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For some context in case you don't know who is this guy, he's a doctor and has been vulturing the community for a good while now. The first time I heard him was probably on a podcast with Matt Stone, and it's always the same disdaining tone and the superiority complex, looking down on others and particularly those from here. In a recent interview with Patrick Timpone he said something along the lines of 'your previous interviewee (which was Raj) handles me clients', implying that he has to deal with the mess that Raj creates.
But don't let this get to you, judge it as impartially and objectively as possible, otherwise you'll be moving towards one of the behaviors that I'm criticizing here: the emotional hysteria.
It's also worth mentioning that at times he sounds absurd enough for me to question if there isn't a marketing element to it. If there is, a hat tip because (as you can tell) it's working. I would like it to be so, since an intentional manipulative move would naturally exclude the possibility of it being convicted ignorance.
What led me to come across his irrational stuff again was a visit to Grant's forum, a guy that escaped a critical condition by avoiding vitamin A. I was searching for experiences on stages of depletion and found a recorded testimonial, decided to listen. It was uploaded by the doctor in question and there was a suggestion for other videos from his channel.
As some of you know, I try to be open-minded about different approaches and opinions, contrarians are great. I would like to mention gbolduev as someone who was arrogant and intolerant, yet his posts had their merits and it was nice to have him around, up to this day I mimic him in a playful way. I'm mentioning this to point out that it's not a matter of being bothered by these traits. It's not Garrett's case, but I certainly don't mind other people being under the spotlight when they're putting out good content, quite the opposite, and Travisord's thread on the forum is proof of this.
It's the combination of incompetence with an off-putting conduct on a level that's not admissible for a doctor.
This was the suggested video:
I acknowledge the overuse and excessive dosing of vitamin D supplements, its incompleteness in relation to sunlight, the debatable adequacy, the financial aspect of it, and so on; anyone with a more conservative approach or who has been involved in nutrition for a while realizes it. Again, this is to leave it clear that no sensitive point was touched. Yet, to go from there to extremely toxic takes a lot of irrationality. There have been reports of people taking accidental doses of millions of IU and recovering.
He cites this experiment as justification for not supplementing:
- Is Supplemental Vitamin D Safe? "RENAL POTASSIUM-WASTING INDUCED BY VITAMIN D"
Then some analysis that don't say much about individual cases who would be getting comprehensive nutrition.
It doesn't take much consideration to realize that something as simple as using up your already low magnesium can be responsible for those adverse effects. It affects potassium and calcium. Constipation, palpitations and fatigue are all consequences of its lack. A doctor named Stasha Gominak who wasn't familiar with nutrition at all, rapidly noticed that she had to ask her patients to increase other nutrients along, otherwise they had trouble with it.
Even though absorption rate is just one of the factors involved in balance, given the typical poor magnesium retention when metabolism isn't sharp, it's interesting to draw a pachelbel between it, venom D and B-vitamins; absorption for them tends to be high and remain as such, whereas for magnesium it's low. Magnesium and everything else that's affected will start to become limiting when you shove those down.
It's attempted to bypass this by applying magnesium topically, but not with Jorgito's Magnoil whose absorption is practically complete, instead, with magnesium chloride that on the best case scenario of skin uptake being decent, affects acid-base balance in a way that's difficult to compensate.
It's not a mere induction of magnesium deficiency, there are many other factors involved, it's complex as we all know.
But what would Garrett do next? Label it as toxic like any other nutrient that you can't work it out. Then proceed with the proud belief that you know something precious that others don't. Afterwards, you access publications with Sci-Hub, but the hypocrisy here is that you then distort the information, add everything to your website, disable discussions and lock all the content so that no one copies.
As mentioned and since you're probably a lurker anyway, if you want to be taken seriously as a doctor, start acting like one. And I don't mean walking around with a stethoscope, but I would start by shutting up the mouth until you get a sense of what you're doing. It's disheartening to find you acting hysterical and ignoring the responsibility that you carry along with your credential, spreading confusion over and over again in spite of being detached from the medical system to a certain degree; considering the information that you put out, you can't blame being unreasonable on greater acting forces that impose limitations on what you can write or do.
Composed and ponderate professionals are needed instead of alarmist charlatans that only create more confusion while feeding from it.
We all make mistakes, but there are acceptable limits. Please stop claiming that poison A is a toxin present in whole foods ('if you like your eyes, you shouldn't like poison/"vitamin A"'), that nightshades are to be avoided ('Potatoes just may be the most dangerous food that westerners eat on a regular basis.'), that adults shouldn't drink milch, that calcium supplements wreck you, and so on if I was trying to seek these instead of having stumbled upon them by chance.
If you're going to launch a detox program, naming it right can help in convincing that the content was well-thought. It's Poison/"Vitamin" A, not "Vitamin A", since it was developed to target a specific poison.
Stop embarassing naturopaths, pretending to be an expert when you're clearly not one, and predating on people's desperation.
This is not an underestimation of people's ability to discern what's legit or not, it's a matter of time or despair distorting our perception, perhaps lowering our standards, and this is when charlatans take advantage. Take myself as example (below), it took me a good while to realize the cluelessness.
You probably won't change your default mode because of a post, but hopefully this message serves to encourage potential clients to be more suspicious of your products/services and question the competence of other practitioners as well, which in turn can benefit from your case by using it as a model for how not to run their practices.
