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Pharmaceutical drug adds sound so wonderful don’t they?  They have the benevolent air of a kindly grandfather and the background music always makes me think of a warm spring day and a barefoot walk on wonderful smelling, full, thick, fresh cut grass.  And when the “Flying Nun” is one of the spokespersons telling me that I am sick and in need of a magic pill, I just have to say I quickly become ripe and ready to plunk down my money and buy whatever it is she is selling.  I mean she is almost a nun for heavens sake!

Of course the diseases that they have the solution for are not really diseases at all except in the fertile minds of Big Pharma hucksters, but when you are in the business of selling drugs, you have to have sick people to sell them to.  And if someone is really not sick, then you have to mastermind a fictitious ailment.  We now have an abundant list of new diseases because let’s face it, the pharmaceutical companies had new medications ready to sell.  Since these new astronomically profitable medications need to be sold, then by golly a new disease better be invented to match the drug that is now ready to hit the market.

Restless leg syndrome?  Serm deficiency?  Here’s a good one, “statin deficiency.”  Circadian Dysrhythmia (insomnia) is always a good disorder for multi-billion dollar profits!  How about Gastric Reflux Disease!  That sounds positively ghastly.  It’s really just heartburn, but that certainly wouldn’t sell many pills.  ADHD?  Do you want to hear a strange phenomena?  There were zero children in my catholic school back in the mid 60′s with ADHD, and it was a big school!  Sister Mary Joseph of Our Lady Of Great Agony had a very large ruler and she was not afraid to use it and she was big enough to make it sting well into third period.  That ruler in those days probably cost less than fifty cents and unless she inadvertently broke it on some child who was exhibiting signs of ADHD, she could cure that disease in every kid who ever came through the school for many many years for a measly fifty cents.  You can’t even read the label of one of these magic pharmaceutical drugs for fifty cents.  Now the parents of ADHD children are even being diagnosed with adult ADHD.  This ought to be a real good cash cow, and the media who are on the advertising dole will surely help in the cause of making you believe you need medication for this new disease just as much as your kids do.

Keep in mind that every one of these magic pills are actually synthetic toxic chemicals that will certainly cause some nasty side effects.  You should not be shocked at this because your body was never meant to ingest these synthetic poisons.  When you shell out a 300,000 percent profit for a poison magic pill that is meant to cure a disease that you really don’t have, then you probably deserve to have a “bad trip man.”

You should do some research into the new diseases which are being rolled out by the insanely rich pharmaceutical companies and I am quite sure you will be able to find a disease and a pill that’s right for you.  Your animal based diet, your love affair with high fat, high sugar, refined and processed dead foods, your constant dehydration because of always having a sugary beverage in your hand, your sedentary lifestyle, and the fast food restaurants that you frequent on a daily basis will certainly keep you in the doctors office.  Once there you will be diagnosed with a bunch of dreamed up diseases which you cannot pronounce (your doctor is very likely on the dole also) as well as ones that your terrible dietary choices actually have caused such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

The good news amid the gloom, however, is that there is not one real or fictitious disease that cannot be cured by detoxification, healthy immune building nutrition, sunshine, pure, clean water, and a little exercise.  These cures actually work on everything and there are zero side effects.  Most are inexpensive or free, so the drug companies cannot sell them to you and that makes them a bit testy.  Therefore their mistress, the FDA won’t let anyone speak the truth about the healing qualities found in whole fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans, and seeds.  But just because the FDA won’t allow the seller to put a sticker on your fresh orange which rightly touts the benefits of vitamin C and the other healthy vitamins and fiber present in that orange doesn’t mean it is not a cure for much that might ail you.  Certainly healthy life giving food that was lovingly prepared by God just for you has got to trump frankenfood and synthetic poisons made in some mad scientist’s laboratory.

The above rambling by yours truly was probably not presented very well due to my limitations as an author.  Nevertheless what has been said should really be common sense.  Please don’t take my word for it though.  Look into some of these issues and start to learn about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and nutrient dense food.  Look to your God given immune system for the healing of any and every disease (inlcuding cancer) and stop believing the hype of the poison pushers.  They really couldn’t care less about your health.  Their only concern is your pocketbook and they will spare nothing in their zeal to get at it.  Why not take charge of your own health?  In the final analysis, you are the only one who can.

It is already a well proven fact that lifestyle changes which focus on a healthy diet and a reasonable exercise program can lower the risk of heart disease by a whopping 80%.  It is therefore in your best interests to take charge of your own health and make the necessary changes to avoid dying of a heart attack since this is an extremely unpleasant way to check out of this life.  Just ask anyone who has witnessed a heart attack death to confirm the truth of this last statement.

Statin drugs are really bad for many reasons not the least of which is that they are ridiculously expensive.  By the way, were you aware that Americans shelled out profits of over 26 billion dollars to drug companies last year on cholesterol lowering drugs alone?  That is pure profit folks, and not just the gross amount of money spent by consumers.  Did you know that drugs like Xanax boast a 500,000% (five hundred thousand percent) profit margin?  I hope that makes you think long and hard about paying out your and your family’s hard earned dollars for drugs that will ultimately destroy your health.

The doctor’s guidelines for the “safe limit” of cholesterol has been pushed lower and lower every year so that if you are between 40 and 50 years of age it is almost certain that your doctor will tell you that your cholesterol level is too high and will therefore prescribe a cholesterol lowering drug. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry plays a very active roll in their universal high cholesterol diagnosis?.

