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"It would also bring to question the authority of dermatologists, which is why dermatologists are so strongly against anybody being exposed to sunlight. Apparently, dermatologists and sunscreen manufacturers think mankind evolved in the dark. Perhaps there was no sunlight until recently, they think, and people should have no sunlight exposure whatsoever. However, sunlight is absolutely essential for human health, and if we don't have adequate exposure to sunlight, we will suffer from chronic diseases." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Dermatologists turned to cosmetic procedures like Botox injections and chemical peels. Ophthalmologists began specializing in surgical procedures, like eyelid tucks. Between 2000 and 200c, the number of elective procedures performed by physicians around the country rose dramatically, most of them paid for by insurance. Among Medicare recipients, colonoscopies went up 40 percent; angioplasties, 34 percent; and cardiovascular stress tests, 45 percent." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Opposing Forces Create Confusion I hate to be cynical, but one reason that doctors and dermatologists say that diet doesn't cause acne is because they can't sell a healthy diet. In addition, they were trained to believe that there's no connection between what you eat and what your face looks like. Plus, there's constant pressure from the pharmaceutical industry to prescribe creams, drugs, and other "remedies." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In a January 4, 2007, New York Times report, "The Cosmetics Restriction Diet" by Natasha Singer, highly qualified academic dermatologists were quoted making statements such as "the cheapest products work just as well as the more expensive ones," and this one about the origins of product ingredients, which should really get your attention: "all these skin-care products come out of the same vat in New Jersey." The article goes on to point out how moisturizers "don't do much except for creating a smooth surface so that make-up can go on without drag." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Products that contain hydroxy acids are being used increasingly not just by individuals at home, but in cosmetic salons and even by dermatologists. In a March 2007 article in O, TJie Oprah Magazine, writer Jenny Bailly warned of "pain, scabs and bruises" that could result from non-surgical anti-aging procedures and cosmeceutical products, but misrepresented hydroxy acids as just "liftfing] away dead cells on the surface of skin, revealing fresher smoother skin underneath" (18). It's a common misperception." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, although primary care doctors consistently express unfavorable opinions about the impact of DTC advertising on medical care, dermatologists have a positive view, perhaps reflecting the increase in visits generated by advertisements for skin products. At its best, the trust between doctor and patient creates the opportunity for open discussion of symptoms, fears, models of disease, life circumstances, and expectations. Once all of these are on the table, an optimal approach can be developed to meet individual patient's needs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The Sugar-Acne Connection Historically, dermatologists did not believe that diet triggered acne, points out Margaret E. Olsen, M.D., chief of dermatology at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at UCLA. "Our grandmothers and mothers knew there was a link, but we dermatologists didn't think it was true." That's exactly what Andria P., 30, was told. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Q: If we do need sun rays, why have dermatologists been scaring us for decades about too much sun—and telling people to cover up and slather on lots of sunscreen? A: In an effort to make a public health message simple, we often throw the baby out with the bathwater. Remember when all fat was bad and the media touted no-fat diets? Remember when all carbs were bad? Now we know there are good fats and bad fats. Now we know that there are good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates. As science progresses and as public knowledge increases, the message becomes more complex." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"BEGIN BOX] Lip Gloss Can Magnify the Sun's UV Rays A consumer alert from dermatologists, widely publicized in April 2008, warned that lip glosses can act like magnifying glasses, concentrating the UV rays of the sun in a way that allows more light rays to penetrate directly into the lips. As a result, the wearer's risk of contracting squamous cell carcinoma, a cancer of the lips, could be increased —though it must also be noted that, as of this writing, no medical studies had been conducted to confirm a cancer link." