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Quackery Exposed: Chiropractic

What is Chiropractic? The word "chiropractic" means to be done by hand. The practice of chiropractic was established in 1895. It evolved from energetic healing traditions to an eclectic American medical practice. Chiropractic is a licensed alternative health (also called integrative medicine) care profession that emphasizes the body's ability to heal itself. It focuses on… Continue reading Quackery Exposed: Chiropractic

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Quackery Exposed: Methyl-B12 Injections

What is Methyl-B12 It is warned to never give B12 without medical advice.  Side effects nausea vomiting diarrhea headache neurotoxicity mercury poisoning Contraindicated in: People with Leber's Disease or other form of optic nerve damage People with an iron or folic acid deficiency People with low levels of potassium in their blood Interacts with: chloramphenicol… Continue reading Quackery Exposed: Methyl-B12 Injections

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Quack Diet: Specific Carbohydrate Diet

What is the Specific Carbohydrate Diet? According to Sanford University, the specific carbohydrate diet is a nutritional therapy in pediatric Crohn's disease. It is a well established and effective treatment to induce remission of active inflammation. SCD was developed from the work of Dr. Sydney Haas, a biologist an scientist who helped her daughter with… Continue reading Quack Diet: Specific Carbohydrate Diet

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Quackery Exposed: Functional Medicine

  Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine (sometimes called integrative medicine) that includes a large number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments of different diseases, illnesses and disabilities. They claim that they focus on the "root causes" of different conditions based on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune… Continue reading Quackery Exposed: Functional Medicine

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Quack Myth Exposed: Autism is Autoimmune Encephilitis

A long time Autism One speaker Marcia Hinds says that autism should never be a term. She claims it should be included with autoimmune encephalitis. Autoimmune encephalitis is a real disease. Hinds claiming this trivializes what the people with this autoimmune disease go through every day. Autoimmune Encephalitis Autoimmune encephalitis is a group of conditions… Continue reading Quack Myth Exposed: Autism is Autoimmune Encephilitis