ĭespite coffee enemas being long discredited as medical procedures, Brogan promotes them as a treatment for depression. She also denies polio was eradicated by vaccination.

She also promotes many of the usual erroneous claims against vaccines, notably that the immunity gained from surviving an infectious disease is superior to the one generated by being vaccinated. Through her website, Brogan offers a subscription-only 'lifestyle medicine' community space and access to self-improvement training resources.

She also defended the unsupported belief that a dysbiosis (imbalance) of intestinal bacteria causes depression Brogan invites people to stop taking antidepressants and use the techniques and products from her website instead. Even though the link between HIV and AIDS is clearly established by medical research, she calls it an 'assumption'. In a similar vein, Brogan attributed the death of AIDS patients not to HIV, but to treatments meant to fight it. She mocks the well-established notion of 'little invisible pathogens, you know, that randomly jump around from person to person'. Alternative medicine controversiesīrogan promotes the belief that human diseases are caused not by infectious agents, but rather by psychological factors. īrogan wrote about health on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop retail website and was featured on expert panels at several Goop events. She no longer claims to be certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine on her website. Heimlich stated that she appears not to have maintained certification with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, according to the association's database. īrogan maintained a psychiatry practice in Manhattan from 2009 to 2019, specializing in helping people wean themselves off medication. She uses the title of 'holistic psychiatrist'. Background and credentialsīrogan graduated from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. Kelly Brogan is an American author of books on alternative medicine who has promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation about discredited medical hypotheses.

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