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• New Book: What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You, And Your Doctor Does Not Know - The Alternative Prescriptions That Could Change Your Life and the Prescriptions That Could Harm You, by Michael Murray, N.D.
• Pharmaceutical Drugs: The #1 Killer in the US
• Pharmaceutical Drug-Induced Depletion of Essential Vitamins and Minerals
• Drug Side-Effect News
• Naturopathic Medicine
• Functional Medicine
• Nutrition-Based Medicine
• Healing Cancer with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine
• Ethical Stem Cell Therapies
• Real Healthcare Changes Needed

From the book's Prologue: "The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” John Kenneth Galbraith The term conventional wisdom was coined by the noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith in his book Affluent Society, in 1958. According to Galbraith conventional wisdom is established if it is simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true. Galbraith also said, “We associate truth with convenience with what most closely accords with self-interest or personal well-being.” People want to believe conventional wisdom because it is indeed so simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting", even if it may not be true. And, once conventional wisdom on any topic is accepted, it becomes difficult to prove otherwise. The reality is that the U.S. medical establishment has created a conventional wisdom that drug-oriented medicine is the best form of medicine. Yet, many of these drugs only make us feel better in the short-term with the risk of dependency or producing side effects worse than the condition being treated for or causing the condition itself to worsen. The substantial risks and rising costs associated with a drug oriented medical system are creating an opportunity for change. Change is definitely coming; in fact, we are in the midst of this change. There has been a subtle revolution occurring in medicine for years and a new paradigm is emerging. A paradigm refers to a model used to explain events. As our understanding of the environment and human body evolves, new paradigms (explanations) are developed. For example, in physics the cause and effect views of Descartes and Newton were replaced by quantum mechanics, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the theoretical physics that takes into considerations the tremendous "interconnectedness" of the universe. The new paradigm in medicine also focuses on the interconnectedness of body, mind, emotions, social factors, and the environment in determining the status of health within an individual. And, while the old paradigm viewed the body basically as a machine that can be fixed best with drugs and surgery, the new model emerging utilizes these measures secondary to natural, non-invasive, techniques to promote health and healing. The relationship between the physician and patient is also evolving. The era of the physician as a demigod is over. The era of self-empowerment is beginning.

 

Pharmaceutical Drugs: The #1 Killer in the US

• The AMA (American Medical Association) / Journal of the AMA (JAMA) recently stated that pharmaceutical drugs are the #3 killer in the US. They're likely #1, by far: http://www.cancure.org/medical_errors.htm
• Annual Deaths in Hospitals:
  • Hospital Adverse Drug Reactions: 106,000/yr
  • Hospital Medical Errors: 195,000/yr
  • Hospital Bed Sores: 115,000/yr
  • Hospital Infections: 90,000/yr
  • Nursing Homes/Malnutrition: 108,800/yr
  • Outpatient Adverse Drug Reactions: 200,000/yr
  • Unnecessary Surgical Procedures: 37,136
  • Surgery Related: 32,000
  • Total: 882,936 deaths/year = One 9/11 terrorist attack per day, every day, 365 days per year.
  • The number of annual deaths caused by pharmaceutical drugs is likely significantly over 1 million people per year.
  • The above figures do not include people who died at home, people who committed suicide because of the side effects of psychiatric medications, shocking H1N1 related deaths and miscarriages and many other deaths that go unreported but are caused by the effects/side-effects of drugs.
  • The whole class of statin cholesterol drugs (7% of all drug sales, ~ 16 billion/yr in sales) deplete CoQ10 (which is essential for heart health and the health of all of the cells of our body) and at least 8 other essential nutrients that our hearts and bodies cannot function effectively without. Cholesterol and blood pressure can be lowered easily, harmlessly and effectively with nutrition-based medicine.
  • Forbes.com article: J&J's Dirty Little Secret...Tylenol kills almost twice as many people per year as cocaine.
  • Mammography is x-rays, which cause cancer. Cancer can be detected harmlessly (and years sooner) with thermography, a screening method which analyzes differences in body temperature.
  • Vioxx (alone, one drug) killed 100,000 people. “This single, properly prescribed and supposedly well-researched drug has, in my opinion, caused far more serious harm by several orders of magnitude than all complimentary and alternative medicine errors, contaminated or misadvertised products, and adverse events combined.” Quote by Joseph Pizzorno, ND, author of the must-read book: Total Wellness: Improve Your Health by Understanding and Cooperating with Your Body's Natural Healing Systems
  • Source: Institute of Medicine Report, 2000 http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9728&page=26
• Naturopathic Medicine
• Functional Medicine
• Nutrition-Based Medicine
• Drug-Induced Depletion of Essential Vitamins and Minerals
• Real Healthcare Changes Needed

 

Drug Side-Effect News

9/12/09: Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill-effects from cervical cancer vaccine
Thousands of schoolgirls have suffered suspected adverse reactions to a controversial cervical cancer vaccine introduced by the Government.

Doctors' reports show that girls of 12 and 13 have experienced convulsions, fever and paralysis after being given the vaccine, which is now administered in schools as part of efforts to prevent women developing cancer.

Others suffered nausea, muscle weakness, dizziness and blurred vision, according to a special report drawn up by drug safety watchdogs.

Read full article on telegraph.co.uk.

 

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DVD/Online Pay-Per-View Video: Ethical Stem Cells Now

This video shows ethical stem cell treatments (from adult stem cells and umbilical cord stem cells) being used to successfully treat many illnesses: ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Alzheimer's Disease, Arthritis, Asthma, Autism, Blindness, Brain Damage, Cardiovascular Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic Fatigue, Congestive Heart Failure, Dementia, Lyme Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Paralysis, Parkinson's, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury.

 

 

 

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