Repost message #8787: Medications cause neuro, heart, diabetes, cancer, etc.

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Gettingwell , Frank <califpacific> wrote:

 

October 28, 2002

 

ARE MEDICATIONS, SUCH AS PAINKILLERS, ANTIDEPRESSANTS,

CHOLESTEROL DRUGS AND BETA BLOCKERS CONTRIBUTING

TO NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, HEART DISEASE, DIABETES, CANCER,

ARTHRITIS, AND OTHER DISEASES?

 

Learning To Think Differently About Chronic Illness

 

By Nicholas Regush

 

I suppose that if you have strong vested interests in a particular

medical theory, then it will likely be very difficult for you to

disengage from it. Particularly if it happens to be a cash cow. This

would certainly apply to those in both conventional and complementary

medicine. And to many patients as well who have bought into certain

hypotheses or modalities of treatment.

 

In short, it never fails to amaze me how rigid the human mind can be

when money and reputation are at stake, or when people have been

brainwashed into believing some jazz about a new treatment or diet. I

should be well-prepared by now to put up with the typical pomposity

and nastiness that often characterize people calling themselves

scientists or doctors and the sometimes sad pronouncements by

patients who claim they have learned the truth about how to fight an

illness and survive.

 

In the case of patients, one recognizes the powerful emotions that

can prevail when life is on the line. They are easily forgiven for

their excesses. But what's the excuse of doctors and scientists who

seem to want to fight to the death when it comes to a particular

theory or treatment?

 

I guess that I keep a sliver of hope alive that they can somehow rip

themselves away from their programming and climb out of the ditches

they have dug for themselves. Maybe see a little light. Flash some

open-minded intellect.

 

Medicine and science have become so corrupt due to the overbearing

influence of the drug industry and other corporate mules and

entrenched bureaucrats that there is usually no escape for these

troubled souls.

 

But the fact is, how can you possibly trust those who have thrown

away their self-respect?

 

The answer is: don't.

 

The way my mind seems to work, I simply assume that just about

everything that I have ever learned in science and medicine may be a

mere glimmer of the truth, and perhaps partially or totally wrong.

And no, I don't feel funny about that at all; I find this position

very liberating. It means the brain is still ticking and exploring.

 

For instance, it allows me to consider the possibility that much of

what we have learned

 

about the causes of chronic illness may be out to lunch. Obviously,

I'm not alone in this assessment.

 

Consider the intriguing theory offered in this week's issue of the

British Medical Journal:

 

The writer is Richard G. Fiddian-Green, formerly chair of general

surgery at the University of Massacheusetts.

 

His letter, " Iatrogenic Diseases With A Common Cause, " is a strong

reflection of some of the articles, editorials and letters he has

been writing over the years about the role of mitochondria in

disease. Mitochondria, which are a part of tissue cells, are the main

energy source of a cell. See them as " power plants " of the body. This

is where energy (ATP or adenosine troposphere) is manufactured.

 

What goes on in the cell is, as we might expect, extremely complex,

but what Fiddian-Green suggests to us actually is not: He believes

that malfunctioning of this " power plant " can lead to a wide range of

chronic illnesses - diabetes, coronary artery disease, hypertension,

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastro-oesophageal reflux

disease, multiple sclerosis, depression, osteoporosis, Parkinson's

and Alzheimer's. He asks whether all these diseases may be " different

manifestations of a common disorder " stemming from impairment of the

process of energy production in the cell.

 

This is not some whistling in the wind. There is a considerable

literature on how disruption of this " power plant " may result in

organ dysfunctions and failures.

 

What is equally interesting is Fiddian-Green's suggestion that many

of the medications taken today to fight illnesses may contribute at a

later date to impairment of the processing of energy in cells. And

particularly if some of these drugs are mixed and taken by the

elderly - including painkillers, antidepressants, cholesterol drugs

(statins) and beta blockers, all of which have the potential to do

damage to this energy production system.

 

This can happen in a variety of ways. For example, take the popular

cholesterol pills known as statins: there is certainly growing

evidence that they deplete CoEnzyme Q10 and that this depletion has

been associated with congestive heart failure.

 

It just so happens that CoEnzyme Q10 is essential in the

mitochondria's involvement in the production of ATP. In fact CoEnzyme

Q10 is particularly important in heart muscle function. This

particular tissue has extreme energy requirements for normal

functioning, according to Dr. Peter H. Langsjoen, who is one of the

pioneering researchers in this area of medical science.

 

Lack of Q10 is evident in Parkinson's patients. The disease also

involves impairment of the mitochondria. A study published this month

points to the possibility that CoEnzyme Q10 may be of value to

patients with this and perhaps other neurodegenerative diseases.

 

Fiddian-Green, in a letter to the British Medical Journal on October

21 of this year suggests that CoEnzyme Q10 may be a more rational

therapy than Levodopa for Parkinson's because of Levodopa's potential

to cause complications and even play a role in Alzheimer's disease.

 

So what do we have here?

 

A warning, at the very least, that conventional pharmaceuticals may

do much more damage to the body than currently believed by most

doctors.

 

And a way of thinking about the causes of chronic illness that

challenge some of the most common conventional assumptions.

 

 

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