Medicinal chemistry was my first passion. Flying my second. Both provide immense benefit, but have very little room for error. That’s why I triple check everything when it comes to swallowing a pill or shoving in the throttle to lift my family from the comfortable bonds of gravity. You should do the same.
The New York Times hailed them as “wonder drugs.” Doctors use them as the first line of defense against heart attack, stroke, inflammation and whatever else they can make sound dreadful and scary. Despite the spin, cholesterol lowering drugs (fibrates and statins) are proving to be not so wonderful. As outlined in my book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, continuing research showed how these blockbusters failed to prevent heart attack and stroke to any clinical significance. But that’s not the worst part. There’s seems to be a “little” problem with cancer.
“My husband died last August 2005 of advanced liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma). He tested negative for hepatitis and cirrhosis as the common causes of liver cancer. Nothing ever was said about the lovastatin (mevacor) that he was on since 2003 when he had a mild heart attack. A friend (non-M.D.)mentioned the statin probably caused the cancer.”
In their study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Thomas B. Newman, M.D., MPH, and co-workers show that all cholesterol-lowering drugs, both the early drugs known as fibrates (clofibrate, gemfibrozil) and the newer drugs known as statins (Lipitor, Pravachol, Zocor), cause cancer in rodents at the equivalent doses used by man.
Interestingly, these facts are not reflected in the highly coveted Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) or by the pharmaceutically-compliant media. For instance, the PDR shows that cancer is a side effect for fibric acid derivates and statins only when as much as ten times the recommended human dose is used.
Dr. Gloria Troendle, deputy director for the Division of Metabolism and Endocrine Drug Products for the FDA, noted that the cholesterol-lowering drug gemfibrozil belonged to a class of drugs that has repeatedly been shown to increase death rates among users. Moreover, Dr. Troendle stated that she does not believe the FDA has ever approved a drug for long-term use that was as cancer causing at human doses as gemfibrozil.
Others shared these same concerns about gemfibrozil. In comments to the FDA, Elizabeth Barbehenn, Ph.D., concluded: “fibrates must be considered as potential human carcinogens and their carcinogenic potential should be part of the risk benefit equation for evaluating gemfibrozil.”
Ignoring these facts and despite having a majority vote among their advisory committee against approval, the pharmaceutically- campaigned FDA-approved these drugs anyway! Specifically, when asked to vote whether or not the cholesterol-lowering drug gemfibrozil should be approved for prevention of heart disease, only 3 out of 9 voted in favor of approval. Unfortunately, these votes are only “advisory” and – against the better judgment of the committee – the FDA decided to approve gemfibrozil for human consumption.
Of course, the extrapolation of evidence of cancer from rodent to human is very uncertain. And this is the argument of those who favor using cholesterol-lowering drugs. More likely, such an extrapolation would only hold true if human studies also showed an increase in cancer rates. In fact, that is what scientists are seeing.
Sheperd and colleagues for PROSPER noted in the Lancet that “…new cancer diagnoses were more frequent on pravastatin [Pravachol] than on placebo [those not taking the drug].” Similar findings were made in the CARE (Cholesterol And Recurrent Events) trial. Evidence from the trial showed a significant increase (a 1500% relative risk increase) in breast cancer among women taking Pravachol (a cholesterol-lowering drug made by Bristol-Myer Squib).
One mechanism by which cholesterol-lowering drugs may cause cancer has been identified. Published in Nature Medicine, Dr. Michael Simons of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston shows that statin drugs mimic a substance known as vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGF). The biochemical VEGF promotes the growth of new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis. While angiogenesis may help the growth of arteries, the benefit is quickly negated by the potential for growth of cancer.
The British Journal of Cancer reports that VEGF plays an important role in the spread of colorectal cancer. Further, for those who already have tumors, VEGF and compounds that mimic VEGF significantly diminish that person’s survival time.
The fact that cholesterol-lowering drugs can potentially cause cancer at doses commonly used by humans will never be accepted as mainstream knowledge. Drug company-funded studies for cholesterol-lowering drugs are conveniently short in nature, typically five years or less. It takes decades for cancer to develop. Actually, even heavy smoking will not cause lung cancer within five years. Yet it is a well-known fact that smoking leads to lung cancer. Therefore, as long as statin drug trials last only five years, the fact that these “wonder drugs” aren’t wonder drugs will continue to fly below the radar.
