We’ll admit that we at one point recorded the name ‘Steve Hines’ without any accompanying information. As such, we’re not entirely sure this entry’s Steve Hines is the one we originally intended, but Steve Hines, Naturopathic Doctor and Naturopathic Endocrinologist affiliated with the Hope Wellness Center in Mexico (he “does not practice in America”, for reasons that are presumably obvious), certainly qualifies for an entry. According to himself, Hines’s earlier years as an “electronics technician at Xerox” helped him develop “a deep understanding of digital systems and electromagnetism”, which he claims “later translated into his expertise in cellular communication and bioenergetics”. Oh, yes! Elitist academic naysayers and their hoary med schools be damned. Currently, Hines focuses, like all good alternative practitioners, on “identifying root causes rather than masking symptoms”, using “a science-driven, naturopathic approach”. In more detail, Hines uses his “experience to deeply dive into analyzing terrain, microbiome, toxic origins to ailments, and hormonal dysregulation” and collating together these data, Hines and his colleagues “are precisely able decipher and recover complicated health conditions relative to their fundamental causations. Steve is especially concerned with (A) insidious dental pathogen foci as well as the (B) dramatic rise in Lyme’s disease and their combined ever presence in the plethora autoimmune disorders his clinic sees every day”. Yes, he combines dental quackery with Lyme woo.
In addition to his Mexican practice, Hines is apparently also a founding board member of something called Ministry of Intelligent Design, whose mission “is to spearhead, through Scripture & Science, the maturation of your soul and usher you into a thriving longevity” (the name of its president, John Apsley, will need to be recorded for future reference). Their website features an impressive mix of religious fundamentalism, pseudohistory, myth – in particular concerning the mythical longevity of various peoples (e.g. Abkhasians) without the aid of “modern medicine of any kind”, and pseudoscience (the insane gibberish of Weston Price features prominently).
Apparently, according to himself, although “highly respected in his field”, Hies “prefers a down-to-earth connection with clients and encourages them to call him by his first name rather than ‘Dr. Hines’ ”. Maybe there is an ounce of self-awareness involved, but there probably isn’t.
Diagnosis: Nope. Avoid.
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