Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, of Cedar Hills, Utah County, Utah, United States previously co-owned My Doctor Suggests. He is accused of falsely claiming to be a board-certified anti-aging medical doctor with a Ph.D. in immunology and in naturopathic medicine.
Between January 2020 and the end of April 2020, My Doctor Suggests saw a 400% jump in revenue, which was approximately $2 million. Before approved vaccines were available at the beginning of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, Pedersen allegedly appeared in multiple YouTube videos selling structural alkaline silver on My Doctor Suggests, Amazon and Shopify.
Prices ranged up to $299.95 for a gallon of the product, which he claimed was a cure for the virus. Wearing a stethoscope and white lab coat, he explained in the YouTube videos that the product “resonates or vibrates at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the virus, making the virus incapable of attaching to any healthy cell or to infect you in any way.
In April 2020, search warrants were executed at Pedersen’s residence in Cedar Hills and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed him. On July 23, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud and felony introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce with intent to defraud and mislead and he failed to appear in federal court in relation to the indictment.
My Doctor Suggests agreed to plead guilty to a one-count criminal information related to its false and misleading marketing of ingestible silver products as a drug treatment for COVID-19 and severed ties with Pedersen. On August 25, 2020, warrant was issued for his arrest.
On July 5, 2023, an FBI special agent spotted Pedersen. On August 15, 2023, he will appear at a detention hearing in courtroom 8.4 at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
CONAN Daily 