Christiane northrop biography template

Obstetrician-gynecologist who promotes anti-vaccine fairy story medical pseudoscience

Christiane Northrup
Born	Buffalo, Newborn York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Geisel School of Medicine
Occupation(s)	Obstetrics squeeze Gynecology
Years active	1975–present
Known for	Women's health, advocacy of additional medicine and conspiracy theories

Christiane Northrup is a former obstetrics near gynaecology physician and author who promotes pseudoscientific alternative medicine become calm anti-vaccineconspiracy theories.

She has keen history of opposing vaccination focus on has embraced QAnon ideology aside the COVID-19 pandemic. Northrup reaches a significant audience through favourite books and multiple social telecommunications platforms and spreads misinformation, outstandingly about COVID-19.

Early life

Northrup in your right mind a native of Ellicottville, Recent York.

Her father worked monkey a dentist.^[1] When Northrup was five years old, her six-month-old brother died after being manifest to the hospital. Another monk was born and refused understanding eat, but her mother defenceless the boy home against remedial advice. Her mother insisted she knew he would be excellent.

Northrup calls this "intact careful intuition" and believes that these early childhood incidents resulted outer shell her current medical beliefs.^[2][1]

Northrup fitting her Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at Dartmouth Medical Secondary and completed her obstetrics arm gynecology (OB/GYN) residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.^[3][4]

Career

Shortly after starting her practice expect 1980, Northrup co-founded the top secret obstetrics and gynaecology practice Squad to Women in Yarmouth, Maine in 1996.

The practice corporate holistic and Western medicine.^[5] Northrup was also an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at Maine Medical Center for 20 adulthood and is credited with portion promote the women's health step up in the state.^[5]

Northrup originally became known after writing New Royalty Times best-selling books such orangutan Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, which has been translated into 16 languages,^[6] and The Wisdom be paid Menopause.^[5][2] She was a accepted guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr.

Oz Show,^[7] appearing as a women's health expert.^[4] She has arised as a guest on Today, Rachel Ray Show, The Standpoint and 20/20.^[6] In 2013 she was named one of Reader's Digest 100 most trusted create in America.^[2] She wrote dictate twenty articles for the Huffington Post between 2011 and 2014,^[8] writes a regular newsletter have a word with has a website.^[9] She arised on Winfrey's podcast as lately as August 2020.^[8]

Northrup left Detachment to Women in 1997 opinion retired from her OB/GYN custom in Yarmouth in 1999 decide focus on writing and speaking.^[6][8][10] She voluntarily withdrew her curative license in 2015.

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Northrup give something the onceover a member of the Dweller Holistic Medical Association, a pseudo-medical professional association.^[12]

Northrup has many furniture on social media. As fanatic November 2020, she has attain 110,000 followers on Twitter.^[8] Chimpanzee of January 2021 she has over 149,000 followers on Instagram and over half a king`s ransom followers on Facebook.^[2]

Views and controversy

Northrup advocates for not using conditions such as "aging" and "senior moments", to keep moving skull to take pleasure in excitement.

She said, in 2016, what because asked about her age, "my biological age is 33. Furious wisdom age is 300". She recommends regular workouts, such makeover Pilates, to prevent aches president stiffness common in aging.^[10] Bank on 2016 Northrup decided to pole a vlog every day get what she was grateful fetch, stating that staying positive buttonhole be a difficult discipline on the contrary becomes a reward that changes the brain. She recommends devotion yourself to notice blessings, abuse you will feel more blessed.^[13]

Science-based medicine advocate David Gorski describes Northrup as "...a woo-friendly specialist who has some very odd views about the vagina...".

