| That commitment extended her life for another 25 years and she was able to get off the toxic prescription drug train. When she passed away, she was 84, and she never gained that excess weight back.
The fear of death can be a very motivating event which forces people to change their mindset and actions very quickly. Unfortunately, many people today are on the "Self-inflicted, Early Death Syndrome" path and they either refuse to recognize the consequences of living their unhealthy lifestyles or they do not know the steps necessary to change. |
| One of the most controversial issues in the approval process is the accelerated review enacted with the prescription drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) in 1992. This gave pharmaceutical companies an opportunity to pay an additional user fee beyond the normal application fee, to enhance FDA staff and resources for "fast track" approval of new drugs.
This is a rather simplified version of the total process for getting approval for a new drug; however, the most important thing to understand about the process is that it is not designed to protect you. |
| Chapter Two
The prescription drug Disaster
A drug may be on the market for up to five years before we learn about its harmful effects, while making you and millions of Americans human guinea pigs.
The Real Drug Problem
A s noted in the first chapter, no industry has contributed more to our toxic lifestyle than the pharmaceutical industry. As this chapter will reveal, it has accomplices. When it comes to a discussion of drugs there are three schools of thought. |
| These statistics do not tell the whole story because the true numbers for drug abuse (or misuse) remain buried in the escalation of non-illicit prescription drug use, such as sleeping pills, sinus medication and a variety of other over-the-counter medications.
If you step back from what we have been conditioned to believe, you will conclude that no industry has contributed more to our toxic lifestyle than the pharmaceutical industry. That does not mean that all drugs are bad. Obviously there are drugs that benefit people. Unfortunately, drugs do not cure disease. |
| The effects of taking a supplement, a prescription drug or any natural or chemical substance will not be the same from person to person. Negative effects may or may not be recognized as being the result of the substance. Less than optimal observational studies may show marked improvement in a condition after taking supplements, but others prove to be inconclusive. Allergic reactions are also a major consideration for people who take supplements. |
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 So if you have mandatory nationwide testing, you're going to get a lot of people who are inappropriately diagnosed with AIDS and who get scared out of their minds and start taking anti-AIDS prescription drugs, which of course boosts the profits of prescription drug companies. If all of this sounds like some grand conspiracy, don't worry, it isn't. It's more like a bunch of bumbling medical authorities making silly suggestions about testing the entire population for a disease that isn't even close to the top of the list of public health concerns. |
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 You get an unmitigated disaster, and that's what we're seeing today with the Medicare prescription drug benefit program. This program, which is just legalized theft from one group of American taxpayers to another group of American consumers (mostly the elderly), originally promised to give people discounts on prescription drugs.
The program was supposed to cost "only" a couple hundred billion dollars. It turns out that, as usual, the politicians were lying. |
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 They said that drugs from Canada were dangerous because terrorists could attack Americans by tainting the prescription drug supply in Canada. They must have really great imaginations to come up with this stuff. It should be the first topic in the book, 101 Ways to Scare Americans into Doing What You Want Them to Do.
In this country, we have all types of fear at work in order to convince you to do something the people in charge want you to do, like giving up your civil liberties or paying ridiculous prices for prescription drugs in the monopoly market in the United States. |
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 The organic sea vegetables, spirulina, green tea, selenium and zinc ingredients all help prevent breast cancer, far better than any prescription drug or conventional cancer therapy.
As a meal replacement product, LivingFuel Rx Super Greens is for useful for strengthening liver function, boosting cellular energy, detoxifying the body, boosting thyroid function to promote healthy weight loss, balancing body pH, cleansing the digestive tract and protecting the circulatory and nervous systems from oxidative damage. |
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 It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! (Of course, grape skins also contain powerful medicine called resveratrol, but grape seeds contain different medicines called proanthocyanidins and PCOs, which you can read about at the Physician's Desk Reference). |
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 And that statistic, by the way, comes straight from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which studied deaths caused by prescription drug side effects.
