First, allow me to thank you for being a newsletter subscriber and being a part of the natural health movement. For you to read the newsletter means that you are interested in educating yourself on how to achieve optimal health and in making the world a healthier place for all.
My personal mission in life is to educate people on how to live longer and happier through lifestyle changes and natural medicine. I believe most drugs and surgery should only be used as a last resort. But our conventional medical system (controlled by the drug companies) brainwashes doctors to prescribe drugs for every symptom you have and not address the real cause of your problems. Tragically, the vast majority of patients follow their doctors' orders without question.
In 1997, I started the Mercola.com website and the E-Healthy News You Can Use newsletter because I believed the only way we can change the current fatally flawed conventional medical system is to teach physicians and patients that there are far better ways to resolve disease with natural medicine.
How Much Do I Take from Mercola.com?
For the past eight years I have lived frugally and used most of my personal income as a physician to pay for the Mercola.com website and newsletter. It was only in 2003 that Mercola.com was able to just break even with product sales instead of running in the red. This was a great victory!
But the overhead expenses are ever mounting. In the last 12 months we had to buy new software for the website to the tune of over one million dollars. This is in addition to our regular overhead costs for programmers, IT consultants, managers, writers, editors, bookkeepers, lawyers, rent, insurance, etc. In the last 12 months I've also had to pay tens of thousands in attorney fees because the FDA wants to shut down the website on the basis that we aren't allowed to make "health claims".
In others words, we aren't allowed to educate people on the benefits of natural health products. It appears that only drug companies and the giant food corporation have the freedom of speech in this country to state the benefits of a product. So far this year, I've had to once again use my personal and retirement savings to cover for these additional expenses and I cannot continue the newsletter if we do not have income to support the overhead.
I cannot afford this expense on my own so I am counting on readers like you to help support the newsletter so we can continue to make this vital information available. I'm not going to ask for a donation because we are not set up as a non-profit organization at this time so your donation would not be tax-deductible. This may change in the future. But in the meantime, if you'd like to support our health revolution, I would greatly appreciate it if you ordered a product or two from the Mercola.com store.
I want you to know, I've never taken a penny in salary from Mercola.com because I'm not doing all this for personal gain. Every dollar made has been reinvested to achieve our mission. We have many educational programs we would like to launch in the future in addition to the website such as outreach programs to medical students to educate them about natural medicine, tele clinics, live seminars, and someday, when we have enough funding, to build a non-profit holistic health retreat for people to rejuvenate their mind, body and soul.
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Yes, there is much we'd like to accomplish but I'm proud of what we've been able to do so far. Currently, there are over 450,000 subscribers in 215 countries around the world who receive our free newsletter. I know this is only a small fraction of the world's population and we still have a long way to go. However, they say if you can touch the life of just one person, you've made a difference in this world and I get daily e-mails like the one below from readers who have changed their lives for the better:
Dear Mercola.com: I like to share with you that I read Dr. Mercola's website often and look forward to his new articles. My little nephew who is only six loves to go to your website and asks me to read some of Dr. Mercola websites to him. He just turned six couple of months ago. One day he asked me to look up the worse foods to eat and we found the donuts article on Dr. Mercola's website. Today he still tells everyone donuts are not good for you and are unhealthy. He than asked me to look up healthy foods to eat. Your website is amazing for six-year-old to be interested in. Since he has been a baby he has always wanted my water and telling me it is healthy to drink water. To this day he does not drink soda or carbonation. In fact if someone would put their soda in front of him he will ask him to get it away from him because it smells. His favorite drink is to make drinks with vegetables or fresh fruit. When he comes to my house he will ask if we can look up Dr. Mercola's website. He likes Dr. Mercola's articles about germs. He enjoys learning about nutrition and said one day he is going to be a chef. For his birthday I gave him a chef hat with his name on it and apron. He said he is going to be a healthy chef and make healthy food for people to stay healthy and to be strong like him. Been wanting to share this with you. Thank you. Lynn
Dear Mercola.com:
I like to share with you that I read Dr. Mercola's website often and look forward to his new articles. My little nephew who is only six loves to go to your website and asks me to read some of Dr. Mercola websites to him. He just turned six couple of months ago. One day he asked me to look up the worse foods to eat and we found the donuts article on Dr. Mercola's website. Today he still tells everyone donuts are not good for you and are unhealthy.
He than asked me to look up healthy foods to eat.
Your website is amazing for six-year-old to be interested in. Since he has been a baby he has always wanted my water and telling me it is healthy to drink water. To this day he does not drink soda or carbonation. In fact if someone would put their soda in front of him he will ask him to get it away from him because it smells.
His favorite drink is to make drinks with vegetables or fresh fruit. When he comes to my house he will ask if we can look up Dr. Mercola's website. He likes Dr. Mercola's articles about germs. He enjoys learning about nutrition and said one day he is going to be a chef.
For his birthday I gave him a chef hat with his name on it and apron. He said he is going to be a healthy chef and make healthy food for people to stay healthy and to be strong like him.
Been wanting to share this with you.
Thank you.
Lynn
Can you imagine what this world would be like if every family read the newsletter or website together and lived a healthy life based on what they learned? This whole world would be transformed—and maybe I could stop working 110 hours a week!J
On the other hand, occasionally I get e-mails from readers complaining about the fact that we sell products in our newsletter and that it should be purely informational. I have two points in response to that complaint:
There are a percentage of readers that have never purchased health products from Mercola.com. I'm sure there are reasons for this. Perhaps you do not think that health products are a wise use of money.
However, the products we recommend on the site, like fish oil, will help you prevent the disease conditions like heart attacks and diabetes that are taking millions of lives each year. Preventive medicine is much cheaper than getting sick and investing in your health now can save you a fortune down the road. It's funny how some people will spend thousands on their car or home repairs but won't spend even a fraction of that on them selves. You are worth it!
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Wishing you the best of health,
Dr. Mercola