Just some quick reference points on why Creve supports Dr. Mercola's work:

 

T: What's your medical background, doc?

Dr. Mercola: I'm trained in both traditional and natural medicine. I've been a practicing physician since the early 1980s, and practicing natural medicine actively since 1990. I'm an osteopathic physician, or "DO." DOs, along with MDs, are licensed to prescribe medication and perform standard surgery, but DOs bring something extra to the practice of medicine.
Osteopathic physicians practice a "whole person" approach to medicine, treating the entire person rather than just the symptoms. With a focus on preventive health care, DOs help patients develop attitudes and lifestyles that don't just fight illness, but help prevent it, too. I'm also board-certified in family medicine. My practice, The Optimal Wellness Center, is based in a suburb of Chicago and is focused on creating entire health programs for patients based around individualized eating plans.

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Dr. Mercola, the New York Times best-selling author, has helped countless people to reach their health and weight loss goals. An osteopathic physician, board certified in family medicine, Dr. Mercola is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health using solely natural means.

Dr. Mercola’s natural health Web site, www.Mercola.com, has been the most visited natural health site on the Internet, with over 12 million page views every month. More than 1 million people subscribe to Dr. Mercola’s free e-mail newsletter, which has been in circulation since 1998.

Both national and local media have featured Dr. Mercola’s health and nutrition advice, including ABC News with Peter Jennings, The Today Show, CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox News.

After graduating from both the University of Illinois and the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Mercola served as the chairman of the department of family medicine at St. Alexius Hospital in Hoffman Estates, IL. In 1985, he founded The Optimal Wellness Center in Schaumburg, IL, which quickly became well-known for its whole-body approach to medicine.

Dr. Mercola’s best-selling books have taken the country by storm, offering simple and natural solutions to the chronic ills facing so many people. Most of all, Dr. Mercola’s philosophy centers on using food, exercise, stress management, and lifestyle approaches to tap into your body’s inherent ability to heal.

Through his decades of experience, he has been able to successfully help people recover from chronic illnesses -- typically without using drugs or surgery. Today, Dr. Mercola continues to share his health knowledge with the world through his Web site and his all-new clinic, The Natural Health Center. Ultimately, he hopes to transform the disease-centered conventional medical paradigm in the United States, into one of healing, transformation, and personal empowerment.

On a personal level, Dr. Mercola has been an active runner since 1968, and completed the Chicago Marathon in just over three hours. He has also been a computer hobbyist since 1985, with an interest in the Internet that dates back to the early 1990s. It is now through this venue that Dr. Mercola is able to speak to the world, exposing the many problems with modern health care, and conferring with the top experts in the world on how to fix them.

At the most basic level, whether you are a patient at The Natural Health Center, or a member of the Mercola.com community, Dr. Mercola wants you to know how to become healthy, and he has dedicated his life to making that happen.

Please note, Dr. Mercola no longer sees patients

Since I started this web site 12 years ago, the most common criticism I get is that I sell products on the site. I believe this is related to a perceived conflict of interest, so I want to directly address this concern.

Why Do I Sell Products?

...However, despite the fact that I was the only employee and didn’t draw a salary, it cost me more than $500,000 to keep the site up and running for the first three years. It quickly became self-evident that I couldn’t continue that way for much longer.

A couple of obvious options were to start using paid advertising, or get investors. But I didn’t want to be limited in sharing my view of health truths, and I didn’t want to be handcuffed to endorse anything I didn’t truly believe in.

So my last option was to sell products that I personally believe in and can comfortably endorse...

Where Does the Money Go?
I recently moved my medical clinic, which had been located in a strip mall in Schaumburg, just outside of Chicago since 1985, to a brand new, state-of-the-art building.
Since environmental health is a concern of mine and I wanted to create the healthiest office possible for my staff, we built the “greenest” building we could.
So green, in fact, the building is not only LEED certified but it will likely receive platinum certification, which is the highest certification level that can be awarded. (LEED certification is what the government uses to quantify how green a building is.) If we receive this certification, we’ll be one of just 17 buildings in the entire U.S. to have that level of certification.
The proceeds from this site also go to pay the site’s 100-plus staff, which includes researchers, editors, IT personnel, and customer service. This magnificent, diverse team is what makes it possible to provide all this valuable information to you -- information that has, and continues to make a real difference in so many people’s lives.
Paying the Price for Telling the Truth


