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Posted May 27, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Having written an e-book on The Collapse of Conventional Medicine about all the needless and ineffective care thrust upon naïve patients, and then having watched the public clamor for more of the same in their opposition to rationed or delayed care has been very perplexing. It’s like the masses are saying “don’t cut Medicare even if it’s killing us.”
Certainly modern medicine is impoverishing America as health care is now beyond affordability. Revelations today in The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine are sobering. A great portion of the financial collapse of America can be pointed towards the high cost of ineffective medicine. To make matters worse, the now common combination of unemployment and illness certainly devastates most families. Yet doctor bills keep rising.
You can read the litany of unnecessary diagnostic procedures and treatments here.
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Posted May 19, 2011: by Bill Sardi
While cardiologists cast a blind eye at potential liver and muscle side effects induced by statin cholesterol-lowering drugs, natural health advocates suggest coenzyme Q10 supplementation to avoid the potential side effects of muscle degeneration (myopathy) associated with these drugs. In fact, coenzyme Q10 supplementation (100 mg/day) has been shown to reduce the severity of muscle pain among statin drug users by 40%. However, there is more to this story than C0-Q10.
For some time now it has been noted in the medical literature that the pattern of side effects associated with statin drugs resembles selenium deficiency. Statin drugs have a negative effect upon selenium proteins which does seem to explain many of the enigmatic effects of statin drugs. The underlying biochemical mechanisms for this are now well described.
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Posted May 8, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Ever wonder how Americans went from being lean without going to the gym to a prevailing obese society in just three or four decades?
Few Americans recognize the population is being re-programmed metabolically to be fat. It’s like Americans are a bunch of lab rats being programmed to overeat.
Actually, biologists have an experiment where they use bisphenol A, an endocrine gland disruptor, to breed rodents who eat all day and end up looking like bowling balls. Biologists now call chemical like bisphenol A obesogens. Exposure to bisphenol A can affect future generations of Americans who never consumed this molecule. Bisphenol A can re-program humans to overeat.
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Posted May 5, 2011: by Bill Sardi
A remarkably simple discovery may help to explain how cancer gets started, and it may lead to an even simpler preventive remedy.
To understand this discovery, a short course in DNA repair is required. It is well known that in early stages of cancer there is chromosomal instability caused during DNA replication. As cells divide (mitosis) and are replaced by new cells, spare parts are needed to facilitate the formation of new DNA strands. The rungs on the DNA ladder, which are called nucleotides, are lettered as A (adenine), C (cytosine), G (guanine) and T (thymine). These four nucleotides comprise the steps on the DNA ladder. A, C, G and T nucleotides are essential for DNA repair.
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Posted May 4, 2011: by Bill Sardi
American medicine is trying to be science based. So what does it do when the latest science disagrees with a modern dogma – that too much salt is not good for you?
According to the latest authoritative report, published in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the less salt people consumed the more likely there were to die of heart disease.
More specifically, those people who consumed 2.5 grams (2500 milligrams, or about a teaspoon) of salt were more likely to die than people who consumed 6.0 grams of salt (6000 mg, or a little less than a level tablespoon).
Blood pressure did rise in the high-salt group, but not much – systolic blood pressure increased by just 1.71 points (systolic pressure is the 1st blood pressure number) for every 2.5 grams increase in sodium consumption per day. But that certainly can’t be called hypertension (high blood pressure). Among 2096 participants followed up for 6.5 years, the risk of hypertension did not increase with increasing salt intake.
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Posted April 29, 2011: by Bill Sardi
A question arises: would American adults be better off using their out-of-pocket medical expense money to buy dietary supplements rather than drugs?
Before the dollars-and-cents of this issue is addressed, a major misdirection by American medicine needs to be confronted. The prevailing practice of modern medicine is to consider every malady a drug deficiency. Yet we know so many health problems emanate from overloads or deficiencies of essential nutrients. Examples would be: for a nutrient deficiency — mental depression from a lack of folic acid, and for nutrient excess — high cholesterol, fatty liver and arterial disease from iron overload.
