OH PLEASE!! I did my research..... many doctors believe in thermography, including mine who helped me recover from Lyme Disease.
11 of your so called expert doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me.
Amazing how you feel the need to put me down. You believe what you what you want to believe and I’ll take care of myself. Not all doctors think alike, you know!!
I wasn’t trying to “put you down” but you posted a link to “Dr.” Mercola’s website that is chock full of pseudoscience and unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of thermography, including claims it can diagnose diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, Carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, Crohn's disease … and that “inflammation is the culprit responsible or a precursor for many chronic diseases”.
His website also sells all sorts of dietary supplements and creams and a product called “Power Plate” which is some sort of vibration device that he claims is better and more effective than exercise. “Using PrecisionWave™ Technology – a high-fidelity harmonic vibration system – this revolutionary training technique delivers controlled waves of energy racing throughout your body.” All for the amazing discounted price of $7,999.00. Call now, operators are standing by. /sarcasm.
In addition the “Dr.” (actually not an MD BTW, but an Osteopath) sells his own brand of ceramic cookware, claiming that “common metal cookware” is “toxic” and he also sells the “Mercola Vitality Home Tanning Bed” claiming that it is better than sunshine for vitamin D production, actually reverses wrinkles and helps give you more youthful skin and provides temporary relief of muscle and joint pain, stiffness, and spasm and improves blood circulation (oh and you can get a nice tan from it). That’s right, mammograms are bad but tanning beds are good for you, well at least he claims his are good for you.
Among the “services” other than thermography offered at Dr. Mercola's Natural Health Center are: Detoxification, Chiropractic, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Homeopathy, Neuro-Structural Integration Technique (NST), Nutritional Typing Test, Total Body Modification (TBM), Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) – all a bunch of hokum to separate fools from their money and even more dangerous, to convince people that they shouldn’t trust modern medicine but instead should buy his products and services for big $$$. He is also anti-vaccination and makes many other ridiculous, false, unscientific and unsubstantiated claims, all while trying to sell you expensive products and services that you don’t need. And if that isn’t the definition of modern day snake oil salesman, I don’t know what is.
Thermography does have a place as a legitimate diagnostic tool under some circumstances by those properly trained in its use, but it is not a replacement for mammography along with regular self breast exams for the early detection of breast cancer.
Again, I’m not trying to “put you down”, but you posted a link to the website, and I’m just asking you to more research and to do so with a critical mind, not an emotional mind. Mammograms are not dangerous, they are not really painful, the amount of radiation is not dangerous, they will not “give” you breast cancer, they will not “crush” your breast and spread breast cancer if there is any and are much better at detecting early stage breast cancer than thermography.
Another example would be the death of George Washington who was bled to death by doctors thinking they were getting rid of poisons in the blood.
And what “Dr.” Mercola's Natural Health Center is promoting is the modern equivalent of “blood letting”.