Forget the Evidence -- appease your doctor and opt for peace of mind

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Forget the

Evidence -- appease your doctor and opt for peace of mind

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By Bill Sardi

 

Do you rely upon cholesterol numbers to determine whether

you are at imminent

risk to have a heart attack?

 

Do you rely upon PSA (prostate specific antigen) numbers

to tell you if

prostate cancer is progressing?

 

Why is the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (baby

crib death)

drastically reduced by placing babies on their backs when

put to bed?

 

Do you really believe there is no known cause of autism

and that vaccines

have nothing to do with autism, as your pediatrician

tells you?

 

Does an alkaline state of the body protect against

cancer?

 

Is tap water safe?

 

Do you believe vitamin C supplements create nothing more

than expensive

urine?

 

What can be done to stave off Alzheimer´s disease,

anything?

 

What should I do if health authorities declare a flu

virus that humans have

no immunity towards is encircling the globe?

 

Should my 13-year old daughter undergo vaccination

against cervical cancer?

 

These are just some of the tough questions that I attempt

to answer for

consumers at my website ( www.knowledgeofhealth.com).

Here are some short answers:

 

* No, cholesterol is not a major cause of heart disease.

Calcification is. A

half million American incur a sudden-mortal heart attack

annually with a

low-to-normal cholesterol number. A calcium (Agatston)

artery score of zero means

your risk for having a heart attack is near zero.

 

 

* PSA is an unreliable marker for prostate cancer (not

even used in Great

Britain). Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS) is likely

caused by a toxic gas in

the crib mattresses, which is why the rate of crib death

drop when infants are

placed to sleep on their backs and why a mattress

wrapping program in New

Zealand has cut the risk of SIDS by 100%.

 

 

* While modern medicine claims it has no idea what causes

autism, the

prevailing evidence points to a stealth microbe that

usually hides behind another

virus or bacterium, resulting in encephalitis. This

bacterium resists

Pasteurization and can be found in 2.5% of milk cartons

in the U.S.

 

 

* The evidence that an alkaline state of the body

promotes health and

prevents cancer is marginal if not existent. The pH of

the blood is automatically

controlled within a tight range and if the diet could

alter blood pH we would be

constantly in the emergency room attempting to regain

neutral pH.

 

 

* Tap water is relatively safe, chlorination having

eliminated typhoid,

cholera and dysentery, but long-term increases the risk

for cancer in organs where

chlorine pools, the bladder, kidneys and rectum.

 

 

* Vitamin C is water soluble and rapidly is excreted, but

repeated doses

throughout the day will maintain blood levels 2.5 times

greater than a single

daily dose. Adding plenty of bioflavonoids to vitamin C

(70% of the amount of

vitamin C) will slow absorption and raise blood levels.

 

 

* Almost half of 60 year olds have lost a considerable

amount of their

long-term memory due to aging changes in the brain, and

some of the most promising

agents to prevent or reverse age-related memory loss are

resveratrol, rice

bran, lipoic acid, carnitine, folic acid, SAMe and

ferulic acid. Drugs for

Alzheimer´s disease are worthless and problematic.

 

 

* No flu vaccine will be able to keep up with the rapid

mutations of

influenza virus and there is no evidence that vaccination

programs have reduced

mortality rates, which are overstated by the Centers for

Disease Control to frighten

citizens into getting their annual flu shots. Only 100

million Americans get

flu shots every year, another 200 million go

unvaccinated, and no epidemic

ensues. Vitamin D, elderberry, quercetin, resveratrol, a

crushed garlic clove,

are the most promising natural remedies against

influenza.

 

 

* The human papilloma virus/cervical cancer vaccine has

not been proven to

prevent cancer in the long run, but does produce

antibodies against the two most

common strains of the virus. However, folic acid and

vitamin C appear to

protect against all 16 strains of the virus.

 

Odds are, most Americans, even advocates of natural

health, would not be able

to answer these questions accurately. Prevailing

misconceptions about

healthcare largely emanate from information provided by

the most prestigious health

care institutions and health authorities.

 

Most people find it difficult to believe that the primary

channels for health

information are controlled by pharmaceutical and medical

device companies.

What you hear on TV is more propaganda than news. The

public as if they are

sheep to be herded. I hope I´m not just now making you

aware of this.

 

The problem is that the public cannot fathom any of this.

A lot of people don´

t want to examine the evidence, they only wish to listen

to authorities. My

suggestion: go to the Mayo Clinic website for truly

authoritative answers to

your healthcare questions. You can always say " the

Mayo Clinic says this is the

best way to go............. " You won´t find any of

the above answers at the Mayo

Clinic website.

