Mike Adams
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 The widespread use of MSG creates extraordinary profits for drug companies by creating health symptoms and MSG reactions that are typically treated with prescription drugs:
In the 1980s one of the largest income-producing medications was Tagamet, and then other similar medications came along to treat indigestion (for example, Zantac, Accid, and Prilosec). Much of their patent action treats MSG side effects. Now these medications often are available as over-the-counter medications for all consumers.
In the 1990s antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft have become billion-dollar moneymakers. |
Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D.
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 But what about the small to moderate nutrient deficiencies caused by the use of medications? Are they really a problem?
Yes—it's a serious problem, for even minor deficiencies can bring on major difficulties. For example:
• A "minor" deficiency of thiamin can induce depression, muscle weakness, generalized swelling of the body, and irritability.
• A "minor" deficiency of riboflavin can trigger reddening, burning, itching and tearing of the eyes, as well as dry, scaly, and itchy skin.
• A "minor" deficiency of vitamin B6 can harm the heart and bring about sleep disturbances. |
| You don't have to swim in a sea of medications that can make you feel even worse just to keep yourself going.
It's Not the Drugs, It's the "Nutrient Robbery"
We think that the side effects of drugs are the inevitable by-products of mysterious biochemical processes that we can neither understand nor influence. Many side effects are, indeed, beyond our understanding and control. But others—10, 20, perhaps 30 percent of them—can be explained and cured. These millions of curable side effects are the direct result of drug-induced nutrient deficiencies. |
| Acetaminophen is considered to be as effective as aspirin at quelling pain, and many people think the two medications are interchangeable. But while both drugs relieve pain and fever, only aspirin relieves inflammation and "thins" the blood by preventing platelets from clumping together unnecessarily.
In certain cases—perhaps following surgery or a tooth extraction—you may be given acetaminophen plus codeine. Codeine is a narcotic agonist, which means that it plugs into narcotic receptor sites in the central nervous system and eases pain. |
| This chapter briefly describes the health-enhancing substances robbed by medications. (These substances are collectively called nutrients for convenience, even though they're not all nutrients.) As you read through this chapter, you'll notice that some of the nutrients have a heading called "What the Research Shows," while others do not. We don't mean to imply that those with the discussion are superior to the others, it's just that we thought the research was more exciting for some substances than for others.
There are only a few things you have to know in order to read the descriptions. |
| Even a small change in your medicines, diet, or supplements can affect your health, so you must consult with your physician before making any changes—any whatsoever—to your diet or supplements, your medications or lifestyle.
The form of each nutrient—for example, whether it's calcium citrate or calcium carbonate—can make a difference. Even the time of day you take a medicine, whether you take it with or without food, whether you can take it with nutrients, or should separate medicines and nutrients, can make a difference, so check everything carefully with your physician. |
| You should, however, check with your physician if you are taking medications such as blood thinners that may be affected by the vitamin.
Some Good Sources of Vitamin K
FOOD SERVtM© StZE
MCG VITAMIN K
Kale, raw, chopped
1 cup
547
Broccoli, cooked, chopped
1 cup
420
Parsley, raw, chopped
1 cup
324
Swiss chard, raw, chopped
1 cup
299
Spinach, raw, chopped
1 cup
120
Leaf lettuce, raw, shredded
1 cup
118
Watercress, raw, chopped
1 cup
85
Soybean oil
1 tbsp
26.1
Canola oil
1 tbsp
19.7
Mayonnaise
1 tbsp
11. |
Mike Adams
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| The widespread use of MSG creates extraordinary profits for drug companies by creating health symptoms and MSG reactions that are typically treated with prescription drugs:
In the 1980s one of the largest income-producing medications was Tagamet, and then other similar medications came along to treat indigestion (for example, Zantac, Accid, and Prilosec). Much of their patent action treats MSG side effects. Now these medications often are available as over-the-counter medications for all consumers.
In the 1990s antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft have become billion-dollar moneymakers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I would say, overall, more effective than the medications, but there's a time for the medications. In my book, I talk about more than 100 treatments, natural and prescription, so I don't really have a vested interest. Also, you know my policy. I don't take money from any companies -- pharmaceutical or natural -- and enormous sums are offered, even for the products that I make. One hundred percent of the royalties go to charity.
