The Story Behind Being Drugless?

We then flash back to Bob who says, “People today have been manipulated, by the media and by the manufacturers of food and the medical institutions, to take a medication literally for everything.” Looking past the paranoia, he may have a point regarding Americans being over-medicated; I have to admit, after working with children in America, I believe that they do have a tendency to over-medicate certain conditions (I feel I have to give a bit of a disclaimer here: I have no medical background and I am very aware that I could be 100% incorrect). However, it becomes very clear soon after making this point that Bob isn’t just talking about things like medication for ADHD, as he tries to convince people taking medicine for blood pressure to stop using it, and for people with diabetes to reduce the amount of insulin they take.

Bob then shows us how little he knows about medicine, by staying that “one medication has ten bad effects”. He’s not talking about a specific drug here, he is stating that all meds have a guaranteed ten side effects (or ‘bad’ effects as Bob calls them, because he believes there are no good side effects). To everyone reading this, it’s obvious that not every pill is going to have ten side effects; some may have more and some may have less. Some meds may even have positive side effects, as is the case with Gabapentin; it’s used for the treatment of seizures but its side effects are useful in treating bipolar disorder, hot flushes, migraine and restless leg syndrome, to name a few.

Bob then takes it one step further, by saying that all side effects grow exponentially with every drug you take: “One medication has ten bad effects. If you take two meds – now listen to me now – it’s exponentially increased to a hundred. Take three it goes to a thousand. Then ten thousand. A hundred thousand, A million, ten million. If you’re taking nine medications a day – and I have had patients take as many as twenty three medications a day when they came into our office – that’s a billion inter-reactions that we don’t even know what’s going on.”

Let’s look past him accidentally swearing at everyone in the UK for a second, and how stupid and badly worded the statement was; it should be mentioned that it is also mathematically incorrect. If someone was taking 23 meds a day, with Bob’s exponential growth there would be 1×10 23 side-effects not 1×10 9. That’s an error of 100,000,000,000,000 magnitude. Again not every pill, jab, cream, etc is going to react in the same way. Some may have more negative side effects when used in conjunction with one another and some may be used together without any extra side effects.

Bob then begins to talk about diabetes. He claims that 95% of all diabetes is “directly related to their lifestyle” and that it can be managed by exercising and eliminating carbs alone. Bob seems unaware that there are two very different types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the cells that produce insulin. As a result, the body is unable to produce insulin. Type 2 develops when the body does not produce enough insulin to maintain a normal blood glucose level, or the body us unable to used the insulin that is being produced. Both are different and should be treated differently on a patient to patient basis. By not making a distinction between the two, suggesting that the majority of both are caused by lifestyle choices and that both can be maintained with exercise and eliminating carbs alone, Bob has shown how little he knows on the subject. To anyone reading this with diabetes and contemplating using Bobs advice, you should not underestimate the potential dangers of mismanaging your condition. By coming off your medication (as promoted by Bob) you run the risk of going into a coma, possible amputation(s) and death.

I found myself cringing when Bob was talking about family members with erection problems, but the worst part of this video is when he brings up the death of his own parents. He says that their Alzheimer’s and dementia could have been helped with ‘drug free living’ but they refused to listen to him. Although there are no known cures for Alzheimer’s or dementia, there are meds that give people a better quality of life as their condition continues to deteriorate. I find it unbelievable that someone is using the death of his own parents to promote his bizarre and potentially harmful views on medical health, without any medical or scientific evidence to back them up.

I would like to end with a quote from Bob that shows his level of medical knowledge. It’s a quote that shows that he is not one to be trusted on any medical matter. It’s a quote that any one who has ever taken penicillin in the past knows is utter bullshit: “Medications don’t cure anything. Medications manage symptoms.”