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   When the Cure is Worse Than the Disease    
   October 04, 2008 | 89,010 views    
      
   doctor, medicine, pills, prescription drugs    
      
      
   One way to build an income in private medical practice is to hook patients on   
   drugs that continually require re-examination, testing and prescription   
   renewal. Blood thinners, for example, require prothrombin tests to determine   
   how long it takes the blood    
   to clot. Blood pressure pills require monitoring of blood pressure. And once   
   patients start taking acid-blocking medications, they will find it is nearly   
   impossible to stop taking them -- withdrawal will provoke rebound acidity with   
   throat-gripping pain.    
      
   Critical examination of the effectiveness of prescription drugs reveals   
   convincing data that most prescription drugs are not only ineffective but may   
   worsen the condition being treated. Some of these medications appear to be   
   designed to create life-long    
   dependency upon the drug, since drug withdrawal exacerbates symptoms. Even   
   some long-standing drugs that are the hallmarks of modern medicine have begun   
   to lose their biological punch.    
      
   The major classes of prescription drugs are failures. Most drugs are never   
   designed to address the underlying biochemical causes of disease -- and they   
   may intentionally be designed to create life-long dependency.    
        
      
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   When people come to my Natural Health Center, it is very common for them to   
   lug in a shopping bag full of drugs, but it almost always starts with just   
   one. One drug that’s supposed to make you feel better, but actually makes   
   you feel worse. Hence the    
   second drug to treat the first drug’s side effects, and on and on until   
   people are turned into walking medicine cabinets.    
      
   The number of prescriptions taken per capita in the United States has grown   
   exponentially in the past 75 years. In 1929, the average American received   
   less than two prescriptions per year. By 2007, the average annual prescription   
   rate per capita in the    
   United States was:    
      
   • 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18)    
   • Over 11 prescriptions per adult (age 19-64)    
   • Nearly 29 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over!    
      
   Yet, adverse drug reactions -- from "properly" prescribed drugs -- are   
   actually the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Only heart   
   disease, cancer, and stroke kill more Americans than drugs prescribed by   
   medical doctors.    
      
   Reactions to prescription drugs kill more than twice as many Americans as   
   HIV/AIDS or suicide. Fewer die from accidents or diabetes than adverse drug   
   reactions. And this does NOT include the negative drug reactions in   
   outpatients, cases of malpractice,    
   or instances where the drugs were not taken as directed.    
      
   Yet, whenever you feel sick, you probably still think that you need to go to   
   your doctor and get some medicine to make you better. Well, this mindset is   
   deeply engrained in us from the time we’re infants and taken to the doctor   
   for a minor cold, or    
   given a pill to bring down a fever (which is actually there to help you get   
   better) or watch a television commercial or read a magazine (at least in the   
   US).    
      
   We’re taught that we need doctors and drugs to heal our bodies, when in   
   reality your body can, and will, heal itself if you give it the right tools   
   (like good food, exercise and a positive outlook).    
      
   If you take only one thing from this article, make it this point: Drugs often   
   cause more problems than the disease you’re trying to treat.    
      
   And the more you attempt to “cure” one problem after another with multiple   
   drugs, the farther down the rabbit hole you’ll go.    
      
   The Countless Ways Prescription Drugs Assault Your Body    
      
   The article has an eye-opening list of what can happen if you rely on drugs to   
   treat disease:    
      
   • Nearly all anti-diabetic drugs cause a person to become overweight and   
   totally dependent upon insulin.    
   • Asthma drugs sensitize your body to triggers that worsen this condition.    
   • There is no evidence that cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce mortality   
   rates.    
   • All cancer chemotherapy drugs result in tumor resistance.    
      
   • None of the many drugs prescribed to control high blood pressure address   
   the cause of hypertension.    
   • Antacid “heartburn” drugs induce greater problems when withdrawing   
   from them, locking patients into lifetime use.    
   • Of the many drugs used to treat age-related senility, none stop the   
   progression of mental decline and some hasten it.    
   • To an increasing degree, man-made antibiotics produce germ-resistance and   
   mortality rates are rising from infections once conquered by these drugs.    
      
   Are the drug companies creating these drugs with the sole purpose of keeping   
   you sicker, and reaching for more of their dangerous elixirs? I certainly hope   
   not, but I cannot rule out the thought completely. Their track-record is too   
   spot-on: if you take    
   prescription drugs, you’ll almost always wind up with side effects, many of   
   which are worse than the original disease. Here are some other major offenders   
   to add to the list:    
      
   • Cholesterol-lowering drugs actually CAUSE heart disease    
   • Migraine drugs cause severe rebound headaches    
   • Asthma inhalers may lead to heart attack and stroke    
   • Arthritis drugs can cause fatal fungal infections and cancer    
      
   Sadly, this list could go on and on, but one of the most glaring examples was   
   Vioxx, the anti-inflammatory drug prescribed to millions of people that later   
   was revealed to double the risk of heart attack. Well, 60,000 people were   
   killed before that drug    
   was pulled from the market, and do not think for one minute that there   
   aren’t other similarly harmful drugs being handed out like candy (expensive   
   candy) right now.    
      
   Breaking Free From the Prescription Drug Paradigm    
      
   I want everyone reading this to remember that, ultimately, it’s your body,   
   and your decision what to put in it. If your doctor suggests you take a drug,   
   do some research before you take it, because once you do, it could be too   
   late.    
      
   Make sure you are aware of the potential side effects of the drug, read the   
   package insert, and remember that even if it lists a side effect as rare, it   
   can still happen to you.    
      
      
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