Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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Since reading this book and following his down to earth advice I am completely free of any medication, that’s something for a lady of 66yrs years of age to say. Another point the author makes is just because whole grains may not be as bad for us as processed grains, that doesn't mean that they are good for us. It's not exactly that I didn't believe him, I just want to have it explained more thoroughly what his evidence was. I bought this book to cover the sorts of lies that physicians regularly tell patients - I've found several in my own experience. Since I was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia at age 20, my doctors constantly picked on me about my weight.

After years of following textbook medicine the way he was taught, he looked back at his own personal health and saw that he was not practicing what he preached. Seriously, you want me to believe that processed meats like lunch meat, bologna, sausage, spam for God's sake are not only not bad for me but good for me. Berry will enlighten you about nutrition and life choices, their role in our health, and how to begin an educated conversation with your doctor about finding the right path for you.b) In the 1980s, Farmers DID feed cows animal flesh (the leftover flesh of butchered cows), and while it did help to fatten them up, it caused the Mad Cow Disease epidemic, so they kind of decided to move away from that approach. At the high level, I agree with the overall message the author is looking to convey here, namely that just because someone is a credentialed MD, doesn't mean that they necessarily are the be all and end all authority of all things, and that at the end of the day, since you're the one that has to live in your body, ultimately the buck stops with you when it comes to being responsible for your health, and being willing to challenge thinking that may be out of date. Unfortunately, I think this particular doctor has parked his car in the keto garage and in doing so has stymied his own intellectual growth when it comes to matters of nutrition as it relates to health.

Berry’s best seller Lies My Doctor Told Me exposes the truth behind all kinds of “lies” told by well-meaning but misinformed medical practitioners. So much of the nutrition and lifestyle advice doctors give is just plain wrong, and that can be dangerous. I whole heartedly believe in the paleo/low carb way of eating and believe the SAD is a huge part of today's medical problems, so he didn't have to try hard to sell me on that. What I liked most about his book is that each chapter goes through a myth and then he refers you to read other books that go into depth about the myths that we have been taught. This is pretty poorly written, and as much as he pleads for readers to make their doctor show evidence, he doesn't include citations?A few of the chapters tell you repeatedly what doesn’t cause a condition, but not what does actually cause it. My takeaway from this at a high level is not so much that doctors are going around purposefully lying to their patients, but that medical science is extremely difficult to conduct in an ethical and comprehensive manner, and is also subject to outside monetary influences. Berry’s argument which is “If meat was more fattening than grains, farmers would use it to fatten up their cows instead of corn. So I'm a big Dr Berry fan and have probably heard most of the content through the countless videos of his that I have watched on Youtube. One more study from Harvard which shows that a study which followed over 120k men and women for 20 years found that yogurt consumption appeared to protect from weight gain due to the colonic bacterial from the yogurt.

Early on he says how he has nuts every day but later when talking about fibre he tells us he hasn't had any in weeks! I work in software, and we understand that best practices are not necessarily universal, but the solution when you find an exception to a best practice is to implement the exception and add it as a valid edge case to the overall knowledge base, and if you see enough of them, to maybe re-evaluate the correctness of the best practice, but not to throw out the entire methodology of establishing best practices. Interestingly, my daughter has Celiac disease and must avoid gluten, but that does not mean that she should avoid all whole grains. The author blames as responsible for lies Big-pharma, Big-governement, Big-dairy, but somehow forgets about Big-meet, Big-fat and.It used to anger me to no end to serve hospitalized diabetics their meal trays following the ADA diet, with potatoes, gravy, starchy vegetables, whole grain buns, fake margarine, a tiny portion of some dried out low fat meat, and sugar-free jello.

Unfortunately, I think the initial concerns regarding salt intake was more directed toward those who already had high blood pressure. I don't think a couple the the's deserved a star loss because the information in this book is very eye opening. I just don't think we realized that there was a negative side to taking antibiotics, and now that we do, most doctors are responding appropriately. Nutrition and diet and extremely important, but most of what Ive learned in the past years has been on my own. In spite of it, there were some segments in the book which are pure gold, which is why I gave it two stars instead of one.

So, I might be willing to hear him out on red meat as I don't think that red is innately bad, though it's also not innately good. The USDA dietary guidelines are the culmination of input from scientists around the world that ultimately gets watered down by special interest groups like the Dairy Council and the Pharmaceutical Industry, etc.