The profits and dangers of aspirin

"What is it about the 37% reduced risk of cancer deaths is it that you don't like?  "

Achieving it through the use of aspirin is what.

If you choose to take aspirin regularly and erode the lining of your stomach, increase the risk of intestinal bleeding and bleeding from the brain, feel free.

In addition, aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) belongs to a family of allergens known as salicylates.  People who are allergic are at risk of suffering serious side effects, including fatal ones.  As a matter of fact, aspirin and aspirin related products kill over 30,000 people each year in the U.S.

As I said earlier, good nutrition and lifestyle and building and keeping a strong immune system it the best way to prevent cancer.  People who do that can reduce their risks of cancer and other illness by much more than 37%.  If you want to live and eat really healthily and throw in a few natural cancer preventives I believe that cancer is as much as 90% or more preventable.

Rather than being a nutrient, aspirin is an anti-nutrient.  It depletes the body of the life-saving nutrient folic acid (as well as iron, potassium, sodium, and vitamin C). Symptoms of folic acid depletion include anemia, birth defects, elevated homocysteine (itself a significant risk factor for heart disease), headache, fatigue, hair loss, insomnia, diarrhea, and increased infection.

There may not be a huge amount of profit per bottle of aspirin sold, but with annual worldwide sales of over a billion dollars, it is huge moneymaker nevertheless.  And Bayer continues to lead the market with sales actually increasing each year.  Last year they increased 24%.  Whatever profit there is, not a nickel of it will come from me.