From this website, run by con-artist Kevin Trudeau, comes a few “FAQS” on the Mr. Trudeau and the business and “science” of natural cures. One thing that I find interesting about those like Trudeau and others like Helen Caldicott, Uri Geller or Sylvia Browne is that they have one thing in common, which seems to be the key to getting as far as they have with what they do: Absolute shamelessness. Most people, if caught slipping up during a bold-faced lie, or called to task about questionable ethics would be put off, but Trudeau, like the others, does not skip a beat and seems to have no problem passing off the most ridiculous and absurd claims with a straight face.

Even if many of us wanted to, it’s hard to imaging standing up and proclaiming that there is a grand conspiracy afoot and that *you* are both a victim and a crusader against powerful forces of evil. Sure, it’s one thing to be full of yourself, but it’s another to lack the “This is going to make me look like even more of a fool” reflex, even when making claims as big as Trudeau’s.

Here’s some excerpts from his “Faqs.” I could not include them all, because it’s a bit long as is, but glance over it for a laugh or if you’re in the mood to loose some faith in humanity. It may be the key to the success of Trudeau that he doesn’t mind that his lies are easy to see through. As long as a certain percentage of the population swallows this, he’ll be able to make plenty of money.

Q. Are you the only person who believes this?

A. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of licensed health-care practitioners, medical doctors, scientists and researchers all around the world who believe what I believe relating to drugs, surgery, and natural health. These voices, however, are virtually never heard. The news media, on television, radio, newspapers, and magazines, suppress their voices. Publishers will not publish their books. Only with the Internet are we beginning to hear this huge, stifled, and suppressed collective voice. My publishing company, Alliance Publishing Group, Inc., will now be a leading publisher in getting this message out. As a publishing company, I am putting much of my fortune into promoting authors whose voices have been suppressed up until now. Hopefully you will see Alliance Publishing produce dozens of books from other authors around the world sharing more about this subject.

Right… well if a lot of people believe it… This logic is absolutely absurd. There are thousands of people who believe in all manner of wacky things. The internet allows people with far out fringe beliefs to get attention that no self-respecting media outlet would be interested in. The Alliance Publishing Group, Inc is Trudeau’s personal company which publishes only his books. Are they looking for others? Maybe, if you’re willing to do the bidding of someone like Trudeau.

Q. You mentioned you were in jail. It says on the Internet that you have been a really bad person.

A. There are tens of thousands of Web sites on the Internet that say terrible things about me. Without exception, I have never met any of the people who write bad things about me. I have been told by my insiders that the vast majority of these sites are actually run by only a few organizations, but are made to look like there are thousands of them out there. My insiders tell me that the pharmaceutical companies are actually funding Kevin Trudeau bashing on the Internet. As I mentioned, this is a technique that the drug companies and the government use to squash the free flow of information, and that is to debunk and neutralize that person’s influence by spreading false, misleading, and negative information about them. My story is, I believe, a tremendous turnaround story. I believe my past and what I have done and have achieved is a great inspiration to others. I have made major mistakes in my life and have taken full responsibility for those mistakes. I have paid my price, and I have turned my life around.

This website is NOT pain in any way shape or form by ANY drug company or any major corporation. Numerous foundations and outreach groups are against Trudeau and working hard to oppose his dangerous and deceptive rhetoric. I personally know and can attest to many in the skeptical and public-outreach community who have worked hard against this con-man. Of those I know, many receive no money at all for these activities and none get major funding from the drug companies.

If you don’t believe me, you can contact me. I have a day job and contribute this kind of thing because I want to help promote good science, skeptical enquiry and an overall education of the public.

Trudeau was not a drug addict who cleaned up his life or a rough guy from the streets who turned to a life of business and promoting. His crimes have all been for the same things he is doing now: fraud, misrepresentation, false claims of products, federal trade law violations and other sorts of deception.

