- Kevin Trudeau
Kevin Mark Trudeau (born February 6 1963) is an American author, pool player, salesman and alternative medicine advocate. He is known for a number of television infomercials selling his products, and for several books, including the controversial "Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About". Trudeau has had numerous interactions with the U.S. judicial system, including multiple fines and a larceny conviction., … - Joseph Mercola
Joseph Mercola, D.O. (born 1954), is an osteopathic physician, health activist, and entrepreneur practicing near Chicago. He is the author of two "New York Times" best-sellers, "The No-Grain Diet" (with Alison Rose Levy), and "The Great Bird Flu Hoax", together with several other books. He is best known as founder and editor of the popular website Mercola.com. On his website, he advocates dietary and lifestyle approaches to health. - Edzard Ernst
Professor Edzard Ernst is notable for being the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the United Kingdom. He was attracted from his chair in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at the University of Vienna to set up the department of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter in 1993 and became director of complementary medicine of the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) in 2002. He is the first occupant of the Laing chair in Complementary Medicine. - Gary Null
Gary Michael Null (born 1945) is a talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine, and nutrition in the United States. He is also a social critic of psychiatry and conventional medicine. He is the owner of the supplement and media company Gary Null & Associates Inc. He was raised in West Virginia with his brother, Steve. He has one daughter, Shelly Null. - Bernard Jensen
Bernard Jensen (March 25, 1908 - February 22, 2001) was a chiropractor, entrepreneur, and the author of numerous books and articles on health and healing. Although best known for his work in iridology, Jensen was a noted proponent of a variety of alternative care methods including nature cure, hydrotherapy (such as colon hydrotherapy), fasting, reflexology, color therapy, polarity, glandular balancing, homeopathy, herbology, acupuncture, craniopathy and personology. - Royal Rife
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 - August 5, 1971) became known for his claim of finding a cure for terminal cancer and many other diseases by means of his "beam ray" device, which was supposed to work by means of 'devitalizing' pathogens using resonance on constituent chemicals (integral in their structural makeup) with an induced frequency. Information and key parts for the construction of many of Rife's original instruments are missing or lost. - Jeff Rense
Jeff Rense is an American conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host of the "Jeff Rense Program", broadcast on US satellite radio via GCN and worldwide via Internet radio. Rense's radio program and website, Rense.com cover subjects such as UFO reporting, paranormal phenomena, conspiracy theories, tracking of new diseases & possible resultant pandemics, unusual environmental concerns (see chemtrails), possible evidence of advanced ancient technology, … - Lorraine Day
Lorraine Jeanette Day, MD is a practitioner of alternative medicine who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer, as a result of God showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan. According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system which must be cured by diet. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition, dehydration, and stress." A former surgeon, … - Robert Atkins
Robert Coleman Atkins, MD (October 17, 1930 - April 17, 2003) was an American doctor and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional Approach (or "Atkins Diet"), a popular but controversial way of dieting that entails eating low-carbohydrate and high-protein foods, in addition to leaf vegetables and dietary supplements. Atkins graduated from the University of Michigan in 1951 and received a medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1955, … - Chris Mooney
Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20 1977), better known as Chris Mooney is an American journalist who focuses on science in politics. He is Washington correspondent for "Seed", a senior correspondent for "The American Prospect" and occasional contributor to many other scientific and newsmagazines. He additionally maintains a weblog, "The Intersection", and gives public lectures. - Robert Barefoot
Robert Barefoot is a chemist who has published several scientific research articles on analytical chemistry and mineral digenesis. He researched enhanced hydrocarbon extraction in the petroleum industry and metal extraction in the mining industry, for which he obtained numerous international patents, and is still active. - Robert Young
Robert O. Young is an author of books relating to alternative medicine and the alkaline diet. - Anthony Campbell
Anthony Campbell, M.D., is a retired physician, homeopath, acupuncturist, author, and skeptic. He was a consultant physician at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital until he retired in 1998, and for many years was the editor of the prestigious "British Homeopathic Journal" (now "Homeopathy"), the peer-review journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy. Nonetheless, he is a skeptic about much of alternative medicine. - Benedict Lust
Benedict Lust, MD, DO, ND (February 3, 1872 - September 5, 1945), was the founder of naturopathic medicine in the first decade of the twentieth century, largely as a result of his healing experiences with Father Sebastian Kneipp. - James Privitera
