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 "At least 900,000 people die each year in the United States alone because of side effects caused by these symptom-suppressing, alleviating approaches. Since our present health-care system promotes and encourages the treatment of symptoms of disease rather than the prevention of disease, it is one of the most clever and profitable investment schemes ever devised. The system lures unsuspecting people into having their symptoms treated, promising them relief while actually ensuring that the side-effects from these treatments will almost certainly turn them into patients for life."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, as the previously mentioned research has demonstrated, the chances for a real cure are greatly reduced when patients are treated with chemotherapy drugs. The side effects of the treatment can be horrendous and heartbreaking for both patients and their loved ones, all in the name of trustworthy medical treatment. Although the drug treatment comes with the promise to improve the patient's quality of life, it is just common sense that a drug that makes them throw up and lose their hair, while wrecking their immune system, is doing the exact opposite." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "While still working at his "decentralized job," Jack's doctors prescribed a miracle drug to suppress the painful symptoms of PA, but its side effects made him prone to serious respiratory illness. In his first four months on medication, he took five separate courses of antibiotics to kill off opportunistic infections. On one occasion, an emergency trip to the hospital for pneumonia landed him in intensive care.
Jack finally left work on disability, giving him a chance to revisit his love of music and movies. He knew in his heart returning to corporate life would disable him permanently."- Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.) |
 "Drug side effects almost always occur along a continuum. For example, drug-induced rashes can vary from mild to severe and even life-threatening. This is also true in regard to the emotional or mental adverse effects. Most of them are mild, producing only minor glitches in the individual's mental life, but some become very severe and even lethal.
For every severe case of medication madness there are many times more examples of milder or subtler cases."- Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "All of the drug-induced psychiatric side effects described in this book can be documented in the scientific literature, and the Food and Drug Administration has now confirmed most of them, including antidepressant-induced suicide and mania. Several sections in Medication Madness, including chapter 1, will describe and discuss the criteria necessary for determining whether a drug played a causative role in producing a harmful outcome." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "If the placebo produces side effects such as dry mouth or blurred vision, mimicking a potent medicine, the placebo becomes as effective as an antidepressant. A very important review examined all the controlled clinical trials submitted to the FDA for the approval of the newer antidepressants. When all the studies were evaluated, it turned out the antidepressants were no more effective than the sugar pill.14 Put simply, there is little evidence that antidepressants work, other than as placebos. Increasingly, social and family pressure is brought upon patients to take prescribed drugs." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "Reducing the dose will fix any unwanted side effects such as insomnia, excessive (nervous) energy, or palpitations. Some people are very sensitive to DHEA, and if palpitations or excitability occurs, your pharmacist can compound a slow-release form of DHEA.
Using Pregnenolone
Pregnenolone is available over the counter in the United States, but, like DHEA, it is usually sold in doses that are too high and in forms that are poorly or erratically absorbed. I usually prescribe pregnenolone in low doses, usually 5 to 10 mg per day."- Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
 "The same beneficial effects persisted during long-term, low-dose treatment with no significant side effects. The researchers conclude that low-dose supplementation with fish oils has a normalizing effect on rectal tissue that inhibits the proliferation of abnormal cells, a precursor to polyps. This effect can reduce colon cancer risk.
The Japanese Experience
A Japanese study aimed at determining the association between lung cancer and diet involved 748 men and 297 women aged 40 to 79 years who had been diagnosed with lung cancer and 2,964 male and 1,189 female cancer-free controls."- Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
| "I'm one of them, so I switched to transdermal progesterone and have experienced no side effects; in fact, it makes me feel great.
Many insurance companies will cover progesterone pills and compounded progesterone transdermal skin lotion. Prescription progesterone is marketed as Prometrium and comes in 100 mg and 200 mg oral doses (the typical dose is 100 to 300 mg nightly). Because Prometrium is made with a peanut oil suspension, it cannot be used if you have a peanut allergy. Compounding pharmacies can make any form of bioidentical progesterone without peanut oil and in individualized doses." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
| "There are no known side effects from taking Flor-Essence. "As a licensed pharmacist and natural health expert, I am unaware of any known interactions between Flor-Essence and prescribed medications," said Dave Foreman. As with any supplement, if you notice any unusual effects, consult your health care provider. People who are unaccustomed to taking nutritional supplements may initially have mild digestive reactions (diarrhea) to the tea for several days. This is attributed to the cleansing and detoxification the body goes through when it begins to receive proper nutrition." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "In fact, the FDA authorized skipping the usual first-phase toxicity studies, allowing researchers to proceed directly to clinical trials, because earlier studies have shown Maitake D-fraction and maitake crude powder to be without toxicity or significant side effects. FINAL THOUGHTS While studies are still ongoing, maitake's health-promoting attributes and potential as an effective cancer prevention and treatment therapy, along with its nontoxic properties, make it a wondetful addition to any health-conscious regime." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "It is best to take high doses of potassium in a microencapsulated form and with meals to reduce side effects.
