Have you read Kevin Tredeau's book,"Natural Cures"?

Question

Do you agree with all the things he says in his book, about any kind of
prescription or non prescription drug being bad for you, and that tap water causes scaring of the
arteries. And that natural cures are being hidden from us by the
fda. And that the FDA is nothing more than a money hungry monster
that wants you to take some kind of drug, and eat their approved trash food, so you get sick and take their drugs. His website is
www.naturalcures.com

Answer 1

Considering Kevin Trudeau doesn’t have any medical credentials, he has a history in the dubious telemarketing history, and he has been fined for false claims made in his marketing campaigns and imprisoned for fraudulent activities; it is hard to give any of his claims credence.

However, with that said it should be noted that though I don’t agree that any of his treatments actually work, I do concur with the underlying premise that the medical industry is corrupt and is withholding vital information that could potentially eradicate many serious illnesses and disease that are currently plaguing humanity.

I accede to his rationale that it works to the medical and pharmaceutical industries advantage to suppress alternatives that could cure people of things like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, because by only providing treatments, and not cures, both the pharmaceutical behemoths and the medical industry ensure profits and job security for a long time to come.

If you look at the medical industry in the past 100 years you will see something just doesn’t add up. Something is suspicious. In the first 60 years of our history we virtually wiped off the planet many serious sickness and diseases from the industrialized world. Things like Small Pox, Polio and a host of other maladies were eradicated in countries that could afford to do so.

Now consider that we are investing triple and quadruple the amount of money that we invested in research and development during those “Golden Years” of medicine, when so many diseases were eliminated, and now we cannot yield one permanent cure to any major illness. We are only “capable” of “treating” the illness. In other words we can prolong the life of a patient long enough to bilk them out of more money. Couple that with the fact that we have more advanced diagnostic and scientific instrumentation that we did 50 years ago and yet the rate in which we are finding cures for diseases is almost stagnates. What’s going on?

Now add to the scheme the fact that despite our inability to cure any major malady the way we used to, despite our larger investment and superior technology, we have a medical industry that is raking in record profits, and the salaries of every medical professional has risen sharply more so than that of other non-medical professions. To give you an example, a pharmacist’s starting salary in Texas in 1996 was between 55 to 65,000 dollars. Now an average pharmacist starting salary is between 90 to 110,000 dollars. Explain to me how, when the economy was floundering during the latter part of the last decade, and every other field was either reducing or keeping its wages the same, somehow the medical industry has employees who are nearly doubling their salary within a span of 10 years.

In most industries if one does not bring something new and innovative, that resolve problems, you will be lucky if you keep your job. You certainly won’t get paid ridiculously higher salaries every time for NOT achieving the results you were supposed to achieve.
In the automotive industry, if they don’t continually improve their models year after year, making them more fuel efficient, more economical, more sleek, more ergonomically pleasing, more safe, and having better performance; their profits don’t go up, and their employees definitely don’t increase their salaries by two fold. In the IT industry, the field I am in, if you don’t constantly churn out better applications, and more robust hardware, you industry will collapse. You don’t get rewarded for making zero progress. Why is it that this paradigm, which applies to every other business, doesn’t apply to the medical and pharmaceutical corporations? Are you suspicious yet? You should be.

In industries, like the automotive and IT industry, it behooves the corporations never to manufacture a perfect product, even if it is possible. Physical flaws are purposely engineered into cars, so that they will break down after some time and wear and tear. Computer hardware has a certain percentage of defects per certain number of units and software is contrived deliberately with vulnerabilities. These defects keep the companies in business. However, in all these industries you are not playing with lives. You are just making the industry profitable.

The medical industry should not work in the same manner because they have a moral obligation that these organizations don’t have. They are not only entrusted with the lives of patients, but with the lives of those patient’s families and friends, all of whom are affected adversely if one of their own isn’t cured of cancer, is suffering from diabetes, or dies of heart disease.

Something is awry with the whole scenario and it should have people enraged. Kevin Trudeau maybe one of the biggest charlatans to grace an industry that is rife with scam artists. However, even con artists can stumble on certain truths. After all televangelists may cheat people out of their hard earned cash by promoting a distorted view of religion, but their comments concerning loving one another and taking care of one another are true despite their profitable lies.