Mike: That's very important to note. So, again, you have pledged not to take any money from either natural companies or pharmaceutical companies. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Constipation is a common side effect of many medications. It can result from ingestion of antidepressants, pain medications, diuretics, antibiotics, and antacids that contain aluminum. Antacids, however, can further aggravate the very symptoms they're taken to alleviate (i.e., heartburn, indigestion).They also inhibit phase I detoxification in the liver (discussed in Chapter 4) and can cause damage to this organ. Constipation is but one of many symptoms that can result from antibiotics, which destroy both good and bad bacteria in the digestive tract. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Update:
The mainstream media is reporting today that Santos has finally agreed to start taking synthetic chemical medications while sitting in jail. Gee, what a choice, huh? "Here, take these medications or rot in your jail cell." That's the choice Santos has been given. What an incredible system of medicine we live under today, huh? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Both of these medications are classified as Schedule II drugs in the amphetamine class. Even though they are stimulants, when prescribed as directed by a medical provider in standard doses for people with ADHD and ADD, these prescription drugs assist people with AD(H)D to sustain their attention for a longer amount of time. This allows them to study or complete tasks at hand much more effectively minus the feelings associated with the medications' "speed-like" effects.
Schedule II drugs, such as Ritalin and Adderall, however, have a high propensity for misuse, abuse, and dependence. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Many use over-the-counter sedative medications to combat insomnia, while others seek stronger drugs. Insomnia can have many causes, but the most common are depression, anxiety, and tension. If psychological factors do not seem to be the cause, caffeine and medications may be responsible. In fact, well over 300 drugs have been identified that can interfere with normal sleep. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 The most common medications were for pain relief, the most prescribed being acetaminophen (Tylenol) and ibuprofen (Advil) perhaps an indication of seriousness, or lack thereof. The third most often prescribed drug (8.1 million for emergency visits in 2000) was hydrocodone, mostly under the brand name, Vicodin. This drug is a powerful and addictive semisynthetic narcotic. In the chapter that follows, we will consider its appropriate (and inappropriate) uses. Taken together, pain relievers accounted for one-third of all medications. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, all you have to do is walk into any Wal-Greens store and you get a full preview of the world shown in Idiocracy: In my opinion, the products are junk, most of the food is loaded with harmful additives and the medications are anchored at the back of the store to encourage consumers to buy more candy bars and soda while they pick up their medications for diabetes and heart disease. Wal-Greens is so much like the world of Idiocracy that they should have sponsored the whole film. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We spend more on health care than anyone, we pay the highest prices for medications, and we're constantly told that we have the best medical technology in the world. But if our health care system is really so good, why do 50 million Americans have no health insurance? Why are hospitals literally dumping uninsured patients on the street, abandoning the sick to protect profits while our politicians actually negotiate on behalf of Big Pharma to make sure Americans keep paying the highest prices in the world for medications? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In fact, all you have to do is walk into any Wal-Greens store and you get a full preview of the world shown in Idiocracy: In my opinion, the products are junk, most of the food is loaded with harmful additives and the medications are anchored at the back of the store to encourage consumers to buy more candy bars and soda while they pick up their medications for diabetes and heart disease. Wal-Greens is so much like the world of Idiocracy that they should have sponsored the whole film. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 While the exact same medications are available from Canada, Europe and other countries for nearly half the price paid in the United States, U.S. consumers will continue to be forced to pay monopoly prices on their medications thanks to the great U.S. Senate sellout to Big Pharma.
It's not just consumers who are financially harmed by this drug price fixing scheme, either. Many corporations, city governments and states are headed to near-certain financial bankruptcy in large part due to monopoly pricing on prescription drugs. The near-collapse of the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The real problem with China's toxic ingredients, you see, is that they kill Americans too quickly, thereby depriving Big Pharma of a lifetime of revenue treating some sick person's symptoms with extremely profitable patented medications. This is not appreciated in America because it competes with our own home-grown poisoning method that prefers to poison consumer more slowly, bilking them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in monopoly priced medications and hopefully killing them off right before Medicare or social security might kick in. |
Mike Adams
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| Now these medications often are available as over-the-counter medications for all consumers.
