Aspirin - The Bitter Pill That Kills PLUS What can be safe & effective

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              There are many good links here to more information.

And there

is most likely more relevent info on this site which I have missed. There are

also many more links on these pages.

Two of the books below on magnesium are free to download. There is

much info here at these links too about magnesium for those interested.

I find the seeming 'link' between aspirin and serious eyesight

deterioration interesting. Makes me wonder too though if there is a connection

between eyesight deterioration and strokes. My father had a stroke a month ago

and

has had Mascular Degeneration for the last 3 years. The articles on strokes

seem to mention mascular deterioration and vice versa - maybe they just have

aspirin in common? And of coarse the doctors have told him to take aspirin

every

day and he thinks that allopathic doctors always know what they are doing.

     blessings

                 Shan

Aspirin - The Bitter Pill That Kills

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Health through Nutrition

Bob

Regarding the May 31st. 2005 Quirks and Quarks Science program on Aspirin was

interesting, however, statements such as quoted below sounded more like an

advatorial.

" Now, imagine taking this pill daily to prevent cancer and Alzheimer's

disease. A growing number of studies suggest that regularly popping an aspirin

or

other similar anti-inflammatory drugs can reduce your risk of these diseases by

30 to 40 percent. "

Wow! What they don't tell you is that some earlier studies tell us quite a

different story. Some of these have indicated that you can get strokes and Colon

cancer and aspirin may even cause Macular degeneration. While much safer

anti-inflammatory foods such as Turmeric; and vitamin C to prevent Colon cancer

already exist.

The following extract from the booklet " How Health-Conscious Americans Get

Killed by Bad Medicine " by Dr. ' MD will give some balance to the above

radio program. The complete booklet is available at:

http://www.rhinopublish.com/books/BadMedicine.htm  this is a must read and

clearly demonstrates the

mainstream Quacks are well and alive. Be warned that the ebook version with some

minor typos is not printable and copious references are not provided, although

these are not as important as most information is logical and self contained.

Of course there is no money for research on these safer alternatives and as

usual regulatory bodies such as the FDA, Health Canada etc. will be the first

to protect their pharmaceutical buddies with our tax money no less. While in

Europe the CODEX initiative to burry safe effective doses of vitamins and herbs

is well underway.

Incredible!

Gupta

See also: Vitamins For Macular Degeneration/Eye Health

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ig_savings.htm   -- Offers Big Savings

From the article above about Macular Degeneration --

> " As an example Aspirin*, besides causing so many deaths, is also implicated

> eye problems. Yet the stronger version of such drugs are not only expensive

> but covered under many insurance schemes... and many (including some doctors)

> with macular degeneration will continue taking it totally oblivious of the

> side effects of this and other drugs. Then they wonder why people turn to far

> more efficacious and cost effective nutritional solutions. "

> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/03/05/health_and_nutrition.htm "

    See also: Avoiding Visual Degeneration  

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         READ MORE ABOUT ASPIRIN AT ABOVE URL too!!!!!!!!

Aspirin The Bitter Pill That Kills Aspirin is in

An aspirin promotion group called the Aspirin Foundation boasts that the

chemical " probably has been taken, at one time or another, by almost every human

being on earth. " Wishful thinking, no doubt, but pill-happy Americans scarf

down 25 million aspirin tablets a day. The British take it in a powder, the

Italians take an effervescent, champagne-like mix, the French take it rectally,

and

the Thailanders put it in their morning and evening tea. Chemical companies

produce 90 billion aspirin tablets a year. If all those tablets were placed end

to end they would stretch to the planet Infinity and back. Did you ever think

that you would see the day when Americans by the millions would be popping

aspirin for their health* Do all these people really have an aspirin deficiency?

Did God forget to put aspirin in our food? Will an aspirin a day keep the

doctor away? You'd probably say no to all of the above because it doesn't make

any sense to take a chemical as if it were a vitamin. But it took the British to

figure out how the aspirin industry and the AMA pulled off such a scam.

The Real Hero: Magnesium

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The much-promoted Physician's Health Study proving that taking aspirin

regularly will prevent heart attacks didn't use just aspirin but aspirin plus

magnesium in the form of Bufferin.

Research done years ago proved that magnesium protects the heart. It dilates

blood vessels, aids in absorption of potassium into cells (which will prevent

heartbeat irregularities), acts as an anticoagulant (blood thinner) and keeps

the blood cells from sticking together (thrombosis). Autopsy of the heart

muscle following death by heart attack almost always reveals that the heart

muscle

is deficient in magnesium. I have been taking a magnesium supplement (KMag

from Vitaline — there are other good ones) for 10 years and I have hundreds of

patients on magnesium. We just don't see heart attacks in patients who stick

with it. So the doctors (and their patients) have been conned again by the group

that has been leading them around by the nose for 75 years — the

pharmaceutical industry. A British study using only aspirin revealed that

aspirin had

absolutely nothing to do with lowering the incidence of heart attacks.

Robbing to Pay ?

