The alt med people have a lot of funding. It’s a multi-billion-dollar industry.

OK, but none of that funding is going in favour of the likes of John Lowe or Gordon Skinner or Barry Durrant-Peatfield or Sarah Myhill, in fact those people are losing/risking their licences and livelihoods in order to try to help people. They may or may not be right about their methods, but they're not doing it for the money!

Ken Blanchard appears to have built an endocrinology practice out of treating hypothyroidism 'functionally', but I'm sure he could have done just as well doing it 'conventionally', and been risking far less legal trouble.