Josh Axe

Joshua Lee Axe practices quackery, chiropractic and naturopathic medicine in Tennessee. He has doctorates in chiropractic and naturopathic medicine; he is not a medical doctor. He is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist. He promotes discredited and unproven cancer treatments. Allegedly his DrAxe website receives over 100 million visits per year. Assuming this is true, his website receives more visitors than Doctor Oz, Dr. Mercola or NaturalNews.

In 2019, Dr. Axe jumped on the keto diet bandwagon and promotes other low-carb quackery.

Medical woo
Dr. Axe pushes a range of natural health-products, including the classics: apple cider vinegar, Himalayan pink salt, and colloidal silver.

He has written a book called  Eat Shit & Die  Eat Dirt, whose title is intended to be taken literally. He is a fan of low-carb dieting and promotes the ketogenic diet. Dr. Axe sells keto supplements for $59.95.

Dr. Axe makes money by selling dirt sandwiches nutritional supplements that contain — among other things — a "Soil and Plant based probiotic and prebiotic blend with 5 billion cfu… Saccharomyces boulardii, Bacillus clausii, Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus sbutilis, Bacteriophage Blend (Myoviridae T4, Myoviridae LH01, Myoviridae LL12, Siphoviridae LL5)".

Dr. Axe is a proponent of curing which he describes as a "rapidly growing condition that millions of people are struggling with and don’t even know it." In reality, leaky gut syndrome is not a recognized medical condition and is only found in alternative medicine literature. The NHS has written that "there is currently little evidence to support the theory that a porous bowel is the direct cause of any significant, widespread problems."

He is supportive of dangerous and unproven alternative cancer treatments such as Gerson therapy.

I wanna get off Dr. Axe's wild ride
Dr. Axe warns customers against consuming heavy metals, whilst simultaneously pushing bentonite clay, a quack-treatment which contains potentially hazardous levels of the arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and lead.

He compares (confuses) ionizing radiation from a (Fukushima) nuclear reactor with non-ionizing radio waves from a microwave oven.

Dr. Axe recommends chelation as a treatment for autism, despite the fact it has not been shown to work, and can be hazardous to the patient.

Dr. Axe promotes coffee enemas, which have no known medical benefit but have numerous risks (burning, rectal perforation, infection and electrolyte imbalance).

Dr. Axe states he is a creationist. This declaration could endear him to the only sector of the market who would buy his shtick, i.e., those who don't ask for evidence.

If you are having trouble swallowing his bullshit, Dr. Axe has a treatment for your : acupuncture.

Publications

 * Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It (Harper Wave, 2017) ISBN 978-0062433671
 * Keto Diet: Your 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones, Boost Brain Health, and Reverse Disease (Little, Brown Spark, 2019) ISBN 978-0316529587