Another hidden expense that no one ever sees or hears about, and probably never thinks about, are legal fees.
Legal fees are the inevitable result of having a virtual target on my back. After all, my health recommendations go against the conventional grain, and frequently contradict the long-term benefit and interest of many multi-national, multi-billion-dollar corporations that don’t want the truth to be told.
So they frequently generate frivolous lawsuits to harass and intimidate me from sharing what I know. But I refuse to capitulate and surrender to these kinds of scare tactics, and I will continue to tell the truth as I know it. However, there’s oftentimes a price to be paid.
I have paid well over six figures in legal fees to defend my ability to tell the truth to you, and I have never asked for donations for this legal defense. I felt very strongly it was my responsibility to serve you in ways that would generate a profit so I could pay for my own legal defense.
However, by no means am I the only one these corporate influences are targeting. They are running so scared now that they have even attacked famous celebrities. A prime example of this disturbing trend of blatant intimidation is the recent media bashing of Oprah.
Newsweek magazine published a not-too-flattering image of Oprah on the cover of their magazine and basically called her CRAZY for endorsing alternative medicine. That’s how you know WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE, and the Big Pharma cartel that has conventional medicine in a choke-hold, and most of the traditional media in their pocket, is getting nervous.
I'm absolutely committed to catalyzing change in this fatally flawed health care system, which causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths in the U.S. and needless suffering to millions across the world.
I’m also committed to preserving your health freedom, and so every time you purchase something on Mercola.com, the profits go to further this mission.
 

T: I find your ideas fascinating, but I have to be honest, some of your recommendations seems to go a little overboard. Here are some examples:
You say: women should not wear underwire bras because the metal is bad for them, don't use microwaves, don't stay up after 10 PM, don't use an electric razor, don't get a root canal, don't drink water with meals, don't use fluoride in your toothpaste, don't get your kids vaccinated, don't swim in chlorinated pools, don't chew gum and don't carry your car door remote in your pocket.
Honestly, this stuff may help me live longer, but I'd die anyway from stressing out over it all!


Mercola: These are fine-tuning recommendations that can be ignored if one chooses when they're healthy. Please remember, I'm managing many thousands of patients with chronic illnesses who've been to the best-of-the-best traditional medical doctors but got no positive change from them. Many times these seemingly crazy recommendations I make — recommendations based on facts provided through reputable sources, by the way, not "magic" or guesswork — do indeed result in dramatically positive results for these patients.


Most, but not all, of the recommendations you just listed damage only in small ways on an individual basis, and a reasonably healthy person has enough reserve to compensate for that damage to some extent. But the damage of all these things is cumulative, and over time will lead to many different types of degenerative illness.
Just as in other areas of life, if you follow some of the advice, you'll be better off than following none of it. It's most wise, of course, to focus on the basic advice, which includes eating an optimized diet and addressing your emotional wounds and barriers with an effective tool like EFT. Nearly all of us have some internal bioelectrical short-circuiting from previous negative life events that's limiting us from experiencing the fullness that life has to offer.

also:
T: Okay, fair enough. But I'd like to play the "bad cop" just once more. You've been called paranoid and your ideas have been called "health paranoia personified." Many have also called for studies that back up some of the stranger claims. How do you respond to your critics?


Mercola: Actually, this is the first I've heard of that particular label. But people can say what they want to say. I'm not offended in the least, and certainly not surprised. I'm typically ten to twenty years ahead of the pack in many areas. When I first started running in 1968, people were literally throwing rocks and cans at me as they thought I was some sort of nut. You'd never see anyone running in the street in the 60s; now there are millions of people running.
I could go on and on with dozens of other examples, but the real question is this, what's my real motivation? And what's the real motivation of those criticizing me and other natural physicians?
Those who criticize natural physicians like me tend to come from the traditional medical establishment, meaning they are the medical practitioners, hospitals and research groups purchased by pharmaceutical companies and other giant healthcare corporations and therefore addicted to prescribing drugs, surgery and other band-aids to patch up versus end or avoid diseases. If they're consumers joining in on the criticizing, they tend to be heavily influenced by TV and other mass media, whose messages are, of course, largely purchased by the traditional medical establishment.
The existing medical establishment's primary trick is to get consumers to forget the most important question — their real motivation — by dazzling you with what appears to be magnificently trustworthy qualifications. But their "clinical studies" conducted by heavily biased "researchers," their advertisements and news stories carefully scripted to scare you into belief, their highly polished corporate offices and corporate websites, and their extreme focus on whatever has the most profit potential versus health potential, aren't qualifications at all! They aren't "factual." They're scams designed to feed greed.


