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Over
the past weekend I was talking to a friend who related a story about her
mother. Mom had been diagnosed with a muscular problem which was very
serious, and her primary care doctor had  prescribed a
medication to deal with the ailment. Over a number of months, Mom seemed to
be getting better but then a lung complication set in. It caused her to be
hospitalized and a pulmonary specialist was called in. He told the family
that he was shocked that he hadn’t seen Mom before the problem got so
serious, because this kind of side effect was very common and was
life-threatening. Now, I can’t say the original drug was unnecessary, but
why weren’t the expected side effects being monitored?
I
immediately thought—“Put aside your plans for the July Newsletter, and
start on a new one!” Here it is!
(First
of all, much of this Newsletter is taken from one of my favorite Natural
Medical Doctors, Sherry Rogers, MD.
I thank her for so much she has done, including her books Detoxify or Die, The Cholesterol Hoax, and
several others which have greatly influenced how I practice. Thanks,
Sherry, for all you do!)
According
to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two out of every five
people over the age of 65 take five or more medicines per week. The drug
side effects of this will usher in an explosive exponential increase
in more drugs. Some of the main problems with taking drugs is:
1.
They work by turning off normal chemistry in the
body, so something worse has to evolve.
2.
By stifling symptoms they allow the doctor and patient
to ignore finding the real underlying correctable causes of symptoms.
3.
They use up and deplete the detox nutrients that
could have been used for healing, protecting us from cancer, and
detoxifying our everyday onslaught of chemicals.
4.
The invariably create side effects sooner or later,
which in turn foster new diseases. And the longer you are on the drug the
more the chance of a “new” disease emerging.
When
you add a second drug to your regimen, you increase the chance of serious
side effects 20-fold!!!
No wonder over 100,000 people die in hospitals each year just from
reactions to drugs. And this is an extremely conservative number because it
only includes those who were admitted to and recognized, and excludes drug
induced deaths outside the hospital. For example, how many docs would put
“drug side effects” on the death certificate of someone whom they had been
treating “successfully” for years for hypertension when they died of a
heart attack? The diagnosis would read “myocardial infarction” not “sudden
cardiac arrest from undiagnosed magnesium deficiency induced by the use of
a diuretic for long-term hypertension.” That’s what really killed the
patient, but you won’t see that on the report!!
An
even greater problem is that most people take more than one drug and the
combination of this chemical soup in the body is a total unknown. Remember,
we are all biochemically unique (see
the Home Page of www.wholebodyhealth.us)
and we do not metabolize drugs the same as our neighbor does. In fact, we
do not even detoxify a drug the same today as we did two years ago, because
our chemistry and total load are continually changing. When it comes to the
effect of combinations of medications in one body, all bets are off!
Lots
of drugs are proven fertilizer for cancer cells (which we all have in us at
all times), like seemingly innocuous over-the-counter antihistamines. And
other prescription drugs like Accutane for acne cause serious heart and
other deformities plus cancers in children born years after the mother
stopped the acne drug. Also, Accutane has a “black box” warning of suicidal
depression. Increasingly more drugs have a side effect of depression simply
because they use up the brain nutrients in the work of the body detoxifying
them. As certain brain nutrients reach a critically low level, then
depression, OCD, bipolar, addictions, and other mental problems insidiously
begin. Medicine treats all symptoms as a deficiency of a drug, so
that diseases are touted as having no known cause or cure. This is simply
not true!!
Heartburn
medicines, like Nexium and Prilosec, not only inhibit the absorption of
nutrients like B12, they also stop other drugs from working, like the
antifungal drugs. Any doctor prescribing Nexium is simply flaunting
their biochemical ignorance!!
Nexium is nothing but a dressed up Prilosec molecule, 8 times more
expensive and causing even more detox work by the body. (Let me explain:
acid reflux and acid stomach is caused by a lack of acid in the vast majority of cases. The food is
not adequately digested due to this lack and the consequent lack of
digestive enzymes, so the body forces it back up the esophagus. So, how do
you take care of this? The answer is by eating healthy and eating right for
your Metabolic Type. You can get
the stomach to work better by taking supplements like Digestzymes, Betaine HCL, GI Revive, and one or more of several
different Probiotics. This is
not only more effective, but there are no problematic side effects.)
B12
deficiency brought on by diabetes meds, antacids, and acid inhibitors can
then go on to cause undiagnosable nerve and muscle problems, depression,
and many heart symptoms. Birth control pills lower B6 which can then cause depression,
while antidepressants (at normal levels) act like fertilizer for cancers,
making them grow even faster. Penicillin can block birth control pills from
working properly. (To learn more about B-vitamins, how they work, what they
do, etc., please see The Supplement of the Month with this Newsletter.)
Lipitor,
the best selling prescription drug in the world and taken to lower
cholesterol, has caused serious sudden amnesia in thousands of patients,
terrible muscle pains, and it also lowers levels of vitamin E, selenium,
CoQ10, and folate, all crucial for preventing cancer and for heart health.
And Lipitor blocks the anti-clotting activity of the blood thinner Plavix,
but that hasn’t stopped cardiologists from prescribing the two in
combination. And keep in mind that prescribing either one of these automatically implies that the
prescriber knows absolutely nothing about nutritional medicine, since there
are infinitely healthier and more natural ways to control cholesterol as
well as hypercoagulability (increased blood clots). (We can direct you
in the proper use of Omega 3 oils, herbal answers to “high” cholesterol,
etc. Again, they are also much safer!)
The
combination of drugs is causing an avalanche of symptoms and diseases
faster than ever in history. The side effects are totally unknown when you
bring two or more potent chemicals to the body whose primary functions are
to turn off or actually poison God’s natural Pathways. Drug combinations
accelerate the loss of detox and other nutrients while at the same time
they accelerate the side effects and the creation of new diseases. For
example, NSAIDs (Motrin, Advil, etc.) cause high blood pressure, while high
blood pressure drugs raise homocysteine that leads to heart attacks or
Alzheimer’s. NSAIDs also damage the cartilage chemistry nearly guaranteeing
a hip or knee replacement 10-15 years later. And NSAIDs cause over 100,000
cases of heart failure a year, which is a quicker death sentence than most
cancers.
When
you are trying to figure out what is wrong with you, look at all avenues.
Check for hidden mold or food or chemical allergies. Look for undiagnosed
nutritional deficiencies. Look for toxicity from environmental pollutants
or heavy metals. Take stock of the drugs you are on since they may be the
culprits.
The
FDA defended their approval of Vytorin for lowering cholesterol, even
though it was shown to have no
prevention abilities for heart attacks or reversal of arterial plaque. We all need to have our own private wars
on drugs, using them judiciously for true emergencies and not as an
artificial band-aid for chronic life-long diseases. And never before in our
modern history has so much drug information been spread, not by doctors,
but by television advertising. What the companies know is that if people go
into their doctors’ offices and demand certain drugs, a busy harassed
doctor is likely to just go along because the waters have been so muddied
by the pharmaceutical companies and their advertising based on biased
“research” which is nothing but lies.
The
answer to the question “Who is winning the war on drugs?” is—the
pharmaceutical companies. But we are
going to show you ways to turn that around. Tune in next month!!
Please
tell your family, friends, co-workers, and everyone you know to please sign
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them it’s free!
As
always, your questions, comments, and suggestions are welcomed!
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solid scientific research. However,
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