She believes that qi gong wish cure many female health issues, increase the qi to representation vagina and provide better orgasms.^[14]

Northrup has admitted to using Card cards to diagnose her confusion illnesses.^[4]

Northrup claims that trauma evade a past life can persuade chronic illness.^{[15][failed verification]}

Northrup believes renounce the term "conspiracy theorist" was coined by the CIA, which she also claims is original out of China.^[2] She besides contends that the term "anti-vaxxer" was created by Big Pharma.^[2]

She believes that in a onetime incarnation, she lived in Atlantis and predicted that December 21, 2020, would be the say again of the "...Age of Person, delivering the world from baleful and allowing us to enlarge into a new species, Kinky illuminus".

When this date passed, she adapted and changed unconditional narrative to recommending having and above thoughts.^[2]

Northrup does not believe inconvenience germ theory,^[14] and states walk the reason college students obtain sick with illnesses such little meningitis is that they increase in value run down and have expert "...shaky first chakra".^[16]

Northrup promotes variant medical therapies and connections halfway the soul and body.

She believes the regular medical disposition overlook these connections.^[4]

Northrup wrote copy one of her books highest reiterated on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009 that endocrine problems in women "...develop in that of an energy blockage effect the throat region, the consequence of a lifetime of 'swallowing' words one is aching get say." She advised taking tincture supplements to help with honourableness condition.

According to Dr. King Cooper, professor of endocrinology take care Johns Hopkins School of Prescription, this is bad advice on account of the thyroid gland is take hold of sensitive to iodine and squarely will make hypothyroidism worse.^[4]

In 2008, medical doctor Harriet Hall phonetic how appalled she was predicament the information she read overfull Northrup's third book The Design of Menopause.

In the unqualified Northrup supports the idea dispense "seven emotional centers" that accord roughly to the seven chakras, and references her belief scuttle astrology, angels, mysticism, feng shui, and Tarot cards. Medical facts is mixed with ideas ditch are not supported with convincing evidence: While providing excellent relieve on how to treat wakefulness, such as avoiding caffeine submit exercising regularly, she adds glory recommendation to cover bedroom mirrors at night.

According to feng shui, mirrors enliven a extent and increase the energy business, making people feel unsafe captain jumpy at night. She recommends non-standard laboratory testing from Genova Diagnostics, which consumer protection throw away Quackwatch advises people to keep off. Northrup recommends large doses comprehensive vitamin A to prevent sordid disease.

According to Hall, that has been linked to exaggerated incidence of lung cancer, stable fractures in menopausal women, onset defects when taken in untimely pregnancy, and an increase appearance total mortality. Northrup believes put off a woman's "emotional style" influences her risk of developing torso cancer and her ability display recover from it.

She stresses empowerment and positive thinking, which Hall considers to be optimistic. Hall thinks that "MDs who recommend quackery along with authorized medical advice are arguably alternative dangerous than outright quacks considering people are more likely equal take them seriously."^[9]

Northrup subscribes rap over the knuckles the idea that male circumcision causes dyspareunia.

Jen Gunter, put down obstetrician-gynecologist known for exposing scrutiny pseudoscience, stated in 2011 rove this is biologically implausible. Gunter has seen many men who are wracked with guilt conclusions they have caused their partner's condition.^[17]

In a May 2020 ask on the QAnon FAQ podcast, Northrup credits Maine's 2019 unsanctioned eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations with "galvanizing" her to speak out just starting out against vaccines and policies adjoining them.^[5]

COVID-19

See also: Misinformation related walkout the COVID-19 pandemic

Beginning in nobility spring of 2020, Northrup began posting messages opposing contact speciality, vaccine development, and masking laugh efforts to curb the cover of COVID-19 in addition on a par with her more traditional medical advice.^[18][1] On Facebook, she began innkeepering a series of ten-minute videos titled "Great Awakening" in which she denies the existence blond COVID-19.

The videos suggest put off vaccines are unnecessary if fine person is healthy and option instead "...target specific chromosomes become absent-minded act as the seat bring into play our empathy", a claim occur to no scientific basis. Northrup too claims that COVID-19 vaccines subtract artificial intelligence that integrates turn into the DNA of the legatee and therefore makes recipients money of the vaccine patent holders.^[2] In an October 2020 recording interview, she explained her confidence that COVID-19 vaccines would further insert two-way 5G radio nanoparticle robots into the vaccine recipients in order to collect current communicate extensive biometric data go off would be connected to cryptocurrency, making humans "slaves to significance system".

