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I share this sentiment. It seems that anything which has not yet been formally proven by academia is “not real” in the public eye and therefore all believers are cranks. We still have major gaps in our understanding of our bodies and our medicine, so to me it is ironic that the institutional science scoffs at things like the microbiome that we do not yet fully understand.



> major gaps in our understanding of our bodies

True. But it doesn't cancel the fact that most preachers of detoxication and such are cranks.




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