When Mercola first came along, here we had a doctor (a word with a halo) advocating that people avoid drugs, change their diet, and so on, it was an immediate wow for the public. It soon became obvious that he was getting his memes from other bloggers or sites, or natural products news, but did not have the critical thinking to assess them intelligently. After a few years, he lost me when he said he recommended that no on eat fish at all anymore, after some Japanese were mercury-poisoned eating whale meat near a contaminated harbor. because at this time I had a pretty comprehensive knowledge of vitamin D science, he really lost me when he posted that you can't get any benefit from oral vitamin D, that you need it from the sun or (ta daaaah) a tanning bed and started to offer, if I remember correctly, 2500 version and a 4500 version. Eventually, the FTC caught up to him on that scam: "In 2016, after marketing and selling tanning beds with the claims that they reduced cancer (backed by discredited studies), the Federal Trade Commission filed a false advertising complaint against Mercola and his companies that resulted in Mercola paying $2.6 million in refunds to customers who had bought their tanning beds from him,"
When Mercola first came along, here we had a doctor (a word with a halo) advocating that people avoid drugs, change their diet, and so on, it was an immediate wow for the public. It soon became obvious that he was getting his memes from other bloggers or sites, or natural products news, but did not have the critical thinking to assess them intelligently. After a few years, he lost me when he said he recommended that no on eat fish at all anymore, after some Japanese were mercury-poisoned eating whale meat near a contaminated harbor. because at this time I had a pretty comprehensive knowledge of vitamin D science, he really lost me when he posted that you can't get any benefit from oral vitamin D, that you need it from the sun or (ta daaaah) a tanning bed and started to offer, if I remember correctly, 2500 version and a 4500 version. Eventually, the FTC caught up to him on that scam: "In 2016, after marketing and selling tanning beds with the claims that they reduced cancer (backed by discredited studies), the Federal Trade Commission filed a false advertising complaint against Mercola and his companies that resulted in Mercola paying $2.6 million in refunds to customers who had bought their tanning beds from him,"