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Should you trust alternative medicine practitioners? The answer is a resounding NO. And here is an example. Trivandrum, Kerala-based Ayurveda practitioner Vaidya (not Dr.) Rekha Radhamony misleads her >100K followers on Instagram with an extremely dangerous anti-science narrative. Such narratives sow seeds of mistrust in science-based medicine among patients...

152,356 просмотров • 2 лет назад •via X (Twitter)

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Dr Shailesh Singh2 лет назад

Ye kaisi research ki baat kar rhi 😆. Sometimes back people were using drugs like saxagliptin for diabetes, niacin for low HDL. Now we don't. Because we know it's not how we are supposed to treat it. That's how science advances. There is no place for "always trust" in science.

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Jace MD2 лет назад

The worst is when it comes to cancer patients. Very sad to see that patients have so much faith in these pseudosciences due to their strong advertisements and ended up with fungating mass, severe jaundice, grade IV dysphagia etc. Curable cancers become incurable.

Фото профиля TheLiverDoc
TheLiverDoc2 лет назад

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Фото профиля Dr. Soubhik Sinhababu
Dr. Soubhik Sinhababu2 лет назад

If something doesn't change for 5000 years then it's not evolving.

Фото профиля Lavanya Mehta
Lavanya Mehta2 лет назад

She is for real 5-6 months it almost take a decade to reach conclusion many of established drugs in market have continuous stage 4 trials

Фото профиля TheLiverDoc
TheLiverDoc2 лет назад

They do not know what scientific method is nor clinical levels of evidence. But have the freedom of speech to BS others.

Фото профиля Vikrant Kamble
Vikrant Kamble2 лет назад

She says science keeps changing then goes on saying ayurveda didn’t change last 5000 years. That means Ayurveda is not science. We need to thank her for this great revelation.

Фото профиля tikuli
tikuli2 лет назад

A person I knew practiced homeopathy & wrote a book too (it didn't sell). They claimed totally curing MS.I asked them to publish a study. Got a roundabout reply.Same from "cured person".They're well known & sing the doc's praise to the sky but no facts. No clue how MS was "cured"

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Pulkit Goyal2 лет назад

Hey @theliverdr, how about you start sharing solutions, advice, and other helpful positive things? The only things you have shared in the past few weeks are this doesn't work, this is stupid, etc. Tell us what are the things that work, and tell us advises.

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TheLiverDoc2 лет назад

Please unfollow me. This all you will get. Don't want to disappoint you anymore. Thanks for your time here.

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Another defamation case in the works? Ok. Will not apologize. Will not delete. But will apologise and delete if: 1) Institution of national repute will put out a public statement that they will ensure all patients - from all wakes of life will be treated with evidence-based scientific medicine without prejudice and not Ayurvedic quackery. If the patient wants Ayurvedic quackery then the doctors must counsel them on cons of the treatment because there are no pros. The final decision can be with the patient after a wholesome discussion. 2) Call back this patient with bipolar (see last video l) who received toxic ayurvedic products as part of bipolar mania treatment and provide actual guidelines based medical care. 3) Ayurveda practitioners who prescribed the set of herbals to the bipolar patient must show evidence for their treatment from classical as well as modern medical literature, mechanism of action, dosing studies, safety profile of each herbal and multi herbal combinations in this group of patients. The amount of abuses and harassment that alumni of NIMHANS showered on my Instagram was quite a lot. They were all worried about the "name" of their institute getting tarnished...NOT A SINGLE DOCTOR from NIMHANS reached out or responded asking how the patient was or about the atrocity committed against the patient. Not one. Patients do not go to NIMHANS for Ayurvedic treatment. If real doctors don't stand up for their patients, then who will? I know doctors who work in NIMHANS and such government run institutes are held hostage and scared. But I am not, because I am only concerned about patients and their family. And their right to healthcare. I vehemently stand against integrative quackery. And every doctor should too, if they have an iota of conscience and humanism left for their patients, past-present-and future.

