Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

 

Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review

 

As Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book has suddenly become the

top-selling self-published book in history, a lot of readers are

emailing and asking what I think about Trudeau, his book, and his

commercial success. A few people are even asking whether I feel like

Trudeau is stealing the spotlight and getting all the attention on the

very same issues and advice I've been writing about for years.

 

Are they kidding me? Why on earth would I be unhappy to see someone

spearhead a successful public education campaign that challenges Big

Pharma and the FDA? I think Kevin Trudeau's success is outstanding.

He's opening the eyes of millions of people, exposing the horrifying

truth about the drug companies, the FDA and even the FTC. He's turning

people on to genuine cures and remedies that work better than drugs,

with zero side effects, and at very little cost. I'm thrilled with his

success, and I hope he sells another ten million books.

 

Frankly, I'm thrilled any time a natural health author makes the

bestseller list. Every time Dr. Gary Null publishes a new book, I

cheer. When Dr. Joseph Mercola publishes a new book, I'm elated. Any

time a natural health author grabs the attention of the public and

teaches people the truth about this miserable system of symptom

masking called organized medicine, I'm ecstatic.

 

It doesn't mean I agree 100% with everything in Trudeau's book

(although most of it is right on). And it is true that the FTC, AMA

and the FDA have been after Trudeau for years with various lawsuits

and condemnations, but as I see it, nearly all these actions are

rooted in our modern-day system of outright oppression of anything

that competes with the profits of drugs and surgical procedures. In

fact, I believe Trudeau is relentlessly attacked by the U.S.

government precisely because he's exposing the lies of modern medicine

and Big Pharma. They attack him for the same reason they attack me:

because we open peoples' eyes to the truth of what's going on out there.

 

Now, I've never met Trudeau, and I don't personally vouch for anyone

I've never met. I have no idea what his ethics are, nor his true

passions, nor his long-term plans for achieving such commercial

success. Personally, if I were making that much money on a bestselling

book, I'd be founding a major non-profit organization and launching a

national effort to get direct-to-consumer drug advertising outlawed.

I'd use the money to affect lasting social change. What Trudeau does

with his money is his own business, but in my view, if he's really

passionate about this natural health issue, he would designate at

least some portion of his proceeds (15% or so) to fight the drug

companies head-on through public service announcements, grassroots

campaigns and other similar endeavors.

 

But that's his decision, not mine. And frankly, I think I'm doing a

decent job spreading the word about natural health (and the truth

about Big Pharma) on what is essentially a shoestring budget. For the

number of people we're reaching, and the volume of content we produce

around here, you'd be absolutely stunned to find out how little we

actually earn. Since we don't sell vitamins supplements, and we don't

have national television campaigns, we basically just survive off

minimal ads and our own self-published book sales.

 

Relentless assaults

What really amazes me about Trudeau's Natural Cures book is just how

utterly ridiculous and outrageous the criticism has been towards this

book. In one section of the book, Trudeau explains how sunscreen

actually causes cancer -- a fact that's absolutely true! (click here

to read my own articles on sunscreen) -- and yet critics charge him

with " fraud " for daring to say such a thing.

 

I've been called everything under the sun for claiming that sunlight

is actually good for you, too. And guess what? The research supports

the fact that sunlight PREVENTS cancers: prostate cancer, breast

cancer, colon cancer and many other ailments. And yet the defenders of

organized medicine are going after Trudeau for daring to tell the

truth here. They can't stand the fact that somebody would actually

dare to question the legitimacy of the billion-dollar sunscreen industry.

 

Other critics say the Natural Cures book is misleading, and that is

distracts people from seeking " real treatment " for serious disease.

Would that real treatment be... let's see... high-profit prescription

drugs? Of course! Talk about misleading people, how about the whole

Vioxx scandal where Merck sold deadly prescription drugs to people for

years after knowing the drug doubled the risk of heart attacks and

stroke. If you want deception, look at the psychiatric community,

doling out powerful narcotics and antidepressants that make people

psychotic and suicidal -- all while calling it " treatment " for mental

illness. Did you know the Columbine massacre students were both on

antidepressant drugs when they blew away their classmates?

 

Let's face it: you can't trust the mainstream press to provide an

honest review of Trudeau's Natural Cures book. For one thing, the

entire mainstream press is heavily influenced by billions in drug

advertising dollars. Some people describe the mainstream news outlets

as " drug whores, " which is hilariously accurate. You can't seriously

expect the major media outlets to offer fair and balanced coverage to

a book that's threatening the profit centers of their primary

advertisers, can you? Of course not. Trudeau will never get a fair

shake in the eyes of the drug-supported press.

 

A milestone in changing times

There's a more important issue here than just Kevin Trudeau's success

with his Natural Cures book, however. Trudeau knows, as much as

anybody, that half the recipe for success is being at the right place

at the right time... with the right product. Five years ago, his

Natural Cures book would have flopped. But today, the environment is

just right. And why? Because organized medicine is losing this war.

