Dr. Josh Axe discusses how modern medicine often misdiagnoses conditions and creates nutritional deficiencies through medication. He shares examples including his mother's misdiagnosis, cases of missed liver cancer, and how birth control can trigger yeast infections and thyroid problems.
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And I want to say this. The thing that irritates me the most about the medical profession, about a lot of doctors today, is they're constantly breaking the Hippocratic oath. First, do no harm. At one point, they told my mom, you have a 40% chance to live. How is that helping her? Well, it's hurting her. This has happened tens of thousands, if not millions of times, where a guy went in, was diagnosed with liver cancer, and they said, you have three months to live. They then went and did an autopsy. They misdiagnosed him. He didn't have liver cancer. No, didn't have liver cancer. Had a small, benign tumor on his liver. Could have been removed. Could have lived another 30, 40 years. When you take a medication, most people think all of the side effects are on the label. They're not. There's not a single drug that doesn't cause a nutritional deficiency. I've seen every time I had a woman come in, we're getting off birth control. Major candida and yeast issues. So it's been connected to numerous nutritional deficiencies. I also think it's causing and exacerbating hypothyroidism. The next half decade, I believe that we will see three centuries of medical advancement in half a decade. The reason for that is because.