In the 1990s antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft have become billion-dollar moneymakers. I believe a good part of their popularity results from the ability of these serotonin-increasing medications to treat the malaise and depressive feelings resulting from MSG effects and their aftermath. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Ovet time, as the conditioning is strengthened, her medications are reduced. Finally, after several years, she is able to stop taking her medications entirely, but she receives all the benefits of those drugs simply by being exposed to the scent of roses or the taste of cod-liver oil.3
These stories and others like them are well documented in medical journals and books, and although they are different in detail they share a subtle commonality: the body was able to act to change its physical state. |
Andreas Moritz
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 He was a bit disturbed when I first saw him," she continued, "because I said I was not taking any medications and had not since last August. As he was talking with me he said he would probably prescribe a couple of medications for me to start taking again, but first he wanted to do an echocardiogram and a stress test.
"I agreed to them both and they were done in his office. While I was on the treadmill, I became tired, so I told his assistants I was getting tired and they said, 'You may be, but your heart is not!' They said the echocardiogram and stress test were well within normal limits. |
Dawson Church
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 In order for new medications to be proven effective in scientific studies, they are required to demonstrate efficacy that is significantly greater than an inert pill—a placebo. One of the remarkable things about many medications is that their effects are only slightly better than those obtained from a placebo. Some drugs and surgical procedures have results that are no better than a placebo.
A powerful demonstration of the placebo effect comes from Baylor University Medical Center in Texas. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002.13 Bruce Mosely M.D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some of the people who have been long-term on antidepressants or something, they'll sometimes have to take longer to get off the medications. One thing I want to make really clear is that I don't take any of my patients off their medications. I always have them work with the doctor who [initially] put them on the medications to get them off. When they start feeling better, the pain is better, the depression is better -- when all those systems are better -- they talk to their doctor and say, "Look, I'm getting better. Help me get off the medication. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And those concerned that adulterated medications from other countries might harm patients conveniently forget that FDA-approved drugs sold in the United States already kill 100,000 Americans each year. It would be difficult to find any source more dangerous than the pharmacies operating in the U.S. right now.
Medications are universally dangerous because they are made from synthetic chemicals that simply do not belong in the human body. Every drug has unintended side effects which include nutritional deficiencies, biochemical imbalances, liver damage, heart damage and even death. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Of course, he's also dishing out medication to his children at every turn, stating that his colleagues at the hospital said all the medications were very effective and perfectly safe.
At the same time, the film demonstrates some of the negative side effects of taking these medications. It begins with a teenage suicide. Antidepressant drugs are now known to cause suicidal behavior and violent behavior, especially in teenage males. The movie "The Chumscrubber" accurately depicts how the side effects of these medications impact lives. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 If you are applying several skin-care products, ranging from toners to acne medications to moisturizers, the rule is that the last item you apply should be your sunscreen. If you apply sunscreen and then apply, say, your moisturizer or an acne product over it, you could inadvertently be diluting or breaking down the effectiveness of the sunscreen you've just applied. If you are applying makeup (particularly foundation) over a daytime moisturizer with sunscreen, make sure you do so in a manner that does not rub off your sunscreen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To truly protect consumers, the final bill must require accurate, public drug trial results, and it must not interfere in any way with the right of patients to hold drug companies accountable in court when they are harmed by unsafe medications," Vaughan said.
Should the public be informed?
Now what about the question of whether the public should have access to such a database of clinical trial results? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Without explicitly stating it, these ads imply that taking Big Pharma's overpriced, dangerous medications will transform your disorganized, painful and depressed life into a life of happiness, abundance and clarity. It's the same story that's shown in virtually every ad: Somebody has a terrible life that's turned around by a magic pill, and then by the end of the ad, they're walking off into the sunset with some sexy supermodel and life is perfect!
Why won't the FTC investigate these blatant exaggerations found in direct-to-consumer drug advertisements? |
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