Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  They're tormented despite the publication of hundreds of scientific articles that prove numerous popular drugs rob the body of nutrients, and this nutrient robbery is the cause of many drug side effects.
MORE IS NOT NECESSARILY BETTER
We spend a lot of time talking about what happens when you run short of nutrients. But remember that too much of any nutrient can also be harmful. For example, having excessive amounts of vitamin A in your body can lead to loss of hair and appetite, dry skin, pain in the bones and joints, weakness, irritability, and other problems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  One more thing that needs to be addressed is the drug side effects reporting mechanism, because today there is absolutely no requirement whatsoever for doctors to report toxic side effects from prescription drugs to the FDA. In fact, there is not even a requirement for drug companies to report their information to the FDA when they learn about toxic side effects in drugs. The reporting system is 100% voluntary. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Tamoxifen fraud?
Surprisingly, the American Cancer Society also hailed Tamoxifen as an anti-cancer drug. While data shows it may prevent breast cancer, it also may cause uterine cancer and blood clots. Not only did subsequent studies fail to confirm the effectiveness of Tamoxifen, but a Duke University Medical Center study revealed that Tamoxifen eventually loses its effectiveness and "actually may help cancer grow. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Although the nutritional approach is not a cure-all, for some people, this approach can help control seizures or reduce the severity of drug side effects.
Dietary Considerations
The Hypoglycemia Connection
Severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) is a well-recognized cause of seizures. It is therefore possible that a milder reduction in blood sugar (as one might see in so-called "reactive hypoglycemia") might make an epileptic more susceptible to having a seizure. In some patients, a decline in blood sugar was associated with brain abnormalities that showed on an electroencephalogram (EEG). |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  However, constipation may be a component of irritable bowel syndrome (page 280) or other conditions ranging from drug side effects to physical immobility. Serious diseases, including colon cancer (page 123), may sometimes first appear as bowel blockage leading to acute constipation. However, constipation itself does not appear to increase the risk of colon cancer, contrary to popular opinion.1
Although dietary and other natural approaches discussed below are often effective, individuals with constipation should be evaluated by a doctor to rule out potentially serious causes. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  The Associated Press reported in 2002 that an estimated 2 million Americans are hospitalized annually from drug side effects, and that 100,000 of them die. The American Medical Association published research in 2000 that linked birth control pills manufactured before 1975 with an elevenfold increase in the risk of breast cancer. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts |  This wide distribution often accounts for drug side effects, or results that are different from the primary, or therapeutic, effect for which the drug is taken.
Bioavailability
The percentage of a drug that is absorbed and actually reaches the systemic circulation is an expression of its bioavailability. Because drugs are metabolized and eliminated from the body, the level of drug in the body will decrease with time after a single dose.
To achieve a more constant serum level, multiple doses are given at fixed time intervals. In general, shorter intervals lead to more constant serum levels. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | If we look at the problem in dollars, according to studies published in JAMA, mistakes in prescribing drugs and the treatment of drug side effects costs about $76 billion every year. Other studies put the number as high as $136 billion. That $76 billion comes out of the sky-high insurance rates you're paying, the taxes that go to Medicare (which is collapsing under the weight of its economic burden), and straight out of your pocket. That means you're spending hundreds of dollars a year to keep the drug companies in business, while they keep peddling dangerous and improperly studied drugs. | | Your physician doesn't want to tell you about possible drug side effects because he or she has been programmed in medical school to believe that if you're told about side effects you'll become a hypochondriac and get them. That is a condescending attitude that is unlikely to change anytime soon. You are the best judge of whether you are having a bad reaction to a drug. Please trust your body's feedback and pay attention to it. | | If this happens to you, please either stand up for yourself, have someone such as a spouse do it for you, or find another doctor. You should not ever have to suffer from drug side effects, nor should you ever allow your physician to get you onto the drug treadmill by prescribing new drugs to treat the side effects of the first or second one.
• Overdosage This section gives the symptoms of an overdose of the drug and if available, an antidote to an overdose. | | The truth is that we begin suffering from our bad habits in our forties, and for too many people, life from about age 50 on is one round after another of physicians, surgeries, and drug side effects. We may be kept alive, but what is our quality of life?