T: So, criticisms from the medical establishment aren't much of a surprise to you?


Mercola: Obviously, when a natural physician comes along with the aim of telling the truth to enable people to live longer and rely far less on patchwork healthcare, they'll try to stick all sorts of negative labels on me. I'm a threat to their profit, so they call me "paranoid" or a "quack" or whatever they think will instantly appeal to the easily misled, the blind followers, in our society.
Meanwhile, it doesn't take a lot of deep thought to realize that my program, at its heart, is based entirely on common sense: an ideal diet and lifestyle, the things you do and do not put into your body everyday, and the way you treat and maintain your body and mind are far more important to your health and well-being than choosing between, say, pain relievers. How often though do you see commercials promoting romaine lettuce or vegetables in general, versus those promoting Tylenol, Motrin and all the other pain relievers? Who, in other words, has really cornered the market on paranoia?


So, then, what's my motivation? My motivation — which is truly my passion — is to find the absolute best strategies that address the foundational causes of disease so people's health is restored and optimized for a longer and more fulfilling life. In my experience with the nearly 20,000 patients I've seen, and secondarily, in my years of discussions with other medical practitioners and my ongoing research of traditional and alternative medical studies, I've learned an extensive amount about all the particulars I recommend.
The vast majority of those patients who were consistently compliant with my recommendations improved their health. With the people I saw earlier on in my practice, the percentage was much lower, but now my success rate is well over 90%. The people who trust me with guiding them back to health are the only ones I'm responsible to. That's why I seek to provide them with the best of the best. As for those who simply parrot the tainted criticisms of the traditional medical establishment, well, it's their loss, not mine.

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Mercola’s web site is the # 1 most visited natural health site on the internet. In addition to the above, Dr. Mercola believes:

We should all be eating fewer grains as well as sugar, even the whole variety such as whole grains and fruit.

Your emotional health has great bearing on your physical health.

We all have different metabolic types, and we can use that as a guide to a better eating plan that will work for each of us individually.

Corn is a grain, not a vegetable, and is the second-most genetically modified crop in the US. It is also high in mycotoxins, which can lead to cancer, heart disease and other problems. We should severely limit our intake of corn and corn products, which are found in many processed foods.

Eating lots of vegetables, especially those that are low on the glycemic index and rich in color, is healthy for all of us.

Drinking lots of pure water every day is important for your health. Most tap water contains chlorine and fluoride, two substances that are harmful to your health. Contrary to some popular opinion, many studies and experts have shown that the risks of fluoride greatly outweigh any possible benefits. These substances can be absorbed though the skin with showers and baths. Distilled water should be avoided for several reasons, one of which is that it is overly acidic.

Regular exercise is important.

Fish/Krill oil supplements are important for your health, unless you eat a lot of wild fatty fish like salmon and mackerel. There is a big problem today getting enough of the good fats like EPA and DHA that we need because they are found predominantly in fish and seafood, and these foods often contain toxic levels of mercury and other contaminants. Flax can be another major source of these fats, but a conversion has to take place in the body in order to provide these fats, and many studies have shown that flax does not get converted to these good fats in much of the population. In Dr. Mercola’s opinion, you should only eat fish or fish oil supplements that have been certified free of these contaminants.

Probiotics are one of the few other supplements that Dr. Mercola recommends, especially if you are not eating “fermented” foods like yogurt and raw sauerkraut on a daily basis. He recommends the “Primal Defense” brand by Garden of Life.

Buy and use organic or locally grown products as much as possible.