Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Be aware of seven levels of intervention that cover the majority of clinical situations:
Level 1: Diet, exercise, lifestyle, and stress management Level 2: Nutritional supplementation Level 3: Botanicals
Level 4: Compounded bio-identical hormones
Level 5: pharmaceutical company bio-identical hormones (Use with oral micronized progesterone if uterus is still intact.)
Level 6: Synthetic and semisynthetic non-bio-identical hormones in cases that do not respond to other medicines (Use with oral micronized progesterone if uterus is still intact. |
| Friendlier and Less-Friendly Conventional HRT
Friendlier conventional HRT includes all estrogens manufactured by a pharmaceutical company that are made with bio-identical estradiol or estrone. As stated previously, the differences are the binders, fillers, preservatives, adhesives, and additives used in these products. Oral capsules of 1 mg bio-identical hormones are equivalent to 0.625 mg of conjugated equine estrogens (CEE). Estrogen patches that contain 0.05 mg of bio-identical estradiol are equivalent to 0.625 mg CEE (Premarin) or to 1 mg of oral bio-identical estradiol. |
| These exceed the limited number of doses and deliveries that are available in either the pharmaceutical company bio-identical hormone preparations or the synthetic and semisynthetic prescription items.
Finally, bio-identical estrogens include estradiol, estriol, and estrone, as I mentioned earlier. Bio-identical progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA are also available. Any combination of these hormones can be formulated in a compounded hormone prescription: any dose, any combination, and the numerous delivery options. |
| Bio-identical estrogens are available as either a patented conventional hormone prescription made by a pharmaceutical company and dispensed from a regular pharmacy with a prescription, or in a nonpatented form from a specially pharmacy called a compounding pharmacy, also available only by prescription. There are a few key advantages to the compounded forms. First, health-care providers can create customized dosing regimens and potencies to fit each individual woman, which can be adjusted in small units to taper a woman onto or off of treatment. |
| Second, the pharmaceutical company versions have additives, binders, adhesives, or preservatives included in their formulations because they patent one or more of those or the delivery technology rather than the estrogen itself. As more and more practitioners recognize, these chemical substances can cause reactions and side effects in many individuals. These can include skin reactions, headaches, digestive problems, or others, only because of the chemical additive, not because of the estrogen itself. |
| That choice is between the woman and her provider.
A pharmaceutical company's FDA application information shows that 0.014 mg of transdermal estradiol in the form of a weekly patch has been shown to be effective for prevention of osteoporosis, but it does not develop blood levels high enough to increase or build an endometrial lining. Therefore, the FDA is allowing this medication to be used as an unopposed estrogen in women with a uterus. The information in the package insert for this medication suggests a progestogen challenge test at 6- to 12-month intervals. |
Anne Harrington
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 Indeed, in 1957 the pharmaceutical company Charles C. Pfizer made a short industrial film, The Relaxed Wife, that aimed explicitly to encourage doctors to think of the stressed businessman as a target for treatment with minor tranquilizers. Filled with strategically humorous images (e.g., a businessman with a head literally about to explode under pressure), lots of talk about the tensions of corporate life, and the importance of learning to relax, the film managed to promote its anxiolytic product, Antarax, without using the word "anxiety" once. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It will promote practically any disease, even if it's completely fictitious, as long as someone from a pharmaceutical company says the disease is real and that people should be afraid of it. Look at the hype over "Restless Leg Syndrome" for an example of the disease mongering carried out by the mainstream media.
I'm not saying that the New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post or other newspapers never engage in real journalism -- clearly they do from time to time. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 The fact that research on coenzyme Qi0 is publicly available has all but eliminated any hope that a pharmaceutical company can obtain meaningful patent protection covering any important use of this nutrient. Therefore, these companies would rather dis-
54 count the benefits of coenzyme Qio to the advantage of some new patented drug they roll out of their laboratories. These two factors, more than any other, stand in the way of any near-term broad clinical acceptance of this vital nutrient, which could have such a significant impact on modern medicine. |
Melody Petersen
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 Instead, the named "authors" of these articles were academic physicians and scientists, who were being paid by the pharmaceutical company. Often even the editors of the journals have been kept in the dark.