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Organizers of some of these seminars attracted hundreds of physicians by hosting them in exotic locales and including plenty of amusements, where cost was not an issue. dermatologists from around the country were invited to a continuing education symposium at a beachfront luxury hotel in Miami's South Beach in 2004 that included lectures by physicians like Dr. Roger Ceilley, a prominent Iowa dermatologist, as well as nightly social affairs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Thus, there is no single answer to how much sun exposure is needed to achieve and maintain an adequate vitamin D status. Some dermatologists have advocated for no sun exposure [51]; however, the World Health organization (WHO) Report [56] on solar UV radiation indicates that it is not appropriate to strive for zero sun exposure as this would create a huge burden of skeletal disease from vitamin D deficiency. However, it is important to avoid excess exposure because this has been linked with skin cancers and skin photoaging [51]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"First-Line Treatments Antibiotics and topical creams are usually the first defense dermatologists recommend in fighting acne. Antibiotics (all of which must be obtained by prescription) include drugs in the tetracycline class of antibiotics, including tetracycline (Achromycin), doxycycline (Vibra tabs), demeclocycline (Declomycin), and minocycline (Minocin). They were developed from a common mold and share a four-ring chemical structure. They work by inhibiting protein synthesis in bacteria, thereby inhibiting growth of the bacteria in the sebaceous glands that lead to acne." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "You might think that people would be happy to learn more about a potentially dangerous side effect, but they weren't. dermatologists who prescribe Accutane told me that I shouldn't do this research, because Accutane was a "good" drug that helped a lot of people with severe acne. I asked the FDA and the NIH to support clinical trials investigating the relationship between Accutane and depression. Staff at the FDA said they were "watching Accutane closely," but "they couldn't require the manufacturer to cooperate in trials of drug safety." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Journal Canadian Dental Association 5: 7-12, 1990] Dermatologists report that this escharotic (caustic) paste is a traditional remedy for abnormal skin growths that works in a manner similar to zinc chloride. dermatologists reported on four patients who used bloodroot paste to treat their skin cancers, and while they denounced its use and branded it as harmful, their report in the Archives of Dermatology admits that one patient experienced a complete disappearance of a skin tumor that later returned. A second patient had eradicated all tumors, but experienced severe scarring." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Physicians are collaborating and dermatologists are accommodating by performing a biopsy whenever there is any doubt. Dermatopathologists can be shown to be less reliable the earlier and more subtle the lesion. The result is that there is an epidemic of the diagnosis of melanoma but not of disease-specific mortality. The inescapable conclusion is that the disease is being vastly overdiagnosed (Welch et al. 2005). The study of the interobserver reliability of mammography was by J. G. Elmore et al. (1994), as was the study of false positive rates (J. G. Elmore et al. 1998)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"It affects between 10 and 20 percent of all infants, but almost half of these kids will "grow out" of eczema between the ages of five and fifteen, according to the American Academy of dermatologists. But many won't. Two wonderful supplements—evening primrose oil and probiotics—may help. Scratching Beneath the Surface for Causes First understand this: Eczema can be difficult to treat partly because you have to do some detective work to figure out just which stressors may be triggering the dry, scaly skin in the first place." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"But of the patients with doctor-detected melanomas, those whose cancers were diagnosed by dermatologists rather than by other doctors had higher survival rates. Skin Tags If you notice some small, ugly, movable, skin-colored growths that look like they're hanging on a tiny thread, you have skin tags—medically known as acrochordons. They often peek out from under skin folds, such as around the neck, under the armpits, in the groin, and under the breasts. But they can crop up on other spots of your body as well." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Patients with any suspicious moles were to be sent to dermatologists. That is how we screen for skin cancer, and it's been going on in doctors' offices for years. But it's getting more common. And you can imagine the chain of events: more people are referred to dermatologists,18 more people get biopsied, more people are diagnosed with melanoma—and the incidence rate goes up. A MELANOMA OUTBREAK Rising incidence rates can get pretty scary. One of the classic examples occurred during the 1970s and '80s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, across the bay from San Francisco." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"For the last twenty-five years or so we have been brainwashed by doctors, dermatologists, and skin care companies about the dangers of the sun. I do not agree with this hysteria. Just as we need darkness to support our sleep cycles, we need light—particularly morning sun—for our day cycles. The sun literally gets us going in the morning. We need its light to trigger our metabolism, alertness, and overall ability to function and perform. Fortunately, in the last few years, the pendulum has swung back in this direction." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The use of these peels has branched out from the face to the neck, chest, arms and legs—anywhere that discoloration and wrinkles have taken hold. dermatologists also say that the peels can remove precancerous spots on the skin, a helpful preventive measure. Nonprescription forms of AHAs are found in many cosmetic creams, though their effectiveness in these treatments is not documented. Essential News About Essential Oils Throughout the cosmetics industry, you'll hear praise for the power of citrus fruit compounds to help keep skin healthy and young looking." