Dr. Steven Knope debates Andrew Weil on the merits of Integrative Medicine (Part II)

Dr. Steven Knope debates Andrew Weil on integrative medicine theories, techniques, and the use of LSD for medical treatment.

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[surfmcgoogler]

I came here to see a medical debate and I find Will Farrell interviewing Santa Claus and James Blunt?!

[Zavatari]

Dr. Knope fails to understand that the job of a Medical Doctor is to keep people healthy.

[VitalityMassage]

if the FDA tries to regulate supplements there will be a MAJOR scream across this country. Everyone will grow their own herbs and sell them privately. They cannot control herbs any more that they can control pot!  lol Good luck FDA!

[livewithpassion2009]

Dr Weil is so right... we the public are ready for a change and a choice. It's about choices what is least toxic, least invasive, most self healing. Thank you Dr. Weil for being a leader and allowing others to follow your path. Good science!

[RichieKihlken]

@creedofwheat -the point is that there is a lack of awareness towards orthomolecular treatments amongst the medical community entirely (less than 6% of medical students even receive any formal training in nutrition) and if there is a guy out there like Weil trying to stir some attention that direction, I think its okay that he makes a little money from it. It's a natural part of the game and he has to compete too.

[Chudaaa]

@emerson24 I think he might have been joking.

[emerson24]

@creedofwheat While you are at it, go watch The Bruzynski Movie and tell me how the FDA/Big Pharma is helping humanity by preventing a cure for cancer to be made public, for 30 years!!! Stop buying the lie the dude and actually read some medical journals of naturopathic medicine. Go shadow a naturopath and stop spewing nonsense. You really have no idea of how uneducated you sound. Basically, it's this: You are still arguing that the world is flat. Seriously, that's how you sound.

[emerson24]

@creedofwheat While you are at it, go watch The Bruzynski Movie and tell me how the FDA is helping people by stonewalling a doctor that has more than doubled the cure for cancer than the NIH, including the most aggressive brainstem tumor. Explain who humanity benefits from preventing big trials to be undertaken to have people with cancer be treated with DOCUMENTED cases of cured cancer. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he invented the cures in his own lab and owns the patent!

[emerson24]

@creedofwheat Can you give me the statistics on how many deaths have arisen from Big Pharma drugs in comparison to herbal supplements? And can you then explain why Big Pharma drugs are better with far greater number of deaths caused. Please tie into this reply, how it is good medicine to write toxic drugs to treat symptoms rather than find the cure and root of the problem. Also, explain to me why in Naturopathic tx don't work, why do people continue to pay out of pocket for this?

[emerson24]

@creedofwheat Can you give me the statistics on how many deaths have arisen from Big Pharma drugs in comparison to herbal supplements? And can you then explain why Big Pharma's drugs are better with far greater number of deaths caused. Please tie into this reply, how it is good medicine to write toxic drugs to treat symptoms rather than find the cure and root of the problem. Also, explain to me why in Naturopathic tx don't work, why do people continue to pay out of pocket for this?

[emerson24]

Allopathic medicine has it's purpose - to treat emergent critically ill patients. It's LIFE SAVING. Short of that, it is useless. It sustains life, it does not improve conditions. This whole notion of Complimentary is really BS, this is playing a subservient role to allopathy which really only treats 20-30% of all medical claims - emergent. Naturopathic medicine is preventative first and foremost, and then it should be used to ween patients off these toxic drugs once their critical dx stabilizes

[emerson24]

Dr. Dope continues to hammer this point about safety which implies herbs can be toxic, but then flips to the other side and makes a condescending dig that he can walk in and sprinkle herbs around the bed to insinuate that they are not efficacious. You can't have it both ways. He's trying to make point that Weil doesn't take care of critically ill patients. This isn't want Naturopathic care is. It's like arguing with a baseball player saying they aren't qualified to play football.