Impending Collapse of Conventional Medicine

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[sSRI-Research] Impending Collapse of Conventional Medicine

 

 

 

Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 164

 

(Vioxx is Just the Tip of a Monstrous Iceberg)

 

Predicted Collapse of Conventional Medicine now Underway -

One Vitamin Could save Medicare from Bankruptcy

 

By Bill Sardi - 2/28/2004

 

Two years ago this writer authored an e-book entitled The Collapse of

Conventional Medicine in the wake of reports which indicated estrogen

replacement therapy, arthroscopic knee surgery, prostate cancer

surgery, bone marrow transplantation and radical mastectomy for breast

cancer were worthless and possibly problematic treatments.

 

We are now witnessing another round of news reports centered on the

failure of prescription drugs. Anti-inflammatory drugs (Vioxx, Bextra,

Celebrex) have come into question with the realization they increase

the risk of dying from heart disease. To make matters worse, arthritic

patients who experience pain are likely to switch back to ibuprofen

and aspirin, medicines that increase the risk of gastrointestinal

hemorrhage that kills an estimated 16,000 people annually.

Alternatives such as fish oil, curcumin from turmeric, oral hyaluronic

acid, SAMe, bromelain from pineapple, should be utilized as safer

alternatives, but are rarely prescribed by doctors.

 

 

Recent drug recalls and withdrawals are just

the tip of the iceberg. Another 181 drugs

need to be recalled says Public Citizen.

 

The unsafe drugs you are hearing about in news reports are just the

tip of the iceberg. Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization is

calling for 181 drugs to be removed from the marketplace because of a

lack of safety or ineffectiveness. The safety system for new drugs is

flawed. An estimated 30,000-40,000 lives were lost before the FDA

begrudgingly took action to recall Vioxx. Britain recalled Rezulin, an

anti-diabetic drug, in 1997 but it took three years for it to be

removed from the marketplace in the US. You and your loved ones are at

avoidable mortal risk when taking FDA approved drugs.

 

Amidst the chaos, a drug company airs a television ad saying " the FDA

has confidence in Crestor, " a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, but

the FDA says the ad is " false and misleading. " Public Citizen is

calling for this drug to be recalled because of an increased risk for

kidney failure. In reality, all statin drugs should be removed from

the marketplace because they potentially increase the risk for liver

and kidney disease, mental depression, cancer and heart failure.

 

To make matters worse, a front-page report in the Los Angeles Times

reveals that Crestor was approved upon the recommendation of

researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most who were

paid consultants to the drug company. One NIH doctor was interviewed

on television wearing a white coat with the emblem of the NIH without

revealing he was a paid consultant to the company that makes Crestor.

The NIH has invoked a partial ban on outside income. Astonishingly,

200 NIH scientists have submitted a letter of appeal, saying a

permanent ban on outside income will make them " second-class citizens

in the scientific community. " The referees see nothing wrong with

being bought off! [Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2004]

 

If doctors do not express their outrage over being misled about the

safety of drugs, they will be considered as conspiring partners with

the FDA, the NIH and the drug companies. A crisis looms in physician

credibility.

 

How will doctors respond when they find that, since 1992, they have

been misled about vitamin C? Doctors were told by NIH researchers that

high-dose vitamin C (beyond 200 milligrams per day) is excreted and

produces " expensive urine. " A newly published report reveals earlier

studies were flawed if not intentionally designed to fail, and

oral-dose vitamin C can achieve blood concentrations three times

greater than previously thought possible. [Annals Internal Medicine

140:533-7, 2004]

 

More and more Americans are searching for alternatives. If 100 million

Americans who have low vitamin C consumption would take vitamin C

pills, mortality rates would drop suddenly in the US. A confirming

report, a review of nine different studies, indicates adults who

regularly take vitamin C pills providing greater than 700 milligrams

per day will experience a 25% drop in their risk for coronary heart

disease, the nation's number one killer. [American Journal Clinical

Nutrition 80: 1508-20, 2004] Compare that to statin cholesterol drugs

that only reduce mortality rates by 0.4%! [Journal American Medical

Assn 288: 2998-307, 2002] The best diet, 5 servings of fruits and

vegetables a day, will only provide 200 milligrams of vitamin C and

has not been shown to reduce mortality rates from cancer or heart disease.

 

America is on the precipice of a great change. With prescription

medicines in question, if the truth about natural medicines gets into

public view, and the public begins to experience health benefits,

there will be no turning back. Medicare ran an $87 billion deficit in

2004 and had to draw money out of the general fund. This entire

deficit could be eradicated if the public took just one 1000-milligram

vitamin C pill on a daily basis.

 

Copyright 2004 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc.

(www.askbillsardi.com)