TheLiverDoc™

42,797 просмотров • 1 год назад

I am quite happy that India's pseudoscience mascot decided to interview this Ayurveda practitioner. It clears a lot about the fact that Ayurveda is indeed a pseudoscience and none of its principles are worthy of being considered remotely "scientific" and that it can never be tested. This essentially means that we must not research anything in Ayurveda because it is a colossal waste of time and money. Listen to this intensely foolish conversation on how Ayurveda describes the cause for alopecia and how it is treated. I have never heard such utter nonsense on a large public platform like this. I am not even sure why 100s of 1000s of people login to this YouTube channel to watch the cringefest that is every millisecond, an insult to the neuronal circuits of the brain and an embarrassment to the existence of the evolved human brain. The whole aspect of Vata, Pita and Kapha principles that guide Ayurveda & diagnosis and treatment in Ayurveda are based on obsolete theories of air, mucus and bile imbalance leading to disease. These theories were made at a time when humans did not evolve to understand anatomy and physiology. "Humoral Theory of health and disease is absolute junk." Alopecia cannot be treat by rubbing a leaf. The reason for Alopecia is not a microlevel Kapha-style mucus block of the scalp. Here is what is real: HAIR LOSS TYPES: ALOPECIA AREATA DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT from I cannot beleive I have to debunk this ancient junk even in 2023. India is regressing in many ways than more in healthcare and health-seeking behaviour, it is worrisome - because seemingly educated fools like these two, who speak English, but do not make sense, are now controlling the healthcare spectrum on social media.

TheLiverDoc™

684,750 просмотров • 2 лет назад

When the young generation embrace a pseudoscience like Ayurveda. There is a huge problem in India. You may not realize it, but it is an open secret. Normalizing and glorifying “healthy alcohol consumption” seems to be the biggest social media tool that young content makers are cashing in from an ill-informed public. As a clinical Hepatologist who writes off close to five death summaries of young men aged 25 to 40 years almost every week – young productive men who have died due to alcohol use disorder and liver failure, leaving behind aging parents, creating widows or fatherless children, I sometimes feel like calling it quits. Maybe it is time to leave everyone to fend for themselves, because there is a limit to which me and other physicians can help and hope to bring a change in the people against a tsunami of disinformation that is directly harming the public health. It is like the Hydra. Cut off one disinformation, two others on the same topic comes in. And then we have young men like Shashank Sharma, this Instagram content creator and possibly an Ayurveda practitioner, who has made this video called “How to consume alcohol safely" according to the ancient traditional Indian (nonsense called) Ayurveda. This one video is enough for you to realize that Ayurveda is a pseudoscience that harms. It is a destructive professional choice for women and men studying it, because it reduces intellectual capacity, kills logical thinking, and murders rationality that students acquire in high school. The Government actively promotes it, runs large public-funded colleges to teach it to students who do not get good ranks in medical entrance examinations, but are dying to have the “Dr.” title in front of their names. Even after passing the course, the majority call themselves “doctors” instead of the traditionally given title of “Vaidya.” It is a profession solely built on the foundations of insecurity and inferiority, which is why you see Ayurveda practitioners always attacking medical science and modern medicine in India. They are trained to become blinded to truth, rabid against facts and hurtful towards those who educate the public on the harms of alternative systems of medicine. The principles that guide Ayurveda and which practitioners use to diagnose and treat misled patients – namely the theory of Vata, Pita and Kapha are part of the obsolete primal pseudoscientific ‘Humoral Theory’ that was philosophical and unscientific. It was buried once scientific discoveries progressed, germ theory evolved and the study of anatomy and physiology came into being. Essentially, this theory stated that the human body was filled with three basic substances, called three humors, which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors – namely Vata, Pita, Kapha. Can you see how stupid that sounds now? Now the video tells us that based on the “humoral disposition” there are ways to safely consume alcohol – for example, after a hot bath and after taking sweets, alcohol damage is reduced in Pita-type people. This sounds even worse than the worst nonsense you would have ever heard. There is no safe level of alcohol and no healthy or safe way of drinking it. The human body wants to remove alcohol, a known social poison, quickly and effectively, when consumed. The body has no use for alcohol. It has no nutritive value and is all empty calories which the body does not want any of it. But here is a young Ayurveda guy, telling us how to do that safely. A slow and presumed safe exercise in “killing one softly.” Whether you consume alcohol based on Vata, Pita or Kapha or not, the harms of it include liver disease, seven types of cancer, alcohol dependence syndromes, psychiatric illnesses and suicides, heart diseases, injuries, and violence and 61 other diseases that reduce life expectancy. Terrifyingly, the incidence of severe alcohol-related liver disease is increasing rapidly, especially among females and individuals of lower socioeconomic status. We fail to implement proven and effective measures to reduce alcohol harm, usually due to lobbying and interference by the alcohol industry and because we have fools like this guy on Instagram, who dabble in pseudoscience like Ayurveda, misleading public at large. We must eliminate alcohol promotion: advertising, marketing, sponsorship and now “content creation,” to protect our fellow humans from falling into this trap. So, if you could, please do me a favor. Go to this link on his Instagram page and report this nonsense video made by this Ayurveda apologist and sympathizer, so that Instagram can remove it and take it back to the stupidest Hell-hole it emanated from. And remember, do not send your children to study Ayush courses in India. You are doing a disservice to them and to this country. The best they get from that is a dummy “Dr.” title in front of their names and the worst, they get to kill public-health.

