Guest guest Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 PUKING UP THE POLYPILL By Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND September 19, 2009 NewsWithViews.com If you’ve ever heard the word polypharmacy, that’s the definition of the polypill. It’s a combination of six drugs: a statin, three blood-pressure-lowering drugs, folic acid and aspirin. According to Wikipedia polypharmacy means “too many forms of medication are used by a patient, when more drugs are prescribed than is clinically warranted.†It states the obvious that “The most common results of polypharmacy are increased adverse drug reactions and higher costs. Polypharmacy is most common in the elderly but is also widespread in the general population.†Polypharmacy for All Polypharmacy soon won’t just be prevalent in the elderly, the polypill is slated to be prescribed to the entire adult population over 55 years as a preventive measure against stroke and heart disease regardless of blood pressure. The first warning alarm in this Orwellian effort is that the main researchers and promoters of the polypill, Drs. Law and Wald hold patents on the polypill. With the polypill, medicine will officially give up on lifestyle approaches to heart disease. It’s all in line with the new health care reform where the government, not you, and not your doctor, will decide what medical treatment you will be given. It’s obvious to me that the focus of health care is on drugs and surgery and does not emphasize diet, lifestyle, or nutritional supplementation. So, the polypill makes it easier for all involved and even the patient – in the beginning. Until the excitement of taking one pill instead of six wears off and the side effects kick in. Kiss your Health Freedom Goodbye We’re more tuned in to our health freedoms of late because of the health care reform debates but we lost our health freedom long ago when we accepted the drug companies as our only source of medical treatment and relegated doctors to HMO assembly-line medicine. Any doctor practicing outside the “standard practice of care†is marginalized or stripped of his license. The polypill studies show some shifting of cholesterol and blood pressure numbers but they don’t show that the pill extends life. And the polypill hasn’t even been measured against a placebo yet. In fact, placebos probably work better than the polypill. An August 24, 2009 Wired Magazine article titled “Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why†forms an interesting backdrop to the polypill saga. Drug companies avoid trials that compare their drugs to placebos like the plague because placebos can work 80% of the time. By comparison most antidepressants work only 40% of the time. The polypill as with any new drug on the market will enjoy the honeymoon phase (which is the placebo effect) of being the brightest star on the block spurred on by incessant TV marketing. Then when the honeymoon is over and the side effects start adding up, doctors move on to the next rising star. Of course, some people need medications but not every still-living, still-breathing human alive! What are these drug marketers thinking that everyone should take a 6-drug combo? Certainly they’re not thinking about the long-term side effects that will inevitably occur; they’re probably thinking about all the money that will come from patents and prescriptions.Article at:http://www.newswithviews.com/Dean/carolyn101.htm All it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother of vaccine damaged child. Connect more, do more and share more with India Mail. Learn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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