Q. Is it true you have given millions of dollars away?

A. I believe what a person does in terms of his personal giving is a private matter. When you see companies and individuals publicizing their charitable giving, please note that this is being done specifically to make you believe how wonderful they are. Corporations not only give money to charity, but usually spend more money publicizing the fact that they are giving money to charity! They do this to brainwash people into believing that they are really “good for the communities.” I have never publicized my personal giving. But in direct answer to the question, yes I have given millions of dollars away. I mostly give needed items directly to those who need it. An example is my habit of driving around the streets of Chicago in the winter giving coats, gloves, hats and sweaters to homeless people I see on the street, or giving food directly to shelters that feed those in need.

How conveniently vague and non-verifiable that is…

Q. How do you know these insider secrets that go on behind closed doors in the big publicly traded corporations, and with politicians and government agencies?

A. When you make hundreds of millions of dollars you in effect become part of a “secret society.” I was a member of such a society and was personally involved in secret meetings all around the world.

I have had private conversations with prime ministers and various heads of states from around the world. I have had secret discussions with military leaders and generals who were involved in major conflicts that you all know about. I have hundreds of moles and insiders providing me with information. Over the next few years more and more of these insiders will start coming forward. This is exactly what happened when the first whistleblower came forward exposing the fraud in the tobacco industry, or when the first mafia informant exposed the secret society of La Costra Nostra.

Wow. It sounds like he’s some kind of cross between Robin Hood, Warren Buffet, J Edgar Hoover and James Bond…

Meetings around the world? Meetings with leaders and generals? Is this part of the Freemasons? Or Major League Baseball? How much money do you need to get in? By hundreds of millions of dollars do you mean $100 million, or does it have to be at least $200? By “make” do you mean you have to bring that in annually? What if you have a bad year and only add $90 million to your net worth? Do they kick you out? Also, are you exempt from the financial requirement if you’re a world leader?
This is just silly on so many levels. *I* have met Generals. (Well, one star and retired) and also a rear admiral. I once met Dr. Henry Kissinger in an airport. And I met the governor of New York and a few federal senators. Of course, this was a brief hand-shake “Thanks for your support” sort of thing. I feel special…

Q. Kevin, you seem to have knowledge of people and events that would virtually be impossible for anyone to know unless they had access at the highest levels in both U.S. government, international government, corporations and money brokers around the world. There is a rumor that you were actually an undercover secret operative working for some agency like the CIA or the international police agency Interpol. How else would you know all this insider secret information? Is this true?

A. Yes, there are many rumors about how I know so intimately the facts and inner workings of governments around the world, corporations, and the power money brokers that operate in this global economy. There are many rumors about my alleged secret involvement as an undercover agent for the U.S. Government. On this issue I make no comment other than the fact that what I am blowing the whistle on in this book, and in my other publications, is obviously and flagrantly true and is verified by numerous sources around the world. The FTC, the FDA, and the drug companies are scared because they KNOW that I do in fact know the truth.

“I make no comment.” I love that. It’s as if to imply that he’s some sort of former secret agent who is still bound by national security concerns to not say any more. He knows the inner workings of big money brokers and the global economy as noone else could? Maybe he just made this stuff up. It sounds suspiciously like a bad made-for-tv movie.

And how exactly is it that the government and big corporations all hate him while at the same time he is able to get into the top levels of the government? I suppose there must be some kind of revolt going on in the highest echelons of governments and international organizations, with Trudeau as the ringleader. (sarcasm)

Q. How come I never really hear about any of this stuff on TV or radio, or read about it in the newspapers and magazines?

A. As I mentioned, newspapers, magazines, radio, and television are outlets that are publicly traded corporations. Their only interest is making a profit. They have no interest in providing truthful information. They make a profit by getting ratings; therefore, they will produce stories that get the most ratings. Unfortunately, they are also in effect owned by the advertisers. The sponsors of these media outlets control the message that you hear on television and radio, and read in newspapers and magazines. That is the fact. No one can deny it. Therefore, since the majority of advertisers are pharmaceutical companies and the major food companies, you will never hear the truth that the food industry is giving you disease and the pharmaceutical drugs are giving you disease.