It doesn’t matter that their guidelines are ridiculously low, what matters is that they place millions and millions of people on these dangerous and expensive drugs in the name of profit.  The sad reality is that not one of their “customers” need these expensive drugs to lower their cholesterol and many do not even suffer from high cholesterol in the first place.  It is nothing in the world but the zeal of the doctors to realize huge profits (greed) that causes them to diagnose great numbers of people with dangerously high cholesterol.  In reality the levels that the Big Pharma drug companies set as a standard for normal cholesterol are actually dangerously low and cause serious health problems.  Cholesterol is a function of the body and dangerously low levels will cause major problems in an otherwise healthy life.

The extent to which big pharmaceutical drug companies will go to capture your business is ludicrous.  Be assured, however, that the drug policies that they set forth are profit driven and profit driven only.  They do not now, nor will they ever have your health and wellness in view.  They want a large share of your and your family’s lifesavings and will stop at nothing to get it.

The question is: Are statin drugs necessary for optimum health or are they actually dangerous?  A quick look at the side effects on statin drug labels as well as some un-biased research ought to give you a clue as to their overall safety.  I will name just a few of the bad side effects here but keep in mind that this is a very limited list and many more dangers could be added.  No doubt the danger list grows with every independent study of the effects of statins on human health.  Some prominent health concerns include:

- Headaches
- Nausea
- Stomach pain and diarrhea
- Muscle pain and weakness
- Elevated liver enzymes
- Muscle inflammation
- Liver and kidney damage
- Memory loss
- Increase risk of eye cataract
- Suppression of  immune function
- Nerve damage
- Death

The above list (though not exhaustive) should give every sane person pause.  It is vital that we wake up to the fact that the draining of our nation’s wealth is directly related to our love affair with statin drugs.  Actually we don’t love them but have been duped into believing we need them.  The fact is that we don’t need them and would realize a marked increase in wellness if these expensive pills were boycotted.

In the case of high cholesterol for instance, a return to a plant-based diet including whole raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds would do more to lower cholesterol than a trillion dollars worth of statin drugs and this dietary change comes with absolutely no bad side effects unless of course you consider optimum wellness a bad side effect.  Add to a balanced plant-based diet plenty of pure water, sunshine, fresh air, and reasonable exercise, and high cholesterol is no longer an issue.  This type of lifestyle will also cancel obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, and many other dread diseases that are ravaging and bankrupting our great nation.

The bottom line is that you can save your money and your health by shunning the use of expensive statin drugs and beginning to adopt a healthy lifestyle that starts with good nutrition and reasonable amounts of exercise.  I believe that our society is all too ready to believe the hype of the drug companies because we want to cure what ails us with the ease of just “popping a pill.”  Drug companies capitalize on this type of thinking and provide us with all the pills we need for just about any supposed physical or psychological malady imaginable.  The problem is that these pills do more harm than good.

Why not take control of your own health and quit putting it into the hands of huge drug companies that couldn’t care less about your overall well being?  These drug companies will continue to make insane amounts of profits as long as we as a society continue to buy into their hype.  Worse yet, health care costs are bankrupting this country and we as a nation are becoming more and more unhealthy with every passing year.  By taking control of our own health through sensible lifestyle changes we can reverse this trend in a very short time.

Start making lifestyle changes that promote good health and save your money for things like taking a vacation.  Your life will be much more fulfilling when you are experiencing optimum health.  Although these lifestyle changes cost nothing they will provide numerous benefits that will last a lifetime.  It all starts with a decision and a commitment.  I hope for the sake of you, your family, and our great nation, that you make a decision and a commitment today.

“The FDA’s mission is to promote and protect the public health by helping safe and effective products reach the market in a timely way, and monitoring products for continued safety after they are in use. Our work is a blending of law and science aimed at protecting consumers.”  This of course is according to the FDA.

The FDA’s role has clearly changed since big pharmaceutical companies began manufacturing synthetic drugs which Americans have shelled out over a trillion dollars for.  These drugs have never cured anything and they never will.  All they do is mask symptoms.  All of them come with a laundry list of side effects that should scare every thinking person to death.  Instead of the FDA protecting the public health by banning these synthetic pills that merely hide symptoms, they blindly say yes to every new pill coming down the pike and rush to foist them on the American citizenry.

Why are these dangerous drugs rubber stamped and approved by the FDA while suppression of inexpensive and very effective natural therapies seems to be their real job?  The answer is the more than one trillion dollars that Americans have paid drug companies for these symptom masking pills.  That is precisely why the FDA’s mission has changed from protection of the public to protection of the financial interests of pharmaceutical companies. 

Synthetic drugs have caused the death of millions of people and will continue to do so in the future.  As stated above they have never healed one disease and they never will.  Vitamin C is a cure for scurvy and this is universally known, however the FDA won’t let you say this.  If the truth be told Vitamin C is probably a cure for many diseases but since it is inexpensive and drug companies don’t stand to make a profit off of it this information is suppressed under penalty of law. 

A diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans and seeds, is a health promoting diet and many natural health practitioners have used detoxification and immune system supporting diets to cure heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and countless other infirmities.  If drug companies could patent fresh fruit you can bet that the FDA would allow labeling that states that these foods heal disease.  Since these billion dollar companies cannot patent an orange, the FDA does not allow statements about the oranges ability to heal.