For anyone interested in credible literature on how the pharmaceutical industry and many doctors are conspiring to keep you dependent on them, by making sure that alternative treatments and preventative medicine can’t be given to the patient, and how the research institutions and the government are in collusion with these people, I recommend you read a book called “Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine “ by medical doctor John Abramson. This is no quack, but an astute and candid insider of the medical industry, who is not only involved in patient care, but was involved in the academic and research aspects of medicine as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-America-Promise-American-Medicine/dp/0060568534/sr=8-1/qid=1160088943/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-3333838-4471950?ie=UTF8&s=books

Medical care in this country, much like education will not improve as the result of more money being thrown at it. It will only improve when citizens care enough to voice their opinions, become proactive in their own care, and hold the medical industry accountable for its subterfuge.

Answer 2

I think he does what he accuses others of doing... not giving the true facts.

He claims his book is going to be about what natural cures are available instead of using medicines, and his book instead doesn't give any natural cures but instead, pushes you to his website where he wants you to BUY in in order to find out what these natural cures are.

So his book is not about what he claims it is. It's just an indictment on the pharmaceutical industry, but it doesn't give the information that he claims it does, the actual natural cures for ailments.

The guy is an ex-con who has already been censored for making inappropriate claims about supplements he was selling. He doesn't exactly have the 'pedigree' to give ANYTHING he says any credibility.

Yes, I think the FDA is corrupt. Yes, I think pharmaceutical companies present their data in a way that confuses the actually figures of how effective something is.

But this is nothing new. And I don't need to spend money on a book by an ex-con to tell me these things. Especially when he claims the book is about natural cures, NOT slamming the pharmaceutical industry.

Aspirin has saved lives. There are MANY drugs that allow people to live longer, and healthier.

In my opinion, his book is a scam and doesn't deliver what he claims it will.

Answer 3

This guy is a scam artist. He's good at it and so he makes a lot of money. I saw a report on him on 20/20 or Sixty Minutes. I can't remember the program. He has been doing infomercials for years and years. He's been shut down by the FCC a few times as well. Don't believe anything he says. This natural remedy crap he rambles on about is just a gimmick. He's been into property sales and all kinds of stuff. As for the FDA etc. everybody is out to make money.

Answer 4

The book is a scam to sell website subscriptions at the very least. It is potentially LETHAL at the worst.

Trudeau plays on the public's general mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry to sell snake oil. None of his treatments are based in real science. None are backed up by hard, peer-reviewed research.

Granted, the pharmaceutical industry should be under scrutiny, but just because they're dislikable doesn't mean that they put out some effective products.

Answer 5

I agree with a majority of the things he said but when he went on a tirade about his wife's magical bread, that was enough for me. He should have stopped right there. Also, if he was talking about these cures for everything and how he just wants to help everybody, he's just as bad as the FDA by making people subscribe to his newsletter to get this information. All in all, he was right on most things but it could have been less self glorifying.

Answer 6

yes...and it's all a scheme! i have not met ONE person that has tried any "cures" that were "cured". the book is merely a way to make money and teach the placebo effect.

the guy is a joke and there is not one scientific standard in his book.

he is a crook (has been to jail previously under other charges non-related to health)....he has wormed his ficticious belief's the legal way.

Answer 7

Kevin Trudeau is a con artist
I used to see him in the nightclubs in Chicago in the 80s
He was always drinking and drugging, got arrested and after the long trial for scamming and credit card fraud did a two-year stint in federal prison around 1990

he makes the truely holistic want to strangle him

Answer 8

Apple Cider Vinegar for acid disorder he recommends....No.

Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, works better and that is my advice- not Kevin's.

It seems to just exacerbate acid disorders because vinegar is acid too.

I don't know about the other stuff.

Answer 9

Balance in all things. Some of his points are valid - I know a pharmacist who will not even take aspirin, and all medications have some type of side effect - but so do herbs. Further research my friend. He is selling books and is very radical.

Answer 10

I absolutely believe it. The FDA is not in for the public best interest, so many pharmaceutical companies profits while so many prescriptions drugs makes us sicker and we need another drug to counter act that one and so on and so on. Yes many people have benefited by medicine but the natural way is so much safer and only you can make that decision for you. Kevin is just letting the public see and expose the truths . There are always 2 sides of every story and the truth is somewhere in between!Hope this helps!

Answer 11

No because I believe more in medical science than quack cures.