A left-leaning media monitor dug up videos of Mehmet Oz promoting colloidal silver, a debunked alternative medicine cure-all and remedy for COVID-19.
candidate and television personality Mehmet Oz has a history of promoting"colloidal silver," a liquid dietary supplement that includes tiny particles of the metal and is considered a possible health hazard by national researchers.has promoted colloidal silver as a dietary supplement, calling it a"smart" treatment with"a ton of data behind it," according to a report published Monday by Media Matters of America, a left-leaning nonprofit media monitor.
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, a branch of the National Institute of Health, stated on its website that taking colloidal silver can be a health hazard and there is no scientific evidence backing its purported health benefits. Silver has no known bodily function or benefit when ingested orally, nor is it a nutritionally essential mineral, according to the center. Colloidal silver can instead prevent the absorption of some drugs, the center said.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a television personality and Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks during a conference in New York in September. Media Matters for America, a left-leaning nonprofit media monitor, has recently brought up Oz's support for"colloidal silver," a liquid dietary supplement that includes tiny particles of the metal and is considered a possible health hazard by national researchers.
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