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"The hump of the Indian cow absorbs sunshine which is converted to gold in the milk and urine which gives its urine and butter the 'golden color' and health benefits; which is lacking in foreign (non-Indian) cows."
Indian science, scientific temperament and research is shining.
A man chopped off his wife’s nose after she insisted on going to her maternal home to celebrate #RakshaBandhan with her brother in #Hardoi
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As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be covered—no hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law.
The man in this video is Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Director at IIT - Mandi. The institute made it compulsory for all BTech graduates at the IIT to learn about spirituality, reincarnation, sub-consciousness etc. Listen to him and you will shudder about the future of our IITs that you may not want your child to study there.
Thank you @madan3 for this simple explainer on how "health influencers" are not really health influencers that you make them to be, based on the recent incident involving celebs embracing pseudoscientific claims and falling for glorified quacks.
I face this in my outpatient every single day. More than prescribing treatments and discussing natural history of the disease, to plan out short and long term treatments for my patients, I spend large amount of time making patients and their family unlearn every healthcare myth, every traditional dogmatic view on treatment options.
In this era of advanced medical practice, I am still stuck at educating patients/families:
👉🏻That one can consume eggs with yolk during illness related to jaundice
👉🏻That milk and curds do not cause cough and chest infections
👉🏻That totally avoiding read meat does not make one healthier (but limiting it to recommended intake does)
👉🏻That consuming chicken eggs do not cause piles (hemorrhoidal disease)
👉🏻That good quality whey protein is safe and does not lead to liver or kidney damage
👉🏻That there are no herbs that can cure jaundice - because jaundice is not a disease, but the symptom of a disease (which can be liver or non-liver related)
👉🏻That every "fatty liver" does not require medications
👉🏻That any amount of alcohol is unsafe for human health
👉🏻That alternative medicine practitioners (Ayush system/ industry in India, others around the world) are not real doctors, but businessmen in "made-up" white coats and "do-not-know-how-to-use" stethoscopes always looking to monetize the patients & their family's confusion, fear, ignorance, lack of health literacy and scientific temperament and most importantly, vulnerability.
👉🏻Patients (as well an many doctors) still believe that restricting food improves liver health - which in reality leads to malnutrition and worsening health or progression of underlying disease.
Add to this, the burden of frogs-in-the-well, absolutely brain-dead celebrities & social media influencers who have no training in healthcare or medicine, and actual doctors who are a shame to the medical profession by spending most of their time in front of a smartphone and recording irrational and illogical reels for their social media followers - only to sow more seeds of confusion in patients/public's lives...
...🤳🏻From glorifying intermittent fasting as a panacea
🤳🏻Promoting idli and sambar to improve gut health and fight cancer
🤳🏻Discussing ashwagandha as if it is valuable for mental health and cancer
🤳🏻Promoting turmeric as if it is effective for not just health related problems, but also climate change and end civil wars... and
🤳🏻Blindly promote irrational supplements and vitamins and botanicals and make blue print protocols that no one asked for, and that are completely untested...
...all the while sitting in front of the phone camera without any experience in diagnosing, treating or caring for actual patients. Just because there is a "Dr." title before a name does not make one a credible doctor. For example, in India, Homeopaths also use the same title, when it should really be "Mr."
Imagine the time wasted in the outpatient on discussing and teaching such simple, yet silly healthcare myths instead of deeply discussing disease and its treatment options in detail. Many doctors in India are overburdened with patients that the only practice they rote learn is to blindly prescribe medications without listening to the patient and correcting their inherent non-factual healthcare beliefs.
I hope people will REALLY UNDERSTAND & APPROACH those who practice ethical, compassionate, moral, scientific, evidence-based medicine and stop looking on the internet for all their health-related queries. There are medically trained, certified, registered doctors ready to do that work for you.
Full video:
https://t.co/vPESalusHa
I have been fighting medical/health misinformation for the longest time and it just does not seem to end. I have come to understand that the only way to fight medical misinformation is to consistently speak about it and make examples of people who mislead and misinform.
Many people messaged me directly asking me to be "kind" towards Ms. Samantha after I called her out for her public endangering misinformation on nebulization of hydrogen peroxide for respiratory viral infections. She doubled down by citing these two "doctors" who she thought were "credible" sources and shared their opinions/views without a fact-check, with her millions of followers. Some people even lashed at me, asking me to debate her "doctors" rather than pull down Samantha herself.
More on that here: https://t.co/oNvmlJXLgJ
I am a clinical doctor. Compassionate, ethical, empathetic care is ingrained in me from the moment I stepped into medical school. These virtues only grow with clinical practice and people who know me, know how I am to people, patients and their family. I do not have to showcase "kindness" or "answer to" strangers on the internet while communicating facts. Being vocal and brutally straightforward with facts is the only way medical misinformation can be handled in certain situations, especially when the person who peddles the misinformation has been brainwashed into believing in irrationality.
