As promised last week, here are the remaining dangerous drugs on our list.
7. Diabetes Drugs – For the insulin-dependent or type I diabetic, whose pancreas produces too little insulin. It is very likely that insulin replacement will be necessary for the rest of his/her life. For people with this type of diabetes, the object is thus not so much to get off insulin, but to prevent the long term complications of diabetes mellitus. The amount of insulin needed however, can be reduced through appropriate diet, exercise and nutritional supplements and the likelihood of complications will also be significantly decreased on this regimen.
Type II, or non-insulin dependent diabetes, is the most common type. The oral drugs, Micronase,Glucotrol and Tolinase, which are used to control this type, simply are not necessary in most cases. They should only be used temporarily until another regimen can be started. They have numerous side effects, such as hypoglycemia, headache, gastrointestinal complaints, fatigue and liver damage. The most significant side effect is increased risk of death from heart attack and blood vessel disease.
The major studies on most of these oral drugs, including DiaBeta and Glucotrol, have shown that they actually increase the death rate from heart attacks. In fact, the warnings on these drugs in the Physician’s Desk Reference state exactly that. The diabetic condition is simply not a matter of one or two things having gone wrong. It is a multitude of metabolic imbalances. Consequently, the conventional medical approach of simply using insulin or oral drugs is irrational and incomplete.
Supplementation is of paramount importance in the diabetic condition, because diabetes is first and foremost characterized by excessive urination. The excessive urination brought on by elevated blood sugar levels strips your body of water soluble vitamins and minerals. The diabetic condition is, to a large degree, caused by nutritional deficiencies, which then create even more serious nutritional deficiencies.
8. Diuretics – Diuretics increase the kidney’s normal mechanisms of action, causing a flood of excess water to be excreted. They give rapid relief to people with excess fluid. Many cardiac patients rely on diuretics for this reason and might not be alive today without their help. However, the long term use of diuretics to manage high blood pressure dangerously depletes the body of vital minerals
Most physicians readily prescribe medications to lower hypertension. However, these medications, particularly diuretics, may lower blood pressure and frequently cause numerous side effects such as that mentioned above. This is particularly true of hypertensives with diabetes which itself causes mineral wasting.
Diuretics cause your body to discharge vitally needed magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium, chloride, zinc and iodine in the fluids that are excreted from your body. The loss of these minerals can lead to spasms in your coronary arteries, stroke, irregular heart rhythms and even heart attack.
Diuretics may be extremely useful for congestive heart failure, but the daily use of these drugs can be fatal.The bottom line is that diuretics should not be part of anyone’s drug regimen on a long term basis. Warning! If you have congestive heart failure, you should work with your physician!
If you are now taking diuretics for high blood pressure and wish to naturally lower your blood pressure we recommend you begin by drinking additional pure, clean, filtered water. Follow the Life Source’s Plan for Optimal Health and begin taking additional magnesium and calcium. You should consider reducing the fat in your diet and start aerobic exercise 30 minutes a day.
9. Proscar – Prostate cancer kills close to 40,000 men a year and the number is rising. Almost every man older than 70 has some cancer cells in his prostate gland. These are slow growing cells that usually do not cause problems. The secret is to keep them contained in the capsule which surrounds the gland. For decades Swedish men with prostate cancer have been treated with “watchful waiting” until the cancer has come out of the capsule of the prostate and is causing symptoms (which incidentally rarely happens). The Swedes found no difference in survival rates and the quality of life of those treated in this way is, obviously, superior to those who have undergone toxic drug and/or radical surgery treatment. The secret is to keep the cancer cells enclosed in the capsule where they do no harm.
If your PSA is less than 10, we don’t recommend further tests or biopsies. If your PSA is above 10 and you have no symptoms, your initial treatment involves more than simple watchful waiting, but it most certainly is not surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. The goal is to keep cancer from metastasizing. Metastasis occurs when tumor cells invade neighboring organs or travel via the bloodstream or lymph system to other parts of the body and take up residence to grow new tumors. It is this spreading of cancer, not the original tumor that kills most cancer victims.
10. Arthritis drugs – Believe it or not, historians have found references to arthritis in Greek and Roman literature and some suspect that cavemen suffered from it. Today one in seven people are afflicted with arthritis. That is more than 37 million people. Arthritis means “inflamed joints.” This is an all encompassing term for more than 100 different forms of joint disease. Arthritis primarily affects the joints but can also affect muscles and the connective tissues surrounding organs.
If you have arthritis, your physician most likely prescribed no steroidalanti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as Motrin (ibuprofen), Ansaid, Clinoril, Vicodin, Celebrex and Naproxen. Initially, these drugs will take care of the pain, however, the problems that these products cause is a good example of what happens when medication is administered to eliminate pain rather than deal with the underlying problem. NSAIDs are responsible for such side effects as gastrointestinal upset and bleeding, kidney and liver damage and water and sodium retention.
The worst side effect of NSAIDs is seldom mentioned in conventional medicine; the destruction of cartilage lining the ends of the bone. In a study of 186 arthritis patients, physicians in Norway studied the x-rays of 294 arthritic hips. 58 of the patients were taking the NSAID Indocin and 128 were not taking NSAIDs. Those on Indocil had far more rapid hip destruction than the non-medicated group.
11.Cold and Flu Medications – Many people self-medicate a cold or flu with aspirin, ibuprofen and decongestants for colds and flu without giving a thought to the possible toxicity caused by these medications which actually suppress the immune system at a time when it is needed most.
A double blind study of the effects of over the counter pain and fever relieving medications upon virus shedding, immune response and common cold symptoms showed that those using common cold drugs suppressed the immune system’s response to the virus, increased the length of time of infection and experienced greater respiratory discomfort.
12. Beta Blockers and Calcium channel Blockers. Classes of drugs used to lower blood pressure include beta blockers such as Inderal, Tenormin, Lopressor, Corgard and Normodyne. All have side effects including loss of libido, impotence, fatigue and worsening of blood lipds. Perhaps worse, beta blockers seriously compromise the function of the heart. In fact, that’s what they are designed to do…weaken the heart and relax the blood vessels.
Beta blockers work by blocking the ability of your heart to respond to epinephrine and adrenaline which stimulate your pulse rate and blood pressure, elevating both. These drugs are meant to weaken the hearts so that your blood pressure is lowered and heart pain is reduced. We believe they can be beneficial for temporary relief from these symptoms but that is not how they are used in conventional medicine. Virtually every doctor prescribes these drugs to be used indefinitely. In the Physician’s Desk Reference, it states that when prescribing drugs, physicians are clearly warned of the dangers of the long term use of beta blockers: shortness of breath, cold extremities, palpitations, congestive heart failure and hypertension.
Calcium channel blockers such as Cardizem, Adalat and Procardia lower blood pressure by blocking the entrance of calcium into the arterial wall cells. This causes the vessels to become more relaxed and less constricted. The use of these drugs seems to increase the death rate from heart disease. One of our clients sent us a newspaper report about a study that showed that large doses of calcium channel blockers, which also in Verapamil, nifedipine and diltiazem (under the brand names of Cardizem, Calan, Dilacor, Adalat, Procardia and Verelan) is to be associated with a 60% increase in death from heart disease.
In an ongoing study, Bruce Psaty, M.D., compared 291 patients taking calcium channel blockers for hypertension to 1,240 people with the same condition, but taking other drugs. He found that patients who were taking large amounts of calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure had a 60% higher death rate compared to patients taking diuretics or beta blockers.
Like most modern drugs, calcium channel blockers are designed to poison the system in your body in order to produce the desired effect.
When you poison a natural system you can only expect trouble.