15, 1996

The Basis For Microcurrent Electrical Therapy in Conventional Medical Practice J Advancement in Medicine 8:107-120, 1995

Cracking Down on "Neck Cracking" Am Family Physician 45:452-459, February 1992 (article to discourage patient's self-manipulation which leads to ligamentous laxity)

Minocycline Trials in Rheumatoid Arhtritis Patient Care January 20, 1992 p.20-21

Calcium Channel Blockers and Dysmenorrhea J Adolescent Health 1:1-2, January 1992

Better Sleep For Less Pain in Hand Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient Care December 15, 1991 p. 15

Nutrition Software Helps Monitor Patients' Diets Computer News For Physicians, p. 29-30. June 15, 1990

Premarital HIV Testing JAMA 261:2198, April 21, 1989

Served as editor for HIV Monograph by Abbott Laboratories published in 1989 and distributed to physicians nationally

Private Resources Should Share AIDS Funding Responsibility J Amer Osteo Assoc 88:313, March 1988

What Physicians Should Know About AIDS Antibody Testing Osteo Med News December 1988

Premarital HIV Test Is Worth the Money Am Med News p.45 September 9, 1988

Pediatrics and AIDS JAMA 258:3119-3120, December 4, 1987

Recent Developments In Smoking Cessation. Osteo Annals 14:31-32, 1987

The New American Diet (Book Review) J Amer Osteo Assoc 153:107-108, 1987

Update On Rubella, Hepatitis, and H. flu Vaccines Osteo Med News 3:31-32, 1986

Calcium Supplementation in the Treatment of Hypertension J Amer Osteo Assoc 85:104-107, 1985

NMR Analysis of Human and Rabbit Lens Experimental Eye Research 34:545-552, 1982


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Personal:

My passion is to transform the traditional medical paradigm in the United States, and that consumes most of my free time after seeing patients. Since 1968, though, I have been an active runner; I completed the Chicago Marathon in just over three hours, among other accomplishments. I have also been a computer hobbyist since 1985, with an interest in the Internet that dates back to the early 1990s.

The existing medical establishment is responsible for killing and permanently injuring millions of Americans, but the surging numbers of visitors to Mercola.com since I began the site in 1997 - we are now routinely among the top 10 health sites on the Internet - convinces me that you, too, are fed up with their deception. You want practical health solutions without the hype, and that's what I offer.

Begin Your Journey to Independent Health!

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