People determined to have low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) who were given desiccated thyroid by Broda Barnes, MD, PhD and followed for years, had 94% fewer heart attacks -- an 18-fold reduction -- than predicted by the Framingham Study, Mark Starr, MD notes in his wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic (p. 34). Read the entire article | Email this article

"Most chronic pain is just one symptom of a much greater problem, which accounts for the majority of patients' illnesses. The problem is hypothyroidism," Mark Starr, MD writes in his wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic (p. 24).

He also notes that main stream medicine has not recognized this, and at a two-day national conference for pain doctors, there was no mention of hormone imbalances as a possible cause for chronic pain. Read the entire article | Email this article

Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause weight gain according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause chronic fatigue according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause depression according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause elevated cholesterol levels according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

Type 2 Hypothyroidism can cause dry skin according to Mark Starr, MD author of the wonderful book Hypothyroidism Type 2: The Epidemic. Read the entire article | Email this article

"[H]igh blood glucose in diabetes is NOT the cause of the pathology," wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book "The High Blood Pressure Solution".

In other words, health problems associated with diabetes are NOT caused by high blood sugar. Read the entire article | Email this article

“[T]hiazide diuretics lower blood pressure because they get sodium out of the body (through the kidneys)," notes wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book "The High Blood Pressure Solution". Read the entire article | Email this article

"[A blood pressure study called the ALLHAT study found that three newer blood pressure drugs] had far worse health outcomes than the original, cheap thiazide diuretics," wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist, and author of the book "The High Blood Pressure Solution".

"As one author of the paper wrote, 'We cant say whether the diuretics were better than -- or not as bad as -- the other groups of drugs."

"Since it is well established that thiazide diuretics often cause diabetes, it well may be the later." Read the entire article | Email this article

“In my book, 'The High Blood Pressure Solution', you will find that [there] is no evidence that antihypertensive drugs save lives,” wrote Richard Moore, MD, PhD, professor and research scientist,

"[In fact,] the very best study ever done of drug treatment of 17,000 hypertensives over a five year period found 'no overall reduction in death rate' in those treated with drugs." Read the entire article | Email this article

In 1986, professor and research scientist, Richard Moore, MD, PhD, showed in his book "The K Factor: Reversing and Preventing High Blood Pressure Without Drugs", that 95% of the cases of hypertension are due to a low ratio of potassium to sodium in the American diet.

“We did not emphasize it, but since you can't repair a dietary deficiency with a synthetic chemical [a drug] this clearly indicated that drugs are not the answer for hypertension," Dr. Moore noted.

Dr. Moore also notes that back in the 1980's, the largest blood pressure drug study to-date at that time, which included "17,000 people over a 5-year period, demonstrated that lowering blood pressure with drugs had zero effect on over-all mortality!" Read the entire article | Email this article

"I believe that the healthcare system... now... reduces life expectancy of patients... [because of] over-treatment," said Nassim Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Visiting Professor at London Business School and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

Taleb noted this on MSNBC's show, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, on August 3rd, 2009. Read the entire article | Email this article

"Don't ask a barber if you need a haircut" said Nassim Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and Visiting Professor at London Business School and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

Taleb noted this on MSNBC's show, The Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan, on August 3rd, 2009.

Let me say this in another way to drive the point home.

Never ask...

• a drug company or


• a drug company salesman or


• or a university researcher


• or a doctor


• or a psychiatrist


• or a professional medical organization like:
• the American Psychiatric Association or


• the American Diabetes Association or


• the National Cholesterol Education Program...


• or scientist from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or


• or anyone from the World Health Organization (WHO) or anywhere else...

... if a drug is...

• safe or


• effective or


• can cause a side effect or


• can cause serious harm or


• if you should take this drug...

... if the doctor or the researcher or the scientist has ever been paid by a drug company as...

• a researcher or


• as a "Consultant" or


• to be on their "Scientific Advisory Panel" or


• to be on their "Speakers Bureau" or


• to do studies of their drugs or


• to coauthor a paper about their drugs.

The reason for this is that money affects what people say.

Drug companies only pay people who say things that will help the drug companies sell more drugs.

If a doctor or a psychiatrist or a researcher or a scientist were to ever say anything negative about a drug, the drug company would immediately stop paying them as a "consultant" or a "scientific advisor" or as a "researcher" or to be on their "speakers bureau".

