Joel D. Wallach

Joel D. Wallach ,https://thewallachfiles.com/about-dr-wallach/ also known as the mineral doctor, is an American veterinarian, naturopath quack, colloidal mineral woo promoter, cholesterol denialist, vaccine denialist and best known for promoting the false claim that all diseases are caused by mineral deficiencies.Joel D. Wallach, the "mineral doctor"
Wallach believes that people can live more than one hundred years if they take colloidal mineral supplements, including colloidal silver.Seven Benefits of Colloidal Silver Youngevity (archived from March 15, 2018). His ideas have been described by medical experts as false, misleading, and dangerous to the public.Youngevity Australia, Colloidal Minerals & Dr Joel WallachColloidal Mineral Supplements: Unnecessary and Potentially Hazardous 
He operates the alternative medicine website Critical Health News.Critical Health News
==Qualifications and naturopathic career==
Wallach refers to himself as a physician. However, he is not qualified in this field.Colloidal Minerals Miracle or Menace "Wallach is a total and utter quack. He is an ND, and a veterinarian. He is not licensed to perform human medical autopsies, as he claims." He is a qualified veterinarian, but when it comes to human medicine, he is totally unreliable; he obtained his ND from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine. 
In the early 1980s, Wallach was associated with cancer woo. He described himself as a "Manner Metabolic Physician" and practiced metabolic therapy, a form of cancer quackery pioneered by Harold W. Manner.Manner Metabolic Therapy "No scientific study has ever shown that "metabolic therapy" or any of its components is effective against cancer or any other serious disease." This type of discredited treatment involved the use of laetrile, which is clinically ineffective for cancer and potentially toxic.Nightingale SL. (1984). "Laetrile: the regulatory challenge of an unproven remedy". Public Health Reports. 99 (4): 333–8.Milazzo S, Horneber M (April 2015). "Laetrile treatment for cancer". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4): CD005476.
He also worked for the "Hospital Santa Monica", an alternative medicine clinic operated by convicted fraud Kurt Donsbach.For information on Donsbach check out Kurt Donsbach Convicted Again, or The Shady Activities of Kurt Donsbach
In 1995, it was reported that Wallach was practicing chelation therapy for coronary artery disease at a clinic in San Francisco, California, and that one of his patients had died following his advice to avoid help from a regular physician. Chelation therapy has been utilized by alternative medicine proponents, but is a serious misuse of the treatment.
==Nobel Prize nominee==
Alternative medicine websites like to claim that Wallach was a Nobel Prize nominee. What they do not mention is that he was nominated by the "Association of Eclectic Physicians", a non-scientific naturopathic group founded in 1982. Quackwatch have noted that:
This isn't Nobel disease; this is "never even got in the Nobel Institute's doors".
==Dead Doctors Don't Lie==
Wallach is known for his controversial audiotape Dead Doctors Don't Lie, 1994. In the tape, he made a number of distortions, lies, and pseudoscientific claims.
Wallach claimed that he has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers. Upon investigation, the real figure was only a handful. Wallach said that cystic fibrosis is preventable and totally curable. Scientific evidence says otherwise.Cystic fibrosis "There is no cure for cystic fibrosis, but treatment can ease symptoms and reduce complications." He proclaimed that physicians have a life expectancy of only 58 years, which is entirely false and has been described by medical experts as an outright lie.
Wallach claimed that five cultures in the world had average lifespans of 120-140 years when, in reality, no such cultures have existed. He also made many false medical claims unsupported by clinical evidence, such as all aneurysms being caused by copper deficiency, male-pattern baldness being caused by tin deficiency, and Bell's palsy being caused by calcium deficiency.
==Cholesterol denialism==
Wallach is a cholesterol denialist. He believes that people should not worry about high blood cholesterol levels as they have no negative health effects. He has ignored the majority of scientific studies that have found that saturated fat intake and high LDL cholesterol levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
==Colloidal Minerals==
Wallach's statements about colloidal minerals are entirely erroneous. According to The Skeptic's Dictionary:
==See also==
*He was featured on Coast to Coast AM.
==External links==
*A critical look at Youngevity & Dr Joel Wallach
==References==
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