To summarize, potassium is very useful in balancing acidity in the body. Many Americans could benefit by eating more unprocessed foods, which are rich in potassium.
Quiz
Refer to the text in this chapter if necessary. A good score is at least 8 correct answers out of these 10 questions. The answers are listed in the back of this book.
1. Which mineral is a trace mineral?
(a) Calcium.
(b) Phosphorus.
(c) Iron.
(d) Magnesium.
2."- Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) |
 "Meta-analysis showed that SSRIs were no more effective in outpatient depression than were the older agents. side effects of SSRIs, lack of which wete a purported benefit, were only slightly less than for TCAs.30 "Later in the 1990s," according to David Healy, "it became clear that a large number of trials with less favorable results for the SSRIs were simply not reported by the sponsors, the pharmaceutical companies."- Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) |
 "And even apart from these undesirable contaminants, herbs themselves, like conventional pharmaceuticals, can have unexpected side effects that are not systematically screened for. Any adverse effects, if they are reported at all, are to be detected in the post-marketing arena. Even with this haphazard surveillance, the fda has identified toxicities. Table 10 is a partial listing.
Ephedra belongs on the list. Ephedra was in a number of "diet" preparations. It is also called Ma Huang and epitonin."- Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) |
| "They are, however, a step in the right direction and because of them we are now seeing more studies verifying the positive effects of transdermal estradiol, without the side effects of clotting.
Estrogel and its low-dose sister, Elestrin, are 0.06 percent estradiol gels. The former provides 0.75 mg of estradiol, the latter gives 0.5 mg per dose. Estrasorb is a cream (2.5 mg/gm in 1.74 gm pouches) that is poorly absorbed. For this reason it requires large doses (which are applied to the legs). Using Estrasorb is cumbersome, messy, and time-consuming." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) |
| "Although this abnormal type of cell metabolism has harmful side effects, by doing this, the body can avert, at least for a little while, the fatal poisoning of the affected organ or the blood. By keeping at least some of the oxygen-deprived cells alive through cell mutation, the organ is safeguarded against irreversible and sudden collapse and failure. All of these adaptations make cancer a survival mechanism to keep the person alive for as long as circumstances permit.
Cancer and Heart Disease?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
| "Of all the side effects Harry experienced, sexual dysfunction was the only one his doctor had mentioned to him and was, therefore, the only one Harry could identify as drug-related.
One friend who saw Harry several days a week at church activities noticed that Harry was "nervous and agitated," "fidgety," "forgetful," and "like a radio turned to all channels." But in general, Harry managed to keep his inner turmoil from almost everyone who knew him." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) |
 "But the higher the dose, the greater the toxicity to normal cells and the more deadly the side effects. The doctors believed that breast tumors resisted being cured by chemo because doctors simply could not give their patients high-enough doses without causing them serious harm.
Frei reasoned that combination chemo could get around that problem because each drug had a different side effect. Besides causing hair to fall out in clumps, Adriamycin also damages the heart when given in high doses. The drug BCNU harms the liver."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "Facial yoga has been heralded as a face-muscle training technique that can provide people with a natural facelift, one without the side effects and hazards of chemicals and surgery.
New York yoga teacher Annelise Hagen's book, TJie Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with tlte Ultimate Natural Facelift, utilized these facial exercises include smiling slightly while pursing your hps (the Smiling Fish), transferring air from cheek to cheek while puffing out your face (the Satchmo), and blowing kisses while trying to keep your forehead smooth (the Marilyn."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
| "Don't go out and pay a psychologist $50 per hour for six months to reach the same conclusion, or experiment with Prozac and its 252 side effects! Just acknowledge it without trying to draw any deep meaning from it. You know how you feel. You may not know why — but maybe it's not that important if you haven't pin-pointed the exact cause just yet.
Of course, there may be some very obvious reasons why you are depressed. Perhaps someone you love has died or is seriously ill. Maybe you have terrible financial difficulties. Maybe you are physically ill. Maybe your pet has died." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, side effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.) |
 "The fluids help prevent one of the common side effects of low-carbohydrate diets—constipation. Obviously, if you start out with constipation as a primary symptom, this diet is probably not for you.
