Dr. Berg Gets Censored (Silenced)

Look before anyone says it, I recognize that private companies can do things that they choose to but at the same time, you gotta question the fine line between private companies using propaganda for their own gain and where the private company's freedom ends or begins. I think that's honestly a good discussion to have. Here's my opinion, I think if it's demonstrably false and can be proven to be such, misinformation should always be fought against to take action accordingly but if there's somewhat of a doubt, I don't think there should be any censorship and there should be honest discussion over it.

Apparently YouTube and Google have been trying to censor alternative health information for awhile like as in alternative diets other than the one recommended by the vegan 7th Day Adventist "scientists" idea of the food pyramid and food suggestions. And now they've taken steps into doing so. This is really terrible to me because it's abusive. Think about it, you're gaslighting millions of people into telling them that "you know what's best" for my own body.

The standard food pyramid says eat so and so servings of grains and if I found a diet that says "here's why grains may be bad" and I honestly have gotten around to feeling better without grains, making me eat grains just because you have an issue with so and so diet is abusive towards me. Just because you think everyone should have grains doesn't mean we all should.

Keto has been studied for instance and was started by John Hopkins Hospital. Yes it's extreme and was only intended for people with seizures but there's lots of body of evidence that it helps with neurological conditions because scientists think it makes the body produce more of certain neurotransmitters that are absent in these conditions.

Yes there's pros and cons to literally EVERY diet out there but that's precisely why no one should govern anyone on anyone's diet is because I make that choice, I don't need you to make that choice for me. It's nothing but propaganda anyways as seed oils were introduced and then they demonized saturated fat because saturated fat was used in fast food chains before seed oils. They had no choice but to demonize it.

I also know that a large body of scientific literature has been done by 7th Day Adventists who are specifically vegetarian and vegan so there's a clear conflict of interest and to have that conflict of interest is immoral.

Here is a link in which science isn't all black and white. A tribe that has a highly inflammatory bodies due to parasites, all meat diet but also the best heart health in the world and the lowest levels cholesterol ever seen:

https://news.asu.edu/20170317-discoveries-despite-meat-heavy-diet-indigenous-tribe-has-world%E2%80%99s-healthiest-hearts-%E2%80%94-why

Obviously doctors don't know everything, in most disease and in many psychiatric conditions are literally listed as "causes unknown." They literally don't know the causes and as Dr. Berg states, if you don't know the cause then how can you elect yourself as knowing the answer?

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Graylight · 51-55, F

YouTube did announce recently that it's creating a new framework to crack down on medical misinformation on the platform.

“In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in line with local and global health authority guidance on topics that pose serious real-world risks, such as misinformation on COVID-19, vaccines, reproductive health, harmful substances, and more,” a blog post from the video-sharing site read. “We’re taking what we’ve learned so far about the most effective ways to tackle medical misinformation to simplify our approach for creators, viewers, and partners.”

The platform has faced controversy in recent years for its algorithm and the way it can direct viewers to misleading and extremist content.

YouTube said it will use three categories, “Prevention, Treatment and Denial” to sort the kinds of medical misinformation on the platform.

Eric Berg is a chiropractor. Forget the professional reputation chiropractors have; he's presented himself as a professional authority and overreached into areas like:
long-haul covid
keto
how to fix autism
heavy metal toxicity
best brain foods and curing diabetes...with cinnamon.
Also the best remedies for:
depression,
constipation,
eyelashes falling out,
salt deficiency,
nutrition,
how to stop a heart attack
Menstrual remedies
Facial hair on women
and more

A chiropractor is trained to manually manipulate the body and work on spinal manipulation. He possesses no medical degree (MD), he's demonstrated no expertise in any other field and much of his information is demonstrably wrong or incomplete.

The only one raising such a ruckus about this new policy are the bad content creator themselves. We are a global community bound by the internet. Most of us seek all our answers from Google and YouTube. There is a duty to maintain integrity and safety. If your chiropractor gave you bad medical advice on your pregnancy and it ended up causing a c-section or other problem, I'm sure you'd think about a lawsuit. It's no different online.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4153540-youtube-announces-new-policies-to-target-medical-misinformation/

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Graylight

There is a duty to maintain integrity and safety.

