Many pharma drugs cause brain damage

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Against holism

August 6th, 2010 by admin

http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/against-holism.htm

Just occasionally, I come across a medical hero, a doctor willing to break

the conspiracy of silence that exists among doctors about the damage caused

by their tools.

My hero of the hour is an American psychiatrist called Grace E. .

Dr. is utterly, refreshingly horrified by psychiatric medicine. In

fact, she is horrified by most forms of pharmaceutical medicine, period.

She spends her life lecturing and writing about the dangers of drugs and

their ability to cause mental illness.

So incensed is she about the current state of affairs that she felt

compelled to self-publish a whistle-blower, entitled Drug-induced Dementia,

which painstakingly catalogues a vast amount of scientific evidence showing

that modern medicine is the primary culprit behind all forms of dementia,

one of the most rampant epidemics of our time.

A new use for rocket fuel

One of her more outrageous snippets of information concerns the fact that in

the 1950s, when doctors first began to treat psychiatric patients

pharmacologically, they discovered that synthetic dye and rocket-fuel

derivatives actually had what they considered some sort of medicinal effect.

Thorazine (chlorpromazine), the first antipsychotic, was born.

There was only one hitch - the drug caused the patient to become so

lethargic that his symptoms aped those of sleeping sickness. The doctors

also noticed that over time, the drugs caused all the hallmarks of Parkinson's

disease: abnormal gait, tremor, dementia and involuntary movement. They

also stupefied the patient, flattening out all feeling or excitation -

leaving behind, in effect, a vegetable.

Nevertheless, with a brand of logic peculiar to modern medicine, these

debilitating side effects were welcomed, on the premise that they were a

damned sight better than a crazed hallucinator.

In fact, doctors began to view the arrival of parkinsonian effects as a

benchmark in a patient's therapeutic progress: proof positive that the

drugs were actually working.

Not-so-subtle brain damage

The damage caused by psychiatric medicine is only the tip of the iceberg. I

began to look into this issue myself and discovered a good number of the

major classes of drugs that doctors give patients as they age bring on

dementia.

Heart drugs, cholesterol lowering drugs, sleeping pills, antidepressants,

narcotics, stimulants, including Ritalin, the ADHD drug given to children,

anti-cholinergics, anti-epileptic drugs, to name just a few, all can damage

the structure of the brain.

Anti-depressants shrink the hippocampus of the brain, and statins lower

crucial fats, or lipids, which compose much of brain tissue. Beta-blockers

and other drugs that aggressively lower blood pressure, such as calcium

channel blockers and ACE inhibitors, also lower blood flow to the brain,

creating all the hallmarks of Alzheimer's Disease

Even good old painkillers - the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory class of

drugs - can cause a variety of cognitive changes, from delirium to

disturbances in memory and concentration.

Many of these drugs actually shrink brain volume, destroying the crucial

fatty structures of brain cells, or causing abnormal accumulation of tissue

in vital brain structures.

Drug cocktails

Even though they represent only one-seventh of the population, the over-65s

take one-third of all prescription drugs - and usually a cocktail of them.

The average senior is on six drugs at a time, many of which can affect the

brain.

Given the fact that some 90 per cent of Americans from their mid-fifties

onward are taking at least one drug regularly, and nearly one-third are

taking five or more drugs, it's small wonder that dementia is one of the

world's fastest growing diseases, now absorbing $90 billion per year, or

one-third of America's entire Medicare bill. It's now expected that one in

four of us will have some form of dementia by the time we reach 80.

To put this cost into perspective, America is now spending about 1 per cent

of the US's entire gross domestic product on a largely iatrogenic

(doctor-induced) condition. Medicine has reached the point where it is

chasing its own tail, attempting to mop up with yet more drugs and

treatments a vast and costly problem it has caused in the first place.

Against nature

I tell you all this not simply to rant against the massive carnage caused by

our faulty medical system, but also to illustrate the enormous repercussions

that occur whenever we go against our truest nature. The drug-caused

dementia epidemic is simply the result of the ongoing refusal of our current

medical model to consider the body as a holistic entity.

In 1970, a German physicist named Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled upon the fact

that human beings emit a tiny current of photons, or light from the DNA of

every cell, which he labeled 'biophoton emissions " .

In his research, Popp discovered something else remarkable. If a medicine

was applied to one part of the body, a large change occurred in the number

of light emissions not only from where he'd applied the ointment, but also

from distant parts of the body. Furthermore, the size of the changes

correlated all over the body.

Popp soon recognized that this light was a communication channel within a

living organism, a means of instantaneous, or 'non-local', global signaling.

Popp's work affords a glimpse of the body at work - an exquisite,

interconnected whole. What affects one small body part affects every other

part simultaneously.

Whenever we atomize anything, but most particularly the human body - taking

it apart and attempting to treat it in separate pieces - we invite calamity.