What’s Wrong with Pharmaceuticals?

You’re an infant and you get an ear infection. The doctor prescribes antibiotics. The infection clears but reappears three months later. Another round of antibiotics. This goes on for a year or two. As an 8- and 9-year-old you have chronic bronchitis and headaches, which are treated with antibiotics and ibuprofen. You get the flu once in a while and suffer from colds on occasion. You treat these with OTC cough syrups and nasal decongestants.

Then in your mid-twenties you complain of abdominal pain and general achiness. Oh my, you’ve got colitis. Line up another drug. But then your knees begin to hurt. Congratulations, you have arthritis. You are given NSAIDs to control the pain and are told to take it easy. You’re in your fifties now and the doctor says you have high blood pressure and some narrowing of your arteries. You start taking aspirin to thin your blood, but oh my. You end up in emergency with internal bleeding. So you quit the aspirin and start taking blood pressure meds, which cause a host of side effects along with the arthritis medicine.

You don’t have much energy anymore. You watch TV a lot, eat out every week at your favorite Chinese restaurant and serves up hot MSG. You can golf okay but you can’t walk up mountains. You consider yourself healthy because you’re mobile and pretty much free from pain, especially since you had your left knee replaced. You’re impotent, but you’re too tired anyway. And thank god for that, because you have no business seeding any new life. You sleep a lot.

Turns out if you had a decent doctor who knew anything about nutrition (which most know nothing), he would have known that the ear infection would clear up without drugs and that prescribing antibiotics would only destroy the friendly bacteria in your digestive tract.

He would have correctly determined that the colitis was due to your sensitivity to gluten. And the damage done your colon from your undiagnosed gluten sensitivity caused foreign milk proteins (everybody needs milk, after all) to enter your bloodstream. Your immune system got all confused attacking these proteins and started attacking your own tissues. He would have told you to quit drinking milk.

And he would have known that your arteries were damaged by a highly acid diet to include consumption of toxic pharmaceuticals, and your body correctly repaired them by sealing them with plaque, thus raising your blood pressure. He would have put you on a diet that could have reversed the heart disease.

Your arthritis would have cleared up as well once your colon repaired itself after you stopped irritating it with gluten and your body cleared out the foreign antigens. And voila! No more colds. You would have been mountain climbing at 70 instead of watching TV commercials touting the next drug that’ll take care of your jittery legs or sad, sad feelings of not belonging.

You didn’t listen to your body and neither did your doctor. You thought you could eat any old thing you wanted because you didn’t throw it up. You never read a book on health but it was all just so confusing and contradictory, so you signed your life away to your HMO’s hero of the day.

Your doctor doesn’t look for the CAUSE, because medical research science doesn’t search for cause. Its primary focus is searching for patentable pharmaceuticals to suppress symptoms. The doctors are educated by institutions largely financed by pharmaceutical companies. They are wined and dined by drug makers. Their drug saleswoman has nice legs.

It’s all they know, except for the few smart ones paying attention who realize they’re not doing their patients any good and begin to think for themselves. But all they get is censure and grief from their peers, a threat to revoke their license because they dared suggest something “alternative” and an honorable mention at Quackwatch. They risk their livelihoods by exercising critical thinking and researching outside their mainstream profession.

But this is why physicians are called

ALLOPATHS = OTHER DISEASE

or

PHYSICIAN = Originally, physician meant a practitioner of physic (pronounced with a hard C). This archaic noun had entered Middle English by 1300 (via Old French fisique). Physic meant the art or science of treatment with drugs or medications (Wikipedia)

Physicians suppress the remedial action of the body with pharmaceuticals and create side effects (and death) that are oftentimes worse than the original problem. And most chronic diseases are caused because acute diseases were treated with drugs and not behavior or diet modification.

THAT’S what wrong with pharmaceuticals.