Since Mercola gets so many things wrong, it is hard to trust anything he claims. I have a neighbor who is a pathological liar. Since so much of what he says he has simply made up I have learned to not believe anything he says even though some of his pronouncements are no doubt true. In fact I ignore him as much as possible, go out of my way to avoid him. I have no interest in separating the wheat from the chaff when there are other credible sources of information where there is a lot more wheat than chaff and care has been taken to eliminate the chaff before the fact whenever possible.

Of course in my eating life I eliminate both wheat and chaff. Perhaps I should say I try to separate the nutritious low carb from the high carb junk.