Conventional medicine is dangerous to public health
Today, the sick care industry is a deadly industry mired in dishonest advertising, corrupt regulators, brainwashed doctors, suppression of alternative medicine and always power, money and greed. It has become such a complete joke that modern medicine is actually harmful to the public. In other words, Americans would actually be far healthier if all the M.D. |
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 See FDA tyranny and the censorship of cherry health facts)
Pursued and shut down companies selling genuine cancer cures that provably work better than any prescription drug (such as Lane Labs' MGN-3).
Vigorously argued against making "optimal health" a goal of the Codex Alimentarius discussions, striking the phrase from the final report.
Rigged its drug safety review panels with decision makers who have substantial financial ties to drug companies, even while refusing to disclose such blatant conflicts of interest. |
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 Many jurisdictions appear not to have considered the possibility that a prescription drug may induce violence.
The association of antidepressant treatment with aggression and violence reported here calls for more clinical trial and epidemiological data to be made available and for good clinical descriptions of the adverse outcomes of treatment. Legal systems are likely to continue to be faced with cases of violence associated with the use of psychotropic drugs, and it may fall to the courts to demand access to currently unavailable data. |
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 It started as the prescription drug User Fee Act, was renamed the FDA Revitalization Act of 2007, and has just now been transformed into the Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007.
Does it all seem bewildering? A little too much to track it all? That's the whole point: Distract the public and then steal away the health freedom of Americans under the cover of confusion. It's a brilliant strategy, given that so many Americans have so little time to actually investigate these issues, much less take action on them. |
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 My RENEW program will help you minimize your need for these drugs in your life—even if you must continue using a particular prescription drug and even if you choose to drink coffee and alcohol. In all likelihood you will not need to resort to many of these drugs once you renew your body. And you will learn how to make slight shifts in your lifestyle to accommodate the drugs you may still choose to use, while also continuing on your path to a healthier, more vibrant you. |
| No doubt this could be one of the reasons why ocean life is continuing to decline around the world, and it seems as if it won't be very long at all before these prescription drug pollutants start showing up in shellfish such as shrimp, crab, and lobsters, and maybe even in seaweed someday.
Pharmaceutical chemicals are not regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, so there is no enforced limit of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water. |
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 If you want to heal, not just feel better today (at the price of depending on a prescription drug long term), you'll find it's worth the wait.
In the end, be respectful of the power of prescription medications, both to heal and to harm. By educating yourself about possible nutrient depletions, side effects, and drug interactions, you will be in the best position possible to take advantage of the positive effects of your medications. And by supplementing accordingly, beyond just the level of the depletions, you are giving yourself a chance for true healing and optimal health. You deserve it. |
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| In other words, if you take all the prescription drug deaths since Sept.11, 2001 and compare it to the number of Americans who have been killed by terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks, the drugs are 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorists. Drugs are killing more people than terrorists, murderers, car accidents, plane accidents, swimming pool accidents and infant deaths combined. In terms of what's killing people in this country, nothing compares to prescription drugs.
We have a memorial in Washington, D.C. for all the veterans who died in the Vietnam War. |
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 The DEA pretends prescription drugs don't even exist. No prescription drug death has ever been prevented by the DEA as far as I know. Yet 100,000 Americans are killed each year by FDA-approved drugs. The DEA has no interest whatsoever in protecting Americans from these drugs. Ever wonder why?
The DEA is properly named, by the way. It's the Drug Enforcement Agency. It's enforcing drugs. The right drugs. The legal drugs. The drugs that make money for drug companies, drug distributors, drug retailers, cities, states and countries. |
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 For a few hundred thousand dollars -- the profits from only a couple hundred prescription drug users -- these Senators appear to have been either strongly influenced or outright bribed to kill a measure that would have saved Americans tens of billions of dollars and finally freed the American people from the financial stranglehold of Big Pharma.
