Post: #1

I was looking for a reason why eating unfermented soy products could be harmful to health. It's a no-brainer that pumping a man full of phyto-estrogens will probably turn him gay (just a joke of course) but ingesting all those pseudo-sex hormones can't be good. Apparently soy can also mess with your thyroid and prevent you from taking zinc into your system, which would bro-science suggests to likely inhibit testosterone production.

Here's the article I found. I googled Dr. Mercola's wikipedia page and found that he gets attacked by a lot of the medical establishment but a lot of his articles are something that I agree with. He's against eating grains and suggests improving health by changing diet, which I think is primo.

Is this guy credible?

Soy, Brain Damage, and Cancer

From his wikipedia page --

Quote:Mercola advocates a diet consisting mostly of unprocessed foods. He sees value in paleolithic diets and advocates metabolic typing, and is a proponent of vegetable juicing.[16] Mercola argues fervently against over-consumption of sugar, especially high-fructose corn syrup, which is the predominant sweetener of many commercial sodas and soft drinks, and processed flour and grains, which the body rapidly converts into sugar. He has also been an advocate of increasing the consumption of Omega-3 fats and of strategies to greatly increase blood levels of Vitamin D3.

Mercola's dietary recommendations often put him at odds with mainstream dietary advice.[11] Mercola encourages the ingestion of unprocessed saturated fats, including unrefined coconut oil in place of polyunsaturated fats such as vegetable, corn, soy, safflower, sunflower and canola oils.[17]

Here's probably the most cringeworthy reason why I'd consider him not to be credible --

Quote:HIV and AIDS
Mercola has questioned whether HIV is the cause of AIDS. He has argued instead that the manifestations of AIDS (including opportunistic infections and death) may be the result of "psychological stress" brought on by the belief that HIV is harmful.[28] Mercola.com has featured positive presentations of the claims of AIDS denialists, a fringe group which denies the existence of AIDS and/or the role of HIV in causing it.[28][29]

The scientific community considers the evidence that HIV causes AIDS to be conclusive[30][31] and rejects AIDS-denialist claims as pseudoscience based on conspiracy theories,[32] faulty reasoning, cherry picking, and misrepresentation of mainly outdated scientific data.[30][31][33]

Post: #2

95% of his advice is good. Here's the deal though - he's an internet marketing guru. Most of his recommendations are about eating good food, getting good exercise (HIIT and Weight Lifting), getting sun, and avoiding common toxins and poisons in food and products in our daily lives. All good...

...but you can't sell most of that stuff and make a fortune. So he sells things like krill oil supplements, nutrition-typing services, Cod Liver Oil, natural sunscreen and those sorts of things. What he does, is publishes all sorts of articles, like the importance of making sure your diet has a 1:1 ratio between the Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids - then pitch you at the end of the article to buy his exclusive brand of krill oil to help your dose of Omega 3s.

None of it is a rip off per se, it's just that you could follow all of his recommendations, achieve improved health without buying anything he has to offer.

He gets blasted a lot by people for being a quack and a fraud, but it's simply his internet marketing practices that make it seem so. He also comes across like a guru, and implies that you cannot achieve the desired health without his products...so he does come across like a snake oil salesmen at times.

But most of his diet and lifestyle advice is basically eat paleo, get some sun without sunscreen on (for the Vitamin D3), don't eat processed foods and exercise. That's all good.

Another good thing he does, is cite a lot of good sources to back up his advice in his articles. You can learn a lot from him, and you don't have to buy anything from him - kinda like Mark's Daily Apple.

Post: #3

Go get a blood test then eat a bunch of soy and then go get another blood test. Although I don't think you will need to get the 2nd test to find out if he is credible or not.

When it comes to health and wellness it is something you can easily self experiment with. I take people's ideas and test them out on myself. I will tell you through my personal trial and errors Dr. Mercola's advice is far more credible than any Mainstream Doctor. Most of the shit he talks about is basic knowledge in my book. I have never heard of him advocating anything harmful and the reason he has his own supplement company is because most supplements are absolute garbage and they unusable by the human body.

Post: #4

(05-02-2013 06:50 PM)K Galt Wrote:  95% of his advice is good. Here's the deal though - he's an internet marketing guru. Most of his recommendations are about eating good food, getting good exercise (HIIT and Weight Lifting), getting sun, and avoiding common toxins and poisons in food and products in our daily lives. All good...

...but you can't sell most of that stuff and make a fortune. So he sells things like krill oil supplements, nutrition-typing services, Cod Liver Oil, natural sunscreen and those sorts of things. What he does, is publishes all sorts of articles, like the importance of making sure your diet has a 1:1 ratio between the Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids - then pitch you at the end of the article to buy his exclusive brand of krill oil to help your dose of Omega 3s.

None of it is a rip off per se, it's just that you could follow all of his recommendations, achieve improved health without buying anything he has to offer.

He gets blasted a lot by people for being a quack and a fraud, but it's simply his internet marketing practices that make it seem so. He also comes across like a guru, and implies that you cannot achieve the desired health without his products...so he does come across like a snake oil salesmen at times.

But most of his diet and lifestyle advice is basically eat paleo, get some sun without sunscreen on (for the Vitamin D3), don't eat processed foods and exercise. That's all good.

Another good thing he does, is cite a lot of good sources to back up his advice in his articles. You can learn a lot from him, and you don't have to buy anything from him - kinda like Mark's Daily Apple.

^^^ Spot on.

His protein is definitely quality and worth trying out.

Post: #5

I found an interesting article that claims the anti-soy crusade is just part of the meat and dairy lobby conspiracy to keep people drinking milk products and sticking to animal protein.
http://www.edenfoods.com/articles/view.p...cles_id=80
It includes lengthy counter-arguments to each 'danger' of soya.