Greetings, it's Eric Bakker, the naturopath. Thanks for coming back to my channel. Now,
what are medical doctors' responses to CanXida products and the NZ Formulations products, vitamin
C and the Omega-3? Well, surprisingly good. Surprisingly good. There are many medical doctors
I know in Australia, in New Zealand who like these products. But mind you, we have many doctors
down here that have trained at the Institute of Functional Medicine, the IFM. Many doctors I know
are medically qualified, but have gone on there to do post-graduate studies in my kind of field,
looking more at nutrition, looking more at herbal medicines, looking at homeopathic medicines,
looking at different types of approaches apart from pharmaceutical approaches.
I just read a very interesting article online about a medical doctor, who's very frustrated.
She's a psychiatrist, and she's extremely frustrated that medicine pays no attention
to supplementation or nutrition at all with psychiatry, where they purely think that
people who've got mental health issues need pharmaceutical drugs to cure them. You know?
It's crazy. And it shows you how unenlightened we are in this day and age with all these
smartphones. We've got a lot of dumb people out there, but a lot of smart technology.
People still don't try and understand that supplements, especially high quality ones,
really do work with a lot of people. We're very biased still towards pharmacy.
So when we've got medical doctors, we've got different camps. Just like we have with religion
and politics and education, everything else, we've got the extreme right and we've got the extreme
left. We only have to look around the world at the political situation to see how extreme everything
is at the moment. Many countries are basically dictatorships, aren't they? If we look at some,
where the military come to power and they throw out the democratically-elected people,
and it's no different in my field. I've seen people in my industry laughed at,
called quacks and shonks and idiots. Even after 20, 30 years of doing this kind of work
and getting good outcomes, they're still treated like second class lepers. You know what I mean?
But we've got the hard core doctor, who always believed that pharmaceutical drugs cure and all
the rest is unproven, the hardcore. And then we've got the soft core on the other side, who
were doctors, medical doctors, abandoned that and started to get into my work. And we've got a whole
range of people in between. So there's no one doctor and doctor's opinion that's really valid.
It really depends on the experience of the person. It depends on how they're practicing,
what duress they're practicing under. The medical association sometimes comes down and really hard.
Let's not forget that it was only a hundred years ago, less than a hundred years ago
in America, when a doctor practiced homeopathy or recommended massage or herbal medicine,
that they were struck off. They were just taken off the medical register. They were seen as
complete idiots. At one stage, doctors were even told not to give lifestyle advice to people but
just to prescribe pharmaceutical medications; a very biased system, still very biased today.
Overpriced, overinflated, pharmaceutical medications, especially for cancer patients,
often cost pennies to manufacture but are sold for millions. Not really good, is it?
So I'm not here to complain and moan about the medical profession. I've got huge
respect for medical people, the training and the constraints that they practice under are immense.
Many of my dear friends are medical doctors, so I'm not sinking the boot into them.
But I am here to tell you that many doctors don't like supplementation. And even though
they know that vitamin D is required, that iodine and calcium and these minerals are required,
they will still not prescribe them. They'll tell you to eat healthy and give you a sheet
that tells you eat to white bread and crap like that. But those doctors are slowly going off.
We're getting a new breed through now that pay a lot more attention to supplementation, even basic
supplementation like vitamin C and magnesium, things that most people should be taking because
people just aren't eating food that contains these things anymore. That's the saddest part.
So when you start eating really well, extremely well, and you grow a lot of food,
fresh vegetables and fruits, and you consume these on a regular basis,
your need for supplements is nowhere near as great as it is than if you eat processed foods
and go to Uber Eats, and everything's just dial on your cell phone, it gets dropped in your lap.
Those aren't quality meals. In that case, supplementation is very important. But again,
when you get sick and go to the doctor, you're not given any advice. So what do you do?
Well, you look at channels like this. You go to YouTube and you go and talk to different
people. And you have a look at people's health at varying ages and see what they eat. And you'll
soon work out that the healthiest people are the ones that eat the best food but also take
some quality supplements on the side. So I believe that over time, medicine will accept nutritional
medicine, which I'm involved in, more and more and more because they'll realize that the drugs just
aren't where it's at. We do need drugs. I've got no doubt about that. We need pharmaceuticals,
but not at the extent that we're using them today.
So what do the doctors think about these supplements?
It varies from the sublime to the ridiculous, depends on the doctor. But after all,
it's your call. When you get a supplement, you've got to think carefully what you're doing,
read up on it and try and get a little bit of education behind it,
and then start using it to see how it benefits you in your life. And that's the important thing.
It's about your life, not about someone's opinion of your life. Thanks for tuning in.