I Am Done Being Nice!

The number of scams that Big Pharma uses to plague and kill people is beyond appalling. Big Pharma leaders should be in JAIL.

Osteopenia

Listen to this outstanding story on NPR regarding the development of the disease Osteopenia: How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription. Osteopenia is manufactured by Big Pharma to sell its bone building/bone breaking drugs. The nasty, strong arm tactics used are sickening.

I am especially interested in this story, as I was diagnosed with Osteopenia at age 30, well before most women. While my bone condition was a concern due to my very young age, the hyperbole of the initial diagnosis played out as dictated by Big Pharma in the NPR interview. A poorly calibrated and inaccurate machine was used to determine that I had “the bones of an 80 year old.” Even though I could bench press 120 pounds and run 10 miles, that diagnosis showed how the Standard American Diet of processed food was tearing me apart. Thank goodness the medical professionals knew that their diagnostic equipment sucked, as discussed in the NPR story, and they sent me for a more thorough exam. That exam showed that my bones were not yet osteoporosis quality.

The doctor said that there was no hope in reversing the damage and that someday I would probably be taking Fosamax, the drug described in the NPR interview. Well guess what?!? The Dr. couldn’t be more wrong. My bones and teeth are strengthening thanks to food, and I will have the test results to prove it next year. See this blog post regarding my journey to healthy bones and teeth: Visual Proof That Food Heals.

High Cholesterol

A young father I know has cholesterol of 190. His doctor says that his level is too high, which it isn’t, and has placed him on cholesterol lowering medication. This father works for Big Pharma and totally buys into the game. I wish I could photograph him every three or four months over the next couple of years to watch his musculature deteriorate. As the deterioration becomes visible, hopefully it will occur to him that the same deterioration is occurring to his most important muscle, his heart. Cholesterol meds kill. Change the way you eat, heal your body, and ditch the meds!

Swine Flu

Here is a great FOX News video with an Infectious Disease expert who is an MD talking about Swine Flu, how it is losing its potency, and how he would not give the vaccine to his kids because it is too dangerous http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/758.html. Big Pharma still managed to make gazillions of dollars injecting dangerous poisons into people. I will NEVER understand how the United States Government protects Big Pharma from prosecution and actually permits and encourages them to poison and kill people. The average citizen would go to jail or face the death penalty, but Big Pharma is protected and encouraged to profit.

What You Can Do

You can take responsibility for your health. Feed your body well, eliminate the toxic personal care and household cleaning products you use, and exercise. If most people take these simple actions, Big Pharma will fade away, the need for doctors will decline, personal savings will increase, and the health care crisis will end. The only crisis in health care will be the many newly unemployed who formerly worked for Big Pharma.

Here is how to start:

Food: Purchase Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and cook based on the principles and recipes in this book. Visit: The Weston A. Price Foundation. To buy good food, find a local source: Local Harvest

Personal Care and Cleaning Products: For a great overview of many issues with these products, visit EWG Home | Environmental Working Group. To search for toxic information regarding specific products visit: Skin Deep: Cosmetic Safety Database.

Retaking control of your health and regaining your freedom will help to reenergize America and so that we can retake our freedoms and strengthen our country (see Inspirational – David McCullough on America’s Founders and You). Literally all of it is up to you. No pressure.

Comments

[Maria Tadd]

I'd suggest that you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. I agree that pharma is making way too much money and in some cases is ruining the health of 10s of 1000s of Americans. Most people are too ignorant or too lazy to study the drugs that their doctors are prescribing, and also many people simply think that their doctors know best. However, pharmaceuticals do save lives. And yes there are some holistic health and complementary healing methods that are appropriate for certain situations but if someone has MRSA (flesh eating bacteria) they would want the necessary antibiotics that can kill this deadly bacteria. There are a host of diseases for which drugs are the only answer. Also if someone is in excrutiating pain, self-hypnosis may not be enough. There needs to be a balance between which medications are really helpful and necessary and which ones are harmful.In my book, Happiness Is Growing Old at Home, there is a section on alternative medicine and a section on how to manage medications. www.agingathome.info

[Erin Henry]

Ideally, pharmaceuticals would be a last-ditch temporary solution to health crises, because we know they often cause as much or more trouble (with long term, widespread use) as they solve. I find it interesting that Maria uses MRSA as an example of a disease that requires pharmaceuticals. My brother has been dealing with MRSA and two points jump out. One is that his medical doctors, with all their pharmaceuticals, were not able to help him--over a year of fighting constant infections with many different oral antibiotics, antibiotic creams, and whole-body antibacterial washes/precautions. The drugs did no good because the staph bacteria is resistant. Why is it resistant? From over use of antibiotics in throughout our society. The only thing that has helped my brother has been alternative therapies designed to support his immune system (probiotics, good fats in the form of coconut oil, butter oil, and fermented cod liver oil, and avoiding sugar).