When people are getting hurt by the suggestions of 7th Day Adventists scientists behind the demonization of animal based foods that arose in most observational anecdotal science studies, that's no longer integrity. Integrity is when you care about results and then you take results because there might be something there and instead of sweeping under the carpet, you explore. And I say results because there's doctors who run legit clinical practices who have their degrees plus some that also practice keto, carnivore or other modified animal based diets and been successful with patients who could be affected.

Especially since in the list of categories you listed out, nutrition was one of them -----> Lol isn't nutrition what Dr. Berg talks about?

I'm sorry but it IS true that plants only contain precursor vitamins, it IS true, that's not even an opinion and if you have genetics that makes you a low converter it's not ideal. And hey if you want to be vegan and majority plant based and if it works, it works. That's kinda what people mean about information always being available after all. But for a significant portion of the population, other diets should always be available to try.

Now I've said what I got to say so I can say this too, you say it's about integrity but look at what happened with saturated fats, to add to the following account, Proctor and Gamble was the main one that ran the campaign against animal fats and introduced seed oils, which was a billion dollar industry. There's TONS of reason why we have NO integrity and often by the same well intentioned people who "claim" integrity.

Does the following seem like integrity to you?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36477384/

Recent findings: Recent findings include shortcomings in the scientific review processes on saturated fats, for both the current 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the previous edition (2015-2020). Revelations include the fact the 2015 Advisory Committee acknowledged, in an e-mail, the lack of scientific justification for any specific numeric cap on these fats. Other, previously unpublished findings include significant potential financial conflicts on the relevant 2020 guidelines subcommittee, including the participation of plant-based advocates, an expert who promotes a plant-based diet for religious reasons, experts who had received extensive funding from industries, such as tree nuts and soy, whose products benefit from continued policy recommendations favoring polyunsaturated fats, and one expert who had spent more than 50 years of her career dedicated to 'proving' the diet-heart hypothesis.

Summary: The idea that saturated fats cause heart disease, called the diet-heart hypothesis, was introduced in the 1950s, based on weak, associational evidence. Subsequent clinical trials attempting to substantiate this hypothesis could never establish a causal link. However, these clinical-trial data were largely ignored for decades, until journalists brought them to light about a decade ago. Subsequent reexaminations of this evidence by nutrition experts have now been published in >20 review papers, which have largely concluded that saturated fats have no effect on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality. The current challenge is for this new consensus on saturated fats to be recognized by policy makers, who, in the United States, have shown marked resistance to the introduction of the new evidence. In the case of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines, experts have been found even to deny their own evidence. The global re-evaluation of saturated fats that has occurred over the past decade implies that caps on these fats are not warranted and should no longer be part of national dietary guidelines. Conflicts of interest and longstanding biases stand in the way of updating dietary policy to reflect the current evidence.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Graylight

If your chiropractor gave you bad medical advice on your pregnancy and it ended up causing a c-section or other problem, I'm sure you'd think about a lawsuit. It's no different online.

Well good thing that there's numerous actual doctors giving advice on how to do keto right while pregnant then lol.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

Medicine is a complex field, often more art than science. Even as a physician, I often have to be careful with what I read and hear. There is the old comment caveat emptor, and in medium cone you, the patient, do need to be careful.

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SatanBurger somf of what is posted is dangerous. I am fit free speech, but not when the crazies announce things that are just not true. I am not smart enough to suggest an approach that allows for free exchange of ideas, but avoids posting really dangerous stuff.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@SatanBurger when I took omega 3, my cholesterol skyrocketed. It isn't supposed to happen, but it do id.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@samueltyler2 Well all I know is that neurologists have spoke about things good for your brain and stuff like that. That's kinda what I'm talking about, we should be able to hear from all sorts of authorities and not just 7th Day Adventist ones.

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