b'correctly by vitamin supplementation, assure or cholesterol).New diseases arecall for Medicare for all as we slide into it could be. also being born, such as attention deficitthe alligator pit we call modern medicine.Nerveproblems,forexample,aredisorder, in what is calleddisease mon- Want to get well?Turn off the televi-treatedwithNeurontin,notVitamingering. 26 sion set.Go for a midday walk and get B12. MusclespasmsaretreatedwithsomesunshineVitaminD. Buyfresh Robaxin,notmagnesium. FlutteringInappropriate Rx foods at farmers markets.Throw those heart muscle (atrial fibrillation) in theMost drugs never address the causetin-foil, packaged TV dinners out the top chambers of the heart are treatedof a disease.Blood-pressure drugs lowerproverbial window!Familiarize yourself with Cordarone, or Betapace,not zinc,anumberbyslowingtheheartbeatwith vitamin and dietary supplements.If magnesium, and/or Vitamin D. 22 The(beta blockers) or by inducing excretionthey remain unaware how to create true medicalindustryismakingtonsofof water (diuretics, or so-called waterhealth, fire your doctor. 30Findnatural moneyoffofinappropriatelytreatedpills), but these arent the primary causesalternatives to drugs. 31 Dont be so gull-nutrient deficiencies. of hypertension. There is no single drugible (gullible is derived from the verb to that brings high blood pressure underswallow).Certainly modern medicine Drugs Safety: Not Quite control. For many, one daily magnesiumis the bitterest pill to swallow.Here are Some FDA-approved drugs, such aspill will do as well as any blood-pressuresome words used to describe people who statincholesterol-loweringdrugs,aremedication. 27 are easily tricked: dupe, sucker, chump, so bad and produce so many side effectsDoctorsandpharmaceuticalcom- sap, and sitting duck.Dont be any of thatup to 6 in 10 users abandon thempanies wouldnt make as much moneythese.Oh, I can hear you now.But my within the first six months 23 followingcuring or preventing disease as they dodoctor is a Mayo Clinic-trained physician initial prescription, which makes statinin ineffectively treating its symptoms,and he said if I stop taking these pills.drugs falsely appear to be relatively safewhich requires repeated use of drugsModern medicine spreads fear, which even though they are not, and are only(and generates more profits).Public na- overcomes reason.It is their tactic. If you marginally effective. ivety and patients who are loyal to theirhavent the nerve to do these suggestions, Other approved drugs, such as Vioxx,doctors to a fault comprise some of thewhat more evidence do you need?killed some of its users outright. And,underlying factors that are part of this sadly enough, the drug company maymassive problem. Endnoteshave known of its ill effects years before1.Provilus A, Abdallah M, McFarlane S, Weight Gain As-the drug was pulled off the market. 24 Bought Off at Every Level sociated With Antidiabetic Medications, Therapy, 2011, 8(2), pp. 113-120, at https://www.openaccessjournals.com/Complain to Congress, you say?It isarticles/weight-gain-associated-with-antidiabetic-medica-In the FDA We Trust (Not) bought off.A reported army of 1,440 lob- tions.pdf.2.Linda Rodgers, This Was the Average Body in the The FDA cannot be trusted to carrybyists for the pharmaceutical industry is1950s,WomansWorld,April30,2018,athttps://out its historic mission to protect theworking in Washington, D.C. Thephar- www.womansworld.com/posts/bluebella-average-wom-an-in-1950s-vs-today-128174/photos/celebrity-measur-publicfrompotentiallyharmfulandmaceutical industry spent $280 millionments-raquel-welch-180762.ineffective drugs.Dietary supplementsonlobbyingCongressin2018. 28That3.Anna Sayburn, Study Finds That Anticancer Effect of 5 a Day is Less Than Expected, British Medical Jour-should not be regulated by the FDA thatamountstoahalf-milliondollarspernal, 340, doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c1944 (08 April has conflicts in doing so. member of Congress. 2010), at https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1944.ex-tract?sid=04a8a10a-784a-4b8e-8dfa-ea03c721d1ae.By drug companies paying user fees toCongress will grandstand public hear- 4.Alice G. Walton, Why Oreos Are As Addictive As the FDA for it to process their drug appli- ings and invoke meaningless multi-mil- Cocaine To Your Brain, Forbes, Oct 16, 2013, at https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2013/10/16/why-your-cations, essentially the FDAs clients arelion-dollar fines against offending drugbrain-treats-oreos-like-a-drug/#5cb0ab2bab00pharmaceutical companies that the FDAcompaniesthatmadebillionsintheir5.Dr. Wolfson, How Governments, Food Companies, Big Pharma, Media and Healthcare Operators Keep Us relies upon for income.The FDA is a cap- fraud.These well-advertised fines are justFat and Sick, TDW, updated July 14, 2017, at https://the-tured regulatory agency.Public Citizento get the government off the hook.Thedrswolfson.com/governments-food-companies-big-phar-ma-media-healthcare-operators-keep-us-fat-sick/.calls the FDA user fees bad medicine. 25 regulatory agencies and drug companies6.Darrow J & Kesselheim A, Nearly One-Third Of are winking at each other. New Drugs Are No Better Than Older Drugs, And Some Are Worse, Health Affairs, Oct 6, 2017, at https://www.Treating Non-Disease Andonly the U.S. allows drug com- healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20171021.268271/full/.Modernmedicineslylyexpandsitspaniestochargewhattheylikeand7. John LaMattina, Are 90% Of FDA Drugs Approved InLast30YearsNoMoreEffectiveThanExisting treatment thresholds to cover pre-dis- raise prices annually without regard forDrugs? Forbes, July 30, 2013, at https://www.forbes.com/ease states so that even those patientsvalue. 29 sites/johnlamattina/2013/07/30/are-90-of-fda-drugs-ap-proved-in-last-30-years-no-more-effective-than-existing-with lower numbers are now subject toAmerica is bought off at every level:drugs/#3e19e8a2e709.treatment with drugs (like an expansiongovernment, news media, medical jour- 8.Light D, Lexchin J, Darrow J, Institutional Corrup-tion of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective of the number of patients who need to benals, and doctors.And yet people pleadDrugs, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2013, Vol. treated with medicines for blood pres- for more of the same.We now hear the14, No. 3, pp 590-610, at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa-H EALTHF REEDOMN EWS /F ALL2023 11'