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "It works by relaxing certain muscles that cause wrinkles, in this case, platysma muscles of the neck. dermatologists and plastic surgeons say that safety is not a problem when a well-versed and experienced physician does the treatment. (The doctor should be board-certified and have performed at least 50 of these procedures prior to yours.) For information or referrals, check with: • The American Society of Plastic Surgeons at 847-228-9900 or www.plasticsurgery.org • The American Society for Dermatologic Surgery at 800-441-2737 or www.asds-net." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Finally, in the late 1990s, advances in laser technology led certain surgeons and dermatologists to speak more highly of the potential of new, C02 laser surgery to smooth the skin and minimize wrinkles. The doctors stopped short, however, of deeming it equal to a surgical face-lift. Surgeons have been praising the effects of a newer treatment, using the element erbium in place of C02 for "laser resurfacing" to minimize the effects of aging. Because the erbium laser is absorbed by the skin more rapidly than are other lasers, there may be less pain and reddening after the procedure?" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"In fact, restylane has been shown to be more effective than collagen in double blind clinical trials six months after injection by dermatologists in the naso-labial folds, wrinkles that run from the bridge of the nose to the corners of the mouth (). It's also cheaper than collagen. Injections that combined restylane and the prescription drug Botox (botulinum toxin) were also reported to be more effective than injections of either product alone. 9. Peptides. Peptides are chains of amino acids often used in anti-wrinkle products." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"I spent a good deal of my childhood and teen years in dermatologists' offices and at cosmetics counters or drugstores, trying every possible treatment or product that promised to give me normal skin. It never happened. Struggling with my own skin has been a lifelong quest. Then, in 1977,1 took my first job at a department-store makeup counter to supplement my income as a freelance makeup artist (I always had a knack for doing makeup)." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"That means the allergens list is in part due to a statistical effect: you need a quorum of people with a particular allergy before dermatologists notice it. Above 'permitted' levels, the fragrance has to be labelled with a symbol that says 'may be bad for you' and the potential allergens listed. This is fine, were it not for the fact that the list lovely rose essence or some such that people thought was in there. People read labels and find things like 'Hydroxymethyl pentylcyclohexene carboxaldehyde', a.k.a. Lyral®, an excellent and of course largely harmless lily-of-the-valley synthetic." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Dermatologists usually prescribe a cleansing lotion containing a drying agent with sulfur and resorcinol, or a medicated product called Diprosone from Schering-Plough, to clear up dandruff. Q See also seborrhea in Part Two. DEAFNESS See hearing loss. DEPRESSION Depression affects 22 percent of Americans aged eighteen and older (one in five adults) every year, making it one of the most common medical problems in the United States. It affects young and old, and is twice as common in women as in men." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"For example, dermatologists, not normally the most glamorous specialists in medicine, were recently plucked from stygian darkness to opine on the allergen properties of fragrance, and their recommendations promptly turned into EU regulations. (Potato crisps and other art forms An area which, in my opinion, is ripe for revolution is that of flavours. As I explained earlier, flavours are still figurative, to borrow a term from the visual arts. The bases sold by flavour companies (all major fragrance companies have a flavour wing) have names like 'lemon', 'grapefruit', etc." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"I was asked to be part of a medical advisory group attended by some of the most prominent dermatologists in the field. Of the topics discussed, the most fascinating were discussions about anti-wrinkle products, the validity (or lack thereof) of how effective they are, and the ways the cosmetics industry and the medical community have collaborated to create studies that prove a product is beneficial when in truth the study proves nothing at all (but makes for great marketing copy). What a great meeting! On a seemingly far more mundane level there was a also brief dialogue about makeup removal." - Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition (Get the book.)

"The first thing Jane noticed is that the panel was dominated by dermatologists who, for a living, think about allergies and skin sensitizers. They didn't have the experience or expertise to evaluate risks to the reproductive system of chronic exposure to phthalates over time. They also had little information about how much people are being exposed to phthalates from cosmetics." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

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