Posts Tagged ‘western medicine’

Drugs are a prescription for disaster for both the patient and the planet.  In Worcester, Mass the Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated a one day effort to clean out the areas medicine cabinets. Vicodin, Percocct, and Lorazapam, which are taken for anxiety, were among the drugs collected with other medications that had been sitting in people’s bathrooms for decades.

People brought bags of pills including types of powerful painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs. This program was coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration which is coordinating the program nation wide. The goal was to empty homes of legal, but dangerous drugs that the authorities say are driving addiction and crime around the country.

The collected drugs will be incinerated instead of flushed down the toilets, which can release them into the water way. Think of it this way tap water may hold the key to pain and anxiety relief.

Medicine is What Ails You

Medicine is what ails you, because pharmacology is the market driver of health care. Embracing this new approach to health is causing the business landscape to prosper, while hampering our health, and destroying our natural environment. The environment impact will linger on for generations.

Avoiding medication means the solution to health care has to take a 360 degree turn. Fuzzy thinking and greed has brought us to this point. The human body has an untapped potential for healing, and every drug used on a long term basis dampers that possibility.

Prescription Revolution

The prescription revolution means we have to thing outside the bottle, and explore the world of natural healing. Medicine is an alarmist; all it does is tout the dangers of almost everything. Our systems are always in a state of flux. Blood pressure changes by the hour, sugar may spike, an ache or pain may pop up. What we have to do is connect each symptom to what we are doing and then gear up a plan for change. There are bumps and dips in our health, however taking pills make it harder for our systems to go up or down on their own.

Green and natural living is the foundation for true health. Health is an inside job, pills may have ingenious advertising to back them up, but pills can’t clear the way for optimal health.

The amazing cancer cure is missing in action. Taking a look at the track record of this industry tells it all.

A newly approved chemotherapy drug will cost about $30,000 a month, the prices of cancer medicines are continuing to rise. Despite the fact that the drug Folotyn has not been showed to prolong lives, it only shrinks tumors. The drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late September as a treatment for peripheral T-cell lymphoma, a rare and usually aggressive blood cancer that strikes an estimated 5,600 Americans each year.

Upfront Reports

Folotyn has not yet shown an effect on longevity. In the clinical trial that led to approval of the drug, 27 percent of the 109 patients experienced a reduction in tumor size. The reductions lasted a median of 9.4 months.

But considering all the patients in the trial, only 12 percent had a reduction in tumor size that lasted for more than 14 weeks. The trial did not compare Folotyn to another drug or a placebo.

Critics, who include many oncologists, point out that patients are paying a huge price for drugs that, on average, provide only a few extra months of life at best.

Folotyn Side Effects

Important Safety Information published on Drugs.com

Warnings and Precautions:

Folotyn may suppress bone marrow function, manifested by thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, and anemia. Monitor blood counts and omit or modify dose for hematologic toxicities.

Mucositis may occur. If ? Grade 2 mucositis is observed, omit or modify dose.

Patients should be instructed to take folic acid (1.0 -1.25 mg orally on a daily basis) and receive vitamin B₁₂(1 mg intramuscularly every 8-10 weeks) to potentially reduce treatment-related hematological toxicity and mucositis.

Folotyn can cause fetal harm. Women should avoid becoming pregnant while being treated with Folotyn, and pregnant women should be informed of the potential harm to the fetus.

Use caution and monitor patients when administering Folotyn to patients with moderate to severe renal function impairment.

Elevated liver function test abnormalities may occur and require monitoring. If liver function test abnormalities are ? Grade 3, omit or modify dose

Folotyn Adverse Reactions

The most common adverse reactions observed in PROPEL were mucositis (70%), thrombocytopenia (41%), nausea (40%), and fatigue (36%). The most common serious adverse events (>3%), regardless of causality, were pyrexia, mucositis, sepsis, febrile neutropenia, dehydration, dyspnea and thrombocytopenia. Forty-four percent of patients experienced a serious adverse event while on study or within 30 days after their last dose of Folotyn. Twenty-three percent of patients discontinued treatment due to adverse reactions.

Drug Interactions:

Co-administration of drugs subject to renal clearance (e.g., probenecid, NSAIDs, and trimethoprim/sulfamethaxazole) may result in delayed renal clearance.

Use in Specific Patient Populations:

Nursing mothers should be advised to discontinue nursing or the drug, taking into consideration the importance of the drug to the mother.

Believe or Not

The new treatments are good for the drug companies CEO’s and the inventors.

For investors, a high price is usually a good thing. Mr. Schimmer’s note was entitled “Folotyn Prices High, Reiterate Outperform.” He estimated annual sales of the drug in the United States reaching about $300 million by 2014.

In a note to clients in October, Joshua Schimmer, an analyst at Leerink Swann, estimated that a typical treatment would last 3.5 months and cost $126,000, or about $36,000 a month.

Does Anyone Know Whats Going On

Folic acid a vitamin B12 should not be given to cancer patients for good reason.

In a study published in the November 18th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, heart patients in Norway had a 21% increased risk of cancer when they took large doses of folic acid and vitamin B12 over patients who did not supplement the vitamins.

