Yes, the FDA is out to get you (and your money)

The FDA and the pharmaceutical companies do not care about your health. They only want your money while they consider your health a risk they are willing to take. Don’t be an idiot. And don’t think your doctor is an independent agent. He or she has been funneled into the current medical system to fill a particular economic role. A doctor would have to rebel in order to honestly look out for your health and thank God, there are a few out there who have; but they are certainly a minority. (NOTE: In general, I am not referring to surgeons. I have nothing but respect and gratitude to trauma teams and those who try to put us back together when we are injured or remove tumors or give a deformed child corrective surgery, etc.)

“Prescription drug sales reached $286.5 billion in the United States in 2007, up from $40.3 billion in 1990.” -- November issue of the Maine Center for Economic Policy’s Choices publication.

Certainly you can’t think that we NEED that much more drugs than 17 years ago or that their Franken-chemists have somehow come up with a plethora of cures to what ails us. Outside of antibiotics, drugs don’t cure anything because the manufacturers don’t want to cure any illness or disease. It is not in their financial interest for you to be cured which is why they oppose natural remedies. They want to “treat” you … and treat you… and treat you …

Their increased profits are due to massive marketing. Aren’t we all sick of watching TV and hearing about Tom, Dick and Harry’s erectile dysfunction? I mean, really, if it doesn’t work isn’t that a clue? You can be sure that it’s not the only part of your body having a problem. Find the cause first. (Denis Leary, made an excellent point in that viewing audiences were all offended at Janet Jackson’s breast making a break for it on national TV while no one seemed to care about the erectile dysfunction commercials. Love him! Read his book “Why We Suck.” It’s great.)

The drug manufacturers also push antidepressants on us like it’s a panacea to the good life and then tell us, oh by the way (fast talk), ‘people who take these drugs have a higher incidence of suicide or violence.’ Does the word Columbine ring a bell? All the profits made by the pharmaceutical industry from mind-altering drugs should be given to the victims (and their families) who have been hurt by those drugs. So what if it destroys the company? A company that destroys lives should not continue to exist. They are literally getting away with murder.

If a person seems to have mental problems the first thing that should be addressed is nutritional deficiencies, toxicities and stress relief. Do you honestly think those “silver” fillings that are in your head consisting of 50% highly toxic mercury have no ill effect on your brain? Or that the chlorine and fluoride in public drinking water is not wrecking havoc in your body? But instead, the depressed or hyperactive are given drugs that actually make their health worse. Psycho-stimulants (Ritalin, etc.) cause brain atrophy. Nice. You think the fact that Timmy can’t sit still is a problem now? How about the long term results of drugging a significant part of our population to permanently alter their brains?

Teachers and parents complain that many kids that can’t sit still and pay attention in class. Is that annoying? You betcha. But they assume the kid is screwed up rather than the obvious: 1) they are full of sugar and food additives, 2) they are bored and 3) children are not designed to sit still for hour upon hour. No healthy intelligent person wants to sit still and “act” like they pay attention to a lecture of no interest. Sorry but it’s the truth. If you can’t hold an audience maybe you need to revise your material and/or your delivery. Maybe you just suck. (Thank you, Dr. Leary.)

Anyone – especially a doctor – needs to earn your trust. Just because he/she is standing in front of you in a white coat with a stethoscope draped around his neck like a status symbol and a diploma on the wall that states that he spent an inordinate amount of time in institutionalized education backed by pharmaceutical companies (who also write medical text books) does not mean they are experts in what is best for your body. You are the expert in your body. Quite frankly, if you study health yourself you probably know more than your typical general practitioner sans the Latin. (Again, I’m not talking about surgeons. I’m also not saying that most doctors don’t have good intentions – they too, have been had by the system.) You don’t have to study everything; but you better care enough to study those things that affect you most.

We used to be an independent nation – a nation of pioneers – tough, largely self-sufficient. Not any more. The pharmaceutical companies are in bed with the FDA and other decision makers and are using drugs (including “immunizations” [a misnomer if ever there was one]) to rob you of first your money, then your health and then your liberty. The FDA should be disbanded but for now no one should be allowed inside the FDA who has ANY connection with pharmaceutical companies. Nada. Not even a Walgreens employee.

Pharmaceutical companies create synthetic drugs because they can patent them. (Read $.) Have you ever noticed that illegal drugs are often more natural than the legal ones? If you are prescribed a drug – particularly one that you will take on an ongoing basis as opposed to short term/as needed such as pain relief or an asthma inhaler – then do your research. Most likely, it will do more harm than good and the manufactures will not take responsibility for it. It will cause side-effects for which you will be prescribed … a medication.

Please, think for yourself and question authority.