By now, most people are starting to see the big picture – wonder drugs aren’t that wonderful. Stop fearing your cholesterol levels and starting taking charge of your own health with Over-The-Counter Natural Cures.
Is cholesterol bad? I’ve never heard anyone ask me this question…
Some things won’t change this year. I’ll still be a bald, tattoo sporting chemist who sings rap music too loud while driving. My kids will still know more about the benefits of individualism over collectivism than most adults. And many people will blindly think that they need to lower their cholesterol with Lipitor (or any other cholesterol-lowering alternative) to save them from heart attack and stroke.
The myth is so prevalent that The American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Heart Association issued new guidelines set out to put children as young as 8 years old on cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins). Yet, there isn’t a single study to support the claim and considering the many side-effects of statins, childhood mortality figures would go through the roof!
This shit needs to end now.
If you’re smarter than a 5th grader, then I’m going to spoon feed you the real facts about heart disease and the drugs being falsely-prescribed to thwart it. I promise they’ll taste better than the bullshit sandwich your doctor is feeding you and your kids.
I’m all for living young. I study medicine like most guys watch football and porn so I can have more time to love my family, drink wine and puff expensive cigars. And I know for certain that If I had to choose between having sex with a Carny or letting my kids choke down Lipitor for the rest of their life, I’d be begging for a Trojan.
In my book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, I expose the overt dangers of Lipitor and many other popular drugs, while putting a spotlight on the science that proves how natural medicine, costing less than $10 bucks per month, trumps them all. Readers were dismayed to learn about the insidious business model responsible for hiding these facts, while selling Lipitor and other “drugs that suck.”
The Art of Turning Healthy People Into Patients
Choosing sexy-time with a Carny inside of a smoky, beat-up RV as an alternative to taking Lipitor might seem a bit extreme to some. But, the system is designed to make people think like this…The uninformed are easy to fool. Think about it.
When was the last time you were taught anything substantial about medicine? Never. Instead, you’re bombarded with commercials urging you to “ask your doctor if this drug is right for you?”
This lack of education helps the industry swindle your uninformed ass into taking drugs. If you can look beyond the Kardashians for a few minutes, you’ll see this corporate business model in plain sight. It makes you fear an unknown or misunderstood enemy, and offers a false solution.
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), over 105 million Americans have total cholesterol levels of 200 mg/dL or higher. To the pharmaceutical industry, this equates to 105 million potential customers. In order to turn these millions of people into patients, America has been told this cholesterol level is bad for them – so the lower the better.
But in reality, rising cholesterol levels are simply an observation of biology, which is no different than observing how many heart attack patients owned a refrigerator.
In other words, It’s a fact of life, not a sign of illness.
I Used to Think People Were Stupid
With dollar signs in their eyes, drug companies have launched a massive fear campaign about cholesterol. Being led by the pharmaceutically-compliant National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), the campaign convinced the entire world that LDL- cholesterol is bad and that total cholesterol levels should remain below 200 mg/dL in order to prevent heart disease. (Of the nine nerdy members of the NCEP, eight had financial ties to cholesterol lowering drug makers like Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca. This fact was concealed when the NCEP made its recommendations public.)
The professional alarmists of the NCEP successfully created a cholesterol problem in the minds of millions while providing a false solution: the cholesterol-lowering drugs. It worked too, cause nobody knew what the hell cholesterol was prior to the scary advertising disguised as education…And nobody was sick from it…
As a young kid I had a hunch that most people were stupid, even some of my high school teachers. (Hmmm. Maybe that’s why I skipped school so often that I became ineligible for wrestling…Good thing the SAT was easy.)
I was wrong. People are fuckin’ stupid.
Bear with me.
The so-called disease of “high cholesterol” causes no fever, no coughing, no labored breathing, no heart palpitations, no hormone imbalance, no pain, no nothing! How do you convince someone who doesn’t feel sick that they’re suffering from a terminal illness like “hypercholesterolemia,” which was invented to describe “high cholesterol,” and subsequently get them to take Lipitor, every day, for life?
…Ah, don’t take this personal. (Sorry mom and dad. I love you guys. Glad you’re off Lipitor.)
