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Pharma’s biggest heist:
A Second statement of the above,
generated 4 months later in April of 2015—more detailed
Pharma’s
biggest heist: Often bad pharma treats false
villains; for example, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension
for to prevent heart attacks, rather than the actual villain pathogens living
within the artery walls that causes the inflammatory process
which produces the young unstable plaque that leaks to cause heart
attacks. It is the pathogens
and the immune response
that is the main cause cardiovascular disease.
LDL functions as a sponge to
bind toxins produced by those pathogens; that is why LDL is found in the artery
walls. Pharma’s control of the
production of information entails that the research confirming the role of
pathogens and LDL is buried beneath mountains of tobacco science on
cholesterol. Moreover cholesterol is only a fraction of what constitutes plaque. Dr. Sinatra states that “blaming
cholesterol is like blaming the fireman for the fire.” If a
sufficient amount of plaque matures and hardens, it is diagnosed as atherosclerosis, which
causes hypertension. Not surprisingly
their drugs which lower cholesterol don’t prevent atherosclerosis because they
don’t affect the immune system’s reaction to pathogens. This is confirmed by 3
out 4 major clinical trials on
statins. In a cardiology textbook,
Braunwald 8th edition (p. 1085), they failed to save lives. The surrogate
endpoint lowered cholesterol
does not save lives, though pharma of course hawks this relationship. Though
sold as safe and effective (pharma’s
mantra), they aren’t. The critics
who expose the cholesterol myth, statin side effects are ignored, especially in
the US. In the UK there are two
documentaries on statins, and the Australia
Broadcast Corporation has 2 documentary programs. Unfortunately patients and doctors hear a
thousand about the villains and just a couple of times that it is a myth; thus
few people will look deep enough to recognize tobacco science and then cast off
the myths. Myths, as is the case with
cigarettes (link to 1922 summary on tobacco), takes more than
a
few critics to critics to change beliefs.
And it gets worse: the
best way to lower the risk is for the
elderly to take a high dose aspirin twice daily and also hormone replacement
therapy. Tobacco science has been used
to “prove” high dose aspirin
and natural male and female hormones are
dangerous. Pharma’s key opinion leaders and
the NIH teach doctors that those drugs are dangerous: yes they harm profits and
the drugs pharma pushes are not worth their side effects.
It
is a bad idea to block the mevalonate pathway (above) with Statins . Click on the link then
watch the videos on cardiovascular disease at http://healthfully.org/rh/id7.html.
An even bigger scam measured both in
dollars and herm done is that of the use of tranquilizers and sedatives to
treat not just neurotic and psychotic behavior but an assortment of other
ailments including tobacco addiction, pain, muscle spasm, restless legs
syndrome, hypertension, seizures, premenstrual syndrome, and an assortment of
side effects brought on by drug usage.
Among the classes of drugs included are the antidopaminergics, antiemetics,
anti-seizure, antihistamines,[1] and
antipsychotics. All these drugs
interfere with the functions of neurotransmitters and has a tranquilizing effect.
So too does 3 popular recreational drugs (opiates, marijuana, and
ethanol). For a very significant
percentage of users these
drugs are life shattering; they exacerbate the neurotic behavior. If you want
to know more there are a number
of documentaries on YouTube, go to my video page section #5 to find
descriptions with links, and to my
book page for descriptions of books.
This pattern of creating illness
and of treating signs of pathology rather than the cause is repeated every time
it is more profitable in the short term.
For example the guideline approved treatment for osteoporosis increases
bone density but does not reduce fractures because the drugs done improve bone
remodeling. Drugs for type-2 diabetes
lower blood sugar, but don’t treat either insulin resistance. These drugs
don’t reduce the incidences of
heart attacks or other ischemic events.
Hypertension is a sign in 90% of the cases of atherosclerosis, lower
blood pressure with guideline approved drugs doesn’t slow the progression of
atherosclerosis.
[1] Antihistamines were widely prescribe in
high
doses to treat psychosis in the 50s through 70s, then replaced by a newer
generation of patented drugs, the diazepam class, which in turn has been
replaced by the SSRIs. All these
families of drugs are equally ineffective, addicting, and life shattering—though
of course when patented they are both safer and more effective.
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