Calcium Channel Blockers: Some Very Good REASONS to avoid them!

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Dear Group,

 

I can sense that this is definitely not an alternative site however this

article outlines some wonderful reasons to eliminate the allopathic drugs.

According to this medical practitioner, they are closely linked to more serious

problems!

Best Regards,

JoAnn

 

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS

 

Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

 

Calcium channel blockers are classified as short, intermediate, and

long acting. Previous studies showed that short-acting calcium

channel blockers can increase risk for heart attacks (4).

Olderstudies showed that short and intermediate acting calcium channel

blocker may increases risk for heart attacks, and a recent study

shows that longer acting calcium channel blockers also may also

cause heart attacks (5).

There are not enough studies to prove that calcium channel blockers

cause heart attacks, but the studies are suggestive enough for most

doctors to reserve them for special cases. Most short-acting calcium

channel blockers have been taken off the market.

 

Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington in Seattle reports that

calcium channel blocker users are 58 to 70 percent more likely to

suffer heart attacks than people who take just diuretics (1).

 

Therefore the Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation

and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends the first treatment

of beta blockers and diuretics, except for smokers and people with

lung disease because beta blockers can block the bronchial tubes.

 

 

 

Previous studies show that more than 60 percent of adult

hypertensives can have their blood pressures return to normal just

by going on a low-fat, high-fiber diet and losing weight and that

single drugs return high blood pressure to normal less than 40% of

the time.

 

So, all people with high blood pressure should go on low fat, high

fiber diets, lose weight,/ avoid smoking and being overweight/ and

start a controlled exercise program.

 

There are five type of drugs commonly used to treat high blood

pressure: diuretics, beta-blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme

(ACE) inhibitors, calcium antagonists and alpha, beta blockers.

 

Many recent papers show that potassium-losing diuretics, such as

Lasix and Diuril, may increase the incidence of heart attack deaths

and that short and moderate-acting calcium channel blockers, might

increase the occurrence of coronary heart disease.

 

Beta blockers, such as Inderal, can make a person very tired, raise

blood sugar and cause weight gain.

 

ACE inhibitors, such as Vasotec, can cause a chronic cough in one

of every 5 people who take them and alpha, beta blockers, such as

Normodyne and Trandate, can make a person dizzy.

 

 

 

1)The Journal of the American Medical Association. August 22, 1995.

first presented by Dr. Psaty at the American Heart Association,

Epidemiology Section, meeting in San Antonio, Texas March 10, 1995.

 

2) AL Fitzpatrick, JR Daling, CD Furberg, RA Kronmal, JL Weissfeld.

Use of calcium channel blockers and breast carcinoma risk in

postmenopausal women. Cancer 80: 8 (OCT 15 1997):1438-1447.

 

3) EW Dong, JE Connelly, SP Borden, W Yorzyk, DG Passov, B

Kupelnick, DH Luo, SD Ross. A systematic review and meta-analysis of

the incidence of cancer in randomized, controlled trials of

verapamil. Pharmacotherapy 17: 6(NOV-DEC 1997):1210-1219. no

statistically significant increased risk of cancer or deaths with

verapamil.

 

4) JAMA September 10, 1996.

 

5) New England Journal of Medicine 1998;338:645-652.

 

6) J Chalmers. Treatment guidelines in hypertension: Current

limitations and future solutions. Journal of Hypertension 14: Suppl.

4 (NOV,1996):S3-S8.

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Jo Ann,

 

Thanks for your informative post about " CCB's. "

 

Calcium Channel Blockers are similar to 99.9% of other mainstream

medicines used to treat degenerative illness. They mask the real dis-

ease and they disrespect the intelligence of the body to heal itself,

if treated gently and given the chance.

 

Our bodies are indeed " fearfully and wonderfully made. " I used to

work for the New Jersey Self-Help Clearing House, and had on my desk

a 4-inch thick book of tissue-paper thin pages that listed, as far as

possible, all known human dis-eases. Given that there are many

thousands upon thousands of illnesses that can afflict humanity, it

is astounding that the great majority of us wake up each day in

relatively good health, and it is criminal for doctors to disrespect

and to insult this miraculous wisdom of the body that enables us to

wake up healthy, day after day and year after year. The body can

never be stupid and illogical; doctors can be, and often are.

