Russell L Blaylock (born 1945) is an alternative health promoting physician who lives in Jackson, Miss. Blaylock has appeared all over the food-related advocacy space and has been around the voodoo health claims circuit.
Among his earlier campaigns Blaylock opposed food additives like aspartame and MSG. He had a wagon-full of junk science claims in his book regarding ‘excitotoxins’–a term he helped coin that is found in several homeopathic and alternative health snake oil sales sites.
[1] Blaylock also promotes chemtrail conspiracies alleging cancer-causing nanoparticles as being purposefully released into the atmosphere in a government-corporate scheme.
[2] Skeptic’s Dictionary and QuackWatch call him an anti-vaxxer
[3] while selling his own line of “Brain Repair Formula” supplements. He has been called “quack of the day” by The Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist.
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To herbal medicine and alternative treatment groups, he sells alternative treatments for neurological disorders that he claims stem from aspartame, MSG and other food additives.
Career
- Retired from medicine to write and promote his products for ‘Surgical Neurology International, Theoretical Neuroscience Research, LLC, and Advanced Nutritional Research, LLC.
- Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Surgical Neurology International, UCLA – Serves as editorial board journal under neuroscience section as editor in chief.[5]
- Founder, Theoretical Neuroscience Research, LLC, 2011 – Present (4 years) Ridgeland, MS
- Founder, Advanced Nutritional Research, LLC, 2009 – Present (6 years) Ridgeland, MS
Education
- Medical University of South Carolina, M.D., Resident in Neurosurgery. 1971 – 1977
- Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, 1968 – 1971
Short biography
Russell L. Blaylock is an author and a retired U.S. neurosurgeon. Blaylock introduced a new treatment for a subset of brain tumors, as well as improving certain operations treating hydrocephalus, often called “water on the brain,” which causes babies’ or young children’s head to swell.
Blaylock was a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and is currently a visiting professor in the biology department at
Belhaven College
. He is the author of a number of books and papers, including
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (1994),
Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life (2002), and
Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients (2003), and writes a monthly newsletter, the
Blaylock Wellness Report.
Advocacy
Blaylock has endorsed views inconsistent with the scientific consensus, including that food additives such as aspartame and monosodium glutamate (MSG) are “excitotoxic” to the brain in normal doses, that the H1N1 influenza (swine flu) vaccine carries more risk than swine flu itself, and that GMOs are dangerous to health at any dose.
Allegations of health dangers
Blaylock opposes the use of certain vaccines. He has urged avoidance of the swine flu (H1N1) vaccination, which he claims is more dangerous than the infection itself. He has also given advice on what he feels an individual should do if faced with mandatory vaccination,
[6] although current research indicates that an effective vaccine is a vital tool in protecting the public and that the H1N1 vaccine is both safe and effective. Blaylock suggests that vitamin D, fish oil and antioxidants are effective against catching the flu. According to McGill University’s Joe Schwarcz, there is no evidence for these claims.
Blaylock also claims the supposed toxicity of numerous substances that according to scientific studies are safe at customary exposure levels. He has been quoted several times in media outlets regarding his position that MSG is toxic to the brain.
[7] He also states that the widely used artificial sweetener aspartame is toxic and may be the cause of multiple sclerosis in his book
Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Health Press, 1994. ISBN 0-929173-14-7). He has additionally cautioned against heavy use of the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose).
[8] These positions are not supported by scientific consensus or regulatory bodies, as extensive studies support the safety of aspartame, sucralose, and MSG.
Advertisements selling the ‘Blaylock Wellness Report’ at
newsmax.com contain claims of additional health dangers, including fluoridated drinking water, fluoridated toothpaste, vaccines, dental amalgam, cholesterol drugs, pesticides, and aluminum cookware.The following advertisements for
The Blaylock Wellness Report include these:
Mercury: Save Your Body From Nature’s Deadly Poison,
Autism,
Why Fluoride Is Toxic, and
Food Additives. In April 2013, Blaylock entered his endorsement of the chemtrails conspiracy theory on an internet radio program called Linderman Unleashed Radio Show where he cited increased levels of aluminum in water bodies and nature with his common sense observations of the skies. He proposed the conspiratorial and criminal aircraft spraying by governments of nano toxins for some supposed global, emergency purpose.
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Views on politics
Blaylock has called the American medical system ‘collectivist’ and has suggested that health-care reform efforts under President Obama are masterminded by extragovernmental groups that wish to impose euthanasia. He blamed the purported collectivism of American medicine for the retirement of his friend Miguel Faria. According to Blaylock, the former Soviet Union tried to spread collectivism by covertly introducing illegal drugs and various sexually transmitted diseases into the United States. Schwarcz characterized these positions as “conspiracy theories.”
Regarding his political and philosophical influences, Blaylock wrote that he began “exploring for the first time some of the classics of liberty” while doing his internship at the Medical University of South Carolina, which he said was “deeply embroiled in a leftist-initiated war on Western Culture.” Among these works, Blaylock mentioned Frédéric Bastiat’s
The Law, Friedrich Hayek’s
The Road to Serfdom and
The Constitution of Liberty, and works by Ludwig von Mises, and Murray Rothbard.
[10] Blaylock has also been a longtime supporter of the Institute of World Politics, and has praised its founder, John Lenczowski, for his “…dedication to sound principles of transcendent law, moral absolutes and the teaching of these principles within the scope of statecraft…”
