Myths and False Myths in Health: Know, Get Informed and Protect Yourself!

I subscribe to various journals, websites and online magazines to keep up to date on health, including some reliable sources and others that are merely informative, so that I know what's being discussed. After all, you also learn from negative examples: what not to say, what not to do, etc. And history repeats itself: from time to time, someone decides to talk about “Health Myths”, trying to demonstrate that what defines a “myth” is not just their understanding of the issue, but also “common sense”. After all, every human being wants to be right, and there's nothing better than trying to show that lots of people agree with your point of view. A few days ago, this happened again.

I subscribe to Newsmax's Health channel, mainly to find out what's hot and often to offer my technical and informed interpretation. Recently, an article was published there entitled “Health Myths Your Doctors Wish You'd Stop Believing” (article link), and decided to read it carefully, as this type of text is usually full of errors, prejudices, ill-founded opinions, biased suggestions, ironies and manipulated data, permeated by some interesting information.

That's exactly what happened! In short, a journalist, apparently with little technical and office experience in Health, decided to quote most of the points of view of another in similar conditions, but catering to most of the more traditional and/or official concepts. Clearly, the result is of very dubious quality. After all, it's not because a guesser makes a lot of guesses that, after so many, he learns to guess rightly.

So, in my opinion, they've told some untruths on topics such as water intake, detoxification, gluten, muscles, weight loss, allergies, cancer, using Google for diagnoses, among other things. In this video, I not only point out where I believe they have gone wrong, but I also share what I consider to be correct on each of these topics, with the aim of helping your health. I also teach you how to identify good (and bad) health material on the Internet and warn you that not everything is true, useful or appropriate!

I hope the material is very useful and I look forward to comments, likes, shares, suggestions, etc. Let's help more people take better care of their health!

Cheers.