Homeopathic nutritionist?
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My family has recently made some major dietary changes & wanted to consult a nutritionist to ensure that our choices were suitable for our 4 year old son. We are new to the area that we live in & found what we believed was a nutritionist online.
The appointment was today & it was very interesting to say the least.
I'm sorry this happened to you. If you paid this person, who sounds like a real quack, I would ask for my money back and would report them to the state attorney general's office, who usually handles consumer protection.
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I've seen such a homeopath and it's done wonders for my life. I didn't see just any old homeopath. I did some research, talked to a few of their patients (people I already knew) and then decided to have EDS done. The person I saw was very experienced and doesn't provide supplements unnecessarily. Also, having lived in Germany and seeing some of their remedies, I like homeopathy.
Strong first post.
I was wondering if they'd joined just to say that
Shills are always coming in on 1st posts on lighting rod issues then disappear again. This happens a lot. Not sure if this person is a lurker, a shill, or a true believer that saw it on Google but I'm cynical so I'll vote shill till proven wrong.5 -
VintageFeline wrote: »This has just reminded me, an FB friend has recently got heavily into essential oils. Fair enough, she uses them for relaxation/sleep aid etc. However, she was flogging this event (she's also a rep, MLM fun) where you could be assessed by one of these machines to tell you what essential oils you should be using. I bit my tongue but was thinking the whole time what a lot of nonsense. And she's an intelligent human being, former primary school teacher. Just goes to show how easily sucked in we as humans can be.
I have actually had some success with certain essential oils. Lavender really helps me relax. Add a few drops (since the ones I buy are really concentrated) in a bath, and afterwards I fall asleep easily. I have also had luck with peppermint oil for headaches. I dab a bit on where the headache is and it decreases the pain almost instantly. It really helps my migraines and helps to relieve the pain until medication kicks in.
A machine to tell you which to use??? Yeah that's nonsense.
I use Frankincense oil as a perfume, just roll a little on to my wrists, I picked up a big bottle in Egypt but I'm always on the lookout for more as it won't last forever, but whenever I try and look it up I'm told it'll cure/prevent cancer, boost my immune system and probably buy me a yacht.
Not sure where you live, but you may want to check occult/pagan/Wicca stores. They typically have pure essential oils. That's where I get mine.
Thanks I never thought of that, I'm in London so I'm sure there are plenty around!
You might try natural cosmetic companies also.
I occasionally buy skin care products from a very small company in Arizona called Garden of Wisdom (also the name of the website), and they sell many of the ingredients that go into the products they make - including essential oils. I checked. They do sell Frankincense oil and they ship internationally, though I don't know if their shipping rates are reasonable.
Most cosmetic shops sell very very very diluted oils and charge way too much for a product that may only contain 25% of the actual oil.
True. Or they're synthetics, or "blends." Be very wary of affordable prices for Rose (should be about $115 for .5 ounce--actually an absolute, not an oil), Jasmine (should be about $115 for .5 ounce--actually an absolute, not an oil), Melissa/Lemon Balm (should be about $90 for .5 ounce) and Neroli (Egyptian--should be about $120 for .5 ounce). The distillation process is complex and takes and abundance of resources for a small amount of product.0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »I've seen such a homeopath and it's done wonders for my life. I didn't see just any old homeopath. I did some research, talked to a few of their patients (people I already knew) and then decided to have EDS done. The person I saw was very experienced and doesn't provide supplements unnecessarily. Also, having lived in Germany and seeing some of their remedies, I like homeopathy.
What is an EDS?
Probably electrodermal screening, the process being described in the OP with the little pen-like object.
http://www.backtonaturewellnesscenter.com/services/electrodermal-screening/
Ah I see, made up crap, with you.3 -
Homeopathy is pure nonsense. Yes, some folks think it's done wonders for them. However, there is no possible mechanism of action by which homeopathy could possibly work. At best it's a placebo, and placebos can never do anything for any organic condition. They sometimes help with nonspecific symptoms like pain, but they do nothing for the underlying cause of the pain.
Its basic principle of "like cures like" was stated about 250 years ago by Samuel Hahnemann. He further stated the principle that the greater the "potentization", the stronger the effect of the substance administered. What is potentization? Briefly, it's a ritualized procedure of serial dilution. Homeopathic remedies will always indicate their potentization on the label, designated with either an X or a C and rarely with an M. X indicates a 1:10 dilution, C a 1:100 dilution, and M a 1:1000 dilution. The number preceding the X, C, or M is the number of times that dilution has been performed. A common potentization is 30X. A "mother tincture" of the original substance is made. 1/10 of it is drawn into a fresh container of the same size, which is then refilled with distilled water to the original volume. The diluted substance is now tapped on a semi-firm surface of a book spine. (This is the ritual part, referred to as succussion.) This results in a 1X potentization. Now, 1/10 of the diluted substance is drawn into a fresh container, which is topped off with water and succussed in turn. Do this 30 times in total and you have a 30X homeopathic remedy. For remedies in pill form, the resulting liquid will be sprayed on small sugar pills.
The mathematically inclined will note that the strength of the solution decreases by a power of 10 with each dilution.
The trouble is those little things called "molecules". There are 6.02 x 10^23 molecules in a "mole" of any substance, a mole being a number of grams of a substance equal to its molecular weight. For the kind of organic molecule that often makes up a homeopathic remedy, a mole can amount to hundreds or thousands of grams; a considerable amount. Take a small portion of a mole and dilute it by 1/10 24 times or more, and you have a significantly greater chance of winning the lottery than finding even one molecule of the supposed active ingredient in the final remedy. And if not even one molecule of the stuff is in it, it's not there.
So you have to propose some kind of "water memory" for this to work, and there's zero evidence for any such thing. (And wouldn't all water retain the "memory" of all substances it had ever contained then?) Homeopathy is magic, pure and simple. And magic doesn't work.
So how did it get popular in the first place? Well, the state of mainstream medicine 250 years ago was a perilous enterprise at best -- for the patient. Doctors still treated patients based on magical principles themselves, and most of these treatments were positively harmful. It was often better to do nothing and let the patients get better on their own, and homeopathy is just a very elaborate way of doing nothing.
Occasionally you see "homeopathic" remedies of 1X or 6X, which indeed contain the active ingredient in a 1:10 or 1:1,000,000 proportion. This is primarily to take advantage of US laws favoring homeopathy so as to make definite heath claims. The law which authorized the FDA was written by a homeopath who had gotten himself elected to Congress, so he made sure his profession was exempted from the requirements of safety and efficacy that apply to every real drug.18 -
janejellyroll wrote: »I've seen such a homeopath and it's done wonders for my life. I didn't see just any old homeopath. I did some research, talked to a few of their patients (people I already knew) and then decided to have EDS done. The person I saw was very experienced and doesn't provide supplements unnecessarily. Also, having lived in Germany and seeing some of their remedies, I like homeopathy.
What is an EDS?
Probably electrodermal screening, the process being described in the OP with the little pen-like object.
http://www.backtonaturewellnesscenter.com/services/electrodermal-screening/
I think my favourite part of this is this sentence:
Electrodermal Screening is recognized by the FDA as a galvanic skin resistance device and, with its focus on the function of the body’s internal organs, provides a wealth of information about what is affecting the body.
How deceptive, presumably this just means the device is registered with the FDA as skin resistance device, which shows how sweaty/electrical conductance of the skin.... which does not mean the second half of the sentence.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/electro.html
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LOL I can support alternative medicine, but that is insane...1
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