One of the ghostwriters working in the industry told me that some physician "authors" insisted on changing and editing much of the manuscript that the marketing firm delivered to them for their review and signature. Other doctors, the writer said, changed little or nothing at all. |
Dawson Church
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 A comparison of studies of drugs used to treat schizophrenia found that the pharmaceutical company whose drug came out on top in the study was almost always the company that had paid for the study9 And even when they're prescribed, doctors are not always doing patients a favor: "Pharmaceuticals temporarily diminish anxiety, panic, and depression; decrease our emotional and physical pain; or kill hostile germs in the body Yet they leave the root causes of our ailments untouched and diminish our capacity to feel. |
Melody Petersen
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| Graham Dukes, a former research executive at Organon, a pharmaceutical company, in a paper in 2003. With advertising, Dr. Dukes said, a person knows he is "being subjected to a process of persuasion, and has an opportunity to resist it."
"Far more dominant and much more dangerous," Dr. Dukes wrote, "was however what I feel bound to call the corruption of truth."
When all these promotional techniques came together, marketers found almost anything was possible. A clinical study that failed to show what executives had hoped and expected didn't have to be a failure. |
| Jed Beitler, the advertising executive in charge of IntraMed, later explained that the physicians had been paid as "consultants" to sit on the pharmaceutical company's "advisory board" for the evening.
But Dr. Brown said he did no consulting that night at Daniel or at any of the other dinners he was offered cash to attend. Dr. Brown said he had grown increasingly concerned that the expensive promotional dinners were corrupting the practice of medicine. |
| By 2007 just about every major pharmaceutical company was under investigation for fraudulent marketing or other illegal business practices. Prosecutors have tried to discourage the fraud by imposing fines of nearly a billion dollars on some drug companies. The pharmaceutical executives appear to consider these fines as little more than a cost of doing business. With no limits on drug prices in America, the companies have simply raised their prices to cover the penalties. |
| He had almost two thousand college business students and executive trainees take part in a role-playing experiment in which they acted as the executives and directors of a pharmaceutical company. Armstrong told the participants that they needed to make a decision about a drug that was bringing in sales of twenty million dollars a year and was a significant contributor to the company's bottom line. Federal regulators and independent scientists had determined that the drug was needlessly causing the deaths of twenty people a year. |
Tom Bohager
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 Takamine allowed the pharmaceutical company Parke, Davis & Company to produce his enzyme, takadiastase, on a commercial scale; it is still in use today as a digestive aid (Higasi, K., "Structural Chemistry," in Livermore, Arthur H., Science in Japan, (Washington, DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965), 239?66).
In 1926, Dr. James B. Sumner was able to determine that enzymes are actually proteins. |
Ron Garner
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 After leaving medical school, doctors receive their ongoing education about the efficacy of new drugs from pharmaceutical company representatives, whose main objective is to convince doctors to sell their products. Dr. Bruce Lipton notes that "medical doctors are caught between an intellectual rock and a corporate hard place," and calls them "pharmaceutical patsies."4
MEDICAL THINKING IS CH E M ISTR Y-B AS E D
Conventional medicine, with its drug-treatment mindset, typically views the body only as a chemical entity. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 I had been invited there as a guest of Forest Labs, a pharmaceutical company for which I consulted, which produced the Alzheimer's drug memantine.
After several speeches, the MC of the event stood before the roomful of wealthy donors and said quite resolutely, "We are going to find a cure for this disease someday! And that day is getting closer!" Inspired by this unqualified proclamation of hope, the donors on hand opened their pockets, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Alzheimer's Association in one night. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 The financial connection to a pharmaceutical company whose purpose was promoting sales of a controlled addictive substance was considered hidden advertising. Not until the spring of 2000 was a lawsuit on these matters filed. So clearly one just has to follow the money trail.
"In the 1996 elections, Eli Lilly Company, manufacturers of Prozac, made over $770,000 in soft money contributions to prominently placed politicians. By 1996, there were already over 600,000 minors on Prozac and they had a well-honed advertising campaign targeting children ready to go. |
David Steinman
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 No laboratory or pharmaceutical company can supply what we do through our natural sources."
