CURES TO DESIGN NEW DRUGS
Shane
Ellison M. Sc.
February 26, 2006
http://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
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