Actually, I can deny it. For one thing, the media is ultimately owned by the viewers and readers. While you can sell a lot by going with sensational journalism, there are media outlets which are valued because of their perceived integrity and the accuracy of reporting. If a news organization is found to be untruthful, it hurts their reputation and therefore viewership. Fox News, for example, although generally factually accurate, has taken a lot of flack for being biased toward conservatives and because of this has become an increasingly less mainstream news outlet.

As seen in Watergate and with companies like Enron and WorldCom, being the first out with a story of corruption in government and powerful corporations is something which can gain a news organization a great deal of attention and viewers/readers.

Additionally, media outlets report on food and pharmaceutical companies in negative respects all the time. Problems with drugs like Celebrex and the debacle over Phen-Fen have been extensively covered and reports on the poor nutrition of certain foods and restaurant chains have not been lacking.

Q. You say it’s all about the money, but it seems like you are really rich and have been rich most of your life, and you charge for your newsletter and Web site. It seems like you are only about the money too.

A. My dad was a blue-collar worker at G.E. He was a welder. My mom raised my brother and me, and managed the house. I grew up in an average blue-collar, middle-class family. I did not grow up rich. I barely made it through high school, and I never went to college. I started working when I was very young delivering newspapers, shoveling snow, and doing odd jobs in the neighborhood. I got my first real job working at a bowling alley cleaning the machines. I worked as a busboy and a waiter in a restaurant. I did other odd jobs to make money. We did not have any air conditioning in our house. I grew up very “average.”

When I was fifteen, I was invited to an Amway meeting and learned about the benefits of being in a business of your own and having a positive attitude. I was given several books to read, including The Magic of Thinking Big. These encouraged me to have a good attitude and to start my own business. I also read a book called Seven Steps to Freedom: How to Escape the American Rat Race, which taught you how to start your own mail-order business. With the money I saved from my paper route and other odd jobs I started my first small mailorder business at the age of fifteen. Through hard work, skill, and a lot of luck, I became very successful. In fact, I made millions very early in my life. Just as fast as I made the millions, I lost the millions. My personal desire to make money was overwhelming and got me into major trouble. I cut corners and my ethics went straight out the window. My entire story is told on my web site, naturalcures.com.

The bottom line is over the years I’ve made and lost hundreds of millions of dollars. By most accounts people would call me “rich”, but please know that money is no longer my driving, motivating force. As I mentioned in the book, making money is not bad; it only becomes bad when you put making money above everything else, including your employees, the environment, and society in general. Yes, I continue to make profits, and, yes, I continue to make a very good income and live a very nice lifestyle. Please know that I am using my fortune to expand my mission of educating the world about the dangers of drugs and surgery, and about the benefits of natural cures.

Wow… a true American success story. Rising from a lower middle class family to become wealthy. Just like Al Capone. Make money the old fashioned way: by fraud and deception.

Considering Trudeau’s fortunes have been estimated in the hundreds of millions and he reportedly owns ten homes and that he pays millions for advertising, I suppose we’ll have to take his word there.

Q. Can I ever eat a cheeseburger again or go to a fast-food restaurant?

A. Yes, you can eat cheeseburgers, french fries, ice cream, cookies, cakes, fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy—virtually everything, as long as you make it at home and all the ingredients are 100-percent organic. People always ask me what I eat. You can eat virtually anything and everything (with some exceptions) as long as it’s certified organic. You can eat beef, cheese, butter, milk, cream, eggs, lamb, chicken, duck, mashed potatoes, french fries, onion rings, ice cream, cookies, cake, chocolate, you name it—as long as it’s organic. No, you can’t go to fast-food restaurants. That’s the one thing you categorically cannot do if you want to cure yourself of disease and remain healthy. Fast-food restaurants use chemical ingredients in the growing, processing, and manufacture of their “food.” It’s the chemicals in the food that are making you sick. It is also the lack of nutrients in their food that gives you nutritional deficiencies that makes you sick. It is also the outrageous amount of free radicals and other “bad stuff” in the food that is making you sick, and it’s also all the energetically altered food that they use that is making you sick.

