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I personally do not find Russ to be very extreme, and I think that the tossing in of snake oil peddlers in your post is more than suggestive.

I've been frequenting this site and donating because it is the only thing that has helped me to improve my health.

Here is a partial list of what my husband and I have been given drugs for by various doctors: lime's disease, chronic bladder infections, kidney infection, chronic back pain, sinus problems, allergies, headaches, toothaches, the list goes on...and NEVER once was there mention of nutritional or lifestyle changes.

The accumulation of these poisons brought me to a terrible low. My husband believed he was kicking the lime's disease until they diagnosed it and gave him such strong Antibiotics that it ruined his stomach for over a year. He lost so much weight and couldn't find any energy until about 6 months ago when I found this site and changed everything.

I'm glad to hear that you believe that doctors are opening up to alternative methods...I have yet to experience it. My health has never been better since I stopped going to doctors, and I took my health into my own hands.

For my back pain (since I was 17) I was given drugs and told to stay in bed. The drugs constipated me and left me like a zombie, and I rarely took them! It wasn't until I started moving no matter how bad the pain that I began to make progress. Also, the book "Healing Back Pain" by Sarno helped me immeasurably.

I don't think Russ would ever suggest applying a poultice for an amputated limb. I had a tumor removed from my knee which completely blocked it so that I could no longer bend it. All the ill-mannered hot shot orthopedic surgeon (who by the way made over $6000 in an hour and a half could tell me was that it was a fluke and that it might grow back! Again, no mention of why it grew in the first place and how to prevent its return.

To top all this off, my parents were friends of a world famous heart surgeon who killed himself by demanding the strongest dose of chemo and radiation. Two other doctors died early of heart attacks, and another has had 3 bipass surgeries and was addicted to valium during most of his career (he was a heart surgeon as well).

This does not instill confidence in modern medicine. Tweet