Another Idiot Named Sears

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Another Idiot Named Sears

- Roger Mason

Al Sears writes a natural health newsletter called “Health Confidential for Men” for which you pay $49.95 a year. He is not related to Barry Sears who wrote the series of books on the Zone Diet (please see “Don’t Enter This Zone” in our library), but is even stupider than Barry. And that isn’t easy at all.

Why people would pay good money to get asinine advice like this is the big question.

He co-authored two of the worst “natural health” books ever written- The T-Factor and The 21st Century Man’s Guide to Prostate Health. He wrote The Doctor’s Heart Cure which may be the worst book ever written on heart health. He says cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease, you don’t need to keep your cholesterol under 200, cholesterol just doesn’t matter, fat doesn’t make you fat, you only need six (6) minutes of exercise a day, “a low-fat diet is unnatural”, “being a vegetarian could be threatening to your heart health”, and to use useless l-arginine for a healthier heart.

He advises you to, “Eat the foods you love.” He tells you to enjoy your meat- it’s good for you. “Eat steak, pork, chicken, turkey and eggs. Eat your steak and eggs whenever you want.” He tells you to “Enjoy your beer, wine and scotch”- they have “health benefits”. He wants you to, “Enjoy your cigars” and pipes as well. He wants you to, “Savor that coffee.” He also lets you know, “Even chocolate is O.K.” You think your poor old author took more cheap drugs late at night and made up all this silliness don’t you? You don’t really believe a medical doctor could say such stupid things do you? Well those are quotes right from his websites. Isn’t that great folks? Now you can eat all the beef, veal, pork, lamb, eggs, chicken, duck, and turkey you want. You can drink beer, wine and scotch. You can smoke cigars and pipes. You can go to Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts for a caffeine fix. You can even eat chocolate. That’s wonderful! All these years so many of us have missed out on all this great fun and now he enlightens us. Thank God for Al Sears! We can really enjoy life now doing everything we want to do.

He lets you know that vegetarian diets aren’t healthy. He hates whole grains and loves the late (who died of a heart attack after following his own advice) Robert Atkins. High carbohydrate diets are “dangerous.” “Carbohydrates are converted to sugar in the body, and can cause high insulin.” He tells you not to bother eating tasteless salads and vegetables. Soy burgers are “dangerous”. He explains that soy products are “high in estrogen”, even though plants do not contain any hormones; only animals have hormones. Soy foods cause “accelerated brain ageing.” Funny that billions of Asians for thousands of years have far less disease rates than Europeans eating grains, vegetables and soy foods.

He claims testosterone is a Magic Hormone that will even cure erectile dysfunction. Studies around the world show consistently that erectile dysfunction (ED) is not due to testosterone deficiency but rather to poor general health and psychological factors. Testosterone supplementation for hypogonadal men does have dramatic benefits but only about ten per cent (10%) of men with ED improve their sexual performance. He knows very little about testosterone and claims you should buy his over-the-counter supplement with useless Tribulus and illegal androstenedione. Hopefully he has quit selling this or the federal authorities will put him in prison for selling illegal steroids. Please read “Second Thoughts on Androstenedione” in our library to see why androstenedione and its analogs (like androstenediol) do not work at all in many men, and stop working in all men after a period of time. He doesn’t understand that the ONLY way to safely and effectively raise testosterone is to use real, prescription natural testosterone sublingually or transdermally.

There is no shortage of idiots who write newsletters, but why in the world do people pay good money to read babble like this?