Lastly, dude, what's up with this unscrupulous soundtrack? Her voice would be nice on its own.
But don't let this get to you, judge it as impartially and objectively as possible, otherwise you'll be moving towards one of the behaviors that I'm criticizing here: the emotional hysteria.
It's also worth mentioning that at times he sounds absurd enough for me to question if there isn't a marketing element to it. If there is, a hat tip because (as you can tell) it's working. I would like it to be so, since an intentional manipulative move would naturally exclude the possibility of it being convicted ignorance.
What led me to come across his irrational stuff again was a visit to Grant's forum, a guy that escaped a critical condition by avoiding vitamin A. I was searching for experiences on stages of depletion and found a recorded testimonial, decided to listen. It was uploaded by the doctor in question and there was a suggestion for other videos from his channel.
As some of you know, I try to be open-minded about different approaches and opinions, contrarians are great. I would like to mention gbolduev as someone who was arrogant and intolerant, yet his posts had their merits and it was nice to have him around, up to this day I mimic him in a playful way. I'm mentioning this to point out that it's not a matter of being bothered by these traits. It's not Garrett's case, but I certainly don't mind other people being under the spotlight when they're putting out good content, quite the opposite, and Travisord's thread on the forum is proof of this.
It's the combination of incompetence with an off-putting conduct on a level that's not admissible for a doctor.
This was the suggested video:
I acknowledge the overuse and excessive dosing of vitamin D supplements, its incompleteness in relation to sunlight, the debatable adequacy, the financial aspect of it, and so on; anyone with a more conservative approach or who has been involved in nutrition for a while realizes it. Again, this is to leave it clear that no sensitive point was touched. Yet, to go from there to extremely toxic takes a lot of irrationality. There have been reports of people taking accidental doses of millions of IU and recovering.
He cites this experiment as justification for not supplementing:
- Is Supplemental Vitamin D Safe? "RENAL POTASSIUM-WASTING INDUCED BY VITAMIN D"
Then some analysis that don't say much about individual cases who would be getting comprehensive nutrition.
It doesn't take much consideration to realize that something as simple as using up your already low magnesium can be responsible for those adverse effects. It affects potassium and calcium. Constipation, palpitations and fatigue are all consequences of its lack. A doctor named Stasha Gominak who wasn't familiar with nutrition at all, rapidly noticed that she had to ask her patients to increase other nutrients along, otherwise they had trouble with it.
Even though absorption rate is just one of the factors involved in balance, given the typical poor magnesium retention when metabolism isn't sharp, it's interesting to draw a pachelbel between it, venom D and B-vitamins; absorption for them tends to be high and remain as such, whereas for magnesium it's low. Magnesium and everything else that's affected will start to become limiting when you shove those down.
It's attempted to bypass this by applying magnesium topically, but not with Jorgito's Magnoil whose absorption is practically complete, instead, with magnesium chloride that on the best case scenario of skin uptake being decent, affects acid-base balance in a way that's difficult to compensate.
It's not a mere induction of magnesium deficiency, there are many other factors involved, it's complex as we all know.
But what would Garrett do next? Label it as toxic like any other nutrient that you can't work it out. Then proceed with the proud belief that you know something precious that others don't. Afterwards, you access publications with Sci-Hub, but the hypocrisy here is that you then distort the information, add everything to your website, disable discussions and lock all the content so that no one copies.
As mentioned and since you're probably a lurker anyway, if you want to be taken seriously as a doctor, start acting like one. And I don't mean walking around with a stethoscope, but I would start by shutting up the mouth until you get a sense of what you're doing. It's disheartening to find you acting hysterical and ignoring the responsibility that you carry along with your credential, spreading confusion over and over again in spite of being detached from the medical system to a certain degree; considering the information that you put out, you can't blame being unreasonable on greater acting forces that impose limitations on what you can write or do.
Composed and ponderate professionals are needed instead of alarmist charlatans that only create more confusion while feeding from it.
We all make mistakes, but there are acceptable limits. Please stop claiming that poison A is a toxin present in whole foods ('if you like your eyes, you shouldn't like poison/"vitamin A"'), that nightshades are to be avoided ('Potatoes just may be the most dangerous food that westerners eat on a regular basis.'), that adults shouldn't drink milch, that calcium supplements wreck you, and so on if I was trying to seek these instead of having stumbled upon them by chance.
If you're going to launch a detox program, naming it right can help in convincing that the content was well-thought. It's Poison/"Vitamin" A, not "Vitamin A", since it was developed to target a specific poison.
Stop embarassing naturopaths, pretending to be an expert when you're clearly not one, and predating on people's desperation.
This is not an underestimation of people's ability to discern what's legit or not, it's a matter of time or despair distorting our perception, perhaps lowering our standards, and this is when charlatans take advantage. Take myself as example (below), it took me a good while to realize the cluelessness.
You probably won't change your default mode because of a post, but hopefully this message serves to encourage potential clients to be more suspicious of your products/services and question the competence of other practitioners as well, which in turn can benefit from your case by using it as a model for how not to run their practices.
Lastly, dude, what's up with this unscrupulous soundtrack? Her voice would be nice on its own.
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