Hello! I had a brief e-mail coresspondence with Dr. Barrett about a year ago after I accessed his "QuackBusters" site. As far as I can determine, the man has no nutritional knowledge whatsoever (the average doctor has a whopping total of 20 - 40 hours of nutritional "instruction" in medical school; that teaches such wonderful knowledge as a well balanced diet gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need. For a normal doctor, that is the sum total of their nutritional knowledge. For more than that, a doctor has to read material all on their own).
I, myself, have read hundreds of books on nutrition. My best guess is that over the last 29 years I have spent several thousand hours reading about nutritional topics. (I first started reading nutritional books when I was 16). His attitude is that God-like doctors such as himself, should decide for all of us which and what quantity of nutrients we should be allowed to get, preferably by prescription, to prevent ignorant people like us from harming ourselves. The fact that according to the US Surgeion General's website, that nutritional substances caused NO deaths, but that LEGAL prescription medicines, properly used, cause about 100,000 deaths in the US alone each year (if you add in mis-prescribed, mis-used, and mis-administered legal prescription drugs, the number of deaths DOUBLES); does not seem to disuade him from trying to "protect" us from "dangerous" nutritional substances. Legal prescription drugs are about the 4th leading cause of death in this country. It seems to me that a much more productive use of his time would be to have dangerous legal prescription drugs better controlled. For HIMSELF, however, it's OK to take mega-doses of what he thinks he needs. He takes 3 grams of niacian a day, without having liver function tests done. (A safe upper limit without tests is around a gram a day). My only consolation in all of this is that he is old, and hopefully will not be around much longer to "protect" us all from ourselves. As to MSM, being new to the list, perhaps I missed it. Why don't you just use tablets (which is the way I take it), instead of having to combat the horrid taste from mixing the powder in water? Thanks to all. Karl Kristianson [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
