C.R.S. 6-1-724. Unlicensed alternative health care practitioners - deceptive trade practices
Allowed sale of dietary supplements or other natural health care products, advising, educating, or counseling about the structure and function of the human body and the use of natural health care products to support health and wellness.
This is one place where the Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act falls short, in two key areas:
The first, by allowing practitioners to advise, educate, or counsel about the structure and function of the human body and the use of natural care products to support health and wellness, actually gives dodgy practitioners a way to work around the prohibition of providing conventional medical diagnosis.
Secondly, allowing practitioners to advise, educate, or counsel about the structure and function of the human body and the use of natural care products to support health and wellness assumes that practitioners that are not qualified to be licensed, certified, or registered by the state actually have standard knowledge of the structure and function of the human body and safe and effective health care products to support health and wellness.
This one section really allows practitioners to continue to make up their own theories about the structure and function of the human body, invent fake diseases and phony health issues, and then sell consumers dietary supplements and other natural care products that do not work. Scammy practitioners that want to stay in the game simply need to choose their words a little more carefully when advising, educating, and counseling a client. Consumers will continue to be duped, by fraud and deception, for scams like adrenal fatigue, organ weakness, happy hormones, depleted digestive enzymes, toxins that must be removed, conditions that must be treated before they turn into cancer, organ repositioning, mental fog, and all other outrageous, conjured up claims that can be used to exploit consumers for the financial gain of the practitioner.
The Colorado Natural Health Consumer Protection Act can be read here
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