Doctor condemns Gwyneth Paltrow’s health event for “dangerous and unethical” advice
Gwyneth Paltrow‘s Goop held a wellness summit in Los Angeles. The “experts” affiliated with the wellness and lifestyle site give rather unconventional medical advice, so doctors have been quick to condemn anything that seemed to make no sense.
Dr Jen Gunter was taken aback by the claim that magnesium could be taken instead of antibiotics to treat various illnesses, as the Independent reports.
Dr. Amy Meyers says you can take "turmeric and fish oil" 4 headaches and try magnesium instead of antibiotics, unless it's life-threatening.
— Amy Kaufman (@AmyKinLA) June 10, 2017
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Dr Gunter wrote on her website. “This is the medical equivalent of saying it’s okay to play in traffic just avoid the really big trucks. Or only wear your seat belt if you think you are going to be in a life-threatening crash. This is dangerous and unethical advice. I am not sure how else to sum it up.”
Dr Gunter said that you could be putting yourself at risk if you’re waiting until you’re seriously ill before resorting to antibiotics. “If you are magnesium deficient replacing it is, of course, a good idea,” Dr Gunter said. “But this is not a treatment for an infection or a replacement for an antibiotic.”
Furthermore, taking lots of magnesium most likely will give you diarrhoea. “This kind of advice kills,” Dr Gunter writes. “People really do look for reasons to avoid the doctor for serious things all the time!”
“People ignore tumours and buckets of pus and the worst things you can imagine, many of which are just shy of life-threatening,” she added, “because they are afraid or have no insurance or truly believe some crackpot therapy can help them because a doctor promoted it.”
The advice to take magnesium instead of antibiotics came from Dr Amy Myers. However, Dr Gunter is sceptical of the claim, because Myers is selling a six-week programme. “Every single time I hear one of Paltrow’s self-professed medical experts I understand why she feels so sick,” Dr Gunter said. “The medical advice is just horrific.”
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