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Posted August 13, 2012: by Bill Sardi
One of the dirty little secrets of modern medicine, and a reason why healthcare costs are so high, is that researchers and clinicians are trying to profiteer by inventing and delivering the highest cost medicine. Ten-cent cures are not to be found. Patentable, costly man-made medicines reign. Natural medicines are shunned or ignored.
Such is the case where British scientists claim they have discovered high iron levels in the colon/rectum raise the risk for cancer and say they are avidly searching for chelating (key-lay-ting) molecules that will mop up the iron and reduce the risk or even treat active colon/rectal cancer. They say they hope to start using these molecules in the coming years. But high-risk individuals with polyps in their colon or who have a history of bowel inflammation can reach for a cure that is already at hand.
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Posted August 11, 2012: by Bill Sardi
The recent failure of an Alzheimer’s drug trial threatens to leave the world with no effective remedies to head off an explosive increase in the numbers of people affected by this disease. By the year 2040 there may be as many as 80 million human zombies on the planet, adults who have lost their memory, ability to communicate, make judgments and live independently.
Recognizing humanity is running out of time, that the lengthening lifespans across the globe will surely increase the incidence of Alzheimer’s dementia, drug companies have stepped up their research and development programs in hopes of reaping huge financial rewards. But sadly their efforts have fizzled.
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Posted July 20, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Vitamin K, that essential but often avoided “blood clotting” vitamin that we consume in green leafy vegetables is generally not included in multivitamins and avoided by the many thousands of patients taking blood thinners. The “often-avoided” category speaks for the ongoing insanity within modern medicine.
About 1% of the adult population is affected by atrial fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm (rapid disorganized heartbeats) that affects the top chambers of the heart. Atrial fibrillation increases the risk for a stroke by five-fold and accounts for about 15% of 700,000 strokes in the U.S. annually.
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Posted July 19, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Been saying this for over a decade – surgical removal of a cancerous prostate gland is only problematic and does not increase survival. Years ago a government task force showed that watchful- waiting is preferred over treatment for prostate cancer, but the medical industry worked to abolish that agency and erase that science. Prostate cancer surgery simply makes many men impotent and incontinent.
With roughly 100,000 surgical procedures to remove a cancerous prostate gland every year, and urologists making roughly $300 million to perform the surgery, one wonders if the newly passed Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is going to cease paying for this procedure. Stipulations in the Affordable Care Act state that unproven or disproven medical technologies will no longer be reimbursed by health insurance plans.
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Posted June 26, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine plods along, with blinders on in regard to nutritional medicine, feeling its way in the dark and never really investigating the origins of disease in the light of vitamin and mineral shortages.
Aspirin-induced asthma is one such example. Aspirin-induced asthma is a severe inflammatory disease, which affects patients after ingestion of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprofen). And it can have deadly consequences if you experience a closure of your breathing pipes. Modern medicine says it has no clue why aspirin can provoke a sudden and severe invasion of white blood cells (eosinophils) that block the upper and lower airways. Despite treatment, that someone should die of sudden asthmatic closure of their wind pipes is appalling in this era of modern medicine.
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Posted June 25, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Strikingly, a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicates a significant number of obese patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery are free of diabetes a year following their operation.
Another recent study reveals gastric bypass surgery surprisingly prolongs remission from diabetes. Better than 4 of 10 patients undergoing gastric bypass had no need for anti-diabetic medication and exhibited improved blood sugar control numbers (hemoglobin A1c under 5.7% and fasting blood sugar under 100 milligrams per deciliter of blood) over a year after surgery.
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Posted April 27, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Doctors often call these idiopathic disorders, that is, “conditions arising spontaneously from an obscure or unknown cause.” Modern medicine says it doesn’t know what causes Alzheimer’s, cancer, migraine headaches, and many other maladies. Could there be a common cause?
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Posted April 17, 2012: by Bill Sardi
According to a recent survey, 1 in 10 drugs were prescribed for off-label (unproven) uses, most which were not substantiated by existing science. (Archives Internal Medicine April 16, 2012). Physicians frequently respond to patient inquiries about dietary supplements by saying they are “unproven.” However, that doesn’t seem to bother physicians if it is a drug.
Furthermore, there is no drug that cures cancer (chemotherapy drugs only need to temporarily shrink a tumor by 50% before drug/tumor resistance sets in to gain FDA approval).
There is no single drug (diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, calcium blockers) that adequately controls high blood pressure, and then none address the most common cause of hypertension (inability of blood vessels to dilate upon mental or physical exertion).
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Posted March 5, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Comment: the news yesterday that researchers found antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia should not be surprising, only unexpected to the medical profession that is in denial that diseases are caused and cured by vitamin deficiency and replenishment. The vast majority of schizophrenics are smokers or substance abusers. Modern medicine won’t declare schizophrenia part of the spectrum of morbidities and mortalities associated with scurvy. It maintains schizophrenia is a co-morbidity among smokers, with the primary origin of schizophrenia still undefined. Vitamin C deficiency leaves white blood cells paralyzed to respond to pathogenic germs. Schizophrenia has also been linked with vitamin D deficiency, another player in the human immune response. Vitamin D activates neutrophils, the first responders to infection among white blood cells, and is key in defending against infection. Suffice to say, modern medicine is treating schizophrenia, other mental disorders associated with substance abuse and smoking itself in an inappropriate fashion. All smokers need vitamin C and D supplements. A research file of pertinent studies is presented below. -Bill Sardi, Knowledge of Health, Inc. March 2012
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Posted February 25, 2012: by Bill Sardi
Comment: The H5N1 bird flu strain does/doesn’t kill over half of those people who are infected. That is the mixed message science is sending the public today (see report below). The H5N1 strain would wipe out more than half the human population of the world if it were as deadly as some proclaim, far more deadly than the 1918 Spanish flu that killed an estimated 50 million people. But a Mt. Sinai School of Medicine (NY) researcher says the death rate is more like 1%. So you don’t run out in a hurry and get vaccinated at any of the easy drug-store locations that are pandering flu-shots these days, as flu viruses are fast mutating and likely to have mutated into a less virile form by the time you get your shot.
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