How to tell if your doctor is Ethical, Moral and Trustworthy

In modern teams with more and more people getting sick due to unhealthy lifestyle habits and rise in toxins and pollution, the number of "Doctors" and "HealthCare Providers" are increasing in tandem with the sickness in the society. There are a couple of factors that can tell you your doctor is money minded and will take every last penny of your saved money from you.

1) Exaggerating your disease and using fear tactics : Is your doctor exaggerating your symptoms and telling you have this uptrending grave disease? Then it is highly likely your doctor is unethical. By exaggeratting a patient's disease, she/he is putting the patients emotional wellbeing at a huge risk and making him suffer more than his already restless mind is experiencing. Instead, doctor must do the exact opposite, they must downplay your diseases even if they are grave and give you good assurance that it is not that severe and try to put you at ease thereby starting your recovery process from the whatever disease you are suffering from. I remember all my past doctors, Justin, Marchegiani, Vipul Roy, Shabnam Kar, Lilly Kiswani, all tried to scare me into giving into their expensive treatment, expensive testing and super expensive supplements, which I did give into but without any noticeable improvements , leave alone the improvements, the last two indian doctors made my condition worse than before. However, there is some improvement with Justin Marchegiani but it is 15x more expensive to get consultation , supplement and testing done from USA, the same testing and supplements are not available in India the last time I checked.
For example, By the grace of almighty, I only had a ATPO (Antibodies to Thyroid Peroxidase, an attack on the thyroid, of 4. Shabnam Das Kar saw that and said they should be zero and tried to scare me. According to this article an ATPO < 300 is still fine. link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27607246

2) Too much testing: Medical system and human body is already too complex and adding in more variable through more testing definitely defeats the purpose of narrowing down and finding the root cause of your health issues. The root cause of many of our health issues originate from the gut, mostly from the infections in the stomach, small intestine and large intestine. But the problem with a comprehensive stool testing is that most of the microbiome tested through stools are mostly different from the microorganisms in the gut. I know I have written before about so many testing a doctor needs to do in functional medicine and how they are not available to us. But this is what I have come to realize and understand and back then I was under a lot of stress, which effected my learning and researching heavily. Also as they say, time provides answers to all the questions.

3) Asking you purchase a costly healthcare package : This could be something like requiring you to sign up for a 6 month plan that costs 5 Lakh INR, for example Rujuta Diwekar's.

4) Unable to listen to you, are overly opinionated and hard-driving : If you start to have a sense that your health care provider is not listening to you and unable to think outside their box/limited-knowledge. They are condescending and bragging frequently about the number of patients they have seen. For example Justin Marchegiani, who includes the questions asked by people on his youtube channel as his number-of-patients-seen. But still not able to fix your minor problem which you later fixed on your own. You want a healthcare provider who will look at you as a teammate rather than a subordinate.

Share your experience with Dr Paul Gideon

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Sixth consult review a functional medicine doctor in USA

This is a short entry.

Please beware with any functional medicine doctor's adrenal supplements, It has a permanent, rest-of-life, side-effect on your body. I will have to live with this side-effect for the rest of my life. My body hair has grown 3-4x more than before. My arms, torso, legs are far more hairy now compared to when I saw him before and took his adrenal supplements.

Women especially beware of this side-effect.

Autoimmune Paleo Diet (AIP) in India -- Review

Sarah Ballantyne is not a doctor. I guess there is a difference between reading a lot of researches and treating patients. Most doctors are I see/notice do things that are right against 'The Paleo Approach' For example, not to be on AIP for more than 2 months. Not eating safe starches ie Keto helps kill gut bugs, prescrbing colostrum to patients. Going on AIP has further downgraded my health. I traded skin issues for extreme fatigue, brain fog, zero energy to even stand-up etc.

Dried Urine Test for Complete Hormones (DUTCH) India

Hello Everyone,

This one is the DUTCH test, In this test, you pee on piece of specialized lab paper, there are 5 of them in each test kit and you send it to the Precision Analytical Lab In Oregan, USA.

This test checks Stress Hormones and Sex hormones.

I feel very low in the morning after waking up and as the day progress I start to gain energy in very small amounts. A big burst of energy comes to me after the sunset and stays with me through out the night, not allowing me to sleep. Anybody has the same experience ?

A healthy person is quite opposite, In a healthy person, he/she has most energy in the morning and it goes down steadily (not abruptly) as the day progresses and its the lowest as the sun sets, allowing him/her to fall asleep for the night.

Things of notice in the report

• Stress hormone DHEA is too high which correlates with the amount of infections in the gut.
• Serotonin is too low which correlated with the same thing.
• Actually all of these hormones are linked with the gut health. 

GI Map: A Comprehensive Stool Test India

Hello Everyone,

I got my stool test done from Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory in America. This stool test cannot be ordered by your own, a doctor has to order it. The test results are sent to the doctor, not to you. So you have to book an appointment with the doctor to get the results. My doctor Mr. Justin Marchegiani, did not give me the reports when they got it, I had to book an appointment worth 15000 INR for 60 mins to get the same report, without the appointment I couldn't have gotten the report. I asked them, they did not give me. Your doctor / experience may vary.

I couldn't find where a similar test is done in India and with this much detail.

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Functional Medicine Tests in India

Hello Guys,

Hope you all are doing great.

After having my health further deteriorated by Lily Kiswani and Shabnam Kar I continued my study in the matters of health. Before visiting these two "doctors" I was able to sleep for 7-8 hours everynight, after visiting them and taking their "advices" I sleep less than 4 hours everynight and I constantly wake up at 3 AM everynight.

I learned about a few tests which the American Doctors do that are not available in India, atleast in my searching. I urge any readers to let me know in the comments otherwise.

1. Leaky Gut Test : This test checks for zonulin and occludin (particles of small intestine) in the bloodstream. When a leaky gut is present these protiens called zonulin and occludin are found in the blood stream. So this is a blood test that confirms a leaky gut. This is not a necessary test as the symptoms are enough to diagnose a leaky gut aka Intestinal hyper-permeability.

2. Cyrex Food Sensitivity Test : This test many doctors such as Chris Kresser, Ed Beyer, Amy Meyers, and a lot others say is much more accurate than any competition.

3. Organic Acid Urine Test : This test to check various vitamin & minerals in your body and to check the functionality of proper detox pathways such as pooping, peeing, sweating and sneezing.

4. Adrenal Saliva Test:

5. Kryptopyrrole Test: If you have this condition called 'Pyroluria', in which high levels of kryptopyrroles are circulating in the blood, then you are rapidly excreting Zinc, Vitamin B6 & Essential Fatty Acids (E.F.As) from the urine, these minerals help in the formation of Serotonin & Dopamine that are good for the pituitary gland that produces various hormones such as T.S.H.

6. 23 & Me Genetic Testing:

7. GI Map Stool Test: This test detects all the parasites and infections in the digestive tract, from mouth to anus. Presense of these parasites and infections are the leading cause of auto-immune condition ie chronic (long-term) activation of immune system and inflammation. View my tests here.

8. Urine pH:

9. LabCorp Comprehensive Blood Work:

10. Dried Urine Test for Complete Hormones: Here

.. to be continued..