This idea that there is some secret out there for fat people, diabetics, people with cancer, or whomever, a secret so powerful yet simple, is patently absurd, yet alluring. But what follows could have been lifted from any internet quack site. It is a list of symptoms that supposedly tells you if you have excessive "toxins" in your body. The whole idea of "toxins" being the cause of disease is also old, and also not based on reality. It's not that toxic substances aren't important, it's that the word is not used the same by real doctors and quacks.
But the language! Vey's mir, it could have been lifted from any Morgellons, chronic Lyme disease, or other fake disease websites.
The first step is to determine if you have an excessive amount of toxins in your body. If you answer “yes” to the majority of the statements below, you have an excessive accumulation of ama:
1. I tend to feel obstruction/blockages in my body—constipation, congestion/heaviness in the head area, blocked nose, or a general feeling of non-clarity.
2. When I wake up in the morning, I do not feel clear; it takes me quite some time to feel really awake.
3. I tend to feel tired or exhausted mentally and physically.
4. I get common colds or similar ailments several times a year.
5. I tend to feel heaviness in the body.
6. I tend to feel that something is not functioning properly in the body – breathing, digestion, elimination or other.
7. I tend to feel lazy (i.e., the capacity to work is there, but there is no inclination).
8. I often suffer from indigestion.
9. I tend to spit repeatedly or have a bad taste in my mouth.
10. Often, I have no taste for food and no real appetite.
11. My tongue is often coated with a thick film, especially in the morning.
Everyone has some or many of these complaints at one time or another, and many of these are normal. Most people get several colds a year. Most people get indigestion. These vague statements are usually designed, in my opinion, to show how "common" an imaginary problem is by making all readers victims of this excess of ama. And on many websites, such lists, in my opinion, are simply used to draw in pigeons for the fleecing.
Believers in alternative medicine and real doctors are most certainly not talking about the same concepts using different words. We physicians are talking about real, measurable, testable concepts; things that can be seen, touched, altered. They are talking about imaginary energies and toxins that cannot be demonstrated to even exist, much less be manipulated to improve health.
There is a long history of real medicine, flaws and all, saving lives and improving health. All the rest is based on dreams and greed.
http://scientopia.org/blogs/whitecoatunderground/