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Commonly prescribed drugs and hospitals are killing and harming the elderly
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by: Tony Isaacs
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(NaturalNews) Prescription drugs and the combination of those drugs and other medications are taking a heavy toll on elderly Americans, leading to risky hospitalizations, mental decline and death. And some of those drugs are worse than others.
A study published last November in the New England Journal of Medicine found that blood thinners and diabetes drugs caused most of the emergency hospital visits for drug reactions among people over 65 years of age in the United States. According to the study, just four medications - used alone or in combination - were responsible for two-thirds of the emergency hospitalizations among older adults.
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You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but in my opinion the best combination of drugs is no combination at all. The best combination, by far, is a healthy diet and lifestyle along with the healing items found in nature which we have used and developed alongside for thousands of years.
For the very great part, those medicines you are so impressed with interfere with the actions of the 300 plus hormones/chemicals. The compounds which make up mainstream medicine are not natural and the body recognizes them as toxins. Which no doubt plays a very large role in the fact that over 95% of those medicines have side effects - which often lead to other conditions and complications and still more drugs in a never ending cycle. It's a great model for profits but a horrible one for healing and humanity.
If mainstream drugs are so wonderful and so life-extendiing, why do you suppose that the most heavily medicated country in the world by far ranks behind over 35 other countries in longevity? Most of our increase in lifespan has come as a result of better sanitation, better access to primary trauma care, and until recent decades, better nutrition. Indications in recent years is that lifespans in the US may actually be starting to decline.
I hear ya! From birth to grave all of us are pretty much viewed and treated as profit centers for big medicine. You may recall an earlier article I wrote about how the medical system sucks every last dollar out of dying cancer patients:
Dying cancer patients are being milked of every last dollar
We are profit centers for big medicine... or for big mcdonalds... or for big real estate... or for big amusement parks... or for big pizza makers... or for big music, etc. Who wants to work for nothing? I did not want to work for nothing when I worked long hours for many years. Neither do businesses.
I've had heart failure for over 25 years. I am doing GREAT! I owe a lot to big medicine. The great medications that have come out of big medicine are extending lives and improving the quality of life, especially for the elderly.
Dying cancer patients have a choice, either take expensive cancer medications that will extend their lives by months or even years, or don't take them. You have the same decision. If you ever get a serious illness, you can either pay for, and take the wonderful medications made by big medicine, or you can turn them down. Nothing in this world comes for nothing!
When you worked, was your goal to make outrageous profits at the expense of the health of your patrons? Did you lie and coverup evidence of deadly harm you were doing to others just to make a buck?
I've had heart failure for over 25 years. I am doing GREAT! I owe a lot to big medicine. The great medications that have come out of big medicine are extending lives and improving the quality of life, especially for the elderly.
Congratulations. Many others are not so fortunate. But then again, big medicine is the number two or number three cause of death in the US.
Dying cancer patients have a choice, either take expensive cancer medications that will extend their lives by months or even years, or don't take them. You have the same decision. If you ever get a serious illness, you can either pay for, and take the wonderful medications made by big medicine, or you can turn them down. Nothing in this world comes for nothing!
I beg to differ. First of all, many so-called dying cancer patients would not be dying if they rejected the failed mainstream paradigm of trying to cut out, poison out or burn out the mere symptoms of cancer without actually addressing the root cause, completely eliminating the cancer and preventing its return. Cance patients have a second choice, though woefully few are aware of it or receptive to it thanks to the big medicine propaganda machine: They can opt for mainstream treatments which may give them a few extra months or more - usually at the cost of a horrible quality of life. Or they can opt for natural and alternative ways to fight their cancer and have a very good possibility of beating or controlling it completely and go on to have many years of good health.
What is so wonderful about the unnatural chemical compounds passed off as medicine? Over 25,000 approved and over-the-counter medications and over 95% of them have side effects? Plus, they mostly only manage symptoms by causing the body to behave unnaturally (which leads to further problems down the road) and cure precious little.
If you want to stick with mainstream drugs, go ahead. But I will take the other choice and opt for natural healing for any illness I might encounter - and do so with great confidence that my choice will be safer, more effective and less expensive.
BTW, you do know that the theme of this site is "Educating instead of medicating". Along that line, I suggest you look up the side effects of every mainsteam medication you are taking and look at natural alternatives that may serve you better in the years to come. The right diet and lifestyle and perhaps some items such as cayenne pepper, hawthorne berry extract, magnesium, and CoQ10 might well do your heart wonders.
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