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| Subject: | Aspirin kills 20,000 Americans every year, so here’s a safer, and proven, way to ease pain |
| Date: | Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:59:00 -0400 |
so here’s a safer, and proven, way to ease pain
Millions of people take an aspirin or a similar painkiller every
year – but the drug could be far more dangerous than we all
thought. Researchers have revealed this week that 20,000 Americans die every year as a direct result of taking an aspirin or another NSAID (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drug) that you can buy without a prescription at a pharmacy or chemist.
A further 100,000 end up in hospital, usually because of a stomach problem caused by the drug.
In America alone, 14 million people take an NSAID just to treat pain and discomfort from arthritis. And the researchers reckon that 60 per cent of these – nearly 8.5 million people – will suffer gastrointestinal side effects, ranging from stomach bleeding, perforation or ulcers.
But there’s a safer, and proven, way to ease pain. The Norstar Magnet Therapy range is a cornerstone of the new WDDTY Health Shop. It’s so effective that it is used by therapists as well as by many thousands of people, who find it eases pain significantly. To view the range, please click here.
Sadly, most people who take an aspirin every day don’t even realize that the drug is doing them any harm. Researchers from the Eastern Virginia Medical School discovered that very few patients in a specialist clinic for gastrointestinal problems even bothered to tell their doctors that they were taking the drug. To them, it was no worse than drinking a cup of tea.
And because nobody is bothering to report the fact they take an aspirin, it’s not being seen as dangerous.
As researcher Dr David Johnson said: “This reflects a common misperception that these medications are insignificant or benign when actually their chronic use, particularly among the elderly and those with conditions such as arthritis, is linked to serious and potentially fatal GI injury and bleeding.”
But if you do suffer pain regularly, you can find quick relief from the Norstar Bio-Magnetics range, which you can view on the new WDDTY Health Shop site. There are six different products in the range, ranging from innersoles for your shoes, a pillow to help relieve pain at night, a special glove for those with arthritis in the hand, and a magnet that you can sweep across your body. To view the whole range, please click here.
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June 18, 2007 |
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Have you been wondering about aspirin? Nearly every day, a patient asks me about aspirin and heart attacks and strokes. I usually respond with something like: “Well, the TV commercials make aspirin prevention sound logical. But it’s not a vitamin or a nutrient. It’s a drug. Drugs are rarely health enhancing. And taking aspirin regularly often causes a new set of unintended consequences.” A study just published in Lancet Neurology found that strokes caused by high blood pressure dropped by 65 percent in the last 20 years. But in people over 75, so many more strokes occurred among patients taking blood-thinning drugs like aspirin and Warfarin that the overall rate of strokes remained the same. What’s more, between the two periods studied, the proportion of stroke patients on blood-thinners increased from 4 percent to 40 percent. And the number of strokes associated with these drugs increased by a factor of seven! In fact, the same researchers estimated that the increasing misuse of drugs like aspirin means that they may soon overtake high blood pressure as the leading cause of stroke in those over 75.1 My advice continues to be “avoid drugs whenever possible”. Daily aspirin appears to be no exception. Instead, take steps to lower your homocysteine. What’s homocysteine? It’s an amino acid. You produce it naturally as a byproduct of metabolism. It’s really a “toxic waste” product, something your cells dump into your bloodstream as they burn energy. Too much of it is a serious health risk. You won’t hear it mentioned in the news stories about heart health. Big Pharma would prefer that you spend your money on expensive and dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. But the fact is, homocysteine levels are a better predictor of heart disease and stroke, than cholesterol. Homocysteine is not only a predictor, but also a cause of heart attacks. It irritates the lining of blood vessels. Excess homocysteine keeps your blood vessels from opening up, or “dilating,” properly. This decreases blood flow at critical times. Inadequate blood flow to the heart causes heart attacks. Inadequate blood flow to the brain causes strokes. If you don’t know your homocysteine level, I recommend you have it checked. A simple blood test will give you an accurate reading. A level above 10.4 mM/L is abnormally high. I generally shoot for a goal of below 7 with my patients. You can easily lower your homocysteine levels. It’s as simple as taking a supplement. No harsh drugs are necessary. My bet is that if Merck or Pfizer made a drug for it, homocysteine would be a household word. The easiest way to lower your homocysteine is with a B vitamin supplement. To
Your Good Health, |
My comment: The BEST source of B vitamins (and ALL nutrients) is raw organic food, and food supplements like PhytoMatrix, Ambrotose, Plus and “AO” that actually provide authentic food matrix nutrients and vitamins IN FOOD, rather than synthetically derived chemicals they call “natural vitamins.”
For safety and best results, go natural!
Believing in you,
Ray Gebauer
Man on a Mission
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, and then you win."
-Ghandi