Lynne McTaggart - What Doctors Don’t Tell You

WHAT DOCTORS DONT TELL YOU

The truth about the dangers of modern medicine

LYNNE McTAGGART

Every illness and every patient is unique. This book is intended as a source of information only. Readers are urged to work in partnership with a qualified, experienced practitioner before undertaking (or refraining from) any treatments listed in these pages.

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First published by Thorsons 1996
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Lynne McTaggart

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This groundbreaking book has potential to save lives. Stunning stuff! Kathryn Marsden, author of The Food Combining Diet

A hugely impressive book, and the finest critique of modern medical practice I have yet read. Lynne McTaggart takes a scalpel straight to the heart of medicines most cherished dogmas. Essential reading Peter Cox, health campaigner and bestselling author

A mine of subversive information irresistibly argued. Lynne McTaggart is a very big thorn in the side of the medical propaganda machine. Dr Keith Mumby, allergy specialist and author of The Allergy Handbook

Introduces some welcome sanity by its critical appraisal of the value of many diagnostic and treatment procedures, especially the unbelievable escalation in the use of symptom-suppressive drugs. Excellent, stimulating and a thoroughly good read. Dr John Mansfield, former President of the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine

Extremely provocative and meticulously researched should be part of the medical cabinet in every household in this country. I have long admired Lynne McTaggarts pioneering spirit, vision and courage, and this book exemplifies it. Kitty Campion, practitioner and author

A courageous book! I congratulate Lynne McTaggart on her passion, research and indefatigable efforts to bring information to the public that can help people to take control of their own lives. Leslie Kenton, broadcaster and bestselling author

This book dispels so many harmful medical myths and gives people back the freedom of informed choice. Essential reading for those facing medical intervention. Patrick Holford, director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition

Praise for Lynne McTaggarts newsletter What Doctors Dont Tell You

What Doctors has an impressive track record for alerting readers to potential problems Womens Journal

Information that is scientific yet easy for parents to digest is sparse What Doctors Dont Tell You provides much damning evidence. Guardian

Every month What Doctors Dont Tell You rings the alarm bells on procedures well before they become the stuff of national panic. Observer

What Doctors Dont Tell You brings together unpublicised medical information. Independent

What Doctors Dont Tell You has easy to read and up to date reports on drug side effects. Daily Mail

A voice in the silence. The Times

Praise from her readers

Well done with all your efforts to educate, inform, guide and empower people to be active carers and protectors of their own health. Keep the momentum growing and growing. I. L., Suffolk

An excellent, compelling and informative read. It should be essential reading for everyone! E.W., East Sussex

I had a reasonable knowledge of the possible pitfalls of drug therapy, but your wide-ranging, well-written and easy-to-understand information has heightened my awareness of this most important subject and you are performing a much-needed and vital service to us all. M. G., Bedfordshire

As a medical doctor, I am really pleased with What Doctors and the special work you are doing. Dr M. S., Beirut

Several years ago I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis A chance discussion put me on the track of your newsletter, which linked MS-type symptoms with the Pill Id been taking. Had I listened to my GP and neurologist, I would probably be in a wheelchair. Thank you, What Doctors Dont Tell You , for saving my life. D. J., Norfolk

Recently, my mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer. I cannot tell you how encouraging your newsletter was to the whole family She is faring well and confident she is making the right decisions thanks to your timely advice. J. B., Jersey

Instead of suffering from asthma, unwillingly forced into the last-ditch resort of taking steroids in order to have any sort of liveable life, I am virtually free of it and, to boot, have lost a surplus two stone. This is all attributable to your informative publications. M.B.C.P.-B., Cornwall

After a wonderful uncomplicated start in life, my baby contracted whooping cough. Thank you, WDDTY, for putting together so much information. It was you and your publication which put me on the path of being informed. My son made a full recovery. I will be for ever indebted. Janet, Berkshire

My husband was given three months to live two years ago due to prostate cancer. By reading your newsletter and the information you provide, I contacted the right people and he started an alternative therapy. It succeeded and he was later told that he was clear of cancer. Thank you for being you. M. R., Dyfed

Two months ago I could barely walk more than 50 yards or stand in the queue at the Post Office. Chronic lower back pain was the problem now thanks to WDDTY I ramble and cycle miles and miles without pain. R. P., Norfolk

I was told I had glaucoma and was going blind. I developed a diet and supplement programme based on your information, and two months later I had my eyes examined again, and there was no sign of glaucoma any more. G. R., Edinburgh

Contents

For Bryan

This book was born from a grand passion I once had: a passion to get better.

In the early eighties, after an extraordinary patch of bad choices, I underwent a prolonged bout of stress. In every profoundly important area of my life, green lights Id always taken for granted suddenly began turning red. If I had taken one of those little tests you find in womens magazines that add up your stress quotient with death, marriage, divorce and moving the most stressful situations my sums would have leapt off the chart.

In rapid succession Id struggled under an impossible book deadline, married Mr Wrong, divorced Mr Wrong, bought the wrong flat, accepted the wrong job, suffered the death of a close friend, incurred several large debts, and spent a prolonged period of intense isolation in a foreign country. I couldnt, in those days, even get a good haircut.