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SECOND OPINION -FROM RFD, JUNE 4, 2003

 

 

JUNE 4, 2003

 

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SECOND OPINION

 

 

HALTING HOT FLASHES WITH ANTIDEPRESSANTS? THESE DOCTORS NEED TO HAVE THEIR

HEADS EXAMINED

 

This is really sick.

 

Now that women have discovered they were violated by the conventional

formulas of hormone replacement therapy, including the wonderful recipe

involving horse urine, they now must be subjected to conventional medical

stupidity that rivals the worst of anything I've come across. They are now

actually being told that anti-depressants are the key to helping them

navigate the symptoms of menopause.

 

Yeah, sure give them all anti-depressants, those wonderful side-effect-

free medications that maybe they should nibble on while having tea.

 

This latest " study " published in the Journal of the American Medical

Association is essentially an ad for drug manufacturers, so that they can

greatly extend their market for anti-depressants. It's bad enough they

have convinced the dumbest of doctors to hand these pills out to just

about anything that moves, but now we are going to see GPs and every other

ilk of doctor handing out prescriptions for Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft. Why

bother doing the study? Why not simply ask Big Brother to order everyone

from the age of 1 week to go on these SSRI drugs. I'm sure they'll manage

to deal effectively with every conceivable symptom that has ever been

described. I mean, why fool around?

 

Dr. Vered Starnes and his colleagues who did the study at Johns Hopkins

School of Medicine in Baltimore even contend (according to an ABC News

report on this extraordinary and amazing and top-dog and revolutionary and

breakthrough study) that antidepressants are more promising than other

forms of alternative therapies.

 

How do they know that? Are they psychic? Or maybe they are on

antidepressants and are hallucinating. Where is the science? And how do

antidepressants compare with bio-identical hormone replacement? Or do they

even know what this means? If they do, they better have some science that

shows Paxil, or whatever, will be more beneficial for women than hormones

that are not synthetic and not made of horse urine.

 

And as for their study, I think to hang any comment on it, as they have

done, qualifies them for the SCREAM OF THE YEAR competition.

 

This is medicine at its worst. Ditto for the health reporting on this

study.

 

One word describes both: pathetic.

 

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NICHOLAS REGUSH UNPLUGGED!

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A PROVOCATIVE, HARD-HITTING, SURPRISING 60-MINUTE TAPED INTERVIEW WITH RFD

EDITOR, NICHOLAS REGUSH

 

 

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