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How Prevalent is Mental Illness in the US?

submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013

The World Pharmaceutical Market Summary shows that antidepressants and mood stabilizers are the third most commonly prescribed medications and that antipsychotics are fourth! Most families have serious dysfunctionalities that lead to stress, anxiety, and depression. Our value system is misguided and leads to materialism taking precedence over service and...

How Safe Are Newly Approved Drugs?

submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024

New drugs are the poorest tested and Americans are the guinea pigs for the first few years after release. Most new drugs have new side effects reported and 20% wind up off the market or with black box warnings. The FDA does not regulate Big Pharma and has a conflict of interest position with them

Ibuprofen Doesn't Work for Colds and Flus

submitted by: admin on 11/20/2013

A study published in the November issue of the British Medical Journal reported that ibuprofen and Tylenol had no beneficial effect on the symptoms of colds. In fact, they suspected that the illness was worsened by either drug. So, it neither reduced symptoms nor did anything to hurt the virus. You have to wonder what took so long for an article...

Ignored Medical Breakthroughs

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013

Every year there are advances in research that should be brought forward into clinical practice but don't make it because of conflicts of interest. One reason is that new technologies may require more study or financial investment by the practitioner. Second, new technologies will replace old ones that are profitable. The example of the photon stimulator...

Inflammation Can Cause Depression

submitted by: admin on 02/16/2015

An article in Life Extension in September of 2012 suggested the anti-inflammatory drugs might be the answer to managing depression. This idiotic suggestion seems like an ad from Big Pharma. When are we going to look for the underlying cause for disease rather than just treating its symptoms? There is little doubt that depressed people have high levels...

Influence of Advertising on Drug Sales

submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024

Can advertising in medical journals affect what pharmaceutal drugs are recommended? Research has shown that journals that are supported through advertising are more likely to support a new drug. Journals that get most of their income from subscriptions are more likely to publish articles and reports against a new drug.

Influenza Vaccines

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013

This show provides an overview of flu vaccines and questions the lack of science justifying their usage. The CDC's position is not science based and its recommendations are unjustified.

Integrative Medicine Research with Davi Pakter, MD

submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013

Medical research is purported to be based on randomized controlled trials. However, there is another approach that is called "outcome" research.

Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

submitted by: admin on 07/09/2016

Women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are confused about whether or not DCIS is cancer or not. MDs are no different! About 2% of DCIS cancers are lethal and the other 98% will die with it and not from it. Twenty to twenty five percent of all breast cancers are DCIS. Mainstream treatment for this condition includes surgery, radiation,...

Is Practicing Nutrition Without being a Registered Dietitian a Crime?

submitted by: admin on 07/10/2014

In states like North Carolina, it is against the law to provide nutritional advice even for free if you are not licensed by the American Dietetic Association. This means that, under the law, you could not advise a diabetic to avoid sugar unless you are a registered RD! While it is only a misdimeanor, it is punishable by fines and even imprisonment....

Is There Something Neither the CDC nor Your Doctor is not Telling You About the Flu Shot?

submitted by: admin on 10/24/2018

Disinformation, fear, and confusion is what the CDC, White House, FDA, and WHO have created in the great infection deception during the 2009-10 Swine flu "pandemic." And they are at it again! By proclamation, these groups continue to lie to us by telling us that we should all be getting our flu shots once again to prevent the disability and deaths from...

Lifestyle Trumps Pharmaceutical Drugs

submitted by: admin on 09/03/2014

Lifestyle medicine is the most powerful medicine in the universe, so we should pay attention to the style in which we live our lives! We tend to blame our genes (DNA) for our health issues, but in actuality they account for less than one percent of what happens to us. Medical science has come to the conclusion that epigenetics is far more important than our genetics. It...

Mammograms

submitted by: admin on 02/17/2015

There is considerable confusion about the role of mammograms in breast cancer detection in premenopausal women. The US is the only country in the world making the recommendation that they be done on women under the age of 50. The people standing to profit from doing mammograms in this age group are the mammogram industry, Big Pharma in the sale of chemotherapy,...

Managing Pain Without Drugs

submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013

Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki provide an extensive overview of pain management from the mainstream perspective and from that of complementary and alternative therapies. All drugs, even the over the counter medications, used for pain management have potential serious effects. So they are not ideal. Complications of NSAIDs are massive and should be taken off the market.