Mega Nutritional Supplements

How dangerous are supplements and natural remedies that has the FDA declaring war on your right to purchase natural alternatives?

A recent report in the journal Clinical Toxicology shows that there was not one death caused by any vitamin including A, B, C, D or E supplements in 2008. Not one.
What’s more, there wasn’t one death caused by amino acids, herbals, homeopathics, or mineral supplements.
Not a single man, woman, or child died from nutritional supplements.

Yet nearly 125,000 people die each year from FDA-approved prescription drugs. That’s twice the number of casualties we suffered during the Vietnam War.
That’s a tragedy. And it’s a war that is happening every year.
In addition, prescription drugs cause 2.2 million adverse reactions each year.
That’s not all.
Nearly five percent of all hospital admissions – more than 1 million per year – are due to drug side effects.
What’s worse, the FDA and corporate America have a history of suppressing safe alternatives that work. CoQ10 is a good example of this.

Back in 1990, Merck knew that statins deplete CoQ10. They knew that this could contribute to heart disease. In that year, Merck was granted a patent by the FDA for Mevacor and other statin drugs containing CoQ10.
These statin drugs with CoQ10 help prevent congestive heart failure.

However, Merck has not brought these drugs to market. Nor have they educated physicians on the importance of supplementing CoQ10 to offset the dangers of these drugs.
They patented it and let it sit there simply to keep it off the market.

But because they hold the patent, other drug companies are prevented from coming out with a statin/CoQ10 product that could save lives.

The bottom line of this article is, that you need to stay informed and not be misled by those who don’t have your best health interests at heart.

"No one under 80 should get heart disease, and if you have enough vitamins
and no genetic defects you can stop a cancer cell from ever forming."
Richard A. Passwater, Ph.D.

Schardt, David. “Are Your Supplements Safe?” Nutrition Action Healthletter 2003; 30(9): 3-7.

Of course it’s not justifiable. To determine the cause of this and other cases of abuse of consumers’ trust, it’s just a matter of "following the money".

If we were generally healthy, how would health care providers and pharmaceutical companies make (compare: earn!) obscene profits?

I love this site: http://www.earthclinic.com/remedies.html

Stevia, a natural sugar alternative, is another great case in point. So evil it languished unapproved as a food, and was only approved as a supplement until a couple big companies patented PART of it, and presto! it’s approved as a food. Now it’s just wonderful, in every grocery store because there’s PROFIT to be made. Sheesh… (Buy the whole form of Stevia – the whole extract – from a health food store, great stuff: 300x sweeter than sugar, zero calories, the body doesn’t recognize it as sugar, so it’s great for diabetics, and you can even cook with it!)

Thank you for taking the time to write this to help educate us!

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