Cure

Colbert's "Bible Cure for _____" series has reached a new low in the current trend of irresponsible, mass-marketed, religiously-based "health" literature. Colbert's sense of ethics must be nonexistent to continue producing junk like this series, with "...Hepatitis C" being the most blatantly stupid title. The poor sap who places trust in Colbert's advice is surely doing himself a disservice, but Colbert is to blame for exploiting his medical title and current popularity to, well, kill people who don't know any better.

I got the tapes in hoping to improve my voice. Paul Newham has a wonderful voice and "bedside manner". I found his voice exercises extremely hard to follow. He could do things with his voice that I could never do. His exercises were also very long. He often demonstrated a technique and then told the listener to do it. We were left on our own as to what and how he actually did. It would have been much better if he were to demonstrate an easy technique and then slowly made it harder. he demonstrated a technique and then did a completely different technique. Also after he demonstrated, he should do it with the listener so we can follow along.

Another irritation was that he seemed to be in love with his own music compositions. He had us singing along with the compositions. I did not care for the compositions musically and they were hard to follow. One has to memorize the melody and the lyrics, much less the music technique. It would have been much better to use some folk or popular mucis that people are aquainted with and sing to that.

His intuition with his students personally seemed intriguing. I would like to take a lesson from him personally but his tapes were of no use to me.

This book seemed like the answer to my prayers. I fit all of the descriptions on the back cover, and I was very stressed out most of the time so I purchased it. What it doesn't tell you is that the entire premise of the book and the cornerstone of this Dr.'s practice is DHEA. If you are under 40 years old or on any kind of hormones, including birth control, you cannot take DHEA, and you cannot benefit from this book. That is about half of the female population!! Also, DHEA is a hormone, not a vitamin, and there are no conclusive studies to prove that it does not have long term side effects. Even if I was over 40 and not taking the pill I would feel very uncomfortable taking a hormone that may or may not lead to cancer, etc. Bottom line- unless you are over 40 years old, not taking hormones but want to start, DO NOT waste your time and money on this book!!!