Who has ideas for garnering support from alternative health advocates?

[linusPAULing]

There are a lot of people with illnesses or family members with illnesses who have experienced first hand the failures of main stream medicine. A lot of these folks frequent mercola.com and curezone.com and innumerable other alternative health sites and email lists.

Does anyone have any ideas for reaching out to these people?

I think a lot of these people would take notice if Dr. Mercola interviewed Dr. Paul. I emailed Mercola's site with this idea a couple months ago, though, and nothing came of it. Perhaps if a LOT of us emailed Mercola he would consider the idea.

[carla8478]

Dr. Mercola has endorsed Ron Paul, it's up on the main campaign webpage.

As far as trying to reach this demographic, here is what I have done. I sent out faxes to all of the health food stores and naturopathic practitioners in my area. I sent them a copy of Dr. Paul's article, "Dietary Supplements and Health Freedom," and also a page explaining how they could participate in our state's upcoming caucus. I'm in Louisiana. I also asked them to pass the info along to their customers or any others who would be interested.

[linusPAULing]

Dr. Mercola has endorsed Ron Paul, it's up on the main campaign webpage.

I'm a big fan of Dr. Mercola.


As far as trying to reach this demographic, here is what I have done. I sent out faxes to all of the health food stores and naturopathic practitioners in my area. I sent them a copy of Dr. Paul's article, "Dietary Supplements and Health Freedom," and also a page explaining how they could participate in our state's upcoming caucus. I'm in Louisiana. I also asked them to pass the info along to their customers or any others who would be interested.

Great Idea. I'd probably send along a pointer to the Ron Paul Health Freedom Slim Jim pdf.... so they could pass copies of those as well to customers.

I wonder if there is a database of contact info for natural foods stores around the country? If so, we could do this on a large scale.

[RonRules]

Lots of support for you in Utah. That's like the vitamin capital of the world. Most of this stuff comes from there, thanks to Orin Hatch early victories on that subject.

Personally, I'm not at all into that stuff, but freedom is most important.

[linusPAULing]

Personally, I'm not at all into that stuff, but freedom is most important.

Yep, few people are until they need supplements. You'd be absolutely amazed how powerful some supplements are. In fact, many pharmaceuticals are derivatives of natural herbs. In a large percentage of cases, the herbs are more potent, but the pharmaceuticals are prescribed because they can be patented while natural herbs can't (yet).

Estrogen falls into this category. Rx estrogen is an altered form that is less effective.

Antimalarial drugs are almost always herbal extracts/derivatives.

[Dr.3D]

Remember when L-Tryptophan was taken off the market by the FDA around 9 years ago? They made up an excuse about a tainted batch from Japan causing people to get sick from it.

The company fixed the problem but the FDA still continued to ban the item. Turns out, Prozac was just coming into the market and it does the same thing as what L-Tryptophan did. Seems kind of strange that after the time limit for the Prozac to be made by other manufacturers, the L-Tryptophan is now available at the drug stores again without a prescription.

See the following article for more information:

http://www.lef.org/fda/fdaban95.html

The article is old so they don't mention it being available now.