Good Evening!
As most of you would know if you had read my previous post I have many health issues since I was born. I have been suffering my whole life and have been pretty bad at social relationships, education and at workplace. I have food allergies, food sensitivities, hormonal imbalance, eczema, body acne, bad breath arising out of it, adrenal fatigue etc. These mean that I cannot eat 60-70% food that you normal people can eat.
What is Functional Medicine ?
Functional Medicine is exactly opposite of conventional medicine. It studies the root cause of many chronic diseases, which is the gut, such as diabetes Type 2, cancer, etc unlike conventional medicine. That is pretty good if you ask me. In Functional Medicine food, organic food, is used as a medicine rather than medicines itself which has zillions of known and unknown side-effects. All these disease and many more can be easily improved by improving one's gut (stomach, small intestine and large intestine).
To address my issues, I went to a Functional Medicine doctor in Mumbai, India. That doctor claims to be the only functional medicine doctor in India. Things that happened during the appointment that were alarming my suspicion and cynicism of her.
1) She seemed more interested in selling Amway Supplements. She could be an Amway saleswoman easily. She did recommend a lot of supplements and that too from Amway touting Amway has the best quality of all the supplement making companies in the world. *DING DING DING DING*. A doctor an amway saleswoman also ? Yes, She is an amway sales woman. The entire world knows about that the company as a Scamway.
2) She recommended I buy her webinar that she is giving away for a very attractive special price to me at 1500/- which she normally sells at Lakhs of rupees. * DING DING DING *. In my kind of health issues which is Gut Dysbiosis, eating a nutrient dense food is of paramount importance. I knew that from very reliable sources. When she (the doctor) was making a recommendation of 5 supplements, I asked her if whole foods are enough to provide the nutrition we need, to which she replied "whole foods do not provide enough nutrition. That is why you have to BUY my webinar". What about the huge money I am already paying you for 30 mins "as consultation" ?
3) Since my coming onto earth I have been skeptical of doctors. She, like many others in my life history based on the appointment with her, seemed more interested in making money out of suffering and poor patients than actually curing them.
4) She would counter my questions with her question, for example, when i would ask "why do I have poor sleep at night", she would ask to me "why do you think that is so ?" and I would end up giving my thoughts on it and she would reply as "ok". After all that I still didn't have any answer to any of my questions including "Why do I have poor sleep".
5) There is a big mania going on in the health community about the "Paleo Diet"; which is a diet consisting of nuts and seeds, vegetables, meat and fish, avoiding grains, beans and legumes. Some people also say Paleo diet is same as LCHF(Low carb, High Fat) diet, although I don't believe that now, she seemed to believe Paleo is LCHF. Anyways, I was already eating LCHF and told her that I feel very uncomfortable on LCHF diet, any patient would be expecting an answer to their problems and questions; but no, not with Dr Shabnam Das Kar, she told me to read two books to get my own answers. That sounded a small alarm in my head. The alarm became louder and louder when I came home.
6) I sensed a general disdain for India in the meeting with her. She had this aura and expression that communicated non-verbally to me when she said that "she is from Canada and is not from here(India)" said in a tone and manner that says she is as if above all of us 125 crore Indians. She was very quick to say "Mera Hindi itna achcha nahi hai", said in a such a proper tone and proper stress that nobody would believe her she is not from India. During the meeting she would ask questions on lifestyle and when I would answer something, she would be quick to interrupt me with "yeah, ye India hai, yahan pe aisa hi hota hai" with a sad voice or as "this happens only in India". She did mention more often than not that she was not from India repeatedly.
This has been my experience with the doctor, and your experience may vary.
Bottom Line: Many and most doctors are unethical and immoral. They are so immoral that they like to rob the patients of all their life saving before giving them a chance at defending themselves. That being said there ARE many doctors are who can give you good results. Just be-ware on how to identify a phony one. These good doctors are far and few in between but added up totally they are quite many that you wont miss all the ones who you feel are CHARLATANS. Trust me, there are quite a lot of these in the health and medical industry
As most of you would know if you had read my previous post I have many health issues since I was born. I have been suffering my whole life and have been pretty bad at social relationships, education and at workplace. I have food allergies, food sensitivities, hormonal imbalance, eczema, body acne, bad breath arising out of it, adrenal fatigue etc. These mean that I cannot eat 60-70% food that you normal people can eat.