Oh not this again! While it’s true that some processed food, such as transfat-containing oils do have health issues, the idea that you are being “poisoned” by the “chemicals” in processed food has been a hallmark of quackery for a loooong time. Free radicals are highly reactive independent atoms, which are not generally associated with synthetic organic (as in carbon-based) chemicals. Furthermore, most of this “bad stuff” is actually stuff that is found in nature. Ammoniates, nitrates, sulfates all are found in plenty of natural products.

No evidence that a diet of all “organic” or “natural” foods provides major health benefits exists. And many “organic” food producers are also profit-motivated.

Disease predates modern chemistry by millennia.

Q. You mention lots of products that I should get, such as colon cleansers, water filters, shower filters, electromagnetic chaos eliminators, air cleaners, etc. How do I know which products are good and bad?

A. The Federal Trade Commission has, in my opinion, completely stripped me of my First Amendment right to free speech. Keep in mind I do not sell any products, I am not compensated in any way on the sale of any products, but yet the Federal Trade Commission has said that if I mention a product by brand name in this book they will in effect confiscate my books, probably burn the books, and probably arrest me as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if they charged me criminally with something. The FTC is on an absolute mission to put me in jail, discredit me, and get me out of their hair. They have said this on national television! The FTC has said that they are virtually on a mission to get me at all costs. This is an outrage, this is a vendetta, and this is the government simply stripping a citizen of his constitutional rights.

With that said, I am committed to giving you consumer information regarding what I believe to be the best products, and which products you should stay away from. In the future, I will be publishing various buying guides similar to Consumer Reports, but specifically for the health-care area. I will also be publishing all this information on my Web site, www.naturalcures.com.

My intention is to put together hundreds of product evaluators and reviewers who will be reviewing products and the companies that manufacture them and telling you which products and companies are good, and which products and companies you should stay away from because they are run by greedy people with no ethics who are misleading you. These buyer’s guides, both on my Web site community and that I will publish, I believe will be the finest, most objective buyer’s guides in the world because they are the only buyer’s guides where there are no conflicts of interests and no financial incentives to recommend or not recommend certain products or companies.

The FTC has been on a fine line for a long time with Trudeau. He has been banned from any sales or endorsements of products as part of his punishment for the numerous frauds he has perpetrated.

The first amendment is the one and only reason Trudeau is able to continue to get away with these things. This is why websites like this exist. The way to combat abuse of freedom of speech to disseminate lies is to use freedom of speech to set the record straight.

The FTC is not in on any conspiracy and the irony of calling others “greedy” is almost laughable. Trudeau has never been a major part of non-profit public outreach or aid. He has been a businessman, and a dishonest one.

Q. You mentioned that microwave ovens are bad. What about convection ovens?

A. Microwave ovens should never be used. In my opinion, eating food that comes out of a microwave is one of the causes of disease. Convection ovens are standard ovens where the heat is simply moved with a fan. These are fine. Infrared ovens are also okay.

Absolutely ridiculous and not supported by one shred of evidence. Microwaves do not in any way alter the chemistry of food beyond heating it. It is no different than the process which makes infrared ovens work, except that the wavelength of microwaves is less than that of infrared radiation. This allows the energy to penetrate deeper into the food and therefore cook it faster throughout, rather than just from the surface. This is also why microwaved food does not “brown” but it’s in no way changing the food beyond that.

Claims of microwave ovens causing toxic substances to leach into food are not related to the microwaves at all, but to the fact that when some plastics are heated, they may release vapors. While there is limited evidence of this phenomenon, it has not been shown to be a major danger with most modern materials. If you’re really scared about it though, just use ceramic or glass bowls.

Q. Are we really full of toxins, and will doing the cleanses really prevent and cure diseases as serious as cancer, diabetes, or heart disease?

