Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau

According to the author, the United States Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to ban and burn this book.

Myself, reading this book gave me the same feeling I get when I read certain conspiracy theories. That is, sure things are worse than they could be, but is it all really so deliberate. Is it really THIS bad?

As long as I’ve been reading about nutrition and alternative medicine — for over 35 years starting with the books of Adele Davis and PREVENTION magazine when it was still an alternative publication you could find only in health food stores — I’ve read warnings of things the FDA was doing to restrict, limit and deny the right of Americans to alternative medicine.

And for the past thirty-five years I’ve read about the damage that prescription drugs could do to patients taking them.

I’ve always unconsciously assumed the FDA and so many doctors were against vitamins because they really believed that conventional methods were more effective.

When you’re a trained carpenter, everything looks like a nail that needs to be hammered in. The medical profession, including the FDA and pharmaceutical companies, was trained to see all health problems as a hammer to nail in with drugs and surgery.

According to Trudeau I’ve been naive — it’s all a deliberate conspiracy. The medical profession knows that alternative health works. That’s why they’re against it.

If we all did what Trudeau advocates we’d never get sick and the medical professional and pharmaceutical companies would stop making so much money.

And as he continually repeats, “It’s all about the money.”

So ordinary readers are left in a quandary. We’re not in the upper echelons of the medical profession. Are politicians, Big Pharma execs and the AMA all colluding to keep us sick and dying young?

If politicians really believe in alternative health, why do so many of them take conventional drugs and get surgery? Why does former Vice-President Cheney wear a pacemaker? Why did former President Clinton have a quadruple bypass surgery? Why didn’t they just do what Trudeau advocates?

Could it be because most people, even politicians and doctors, want a simple easy solution? They don’t want to radically alter their diets, do extensive cleanses and exercise regularly?

This book certainly demonstrates the FDA makes mistakes, and ones that have cost many lives.

Unfortunately, Trudeau does too, and thereby undercuts his credibility.

For one thing, he repeats the old bromide that animals in the wild don’t get sick. That’s simply not true. We know of many animal diseases. For example, every species of animal on the planet from bacteria on up has a pox virus that can kill it.

Animals in the wild don’t often die of disease, because when they grow weak they’re easy pickings for predators.

Trudeau also cavalierly dismisses infectious diseases as something people would not get if we kept our immune systems strong through proper diet and exercise. True to a degree, but even strong immune systems can succumb to a massive number of organisms. He is against chlorine and fluoride added to public water supplies — does he think his immune system could fight off cholera if he drank water infected with human waste?

He continually says that all nonprescription and nonprescription drugs are unhealthy and don’t take them. But he never explains why they’re always bad. I actually agree with him to a large extent. I believe Americans take far too many of both. However, when I was coughing my lungs out with pneumonia last year I believed that the risk of an antibiotic was less than the risk of the pneumonia. And I knew to eat yogurt to encourage regrowth of favorable bacteria in my intestines.

This is not a good introduction to alternative medicine for the average reader. I was overwhelmed and I’ve read a lot in the field. He mentions many things that need entire books to explain them. To his credit, he does refer you to those sources for further investigation.

This is worthwhile reading for someone who’s already experienced in some areas of alternative medicine and wants to see the big picture. Check out the books Trudeau mentions and see what you think. I believe they’re a mix of invaluable advice and hocus pocus.

That’s one big problem here. Trudeau seems to believe all the alternative health books he reads.

And oh yes, he angers many readers by plugging his membership website which contains the top secret information that the FDA wouldn’t allow him to put into this book.

True? Or just a marketing ploy to make money? I don’t know.

Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau