Many of you have no doubt heard of Paul Bragg, who built a lucrative empire with such best-selling items as his book The Miracle of Fasting and Bragg Liquid Aminos (a soybean solution).
Bragg’s popularity as a health ‘guru’ relied heavily on the lavish claims he made about his health and longevity.
At age sixteen, so the story goes, he developed tuberculosis. After being given four months to live by his doctors, Bragg was taken by his nurse to a Swiss tuberculosis clinic run by a Dr. August Rollier. Bragg was allegedly cured by Rollier’s treatment, which was based on “live food, sunshine, fasting and exercise”. Bragg’s miracle recovery was so complete, so the tale goes, that he wrestled in the Olympics in 1908 and 1912.
Like most claims emanating from these health gurus, there is some pretty compelling evidence indicating Bragg’s story is a total farce:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/bragg.htm
By the way, if reading this article is unsettling because you’re a Bragg admirer, below is a textbook example of how not to respond. It’s a comment left on Facebook by a US natural health practitioner who, in knee-jerk fashion, automatically tripped into “shoot-the-messenger!” mode. He was upset – not at Bragg for lying – but at yours truly for having the temerity to link to an article that detailed Bragg’s duplicity!
Let’s be perfectly clear: False claims by so-called ‘health gurus’ can be dangerous, every bit as much as the scientifically untenable hogwash parading as mainstream dietary wisdom. Scientifically untenable health claims can, and do, cause and exacerbate serious health problems. Individuals with pre-existing ailments, who may understandably be frustrated by the apparent inability of ‘conventional medicine’ to provide a solution, should be very wary of embracing unproven treatments from self-styled health experts, many of whom bear rather disconcerting similarities to cult leaders.
An early copy of the Miracle of Fasting, written by insurance salesman-turned-health guru Paul Bragg.
Take example, the claim Bragg made in The Miracle of Fasting about passing a bolus of mercury while holidaying at his family homestead. The author of the above article casts doubt on this claim, but I’ll say it outright: I think Bragg’s mercury tale is utter garbage. If you are suffering, or believe you may be suffering, from mercury or other heavy metal toxicity, and think fasting will allow you to pass a neat shiny mercury turd, after which you will feel like a newborn person radiating boundless energy … I mean, do I really need to go on?
Heavy metal detoxification is not something to be taken lightly. Mercury especially is a rather stubborn and extremely toxic substance, one that is best removed as part of a carefully thought out protocol, with the proper safety precautions put in place, that employs truly effective chelating agents (no, not cilantro or “Zeolite” or ungodly amounts of garlic…).
By far the best book on mercury detoxification I have come across to date is Amalgam Illness, Diagnosis and Treatment : What You Can Do to Get Better, How Your Doctor Can Help
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Anthony Colpo is an independent researcher, physical conditioning specialist, and author of The Fat Loss Bible and The Great Cholesterol Con. For more information, visit TheFatLossBible.net or TheGreatCholesterolCon.com
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