My experience with Mercola has been pretty positive. On his website I can find around 70,000 articles on virtually any subject of alternative health. This is a huge service he provides without charge. With respect to his hyping his own products to raid our wallets, his products are generally at the low end of the cost continuum, AND, he often recommends the products of other companies at the same time he offers those he sells. I have found his products to be of very good quality, and better than products I have bought instead (but googled to find the lowest price--for instance the countertop convection oven). Often I have read an article on his free email newsletter program and decided to try the product recommended, only to find that his company does not sell it! Another service that has been valuable is the unconditional refund. I bought a gallon of coconut oil maybe 5 years ago, but did not use it because I was allergic to it. I talked to someone with the phone number provided on the email newsletter, and they said I could mail it back for a full refund (and just received $76.56 back). Mercola is very knowledgeable, and consults with others who also have much knowledge and good contacts. I don't have the time, nor inclination, to do all that footwork. That said, one should be very wary of living one's life according to authority. The reason most people are authority conscious is that it takes a tremendous amount of time, effort, and responsibility to do otherwise. It also takes a certain development to be able to catch oneself in the authority thought stream, since most everything in our brain library is of this authority ilk. Those of us, like Einstein, who have managed to observe this process from a distance have gone very far with this discriminative ability, and have made tremendous contributions to the rest of us by building thought systems (and resultant actions) on a ground of actual experience. On a more practical vein, humans have many health issues in common (i.e. the structure and physiology of the human body), but we also are unique in many ways. This last fact argues against "One Size Fits All" medicine, be it conventional or alternative. We can read sources such as Mercola (and many others), do our own research, but ultimately, for me at least, it comes down to what my body tells me it wants and muscle testing (or pendulum dowsing) for collaboration. To see our body as solely physical, a separate entity--separate from emotions, beliefs, energy systems, and separate from our surroundings, is to have a false picture of the body, and of its needs. Lately, although I know and have available what I "should" be eating--pure water, unprocessed foods, vegetables and fruit without pesticides, I seem to require a quart of soda once a week, choose a hamburger and french fries on weekends, and seem to crave a lot of sugar and carbohydrates. If one cell within a body were sick, we wouldn't treat it in isolation, because it is too affected by the other cells to survive on its own. Possibly the human body is similar to this single cell, and is enclosed within, and dependent upon, a much larger system for its well being... I also find I eat less than half the amount of food than I did last year, and need eat only once a day. Jill In a message dated 12/18/2010 6:15:05 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
My thoughts are to not read anything written by mercola. He is a big time hypster and everything he does is about scaring people into buying only his products. Every week is a new big revelation of junk you absolutely must have in order to have a shot at good health. Better is to read articles written by people who aren't trying to grab the contents of your wallet. On Dec 18, 2010, at 9:02 AM, j petras <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: I'm forwarding this provocative article for feedback. I found the article of particular interest for those of us who make our own CS from distilled water...from any source. A total dissolved PM reading, on a PPM scale may not indicate any VOCs or DBPs as the article states (which are dangerous at PPB levels). But, then, we're not typically swigging glassfulls of CS a day either. Any thoughts? thanks, and have a happy!! _http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-wat er-interview.aspx_ (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-water-interview.aspx) =