I have been practicing medicine independently for almost a decade and I deal with the sickest group, the most chronic group, the most brutally afflicted group of patients in clinical medicine - liver failure patients. And I know how "doctors" like the ones showcased below, the source of Ms. Samantha's medical information will queue up to devour a chronic disease patient/family's vulnerability, ignorance, confusion and mental health state. They are not doctors. They are business men. They are the worst that can happen to medical practice. I do not have to debate such people.
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Dr. Mitra Basu Chillar may have been a doctor and has the required registrations/certifications to show he is one, but at present, he is not. His clinic runs dubious, dangerous and non-recommended practices under the garb of wellness that are a waste of money, time and person.
For example their ozone therapy: In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned against using ozone therapy. This is because there is not enough evidence to conclude that it is effective or safe for medical use. https://t.co/tnvwPWtOwr
Their IV cocktail therapy for improving tolerance to alcohol use and post use hangover, exhaustion and skin supplementation are all fraudulent practices that can have serious adverse events with multiple clinical societies advising people to stay away from such businesses. Any "doctor" who provides "treatment for pre-alcohol and post alcohol use" is NOT A DOCTOR in my strong opinion. Dr. Chillar's clinic has actually named this therapy "Happy Hours" (https://t.co/jq8eIoS2Nt). This is a disgrace to medical profession and professionals. He should just quit.
And IV vitamin therapies that they sell at Dr. Chillar's clinic are a complete scam: https://t.co/e4MDtYTJXq and https://t.co/QdPMsHfVtr
Their low dose ketamine therapy in clinic setting is not recommended and typically clinics like Dr.Chillar's are for-profit enterprises. This therapy must be provided under proper expert care and for severe resistant depression. Dr. Chillar's clinic does not seem to have such experts on board and this potentially endangers people: https://t.co/mC69pB01V7
Similarly, Dr. Chillar's ultraviolent blood radiation therapy is also an utter nonsense, medically wasteful and expensive procedure which The American Cancer Society calls "one of many types of ineffective treatment fraudulently sold by alternative cancer treatment clinics" (like Dr. Chillar's).
None of their treatments are effective or beneficial or border any close to being "preventative medicine" and is a huge scam, loss of money and in extreme cases, loss of life. I do not have the space here to debunk all of it, but you may check with credible sources on these promoted at their website: https://t.co/MoCGEIza2y and someone must shut this shit show of a clinic down for public health endagerment.
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Now Dr. Jockers. The other "doctor" Samantha cited. The less said about this fraud, the better. Jockers is not a doctor. He is a naturopath. Naturopaths are a menance to society, a danger to patients, and a public health malignancy. And rightly so, Samantha's Dr. Jockers has been warned multiple times by the US FDA, the US FTA and many other health regulatory bodies for selling and promoting public health endangering products and services. Basically, he is plain simple fraud.
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https://t.co/fJ91hzJveU
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I understand and empathize with Samantha's health condition and I wish her the very best. I apologize if she felt uneasy or bad the way the message was conveyed. That was unintentional. My aim was her to leave behind medical misinformation peddling "doctors" who are using her vulnerability, and catering to her anecdotal experiences, for their gain. I sincerely suggest that patients with chronic illnesses, please continue with evidence-based medical practices to remain inside a safety net and sanctuary.
Science-based medicine is for everyone's benefit. You can come up with any conspiracy theories on medical science and the industry, but the truth is - it is what got us here. From vaccines to antibiotics to life saving interventions - both surgical and minimally invasive, scientific discoveries that change for the better; and the practitioners who use them to cater to you, are always your strongest allies in health and disease. Unlike these two below.
Take care, stay safe, and stand up for science.
Ms. Samantha Ruth Prabhu has responded to my "provocative" criticism of her endorsement of unscientific, pseudoscientific and baseless alternative medicine therapies by playing the victim card and endorsing more alternative practices.
Please note, she is a serial offender in the context of healthcare misinformation and she has been in the line of fire previously too. The reason why doctors like me have to spend (waste) time from our busy schedules to fight misinformation online is because it is peddled by large influential "celebrity" accounts that have no regard for public health. Engagement and monetization is their concern. Public health and disease prevention is mine. I (we) will be provocative, strongly criticise, be blatant, and brutal with facts because we have no time to waste, catering to emotions.
I expected better from someone who claims that she wants to "improve." This is far from improvement. A rational and logical response would be to delete the public health endangering posts and apologize to her millions of followers and vouch to never quote or cite fraudulent practices or practitioners.
I have absolutely ZERO hope for improving scientific temperament or rationalism in this country. Everyone role plays the victim of "scientific criticism" but will keep embracing and holding on to dogmatic views in healthcare, traditional untested observations or debunked dangerous therapies without shame or self reflection.
If celebrity influencers really want to impact people positively, then start unlearning and re-learn, develop critical thinking skills, disregard logical fallacies and stand up for medical science instead of "playing victim" of the same science that is helping you, and all of us, survive into the future.
I won't be commenting or debunking any of Samantha's future endorsements of pseudoscientific alternative public health endangering posts because,
“You can’t help people that don’t want to be helped.”
— John Armstrong