In this writer’s opinion the FDA no longer serves the public but rather the only entities being served are big pharmaceutical companies.  Therefore the FDA is actually causing health problems instead of stopping them.  They serve no purpose other than protection of the trillion dollar drug company industry and our tax dollars support this rogue agency. 

There exists a nutritional cure for almost every major disease but the FDA does not want you to know about them.  They are in the business of keeping Americans chronically ill which results in huge profits for the drug companies.  These companies are actually who the FDA serves but they have long since stopped serving you and I.

In the United States so-called science in regard to medicine is nothing more than a propaganda machine designed to sell more of big drug company’s products.  The clinical trials which the FDA uses to make decisions about drug approvals are almost completely conducted by the drug company selling the product.  Big pharmaceutical companies hire (scientists?) to design and implement studies which will produce the exact result that the drug company needs to sell their product.  If a scientist has too much integrity to use fraud and deception to manipulate testing they are quickly fired and sometimes even blackballed from the drug industry altogether.

It is common practice in the U.S. to manipulate drug tests in order to receive a favorable result (for drug company’s products) which then makes it possible to champion the most ludicrous claims imaginable by these poison pushers.  They then pick the exact studies which favor the particular drug they want to sell (discarding that which is not favorable) and these are sent over to the FDA for approval.  The FDA approves countless drugs based on this farce. 

This Same Bad Science Is Used To Discredit Natural Cures

The science falsely so-called which is used to promote synthetic chemicals that are proven dangerous and for the most part absolutely ineffective is also used to discredit vitamins, nutrition, and natural medicine as cures for disease.  If nutrition, supplements, herbal treatments, exercise, pure water, and common sense were able to be patented you can bet your last dollar that drug companies would be touting their benefits.  As of this writing, however, they still can’t find a way to make money on natural remedies, so they will continue to be shunned by the medical community, the FDA, and mainstream media, in favor of synthetic drugs made in a laboratory.

Most of the science in relation to food, medicine, and the environment in the United States is nothing more than a propaganda machine for big business.  Scientists in these areas are more like magicians who through the use of fancy slight of hand tactics provide the illusion that a product sold by the corporation is actually good or even a miracle product.  This so-called science has no concern whatsoever for your health or the environment but only for the bottom line of the corporation who has payed them handsomely to produce favorable results.

Why Has A Cure For Cancer Not Been Found?

Thousands and thousands of people have been working in the field of cancer research for decades in the “search for the cure.”  What have these many years and multiplied billions of dollars dumped into this “search” provided cancer patients?  Absolutely nothing!  There is no cure now and there is no cure on the horizon.  It is a multi-billion dollar money making machine that is utterly corrupted by greed.  There will never be a cure for cancer from this scientific community because cancer is very big business.  There is big money in treating cancer and managing it but the money supply would dry up quickly if a cure were ever found.  It would put too many folks out of business so do not look for a cure any time soon or even in your lifetime. 

That’s why the FDA outlaws any claims of healing through nutrition, (raw fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds) vitamin supplements, herbs, and lifestyle changes such as exercise, while championing the benefits of statin drugs promoted by the drug industry and at the same time downplaying the horrible side effects to include the worst side effect of all — DEATH.  They will never tell you that natural remedies actually prevent cancer in the first place and often cure cancer in the sufferer because these natural remedies are inexpensive and can be used by all. 

It is all too clear when unbiased facts are weighed in the balances that the so-called science of today is nothing more than the whore of big industry.  This science is dedicated to conning people out of their hard earned paychecks and in this game cures do not pay the piper.  In this high stakes game a cure is a bad thing.  If the tremendous amount of money and resources dumped into the cure for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and  osteoporosis (just to name a few) have never produced a cure than we either have the stupidest scientists on planet earth, or they have an agenda to keep drug companies churning out one new statin drug after another which cannot cure any disease but merely manage it.  This science falsely so-called does not spend any of our hard earned money researching the cause of the disease but only the disease itself.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that if you know what causes something you can then eliminate it. 

A Simple Cure For Cancer

One of the best cures for cancer according to much unbiased research is the sun.  Yes, the sun!  Vitamin D from the sun or from good supplements has been shown to eliminate the risk of cancer in up to 75 percent of the population.  Since the sun cannot be patented, this true science about the miracle of vitamin D is widely suppressed.  Tests are even manipulated to not only downplay the roll of vitamin D but to also scare us to death so that if we ever do get out in the fresh air and sunshine we must be covered from head to toe in expensive sunscreen.  In addition the ridiculously low levels of vitamin D that the medical community touts as reasonable and safe is a joke.  That is why over 80 percent of the population is suffering from a lack of vitamin D which is also why the above named diseases are running rampant in the United States.

Science Needs To Step Away From Big Industry And Seek True Answers

The scientific community will never provide a cure for anything as long as they are on the payroll of big industry.  In this writer’s opinion true science should seek knowledge about the wonders of the universe apart from the influence of big business or politics.  It is my personal opinion that the only true function of a human scientist is to discover how God made it and what are it’s true properties.  This is pure science and has no agendas except the discovering of truth.  Pure science is an impossibility, however, when the scientific community in this country are merely the corporate whores of big business who manipulate testing in favor of their pimps. 

