When it comes to exploring alternative or holistic health practices, consumers should engage in extensive due diligence guided by a qualified healthcare professional. Health is an intensely personal matter. But what happens if the online platforms prevent that due diligence?

It’s already been documented how Big Tech attempts to censor, de platform, and de-monetize right-of-center content along with deeming any pro-Trump website, or any even-handed reporting outlet for that matter, as unreliable or a purveyor of fake news.

In an Orwellian ploy that involves algorithm intervention, fake news in the Big Tech lexicon generally applies to any information that doesn’t validate a far-left agenda. This is obviously very disturbing as the 2020 election approaches and Silicon Valley mobilizes to stop a Trump reelection.

President Trump has pounced on the term fake news to describe the perpetually outraged and inaccurate mainstream media.

Manipulation of search along with other anti-free-speech techniques and whatnot have unfortunately extended beyond politics into the natural health realm, according to Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies and journalist Maryam Henein.

According to Henein, “Google has become the digital Thought Police for health content, tampering and manipulating information, and shadow banning health professionals and independent journalists.”

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Dr. Joseph Mercola provides some insight as to why this is happening:

“So, who’s behind this rise of ‘technofascism’? Henein suspects Big Pharma has a hand in it, considering the fact that drug advertising is a major profit center for Google, and the fact that alternative and holistic news sites have been actively shadow banned, to where you can no longer find them in Google’s search results…Vorhies agrees, pointing out that the drug industry by and large own the very organizations that are promoting things that are known to be harmful to health, be it fluoride, mercury amalgam fillings, one-size-fits-all vaccine policies, sugar or junk food.

“The simple reality is that conventional health care is a for-profit business and as such it depends on repeat customers. There’s no money in wellness. The money is in chronic disease.

“Promoting disease prevention and low- or no-cost treatments is not part of the drug industry’s agenda — it’s diametrically opposed to and a direct competitor to it. As noted by Vorhies, what we’re seeing is the creation of an artificial demand for products and services that aren’t in our best interest. Meanwhile, there are countless of examples of inexpensive lifestyle-based strategies putting serious diseases into remission, yet you never hear about them because, as Vorhies points out, ‘Big Pharma is colluding with Google to shut down these counter-narratives.'”

Dr. Mercola says that he conducted his own video interview with Vorhies. It will be embedded here once it becomes available, so check back for updates.

When it comes nutritional and vitamin supplements, some products don’t live up to the hype and/or contain substandard ingredients. On the other hand, millions of consumers have experienced positive results with supplementation combined with dietary and lifestyle changes. It’s also worth noting that Mercola.com, along with many other holistic health websites, market their own products.

Microbiologist P.D. Mangan, who is very active on Twitter, has pointed out how conventional experts have a dismal track record in their dietary recommendations, including promoting the food pyramid. Low-fat food advocacy seems to have turned out to be a particular fiasco.

Among other things, Mangan has warned against ingesting sugar, high carbs, and vegetable oil, a.k.a. seed oil, and grains.

Contrary to current thinking, he advocates eating more read meat plus intermittent fasting and weightlifting. Your mileage may vary, however, as the commercial indicates.

A recent study has cast doubt on the anti-meat narrative (which seems to be part of a larger narrative, but that’s discussion for another day), as the Los Angeles Times noted on October 9:

“Eggs are bad; eggs are good. Fat is bad; fat is good. Meat is bad; meat is… OK? That last food flip-flop made big headlines last week. It was a ‘remarkable turnabout,’ ‘jarring,’ ‘stunning.’ How, it was asked, could seemingly bedrock nutrition advice turn on a dime?

“The answer is that many of the nation’s official nutrition recommendations — including the idea that red meat is a killer — have been based on a type of weak science that experts have unfortunately become accustomed to relying upon. Now that iffy science is being questioned. At stake are deeply entrenched ideas about healthy eating and trustworthy nutrition guidelines, and with many scientists invested professionally, and even financially, in the status quo, the fight over the science won’t be pretty…

“Last week’s news, however, goes a long way toward removing health effects from the list of reasons for favoring a vegetarian diet. The highly rigorous four-paper review of the science, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine journal, looked at all the research examining health and red meat and concluded that only ‘low- or very low-certainty’ evidence existed to show that this meat causes any kind of disease — not cancer, not heart disease, not Type 2 diabetes. Eating red meat isn’t killing us…”

For what it’s worth, some vegans have recently come forward to admit that they have abandoned a plant-based diet after apparently developing auto-immune issues. Again, individuals need to seek out their own health advice and make decisions with their healthcare provider that are tailored to their own needs and best interests.

In general, however, and especially given America’s obesity epidemic, informed health freedom rather than censorship seems to be the better prescription.

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