Studies show that people who get plenty of folic acid reduce their risk of developing colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps by 40% to 60%. But folic acid doesn’t just help healthy cells grow. It also helps cancerous cells grow. Studies in animals have shown that once cells are on the path to becoming cancers, the vitamin makes things worse.

In the 1940s, folic acid supplements were found to accelerate leukemia in children who were given the vitamin in the hope that it might help.

Reducing Tumor the Greatest Fraud

Reducing the tumor is not the way to defuse the disease process. The risk factors that have made this process start and perhaps progress are not going to be addressed by trying to reduce a tumor. Doing that is pointless. The tumor is made up partly of healthy cells. A percentage of the cells in a tumor are cancer cells.

Tumors are a complex mix of neoplastic cancer cells and normal cells – inflammatory and immune cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, pericytes, and others, collectively known as stromal cells.

Dr. John Dick from the Ontario Cancer Institute compared combating cancer to killing a backyard weed: “You can keep cutting the leaves off the weed, but the weed will re-grow.  But if you cut the roots, the leaves will wither away.  Killing the cancer stem cells is the equivalent of killing the root of the weed.”

Chemoprevention

The amazing cancer cure is in your body. If you ready to do more than survive, you are finally ready to change your life for the better. Chemoprevention is the word that is drawing a lot of attention. There is persistent and persuasive evidence that certain naturally occurring agents act in ways to inhibit, delay and reverse the disease process.

There is chemo in your fruits, vegetables, and herbs with the side effect of making you healthier than you have been in a long time. There are enzymes, supplements, and other technology that is now being shown to build immunity.

Health

The real truth is that there are no shortcuts allowed when trying to be well. The only ways to get to a so called cure it to take it slow by overhauling your lifestyle. The medical atmosphere points to studies that rely on a course of action that is guaranteed to wreck havoc with your digestive, immune, and cardiovascular systems.

Think of it this way when you get a cold you get rid of it, but if you entertain the same life style you will be getting more of them. Now you can say you cured the cold, but you can’t say you are now well. Not having the symptoms of a bad cold does not make you healthy.

Building health is the best protection and the best cure. Sheltering yourself from medical damage means you are on your own. Experts in the field are increasing the use of toxic substances to resurrect your health. They can’t do it with substances that are not easy to tolerate. You have to choose for yourself the most effective way to optimize your health.

The amazing cancer cure has been here all along, hidden from the public. This video is the tip of the iceberg, it’s time to reveal the truth.

In  studies it has been shown that women who underwent hysterectomies for a benign uterine disease showed that taking the ovaries along for the ride wasn’t a good idea. Did it occur to these brilliant minds that things like ovaries, tonsils, gallbladders, and appendix are there for a reason.

The high cost of medical procedures is not only in dollar and cents. The findings are showing that ovary removal protects against ovarian, uterine and breast cancer, but increased mortality from all other causes. Longevity was cut short in women who had this procedure before the age of fifty. That’s a hefty price considering that protecting yourself from ovarian cancer means loosing a very vital organ. They say it protects against uterine cancer, but the uterine usually goes with the ovaries.

Upside Down Logic

Doctors have peddled this approach for the last four decades. Now they believe that such automatic recommendations are not warranted. The operative word is automatic, no thinking involved.

Now they are first considering the long-term health consequences of this procedure. Saying it pays to keep your ovaries, because there are processes that regulate longevity that are under ovarian control. Lobotomies are not a thing of the past, everyone that had one is now practicing medicine. This profession seems to have lost their ability to think logically.

Pay Now Pay Later

Talk about transparency in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and you will see why you pay now and pay later. The challenge for the patients is addressing the freaky logic that is routinely used to persuade you to use the standard treatment. If you are looking for data to back up any of the statements made by today’s health care professionals do the research yourself. Clinical trials, research studies, unpleasant side effects, long term outcomes are bathed in deceptive language. This is one of the reasons you pay now and pay later. Your are in fact a human guinea pig for many of the pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical procedures.

Stable, Potent, and Safer

There are new easy-to-tolerated ways to ease symptoms, and reverse what the medical profession calls disease. The standard practice of medicine is outmoded. The most significant developments are going to translate into a broad spectrum of ways to activate the body’s own healing.

A close look will reveal that health is correlated to the substances that we put into our bodies, and the amounts. The actions of gene expression is tied to our lifestyle. Everything occurs on a cellular level, so unless you go there you will not achieve real healing.

What has been recently discovered is how potent these interventions are. Thanks to modern technology there is sufficient comprehensive data that verify’s Let Food be Your Medicine, and Medicine Your Food.

Summary

You are trying a replacement therapy, for pharmaceuticals. You are enhancing your health not just treating a symptom. Just about every chronic condition is a symptom of an out-of-balanced lifestyle. We do not need randomized studies to tell us fortified food is the same as whole foods.

Biochemical reactions are facilitated throughout the body in response to the bioavailability of the components of the food we eat. Fortified processed food is not going to supply or produce what we need. The challenge is to protect the integrity and maintain a strong immune system using today’s foods.