DRUG
COMPANIES USE NATURAL CURES TO DESIGN NEW DRUGS
Shane Ellison M. Sc.
February 26, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
Most
medical doctors are hostile toward the use of nutritional
supplements. They parrot that they are ineffective and
possibly dangerous due to a lack of scientific evidence
supporting them. Not true. A mountain of evidence exists.
And it points to some fascinating and highly effective
nutritional supplements.
To
obtain new drugs, pharmaceutical chemists, like myself,
rigorously study nutritional supplements (i.e. natural
products). Once a single active ingredient is identified a
chemist
makes a “copy-cat.” The drug company then calls it
their own. Simply put, if the study of nutritional
supplements did not exist then drugs would not be
possible.
Most
every drug sold today has a natural-based predecessor.
Drug companies and medical doctors obfuscate this
historical fact. They like patients to think that drugs
are intuitively invented out of thin air. This helps
foster the very profitable belief that drugs are the only
option for health. Understanding that nutritional
supplements guide drug development will allow you more
choices in health care – inexpensive and safe ones.
Consider the following examples:
Pseudoephedrine
is an ingredient found in over-the-counter cough syrup.
It is a knock-off of the active ingredients found in
“Mormon tea.” In 2004, the Annals of Emergency
Medicine noted that pseudoephedrine
is so damaging to the heart that it can elicit a heart
attack among users – even healthy ones. In sharp
contrast, naturally-occurring Mormon tea can be safely
used as a cough suppressant. Today however, it is black
listed while pseudoephedrine remains on the shelves of
every corner grocery store in America.
Ritalin
and many other stimulants are knock-offs of the active
ingredients found in ma huang AKA ephedra. Ritalin is an
amphetamine. As such, it can cause addiction and brain
cell death. Despite false propaganda, Ma huang is a safe
and effective stimulant that increases mental focus
without damaging the body. Ma huang is black listed
while Ritalin is dispensed to children.
Cholesterol-lowering
drugs (Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, ect) known as
statins are knock-offs of the natural ingredient found
in red yeast rice. Akin to the
drugs, red yeast rice can dangerously lower
cholesterol and CoQ10 levels within your body. Like
statins, it is not advisable to use red yeast rice to
lower cholesterol. Both are poisons.
As
a side note, if cholesterol-lowering drugs were the
billion dollar panacea that drug companies claim them
to be, we could all eat red yeast rice at a fraction
of the cost. Unfortunately, they are not.
Aspirin™,
the drug that your doctor tells you to take
EVERYDAY, is a knock-off of the active ingredient
found in white willow bark. The side effects of
Aspirin™ are so severe that they can cause a
higher death rate relative to the populations who do
not take it.[1]
Rarely brought to the attention
of users, aspirin depletes the body of the essential
nutrient folic acid. White willow bark is virtually
unknown yet remains a safe and effective alternative
to Aspirin™ for pain relief and any purported
cardiovascular benefits.
The
list goes on…Most would be shocked to know that
even painkillers and anticancer drugs were derived
from natural sources:
The
tiny family of prescription pain killers used by
doctors are knock offs of the natural ingredients
found in opium. Naturally occurring opium is safer
and less addictive than the fast-acting drug
knock-offs morphine, codeine, and oxycodone.
Baicalein,
an anti-cancer drug used among those who suffer
from leukemia, is a knock-off of the active
ingredient found in the roots of Chinese
skullcap
( Scuterllaria baicalensis). Chinese
skullcap is a safe and effective natural cancer
fighter that induces cell suicide (apoptosis)
among leukemia-derived cancer cells.
There
are life-saving distinctions between a drug and
its natural-based predecessor. A prescription
drug is a single isolate. A nutritional
supplement contains a multitude of active
substances. This distinction makes drugs more
dangerous and less effective than nutritional
supplements.
As
a single isolate, a drug does not target the
underlying cause of illness. It only masks
symptoms. Further, a drug isolate has no
“buffers” to offset negative side-effects.
In sharp contrast, nutritional supplements
utilize an array of ingredients to attack the
illness at its core while striving to mitigate
negative side-effects.
If safe and effective, then why
don’t drug companies distribute
nutritional supplements? The answer is very
simple. They clash with the drug-company
business model. Natural medicine cannot be
patented and subsequently monopolized. Only
dangerous, man-made prescription drugs carry
patent rights. And this is what satisfies a
drug company’s voracious appetite for
wealth.
Patent
rights allow for checkbook science (the
practice of funding, designing and
interpreting the results of drug
research), exclusivity and inflated
prices. Add to that an army of
good-looking, slick and foolish thinking
sales reps and you have the world’s
most successful business model –
corporate drug dealing. While
profitable, this model is currently
killing an estimated 200,000 people
every year.
Face
the facts: Those who adhere to
Western Medicine are stuck with
risky and expensive counterfeits of
Mother Nature. Those who embrace
Mother Nature by choosing nutrition
are able to use natural cures
without risking their lives.
Footnotes:
1,
Kauffman, Joel. Should You Take
Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attack?
Journal of Scientific
Exploration. 2000;14(4):623-641.
© 2006
Shane Ellison - All Rights
Reserved
Shane holds
a Master’s degree in organic
chemistry and has first-hand
industry experience with drug
research, design and synthesis. He
understands that Americans want and
deserve education rather than
prescriptions. His shocking ebook
surrounding cholesterol lowering
drugs can be downloaded for FREE as
a pdf file at www.health-fx.net/eBook.pdf.
His book Health Myths Exposed is
available at www.healthmyths.net
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