So many drugs that are prescribed are inappropriate because the condition they are prescribed for has a nutritional origin. The drug never addresses the true cause of disease, it only masks its symptoms. Furthermore, the biological action of most prescription drugs can be duplicated with dietary supplements, with fewer side effects and lower cost.
There is good reason to search for alternatives to prescription drugs beyond just cost. Inappropriate prescribing is a widespread problem in modern medicine, despite the many checkpoints (doctor, nurse, pharmacist) prior to patient use. Oftentimes, “drug therapy can do more harm than good.” One recent study found 69% of elderly patients were prescribed inappropriate medications. This study did not include factoring for underlying nutritional deficiencies caused by drugs themselves.
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Posted April 22, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Commercially available foods are supposed to be tested for bacteria and fungi. While the foods we eat at not sterile (devoid of germs) they are supposed to be have low bacteria and fungal counts, leaving our stomach acid to kill off the remaining microbes in the stomach. However, the overseers of the US food supply, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Food & Drug Administration, are permitting unclean food to reach consumer markets, and this time it isn’t just ordinary bacteria, it is life-threatening antibiotic-resistant bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and E. Coli! And these treatment-resistant germs are killing thousands of Americans. You can read the whole sordid story here.
This problem has been spawned by the use of low-dose antibiotics in animal feeding. Instead of animals being raised and their meat processed in clean environments, the animals are fed grain (mainly in the feeding pen for fattening) rather than grass, and this increases the bacterial count 100-fold. Public health authorities then shift the blame for any foodborne infections on the consumer for not cooking their meat sufficiently to kill bacteria.
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Posted April 18, 2011: by Bill Sardi
According to a recent government report, which pharmaceutical companies will surely use to develop counter strategies, the use of dietary supplements is at an all-time high and rising. About 50% of the American public now uses dietary supplements.
One doesn’t know whether to declare this achievement a failure in the midst of widespread nutrient deficiencies, or a meaningful sign that the doctors and patients are adopting nutrient-based therapies.
That people are taking vitamin pills is one thing, that they are taking the right doses and forms of nutrients is another. Most supplement users have been herded into taking no more than 100% of the Recommended Daily Allowance, which is the level to avoid a frank nutrient deficiency for perfectly healthy adults, not the level for optimal health. The RDA does not apply to growing children, pregnant females, smokers, diabetics, the hospitalized, or people taking many drugs, which comprises a strong percentage of supplement users.
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Posted April 11, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Over 18 years ago a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that one in three Americans polled had utilized unconventional medical services in a 12-month period, paying for these services out of pocket. Strikingly, American adults who were more affluent and educated reported the highest use of alternative medicine such as acupuncture and chiropractic. Modern allopathic medicine was stunned. This rate of use was much higher than previously estimated. Modern medicine had lost a significant share of its business.
Over time, recognizing it was losing market share, modern medicine did what all threatened professions do – begin to incorporate competing practices into their armamentarium. The term “integrative medicine” came into being – the concept that alternative medicine would be incorporated into conventional medical treatment regimens. The general idea is to swallow the competition and eliminate it.
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Posted March 25, 2011: by Bill Sardi
Those are the words of John Cannell MD, founder of The Vitamin D Council. What Dr. Cannell is talking about is the anticipated FDA approval of a multitude of vitamin D-like drugs (called analogs) in the next year.
Big Pharma, moving in concert with the pro-drug agency, the Food & Drug Administration, that gives Rx pills false credibility, and the Institute of Medicine that recently cemented levels of preventable disease in the American population by raising vitamin D requirements by an insignificant amount (400 IU to 600 IU), are attempting to delay multitudes of Americans from taking vitamin D pills till they become drugs. Then American medicine will embrace the idea whole heartedly at ten times the price and with myriads of side effects from man-made vitamin D-like molecules that the human body is not designed to metabolize.
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