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Como si no tuvieramos suficientes médicos brujos en la Argentina.


Este curandero dice que "sanar el cáncer es un arte", y propone la "oncología ortomolecular", descripta en su página como :

Cada ciclo de tratamiento toma diez semanas consecutivas durante las que se realizan 40 aplicaciones endovenosas, y 20 sesiones de Hipertermia. Cada suero contiene megadosis de nutrientes, cofactores, hormonas, angiostáticos naturales y otros fármacos apropiados segun el caso. (Las dosis de nutrientes empleadas están en el rango de megadosis, por ejemplo 60.000 mg de ácido ascórbico por aplicación). Paralelamente, cada día se realizan cinco tomas orales de un panel de otros 30 suplementos nutricionales también en rango de megadosis, y diversas técnicas de apoyo como la Inmunoterapia, el Qi Gong, la Reflexología y la Audioterapia. El tratamiento consta asimismo de un programa nutricional especial denominado ReCNO® (Regulación Cetogénica y Nutrición Ortomolecular) y la constante atención y monitoreo por parte de los doctores, psicoterapéutas y naturópatas a cargo.

Leamos un poco sobre esto :

A 2002 survey found that around one in twenty-five US adults uses megadose therapy, a practice particularly common among cancer patients. Nutrients may be useful in preventing and treating some illnesses, but the broad claims made by advocates of megavitamin therapy are considered unsubstantiated by available medical evidence. Critics have described some aspects of orthomolecular medicine as food faddism or quackery. Research suggests that some nutritional supplements might be harmful; several specific vitamin therapies are associated with an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, or death.

Mas adelante :

Orthomolecular therapies have been criticized as lacking a sufficient evidence base for clinical use: their scientific foundations are too weak, the studies that have been performed are too few and too open to interpretation, and reported positive findings in observational studies are contradicted by the results of more rigorous clinical trials. Accordingly, "there is no evidence that orthomolecular medicine is effective". [...]

The lack of scientifically rigorous testing of orthomolecular medicine has led to its practices being classed with other forms of alternative medicine and regarded as unscientific. It has been described as food faddism and quackery, with critics arguing that it is based upon an "exaggerated belief in the effects of nutrition upon health and disease." Orthomolecular practitioners will often use dubious diagnostic methods to define what substances are "correct"; one example is hair analysis, which produces spurious results when used in this fashion. [...]

The claims made by orthomolecular medicine proponents have been rejected by the medical community as unsubstantiated or false; as of 2009, current evidence does not support the efficacy of orthomolecular medicine in treating any disease. [...]

El sitio de este aplicador de sanguijuelas muestra unas estadísticas de sobrevida de enfermos terminales, en base a estudios realizados por los doctores Cameron y Hoffer. Estos dos "científicos" están asociados a las clásicas teorías conspirativas :

Advocates of orthomolecular medicine, including Pauling, Hoffer and Ewan Cameron have claimed that their findings are actively suppressed by a conspiracy of mainstream medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. Hoffer wrote that "there is no conspiracy led and directed by a single person or by a single organization ... [h]owever, there is a conspiracy led and directed by a large number of professionals and their associations who have a common aim to protect their hard-earned orthodoxy, no matter what the cost to their opponent colleagues or to their patients". [...] Mainstream medicine regards such claims of a conspiracy as unsubstantiated. A review in the Journal of Clinical Oncology described such conspiracy theories, which allege collusion amongst physicians against unconventional and unproven treatments, as a common theme in many forms of alternative medicine.

Pregunta... por que a estos vendedores de ilusiones se los recibe con los brazos abiertos y se le permite dar conferencias en el Hilton para esquilmar a la gente ?

Algún comentario de la Academia Nacional de Medicina ?