Until there is a major reform as to how science is conducted in America, and even it’s reason for being, we will continue to suffer the highest disease rates of any developed country in the world and these diseases will continue to ravage our society to the bankrupting of this great land which many including myself proudly call home.  May this scenario which is well on it’s way never be brought to fruition!

Foods And Vitamins That Are Well Known To Heal Should Not Need FDA Approval

Unfortunately natural healing from natural nutrition does not have the FDA’s seal of approval.  If you ask why this should matter you are demonstrating an ignorance as to how our bureaucrats actually have dictator like rule over the American people.  Natural cures for cancer for example are utterly taboo.  Unfortunately this eliminates natural cancer treatment clinics and in its place is left chemotherapy centers which are nothing in this world but toxic poison clinics.  Regrettably when the federal government outlaws natural cures, cancer patients are forced to accept mainstream conventional medicine such as chemotherapy, even though this toxic chemical bath destroys the immune system and your overall health and sets you on a path to a relatively slow but very painful death.

Your Health And Welfare Are Of Absolutely No Concern To The FDA

The FDA is not a government agency that has any concern whatsoever for your health or welfare.  Their only agenda is simply to guard and protect big drug company profits by means of elimination of any alternative sources or products.  Fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds do not make big profits for Big Pharma and are therefore banned as sources of health and healing by the FDA.

The FDA as well as other federal agencies are run by unelected politicians who have the power to literally write into law whatever legislation and regulations that they dream up and they need no approval from congress to do so.  These bureaucrats do not operate under the authority of congress and your vote consequently has no power to shape their special interests.  If the FDA, DEA, DHS, or the TSA dictate legislation, your vote is powerless to change it.  The FDA for instance could ban all vitamins and bring criminal charges against anyone who sells them and this would become law. These dictatorial powers are effective and operating right now in the so-called “land of the free.”

Remember that these rogue federal agencies do not have your best interests at heart nor does your health or well-being mean anything in the world to them.  They make their decisions and laws based on dollars and cents tossed their way by big industry.  It is therefore illegal to prescribe oranges or lemons (citrus fruit) as a cure for scurvy although we all know that citrus is absolutely the perfect cure for said disease, but it is perfectly legal to prescribe a synthetic drug made in a laboratory as a cure for disease even though these so-called cures come with a bevy of fearful side effects.  My vitamin C bottle has the following disclaimer written on the label concerning any claims about the possibility that Vitamin C supports the immune system or helps in the production of collagen or supports cardiovascular function:  “These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.”

Who do you think is responsible for making it a law that my vitamin C bottle must sport this disclaimer?  Why don’t pharmaceutical drugs made in a freakish laboratory by high paid mad scientist lackeys of Big Pharma have the same disclaimers?  Is it not true that although the FDA forces my vitamin C bottle to say that the product does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, that in fact vitamin C does treat, cure and prevent scurvy?  Is not scurvy a disease?  What fool in the 21st century could deny that Vitamin C is a cure for scurvy?  How is it that an unelected dictatorial agency has the power to say that it is not?  Do you see dear reader how this is a very big problem with far reaching consequences?

The FDA has the unelected power to deny my use of natural supplements as a means of healing my body.  They could enact this into law this very day and there would be no debate, nor any nay saying by any rational scientific study nor any oversight by any branch of congress.  The tyrants at the FDA have this dictatorial power at this very moment. 

There is an urgent need for legislation that will put a stop to this unrestricted power by maniacal tyrants.  There must be a move that would necessitate congressional approval for any regulations proposed by these federal agencies.  This would not be anything like a perfect solution since our lawmakers are pretty much bought out by corporations anyway, but it would be much better than the current system in which unelected maniacs have dictatorial powers over a whole country without any checks or balances.

The American people need to take back this country and we need to start by taking back that which affects our and our loved ones health and welfare.  The FDA for instance should not even be in existence.  There needs to be criminal proceedings brought against these tyrants and a complete abolition of this dictatorial branch of government.  It serves no good purpose and is actually growing in power while causing wide spread suffering and unprecedented disease to the American people.  We cannot afford to negotiate with these tyrants.  The citizenry of America needs to take back our freedom and it starts by ending all remnants of the police state.  A great place to begin to send this message is with the FDA.  Certainly our founding fathers knew that when the people fear the government, the result is tyranny, but when the government fears the people the result is freedom and democracy.  Freedom is still worth fighting for and even more so when the health of you and your family is at stake.   Will you join the battle?

If You Heed The Hype Of The Drug Manufacturing Industry, You Will Begin To Believe You Were Born With A Pharmaceutical Deficiency

If you listen to the pharmaceutical representatives and the majority of physicians you will soon be led to believe that you have a “patented” chemical deficiency, which you inherited from birth, and which can only be remedied through statin drugs.  Please be aware that the word “patented” should be a reminder to you not to leave your VISA card at home (your gonna need it) when visiting your family drug pusher — excuse me — doctor.

Although statin drugs have been shown to have an almost zero percent success rate and although these patented chemicals come equipped with very undesirable side effects such as muscle weakness, diabetes, heart attacks and even death, nevertheless these abominations are pushed as miracle drugs.  You see, the so-called scientists who make outrageous claims about these “miracle drugs” are actually funded by the pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them.  These pawns of Big Pharma might be wearing a white jacket, nevertheless they are anything but true scientists, although they might actually boast the academic credentials.  As a matter of fact, their research is rigged to avoid finding any problems with the drugs they are being paid to sanction and promote.

