DRUG COMPANIES USE NATURAL CURES TO DESIGN NEW DRUGS

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Drug Companies Use Natural Cures to Design New Drugs

 

 

 

2/24/06 Author: Shane Ellison, M.Sc. Source: www.healthmyths.net

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By Shane Ellison, M.Sc.

Health Myths Exposed © 2005

www.healthmyths.net

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Most medical doctors are hostile toward the use of nutritional

supplements. They parrot that they are ineffective and possibly

dangerous due to a lack of scientific evidence supporting them. Not

true. Mountains of evidence exist. And it points to some fascinating

and

highly effective nutritional supplements.

To obtain new drugs, pharmaceutical chemists, like myself, rigorously

study nutritional supplements (i.e. natural products). Once a single

active ingredient is identified a chemist makes a " copy-cat. " The drug

company then calls it their own. Simply put, if the study of

nutritional

supplements did not exist then drugs would not be possible.

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Most every drug sold today has a natural-based predecessor. Drug

companies and medical doctors obfuscate this historical fact. They

like

patients to think that drugs are intuitively invented out of thin air.

This helps foster the very profitable belief that drugs are the only

option for health. Understanding that nutritional supplements guide

drug

development will allow you more choices in health care - inexpensive

and safe ones. Consider the following examples:

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Pseudoephedrine is an ingredient found in over-the-counter cough

syrup.

It is a knock-off of the active ingredients found in " Mormon tea. " In

2004, the Annals of Emergency Medicine noted that pseudoephedrine is

so

damaging to the heart that it can elicit a heart attack among users

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even healthy ones. In sharp contrast, naturally-occurring Mormon tea

can

be safely used as a cough suppressant. Today however, it is black

listed

while pseudoephedrine remains on the shelves of every corner grocery

store in America.

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Ritalin and many other stimulants are knock-offs of the active

ingredients found in ma huang AKA ephedra. Ritalin is an amphetamine.

As

such, it can cause addiction and brain cell death. Despite false

propaganda, Ma huang is a safe and effective stimulant that increases

mental focus without damaging the body. Ma huang is black listed while

Ritalin is dispensed to children.

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Cholesterol-lowering drugs (Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, ect) known as

statins are

knock-offs of the natural ingredient found in red yeast rice. Akin to

the drugs,

red yeast rice can dangerously lower cholesterol and CoQ10 levels

within your

body. Like statins, it is not advisable to use red yeast rice to lower

cholesterol. Both are poisons.

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As a side note, if cholesterol-lowering drugs were the billion dollar

panacea that drug companies claim them to be, we could all eat red

yeast

rice at a fraction of the cost. Unfortunately, they are not.

AspirinT, the drug that your doctor tells you to take EVERYDAY, is a

knock-off of the active ingredient found in white willow bark. The

side

effects of AspirinT are so severe that they can cause a higher death

rate relative to the populations who do not take it. Rarely brought

to the attention of users, aspirin depletes the body of the essential

nutrient folic acid. White willow bark is virtually unknown yet

remains

a safe and effective alternative to AspirinT for pain relief and any

purported cardiovascular benefits.

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The list goes on.Most would be shocked to know that even painkillers

and anticancer drugs were derived from natural sources:

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The tiny family of prescription pain killers used by doctors are knock

offs of the natural ingredients found in opium. Naturally occurring

opium is safer and less addictive than the fast-acting drug knock-offs

morphine, codeine, and oxycodone.

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Baicalein, an anti-cancer drug used among those who suffer from

leukemia, is a knock-off of the active ingredient found in the roots

of

Chinese skullcap (Scuterllaria baicalensis). Chinese skullcap is a

safe

and effective natural cancer fighter that induces cell suicide

(apoptosis) among leukemia-derived cancer cells.

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There are life-saving distinctions between a drug and its natural-

based

predecessor. A prescription drug is a single isolate. A nutritional

supplement contains a multitude of active substances. This distinction

makes drugs more dangerous and less effective than nutritional

supplements.

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As a single isolate, a drug does not target the underlying cause of

illness. It only masks symptoms. Further, a drug isolate has no

" buffers " to offset negative side-effects. In sharp contrast,

nutritional supplements utilize an array of ingredients to attack the

illness at its core while striving to mitigate negative side-effects.

If safe and effective, then why don't drug companies distribute

nutritional supplements? The answer is very simple.

They clash with the drug-company business model. Natural medicine

cannot

be patented and subsequently monopolized. Only dangerous, man-made

prescription drugs carry patent rights. And this is what satisfies a

drug company's voracious appetite for wealth.

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Patent rights allow for checkbook science (the practice of funding,

designing and interpreting the results of drug research), exclusivity

and inflated prices. Add to that an army of good-looking, slick and

foolish thinking sales reps and you have the world's most successful

business model - corporate drug dealing. While profitable, this

model

is currently killing an estimated 200,000 people every year.

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Face the facts: Those who adhere to Western Medicine are stuck with

risky and expensive counterfeits of Mother Nature. Those who embrace

Mother Nature by choosing nutrition are able to use natural cures

without risking their lives.

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About the Author:

Shane holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first hand

experience in drug design. Abandoning his career as a medicinal

chemist,

he is dedicated to stopping prescription drug hype. He is an

internationally recognized authority on therapeutic nutrition and

author

of Health Myths Exposed and The Hidden Truth about Cholesterol-

Lowering

Drugs. His books and 6 months of FREE Life Saving Health Briefs can be

found at www.healthmyths.net!