Ah, yes. I see that medicines are part of it all now. 
My osteopath is an amazing woman who keeps two of us functioning much better 
and we are very grateful for her extensive knowledge and powerful manipulations.

Mercola appears to be all about the money. I bought a few different products 
from him, and quit getting them from Mercola. I found that my health food store
had much better formulas and better prices. An example is probiotics.

Lynn

> On Feb 18, 2021, at 12:47 PM, Terry Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> "He is an osteopath, so he should be sticking to massage and physical 
> manipulation.” 
> 
> I’m not a fan of Mercola by any means, but your understanding of DO training 
> and functions is extremely dated.
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Lynn Greene <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have been following Mercola for years. He is an osteopath, so he should be 
>> sticking to massage and physical manipulation. He creates his own overpriced 
>> products. Many of them are cut with cheap fillers. He occasionally has new 
>> ideas, but he also recommends many unproven remedies and ideas, some of 
>> which have been proven to be snake oil. I rarely look on his site these days 
>> since his theories are so wacky - right up there with Dr Oz. Since Mercola 
>> pays for his own advertising, he is not regulated and can say and do as he 
>> likes. If you send him any message that anything he says is not correct, as 
>> in the case of an aromatherapist with extensive education and practice, he 
>> will not correct his mistake. Beware of Dr Axe, too, since he does all he 
>> can to make poor, cheap "essential oils”. 
>> 
>> Also, if masks did not work, the experiment in the 1900’s would have made 
>> surgical teams in hospitals look especially silly. They work, and it is the 
>> norm in hospitals
>> or hospitals would be the most unsafe places in the world. 
>> 
>> On a personal level, my husband and I have not had a cold or flu during all 
>> this time of mask wearing. Usually we get two or three during a year, 
>> sometimes more. Collectively we have
>> COPD, heart problems and asthma, as well as shingles.
>> 
>> Dr Abram Hoffer wrote over 30 books on niacin (nicotinic acid - must be the 
>> flushing kind) and has a protocol in his book listed below for shingles 
>> which includes 2 grams of lysine, and the lysine is a powerful antiviral.
>> (book: Niacin, the Real Story). CS has also been powerful, and Lipospheric 
>> C. 
>> 
>> Lynn
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 18, 2021, at 11:40 AM, Gmail <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Read carefully-
>>> https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/joseph-mercola/mindless-mask-mandates-likely-do-more-harm-than-good/
>>>  
>>> <https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/joseph-mercola/mindless-mask-mandates-likely-do-more-harm-than-good/>
>>> 
>>> The brutal reality is that the dollar was worth 1/40th ounce of gold fifty 
>>> years ago and now is worth 1/1,900th ounce of gold. Someday, perhaps soon, 
>>> it will be worth 1/10,000th ounce of gold.
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