Re: What do you think of what this doctor doing nutrition work in integrative medicine is preaching. I really want opinions and is he full of it??

1 you must take a very expensive comprehensive blood work up He said we need to check with our insurance to see if they cover this test which I thought he said was either 1700 dollars or 17,00?? so he can see where each of us are nutritionally etc on this work before he can work directly with each of us as individuals.

Not necessary for the vast majority of us. You can get a much less expensive and pretty comprehensive test through Life Extension Foundation which should work just fine for the large majority of people.

2 He said we can eat no gluten which he said was in all grains. this was his strongest point as he tied most heath problems to this and said it shows up in the body fro 10 years even if we stop it.

Gluten is not in all grains and not all people are gluten intolerant.  It is certainly worth going gluten free to see if it makes a difference, but not true to make such a blanket statement for everyone.

3 He said we should not eat raw fruits and veggies or frozen as these had latex in them (he said this was not so before we had all these rubber tires but that somehow ??cross pollinated or modified the plants making them toxic. He advocated using things like canned peaches or veggies.

Oh yes, by all means eat canned veggies and fruit with the BPA liners and much of the nutrition, including virtually all of the enzymes, processed and cooked out.  On this point he is full of something other than shinola.

4 he said there were just 4 studies with agave nectar and three were about the plant and just one spoke of it nutritionally and found it equivalent to white sugar.

Agave is bad news in my opinion.  Except when it is used to make top quality Tequilah (ahem).

5 he said not to use bottled or reverse osmosis or distilled water as it was all mineral-less and thus leached the magnesium/calcium etc from our bodies. They do not contain enough calcium and magnesium. He advocated drinking tap water or well water in some cases. He said when our calcium,. magnesium, vitamin d and b vitamins are not normal or optimal, we are on the path to death. He said calcium, magnesium and vitamin d is what totally controls our cholesterol. He said in response to a query about chlorine in the water that it is far worst to eat fruit than drink chlorine which is nothing much to be concerned about.

How about drinking reverse osmosis water and adding a bit of sea salt or else taking a plant derived mineral supplement? Or spring water?
On chlorine, he again wanders into the "other than shinola" territory.

6 he said never to eat things like kiwi, celery, bananas, avocado, figs, any stone fruit like peaches or cherries etc due to the latex in them that we were allergic to. He said this latex is natural and not man put in there and that we develop antibodies to it and thus it makes us sick I guess he was saying.

Other than shinola.  Way beyond bullcrap in fact.

7 at one point he said seed foods and nuts were no-nos

Boy, has mankind gotten it wrong for thousands of years then.  I would say that this advice is a no-no.

8 he said never to juice or eat raw foods

Do I really need to comment on such asinine advice?

9 he said we are mostly all deficient in magnesium, calcium, vitamin d and b vitamins and we could not use man made supplements but needed to use calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, he said only d3 is sold in the us not d2 (one is plant based the other animal) and said we needed to sit in the sum at least 8 hours a day on at least half our bodies..who but people like construction workers and gardeners have that luxury?

Actually, most of us have plenty of calcium intake due to all the dairy products, fortified foods and calcium buffered municipal water supplies.  He is completely wrong on D2, which is widely sold in supplement form in multi-vitamins and widely used in fortified foods.

10 he said shampoos etc have an outlawed chemical in them and if they are thicker than water or toxic and has people bring in all their bottles and supplements getting rid of ones they say are bad for you

Again a blanket statement which may or may not apply.  It certainly does not apply to a great many "natural" type and organic shampoos.  I try to stay away from all commercial shampoos.  Jason's has some good shampoos, including tea tree oil shampoo.

11 he wants all one's blood work to not just be in the normal range as this is he said the average unhealthy American but in the optimal top 98% like if the range is 20 to 50, he wants you to be 49 or so.  

I agree that the normal range is much abused.  Low normal as well as high normal for some readings can be decidedly unhealthy (depending upon whether high or low readings are considered optimal or whether being squarely in the middle is best)..

12 he said chemo causes death by robbing you of calcium and magnesium

Chemo causes death by inflicting major damage on major organs as well as the entire body and lowering the natural immune system.

13 He said flax seed, and soy are dangerous to one's health and never use things like soy or I assume wheat gluten meat or cheese substitutes. He said soy is especially bad for women.  He said soy is genetically modifying us.

Agree on soy, not on flax.

14 He said if one has red cheeks, noses and ears and faces this shows they are deficient in the magnesium, calcium etc' singling out a women and her husband who worriedly asked a question about their 6 year old losing his hair saying they feed him unhealthy health food store foods etc and seemed quite insensitive making jokes at people's expense (he was about 78 years old btw)and said the integrative medicine center is the only place in the world doing this work and people come here in this state from Africa, brazil, and all over the world to see him and that he has been working on this for about 40 years.

Self promoting hype.

15 he said he cured his 17 year fibromyalgia and that of a patient with high doses of fish oil but did not say how much only that he took some then doubled and finally tripled and it all went away in less than a week in response to a question.  He said fish oil reversed schizophrenia but if you stopped it it came back.  He said the calcium/magnesium got rid of depression

So for 17 years he was not so smart?  No way of knowing if his claims are true, but I agree that magnesium can help a lot with depression (but not that it is in any way a universal cure).

16  he said we cannot use many of the foods as if we came from Europe for instance things like corn and peppers will make us sick and that it takes 10,000 years for these things to be useful to the body and that every time they do a new strain of wheat for instance the 10,0000 year countdown must start over.

And he knows this how?  I realize he is a fairly old fellow, but I don't think he has been around long enough to know the exact countdown for man from adaptation to a new plant.

17 He says milk is bad

Not necessarily if it is raw organic milk.  Raw organic goats milk is extremely healthy.

18 He said white rice is a lot healthier than brown rice (I forget why he said this was so)

More for the fertilizer bin.

19 He said hummus is bad too

Ditto on the fertilizer.

20 He said the only way one can eat fresh produce is to pick and grow it ourselves..if we don't then only used canned produce

Good advice to pick and grow your own, but if one does their homework they can find locally grown and organic options.  Canned produce (other than home canned) is largely lacking in nutrition and can be dangerous,  Besides the BPA liners in most cans, the processing does not eliminate all traces of pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals they plants may have been exposed to.  I would have commercial canned produce as the very last option of all the forms of produce.

21 if you do not have three bowel movements a day then you are severely magnesium deficient

Umm, I think he has some oral bowel movements.  One or two bowel movements a day is fine.

22 then he really got people by saying to eat nothing for day one but cottage cheese and canned peaches and the next day get a breakfast of 2 eggs, sausage, hash browns and this will bring you back to your pre-ancestral levels and I guess reset you.

How many pre-ancestors had hash browns and processed meat sausages for breakfast?  Canned peaches and cottage cheese?  Have you ever looked at a label on cottage cheese?  Unless it is small curd or some medium curd cottage cheeses, Chances are that it contains a list of ingredients such as: cultured cream, grade A whey, modified food starch, sodium phosphate, sodium citrate, guar gum, carageenan, calcium sulfate, potassium sorbate (preservative) and locust bean gum. Besides the fact that the dairy may have come from cows given growth hormones and antibiotics, "modified food starch" is often used to hide the fact that the product contains dangerous MSG.

23 he is against health food stores as this stuff does not work he says

Certainly health food stores contain items of questionable value, but really now - where do you think is healthier to shop Whole Foods or Walmart?