I’ve done some fuckin’ stupid things myself. But, I work hard to hide them so that I can preserve my professional, Internet image. And I’m proud to say that one of them was never falling for the low-cholesterol lie.
How many people can say that? Not many.
How Much Money?
Pfizer’s blockbuster drug Lipitor became the first prescription drug to make more than $10 billion in annual sales. To date, Forbes Magazine tells us that statins are earning drug pushers $26 billion in annual sales – the equivalent of your lifetime income, plus 1500 others, every year! Think this can buy medical journals, ads and lobbying to push fear along with the cholesterol-lowering agenda?
Ask Your Doctor These Questions
Eventually, you or a loved one will be forced to make vital decisions surrounding heart disease. So before you follow doctors orders and take a pill to lower your cholesterol to 200 mg/dL. or below, ask the following questions.
How is it that EVERYONE should have the same cholesterol level?
It’s a legit question and you need to hear his response. I mean, do you really think all women should have big breasts or men a large package? Wait, scratch that. Bad analogy. Should all people have the same shoe size?
If your doctor insists that we should all in fact have cholesterol levels below 200 mg/dL., then ask him, “Do you know of any studies to prove it?”
He may go into a well-crafted rant about how high-cholesterol is responsible for plaque build-up among the arteries of the heart. But that’s ridiculous because cholesterol is found everywhere in the body, which means that “high” levels would be blocking off all regions, not just those of your heart.
(Cadaver studies and a ton more using the latest techniques show that 90% of the time, blockage only occurs within the coronary arteries, not among other parts like, legs, arms, fingers, or anywhere else.)
Plus, Time Magazine already highlighted the science showing that “most heart attack victims have LOW cholesterol?” If high-cholesterol caused plaque, then why are people with low-cholesterol keeling over from heart attack?
Fact is, there are no studies to prove that high-cholesterol causes “plaque.”
Cholesterol is very important and levels over 200 mg/dL. will never kill you.
5 Facts About Cholesterol Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About
Cholesterol is a versatile compound that is vital to the function of the human body and just like everything else; cholesterol levels differ greatly among individuals. In humans, cholesterol serves five main functions:
1. Cholesterol is used by the body to manufacture steroids, or cortisone-like hormones, including the sex hormones. These hormones include testosterone, estrogen and cortisone. Combined, these hormones control a myriad of bodily functions.
2. Cholesterol helps the liver produce bile acids. These acids are essential for proper digestion of fats and in ridding the body of waste products.
3. Cholesterol acts to interlock “lipid molecules,” which stabilize cell membranes. As such, cholesterol is the building block for all bodily tissues.
4. Most notably, cholesterol is an essential part of the myelin sheath.132 The myelin sheath, similar to the coating on copper wire, ensures that the brain functions properly by aiding the passage of electrical impulses. Without the myelin sheath, it is difficult to focus and we can lose memory. This is why those on cholesterol lowering drugs notoriously lose memory. Few users recognize this side effect because they forgot how important having a memory was.
5. And finally, cholesterol has beneficial effects on the immune system. Men with high cholesterol have stronger immune systems than those with low cholesterol, as can be seen by the fact that they have more lymphocytes, total T cells, helper T-cells and CD8+ cells. Many strains of bacteria, which cause us to get sick, are almost totally inactivated by LDL-cholesterol.
Due to its importance, cholesterol must be circulated to all parts of the body via the estimated 100,000 miles of arteries and veins within the adult human body. Its circulation is based on the fact that oil and water do not mix. Cholesterol is an oily substance, termed a lipid, and cannot blend smoothly with water-based blood. In order to transport this non-water soluble lipid through the bloodstream, the body packages it into special “vehicles” called lipoproteins.
HDL and LDL Facts
The main cholesterol-carrying vehicle in the body is termed low- density lipoprotein or LDL. Because this LDL carries the lipid known as cholesterol, it is referred to as LDL-cholesterol.
Another form of lipoprotein, and there are numerous, is known as high- density lipoprotein, or HDL-cholesterol. The notion that one is bad and the other is good is simply based on the fact that LDL- cholesterol has been found to be one of many components of arterial plaque – HDL has been shown to transport cholesterol back to the liver. The simplistic notion that one is good and the other bad is pharmaceutical sales rhetoric.