He pulled me aside. "I'll survive. I know how to make a living. But I'm concerned for the region that we're losing the fishery," he said. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 He gave a talk about pharmaceutical company influence. There was stony silence at the end of his presentation. No applause. Then the audience bombarded him with angry comments, like T want my pizza' and 'You have no right to tell me what I can't do.' " At the 200 c convention, says Wen, Marcia Angell spoke about the same issue and received a standing ovation.
Academic medical centers are also becoming increasingly aware of the need to reduce industry influence on both research and prescribing practices. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| With no affiliation to any pharmaceutical company, this system would prevent the hiding — sometimes for very long periods —of dangerous events being experienced by drug consumers.
Good Corporate Citizenship
Pharmaceuticals, the most profitable corporate industry in America, continually point to their "good citizenship" practices. If these corporations are truly worthy of "personhood" and its associated responsibilities, let them share in subsidizing health care costs for the 40% of Americans who cannot afford medical insurance. |
Dawson Church
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| Ciba-Geigy a giant multinational pharmaceutical company, patented a process to create genetic changes in fish eggs?using only electrical effects. Using their process, "They were able to grow trout having distinctive hooked jaws that had been extinct for 150 years."14 Both mechanical generators of electromagnetic fields, and human ones, can produce fields that shift genes.
Pulse J Electromagnetic Field Tkerapy
One of the most recent therapeutic uses for electromagnetism in healing is the use of pulsed magnetic stimulation (PMS). |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The idea struck him as a good one, so Pincus sought out the pharmaceutical company Searle, thinking they would share his enthusiasm and fund his research. Unfortunately, the firm turned him down because at that time laws against birth control were strict.
Through a series of experiments on another drug, a Searle chemist named Frank Colton inadvertently developed an early version of the pill that Pincus was permitted to use for his work. |
Ron Garner
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| It was backed by Rockefeller and the German chemical and pharmaceutical company I. G. Farben in alliance with Dupont, Standard Oil, and Ford.
The Food and Drug Administration, or fda, was formed in 1906 to establish credibility and keep public opinion positive toward the use of pharmaceuticals. It was set up to be an independent government organization whose purpose was to test all foods and drugs, and remove from the market any products it considered to be unsafe. It was given the power to approve drugs and natural supplements as either safe or unsafe. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| This syndrome refers to the sudden outburst of crying or laughing that occurs involuntarily and without strong underlying subjective emotion in conditions like multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A pharmaceutical company called Avanir is developing a physician education campaign focusing on broadening conceptions of PBA to potentially expand the market to patients with dementia. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Any time a pharmaceutical company or a science researcher wants to discredit vitamins, it's very easy to structure a study that will do it. All they have to do is use very low doses and construct a bizarre set of study inclusion guidelines that eliminate all positive results. I've seen studies on vitamin E that were using a fraction of even the basic, minimal US RDA numbers, and even those numbers are way too low to be effective in the first place. So, of course, the results are going to be negative. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Career opportunities abound at the FDA, and it's easy to succeed with this job since the mainstream press will print practically anything you say, regardless of whether it makes any scientific sense, as long as it's on official FDA letterhead. Starting salary: $75,000 plus a license to kill any idea (or health business) you don't like.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Then, more and more deaths are reported and, finally, the pharmaceutical company has to admit, "Yes, our drug can cause liver disease (for this example), but it only happens one in one hundred thousand times." I have heard that in my office so many different times with different drugs. Eventually, there are so many cases coming in and so many people dying that they finally have to pull the drug off the market. Then you hear the whole truth. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 In fact, many pharmaceutical company researchers bioprospecting for new chemicals and drugs in the Amazon are very interested in those plants the Indians employ as snakebite remedies for just this reason. It may be possible that Dr. Inchuastegui stumbled across one of these natural protease inhibitors in his work with HIV patients and jergon sacha. Clinical research is still required, however, to verify the mechanisms of action in jergon sacha against viruses and against snakebite and, particularly, if they are one and the same. |
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