This answer goes on to contain a list of everything from antibiotics to power lines. It is too long for this post. I’ll do one just for this in the future,,,,

Q. Is all brand-name popular food sold by publicly traded corporations bad?

A. Yes. Remember, natural food, organic food, is fine. It is when the profit motive becomes the main objective those foods stop being natural and is in effect manufactured. This is when it causes obesity and causes disease. When making a profit is involved above everything else, you can be assured that the food being produced is deadly. Think about the average farmer. He wants to produce some vegetables and make a profit. The problem is chemical companies bombard him with sales pitches telling “Farmer Joe” how he can increase his yield and increase his profits by using their fantastic chemicals. So Farmer Joe first buys hybrid, genetically modified seed that he is told will produce more crops faster and be germ resistant. The problem, of course, is this is an unnatural food that when consumed by a human being actually causes disease. Farmer Joe then has to use chemical fertilizers to make the vegetables grow at an unnaturally, unhealthy fast rate. He then sprays incredibly poisonous and deadly bug killers, pesticides, and herbicides on his vegetables. These are all absorbed into the vegetables and cannot be washed off. In order to make the vegetables look beautiful and last longer, they are picked before they are ripe and put into a gas chamber and sprayed with more chemicals. They are then shipped to the grocery store where they can last for days or weeks without spoiling or going bad. You then eat them. The problem is the whole process guarantees that the product is genetically modified, full of toxins and chemicals, devoid of any nutrients and, because of the irradiation, energetically changed, causing the food to be toxic to the body.

HAH! Boeing is a publicly traded company. They make airplanes for money and have been accused of some heavy-handed business tactics. Does this mean that their products are no good? Next time I want to fly somewhere I’ll keep this in mind and just jump off a cliff flapping my “natural” arms rather than ride on a 747, made by that big evil company with their fiendish technology (sarcasm).

More of the same claims and totally unsupported by any science.

Q. Aren’t charities, foundations, and health associations good?

A. Unfortunately, the answer is, in most cases, no. Every charity relating to the health-care industry, every foundation relating to health or disease, and every association relating to health or disease are only interested in increasing their own profits. It is sad, but true. I have been in the boardrooms of charities, foundations, associations, and various groups of this type. These groups are in effect businesses. Their only objective is raising money. Their only objective is increasing awareness of their cause and getting more money donated. They do not want to wipe out the problem—they want to see it increase.

I was recently with the director of one of the largest nonprofit foundations in the world. This man laughed when he said his “business” was great because the problems that his foundation addresses keep getting worse and worse. He was excited that the problems were getting worse because that meant he would make more money and his organization would make more money. This is the problem with virtually every charity, every foundation, and every association. It is the problem with the American Medical Association, the American Diabetes Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and all the charities and foundations that are associated with illness and disease. They do not want to wipe out illness and disease. They are only concerned with raising more money. If disease was wiped out and cured, they would all be unnecessary, and all the individual people would lose their jobs, lose their power, lose their influence, and lose their huge incomes. It’s scary, but it’s true.

One of my objectives is to set up a group of people that will actually investigate every single charity, every foundation, and every association. I want to find out exactly how much money is being donated to these organizations, how much time and effort the individual people who work for these organizations spend on raising money, exactly how much time and effort they spend on solving the problems that they are supposed to address or curing the disease, and exactly how much money these people are getting paid and what type of perks they are getting. I am going to be the first person in history to expose these individual people. I am going to name names! I can tell you this, the charities, foundations, and associations are shaking in their boots right now because they know once they get investigated and exposed for the frauds that they are, they will lose their power, influence, and money. This is good for society because we will then know what true charities are available for us to donate to, and which ones are fraudulent. We will know which foundations are virtually ripping us off, and which associations are nothing more than fronts getting government money, taxpayer money, and individual people’s money for their own personal use. I’m going to expose the corruption with all the associations, foundations, and charities.