Bad cholesterol is as real as the Easter Bunny. Whether a person’s cholesterol is high or low, LDL-cholesterol will still become a component of plaque. There is no relation to the amount of LDL- cholesterol and the severity of plaque. Plaque is nature’s “Band Aid” to the damaged inner layer of the artery, known medically as the endothelium. Without the packaging of LDL-cholesterol we would not be alive. How can this be bad? It’s like saying the immune system is harmful to us.
Having grasped what cholesterol really is, we can now move on to understanding its relation to heart disease. While complex, it is not hard to learn the basics of how heart disease, or rather atherosclerosis, develops.
What Really Causes Heart Disease?
Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory response initiated by damage to the innermost layer (known as the endothelium) of the arteries, which faces the bloodstream. This can happen anywhere, but 90% of the time it happens in the spaghetti-sized arteries of the heart (coronary arteries), probably due to the mechanical stress in this region.
Preventing damage to the endothelium of the arteries sets precedence over lowering LDL-cholesterol levels. Damage to the inner layer of the coronary artery can be attributed to any number of biological disturbances. Working to prevent these inflammatory disturbances is working to prevent plaque build-up and subsequent atherosclerosis/premature death that may follow.
10 Reasons Why You Might Have Heart Disease
• Oxidized Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL)
• Infection
• Smoking
• High blood pressure
• High blood sugar and insulin attributed to insulin resistance
• Type II diabetes
• Increased levels of homocysteine attributed to lack of folate and nutritive B vitamins
• Increased levels of cortisol (i.e. stress)
• Lack of exercise
• Lack of nutritive vitamin C (best source citrus fruits)
Once damage occurs to the inner layer (endothelium) of the coronary artery, the body’s natural repair mechanism takes over. The repair mechanism begins with circulating levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) into the damaged area, particularly between the smooth muscle layer and endothelium of the artery.
Once LDLs move into the damaged area of the endothelium, there is an alteration in endothelium function. This alteration begins the inflammation cascade. Most notably, to signal for help, the endothelium begins to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS). This attracts the immune cells to the damaged site. This, in turn, produces growth factors, which cause muscle cells to multiply and invade the damaged area of the blood vessel. Eventually, the conundrum of LDL, immune cells, muscle cells and debris from the initial damage form “plaque.”
Here is the most important thing to understand, plaque is Nature’s “Band Aid” for damage to the arterial wall. This “Band Aid” forms whether an individual has high or low LDL. This, in part, explains why researchers have failed to find a correlation between levels of cholesterol and the growth of atherosclerosis.
If damage to the endothelium persists, atherosclerotic plaque accumulates on the arterial walls. This leads to decreased blood flow from the heart, which causes lack of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. A lack of oxygen and nutrients leads to major problems, involving not only your heart, but also your brain, lungs, kidneys, penile reaction and eventually every bodily system.
Over time, build up of atherosclerotic plaque initiates heart attack and stroke, sometimes without warning. As the artery narrows, tiny blood clots, which are normally harmless, become a death threat. These tiny blood clots, usually capable of passing through a healthy artery, become caught in the plaque and further block the blood flow.
If an artery is blocked in the heart, a heart attack is the result. And if a blockage occurs in the brain, a stroke is the result. Aspirin won’t save you.
Nature’s Heart Cures: Better than Aspirin for Preventing Heart Attack
Out of fear of blood clots and subsequent heart attack, the majority of medical doctors in the USA also recommend aspirin for the prevention of first heart attacks to almost everyone age 50 or older. Such a recommendation has little scientific justification.
Neither men nor women who supplement aspirin benefit from its use. Men who used it aged 55 to 74 with no history of heart disease showed no increase in longevity relative to those who did not use it. The Women’s Health Study, a 10-year randomized, double- blind, placebo-controlled study conducted among 40,000 healthy women age 45 and older, found that aspirin did not prevent first heart attacks or death from cardiovascular causes.
The major study used to rationalize widespread aspirin use today did not use aspirin alone. Most studies utilized buffered aspirin, which contains calcium and magnesium. Thus, the calcium and magnesium present in the pill may have been responsible for the beneficial effects – not aspirin. This is not inexplicable. Magnesium supplementation ensures normal heart rhythm and blood pressure – abnormalities in any one of these functions can increase the risk of complications after a heart attack.
