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Ralph Moss: Kombucha Reconsidered

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Dr. Moss claim to fame was initiated when he became a non-mainstream icon as a result of being fired after he ratted out his employers at the ultra mainstream Memorial-Sloan Kettering for hiding and doctoring their own studies on laetrile, and then proceeded to become a well known anti-mainstream voice. It appears to me that after years of bucking the establishment, he appears to be joining the trend of alternative voices who are being welcomed into the fold by mainstream medicine, and in the process appear to be putting out more and more anti-alternative information.

Maybe I am wrong, and maybe I am still a bit irked by a warning of Dr. Moss about the dangers of using an extract of the poisonous oleander plant instead of opting for mainstream created and approved versions that were in FDA trials - an odd contrast to his embrace of the strchnine containing laetrile that mainstream medicine has villified and warned against forever.

I agree that Moss still does come up with some good and thought-provoking information. He also rakes in money by the tons for his books and his mostly staff-created individual cancer reports (at $300 plus per pop), as well as appearance fees, etc., and I note that he is increasingly being invited to attend mostly mainstream and mainstream sponsored CAM events.

I have seen estimates that as many as 3,000,000 people in the US regularly consume Kombucha and an incredible 500 million worldwide. Kombucha use reportedly dates back to 400 BC, when it originated in what is now known as Korea. And so, given all that history of use and number of users and his own admission of how he liked the way it made him feel, Moss decides to revisit kombucha based on 3 incidences among all the millions of users?

If it were that dangerous, and if it had little or no benefits (as we are told by mainstream studies, or as indicated by the lack of such studies), then one would have to assume a far wider number of adverse advents would have come to the fore by now.

By comparison, Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are responsible for 16,500 deaths annually and more than 100,000 hospitalizations in the United States as a result of peptic ulcers and gastrointestinal complications.

While I am a fan of both kombucha and green tea (Camellia sinensis), I note that green tea contains lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. Though none of these are typically found to be in concentrations greater than 10 ppm, if one wanted to make a similar negative article about the dangers of green tea it would appear to be a fairly easy task, don't you think?

All the best,

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For an eye-opening look at the controversies that have surrounded Bayer - one of the group of companies that helped put Adolph Hitler in power, made the Zyklon B used in the Nazi death camps, invented mustard gas and discovered and marketed heroin - take a look at this entry in Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer

Not exactly the same image you see of the cute baby on the baby aspirin bottles is it?

Yes, alternative and natural medicine must have proof - proof that is defined by the agency that serves as a protection racket for mainstream medicine as successfully completed FDA trials. Never mind that it costs hundreds of millions to conduct such trials and bring a product to market and that no one could ever recover such costs for non-patentable natural alternatives.

Two illustrations that stand out to me, among a long littany of excesses and absurdities, are first of all the FDA's threats against Washington cherry growers for daring to claim health benefits and second of all the FDA raid and shut down of the company in Florida that made Bitter Melon tea for daring to refer to some of the 650 PubMed studies that documented the health benefits of bitter melon (charantia). Since those studies were NOT FDA trials, they did not count as scientific proof and thus referring to them and the health benefits they documented made bitter melon an unapproved drug.

Grrrrrr!

All the best,

Tony

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