There will be several charities, foundations, and associations that will stand out above the rest. There will be, and there are, charities, foundations, and associations that are run by sincere, honest, ethical people who really have a true mission in life for the betterment of society. These organizations will be endorsed and recommended by me. As a member of my Web site community on naturalcures.com or as a subscriber to my newsletter, you will have access to, and the knowledge of, which foundations, associations, and charities to stay away from, and which ones are good. It is going to be exciting to actually expose the individual frauds that are perpetrating this great deceit and deception on the public at large.

Oh I see. So the charities are the bad ones. And the last ones you need to REALLY avoid are the public outreach and education ones. Especially those which go by this stuff called “science.” But Trudeau? No. He’s the one to listen to.

Do I even need to go into this?

Q. Isn’t real research being done on the cure and prevention of disease? Isn’t the government spending billions of dollars on this research? Don’t corporations and individuals donate money for this research?

A. This is one of the biggest frauds and deceptions put on the public. Yes, the government gives, and has given, billions of dollars for “research.” Yes, corporations give huge amounts for “research.” Yes, foundations give huge amounts of money for “research.” Yes, individuals donate huge amounts of money for “research.” However, the money is not being used to find a cure, or a way to prevent disease. The money is not being used to find the cause of disease. The money is only being used to find a PATENTABLE DRUG or PATENTABLE MEDICAL PROCEDURE that can be used in the TREATMENT of the disease! Researchers are not looking at the cause, and they are not looking at ways to prevent disease. They are only trying to find a patentable product that can be used to TREAT the disease! They are not looking for a cure. All the research being funded and done is so that the drug companies can own the patent on a product, sell it, and make billions of dollars in profits. There is absolutely no research being done on the real causes of disease. There is absolutely no research being done on any non-patentable natural method to prevent, treat, or cure disease! Never give money to anybody who is going to do “research” for medical purposes. You are only giving more money to the drug companies!

This could not be more ridiculous. Sure, money is spent to design therapies and drugs, but huge amounts of money are spent on reducing the causes of diseases or on determining lifestyle and habits which contribute.

The effects of PCB’s, asbestos, smoking, various foods and other sorts of environmental and occupational issues have been thoroughly researched and studies are always coming out which are designed to determine how various changes in nutrition, activities or other factors can effect health.

Ways of curing and preventing disease are always being researched both privately and by government and academic institutions. For example, the vaccine for Chicken Pox has been around for only about a decade. Before that, several children died a year from the disease and it could be very dangerous for adults. New antibiotics are always being developed, which more effectively cure bacterial infections. And statin drugs, which are amongst the most popular prescriptions have been shown to indeed reduce cholesterol and prevent heart attack and strokess.

Q. Are all medical doctors bad and evil?

A. No. I believe most people who got into the medical profession sincerely and genuinely wanted to help people. The problem is once you go to medical school you are in effect being trained by the drug industry. The only thing you are being taught is the use of drugs and surgery. You get virtually no training in the true cause of disease; you get virtually no training in how toxins cause disease and drugs cause disease; you get virtually no training in how nutritional deficiencies cause disease; you get virtually no training in any method of the prevention or treatment of disease other than drugs or surgery. You have no information on essential oils or homeopathy. As a matter of fact, as a member of the American Medical Association, you are FORBIDDEN by its charter to use anything other than drugs and surgery! Once you are a medical doctor and a member of the AMA you cannot use homeopathic remedies, or essential oils, or any natural method to treat a patient! Therefore, medical doctors are caught between a rock and a hard place.

The other problem with medical doctors is that they are given huge financial incentives by the drug companies to increase their own personal wealth by prescribing drugs and performing surgeries.

As I mentioned earlier in the book, medical doctors are experts at handling emergency life-threatening situations where time is of the essence. And as I mentioned in the beginning of the book, if I’m in a horrible car accident, rush me to the closest emergency room and have a trained medical doctor use all of his skills and knowledge, and all the technology available to him, to save my life. Of course I also mentioned the downside earlier in the book that medical doctors in hospitals have virtually no sleep, and therefore make huge amounts of mistakes due to sleep deprivation!