Aspirin use is not without risk. The side effects of aspirin are so severe that they can cause a higher death rate relative to the populations who do not take it. These include hemorrhagic stroke (rupture of blood vessel in the brain), ulcers and allergic reactions.
It would make more health sense to quit taking aspirin and utilize interventions that actually work to avoid heart disease (heart attack and stroke), most importantly losing body fat, increasing your sensitivity to insulin and lowering blood sugar with exercise, a high healthy fat diet and the removal of sugar and processed foods from your diet. Supplementally, garlic, magnesium aspartate, grapeseed extract and hawthorn work far better than aspirin, statins, or even blood pressure meds. Combined, they enhance blood flow, reduce inflammation, strengthen the arterial walls and work to prevent excess clotting – without negative side effects!
LDL not Bad
Getting back to cholesterol – to highlight some of the main points of heart disease progression, the body uses numerous substances to form plaque on the arterial walls. This plaque acts as nature’s “Band Aid” to heal the inner layer of the arteries. The plaque consists of LDL, immune cells and muscle cells, among other things. Recognizing that LDL is one of many substances found in plaque and that it carries cholesterol, pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors coined the phrase “bad cholesterol” when referring to LDL. In a weak attempt to support this, they state that LDL is the culprit of deadly plaque buildup.
Most medical doctors ignore the importance of preventing scarring of the mechanically stressed arterial wall. Instead, they hold on to the one-dimensional argument, which insists that LDL-cholesterol must be lowered to prevent heart disease. In the same breath they prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs.
High Cholesterol Increases Longevity
Increase your cholesterol levels and protect yourself from premature aging. The researchers at the University of San Diego also highlight that epidemiological studies show high cholesterol in those over 75 years of age to be protective rather than harmful.
Professor Beatriz Rodriquez of the University of Hawaii has also found that low cholesterol among the elderly is not healthy. Reported by BBC News, Professor Beatriz Rodriquez and colleagues found that men over the age of 70 who had cholesterol levels between 200 to 219 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) were less likely to develop heart disease than those with low levels. Elderly men with cholesterol levels of below 160 mg/dL had a 55% greater risk of heart disease.
Other researchers have come to similar conclusions. The European Heart Journal has published the results of a three-year study involving 11,500 patients. Researcher Behar and associates found that in the low cholesterol group (total cholesterol below 160 mg/dL) the relative risk of death was 2.27 times higher compared to those with higher cholesterol. The most common cause of death in the low cholesterol group was cancer, with liver disease being second.
Other scientists have focused on the link between low cholesterol and cancer. Behar and associates have linked blood cholesterol levels less than 160 mg/dL to a twofold-increased risk of death from cancer of the liver, pancreas and haematopoietic system.
These same researchers also brought to our attention that healthy men, without any history of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal or liver disease, who lower their total cholesterol, have an increased risk of prostate cancer. Also shown is that those with low cholesterol have an increased incidence of death from intracranial hemorrhage, respiratory, kidney and digestive disease.
Looking deeper into the dangers of low cholesterol, it appears that cancer is not the only possible outcome. The chances of early death increase as total cholesterol drops. The most widely respected medical journal, The Journal of the American Medical Association, published a study entitled:
“Cholesterol and Mortality. 30 Years of Follow-up from the Framingham Study.” Shocking to most, this in- depth study showed that after the age of 50, there is no increased overall death rate associated with high cholesterol! There was, however, a direct association between low levels (or dropping levels) of cholesterol and increased death.
Specifically, medical researchers reported that CVD death rates increased by 14% for every 1 mg/dL drop in total cholesterol levels per year.141 For example, an individual whose total cholesterol levels dropped 14 mg/dL during 14 years would be expected to have and 11% higher death rate than persons whose cholesterol levels remained constant or rose during the same period.
For those who have already suffered from heart failure, lowering cholesterol may just add to the problem and increase recovery time. The Journal of Cardiac Failure published the findings of Horwich and colleagues in a paper, Low Serum Total Cholesterol is Associated with Marked Increase in Mortality in Advanced Heart Failure.” In their analysis of 1,134 patients with heart disease, they found that low cholesterol was associated with worse outcomes in heart failure patients and impaired survival while high cholesterol improved survival rates. Interesting to note, their findings showed that elevated cholesterol among patients was not associated with hypertension, diabetes, or coronary heart disease.