Some of these statin drugs produce profit margins of over 500,000%!  Let me spell that out for you in case you think I added a zero or two by mistake.  I said five hundred thousand percent!  Do you see why this gazillion dollar industry does not fund scientists who might actually believe that Americans don’t have a pharmaceutical drug deficiency, but rather a vitamin deficiency caused by a lack of proper nutrition.  I mean, how much does it cost to go down to your local Farmers Market and buy some organic fruit, vegetables, and greens?  More importantly because these foods grow in the soil and therefore cannot be patented yet (this will surely change when genetically modified food becomes our only source of nutrition) since the pharmaceutical giants have not found a way to capitalize monetarily on good nutrition as a means of health and healing, antioxidant rich foods such as fruits and vegetables will not be touted as medicine unlike their laboratory made statin drugs.  Until they have found a way to make a five hundred thousand percent profit on natural healing don’t expect them to champion the benefits of this common sense approach. 

Do you see why the industry’s paid lackeys (scientists) don’t even blush when they are filling us with lies while at the same time making a mockery of something as honorable as true science?  True science seeks answers as to how the universe functions.  So-called “science” funded by big industry seeks to cover up anything that might hinder sales and the bottom line.  It accentuates the positive even if the positive is really not there, and ignores the negative altogether.

Statin drugs with their almost zero percent success rate and their fearful side effects have never been able to match what natural remedies such as Vitamins A, C, E, selenium, and beta-carotene from food sources can accomplish in terms of healing for your body, and they never will.  It matters very little if the criminals at the FDA deny true medical doctors the right to prescribe sources of vitamins as medicine nor does it change the fact that these natural remedies heal.  I am sorry to say it but it takes an utterly brainwashed individual (shame on Big Pharma) or a blithering idiot (shame on you) to believe that a mad scientist in a laboratory can make a synthetic drug that can perform better than the real thing.  Yet we are asked — TOLD — to believe this every day.  That is why Americans continue to make the big drug companies ridiculously wealthy and they do it with a large percentage of money that could and should be spent on the welfare of their own families.

If you are one who continues to allocate a large percentage of your income to the drug pushers for the privilege of swallowing every statin drug, antidepressant, vaccine, or new chemical that the big drug company’s mad scientists are paid an extremely high rate of income to dream up and then produce in their Frankenstein type laboratories, you should also be prepared to eventually give them your life savings because they won’t stop until they have it.  On the bright side, however, if you continue to eat these man-made poisons while shunning fresh organic fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds you won’t live for very long anyway.   But while you live (even if it is a painful existence) you will certainly pay the piper and you will pay dearly.

In closing I would like to make something perfectly clear.  Although your body may actually be starving for vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, nevertheless you do not now, nor have you ever had a pharmaceutical drug deficiency!  So why not quit giving away your paycheck every week as though you do?

In my last article I focused on the huge incentives that pharmaceutical companies invest to win the loyalty of virtually all physicians in this country (94%).  I also stated that research indicates that these perks play a major role in influencing the prescription practices of most doctors regardless of the best interest of the patient.  It is very unlikely that your doctor is able to make the best possible prescription for healing what ails you when his or her vision is blurred by large monetary gifts and incentives from the pharmaceutical companies who stand to make huge profits if only your doctor prescribes their drug.

Statin Drugs Are Not The Answer

It is my firm belief that statin drugs are never the answer or cure to any health concern that you might be facing at this very moment. When a doctor is quick to give a statin drug to effect healing of your physical body you can rightly suspect that he or she does not have any real understanding as to the merits of the drug in relation to your ailment but has rather been sold (large money has been spent to buy him or her) on the fact that this should be your prescription.  I cannot judge his or her exact motivation for prescribing a statin drug but I can say that research has shown that your doctor is not prescribing it because it is the best medicine for your health but because your doctor has been persuaded to do so by pharmaceutical companies who have a vested interest in your prescription.

The Effect Of This Drug Mentality On Health Care In America

America is sadly just about the unhealthiest country in the world. This is an even sadder fact since we are at the same time the most affluent nation on earth.  We enjoy fast food, five minute microwave dishes, and quick fixes, whether they be in regards to weight loss or any other aspect of vanity and appearance based considerations.  This same type of quick fix thinking is reflected in our culture of consuming statin drugs prescribed by our physicians or bought from the pharmacy based on your physicians word, or on faith in the testimony of the  latest celebrity who has been contracted by the big drug company to sell you their drug.

This persuation has precipitated the national health crisis that we face in this country.  We spend more for health care per capita then any nation on earth and yet we continue to be the most unhealthy country on earth.  We have turned our health over to big business and the government and now have conclusive proof that these agencies do not now, nor ever will have our best interests at heart.

“Let Food Be Thy Medicine, And Medicine Thy Food”

This quote from the great Hippocrates should be the starting point for health care reform in this country.  It is only when we as a nation begin to allow whole living foods from God’s Garden and wise healthy lifestyle choices to be our primary medicine that we as a nation will experience a true health awakening and end the health care debate which has produced no appreciable benefit whatsoever. 

Above all it is important to realize that there is a great conflict of interest in relation to your health care when physicians are paid huge amounts of dollars to become spokesmen and representatives of big pharmaceutical companies and their products.  This should be an obvious fact and should no longer go unheeded. 

