[MC_USA] Why you will never get well taking prescription drugs

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This has been posted in this group before but it so appropriate and when I read

it again from another group, I wanted to post it again.

 

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Wayne Fugitt

Fri, 07 May 2004 22:49:41 -0500

[MC_USA] Why you will never get well taking prescription drugs

 

4/16/2004

Why you will never get well taking prescription drugs

 

By Bill Sardi

 

First there was Neanderthal man. Then there was Java Man. In the evolution of

homo sapiens, an article in the New York Times now says “Pharmaceutical Man” is

here. Last year Americans consumers spent $163 billion on drugs. Retirees take

an average of 2.4 prescription drugs every day.

 

For comparison, about $18 billion of dietary supplements are sold annually in

the US. The preeminence of drugs over vitamins, mineral and herbal supplements

is rooted in law. Forget that the biological action of virtually every

prescription drug can be duplicated with dietary supplements. Keep that fact

hidden from the public’s view. No dietary supplement can claim it diagnoses,

treats, prevents or cures any disease. Well, there are exceptions, like

thiamin/vitamin B1 curing beri beri, niacin curing pellagra, vitamin B12 curing

pernicious anemia, vitamin D curing rickets and vitamin C curing scurvy. More

cures could be attributed to dietary supplements except for the cabal against

them by research scientists and physicians.

 

But if drugs are designed to treat disease, and dietary supplements can’t say

they prevent disease, then we essentially have no preventive medicine. Except

for technology to detect disease at an earlier stage and prescribe treatment

earlier, modern medicine largely ignores preventive measures.

 

Despite a prediction that millions of Baby Boomers will develop age-related eye

conditions that will cause the rate of blindness to skyrocket, there are no

preventive regimens for cataracts, glaucoma or macular degeneration. Only

treatment is offered after these conditions are diagnosed. Undeniable evidence

exists that supplemental vitamin C, at least 300 milligrams per day, prevents

cataracts. Few eye physicians recommend that their patients take supplemental

vitamin C.

 

It took over two years for Dr. Stuart Richer of the Veterans Administration

Medical Center in North Chicago to get a landmark paper published showing how

supplemental lutein can for the first time reverse some of the visual defects

caused by macular degeneration. In over a decade the National Eye Institute has

yet to sponsor a clinical study using lutein, a yellow dietary antioxidant

pigment found abundantly in spinach and kale which has yet to be declared an

essential nutrient. Without Dr. Richer’s perseverance, millions of senior

Americans would still have no hope for their unremitting retinal disease. (See

the book User’s Guide to Eye Health Supplements, Basic Health Publications, by

Bill Sardi with Jack Challem.)

 

Another example is magnesium. Mildred Seelig MD carefully documents in her book,

The Magnesium Factor, how modern medicine has engineered studies to make it

appear that magnesium supplements do not prevent heart attacks or lower blood

pressure. The public is prescribed calcium-blocking drugs without being told

magnesium is a natural calcium blocker. Verapamil (Calan), diltiazem (Cardizem)

and nifedipine (Procardia) are commonly prescribed calcium-blockers that block

the entry of calcium into cells. Sodium and calcium frequently can’t be pumped

out from inside sick cells, such as in conditions like heart disease and

diabetes. But the reason why these cells cannot pump out these minerals is

because they are lacking energy in the form of ATP (adenotriphosphate). Blocking

entry of calcium into cells doesn’t remedy the lack of cellular energy. We’re

going to talk a bit more about cellular energy below.

 

Another class of drugs, frequently used for high blood pressure, is beta

blockers (atenolol, Tenormin, Timolol, others). But these drugs deplete the body

of coenzyme Q10, an essential nutrient naturally produced in small quantities in

the body that is required, along with magnesium, for the production of ATP for

cellular energy. Anyone taking beta blockers should also be given a supplement

of coenzyme Q10, at least 100 milligrams per day.

 

Another commonly prescribed class of drugs, the statins, is employed to lower

cholesterol. Now recognize that statin drugs will only prevent one person in a

hundred from experiencing a mortal heart attack. The other ninety-nine statin

drug users will be wasting their money. Furthermore, statin drugs are toxic to

the liver. They interfere with normal liver function and frequent tests must be

performed to monitor for elevated liver enzymes. Yet if there was one dietary

supplement that raised liver enzymes it would be recalled from the marketplace.

Statin drugs also deplete the body of coenzyme Q10, that antioxidant nutrient

that is required for cells to produce energy.

 

Adults who take statin drugs frequently experience aches and pains. They are

mistakenly told they have fibromyalgia or arthritis. But when the muscles don’t

get a sufficient supply of coenzyme Q10, muscle tissue begins to break down.

Aches and pains result. Some muscle tissue may get into the blood circulation,

clog the kidneys and induce a mortal event. Any person taking statin

cholesterol-lowering drugs should be placed on coenzyme Q10, at least 100 mgs

per day. Few if any doctors warn their patients of the potential side effects of

statin drugs and how they can be avoided with coenzyme Q10 supplements.

 

Yet another class of drugs that deplete the body of magnesium and coenzyme Q10,

the thiazide diuretics (water pills) used to treat high blood pressure, are

frequently prescribed along with any of the other statin or beta blocker drugs

mentioned above.

 

Incidentally, cancer cells also are weak cells that cannot pump out calcium from

their cytoplasm. Without cellular energy tumor cells must ferment sugars for

energy and the malignant cells then excrete lactic acid which interferes with

cancer drugs (a problem called drug resistance) and breaks down the connective

tissue surrounding these abnormal cells so they can travel to other locations in

the body. This is how tumors spread. All of the above drugs which deplete the

body of coenzyme Q10 should predictably worsen cases of cancer.

 

Taking drugs like beta blockers, statin drugs or thiazide water pills, or all

three as some people do, will for certain keep you ill. You will never get well.

But don’t confront your doctors about this. They will know little about

drug-induced nutrient depletion because they too have been mistakenly taught

that dietary supplements interfere with drugs.

 

Drugs occupy a prime position in consumers’ minds. Time after time people call

this writer on the telephone asking if they can safely take a certain dietary

supplement with the medications they are taking. Is it OK to take vitamin E with

a blood thinner? How about garlic or ginkgo biloba, don’t those herbs over-thin

the blood? Actually, antioxidants like vitamin E, and minerals like magnesium,

and fish or flaxseed oil, and herbal supplements like ginkgo biloba and garlic

pills can all be taken simultaneously and a person will never experience

over-thinning of their blood. But physicians prescribe warfarin (Coumadin),

which can result in internal bleeding, and monthly testing has to be conducted

to monitor for prolonged blood clotting time.

 

Doctors and pharmacists continue to warn the public about ginkgo biloba

over-thinning the blood, but the few case reports used to substantiate this

warning involve very high-dose ginkgo, like 300 milligrams or more per day. If

adults were eating good diets and taking the right supplements they would not

likely need blood thinners.

 

How dumbed down we all are. Vitamins, minerals, non-vitamin factors like lutein

and lycopene, and amino acids are essential for life. It’s the other way around.

The drugs interfere with essential nutrients.

 

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