Monday, April 23, 2018

He's got the "cure" for Parkinson's. Right.

On his videos, Lonnie Herman swears that he's got the cure for Parkinson's, cancer, interstitial cystitis,  you name it.

He uses lots of medical terms in his PD video.  He found strep in the patient's hematopoetic stem cells (bone marrow).  How?  He found it in the brain.  How?  He found a viral infection and chemicals in the brain.  How?  But don't doctors have to use actual tests, like blood tests, MRIs, biopsies, and so on to look for disease?

An infection in the teeth infected the patient's retina, and "I'm making remedies."

Herman also talks about athetoid movements and how a Parkinson's patient on his video has them.  Except, ahem, athetoid movements don't happen with PD; they happen with cerebral palsy.

Lonnie Herman is a Florida chiropractor who uses his Youtube channel to sell his services.  He is actually licensed to be a chiropractor in Florida (I checked).  But he claims to have "11 years of postgraduate study" but where?  His Facebook page lists the Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies, but when I search for recommendations from them of their graduates in his town, his name is absent from the list. Hm.

I was trying to figure out how he found all these infections in places where you could only find them via biopsy (surgical removal of tissue).  But, um, how does he biopsy the eyes, the bone marrow, and several parts of the brain? 

But then I hear him say that he uses bioresonance.  So what the heck is that?  According to Wikipedia, bioresonance therapy is a "pseudoscientific medical practice in which it is proposed that electromagnetic waves can be use to diagnose and treat human illness."  So he uses this bogus machine to diagnose and miraculously cure pretty much everything?  To quote Dr. Andrew Weil, speaking of bioresonance: "No evidence supports any of these claims.  In fact, the little scientific evidence that does exist refutes them." 

So, once again we have somebody selling hope.  Only, once again, it's snake oil.  .

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  2. Yes, he's a quack. I googled his "education" none were accredited colleges, no diplomas in his office. Said he could cure my sister's ALS

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