Pharmaceutical companies have been under increasing fire lately, and for good reason. Virtually every drug on the market today has proven to carry serious side effects, often with devastating consequences.
As awareness and consumption of natural health alternatives grow, so too does the drug maker’s zeal to ride the bandwagon. They mislead the public into thinking that just because a drug has its elemental makeup in nature, compounding and concentrating it makes it natural- or safe.
This is of course not true. A pig wearing lipstick is still a pig.
[adrotate group=”5″] Scientists are now finding how damaging this methodology is becoming after they looked at the effects of a popular drug used to treat high cholesterol and prevent heart disease. What they found was completely unnerving.
A drug that is based upon a necessary nutrient in the body has been used for years to treat high cholesterol in the hopes that it will prevent heart disease.
What scientists at the University of Oxford uncovered, though, is that despite selling over $1 billion worth of the drug in the past 10 years, the prescription form of niacin known as Niaspan has little effect on heart disease.
In fact, as the study authors released to the Academy of Cardiology recently, the overload of niacin also led to a staggeringly increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, bleeding disorders, and infections.
So why is the drug still being used to “treat” high cholesterol and heart disease? Because of outdated and flawed data that is still on the books. Getting a dangerous drug off the shelves is harder than one might think. Even with Vioxx, for example, many people had to die before it got pulled.
The best ways to make use of the healthful benefits of niacin, which is actually essential in the metabolism of fats in the body, is to get it naturally from food. This eliminates the risk that it will end up leading to a dangerous bleeding disorder or other disease process. Stick to whole grains, fish, paprika, and sun-dried tomatoes.
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Great article Scott. Is it any surprise that Big Pharma would take a natural substance, synthesize it, make it toxic, patent it and then sell it for an outrageous price? That’s what they do! Niaspan had little effect on heart disease because heart disease is not caused by cholesterol! Heart disease is caused by refined sugar and carbohydrates, trans fats,and inflammatory oils such as canola, corn and soybean oil. Read The Great Cholesterol Myth by Dr. Steven Sinatra, MD and Dr. Jonny Bowden, PHD, and Recaging the Beast – both at Amazon.
Interesting! Wonder what other kind of maladies may be linked to these big pharma drugs?
never take that stuff.
When I have queried Simvastatin with my GP He states the benefit side, never dwells on the downside.
An even more dangerous series of drugs is the statins.
More and more devastating side effects are coming to light including ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), diabetes, amnesia, dementia and muscle death.
Quite a few people on the Forum at People’s Pharmacy have described their symptoms that so many physicians say cannot possibly be caused by any statin drug yet are also listed as possible side effects by the pharmaceutical manufacturers.
If you insist on taking a statin drug yourself, at least add CoQ10 to reduce possible side effects.
Statins block one of the most critical pathways in the body.
Want more info, Google Duane Graveline MD. Dr. Graveline himself had amnesia from taking Lipitor AND his physician said it could not possibly be the statin. He went off until his next NASA physical when the doctor insisted he go back on Lipitor. He then experienced an even more severe incident of amnesia that left him thinking he was a high school student (at age 55-60 or so)
All the Statins have bad side-effects but your GP will always tell you the good they do outweighs the bad!!
The real deal behind all of these drugs is of course “MONEY” & let’s face it that is what Big Business is all about. I don’t have anything against big business a long as it is ethical & this is where the line is drawn when it comes to Pharmaceutical Company’s.
They come up with the latest drug, saying that has been tested and approved by U-No-Who & then put it out into the market place, but sadly “The Human Populous” is the actual test bed.
It’s akin to one of the Big Motor Car Manufacturers putting out the latest car high performance vehicle without a brake pedal & saying that everything is OK, the computer will stop you in an emergency & doing this without knowledge that the computer is programmed properly.
But what’s new when it comes to making money unethically.
Incidentally a Pig With Lipstick is usually “Miss Piggy” or have I been watching too many kids programs….?
So, FDA, our government, doctors, hospitals etc, are NOT going to respond to this information at all? Bury their heads in the sand? What are they holding their jobs and positions with? If we have to do our own medical research, and suggest our own protocols, because we have multi-knowledged information that what we suggest works for our ailments, why are we paying doctors? supporting FDA, and having to research all the time, to keep FDA, government consent, and paying doctor bills for them to kill us with their close shut mouths?
I believe statins drove my mother insane; and no doctor would take her off them. A nursing home let her develop more and more pressure spots, which turned into staph, and yes, finally, it did kill her. The government and FDA, and pharmacies and doctors helped to kill her. My doctor thinks I don’t know what about me; because I turned his statins down, and several other harmful “medications”. (Is that an oxymoron?)
Our world is upside down, and knows it; and keeps on doing these killings. All you average people are smarter than that! Get on some bandwagon; Stop the nonsense! It is time for each person to stand up and say “STOP promoting these toxic medications”!!!
GEEZ, it’s time to wake up, everybody. Thanks Scott