I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater… however, as documented in Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories, a lot of what passes for modern medicine nowadays is sheer fad and not good biochemistry at all.

I'm not saying that chiropractic will cure everything out there… but it's awfully good at doing what it's supposed to do.

I get the impression that medical school is really an exclusive trade school with a lot of hoops to jump through–before, during, and afterwards. Witness all the licensing requirements. Witness how easily someone who thinks outside the box (such as if they're sympathetic to alternative medicine) can lose his license.

Witness the process of getting prescription drugs. You must pay someone for an office visit in order to get a slip of paper which gives you the privilege of buying certain substances.

I make my living doing transcription for doctors, but I'm less than thrilled with the way things are. It's not a truly freemarket system.

Yeah, I'm all for biochemistry… but all too frequently, doctors aren't as up on biochemistry as one would hope.

I think that your experiences with chiropractic are common, and I have been helped too.

I might do a post on it, sometime, but I was Googling around and there seems to be a lot of unsubstantiated wackiness out there.

I'm not going to throw the bay out with the bathwater when it comes to modern medicine. I think medical problems should be approached from numerous angles, modern biochemistry being one of them. I recognize that even with the best of nutrition and health practices, shit still happens and our bodies may not be up to the task w/ nutrition alone. In that case, I'm all over the drugs, if necessary.

That said, we have gone way, WAY overboard with the idea that it's normal to be on a dozen prescription medications by the age of 65 or 70. I once had a grandmother on probably more than a dozen and at one point a doctor finally just took her off EVERYTHING and she improved immediately.

Oral and/or intravenous chelation therapy is said to help Alzheimer's patients too, not only with cardiac and vascular problems.

There are, of course, bad apples in every profession. MD's and their ilk are no exceptions.

Frankly, I'm also a fan of alternative medicine. There's a lot of cancer in my blood relatives. I'm hoping to avoid it myself; but if I can't, then I'm going to treat myself with alternative medicine rather than the "orthodox" gauntlet of cut-drug-and-burn.

Make your case, but stop with your question-bating games.

Chiropractic cures colds? Make your case. Show the evidence.

Let me ask you this…

What controls the function of everything in your body, including your immune function?