Low cholesterol has also been linked to depression and anxiety. Duke psychologist Edward Suarez found that women with low cholesterol levels, below 160 mg/dL, were more likely to show signs of depression and anxiety relative to women with normal or high cholesterol levels. In 2003, Duke University showed a 20% absolute increase in depression among those taking cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.
Their results add to the literature linking cholesterol and mood. Those who think they are safe from heart disease due to lowering their total cholesterol levels may want to seriously rethink their preventative efforts. Lowering cholesterol, whether by prescription drugs or dietary supplements like red yeast rice, would prove dangerous and goes against centuries of scientific research findings. High cholesterol is protective rather than detrimental.
How Medical Doctors are Fooled – Selective Citation
This begs the question: How does one successfully convince the entire United States that each and every person should have the same cholesterol level? Why is there such widespread acceptance of the cholesterol myth?
The belief that low cholesterol prevents heart disease is the result of selective citation rather than scientific results. Selective citation is the art of conveniently citing supportive studies while burying the unsupportive ones.
In addition to smothering unsupportive studies from our medical history, pharmaceutical companies who sell cholesterol-lowering drugs produce brochures, web pages and various other publications to broadcast the cholesterol lowering myth to millions. As pointed out by the previous editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., major publications such as Lipid Letter, Lipids Online, and Lipid Management are supported and funded by cholesterol-lowering drug makers.
Reaching millions of medical doctors, these publications relentlessly warn of the false dangers of cholesterol in an attempt to nudge doctors into prescribing their cholesterol lowering drugs. This ensures not only profit for these drug companies but also promotion of the cholesterol lowering myth. Preferential citation, combined with paid publications aimed toward medical doctors, guarantees that the pharmaceutical industry can “invent disease” while at the same time providing the remedy.
Cholesterol is among the most important molecules in the human body, especially for children. It’s respective high and low levels do not cause heart disease or prevent heart attack and stroke. To truly live young, get your weight in check and adhere to the “nutrient logic” outlined in Over-The-Counter Natural Cures. Not only will you preserve health, but also wealth, allowing you to live long enough to achieve your dreams and hundreds more you never thought possible. But it starts, by saying no to Lipitor.
By now you know that the painkiller Vioxx is deadly. That wasn’t always the case.
Prior to its release, The New York Times told patients that, “Two large drug companies say they have developed a new class of drugs that can relieve pain and inflammation without the gastrointestinal side effects of current drugs.”
Advertising in disguise, the new pain killers were positioned as safer alternatives for the 13 million Americans who take Tylenol and non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, naproxen and dicolfenac. The article cleverly pointed out that among NSAID users, “76,000 are hospitalized each year for ulcers caused by the drugs, and about 7,600 die from those ulcers. About one in three people who take the drugs for long periods ends up with gastrointestinal bleeding. The large studies have found no such complications with the new drugs.”
In 2004, FDA scientist Dr. Graham testified that Vioxx elicited 55,000 premature deaths from heart attacks and stroke during its reign as “the safer alternative.” That’s the equivalent of the Twin Towers tragedy happening 18 times!
Where’s the war on painkillers? Where were the doctors to warn patients?
Today, a barrage of pain meds are still on the market, which carry serious risks to the entire family. Here are 10 facts your doctor doesn’t know about.
Fact #1: Child Overdose is Far Too Common
It’s very easy for children to overdose on Tylenol. The difference between a “dose” and a fatal “overdose” is small. If children take twice the normal dose – a very small margin of error – liver damage will result.
Fact #2: Painkillers are adulterated with Cancer Causing Toxins
Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl & Sudafed contain trace amounts of cancer causing compounds such as mannitol, lactose, sorbitol, sucrose, and inositol, FD&C Yellow No. 5, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Red No.3, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Blue No. 2, FD&C Green No. 3, a limited number of D&C colorants, and iron oxides.
Fact #3: Liver and Kidney Damage is Common
According to The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, 50,000 people per year are treated in an emergency room for serious liver and kidney damage, or even failure, caused by Tylenol and NSAIDS.