James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. is an American physician who has been involved in several controversial forms of alternative medicine and nutrition. - Richard Jones
Richard Stanley Leigh Jones (born 16 February 1940) is a former member of the NSW Legislative Council, a member of the parliament from 13 March 1988 to 28 February 2003. Born in Epsom, Surrey, England, he emigrated to Australia in 1965. Concerned abount environmental issues, including destruction of sand dunes at Myall Lakes, he joined the Australia Party in 1971 and later the Australian Democrats. He was elected twice to the parliament as a Democrats candidate. - Rustum Roy
Rustum Roy (born July 3, 1924) is a materials scientist, science policy analyst, advocate of interdisciplinary education and alternative medicine, and science and religion. Roy holds professorships in materials science at Arizona State University and in medicine at the University of Arizona, as well as emeritus honors at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in three fields. - Martin Walker
Martin J. Walker (born 1947) is a graphic designer who, for the last twenty years, has authored several self-published books and articles investigating medical politics in the United Kingdom. His book "Dirty Medicine" is about British medical politics. While documenting the licensing of AZT and what he describes as an assault on alternative medicine, he also reports on various groups such as the American National Council Against Health Fraud, … - Berkley Bedell
Berkley Warren Bedell (born March 5, 1921) is a U.S. Representative from Iowa. Born in Spirit Lake, Iowa, Bedell was educated in Spirit Lake public schools. He graduated from Spirit Lake High School, 1939. He attended Iowa State University, Ames from 1940 to 1942. He engaged in fishing tackle business. Founder and chairman of Berkley &. Co., Spirit Lake. He served in United States Army, first lieutenant from 1942 to 1945. - Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819 - 1883) was a patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman. A resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, Lydia Pinkham first began developing home remedies after the near bankruptcy of her husband. Mass marketed from 1875 on, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was one of the best known patent medicines of the 19th century. Descendants of this product are still available today. - Kurt Donsbach
Kurt W. Donsbach is an educated but unlicensed chiropractor, and a controversial alternative medicine figure. He is the founder of Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Following the death of Coretta Scott King while under treatment at the clinic in January 2006, it was shut down by Mexican health officials. Donsbach was convicted of practicing medicine without a license in California in 1971, … - William Donald Kelley
William Donald Kelley, DDS, MS (November 1, 1925 — January 30, 2005), was an orthodontist and one of the most significant figures in the history of alternative cancer treatments. He developed the Kelley cancer therapy, which was based around large doses of pancreatic enzymes, coffee enemas and a juice diet. Dr. Kelley claimed that he cured himself of pancreatic cancer using this method. Kelley was the author of several books, including a self-help book, … - Robert Cathcart
Robert F. Cathcart III (1932 - present) is a Los Altos, California-based physician and leading proponent of orthomolecular medicine, specifically megavitamin dosing of vitamin C. A prominent figure in alternative medicine, Cathcart pioneered the concept of dosing vitamin C to bowel tolerance to maximize vitamin C levels without intravenous administration. He has reported clinical successes using massive vitamin C in treating influenza, hepatitis, mononucleosis, … - Ainslie Meares
Ainslie Meares (1910-1986), was an Australian psychiatrist who used meditation as a means of treatment of psychosomatic and psychoneurotic illnesses. He was also an international expert in the medical uses of hypnosis. In 1976, he reported in the "Medical Journal of Australia" about a regression of cancer he attributed to intensive meditation. Meares would go on to write a number of books, including his best-seller "Relief without Drugs". - William Bates
William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 - July 10, 1931) was an American physician and ophthalmologist who developed what is now known as the Bates Method of natural vision improvement, a collection of techniques and exercises intended to improve vision. The efficacy of the method is questionable and his theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens, but rather by elongating the eyeball, through use of the extraocular oblique muscles, … - Eliot Tokar
Eliot Tokar is an American practitioner of Tibetan medicine, author, and lecturer. He lives and works in New York City. As one of the few Westerners to have apprenticed with Tibetan physicians, Tokar studied with and received private instruction from Dr. Yeshi Dhonden, the former personal physician to Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, from 1983 to 1986. After 1986, Tokar was an apprentice of the late lama and physician Dr. Trogawa Rinpoche, … - Brian Inglis
Brian Inglis (31 July1916-11 February1993) was a British journalist, historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and retained an interest in Irish history and politics. He was best known to people in Britain as the presenter of "All Our Yesterdays", a television review of events exactly 25 years previously, as seen in newsreels, newspaper articles etc. He also presented the weekly review of newspapers known as "What the Papers Say". - Sylvia Millecam
