I recently ordered two of Dr. B's books, the one about iodine and the one about thyroid problems and to be totally honest I was disappointed. I feel the books are overpriced since they contain rather very little information that is not already available for FREE on the internet. I found it a little bothersome how he repeats some things again and again. I wondered if he did that because he believes that anyone reading the book is so iodine deficient they can't retain info or if he did it to just fill space since the iodine book is pretty short.
Also, somehow I found that the case histories were too "rosy"; apparently his patients didn't seem to have had any problems with detox and that's not what I see here or at the Yahoo group, it has seemed to me that almost everyone who had pre-existing health issues tends to feel detox symptoms sooner or later, many like me rather early on. Either Dr. B. is downplaying this part of the therapy OR some people here are really overdoing it and possibly harming themselves . I just wish he'd said more about that because I'd like to know for sure what is not a symptom of detox as I've noticed here that 99.9% of the times anyone writes about feeling something wrong someone say's "It's a detox symptom". With some rather unusual symptoms I have to wonder how in the world they can feel so sure since, that I know of, most people here are NOT under medical supervision and, therefore, are not having their own bood and urine analyzed.
As for this being his "cash-cow" I don't know, but I do wonder too because, for instance, the home page of his website appears pretty much just like any commercial site. And when I received the books I ordered, a couple of leaflets to promote his other books and (costly,,,) DVDs were included (but I will have to pass on that since I don't expect them to be any better than the ones I got). Were it not for the fact that I can pass these books on to relatives who know nothing/little about the aforementioned subjects I would've considered my $35 a waste as that money would've been better used as payment for several of my "companion" supplements.
I don't want to give the impression that I don't believe that he is doing valuable work right now . I just hope that he doesn't fall into the temptation of being led by the wrong motivation. I've observed how several other doctors who appeared to start out "right" end up charging exorbitant amounts to see any new patients and some very soon abandon their practice to keep writing more books and do the "lecturing circuit" for 'mucho dinero'. Perhaps one can hardly blame them but it sure is disappointing.
Ah, and In the Iodine book he mentions that Dr. Flechas owns the lab that performs the iodine loading tests so it appears he is also making money out of this. Again, I just hope that no matter what he'll remain faithful to their original goal of really helping people rather than get carried away with the temptation to profit beyond reason from this.
And while we're on the subject, does anyone know who owns Optimox (makers of Iodoral)?