 

Historically, I think the runaway success of Trudeau's book, combined

with the recent $253 million jury verdict against Merck over the Vioxx

trial, will be seen as milestone events that heralded the demise of

Big Pharma and the collapse of the highly corrupt U.S. drug racket. I

think the tide has turned. The public is no longer asleep at the

wheel. They realize they're being outright killed by prescription drugs.

 

People now recognize that antidepressant drugs will make you

psychotic. Cholesterol-lowering drugs will destroy your hormones and

nervous system. Diabetes drugs will destroy your liver. And

anti-inflammatory drugs will kill you with a heart attack or stroke.

The drug companies are no longer able to hide the truth about these

dangerous drugs (although they've certainly tried), and the lies of

the FDA have been blatantly exposed by its own senior drug research

Dr. David Graham, who testified before Congress that, " The FDA is

incapable of protecting Americans. "

 

The game is up. Big Pharma has exploited the public health so much,

for so long, that the backlash has begun. The lawsuits are in full

swing. Congress is contemplating restricting drug advertising, and

talk of FDA reform is everywhere. The only thing holding the drug

racket in place, in my opinion, is the Bush Administration, which

remains strongly pro-drug and continues to enact legislation that

amounts to little more than handouts to Big Pharma.

 

Exposing the lies of Big Pharma

The earthquake has begun, and the success of Kevin Trudeau's Natural

Cures book is simply a sign that the public is ready to hear this

message. People have been exploited and financially ransacked by Big

Pharma for so long that they're desperate for alternatives. The big

lies of Big Pharma are finally hitting the mainstream. Which lies?

Lies, for example, like, " every new drug takes $800 million in

research to develop, and that's why we have to keep charging ripoff

drug prices to all Americans. "

 

Hogwash. In reality, each new drug requires less than $100 million to

bring to market: that's less than 1/8th what Big Pharma claims. They

exaggerate the numbers to justify profiteering, pure and simple.

 

There are all sorts of other lies by Big Pharma. I've covered most of

them right here over the last 18 months or so. One of the biggest

lies, I think, is well covered in my article, If prescription drugs

are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers?

 

Big Pharma is an outright evil industry, preying upon the pain and

suffering of human beings in order to pad its own profits. That's why

the CEOs of Big Pharma giants walk away with $134 million in annual

salaries, with $115+ million in annual stock option bonuses on top of

that. Meanwhile, these drug companies are claiming they're investing

all their drug revenues into research and development to, " find

tomorrow's cures. " Give me a break. Drug companies spend far more on

marketing and advertising than research. And technically, the vast

majority of drug company research is funded by taxpayer dollars

through NIH grants to research universities. And by, " tomorrow's

cures, " what they really mean is, " tomorrow's blockbuster seller drug

that may technically be no better than yesterday's generic drug. "

 

The whole system is a giant con, folks. And if Kevin Trudeau's Natural

Cures book helps wake people up to that reality, then I'm thrilled

that it's a top seller.

 

Where is the spotlight for Dr. Gary Null?

In terms of sheer recognition for fighting this health information

battle, though, there are individuals far more deserving of the

national spotlight, in my opinion. And my list starts with Dr. Gary

Null -- a genuine champion of natural health and health freedom. Dr.

Null is so consistently right about health, nutrition (see related

ebook on nutrition) and medicine that I personally believe if Dr. Null

were in charge of the health of our nation, and could have free reign

to change public policy to enact genuine health reforms, he'd have

this country out of its health care crisis in less than ten years.

 

If there's anyone who deserves the national spotlight on health, it's

Dr. Null. But he's not the only one who deserves a little recognition.

Guys like Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Julian Whitaker, Dr. Sidney Wolfe

(of Public Citizen), Dr. David Williams, Dr. Bruce West, Dr. Jonathan

Wright, Dr. Elson Haas and many others have been fighting this battle

for decades. Heck, even I'm a relative newcomer to this arena. My own

knowledge about natural health is dwarfed by what these health

authorities know.

 

All of us, and especially Kevin Trudeau, are rebels. In a less

civilized time, we would all be rounded up and shot for daring to

challenge the authority and wisdom of the " King " -- in this case, the

AMA, the FDA, Big Pharma, and the rest of the evil bunch. The FTC and

FDA have attacked all of us at one time or another. Heck, Dr. Jonathan

Wright even got raided at gunpoint by FDA thugs who shut down his

healing clinic. (Read a full list of FDA raids here. Dr. Gary Null has

fielded decades of assaults by his critics. Dr. Julian Whitaker has

long been targeted by various government agencies because of his

support for breakthrough cancer treatment therapies (among other brave

endeavors) that actually reverse cancer.