Take charge of your own health through dietary and lifestyle changes and quit placing your life into the hands of doctors who have already been bought out by billion dollar pharmaceutical companies.  We can heal this great country one person at a time if we all do our part.  God Bless You!

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 94% of all physicians receive some sort of compensation from drug companies.  These incentives may be in the form of food and beverages in the workplace, free drug samples, reimbursements for professional meetings or their continuing medical education, and direct payments for consulting, speaking, or enrolling patients in trials or studies.  Such gifts and payments have a direct influence on the physician’s ability to make sound medical decisions.  The vast amount of amenities that the majority of physicians accept has made it difficult for them to any longer distinguish between legitimate sources of medical information from that which has been influenced by the pharmaceutical companies desire to market their products.  This unfortunate situation has also blurred the lines between that which is actually educational, and that which is merely a marketing ploy.

Drug Companies Might Very Well Be Your Doctor’s Only Source Of Education

It is quite likely that your doctor does not spend much time after hours going over reports and statistics on the latest drugs.  It is more likely that the information he or she receives comes from drug representatives who are peddling their specific brands of medicines.  According to a 2008 report, drug companies spend more than $50 billion dollars per year in promotions to help make sure that your doctor is actually listening to their high payed drug pushers.

Do These Doctor-Drug Company Relationships Effect Patient Health Care?

Although you would be hard put to find one doctor in a million who would admit that the many free gifts which they receive and enjoy from the pharmaceutical companies has any effect on what they prescribe to their patients, research has shown otherwise.  These amenities in fact actually do influence prescribing practices.  The nearly $20 billion dollars per year that the drug companies spend in building and maintaining relationships with physicians all over the country is proof enough that your physician’s behavior is affected by these relationships, and these relationships do in fact increase sales or else the drug companies would not dish out that kind of money.

I believe that we place physicians on a great pedestal in this country and forget that they too are merely human beings who are just as capable of being influenced and persuaded by the love of money (greed), perks, and entitlements, as any other human being on the planet.

In this writer’s opinion the question of whether or not a physician’s financial relationship with a pharmaceutical company has any effect on the overall health care of a patient is really a no-brainer.  It would actually be almost impossible to stay 100% committed to that which is actually best for the patient under a physician’s care if the physician were promoting the drugs which payed for his or her new luxury automobile.  This is quite obvious to me, but the question is, is it obvious to you?  For your sake and the physical and financial well being of this great country I hope you will consider what is here written and start to make positive dietary and lifestyle changes in your daily walk and begin to rely less on your doctor who might very well rely too heavily on a big pharmaceutical company.

Statin drugs are xenobiotic drugs which simply means that the compounds used to produce the drugs are not found in life or living systems.  They are chemically produced in a laboratory.  They provide huge profits to drug companies in spite of their many dangerous side effects.  The reason these drugs are foisted on Americans is simply because of the extremely high profit margins.  Drug companies cannot patent healthy vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains because they are provided in nature.  Therefore these profit driven companies produce a chemical compound which is completely unnatural to your physical body and as such is quite risky to your overall health and then they patent these drugs under many different trade names.  You have probably heard of or used some of these popular statins:  Lipitor, Mevacor, Pravachol, Crestor, Zocor, Xanax.

Insane Profit Margins

Xenobiotic drugs produce unbelievable profits for drug companies.  Consider for a moment Xanax which is used to treat anxiety disorders and panic attacks.  Xanax enjoys profit margins of over five hundred thousand percent!  Yes you read that right.  One hundred tablets of Xanax are normally priced at around $180.00 dollars.  The active ingredient used to produce the tablets costs under 3 cents for all 100 tablets.  So when you pay nearly 200 dollars for the right to take home 100 tablets you have paid someone a very handsome profit. But the profits don’t end with your high dollar purchase.  Most statins have horrible side effects and very often contribute to kidney problems and even full-blown kidney failure as well as a host of other diseases.  Kidney dialysis is a cash cow for hospitals.  You will need to fork over a whole bunch of money for your privilege of using their machine.  Therefore by ingesting statin drugs you are likely going to end up as one of the big pharmaceutical companies recruited patients who by the use of such drugs end up with kidney problems and an extremely expensive visit to the hospital’s kidney dialysis machine.

Why Are Statins Prescribed?

Doctors many times become unwitting representatives of these unnatural and dangerous drugs because they have swallowed the sales pitch of a drug representative or have been swayed by a medical journal article in which the pharmaceutical company was responsible for the content.  It should be quite easy to see that this is a bad recipe for honest and unbiased health science.  Mainstream doctors are often persuaded into believing that these are in fact miracle drugs and many just accept this foolishness without doing any research whatsoever.  Multiplied billions of dollars have been spent to advertise these drugs as  “miracle medicines” while slick advertising campaigns and smooth sales representatives have produced an army of unwitting doctors who actually become the big drug companies best spokesmen and agents for these health sapping drugs.

Statins Are A Horrible Farce

If the truth about statins was not suppressed but rather became public knowledge, these horrible abominations would never be prescribed to anyone.  Drug companies would begin to fend off law suits because of their false advertising campaigns and their many other marketing ploys.  If your doctor is irresponsibly prescribing these aberrations to you in the name of health, you should run and not walk from his/her establishment.  He or she should not be trusted with your health since your doctor either did not research the truth about these statins or has ignored the truth opting rather for a share of the big profits.  Either way such a medical practitioner should not be trusted with your health.