Fact #4: Motrin causes more Headaches
Motrin’s side effects include: constipation, diarrhea, dizziness, gas and HEADACHE.
How do you know if your headache is the one you started with or a side effect?
Fact #5: Tylenol Causes Headaches and More
Tylenol’s side effects include: constipation; diarrhea; dizziness; drowsiness; excitability; HEADACHE; loss of appetite; nausea; nervousness or anxiety; trouble sleeping; upset stomach; vomiting and weakness.
Pick any 6 of those and ask yourself if you really want them all happening at the same time, instead of just having your original headache…But again, how do you know if your headache is the one you started with or a side effect?
Fact #6: Experts are no longer recommending Aspirin
According to The Wall Street Journal, “…Medical experts say some people who are taking aspirin on a regular basis should think about stopping….The concern is that aspirin’s side effects, which can include bleeding ulcers, might outweigh the potential benefits when taken by many healthy or older people.”
Fact #7: Tylenol Is The #1 Cause of Liver Failure
According to Dr. Gerald Dal Pan, Director of the FDA’s Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Tylenol and Acetaminophen overdose is the number one cause of “acute” (sudden) liver failure in the US.
You can’t live without a liver for more than about a day, so if it fails you fail.
Fact #8: Easy for Adults to Overdose
Discussing the overdose potential of common painkillers, Dr. Pan says, “It is much easier than you would think!” He explains that anyone on a “diet,” suffering from long term pain, or drinking alcohol or caffeine regularly, and taking the suggested dose of acetaminophen (including Tylenol, Lortab, Percocet or Vicoden) is at risk of suffering from liver damage, over time!
Fact #9: Babies Don’t Take Aspirin To Avoid Heart Attack
Taking a “baby aspirin,” or even and adult one, won’t save you from heart disease! In fact, as shown in Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, it will decrease your chances of survival! If you want to learn the real way to avoid heart and stroke, pick up a copy of the book at Amazon.com, Target, Walmart or anywhere else books are sold!
Fact #10: OxyContin Kills More People Than Crack Cocaine and Heroin Combined
In Ohio, fatal OxyContin overdoses more than quadrupled in ten years. It surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death, according to the Department of Health. OxyContin drug addiction is now killing more people than crack cocaine in the 1980s and heroin in the 1970’s, combined! OxyContin was only approved for searing cancer pain. Outside of that, nobody should be using it, and doctors shouldn’t be prescribing it.
Learn about Nature’s 16-Minute Pain Cure at: http://thepeopleschemist.com/nature-16-minute-pain-cure/
Hollywood celeb Michael Douglas has been pronounced tumor free. After a harrowing diagnosis of throat cancer, he underwent chemo and radiation. But, doctors are quick to say “he isn’t cured.” So am I.
Cancer cells are notorious for escaping eradication and it’s well known that chemo and radiation are overt failures when it comes to granting long term survival. But, if Michael learns to train his immune system to kill cancer, he could remain free from the biological superpower.
Protruding from the slick, outer membrane, cancer cells display a unique tag, much the same way a prison displays a barbed wire fence around its perimeter. Upon their discovery by the immune system, deadly anti-cancer compounds are employed which bind and force acid containing sacs called lysosomes to burst. This caustic explosion disintegrates the complex and intricate cellular anatomy of rogue cancer cells, leaving healthy ones safe and unscarred.
Unfortunately, the immune system doesn’t automatically seek and destroy. It has to be trained by a family of naturally occurring compounds known as polysaccharides. These are supplied by reishi and almond mushrooms (Agaricus blazei).
Used together for thousands of years in China, the healing mushrooms were consumed by emperors to help them “live like an immortal who never dies.” The high-tech jargon of modern medicine has since verified their safety and effectiveness.
Oxford Journals wrote, “The polysaccharides phytocomplex is thought to be responsible for its immunostimulant and antitumor properties, probably through an opsonizing biochemical pathway [which just means that they help produce antibodies for cancer antigens or rather boost the cancer radar]. Clinical studies are positive confirmations.”
Sloan Kettering cancer center published that, “The polysaccharides and anti-angiogenic compounds present in [almond mushroom] Agaricus are thought to be responsible for its antitumor properties. Such effects are believed to be exerted by immunopotentiation or direct inhibition of angiogenesis.”