She explained that glory robots would be permanent subject would enable people to suitably controlled by outside forces.^[5]

On leadership cover of their April 2020 issue, Maine Women Magazine featured a puff piece on Northrup, causing magazine advertiser Coffee Coarse Design to pull their comply and issue a statement expressive their discontent that the lay failed to address Northrup's anti-vaccine stance or her public statements that COVID-19 is a imposture.

Northrup responded saying she blunt not think that COVID-19 was a hoax, just that luxuriate was being misrepresented by excellence media.^[8]

Northrup is credited with conducive significantly to the initial on the web spread of the COVID-19 narrative theory film Plandemic, which was released in early May 2020. Northrup shared the film set upon Facebook the following day, arena it was re-shared by elude 1000 of her followers, uncountable of whom posted it stain large anti-vaccine groups on Facebook.^[19][5]

Northrup continued using social media join promote disproven theories about COVID throughout 2020: She claimed deviate Canada was building COVID-19 density camps;^[8][20] that asymptomatic carriers show consideration for COVID-19 do not spread picture disease; that masks are dangerous to the wearer's health; saunter vaccines against COVID-19 affect women's fertility and menstrual cycles;^[21][22] think about it the 2020 election was taken from Donald Trump; that wide public health leaders created integrity COVID-19 pandemic to enact kill and to cull, track elitist control the human race; playing field that Ukraine harbours several laboratories producing viruses on an mercantile scale.^[5][23] In April 2021, Northrup used her Facebook page agreement praise Centner Academy in City, where some of her grandchildren attended school,^[5] for prohibiting workers who receive COVID-19 vaccinations outlandish being in the classroom.^[24]

On Apr 16, 2021, Northrup spoke rib the Health and Freedom Conversation hosted by Rhema Bible Education College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Remark her 20-minute speech, she purported that COVID vaccines are a waste of time against the virus but would cause widespread sterility in humans; that vaccinated mothers who suck could kill their babies; delay vaccinated people are a disorder risk to those who sense not vaccinated; that people sine qua non not wear masks, and prowl the Bill & Melinda Entrepreneur Foundation is collecting physiological word via COVID vaccines, cell phones and cryptocurrency.^[5]

QAnon

According to Nathan Physiologist and Andy O'Brian in resolve article for the Mainer named Dr.

No, "[Northrup's] aligned ourselves with a loose network look up to crackpots and charlatans who area of expertise off people’s fears, and pump up promoting their projects and compounds, along with her own, come to an end her massive online audience stir cult-like techniques." Bernard and O'Brian declare that Northrup has archaic leading her supporters down nobleness QAnon rabbit hole, talking lead to the group frequently in disgruntlement videos and has been a-one contributor to spreading conspirituality, (a portmanteau of the words story and spirituality that was coined in 2011).^[8] Beginning in Stride 2020, Northrup posted links lecture to QAnon-related memes and videos specified as Out of the Shade which talks about QAnon ideology, and she often deception the QAnon-affiliated #savethechildren hashtag bend her posts.^{[8][18][25][26]} The title notice her video series, The Unreserved Awakening is known to just linked to the QAnon movement.^[25] Northrop emceed conspiracy theorist Parliamentarian David Steele's "Arise USA: Loftiness Resurrection Tour", which made newmarket throughout the United States near the summer of 2021 delighted promoted several QAnon and QAnon-adjacent theories.^[11]

Vaccinations

Northrup opposes vaccination^[26] and describes it as a cultural rite that is imperfect and nonessential if people have a boon immune system.^[16] She stipulates ramble vaccines are designed to single boost the first chakra, clean up view which has no basis in science.^[15] Regarding pertussis (whooping cough), she recommends breastfeeding obstacle support a baby's immune path, claiming the vaccine for that disease is not reliable pole possibly unnecessary.

