Dr. Mercola's Comment:

This is unbelievable! I had heard of lobotomies of course, but had never read the gruesome details. I don't know who popularized the statement "truth is stranger than fiction" but this seems to be the case.

It is hard to imagine a fiction writer coming up with anything more bizarre than some mentally unstable doctor running free around the country putting an icepick into people's brains to solve their emotional problems.

Some of you might say, "Well, that was ancient history, and doctors today know far more"

Folks, anyone reading this today who is older than 32 was alive when Freeman did his last lobotomy in 1967.

Still some skeptics might say "Procedures like that are not done anymore today"

UNTRUE

Let's look at two of the most popular procedures done in the US today.

Insertion of tubes into children's ear for chronic ear infections. Folks, this is just as barbaric and unnecessary as the lobotomy procedure described above. Fortunately patients don't die from this one. BUT many do develop chronic hearing loss as a result of the procedure.

Do ANY of the tens of thousands of physicians doing this procedure truly believe that busting a young child's ear drum is really addressing the reason why that child has chronic ear infections?

Why is this as equally unnecessary as the lobotomies? Because diet and structural realignment resolves this problem in just about 100% of the cases WITHOUT surgery. I myself have successfully treated thousands of cases of recurrent ear infections that never come back unless the child strays from the diet program. (see link below)

How about removing someone's gallbladder?

Surgeons yank out nearly one million of these a year in the US.

Nearly all of these are also unnecessary. Of course most physicians wait beyond the point where recovery can occur and the patient progresses to an acute surgical emergency which requires the gallbladder to be removed.

But if the patient is caught early and instructed on proper diet and exercise therapy (see below), nearly all of these surgeries could be avoided.

But to add insult to injury, virtually EVERY surgeon tells the patient that their gallbladder really isn't necessary anyway and that there is no problem in removing it.

Well nothing could be further from the truth. The gallbladder stores bile and without bile it is very difficult for your body to properly emulsify fats to absorb them. Trying to get fat into your body without a gallbladder is like trying to wash greasy dishes without soap. You can do it, but not very well.

Folks, I am now on a mission.

I will NOT tolerate these types of abuse anymore. If you find this procedure as appalling as I do and want to prevent similar abuses in this country please join me on my mission.

How can you help? By having as many people as possible sign up for this newsletter. I am convinced that the way we are going to transform the traditional paradigm is by educating the public. We are not going to do it by changing physicians.

What is the most effective way to get people to sign up for the newsletter? Copy one article that really moves you and send it to as many of your closest friends and family as you feel moved to along with a note encouraging them to sign up so they can learn more about how to stay healthy.

You Can Make A Difference

I am only one person doing this work, and 20,000 of you are now reading this newsletter. If we get the numbers up to one million --

We Will Make A Difference

and you can have a huge part in making sure abuses like the above do NOT happen to any of your friends and relatives.