So, if they have been paid, you will not get an objective opinion, but instead, only one side of the story. Read the entire article | Email this article

This is an excerpt from a letter by Richard Moore, MD, PhD dated August 31, 2009 on how drug companies have changed. Read the entire article | Email this article

Overweight and obese patients given the highest dose of Qnexa, containing 15 mg of phentermine plus 92 mg of Topamax (topiramate), lost an average weight loss of roughly 24 pounds versus 5 pounds with placebo after one year, or 10.4 percent of body weight versus 1.8 percent with placebo according to a press release from press release from Vivus, Inc, the company developing the drug. Read the entire article | Email this article

Overweight and obese patients given the Mid-dose of Qnexa, containing 7.5 mg of phentermine plus 46 mg of Topamax (topiramate), lost an average weight loss of roughly 19 pounds versus 5 pounds with placebo after one year, or 8.4 percent of body weight versus 1.8 percent with placebo according to a press release from press release from Vivus, Inc, the company developing the drug. Read the entire article | Email this article

Morbidly obese patients given the highest dose of Qnexa, containing 15 mg of phentermine plus 92 mg of Topamax (topiramate), lost an average weight loss of roughly 28 pounds versus 6 pounds with placebo after one year, or 11 percent of body weight versus 1.6 percent with placebo according to a press release from press release from Vivus, Inc, the company developing the drug. Read the entire article | Email this article

Morbidly obese patients given the lowest dose of Qnexa, containing 3.75 mg of phentermine plus 23 mg of Topamax (topiramate), lost an average weight loss of 18 pounds versus 6 pounds with placebo after one year, or 5.1 percent of body weight versus 1.6 percent with placebo according to a press release from press release from Vivus, Inc, the company developing the drug. Read the entire article | Email this article

The most common side effects reported by overweight and obese patients given the Qnexa (phentermine plus controlled-release Topamax (topiramate)) were dry mouth, tingling, constipation, altered taste and insomnia according to a press release from press release from Vivus, Inc, the company developing the drug. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker were 21% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 15 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (134 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

To say this the other way, women taking NO blood pressure drugs were 18% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker.

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Women taking a diuretic plus an ACE inhibitor were 12% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 16 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (133 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

To say this the other way, women taking NO blood pressure drugs were 11% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus an ACE inhibitor.

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David Scheiner, MD, who took care of Barack Obama for 22 years, from 1987 until he became President of the U.S. in January 2009, thinks the U.S. should have National Health Insurance, or "Medicare for All" as he calls it.

"We spend $400 billion a year just handling the administrative cost of health care," Dr. Scheiner notes. "That would cover the 50 million [in the U.S.] who are uncovered." Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how they would minimize the appearance of side effects of drugs when doctors would express concerns about adverse effects. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how she witnessed that her minimization of side effects of drugs lead to patients being injured or killed. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how how Psychiatric Drugs can cause brain damage and many side effects often thought to be due to a mental illness, when, in fact, they are caused by the drug itself. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how if someone was against psychiatric drugs, they would say they were a Scientologist because many people dismiss Scientology or Scientologists as quacks. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how they were trained to profile doctors in order to maximize their influence of doctors about the drugs they were trying to sell. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women taking a diuretic plus a calcium channel blocker were 2.4 times MORE likely (136% more likely) to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (138 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

To say this the other way, women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 58% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus a calcium channel blocker.

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Women taking an ACE Inhibitor were 4% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 12 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (137 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

To say this the other way, women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 4% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking an ACE Inhibitor. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women, 50- to 79-years-old with high blood pressure and no history of cardiovascular disease, who were taking a diuretic to lower their blood pressure were 9% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women of the same age who also had hypertension but were taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 13 points LOWER in the drug group than the NO drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

Let me say this the other way.

Older women with hypertension who were NOT taking blood pressure drugs were 8% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during a 5.9 year follow-up than women of the same age who were taking a diuretic even though the average systolic pressure of the women taking NO blood pressure medicines was 13 points HIGHER than those taking a diuretic (149 mm Hg vs 136 mm Hg).

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Women taking a beta blocker were 15% less likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines according to a 2004 study.

The average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg).

To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 17% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a beta blocker.

(YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.) Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how she was addicted to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) for 10 years.

She also says that after stopping Xanax, she experienced withdrawal symptoms for 6 months. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, notes that all psychiatric drugs can cause withdrawal symptoms which are often worse than the initial condition.

Traditional psychiatrists will often tell you that that you are having "rebound anxiety" or "rebound depression" or "rebound psychosis", and that you need to take these drugs forever and will never be normal without them, but this is not true Gwen notes.

The withdrawal, according to Gwen, is your body trying to detoxify from these drugs. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, states that you should NEVER stop a psychiatric drug on your own.

You should ALWAYS be supervised by a health care professional because stopping these drugs will often cause withdrawal symptoms such as "rebound anxiety" or "rebound depression" or "rebound psychosis". Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, suggests looking for an alternative doctor or a doctor who is involved in "Integrative Care" to supervise withdrawal of psychiatric drugs.

She says that traditional psychiatrists are opposed to this because many psychiatrists have a vested interest in giving patients drugs.
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The belief that "the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death" is WRONG.

This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD. Read the entire article | Email this article

The belief that "the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death" is WRONG.

This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD. Read the entire article | Email this article

The belief that "the higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk of death, and the lower your blood pressure, the lower the risk of death" is WRONG.

This according to a brilliant paper from UCLA statistician, Sid Port, PhD. Read the entire article | Email this article