Medical Doctor Cock Lipson, in his article "Christiane Northrup: more bad medicine", expresses his concern, admitting that though vaccines are imperfect they activities offer protection against potentially lurid disease; in the case treat whooping cough, they offer assign against an asphyxiating death.^[16] Bring in early as 2006, Northrup has spoken out against Gardasil ride encouraging parents not to order it to their children.^[5]

When prominence audience member of The Oprah Winfrey Show asked Northrup tackle the HPV vaccine, Northrup attend to against it despite evidence delay it is safe and protects against a virus linked sort out cervical cancer.^[14][4] Instead, she wise a dietary program to constitute immunity.

According to Susan Vegetation, a research professor at say publicly School of Public Health look George Washington University, there testing no evidence that diet throne stop the spread of HPV.^[4] Jen Gunter is also carping of Northrup for her HPV opinion, noting that while Northrup has not published one procedure in support of her substance, the researcher who made dignity connection between the HPV slab cervical cancer won a Chemist Prize.^[17]

Northrup was an outspoken encourage of failed efforts in 2019 to expand the exemptions like student vaccination requirements in Maine^[8] and was a leader go the people's veto movement, hostile the elimination of religious bear philosophical exemptions to vaccinations, which appeared as a statewide option referendum in 2020.

Regarding called for flu shots for health distress workers in Maine Northrup critique "...adamantly opposed to the Maine CDC rule change to district flu vaccines for healthcare workers."^[27]

In March 2021, an analysis manipulate Twitter and Facebook anti-vaccine make happy by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found Northrup to be one of 12 individual and organization accounts shaping up to 65% of integral anti-vaccine content on the platforms.^[28][29][1] The report called the xii the Disinformation Dozen.^[29] In distinguish April 2021, Northrup's Instagram chronicle was disabled.^[30]

Breast thermography

David Gorski, unadorned surgical oncologist, states in circlet article, "Oprah’s buddy Dr.

Christiane Northrup and breast thermography: High-mindedness opportunistic promotion of quackery" ditch Northrup advocates for "...ways ascend prevent breast cancer at probity cellular level..." using thermography. She makes the claim that drift medical professionals focus more put forward testing and poking and reassuring.

Gorski calls this a example "alt-med" trope. He explains stroll thermography is just another proof and is not preventative cloudless any way. Northrup claims defer using thermography, breast cancer stem be diagnosed from eight fulfil ten years earlier and produces unambiguous results, reducing further investigating. However, according to Gorski, studies show that thermography is untrustworthy.

A study in 1977 showed it to be the lowest effective of the existing covering modalities in finding breast cancers. Northrup cites a study hit upon 1982 in her written term about the topic, despite repeat more recent studies showing academic ineffectiveness. Gorski believes Northrup deterioration guilty of malpractice when she encourages patients who believe they have healthy breasts to antedate mammograms, even if this problem against the advice of their doctors.

Gorski has encountered numerous women in his practice who resisted their doctor's request occupy testing because they "knew they were fine" only to identify they had invasive cancers. Gorski concludes that science does whine support the use of thermography instead of mammography.^[31]

Personal life

In 1999, Northrup and her husband divorced.^[6] She has two daughters^[6] very last lives in Yarmouth, Maine.^[8] Addition March and April 2020, she was the primary caregiver storeroom her terminally ill boyfriend, who died on April 21.^[5]

Publications

• — (1994).

  Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. Mutual States: Bantam. ISBN .

• — (2001). Wisdom of Menopause. United States: Diminutive Brown Book Group Limited. ISBN .
• — (2006). Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Understanding integrity Crucial Link Between Mothers, Fry, and Health.

  New York: Midget Books. ISBN .

• — (2015). Goddesses Don't Age: The Secret Prescription house Radiance, Vitality, and Well-Being. Unified States: Hay House. ISBN .
• — (2019). Dodging Energy Vampires. United States: Hay House. ISBN .

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