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Posted June 16, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A review of drug trials conducted between 1966 and 2010 reveals modern drugs are not much more effective than the inactivate placebo pills they are compared against. In many instances, doctors would save the growing budget for health care costs by prescribing sugar pills.
Investigators reporting in the journal Health Affairs say drugs tested between 1966 and 1990 were about four times (400%) better than placebo pills. By 2001 that figure dropped to 36% better than placebos.
In some placebo/drug comparison trials, study subjects are given placebos prior to the study and if they respond positively they are eliminated from the study. If that didn’t take place, the difference between placebos and would be nil.
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Posted June 15, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Childhood (Type 1) diabetes is becoming more prevalent. There has to be a cause, yet for inexplicable reasons the obvious is not considered.
A report published in The Daily Mail (UK) says Type 1 diabetes appears to be spread by an infectious agent, which is a correct statement, but then goes on to quote investigators who point to “an infectious agent carried by a wild animal.” Wild animals? It is children in more advanced countries, not kids living in remote less civilized areas that come down with diabetes.
A report published late in 2012 in Scientific American said: “For reasons completely mysterious… the incidence of Type 1 diabetes has been increasing throughout the globe at rates that range from 3 to 5 percent per year.” The report goes on to say: “The search for a culprit resembles the next-to-last scene in an Agatha Christie mystery – the one in which the detective explains which of the many suspects could not possibly have committed the crime.”
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Posted June 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You read Dr. Paul A. Offit’s denunciation of vitamin pills in The New York Times (Don’t Take Your Vitamin, June 8, 2013) and you have no doubt left in your mind – the vitamin pill makers must be hiding thousands of dead bodies. Why beta carotene increased the death rate among smokers in Finland in 1994 and that fact was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
In all, Dr. Offit refers to five published studies, which in his mind, prove vitamin pills unequivocally represent death in a bottle, might as well have a skull and crossbones printed on their labels and the public should be warned away from them.
Only for Senator Proxmire in the 1970s bending to the demands of vitamin fanatics that vitamin pills now remain beyond the reach of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), says Dr. Offit. Why the FDA would like to wrap their hands around those irresponsible vitamin extremists that peddle thousands of unproven potions and pills if they were permitted to do so, claims Dr. Offit.
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Posted June 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A hidden plague in modern society has been described in an earlier report. Not a true nutrient deficiency by lack of dietary provision or poor intake but rather by impaired absorption has lulled modern medicine into assuming beri beri has been conquered.
Yet it appears large portions of human populations in developed nations suffer from a shortage of thiamin, vitamin B1 due to use of vitamin-blocking medications, overconsumption of refined sugar and beverages that impair B1 absorption – alcohol, tea and coffee.
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Mindless medical reporting is rampant in the news media. Biology-trained writers exercise no scrutiny over press releases issued by industry or public health authorities. The public pays the price. A recent example is a news report that says a new drug may avert the need for double mastectomies among breast cancer patients.
In the wake of the disclosure by actress Angelina Jolie that she underwent double-sided mastectomy (removal of both breasts) due to her genetic propensity to develop breast cancer decades in her future, a pharmaceutical company has announced it is pursuing a “breakthrough” to “tackle a faulty gene” that causes this type of cancer. The drug proposes to eliminate the need for double mastectomies. Initial tests conducted among 70 patients produced “impressive responses” to the drug, called BMN673, a drug that targets the BRCA gene.
BMN673 exhibits potent anti-tumor action by inhibition of an enzyme called PARP.
Should women hold their breath now in eager anticipation of this drug?
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The disclosure by a popular Hollywood actor that his throat cancer was likely caused by transmission of the human papilloma virus (HPV) during oral sex has led to a resurgent call for sexually active young people to be vaccinated against HPV. HPV also leads to cervical cancer in females. Only a small percentage of young women have undergone vaccination against HPV. Led by vaccine companies, an effort for States to coerce or mandate students in schools via legislation to be vaccinated against HPV is evidence of fascism in modern medicine.
What goes unsaid is that the vaccine only protects against two virulent strains of HPV while there are over 30 viral strains transmitted during sexual contact. Vaccines are ineffective on that score alone.
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Posted : by Bill Sardi
Inquiry: I have wart on my finger, knee and inner thighs. Please help me find a remedy.
Reply: warts are skin growths that emanate from papilloma virus infection.
Warts may be a sign of weak immunity and should prompt supplementation with vitamins D and C and selenium and zinc.
There is evidence that topical application of vitamin D3 is effective, as is topical vitamin A. Vitamin A & D ointment is widely available in drug stores.
Excessive alcohol consumption is associated with development of warts. Alcohol depletes zinc and vitamin A.
Zinc deficiency is prevalent among individuals with warts. Topical zinc sulfate is also reported to be effective. I wouldn’t be surprised to find zinc oxide, commonly used as a sunscreen agent, works well. Oral zinc therapy is also reported to help quell warts.
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Posted June 5, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A man wrote me years ago that he took a trip to the Caribbean and laid out in the sun and never got sun burned. He was taking an antioxidant formula for the eyes that provided 50,000 international units of beta carotene (~32 milligrams).
While the topical sunscreen industry promotes their SPF-rated products, orally consumed pigments (carotenoids beta carotene, lutein, lycopene, astaxanthin) interally protect skin from sun damage and sun burn (erythema). This is well documented in the medical literature but internal sun protection is not widely practiced. It is easier to lather on sun screen lotion.
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Posted June 1, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine doesn’t consider Vicki Oliver’s experience to exist except to explain it away as a possible placebo effect.
Vicki Oliver, 74-year old resident of Mesquite, Nevada, plagued with years of battling what she was first told was ulcerative colitis and then later by another physician as Crohn’s disease, likely had been dealing with a common vitamin deficiency disease that now plagues modern societies.
Vicki’s life had been taken over by daily bouts of abdominal cramps followed by urgent trips to the bathroom. Bowel movements were frequent, up to 20 times a day. Vicki’s only relief came when she would stop eating altogether. If she wanted to travel outside her home, she had to forgo food consumption.
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Posted May 31, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A newly proposed recommendation by a world standards organization (CODEX) could reduce the amount of eleven essential vitamins by 20-to-60 percent compared to the currently used Recommended Daily Value. This standard would then be widely affixed to food and dietary supplement labels to inform consumers whether they are consuming adequate amounts of nutrients to meet their needs.
The newly proposed recommendations would reduce the daily requirement for vitamin C from 60 to 45 milligrams, zinc from15 to 12 milligrams, of vitamin B12 to 6 to 2 milligrams and vitamin D from 10 micrograms (400 units) to 5 micrograms (200 units). In all, the daily recommendation for eleven of 14 essential nutrients would be reduced, and none increased.
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