The American study was so flawed that you can't help but wonder if the

aspirin industry financed it. The subjects were white, male, mostly non- smoking

doctors who were not monitored, and who reported their condition by letter —

post

office research. The study used an extremely healthy group with only

oneeighth the death rate of the general population. Even with such a healthy

group,

the study results had some ominous overtones. That's the part the aspirin

companies don't want you to know about. Though heart attacks were relatively

rare,

strokes and sudden death from other causes were more common among the aspirin

group than with the placebo group. This information is very significant. The

claim for reduction in heart attacks among the aspirin group was 47 percent. But

the small print (very small print) in the report said that when death from

all causes was considered, there was no difference in the mortality rates of the

two groups. Thus, death from other causes among the aspirin group increased

substantially — an amount equal to 47 percent of all heart attacks in the

nonaspirin group. Did you know that every time you take aspirin you bleed a

little

into your gut? A microscope will show that the bowel movement of someone on

daily aspirin has blood in it every time. If it's happening in your intestinal

tract, how do you know it's not happening in your brain? How many strokes are

precipitated by chronic aspirin intake? How many fatal hemorrhages of the

brain, spleen, liver, intestine, or lung occur after an automobile accident

because

the blood has been thinned with aspirin? Nobody knows and nobody is checking.

Prevention That Works There are many natural ways to protect yourself from

heart attack without enriching the Bayer Company:

• Magnesium, as men tioned above, is absolutely essential for a healthy heart

and should be given credit for the beneficial results obtained in the aspirin

study.

• Salmon oil contains a strong platelet antisticking agent called

eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).

• Garlic blocks the clotting mechanism.

• Niacin is a well known anti-atherosclerotic agent.

• Vitamin C is an important factor in prostaglandin production.

• Vitamin E is also important in the production of prostaglandins.

• Bromelin reduces platelet stickiness.

• Zinc is a necessary catalyst, along with the enzyme d-6-d, in certain fatty

acid metabolic processes essential to the health of your coronary arteries.

• Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine) converts the highly atherogenic homocysteine to

cystathionine. This prevents meat protein from damaging your arteries. Also

stops platelet aggregation.

• Folic Acid neutralizes the enzyme XO in homogenized pasteurized milk. XO

hardens your arteries.

• Carnitine and Taurine, two of the amino ' acids considered nonessential by

most nutritionists, are absolutely essential for a healthy heart. There are

other nutrients for a healthy heart, but you get the picture. So who needs

aspirin?

The Cancer Connection

A few years ago I was in Nashville, Tennessee attending a medical conference

with a colleague. While at dinner he developed severe chest pain, was rushed

to the university hospital, and was found to have suffered a heart attack. He

went very quickly to bypass surgery and survived it with no complications. I

was visiting him one day following the surgery when a nurse came in to give him

his aspirin tablet. She stood there and watched him take it with a glass of

water. It was almost a ritual. Such is the reverence felt for this drug. But in

addition to the reports showing aspirin has no preventive effect on heart

attacks, new reports show that aspirin may cause cancer. And what's more, a

study

of California researchers reported in the British Medical Journal that older

men and women who take aspirin every day almost double their chances of

developing so-called ischemic heart disease. Ischemic heart disease accounts for

a

wide range of illnesses involving blockage of the arteries carrying blood to the

heart. Aspirin-users were also more likely to develop kidney and colon

cancer, the study found. Lawrence Garfinkel, Vice President for Epidemiology at

the

American Cancer Society said, " It would give one pause about using aspirin

routinely to prevent an initial heart attack. This is going to be very confusing

to the public. " The new study concluded: " Our study would not recommend that

these people routinely consume aspirin. " There are a few other reasons why you

shouldn't take aspirin: indigestion, bleeding ulcers with possible hemorrhage

and death from exsanguination (internal bleeding) and hemorrhagic stroke.

I'm Vain About My Brain

Leo Dropperman started taking aspirin to prevent a second heart attack, as

advised by his doctor and the TV commercials. But when he read that daily doses

could increase his chances of getting a hemorrhagic stroke, he quit. " I'd much

rather have a heart attack than a stroke, " said the Tennessee psychologist.

" I'm very vain about my brain.†Of course, it may be even worse than that. The

British report mentioned earlier found no beneficial effect on heart attack

frequency from taking aspirin, but the California study goes even further in

suggesting that daily aspirin use may actually increase the odds of having a

heart attack, as well as give you kidney and colon cancer. On hearing that news,

drug companies quickly folded their medicine tents and split. Their commercials

connecting aspirin with beneficial effects on heart disease were scrapped.

Sterling Drug (Eastman Kodak) pulled its commercial depicting the Bayer aspirin

logo over a pulsating heart monitor and substituted the old logo: " the wonder

drug doctors themselves take more often for pain. " Bristol-Myers dragged out

Lansbury to say: " A cup of tea and a couple of Bufferin allow me to do

the things I want to do. " Sterling Drugs even went so far as to introduce a

Bayer calendar pack to remind people to take their aspirin. Consumers are

beginning to question all these contradictory studies. They don't know who to

believe

anymore. So, when it comes to advice on drugs, who can you trust? The FDA?

Well, in December, 1984 the FDA recommended allowing drug companies to promote

the use of aspirin to reduce the chances of a second heart attack. Can you

trust the medical journals? In January, 1988, the New England Journal of

Medicine

reported that an aspirin every other day reduced the risk of heart attacks.

(Is it coincidental that the drug companies have been able to get their slimy

fingers into the New England Journal of Medicine with multi-million-dollar

advertising contracts?) Can you trust the medical advice given by actors on TV

commercials? Forget I asked. Can you trust the hospitals and their doctors?

Remember the episode my colleague had in the hospital with the nurse

force-feeding

him aspirin? After the aspirin-popping media blitz, aspirin sales temporarily

increased and then resumed the old downward trend. The news leaked out that an

aspirin a day would keep good health away. One disgusted advertising drummer

said plaintively: " About the only preventive thing people do in this country is

brush their teeth with fluoride. " I guess you can't trust the advertising

agencies either.

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posted by Gupta on Wednesday June 4 2003 updated on Saturday September

24 2005

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>> se lesions?' "    Gupta

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