Observing the anticancer properties first hand, Oncology Reports stated that, “These findings suggest that growth inhibition of lung and stomach cancer by blazein results from the induction of apoptosis by the compound.”
To best harness the health benefits associated with this mushroom duo, you’ll want to ensure that they contain the absolute highest amount of polysaccharides. Therefore, in addition to following the guidelines for choosing the the right supplement in my book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, make sure ground mushroom products consist of both the fruit body, which is the cap and stem, as well as the mycelium.
Costing about $10 per month, the anti-cancer efficacy of the mushroom pair marks a turning point in the fight against cancer – away from convention and more toward logic and science. Hopefully, Michael Douglas and all of those who come after him, learn how to train their immune system to kill cancer, for real.
Sometimes, I miss being a bench chemist. The work was mentally rewarding. But, even better, my lab insulated me from the myriad of characters who rant and rave online in an attempt to push the same crap: Something for nothing.
If they aren’t trying to scare the hell out of you with grim reports of the FDA stealing your vitamins, or insisting we’ll all perish from a vitamin D deficiency, Internet hucksters are constantly promising 1-minute cancer cures, superhuman powers with The Four Hour Body, or better athletic performance with “barefoot running.”
The One-Minute Cure claims eradication of cancer, fast, like sixty-seconds fast. Let’s be real. The only thing you can accomplish in one minute is slapping someone who makes this claim, and you’d still have about 59 seconds to explain that it’s wrong and cowardly to make vapid promises behind a computer screen to “Aunt Helga,” who could be facing a serious life or death situation.
Then there’s The Four Hour Body, written by Tim Ferriss. It was an instant hit, promising superhuman powers by dedicating only four hours per week to training. It sold a gazillion copies, in record time. Truth isn’t measured by mass appeal. The book should’ve been titled, The Four Hour Masturbation since readers are forced to go through a handful of corny motions, without getting any real results.
And finally, everyone’s walking around the gym with these newfangled toe-shoes, touting the benefits of running barefoot. Is anyone seeing the irony here? Shoes for running barefoot. Maybe it’s just me…
Once the “barefoot people” sport the shoes, they seem to compensate for the hobbit look with a Holier-Than-Thou attitude, as if they represent the pinnacle of athletic footwear. It’s ridiculous ‘cause whether I’m wearing boots, toe shoes or going barefoot, I’d still be damn lucky to run a 10-minute mile. No shoe or lack there-of will save me from my pathetic running skills.
What if these same shoemakers start making swimwear? Will the camel-toe no longer be gross and offensive, and instead, become an athletic advantage?
Ridiculous health claims detract from real discoveries. And they usually waste time and money. That’s why they’re so annoying. Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) proves it. It won’t increase the number of push-ups you can do, but it sure as hell can ensure you do them late into life by warding off cancer…You’ve never heard of it as a cancer buster, ‘cause there’s no money in it to motivate ranting and raving.
Eli Lilly studied Periwinkle decades ago while surveying natural products and made an unexpected discovery: It can be effective at treating Hodgkin’s lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and leukemia, as well as a variety of other cancers such as skin and breast. Published results in The Journal of Neurosurgery showed that select patients “achieved complete remission.” Cancer Research wrote that, “The periwinkle alkaloids are well established anti cancer agents.”
In my Secret Health Files Fact Sheet, I show how I learned of Periwinkles anti-cancer properties as a young chemist working for Eli Lily. Their studies concluded that it was a ”spindle poison.” This simply means that the active compounds attack the mechanism responsible for cell division among cancerous cells. Technically, they cause the breakdown of protein microtubules which make up the mitotic spindle in dividing cancer cells. This effectively stops them from dividing and leads to remission.
Anyone can use Periwinkle tea as a first line of defense. Simply steep a heaping teaspoon with about 12 ounces of hot water, for 10 to 15 minutes. Drink daily. For more aggressive use, consume three to four times per day. To avoid a potential upset stomach, take with food. The best source of periwinkle is http://www.mountainroseherbs.com
More than using natural cancer busters, winning the war on cancer depends on learning the many causes of it and avoiding them. Understanding medicine is daunting, but getting past the hype gets you one step closer to mastering it so you can live young.
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