What is Reddit's opinion of Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness?

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Thank you!

I have to say though, from what I've read, I think that most people have gluten-sensitivity to some degree. I'm not talking a full blown allergy or Celiac's, but some inflammation in the gut and digestive issues. It's believed that about 50% of the American population has some degree of gluten-sensitivity, since the industry has narrowed 80 strains of grain down to 4.

People can get themselves tested, it's specified in Breakthrough, by Suzanne Somers, AMAZING book.

I know the "gluten-sensitivity" theory seems really trendy and faddish, but it's actually something I think seems legit. Besides, there's SO much conflicting information about gluten, I prefer to avoid it altogether if I can (says someone who's just finished eating a few crackers because my fridge is empty. :().

I do believe there are areas where pharmaceutical drugs are a god-send and we've come so far with medicine and technology and they've helped us tremendously, but I also believe there are areas where natural remedies are a godsend. I don't believe one is better than the other, but I believe a well-researched combination of the two is beneficial.

Also, aren't most studies funded by pharmaceutical companies who're essentially making billions of dollars from selling drugs? Hypothetically, if celery juice drastically lowers the risk of a heart attack, but drug companies are making millions from selling a particular drug to prevent a heart attack, why on earth would they tell you to drink celery juice?

Also something I found interesting from reading Suzanne Somers: Breakthrough is that a doctor in the book discusses a patent (U.S. Patent #4,929,437) that was issued that without co-enzyme Q10, that statin drugs cause predictable elevations of liver enzymes with liver damage. It also states that by giving co-enzyme Q10 with the drugs, this complication can be prevented or treated if it's already present.

Bizarrely, this patent was never exercised and physicians and patients were never educated about the dangerous link between statins and Q-10, even though the patients are informed of the plethora of side-effects that come with taking the drug, nor are they told that by taking Q-10, could these complications be prevented. It's thought that the patent isn't exercised because in doing so, they would have to admit liability for their harmful statin drugs.

I'm just going by the information that I've read, you're welcome to correct it. I do find this very interesting though.

My point is, I think there are MANY natural remedies that may not be backed up by a pharmaceutically-funded study. Studies are VERY expensive and generally, if a small community of people who have the audacity to venture outside of conventional, allopathic medicine are telling me that by consuming apple cider vinegar every day, their gout went away or that nattokinase thinned their blood, then I'm inclined to believe them.

It's people's prerogatives to do their personal research and find the medicine they believe in and I'm naturally wary of a doctor touting drugs because while some are a god-send, others I just feel are unnecessary and I don't trust pharmaceutical companies one bit.

If you go to a conventional doctor with painful cycstic breasts, your options are expensive surgery and drugs, what they don't tell you is that a cotton swab saturated in iodine and applied to the vagina and applied periodically over a few weeks, it has a 100% cure-rate (very few things in medicine are 100%, but this is) with a dramatic reduction in pain and lumpiness within the first half hour.

You're welcome to correct me if I'm wrong, I'd love to hear your views.