Statins Do More Harm To Your Health Than Good

Statin drugs harm a much higher percentage of folks who take them than they help.   These drugs cause liver damage, kidney damage, muscle atrophy, cataracts, and more.  They do not significantly lower the rate of heart disease and for the relatively small percentage of people who could actually say that they were really helped by them, the ugly side effects pretty much eliminate any boasting.

The Natural Way

Why spend nearly $2.00 dollars per tablet on an unnatural compound that is almost sure to cause complications while true health food, which is really the only  true medicine, can be purchased for just a few pennies?  How much does an organic orange or apple cost?  How much does a small bunch of organic kale cost?  I assure you that these health restoring fruits and vegetables will be far more effective at providing healing for your body than any man made laboratory drug could ever be and you will experience none of the side effects.  Why make a big pharmaceutical company richer while simultaneously taking your life into your hands by purchasing their high dollar unnatural drugs?  It is a ridiculous and expensive way to add more discomfort to your life.  God has provided all the healing the human body needs in nature.  Eat healthy living foods while absolutely shunning processed and refined foods, exercise, drink plenty of pure water, get outdoors and get some sunshine,  and stay away from drugs that hide behind well known trade names.  Even if you are able to afford the price per pill you nevertheless cannot afford the health problems they will cause you down the line.

Drug companies are very much in control of the shaping of health care in America.  They provide enormous amounts of compensation to hospitals, universities, and journals of medicine, as well as to the government and even the media.  They basically control the overwhelming majority of everything related to medical care including that which is is taught to doctors in medical school and in their later practices.  They control what methods are allowable, what is able to be prescribed, what is published in medical journals, and what is legal medical practice as well as what is not.

Dear reader, when you are considering health care on a personal level, please do not be ignorant of the fact that every drug company is interested in just one thing – PROFIT.  This produces a very serious conflict of interest when it comes to true health care in this country.  Your doctor is very likely supplying drugs to you that sponsoring drug companies pay him handsomely to promote.  Their promotion however certainly does not in any way imply that they are the best prescription for what ails you and most of these drugs actually cause side effects that are worse than the disease.

It’s Illegal To Prescribe A Natural Cure

If a lack of vitamin C in your diet has caused you to suffer from a condition known as scurvy do you suppose that your doctor could legally prescribe a fresh oraganic orange as a cure?  The simple answer (as well as the sad one) is NO.  Drug companies cannot patent and make huge profits on oranges since they are God’s medicine and grow on trees (maybe in your own backyard) and so they do not allow them to be prescribed as a cure for scurvy.  Of course if major drug companies were able to figure out a way to patent an orange, you would soon find yourself paying a truckload of money to purchase one and there would also be a label attached to it that would say that it was your prescription cure of  the condition you were suffering.  Medical journals would be allowed to write about the orange as the perfect (drug) for the healing and prevention of scurvy as well as a host of other benefits.  What would be missing however, is the small print about the dangerous side effects of ingesting oranges since they don’t have any injurious side effects unless of course you are allergic to them.

In the case of scurvy, a conventional medical treatment that would be deemed legal and even mainstream might very well prove to be totally ineffective in providing a cure, and moreover the administration of that which the drug companies have allowed as legal medicine might prove to be dangerous.  The treatment would most certainly be very expensive and again it would not matter in the least that it was dangerous or didn’t actually work, it would still be the only legal prescription for your condition.

I hope the reader is beginning to see that placing his or her personal health into the hands of a drug company, or a doctor who is bought off by such a company, is not the wisest path to pursue.  There are certainly alternative routes to your health that might very well not be given the blessing of the drug company or the medical establishment but this does not mean that such an alternative is not effective.

Natural Health Alternatives

Natural health alternatives are interested in the complete wellness or well being of a person.  Holistic practitioners deal with the whole person and do not view the body as separate unrelated parts.  Every infirmity is a whole body infirmity and the cure will only be realized when diet and lifestyle changes have been implemented.  A tumor is not a localized problem, rather it is a whole body problem which might be the result of a liver that is not functioning properly, a colon that remains constipated, a vitamin D deficiency, a lack of exercise, a lack of enough pure water, or any number of other possibilities.  The answer to complete healing is not to attack the tumor but to support the body’s own God given immune system which is capable of healing any and every disease known to man.

If you have been diagnosed with a serious disease and your local doctor refuses to acknowledge that your diet and lifestyle caused it, then you should flee from that establishment as quickly as your weakened body and immune system will take you. Above all you should certainly not fall prey to the notion that an exorbitantly high priced prescription drug will bring health and healing even if the commercials you have been bombarded with show glowing healthy individuals running effortlessly on a sun drenched beach.

It should make perfect sense to you that your miraculous body is willing and able to heal any disease that your unhealthy lifestyle has caused and that if you provide your amazing body with the necessary nutrients that it needs you will experience perfect healing and perfect health.  If in reality true health and well being is not what you desire but rather a quick inappropriate fix from some annoying symptom, then natural health is certainly not for you.  However if your desire is to find out the cause and cure of your present infirmity as well as to live your life in optimum health each and every day then a natural health and healing approach is your only reasonable option.

