AMD on DMSO for Gut Healing

And why don't people do any critical analysis anymore btw?

Who is AMD?

As I discussed previously, A Midwestern Doctor is one of the most famous alternative medical bloggers. They claim to be an actual M.D. but want to remain anon so they won’t lose their license for going against some mainstream positions (esp. vaccines). As an alternative health researcher myself, I resonate with a lot of what they talk about. However, I believe that is a calculated goal that they have, characteristic of a CIA Limited Hangout.

I have personally verified AMD is not one person, but a team of people. One researcher on the team contacted me directly from their domain name when I cancelled my subscription and showed them the limited hangout evidence, but they couldn’t respond directly to any of my evidence either. AMD claims to read over 10,000 studies for certain posts they write, which is patently absurd… I asked AMD if they actually read all those studies or they just fed them to AI to summarize and select, and AMD did not respond to that particular comment. They did respond to all my others up until that one, except for the other time when I showed AMD the CHD article proving that CHD had distanced themselves from their old founder, RFK Jr (and even sued his office), which AMD claimed was false. Nobody can read 10,000 studies on one topic for one post. There have also been blatant plagiarism issues, especially on AMD’s post about prenatal ultrasound.

I have noticed a trend with AMD’s articles, which indicates to me they have actually no real medical experience with what they are talking about. They appear to be most likely a team of semi-intelligent people using AI and making some posts which collect a lot of useful info and then sometimes misrepresent the usefulness of the info on the whole. I still do refer people to some of the posts because they seem uniquely valuable in what they manage to collect, and sometimes the synthesis is not bad at all.

AMD’s Latest Post

AMD’s latest post on treating GI issues with DMSO does have some value, but it suffers in various areas which would not be the case if this were actually written by a highly intelligent individual M.D. who treats patients with DMSO. For example, AMD doesn’t know what strength of DMSO is required to penetrate the skin or to kill bacteria, suggests a ridiculously low 1% concentration of DMSO for nebulizing, doesn’t understand that DMSO enemas can bring toxins from the colon into the blood, and doesn’t always seem to understand that taking it by mouth isn’t gonna work the same as direct application to injured tissues. Aside from this one post, I noticed that AMD also doesn’t know that too much DMSO causes insomnia (which aside from my own observations, is studied, but only in mice).

From my own personal experience, DMSO has a lot of benefits, but it hasn’t been anything like a magic bullet for most GI issues that people I know have had. Hemorrhoids, liver toxic burden, ulcers, pancreatitis, and parasite die-off toxic burden might be especially benefitted, but gallstones and diabetes are not likely to be substantially helped based on the science and what I and others have found by self-experimentation. You can read a lot of cloud-sourced self-experiments at EarthClinic.com (some of which I posted).

I saved the HTML file of AMD’s article and sent it over to my personalized Gemini Pro (I added some saved instructions so that it is able to examine studies in a more rigorous manner and without bias toward authority… explained this in my other recent post on training AI to be anti-vax in 1 minute).

Here is what Gemini concluded. If you want the full analysis I will provide that link at the bottom for paid subscribers. Free readers can do their own research as homework (I get paid to do homework basically).

Overall Methodological Assessment

• Spectrum of Findings: The author fails to present a true spectrum of findings. Contradictory evidence (like DMSO's potential liver toxicity) and critical context (the lack of replication for human trials) are consistently omitted.

• Logical Fallacies: The primary fallacy is Cherry-Picking (also known as Suppressed Evidence). The author builds a compelling case by exclusively presenting evidence that supports their conclusion while ignoring the vast body of evidence that either contradicts it or suggests the topic is not considered a fruitful area of modern research. This is compounded by an Argument from Antiquity, where old, unreplicated studies are treated as foundational proof without acknowledging that science has moved on.

• Evolution of Idea: The article fails to trace the evolution of these ideas. It presents findings from the early 1990s as if they are current, without explaining why they were not pursued and how the medical field evolved in a different direction (e.g., the discovery of H. pylori's role in ulcers).

Final Verdict on Misrepresentation: The article misrepresents the science not by fabricating data, but by presenting a curated collection of isolated and preclinical findings out of context. A reader is led to believe that a powerful, proven, and suppressed cure for major diseases exists, when the reality is that it represents an intriguing but ultimately unproven and largely abandoned line of scientific inquiry from decades ago.

What is the value of doing this analysis?

Aside from proving what I thought about AMD’s article and AMD in general, it’s useful to simply check everything you read, which is now easier than ever before. And check AI as well. AI is often wrong, especially when you don’t give it good instructions, but it offers a huge time-saving benefit in many cases. If you don’t use the right instructions you can end up with a lot of mainstream nonsense, especially on controversial topics, as I mentioned.

If I were AMD and I wanted to be taken seriously, it would actually be really easy to do so by simply using AI to double check my stuff before I post it in the way that I did here. But, AMD doesn’t need to do all that, because as you can see in the comments sections, something like maybe only 1% of the commenters are expressing some skepticism — often times, I am the only one expressing skepticism, especially in the medical-focused articles without political stances.

What to do for Gut Health then?

I do believe DMSO can be useful for many gut issues, but there is a lot more info you should check out before looking at DMSO for the gut.

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