This is not to suggest that you need to eat nothing but brown rice and torn and run five miles a day, but it is to suggest that if you're hooked on sugar or fat you scale back and that if you're a couch potato you get up and move your body. (You'll get more specifics in the next chapter. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
See book keywords and concepts | | Pharmacology texts will also tell doctors how hard it is to separate drug side effects from disease symptoms. Treatment failure is most often attributed to the disease and not the drug or the doctor. Doctors are warned, "Probably nowhere else in professional life are mistakes so easily hidden, even from ourselves."30 It may be hard to accept, but not difficult to understand, why only one in twenty side effects is reported to either hospital administrators or the FDA. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
See book keywords and concepts | | Her future will be more drugs, more drug side effects, more disease, more surgeries, and more pain. This is no way to live and yet this is how millions of Americans, caught in the insidious web of an unhealthy lifestyle, conventional medicine, and drugs, will live out their so-called golden years.
Now let's take a look at a different scenario.
PORTRAIT OF AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH
Now let's say Pam is wary of taking pills and goes to a naturopathic doctor referred to her by a friend. This doctor looks at her blood and urine tests and talks to her about her eating and exercise habits. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
See book keywords and concepts | | This does not include nursing home deaths, or people in the outpatient community dying of drug side effects or as the result of medical procedures.
ONLY A FRACTION OF MEDICAL ERRORS ARE REPORTED
Leape, in 1994, said that he was well aware that medical errors were not being reported.1' According to a study in two obstetrical units in the U.K., only about one quarter of the adverse incidents on the units are ever reported for reasons of protecting staff or preserving reputations, or fear of reprisals, including law suits.24 An analysis by Wald and Shojania found that only 1. | | There are also no codes for adverse drug side effects, none for surgical mishap, and none for medical error. Until there are codes for medical error, statistics of those people who are dying from various types of medical error will be buried in the general statistics. There is a code for "poisoning & toxic effects of drugs" and a code for "complications of treatment. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  Besides pregnancy, edema to the wrist producing CTS-like symptoms has been commonly caused by the use of oral contraceptives, drug side effects, and water retention associated with menstruation. This underscores the importance of a detailed patient history in diagnosis and treatment.
WHO IS AFFECTED BY CTS?
CTS is a particularly severe example of RSI, affecting not only computer keyboard operators (who have gotten most of the popular media publicity) but also many dentists, surgeons, and skilled craftsmen of every kind who have had to quietly change jobs. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
See book keywords and concepts | | The study found one of the reasons for this failure: in nearly two-thirds of the cases, doctors couldn't diagnose drug side effects or the side effects persisted because the doctor failed to heed the warning signs.
Medicating Our Feelings
We only need to look at the side effects of antidepressant drugs, which give hope to a depressed population. Patients seeking a more joyful existence and relief from worry, stress, and anxiety, fall victim to the messages blatantly displayed on TV and billboards. |
Katharine Greider
See book keywords and concepts |  A1997 FDA rule making it more practical to advertise on television—companies could now substitute a toll-free number or web address for the "small print" details about drug side effects and contraindications—was undoubtedly an important catalyst. Then a few bold and enormously successful campaigns convinced other big players that they couldn't afford to stay on the sidelines. Spending on consumer ads surged from a scant $266 million in 1994 to $2.6 billion in 2001. | | Unrecognized drug side effects are particularly of concern in the elderly, who tend to take more drugs but metabolize them differently than the younger people usually represented in drug-company studies. Anderson tells the story of an eighty-year-old man who had osteoarthritis and was given a drug that made him nauseated. His doctor prescribed an anti-nauseant, which, after several months, produced a tremor. The man went to another doctor, who diagnosed Parkinson's disease and prescribed drugs to treat it, which increased the patient's nausea, resulting in an increase of anti-nausea drugs. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
See book keywords and concepts | | However, the problem is often associated with aging and can be linked to a whole range of health issues, from diseases to drug side effects.
Actions Indicated
Antispasmodics help relieve abdominal pain caused by cramping around diverticula. Anti-inflammatories reduce the generalized inflammatory response within the colon. Antimicrobials help the body deal with any infection that might be present. Carminatives lessen discomfort due to flatulence. Nervines ease stress, which may be either causal or a result of the condition. |
Sydney Walker III, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For those "schizophrenics" whose brain dysfunctions can't yet be identified, neuroleptic drugs can often make it possible to lead near-normal lives—although always with the risk of severe drug side effects. At the moment, this is as close as medical science can get to a cure.
