How Safe Is Buying Health on Internet?
Everything can be bought over the Internet today. Even health. But how true is that? What products are offered to us with a promise to bring us back to normal life without ailments? How much truth is there in these offers, or is it a scam of impressive scale and impunity?
"If your blood pressure is 140/90, immediately clean the blood vessels with... ".
"Psoriasis? A doctor shares how he healed...".
"Here's what kills prostatitis...".
"I cured my parents' joints with this old-time recipe...".
"How to cure diabetes...".
We come across these extremely tempting ads everywhere on the Internet. Without even searching Google for them. They intrude on our lives from the photos of leading doctors, public figures, celebrities and flood us with copious, allegedly medical information meant to inspire our confidence and arm us with knowledge. They flood us from social media, electronic news sites, even from our private e-mail boxes, without permission.
All of them are written in the same way and offer us their products only via the Internet. For more credibility, some traders even post a photo of a certificate with a blurry stamp of research institute or laboratory which does not exist.
Professors, associate professors, famous doctors who are used to convince us of the effect and harmlessness of the offered products are also phantom figures. Usually interviews with them are posted, which are nothing but a journalistic genre.
For example: "The professor of vascular surgery from Varna clinic , Dr. Stefan Dimitrov, who performed more than 11,000 brain operations, and his youngest patient was only 2 days old, explains to us the problems with cholesterol, the dangers of clogged blood vessels and how all this will...
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