Here's a link to a CNN.com article about a miraculous recovery from a traumatic brain injury that left a guy in an otherwise irreversible coma.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/healt...pt=hp_bn12

The miracle treatment: High-dose fish oil. The article mentions Dr. Julian Bailes and his successful treatment of Randal McCloy in the Sago Mine disaster w/ fish oil, saying that he consulted w/ "a fish oil expert" to help administer the fish oil... no mention of Sears by name. They cite the National Institutes of Health and the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU, but no bone tossed to good ol' Barry Sears. That really chaps my hide. His research and predictions and treatments from the last 20 years have changed the landscape and perception of health, disease, diet and medicine, whether you're talking hormonal stability through macro-nutrient balance to glycemic index to fish-oil to frickin' lettuce wraps in restaurants (and now he's ahead of the curve in polyphenols). I'll take his brilliant, nerdy, lab rat proclivities and not try to dwell on how his staggering accomplishments are overlooked, but come on... this Dawg deserves his due (so to speak).

I get SO frustrated, too, that Barry Sears doesn't get the credit he so deserve.

I also get frustrated that most people don't understand how the right kind of diet is so crucial, and how Barry Sears' diet almost never get mentioned on the news, or on TV shows, or in media, etc., yet the alkins diet--which isn't balanced--get mentioned al lthe time.

i guess the important thing is whether people understand what they need to get well, not whether barry gets his credit. i think barry is more concerned with helping people get well than whether he gets credit or not. however the fact his zone diet doesn't get mentioned by nutritionists etc IS frustrating.

my naturopathic doctor doesn't even know what the zone diet is. she knows what the paleo diet is though.

A

the pessimistic side of me says:

in a world where everyone is out to make a great living, why would it be in THEIR (other doctors, insurance companies and
advertisers-media) interest to promote a diet/way of life that would cut down on use of pharmaceutical supplies, grain products,
diet centers around the world and ongoing medical testing/treatments...
if our soceity were to learn about the zone in school, for nutrition--our soceity would be much healthier and many professions
preying on the weak and ill would suffer great losses..

again this is my pessimistic side-- i truly believe that the zone is a healthy way of life, and it puts me in a quandary, as to
when i visit my physician and they are unaware of the zone, and have no idea how it could affect my well being..
living in the northeast, there are NOT many zone physicians around

"... living in the Northeast, not many Zone Physicians around..."
Even though Dr. Sears is not too far away from me in Northern MA, there are none I know of in my area.
He used to try and keep a list on this website, but, that seems to have died.
And I imagine trying to keep it up-to-date was horrendous.

Another perspective... He is not the medical doctor leading the team, so he doesn't get the credit. It's like this, how many times does the pharmacist get thanked for supplying a needed antibiotic to cure an illness? Rarely. It's usually the doctor who gets credit for it. Oh, and let's not forget the nurses who are in attendance 24/7!!

Hi Cranberrycat, this analogy doesn't quite work for me, because the pharmacist didn't invent the antibiotics; barry sears invented the zone diet and his f.o.

So it's not quite the same thing. And, the information about the fish oil was vague too--it did not specify pharmeutically distilled, etc.

Barry Sears really did do a lot of good things, and they are being largely, well, first, attacked--he was attacked for a long time I believe--and then people kinda copied off of him and his considerable research, and didn't give credit to him for being the original person.

That said, I see what you mean about being the leading medical doctor on the team. That leading doctor is in charge of the treatments etc. So yes I see where you're coming from in that respect.

alexy

Yeah, not everyone who deserves credit gets it...

I read the link, and to be quite honest, I am confused. Was Barry Sears personally involved in this case? I am not aware of it, but maybe I am missing something.

The important thing is that the guy is recovering.

Oh, I remember he was involved in the fish oil dosing of the miner. But, I am not aware of him being personally involved in the case of the kid who suffered the brain injury in the car accident.