 

We're ALL enemies of the status quo. And that's because we show people

a better way to be healthy. We teach people alternatives that don't

require financial servitude to the drug companies. We challenge the

FDA. Some of us call for criminal prosecution of the CEOs and top

manager at drug companies. And each of us, at some level, just cannot

sit back and watch the public be lied to. We have the deep desire to

stand up and shout, " The Emperor has no clothes! "

 

Should health information come from people who are healthy?

Tell you what. Try this for a health contest. Grab Dr. Gary Null, Dr.

Joseph Mercola and myself, and put us three up against any three FDA

bureaucrats, drug company executives, or old school M.D.s you can

find, and compare health statistics.

 

It would be no contest. We'd blow those guys off the charts. Between

my own publicly-posted blood chemistry, Gary Null's pulse and

endurance (he's an amazing distance runner), and Dr. Mercola's own

health stats, we'd be unbeatable. You know what the three of us have

in common? We don't take prescription drugs. On top of that, we all

take supplemental nutrition and, of course, we all exercise regularly.

Pretty simple, huh? Good nutrition + exercise + avoiding drugs = great

health!

 

If prescription drugs made people healthy -- if Big Pharma was right

about anything -- then they should be able to dig up people who are

super healthy, right? Drug-prescribing doctors should be the

healthiest people on the planet, right? After all, they get all the

free drug samples they could ever want. If they're taking those drugs,

and if those drugs actually made people healthier, then these should

be icons of perfect health, right?

 

But they aren't. People who take drugs are SICK. Or they're DEAD.

They're certainly not healthy. And doctors are the least healthy bunch

of professionals you can find, in my experience. Organized medicine is

a con. It's a cruel hoax. It doesn't work. And finally, the public is

starting to wake up to this fact.

 

The great disease / profit con

You see, here's how the con works: the food companies make you sick,

nutritionally deficient, and diseased. Then the pharmaceutical giants

convince you to take $500 / month in pills for the rest of your life

to mask the symptoms of disease caused by the foods you bought in the

first place. And then some pharmaceutical giants launch vitamin

companies (or buy existing ones) and sell you crap vitamins loaded

with antifreeze chemicals (I'm not kidding), hydrogenated oils,

coal-tar artificial colors and other chemical toxins just to make sure

you never really get well from taking those cheap vitamins.

 

The result? You end up hooked on drugs for life. That's how the con

works. And, of course, your doctor fully supports it and the FDA

rubber-stamps the whole thing, going the extra mile to make sure that

herbs are outlawed and deadly drugs remain perfectly legal.

 

I'm pretty sure Kevin Trudeau would agree with everything I've said

here. His talent is that he's really, really good at getting the

message out to people. If our country had ten more people with that

kind of talent who could fight the propaganda of organized medicine,

we'd be better for it.

 

Some people even say I'm one of those people. Maybe, but I'm just a

regular, hardworking, everyday guy who happens to have a very low

tolerance for evil in the world. If I lived in the South during the

19th century, I'm the kind of guy who would be running the Underground

Railroad, shuttling slaves to freedom in the Northern states. If I

lived in Germany in 1933, I'd be running an underground printing

press, producing material that challenged the racial cleansing

policies of the newly-elected head of state, Adolf Hitler. If I were

an Indian citizen living under British occupation in the 1930's, I'd

be mirroring the actions of Ghandi through peaceful non-compliance as

a form of public protest. I'm just a rebel who can't stand to see evil

having power and control over the people.

 

When I see lies, exploitation, and outright evil running amok in the

free world, I just feel obliged to point it out. And frankly, except

for the Nazi Germany concentration camps, I have seen no greater evil

at work in this world in the last hundred years than what is happening

today with our pharmaceutical companies and our corrupt system of

organized medicine. Even the atrocities of Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao do

not compare with the scope and depth of deception now practiced by

organized medicine. It is a corrupt system that promises cures, yet

delivers destitution and death. All in the name of profits, of course.

 

And to think that the whole thing hides behind the facade of

" scientific thinking " or " evidence-based medicine " is, truly, an

insult to the history of science.

 

The bottom line: the raging success of Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures

book is a milestone that signals the approaching demise of today's

system of organized crime / organized medicine. Watch for the FTC,

AMA, FDA, the mainstream press and others to do everything in their

power to silence Trudeau to prevent him from doubling his success with

a second book that reaches even more readers.

 

In the end, though, they can't silence us all. In the end, truth will

prevail, and like the downfall of Nazi Germany in 1945, Big Pharma

will soon find itself stretched too thin, hated by all for the pain

and suffering it caused, and clinging to a desperate, discredited

existence.

 

It will be a glorious day, indeed, when people can walk this earth

with true freedom: freedom to choose the healing method they desire

for themselves and their children, freedom to learn about herbs,

vitamins or prayer, and freedom to access all the relevant information

they need in order to make their own private health decisions.

 

It is the vision of that day that keeps me writing.

 

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* Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures book review

 

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