Sylvia Millecam was a Dutch actor and comedian. Millecam was born in The Hague and later moved to Boxmeer. Millecam became famous after appearing in popular television shows like "Ook Dat Nog" (based on "That's Life!" on the BBC) and "Buitenlandse Zaken", a show with sketches and political satire. - Vincent Priessnitz
Vincent Priessnitz, also written Vincenz Prießnitz originated the alternative medicine practices of hydrotherapy and the "nature cure", which stressed remedies such as fresh air and mountain water over conventional medicine. He lived in Gräfenberg ("Lázně Jeseník") near Freiwaldau ("Jeseník"), now Silesian part of the Czech Republic. In the 19th century he established a world-famous spa. - Daron Malakian
Daron Vartan Malakian (born 18 July, 1975 in Hollywood, California, USA) is the lead guitarist in the Armenian-American band System of a Down. Malakian has written most of the band's music, and, more recently, has taken on a large share of the vocal work for the band as well. Like the rest of the Hollywood-based band, he is of Armenian ancestry, but is the only member to actually have been born inside the U.S. (Los Angeles). - Zhang Ji
Zhang Ji (150 - 219), style name Zhang Zhongjing, an Eastern Han physician and author of the Shanghan Zabing Lun (lit. "Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases"), was one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Eastern Han era. He lived in today's Nanyang in Henan Province. During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territories, many people were infected with febrile disease. - Roger Woolger
Roger Woolger is an internationally renowned therapist, lecturer and author specializing in past life regression. He was educated at Oxford University and London University, where he gained degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy. He then trained as an analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He began his practice with conventional Jungian therapy methods, including dreamwork, but through this began to discover images which seemed to be past life memories. - Harvey Wickes Felter
Harvey Wickes Felter was an eclectic medicine doctor and co-author with John Uri Lloyd of King's American Dispensatory and Felter's Eclectic Materia Medica. - Victor A. Marcial-Vega
Victor A. Marcial-Vega is a radiation oncologist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is best known for his work in the field of alternative medicine. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico Medical School in 1984, and completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology in 1988 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He has taught at Washington University and at the University of Miami. - Elisha Perkins
Elisha Perkins (January 16 1741 - 1799) was a US physician who created his own therapy, "Perkins Patent Tractors". Elisha Perkins was born 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut. His son Joseph Perkins trained in Plainfield, Connecticut, where he also practiced medicine. Around 1795-1796 Perkins invented and patented his "Tractors". They were two 3-inch metal rods with a point at the end. Although they were made of steel and brass, … - Mirzakarim Norbekov
Mirzakarim Sanakulovich Norbekov is an alternative medicine teacher well known in the countries of the former Soviet Union. He is originally from Uzbekistan. He has written a number of best-selling books that explain his philosophy of feeling happy and living a healthy lifestyle, as well as his belief that patients should take an active role in curing their illnesses. He also holds classes and workshops around Russia and other countries to demonstrate his beliefs. - Hans Snook
Hans Roger Snook (born 1948) is a businessman, best known for his time as the charismatic black-leather-Nehru-jacketed chief executive of UK mobile phone company Orange. Born to a German mother and a British father, Snook grew up in Edmonton, Canada. He began his career in hotel management in Vancouver. In 1983 he set off on a round the world trip, which was cut short when he arrived in Hong Kong and became Chief Executive of a wireless paging business, … - Alfred A. Tomatis
Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis was an internationally known otolaryngologist, psychologist, educator and inventor. He received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Paris School of Medicine. His alternative medicine theories of hearing are known as the Tomatis method or Audio-Psycho-Phonology (APP). His philosophical and technical studies began as an effort to help professional singers in his native Nice based on his idea of hearing as the root cause of a variety of ailments. - Jock McKeen
Jock McKeen (John Herbert Ross McKeen), is a Canadian physician, acupuncturist, author and lecturer who co-founded the Haven Institute with Bennet Wong. He has written on East-West medicine, alternative medicine, holistic health, Asian studies and personal growth. - Theodor Morell
Theodor (Theo) Gilbert Morell (July 22 1886 - May 26 1948) was German dictator Adolf Hitler's personal physician. Morell was well-known in Germany for his unconventional, holistic and alternative treatments. Although Morell had medical training and was licensed as a general practitioner in Germany long before he met Hitler, following World War II there were investigations into his practice along with interrogation by the Allies and he came to be widely regarded as a quack.
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