What is Functional Medicine ?
Functional Medicine is exactly opposite of conventional medicine. It studies the root cause of many chronic diseases, which is the gut, such as diabetes Type 2, cancer, etc unlike conventional medicine. That is pretty good if you ask me. In Functional Medicine food, organic food, is used as a medicine rather than medicines itself which has zillions of known and unknown side-effects. All these disease and many more can be easily improved by improving one's gut (stomach, small intestine and large intestine).
To address my issues, I went to a Functional Medicine doctor in Mumbai, India. That doctor claims to be the only functional medicine doctor in India. Things that happened during the appointment that were alarming my suspicion and cynicism of her.
1) She seemed more interested in selling Amway Supplements. She could be an Amway saleswoman easily. She did recommend a lot of supplements and that too from Amway touting Amway has the best quality of all the supplement making companies in the world. *DING DING DING DING*. A doctor an amway saleswoman also ? Yes, She is an amway sales woman. The entire world knows about that the company as a Scamway.
2) She recommended I buy her webinar that she is giving away for a very attractive special price to me at 1500/- which she normally sells at Lakhs of rupees. * DING DING DING *. In my kind of health issues which is Gut Dysbiosis, eating a nutrient dense food is of paramount importance. I knew that from very reliable sources. When she (the doctor) was making a recommendation of 5 supplements, I asked her if whole foods are enough to provide the nutrition we need, to which she replied "whole foods do not provide enough nutrition. That is why you have to BUY my webinar". What about the huge money I am already paying you for 30 mins "as consultation" ?
3) Since my coming onto earth I have been skeptical of doctors. She, like many others in my life history based on the appointment with her, seemed more interested in making money out of suffering and poor patients than actually curing them.
4) She would counter my questions with her question, for example, when i would ask "why do I have poor sleep at night", she would ask to me "why do you think that is so ?" and I would end up giving my thoughts on it and she would reply as "ok". After all that I still didn't have any answer to any of my questions including "Why do I have poor sleep".
5) There is a big mania going on in the health community about the "Paleo Diet"; which is a diet consisting of nuts and seeds, vegetables, meat and fish, avoiding grains, beans and legumes. Some people also say Paleo diet is same as LCHF(Low carb, High Fat) diet, although I don't believe that now, she seemed to believe Paleo is LCHF. Anyways, I was already eating LCHF and told her that I feel very uncomfortable on LCHF diet, any patient would be expecting an answer to their problems and questions; but no, not with Dr Shabnam Das Kar, she told me to read two books to get my own answers. That sounded a small alarm in my head. The alarm became louder and louder when I came home.
6) I sensed a general disdain for India in the meeting with her. She had this aura and expression that communicated non-verbally to me when she said that "she is from Canada and is not from here(India)" said in a tone and manner that says she is as if above all of us 125 crore Indians. She was very quick to say "Mera Hindi itna achcha nahi hai", said in a such a proper tone and proper stress that nobody would believe her she is not from India. During the meeting she would ask questions on lifestyle and when I would answer something, she would be quick to interrupt me with "yeah, ye India hai, yahan pe aisa hi hota hai" with a sad voice or as "this happens only in India". She did mention more often than not that she was not from India repeatedly.
This has been my experience with the doctor, and your experience may vary.
Bottom Line: Many and most doctors are unethical and immoral. They are so immoral that they like to rob the patients of all their life saving before giving them a chance at defending themselves. That being said there ARE many doctors are who can give you good results. Just be-ware on how to identify a phony one. These good doctors are far and few in between but added up totally they are quite many that you wont miss all the ones who you feel are CHARLATANS. Trust me, there are quite a lot of these in the health and medical industry
