Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act-Part 3

C.R.S. 6-1-724. Unlicensed alternative health care practitioners - deceptive trade practices

Prohibiting conventional medical disease diagnosis

The Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act specifically prohibits practitioners from providing a conventional medical disease diagnosis to a client. This protects consumers from deceptive trade practices and exploitation, the common practice of diagnosis and the subsequent sale of goods or services for the financial gain of the practitioner.

The deception is that practitioners that are not licensed, certified, or registered by the state routinely provide medical diagnoses, but are severely lacking in education, skills, knowledge, training, experience, qualifications, and capabilities to make such a diagnosis. The Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act provides consumers protection from really bad health care resulting from incorrect diagnoses, as well as deficient or absence of correct diagnoses. Furthermore, consumers are protected from the practitioner's "pretend medicine", the treatment recommendations of goods or services to treat a disease, which could actually cause harm to the health of the client, and amounts to a waste of available health care dollars.

Practitioners, now prohibited from providing some of their favorite diagnoses that are their biggest money-makers, cannot provide conventional medical disease diagnoses that include food allergies, food intolerance, post-partum depression, early onset puberty, anything about hormones or adrenal glands, cortisol levels, hypothyroid, or diagnoses of fake diseases such as SIgA (Secretory Immunoglobulin A) deficiency or leptin deficiency. The prohibition extends to practitioners who outsource diagnostic tests such as saliva or urine tests.

This common sense approach to "pretend medicine" also means that practitioners who have made medical diagnosis claims on websites or by authoring a book cannot legally back up or support those very claims.

Practitioners that are not licensed, certified, or registered by the state are limited to discussions of conditions that have no scientific validity, therefore are not considered medical diseases, such as "toxins" or something called "stressed out".

The Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act sets necessary limits on practitioners who are themselves extremely limited by their own lack of education, skills, knowledge, training, experience, qualifications, and capabilities.

The Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act is here