Still another valid use for drugs is in a diagnostic technique called a "therapeutic challenge." By giving a patient a brief trial of a drug and noting its effects, a doctor can often gain valuable clues about the origins of behavioral symptoms. In these cases, the drug is not a treatment but a diagnostic tool. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  Second, bee venom contains substances whose anti-inflammatory effect is 100 times stronger than hydrocortisone (and you don't get unpleasant drug side effects with bee venom). Research also indicates that bee venom is a potent antioxidant.28
All these benefits do come with a slight risk. Scientists estimate that about 2% of the population is allergic to honeybee stings and will experience an allergic or even anaphylactic shock reaction to the venom. | | Other drug side effects can be even more harmful. For example, PPA (phenylpropanolamine), a common ingredient in many popular over-the-counter cold medicines, has caused fatal strokes, according to a warning issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in November 2000.
Causes of Colds and Flu
Viruses are commonly thought to be the cause of the cold and flu. However,William M. Cargile, B.S., D.C, F.I.A.OA., of Lake Park, Georgia, counters this belief. "When everyone in the workplace and at home seems to have a cold or the flu, why do some people not get it?" he asks. |
Bill Gottlieb
See book keywords and concepts |  It could be due to drug side effects, a food sensitivity, a parasitic or bacterial infection, inflammatory bowel disease, or even cancer.
ACTIVATED CHARCOAL: Removes Toxins
"Activated charcoal is an excellent remedy to help relieve diarrhea from food poisoning," says Teresa Rispoli, Ph.D., a licensed nutritionist and acupuncturist in Agoura Hills, California. It works by dragging diarrhea-causing toxins produced by bacteria out of your system. Take four to six 250-milligram capsules every 2 hours until your symptoms are relieved, she advises. |
Simon Mills and Kerry Bone
See book keywords and concepts |  Patients will probably reveal a history of past liver infection, infestation or damage, alcohol or drug abuse or exposure to medical drugs or environmental pollutants such as pesticides. drug side effects are more likely to occur in patients with poor liver function.
Depending on the symptoms, treatment is based on the following.
• Hepatoprotective and hepatic trophorestorative herbs, especially if there is a history of liver damage or exposure to toxins. Principal herbs include Silybum (St Mary's thistle), Cynara (globe artichoke) and Taraxacum (dandelion root). |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Some herbs have effects similar to those of antidepressant drugs, without drug side effects. St. John's wort is widely used in Europe for this purpose, and double-blind studies have supported this herb's antidepressant effect. People have also had success with valerian, skullcap, hops, passionflower, Chinese schizandra berry, wild oats, and calamus root.
Light therapy can aid in the mild depression associated with the winter season.
The homeopathic remedies aurum metallicum, ignatia, natrum muriaticum, sepia, and pulsatilla are used for cases of acute, temporary depression. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | She listed the drug side effects as: total deprivation of sleep, radical rise in depression, increase in muscle spasms (severe and prolonged) in L4-5 back, increase in spasms in left hip, increase in pain in both legs, decreased sensation in both feet, increase in (severe and prolonged) headaches, diarrhea, dehydration, total loss of appetite and alternating chills and sweating. [How many symptoms of the toxic condition, the serotonin syndrome, did you count?]
The list of drugs grew as she experienced more and more side effects. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts |  And now, with increasing government regulation of what a doctor may or may not prescribe for individual patients (through such federal agencies as PSRO) it is evident that the government wants physicians to become mere robots who are trained to administer only approved "Federal treatment number
1. "Drug Side Effects," FDA Fact Sheet CSS-D2 (FDA) 72-3001, July, 1971.
9714-32" in response to "Federal group diagnosis number 7482-91. | | In July of 1971 the FDA issued a "Fact Sheet" on the subject of drug side effects. Under the heading: "Should People Fear Drugs Because of Possible Side Effects?" we find this answer:
Drugs should be respected rather than feared. A physician's decision to use a drug is a considered one. It is his decision that it is better to treat a disease with a certain drug than leave it untreated, and that there is greater danger in not using the drug. |
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