What Doctors Don't Tell You first appeared as a newsletter at the end of 1989. It grew from a sense of frustration with conventional medicine, and a desire to tell others about its short-comings and dangers. It was started by award-winning journalist Lynne McTaggart and her husband, Bryan Hubbard, also a senior journalist.
Lynne had suffered from a mysterious illness for around five years, during which time she had passed through a medical odyssey of conventional, alternative and strange treatments. She encountered treatments that either didn't work or were dangerous.
Before launching What Doctors Don't Tell You, Lynne had worked closely with the legendary Dr Robert Mendelsohn in America, who was one of the first doctors to blow the whistle on medical practices.
Since its launch all those years ago, What Doctors Don't Tell You has been acknowledged as one of the world's very best health newsletters by several commentators, including leading publisher and health campaigner Burton Goldberg, leading holistic healer Dr John Diamond and the Holistic Health Library.
It accepts no donations from government bodies, industry groups or companies, but relies for its survival and success only from the subscription income it receives from its many thousands of subscribers around the world.
Its hallmark has been its in-depth research, and hard-won information of a quality that can change lives for the better. It's been cited in law courts, it's been used to encourage doctors to change their treatments, and our filing cabinets are full of testimonials from thousands of people whose lives have been helped by our information.
We've also published around 35 books on health, we run regular workshops and conferences, and - best of all - everything we've ever written is available on this website for you to search.
WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY
Here're some of their comments (they're all genuine and the originals can be viewed at our offices):
"What Doctors contains just the sort of medical information I was looking for, and which is very diffifcult to obtain elsewhere" - P.E., Surrey
"As a medical doctor, I am really pleased with What Doctors..., my sincere good wishes for the special work that you are doing" - Dr. M.S., Beirut
"I had a reasonable knowledge of the possible pitfalls of drug therapy, but your wide ranging well- written and easy-to-understand information has heightened my awareness of this most important subject and you are performing a much-needed and vital service to us all" - M.G., Bedfordshire
"Instead of suffering from asthma, unwillingly forced into the last ditch resort of taking steroids in order to have any sort of liveable life, I am virtually free of it and, to boot, have lost a surplus two stone. This is all attributable to your informative publications" - MBC, P-B., Cornwall
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"It's brilliant" - D.R. Norfolk