 

The 10 health sites rated (Source: Consumer Union),

ordered below by

popularity measured by traffic (not by ratings score),

are:

 

1. National Institutes of Health

2. WebMD

3. MSN Health & Fitness

4. About Health

5. MedicineNet.com

6. Health

7. MayoClinic.com

8. RealAge

9. AOL Health

10. Drugs.com

 

On the internet, websites for the National Institutes of

Health, Quackwatch

and WebMD dominate the Google rankings. Notice that

Quackwatch is positioned at

the top of many webpages even though it is a lesser

ranked site by traffic.

 

Which one is correct?

 

Lost in a sea of websites, how can healthcare consumers

sort out the

misinformation, myths and urban health legends from the

truth? The internet has great

promise, given that surveys show many people launch web

searches over newly

diagnosed health conditions. But it rapidly becomes

nothing more than another

source of confusion because there are simply too many

opinions and

recommendations. Which one is correct?

 

Search on your browser for information about the safe

dose for vitamin D. You

will be confronted with so much outdated information you

are likely to be

frightened away from this life-saving vitamin forever.

Better safe than sorry,

you say to yourself. Stick with the lower doses. Yet an

hour in the summer sun

at noontime in a skimpy swimsuit will produce 5 times

more vitamin D than what

health authorities consider the " safe upper

limit. " Who is going to erase the

outdated information about vitamin D from even trusted

sources like the Merck

Manual, or the National Institutes of Health?

 

Appeasement, peace of mind, cover the bases

 

Many read my opinion about cholesterol, that it is

possibly even a ruse

imposed upon the public to control birth rates

(cholesterol is needed to make sex

hormones), and certainly is a cash cow for pharmaceutical

companies, and statin

drugs have yet to prove they reduce mortality rates. Yet

most statin drug

users haven´t the gumption to stop taking this

liver-toxic medication. Many

agonize over whether to listen to their doctor or not

regarding a statin drug

prescription. Your doctor may truly believe you are at high

risk for a mortal heart

attack because your total cholesterol is over 240, but

there little evidence

to back that up. Appease your doctor, take the pills.

Some elect to take

coenzyme Q10 to counter any potential side effects, but

they still misaddressing

the primary cause of heart disease, which is

calcification of the arteries.

 

Get your flu shot. There is no evidence this inoculation

lowers seasonal

death rates from the flu. But, OK, to be safe, get your

flu shot. Forget about the

evidence. You need peace of mind.

 

I sat at a dinner table talking to four seniors, in their

80´s, all taking 5

or more prescription drugs, and obviously suffering from

side effects. Each

one would whisper in my ear how one of the others is

losing their memory or is

fatigued, or " isn´t their old self anymore. "

They had no idea the pills they

take every day may be the cause of these symptoms. When I

offered them a red

wine pill to take with their meal (no alcohol, just the

red wine solids), they

felt they couldn´t refuse my offer and downed the

capsule, but you could tell

they were worried something uncomfortable was going to

happen. No problem

taking pills that unnaturally slow the heart or make them

dizzy (beta blockers),

attack the liver (statin drugs), or deplete essential

nutrients (diuretics). But

that red wine pill, they were a bit wary. Needless to

say, they all had a

glass of red wine with dinner, 12% alcohol content.

 

Then there are those who are so confused they choose to

cover all the bases,

taking all the drugs their doctor prescribes, and all the

supplements they

hear are good for them. It´s an illogical mixture of

toxic drugs and vitamin

pills that defies explanation. It´s a daily balancing

act, taking poisons and then

their antidotes.

 

Expensive vs economical

 

What prevails in modern medicine is what is expensive.

The most lucrative

insurance billing codes get the attention of medical

practitioners. Simple,

inexpensive ways to remedy health problems get closeted.

 

 

Got a kidney stone? Take IP6 rice bran extract, it will

dissolve it right

away. If you can find a doctor that recommends this

simple remedy, let me know.

 

 

Hemorrhoids bothering you? Bioflavonoids, citrus peel

extract (Diosmin) or

horse chestnut extract will serve you well.

 

 

PSA rising? You are likely headed for a biopsy and then

onto prostate

surgery, with little evidence any of this prolongs life.

Try vitamin D, pumpkin seed

oil, IP6 rice bran extract and/or resveratrol.

 

 

Got angina? Take vitamin C, arginine, lysine, proline,

vitamin D,

nattokinase, fish oil.

 

 

Hate those recurrent migraines? Try daily magnesium,

flaxseed meal, or

cayenne pepper in a pinch. Wrap a headband around your

forehead and many frontal

headaches disappear within moments (the headband applies

pressure and stops

spasming blood vessels).

 

 

Got acne? Before you go to the dermatologist for Accutane

(it´s a very

dangerous vitamin-like drug), try adding 2 tablespoons of

flaxseed meal into your

morning cereal. But look, it´s easier to just go to the

doctor. Let him/her tell

you what you should do. You only pay a $5 co-payment.

Your health plan covers

the cost of medications, and you only pay $1 per

prescription. Dietary

supplements are going to cost twenty-five times more.

 

Copyright 2007 Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc