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Dr. David Brownstein, board-certified family physician and medical director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in Michigan, appeared on CHD.TV’s “Doctors and Scientists” where he and host Brian Hooker, Ph.D., reflected on the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They discussed how in March 2020, Brownstein’s practice successfully treated thousands of COVID patients in one of the biggest COVID hot spots in the U.S.
The two also addressed medical censorship and how it restricts essential dialogue and impedes progress in the medical community.
Brownstein told Hooker how he adapted his practice so he could treat COVID patients using the same holistic protocol he had used to treat viral infections over the past 25 years – but in this case, treating sick patients from their car windows and the parking lot to keep his staff healthy.
“COVID is the worst time I’ve had in medicine and the best time I’ve had in medicine by far,” Brownstein said.
Hooker commended Brownstein’s commitment to treating his patients who were infected with COVID during the pandemic instead of falling into the “standard of care” — which Hooker described as, “prophylaxis, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. And if you do get the virus, go home until you’re sick enough to be hospitalized.”
Brownstein, a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College for Advancement in Medicine, said never in his career has he seen the level of censorship imposed on the medical community as occurred during the pandemic.
“This is the first time in medicine that I’ve seen this silencing,” he said. He described a letter he received from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warning him to take down information on his website that highlighted his success using holistic therapies to treat COVID.
“In medical school and in residency, you’re taught to ‘report your findings,’” he said, but instead, the federal government wanted to silence him.
“Medicine doesn’t do well when there is no dialogue,” he added.
Brownstein pointed to how health officials in the 1930s and 1940s viewed cigarette smoking as safe as an example of how public health agencies get things wrong sometimes.
“Medicine has had it wrong before, and when everyone thinks the same way, it isn’t necessarily a good thing.”
Brownstein’s holistic approach to medicine factors in nutrition and getting “back to basics,” he said, adding it’s important to have a “good foundation” including adequate hydration, exercise and an organic whole foods diet with minimal refined sugars.
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