Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We already saw a huge scandal with Vioxx and the Cox-2 inhibitors, and how drug companies have been pushing those drugs onto the population even though they were fully aware, as we now know, of the dangerous cardiovascular effects of those drugs. I think drug companies are also fully aware of the dangers of statin drugs. Down the road, this is going to go public, and statin drugs are going to be pulled off the market or seriously restricted in their use.
Why drugs? Follow the money...
The truth is, as a nation, we don't even need statin drugs. |
| There is no need for anyone to be on any statin drug. There is no need for anyone to be on antidepressant drugs. There is no need for people to be on beta blockers and other drugs related to cardiovascular health. You can go down a list and look at the thousands of drugs that are available, and in nearly every case, there is a food, an herb, a nutritional supplement, or a lifestyle change that will work far better and eliminate the need for that drug entirely.
And yet we live in a nation that's focused on drugs, and not focused on healing foods. |
| Currently they are over-prescribed, over-hyped, over-advertised, and they are probably the next big drug crisis we're going to see down the road. We already saw a huge scandal with Vioxx and the Cox-2 inhibitors, and how drug companies have been pushing those drugs onto the population even though they were fully aware, as we now know, of the dangerous cardiovascular effects of those drugs. I think drug companies are also fully aware of the dangers of statin drugs. |
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 When a sufficient number of children were drugged with antidepressants and amphetamines (like Ritalin), the drug companies realized there was still one non-drugged entity in a typical household that could potentially become a new revenue source: The family dog. So Big Pharma lobbied the FDA for the approval of antidepressant drugs for dogs, and in February, 2007, the FDA approved Prozac for dogs. Because, apparently, dogs have "chemical imbalances in their brain" requiring treatment with patented synthetic chemicals, just like children and adults, right? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For example, if I were in an accident and needed a drug to deal with trauma or pain I would avail myself of that prescription drug. But I would never take a prescription drug long term. And it is long term use that the pharmaceutical industry is promoting to the general public. They want everyone in the world to take prescription drugs every day for the rest of their lives. Statin drugs certainly fall into that category. One of the primary marketing messages about statin drugs is that you need them to reduce your cholesterol level and bring it into a healthy range. |
| I wouldn't take a statin drug if you paid me millions of dollars. I wouldn't touch a pharmaceutical unless it was used in an extreme emergency, for a short term only.
For example, if I were in an accident and needed a drug to deal with trauma or pain I would avail myself of that prescription drug. But I would never take a prescription drug long term. And it is long term use that the pharmaceutical industry is promoting to the general public. They want everyone in the world to take prescription drugs every day for the rest of their lives. Statin drugs certainly fall into that category. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And then, they have to drug all the children and infants to make sure those little beings are set up for future organ failure, which is even more lucrative for the drug companies later on. And just to drive yet more profits home, they've got to drug all the animals. Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of Big Pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 It is a system based on the disease and drug model. Physicians are trained to properly diagnose the illness and to prescribe the drug therapy to treat the symptoms of the illness. Physicians are not educated about wellness or about how to help patients achieve their optimal health.
Drugs do not promote health. In most cases, they only modify the symptoms of a disease process. The drugs, via blocking receptors or poisoning enzymes, often have harmful side effects that cannot be predicted in the individual. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We certainly do not need drugs like Viagra, since its users likely only need the drug due to either poor nutrition or the fact that they are taking statin drugs, which interfere with their normal sex hormone production. In practically every case, it is quite appropriate to ditch the drugs with the supervision of a qualified health professional, and instead shift your lifestyle to become healthier.
If you still find yourself clinically depressed and in want of a quick fix, reach for St. John's Wort instead of antidepressant prescription drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When that market was saturated, drug companies began selling the idea that antidepressants were "happy pills," suitable for use in not merely serious depression states, but even as "depression prevention!" (So-called "early intervention," where you use antidepressant drugs in perfectly healthy people in order to "prevent" depression from appearing.) This was a major breakthrough for Big Pharma: Now they could sell drugs to healthy people and were no longer limited to merely selling drugs to the sick.
When that market was saturated, they went after the children. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But that's not good enough for the FDA, which wants to protect the profits of drug companies by outlawing overseas drug purchases, banning drugs from Canada, and discrediting online pharmacies (many of which are, indeed, completely bogus). Of course, buying drugs from your local pharmacy doesn't guarantee you're getting the real deal either, as drug wholesalers (the companies that supply local pharmacies) also trade in counterfeit products.
The only way to know you're getting REAL medicine, it turns out, is to eat raw, fresh plants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Teitelbaum: Well, look at all the drug companies, and where they advertise. You know, doctors should wear a button that says, "I do what the drug companies tell me to do," because all of our journals and all of our conferences, by and large, are paid for by the drug companies -- and also, our professors for the research. If you look at the study, the natural remedies are far more effective. But the headline reads, "Natural remedies don't work, use Celebrex." Why? I suspect it's because 11 of the authors on the study -- 11 -- were on the payroll of drug companies that make pain medications. |
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| But that's not good enough for the FDA, which wants to protect the profits of drug companies by outlawing overseas drug purchases, banning drugs from Canada, and discrediting online pharmacies (many of which are, indeed, completely bogus). Of course, buying drugs from your local pharmacy doesn't guarantee you're getting the real deal either, as drug wholesalers (the companies that supply local pharmacies) also trade in counterfeit products.
