Posted by BeardedLady on November 6, 2002, at 6:36:32
In reply to Re: IsoM, question for you, posted by bluedog on November 6, 2002, at 4:37:01
I'm not Iso, but I felt like adding my two cents. Generally, I think Dr. Weil is not such a quack. I think he's right on the money about many, many things.
My test of a doctor is whether he believes in candidiasis of the body, which my friend claims to have as a result of having taken some antibiotics a couple of times (she thinks she stopped producing good bacteria, yet she hasn't a sign of thrush or vaginal yeast). She is being sold all kinds of crap vitamins by all kinds of quacks, and she still has this malady, despite many years of attempts to cure it. (No MD has diagnosed her with this; her holistic doctors who have vitamin supplements with their names on them have diagnosed her.)
Dr. Weil, thankfully, doesn't buy it, so he pretty much passed my test. His approach to nutrition seems to be pretty common sense. But I admit to a predjudice about him; I don't want an overweight doctor giving me nutrition advice!
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