I should say a bit more about beverages, because water—while unbeatable—can get pretty boring after a few days. Alternatives include homemade lemonade or a low-calorie version you can buy. Making your own lemonade isn't nearly as hard as you might imagine. Fill a glass with ice and seltzer water. (I prefer seltzer water to club soda because it is usually cheaper and has no added salt."- Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "However, a number of large studies have found that these newer drugs have a higher rate of potentially lethal side effects, such as heart attack or stroke, than the old fashioned NSAIDs. Two of them—Vioxx and Bextra—have been taken off the market. Although Celebrex is still available, I think its risk for people taking it chronically outweighs any potential benefit over ibuprofen. Whether these toxicities extend to the older class of NSAIDs is currently not known but is a question undergoing research." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "In my experience with using this drug in patients with severe and long-lasting fatigue, about half have such disturbing side effects that they prefer not take the medicine. Nevertheless, modafinil is still the number one medical treatment for narcolepsy. When it fails, the treating doctors try methylphenidate or amphetamine. Finally, doctors suggest that patients try to nap in order to ward off sleep attacks at inopportune times, like when driving or bathing a child. Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder This syndrome has to do with an abnormality of the biological clock." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) |
 "At their worst, they actually may carry harmful side effects.
Essential Fatty Acids
Since EFA's have been removed from virtually all of the foods we normally eat, supplementation is essential. The best sources for EFA's are:
• If you're taking your daily dose of ground flaxseed as recommended in Chapter 3, you will be getting all of the alpha-linolenic acid you need. Otherwise, you will want to supplement with 1-2 tablespoons daily of otganic, cold-pressed, high-lignan flaxseed oil."- Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, as we now know, the net result was, in many cases, just the opposite—less effective medicines with a whole range of deadly side effects. Pharmaceuticals, however, do offer one major advantage over herbs. They are patentable, and as such, generate billions and billions of dollars in profits for the companies that manufacture them—and the medical system that distributes them. Herb Quality Ninety-nine percent of the herbs used by American companies do not come from the US. They are imported from Eastern Europe and from many third-world countries such as India, China, and Mexico." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) |
| "Also, Prozac was called a "clean drug" because it blocked serotonin with far fewer side effects.
This term —"clean drug" ~ is important to our story because it is a term that caught hold with the media. The term may have been coined by a doctor and psychiatrist by the name of Peter D. Kramer, who wrote a best selling book about Prozac called Listening to Prozac. In this book, Kramer frequently praises Prozac, it's safety, and the fact that it is a "clean drug." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, side effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.) |
| "She weathered the side effects of the chemo, even as it wiped out her bone marrow. But the treatment's effect on her monstrous tumor seemed nothing short of miraculous. "Within a week, this huge mass, this ten- to twelve-centimeter mass, disappeared," says Peters. "I mean, you could literally come in every day and watch this thing melt away. Bingo."
Despite her early improvement, Diane's tumor returned soon after the treatment ended. She died a few weeks later. Peters remained undaunted." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "To which the drug company can simply say: "We warned the consumer of the side effects. No drug is perfect!" There is also money involved. Drug companies make it financially attractive for doctors to push their drugs on their patients.
But even if a doctor does a perfect job of warning and advising a patient on the use of a particular prescription drug, the power of advertising can easily overcome those warnings. There is a saying in advertising: "Call a man a dog once and you insult him. Call him a dog a thousand times and he may start barking!" - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, side effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.) |
| "In a very low-key, public service announcement sort of way, the ad even hinted at Seldane's biggest selling point, no drowsiness, but since it never named the drug, it didn't have to include a long—and expensive—warning about its multiple other side effects. The ad closed with the tagline "Now you can put your hay fever to sleep while you stay awake!"
The Seldane campaign, launched in 1988, sent allergy patients scurrying to the doctor and Seldane sales through the roof. Drugmakers had never seen anything like it, and despite their reservations, they couldn't argue with Merrell Dow's profits." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
 "What also became evident over time were the incredibly harsh side effects of the first antipsychotics: involuntary muscle movements, endless pacing (or the "Thorazine shuffle," as it became known), and for some, a horrible restlessness, the feeling of needing to crawl out of one's skin.
Thorazine was brought to America by the drug company Smith Kline & French, and it was promptly given to almost all patients in all mental hospitals in the United States.66 A colleague of mine was an orderly at Manhattan State Psychiatric Hospital when Thorazine was introduced."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
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