Ken [However, most people who use alternative medicine believe all of them, because alternative medicine is one of the ways that they define their identity. ] My identity has nothing to do with my faith in alternative medicine. A lot of people, myself included, turn to alternative medicine after the so-called mainstream practitioners have let them down. Try getting your food intolerances or candida diagnosed by a GP! However, I have a healthy skepticism for all practitioners, whether mainstream or alternative. They do not know everything. Alternative is not bad, it's just different. The Paleolithic WOE/WOL is alternative. I could guarantee that not that many Dr.'s (mainstream or otherwise) recommend it to their patients. New ideas (or revisited old ideas or practices from other cultures) take a while to be accepted, it doesn't necessarily mean that these ideas are wrong. regards Stephanie (UK)