Again this is a lot of bull. Do doctors use homeopathy? No, because it’s been showed to be useless for decades and is completely illogical and not based in science.

But of course doctors can use things other than drugs or surgery to treat drugs. Have you ever heard of a doctor recommending something like “You ought to try to loose some weight.” Or “smoking is not going to help your condition. I suggest you make an effort to quit.” I certainly have! My doctor told me that many of his patients found they could loose a few pounds easily by just stopping drinking soda and juice in favor of water. He recommended I try that. When I mentioned to my doctor that I sometimes have trouble staying asleep and other problems, he told me that if I did even a small amount of exercise daily it would help regulate sleep cycles. Does that sound like drugs or surgery?

Doctors are encouraged to use therapies that work and not those that don’t. Simple as that. Do doctors over-prescribe drugs? Is out society overmedicated? Those are entirely valid questions, but in the end, they aren’t simply matters of the drug companies brainwashing doctors and have much to do with the fast pace of culture and the laziness of people who would rather take a cholesterol drug than eat a salad instead of a burger.

Q. Can something as serious as multiple sclerosis be cured with natural methods?

A. Absolutely yes. A few months ago I met a woman who had multiple sclerosis. She had a cane and couldn’t walk very well. She recognized me from television and asked if I was the author of the Natural Cures book. I said yes. She then said that she read the book and didn’t understand how anything in the book could help her with her multiple sclerosis. As she said this I noticed that she had a diet soda in her hand. I explained to her that multiple sclerosis, like all diseases, is caused by too many toxins in the body, nutritional deficiencies, electromagnetic chaos, and/or stress. I asked her how long she had been drinking diet soda. She said most of her life. I asked her if she had a lot of dental work. She said her whole mouth was filled with dental work and various kinds of metal. I suggested that the majority of MS sufferers that I have seen have experienced tremendous results by eliminating aspartame, the artificial sweetener in diet sodas, getting rid of all the metal in their mouth, and sleeping on a magnetic mattress pad. Most also have Lyme disease, which can be cured with homeopathics, intravenous hydrogen peroxide therapy, and other natural therapies. Usually sufferers see tremendous relief in just a matter of weeks or months. She said it didn’t sound like it would help, but she would give it a try. I gave her my number and told her to call me as I was curious to her results. I also let her know that I was not a doctor or a licensed health-care practitioner and could not treat her, and that she must seek professional help, but I was only giving her my opinions and was not trying to “practice medicine.” Three months later she called and explained that she could not believe the spectacular results that she had experienced; she felt like a new woman and felt fifteen years younger. This is a good example of how simple “natural cures” work.

Absolute bull. Homeopathics are worthless. Lyme disease can be cured with antibiotics. And peroxide therapies have been shown to be quite dangerous in many circumstances. This statement is both insulting and dangerous to those who have serious and chronic illnesses which cause them great pain and suffering and which certainly cannot be treated with magnets and homeopathics.

In conclusion: Kevin Trudeau is, IMHO, about the worst of the anti-science conartists out there. I am currently trying to find out how much this guy has for net-worth, and it is certainly many millions, but it is difficult because he has so many fronts and companies which he controls. It amazes me that he can get away with saying there is a conspiracy of money-making drug companies, when the money he makes off of these scams have been estimated in the hundreds of millions. He plays on people’s fears and misconceptions and causes real damage by steering people away from effective therapies and honest doctors. His claims are based on anecdotes, bad logic and outright lies. And yes… this can cause lives.

Though I am not a doctor, I will give the following medical advice and only the following (unlike Trudeau): Don’t listen to those like Trudeau. If you are interested in alternatives, research them, but look at both sides and try to educate yourself on the claims and evidence. If you believe you may have a serious medical condition or have been bothered by a chronic health problem, see a doctor. If you don’t think (s)he can help you, see another for a second opinion. See a third even. But don’t see a conman.

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