Whether it be something monumental such as excessive weight gain, high cholesterol, heart disease, or something as non life threatening as acne, the true source of healing will now and forever be found in a healthy diet and lifestyle. If you are not willing to go the extra mile to initiate true healing then you should definitely be prepared for the worst.   Whatever the physical, emotional, or spiritual imbalance plaguing you today,  I urge you to take control of your own health and begin to make positive choices that will pay great dividends for a lifetime.  No one can make this decision for you but once you begin to understand the cause and cure  of your present physical or emotional imbalances, the restoration of health to your body, soul, and spirit is just a positive faith (resulting in action) response away.  A great sense of health and wellness will begin when you recognize that your present way of living is detrimental, and then choose to make positive lifestyle changes that will forever impact your life and the lives of those who love and care about you.

Find out about the benefits of natural health and healing and begin to make lifestyle changes that will keep you healthy and happy for the entirety of your life.  Abundant living until the age of 100 or more years should be the norm and not the exception.  Change your diet and lifestyle and enjoy perfect health for the entirety of your years on this planet and then die peacefully in your sleep.  God has created your body to live in such a fashion, and it is up to you to progress through life in accordance to His plan.  Natural health and healing through dietary and lifestyle changes is the only way that you will ever experience a full and abundant  life.  It’s really a no-brainer but nevertheless it is your choice and your choice alone.   This writer’s humble advice is to choose life!  I hope you agree.

An article in the news caught my attention recently entitled “Drug Shortages: A Deadly Problem With No Cure In Sight.” The author informs us that many hospital patients in need of lifesaving injection treatments are being turned away due to possibly the largest U.S. hospital drug shortage in more than 20 years.  Most of the shortages are injectables which include sedation medication such as Propofol, the blood thinner Heparin, chemotherapy drugs, and antibiotics just to name a few.
 
There are doubtless good reasons for these shortages and also some not so good ones.   I am quite sure that some of the reasons for the shortages concern profitability for the drug companies.  Let’s face it, if the manufacturer of your lifesaving drugs cannot figure a way to make a substantial profit, well, you’re probably going to die.
 
I am aware that when viewing the steady barage of drug commercials which seem to constantly invade our televisions that it is easy to be persuaded into thinking that the manufacturers actually have our best interests at heart.  I mean they sound so kind and grandfatherly that we kind of get duped into believing that these drugs are actually necessary and even good for us.  They lull us to sleep so that the list of bad side effects almost goes unnoticed.  We have become a society of drug takers who have been assured by the manufacturers that they have the exact pill to cure whatever ails us, be it physical or emotional.

As a nation we have become a quick fix, fast food, drug taking culture.  We have higher rates per capita of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, obesity, arthritus, osteoporosis and other dread diseases than any other nation on earth.  Now we are told that we have a shortage of lifesaving drugs that have been manufactured to prolong the life of a nation full of unhealthy folks with unhealthy lifestyles.  These drugs do not promote health by the way, nor are they a cure.  For the most part they merely cover up symptoms.  The symptoms which are your body’s way of fighting back against insane health choices are not our enemy.  A fever for instance is a necessary function of the healing of the body.  Not feeling hungry when sick is also a normal function of the body.  Your body does not do well at curing the sickness when it is also in the process of digesting food.  What do most of us do when we are sick and have a fever?  We take a drug to reduce the fever and force ourselves to eat chicken soup.  This is the exact wrong recipe for a body that is trying to fight back against an illness.

Our body’s are an unfathomable creation that were gloriously designed to run on a certain kind of fuel.  The fuel that the average American feeds this incredible creation consists of animal fats, trans fats, preservatives, chemicals, refined grains and sugars, and then drugs when the body rejects this type of cuisine.  If our diet consisted of whole vegetables (including fresh greens such as kale, and collards), fruits, grains, beans, seeds, nuts, and plenty of water instead of soda pop we would never need a doctor nor a prescribed drug.  When you take in a daily dose of over 5 pounds of the most potent medicine on the planet (good food) it is a certainty that you will not find yourself on a bloody surgeon’s table with your chest pried open and an excellent chance that you will not survive the operation even though you have mortgaged your house to have it.  The fact is that drug shortages might very well not allow you to receive a by-pass surgery anyway, nor chemotherapy nor any other lifesaving operation since there might very well not be any drug available in which to sedate you.

Why not take control of your own health starting right this minute?  Don’t put your life into the hands of a surgeon or a drug company for whom profit and losses are the main consideration.  Quit eating animal flesh and their by-products.  Quit eating refined grains and sugars.  Quit drinking soda pop and eating fast food.  Start consuming fresh, whole fruits and vegetables, unrefined grains, beans, seeds, and nuts.   Drink plenty of water and get some fresh air and sunshine.  Exercise a little and start enjoying living at your ideal weight.  This type of diet and lifestyle can and will reverse damage caused to your body by a lifetime of unhealthy choices.  I promise that you will be amazed at the body’s ability to heal itself when you are giving it the right nutrition.  You might not believe this but you really have nothing to lose by trying a new way of eating and living.  In reality you might not have any choice since drug shortages might not allow you to enjoy your next bloody operation.  Your inability to have an operation due to a shortage of drugs notwithstanding, if you don’t take control of your health through sensible nutrition and exercise you have a very good statistical chance of being the next heart attack or cancer victim. 

I implore you, for the sake of yourself and those that love you to start making healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices right away.  This may in fact be your only alternative.   Even if you are able to afford a one hundred thousand dollar operation,  you may in fact be turned away due to a shortage of drugs.  As the title of the article cited above says; “drug shortages are a deadly problem with no cure in sight.”