 

Here are some honest quotes FROM allopaths ABOUT allopathy:

 

" Drugs never cure disease. They merely hush the voice of nature's

protest, and pull down the danger signals she erects along the

pathway of transgression. Any poison taken into the system has to be

reckoned with later on even though it palliates present symptoms.

Pain may disappear, but the patient is left in a worse condition,

though unconscious of it at the time. "

 

- Daniel. H. Kress,M.D.

 

" Medicine is only palliative, for back of disease lies the cause, and

this cause no drug can reach. "

 

- Wier Mitchel, M.D.

 

" Medical practice has neither philosophy nor common sense to

recommend it. In sickness the body is already loaded with impurities.

By taking drug medicines more impurities are added, thereby the case

is further embarrassed and harder to cure. "

 

- Elmer Lee, M.D., Past Vice President, Academy of Medicine.

 

" If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would

be bad for the fish and good for humanity "

 

- O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)

 

About " PSA " :

 

" I'm glad I'm in the lab full time, " Dr. Stamey concluded. " I honestly

wouldn't know how to correctly advise a patient. But the lack of a

relationship of serum PSA to prostate cancer below 10.0 to 12.0 ng/mL

and the surprisingly low risk of death from prostate cancer in men 65

years and older should be openly discussed with each patient. "

 

- Dr Thomas Stamey, M.D. (PSA Pioneer)

 

Why would a patient swallow a poison because he is ill, or take that

which would make a well man sick. "

 

- L.F. Kebler, M.D.

 

Very best wishes,

 

Elliot

 

, JoAnn Guest

<angelprincessjo> wrote:

> Dear Group,

>

> I can sense that this is definitely not an alternative site

however this article outlines some wonderful reasons to eliminate the

allopathic drugs. According to this medical practitioner, they are

closely linked to more serious problems!

> Best Regards,

> JoAnn

>

> CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS

>

> Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

>

> Calcium channel blockers are classified as short, intermediate, and

> long acting. Previous studies showed that short-acting calcium

> channel blockers can increase risk for heart attacks (4).

> Olderstudies showed that short and intermediate acting calcium

channel

> blocker may increases risk for heart attacks, and a recent study

> shows that longer acting calcium channel blockers also may also

> cause heart attacks (5).

> There are not enough studies to prove that calcium channel blockers

> cause heart attacks, but the studies are suggestive enough for most

> doctors to reserve them for special cases. Most short-acting calcium

> channel blockers have been taken off the market.

>

> Bruce Psaty of the University of Washington in Seattle reports that

> calcium channel blocker users are 58 to 70 percent more likely to

> suffer heart attacks than people who take just diuretics (1).

>

> Therefore the Joint National Committee on the Detection, Evaluation

> and Treatment of High Blood Pressure recommends the first treatment

> of beta blockers and diuretics, except for smokers and people with

> lung disease because beta blockers can block the bronchial tubes.

>

>

>

> Previous studies show that more than 60 percent of adult

> hypertensives can have their blood pressures return to normal just

> by going on a low-fat, high-fiber diet and losing weight and that

> single drugs return high blood pressure to normal less than 40% of

> the time.

>

> So, all people with high blood pressure should go on low fat, high

> fiber diets, lose weight,/ avoid smoking and being overweight/ and

> start a controlled exercise program.

>

> There are five type of drugs commonly used to treat high blood

> pressure: diuretics, beta-blockers, angiotensin converting enzyme

> (ACE) inhibitors, calcium antagonists and alpha, beta blockers.

>

> Many recent papers show that potassium-losing diuretics, such as

> Lasix and Diuril, may increase the incidence of heart attack deaths

> and that short and moderate-acting calcium channel blockers, might

> increase the occurrence of coronary heart disease.

>

> Beta blockers, such as Inderal, can make a person very tired, raise

> blood sugar and cause weight gain.

>

> ACE inhibitors, such as Vasotec, can cause a chronic cough in one

> of every 5 people who take them and alpha, beta blockers, such as

> Normodyne and Trandate, can make a person dizzy.