The only way to know you're getting REAL medicine, it turns out, is to eat raw, fresh plants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Why do we continue to drug up young people in this country with psychotropic drugs that we know are closely associated with violent outbursts?
Giving young men antidepressant drugs is, in my opinion, just like building silent timebombs and waiting around for one to suddenly go off. |
| Chemically assaulting these young, troubled brains with powerful drugs -- while denying them real mental health solutions based on nutrition -- is the bread and butter of modern psychiatry, an industry that in my opinion has sold its soul to drug companies and now serves primarily as a glorified system of legalized drug dealers that preys upon children and teenagers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The drug companies, you see, would prefer that the medical system worked like this:
1. Patients are educated about disease through television advertisements. (They tell you what's wrong with you! Please don't confuse this form of "education" with "marketing propaganda." The drug companies say their ads are merely educational in nature...)
2. Patients self-diagnose their own symptoms based on what they learned in the television ads.
3. Patients purchase drugs by name by asking their pharmacist for whatever they think they need. No doctor required. No medical exam necessary.
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| It would dramatically boost drug sales while eliminating the need to spend so much money bribing and influencing doctors.
When it comes right down to it, what the drug companies really want is a pharmaceutical vending machine. Insert your life savings (or a credit card with a huge credit limit), press the button for your "disease" or condition, and it dispenses drugs along with FDA black box warnings that are ignored by everyone. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Apparently, children who are treated as guinea pigs by U.S. drug companies and drug regulators tend to think far more violent thoughts. I’m not sure why that is, but it could be that the drugs are interfering with their Ritalin.
The FDA has been accused of delaying this obvious decision on announcing the dangers of antidepressant drugs. In its defense, the FDA says it wasn’t an intentional delay. The agency was just too busy rubber-stamping the approval of other drugs by pharmaceutical companies. |
| The agency also explained it is trying to move more quickly on the approval of drugs so that children who show suicidal tendencies can be put on a third drug: anti-suicide drugs that alter their brain chemistry and counteract the negative side effects of antidepressant drugs.
So at first the kid is hyper and you put him on Ritalin. Then, he feels down all the time and gets depressed, so you put him on antidepressants. When he attempts to commit suicide, you put him on anti-suicide drugs and end up writing three checks to your local pharmacy instead of one. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You know, doctors should wear a button that says, "I do what the drug companies tell me to do," because all of our journals and all of our conferences, by and large, are paid for by the drug companies -- and also, our professors for the research. If you look at the study, the natural remedies are far more effective. But the headline reads, "Natural remedies don't work, use Celebrex." Why? I suspect it's because 11 of the authors on the study -- 11 -- were on the payroll of drug companies that make pain medications. |
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| And just to drive yet more profits home, they've got to drug all the animals. Now the cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards and other animals are no longer safe from the reach of Big Pharma. Drugs are posing a serious chemical threat to the health of pets.
There is almost no living creature left on this planet that hasn't been considered a potential revenue source by Big Pharma, and if they could make money drugging all the fish in the ocean, you can bet they'd come up with a fictitious fish disease and find a way to drop little fish pills into the oceans of the world. Profit is the purpose. |
| When I rescued my pet from a local animal shelter, I was given a DVD sponsored by a drug company. It offered to teach me about pet behavior while brainwashing me into thinking I needed to give my dog toxic pills for preventing ticks and fleas. As this simple example demonstrates, even the animal shelters are now in bed with Big Pharma. There's almost no organization in pet health today that hasn't been taken over (or strongly influenced) by Big Pharma.
It's not enough to drug all the sick people in the world, you see. Big Pharma has to invent diseases and drug all the healthy people, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The concept of drug "safety" is now history. Any drug, no matter how dangerous, is now qualified for FDA approval. If thalidomide were a new drug today, the FDA would no doubt happily approve it for any use as long as it carried a small-print warning about its side effects.
In fact, we may soon see the FDA (arm-in-arm with Big Pharma marketing reps) bringing back all sorts of deadly, dangerous drugs over the next few years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 ConPfuzer shares rose $14 in trading today as ConPfuzer's lead pharmaceutical entomologist created quite a buzz with his explanation of how the new drug -- called "Buzzalin" -- might work. "We have discovered that honeybees are suffering from a brain chemistry disorder," said Dr. B. Pollen, a top researcher at the company. "Our new drug, Buzzalin, has been clinically shown to control the symptoms of Colony Collapse Disorder while causing no more than two percent of the bees to commit suicide," Dr. Pollen explained.
Drug development tests were conducted on thousands of bees in the Midwest. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And personally, I think that every person who purchased a COX-2 inhibitor drug over the last ten years should get their money back for ALL the drugs they ever bought. That's the standard action the FDA demands of herbal companies. Why not apply the same standard to Big Pharma as well?
Of course, you already know the answer to that: the Fraud and drug Administration is determined to pad the profits of drug companies while bankrupting anything related to complementary and alternative medicine. It's the same old tactic used by the AMA for decades to try to shut down chiropractic care. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What happened to the right of parents to protect their children from the abusive behavior of drug companies and psychiatrists who irresponsibly over-prescribe these drugs even though they're increasingly aware of the toxic, dangerous side effects of these drugs?
(By the way, three years ago, anybody who said that antidepressant drugs cause violent behavior was called a nut case. Now it's a commonly recognized scientific truth, published in peer-reviewed journals and widely acknowledged by the scientific community. |
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