These Senators, of course, all insist they were voting to protect the "safety" of Americans, claiming that medicines imported from other countries are dangerous. |
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 I personally started taking magnesium for spasms and facial tics, only doing so on my own after neurologists simply told me to either get better sleep or take a prescription drug. The magnesium helped almost immediately, and I then slowly increased the dose to about 225% the RDA (balanced with 100% calcium RDA) At that point, all spasms and tics stopped completely, and they have not returned since starting that dose several years ago.
I doubt any traditional doctor would have been willing to prescribe that much magnesium. The RDA is 400mg, but many people believe this is too low. |
| He refused the advice on using a prescription drug from his MD, and tried magnesium instead with a lowering of bad cholesterol by almost 250 points, and is now back to very near acceptable levels, a truly gratifying surprise and benefit of increasing magnesium levels. We are both thrilled beyond words.
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I did the magnesium soak two days ago with 4 ounces. The next morning I was better. Yesterday I did a 101 mile bike ride up a 6200 foot mountain. |
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 Censoring truthful health claims of nutritional supplements
While the FDA claims it raided the Charantea company in order to protect consumers from mislabeled products, the truth is that the agency -- which operates a criminal prescription drug racket that should be prosecuted under organized crime laws -- is far more interested in protecting the market for pharmaceuticals. Herbal tea products that effectively lower blood sugar are seen as competition for high-profit diabetes drugs. |
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 The latter "crisis" was used by President Bush to get voter support for his massive, Medicare-funded, prescription drug handout program, which is now a national disaster. That program promised discounted prescription drugs for senior citizens, a benefit that practically no voter over the age of 65 could resist.
What we're left with is a nation that is headed down the path of financial implosion. |
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 Thyroid is a prescription drug, but it can be broken down into very low doses. Some doctors who use this type of testing use synthetic thyroid. I prefer to prescribe natural thyroid in very low doses. If a person responds—either their temperature rises or their symptoms lift—then I retest them to see if their blood levels of thyroid have changed. Many times a person with this profile of symptoms who takes thyroid will feel better, and their blood tests will have remained unchanged, including their thyroid stimulating hormone and their actual thyroid hormone levels. |
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 A retired doctor from Austin, Texas named Max Wells is suing multiple drug companies and casinos for $14 million to recoup losses he suffered as a result of -- get this -- prescription drug side effects. The Parkinson's drug he was on, the lawsuit claims, causes compulsive gambling behavior. Dr. Wells, it turns out, was so compulsive that he coughed up $14 million in gambling losses before finally being taken off the medicine.
Any time you take prescription drugs, of course, you're gambling with your health. But Dr. Wells takes the concept to a whole new level. |
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 If sunshine were a prescription drug, it would be heralded as the most miraculous, amazing breakthrough drug ever invented by mankind. But sunshine cannot be bottled and sold to people. No one owns the patent on sunshine. So, instead, you hear about miracle cures from high-priced prescription drugs like Herceptin. Big Pharma hype masters are claiming that a 0.6% percent reduction in absolute risk is the best result in the universe. |
| Yet the FDA is doing nothing to shut down this over-hyped, exaggerated miracle-class language being used to describe this prescription drug. It's a clear double standard, and it's just one more example of the duplicity of the Food and Drug Administration and its obvious attempts to promote prescription drugs while discrediting anything that competes with them.
Big Pharma = Big Money
It's hard to accurately describe the level of corruption in the drug industry today. The word "conspiracy" comes to mind, although I think a better term would just be "collusion" or perhaps "shared greed. |
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 Suppose this experiment was conducted on a prescription drug, not calcium. Let's call this drug "OsteoMax" (any resemblance to an actual product named "OsteoMax" is pure coincidence, I assure you). Given the exact same data, if this were a prescription drug, national headlines would have screamed, "Bone health breakthrough discovered!" The reports would have been touting the astonishing 29% reduction in bone fractures due to OsteoMax, and television ads would have started featuring happy elderly women power walking and yapping about how smart their doctors are for prescribing OsteoMax. |
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