TheLiverDoc™

255,790 просмотров • 3 лет назад

Please hear me out: DO NOT visit chiropractors for any health-related issue. Stay FAR away from them. This is dangerous. This is from an Instagram account of a chiropractor from Delhi who has >250K (misled) followers. I am quite worried that this nonsense is gaining popularity in India now. Chiropractic is a pseudoscientific practice that has absolutely no evidence for any claims made. Its origins lie in folk medicine practice of "bone-setting." You can still see "bone-setters" in suburban and rural areas in India. They are quacks and remnants of a bygone era. A quack who goes by the name Daniel David Palmer, who used to perform magnetic healing, discovered chiropractic practice in 1890s. While attending a Spiritualist Meeting, [he claims that] the idea of chiropractic came to him from the spirit of the deceased medical physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson. The ghost of Dr. Atkinson gave him the principles of practice of a new therapy which considered "body as a 'machine' whose parts could be manipulated to produce a drugless cure." - and voila! Chiropractic was born [that is how scientific this BS is]. Chiropractors dont realize that their practice evolved from the spirited mind of a looney. In 1906, Palmer was prosecuted under the new medical arts law in Iowa for practicing medicine without a license, and had to go to jail. Chiropractors propose that mechanical disorders of joints especially the spine affect health and manipulation (spinal adjustments) improves health - this is of course nonsense. Manipulation of joints and soft tissue (like in this video) are also performed. Apart from the spine, chiropractors also manipulate the patient and family into parting with their hard-earned money and they do it pretty well. Chiropractic practice is termed an "unscientific cult" [much like Ayurveda and Homeopathy]. Multiple systematic reviews and meta-analysis have shown that chiropractic practices have no [conclusive] clinically relevant benefits and can sometimes cause real harm [at times severe harm] to patients. See here here here here and here There is not sufficient data to establish the safety of chiropractic manipulations. It is frequently associated with mild to moderate adverse effects, with serious or fatal complications in rare cases. Several deaths have been associated with this technique. See here here and here Chiropractors are not doctors and they have no knowledge of the human anatomy and physiology. I suggest that no one visit a chiropractor for any health-related problems at any point in their life time.

TheLiverDoc™

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TheLiverDoc™

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TheLiverDoc™

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