The disease industry

She clutched the old, threadbare black bag tight against her broad chest, her large, messy body on the narrow wagon. The dirty old woman was brought into the room. “She has a lot of money in that bag,” said the older man. “And I mean a lot of money,” he emphasized. Oh yes, he remembered her well.

Ruby had been taken to the emergency department that morning. She had been playing with her cat when she felt dizzy. She lived alone, desperately depressed and suffering short-term memory loss. She had been moved to bed, her temporarily neglected bag out of her clutches. With the supervisor at my side we count the money. $ 1,200 in cash, no wonder he grabbed it so close that Ruby kept her pension money, just in case!

We close the money in the safe. She kept clutching her old black bag! Then the noisy whaling began. She reminded me of a sick animal in agony. My daughter’s old dog had been euthanized that same day. Bella was crying constantly, so much was her pain and aging.

Ruby screeched as she stretched her toes as the family cramp washed over her. “Where did you put my pants on?” she cried. “I want them back! Ruby was going back to bed after one of her many trips to the bathroom. Her putrid black underpants were now in the trash. Oh yeah, I remember her well.

How many more trips will Ruby make to the hospital holding her old black bag? I heard them say they would put a pacemaker on him. But pacemakers don’t repair pain, loneliness, or short-term memory loss. And they can’t wash their dirty underwear either!

Until the end of the 18th century, a visit to the hospital was generally his last visit. No one went to the hospital hoping to get better. It was believed that if a society continues to need hospitals, then its revolution has failed.

That the revolution has failed is obvious when we consider how huge the health budgets are that are expected to currently consume the entire state budget in approximately 50 years.

How then do we get to this point when we are so totally dependent on a system that makes us cry out to enter …

Modern medicine had its beginnings around the 17th century when William Harvey demonstrated blood circulation and quinine began to triumph over malaria. In the 18th century, the digital drug for the heart was introduced and the condition of scurvy was controlled.

It was a promising start, but one that went terribly wrong.

Scientific medicine put less emphasis on the whole person and became obsessed with the different parts of our bodies, our livers, our hearts, and our brains … the body was seen as a machine. New technologies flourished and the most important thing was deferred death. Nature became the enemy, if you want …..

Many became aware of the growing dilemma when they saw it. That of leaving medical care in the hands of the professional elite. The radical philosopher Ivan Illich was a critic who wrote that,

By transforming pain, illness, and death from a personal challenge into a technical problem, medical practice expropriates the potential of people to treat their human condition autonomously and becomes the source of a new type of ill-health. .

In a special report on the state of Victoria, Australian journalist Age Tim Colebatch wrote that

When it comes to health, Victorians are more concerned with waiting lists.

Colebatch’s words echo the sentiment among the population … All we need is access to treatments and institutions of medicine.

I remember the opening of the new Austin hospital just a couple of years ago. The occasion was experienced with much euphoria. But why would the growth of the disease industry be worthy of applause? Surely this demonstrates our disconnection from the state of true health and the meaning of life …

Colebatch is thinking in this regard when he wrote

We should ask ourselves what governments can do to keep us out of the hospital.

What is health anyway?

Health, Ivan Illich argued, is the ability to cope with the human reality of death, pain, and disease. Technology can help, but modern medicine has gone too far, launching into a divine battle to eradicate death, pain, and disease. By doing so, it turns people into consumers or objects, destroying their capacity for health.

There is truth in what the philosopher Ivan Illich wrote in “Medical Nemesis”.

Today we have a situation in which the risk of death in this state has decreased by a third in the last 15 years. This means that we are necessarily living healthy lives, in fact some of these long-lived people simply exist. They live in and out of hospitals and other health institutions for the last few years, occupying hospital beds and consuming increasingly expensive treatments and technology that accompany this, and, like Ruby, are, as Ilyich put it, the victims of iatrogenesis. culture, the destruction of traditional ways of treating and giving meaning to death, pain and disease

Of course, there is room for modern medicine in our lives.

Modern medicine treats many conditions very well. Where would we be without him?

Some women need obstetric help to give birth, but only a few need this help. In 2003, over 74,000 caesarean sections were performed in Australia, representing 28.5 percent of all births, compared to 19 percent in 1994. In 1970, the caesarean section rate was 5 percent.

Not many women need cesarean births, but this is becoming very common and, according to some, it will soon become the norm and not the exception.

Everything is part of our society without risks and we move away from nature. Nature takes time with birth and causes pain.

Modern medicine and surgery have their rightful place, such as in areas of road trauma, the treatment of burn victims, the treatment of cerebral hemorrhages and small but necessary cesarean deliveries, and the establishment of broken bones and other traumatic events.

BUT there’s the downside … that’s what I’m talking about today …

Conventional medicine has become the third cause of death. This is mainly due to unnecessary procedures. Up to 80% of tonsillectomies and hysterectomies are unnecessary. In fact, up to 60% of other surgeries are also unnecessary.6 Although chemotherapy has become very mainstream, there is no evidence that these cancer treatments are effective, and indeed the long-term effects of chemotherapy may be last a decade or more. Childhood cancer survivors are five times more likely to develop a chronic disease at age 45 than their siblings who had not received cancer treatment as children.

A recent Commonwealth government report has found that hundreds of Australians may be dying of cancer each year as a result of radiation received from cat scanners. The much-touted test for breast cancer is mammography, which is in fact an x-ray and, as we all know, x-rays are radiation and this causes cancer. In fact, for every 1,000 women examined every two years for 12 years, one death from breast cancer is prevented, while the total number of deaths increases by 6. In the area of ​​breast cancer, very little is said about the causes. , only tests and treatments. , which are very profitable for the cancer industry.

And yet, just a few weeks ago, Labor pledged $ 25 million for a new cancer center. But where are the creative solutions for rising cancer rates?

We are not healthy people:

How much do we really owe to the medical profession?

Let’s briefly look at our history.

If we go to the introduction of industrialization, we had an increase in infections, which then decreased. Tuberculosis peaked over a period of 50-75 years and declined before the tubercle bacillus was discovered or anti-tuberculosis programs were started.

Then we had the era of rickets and pellagra, these also had their heyday and then decreased. This improvement was driven by better nutrition. Although early childhood diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and whooping cough were problematic, the incidence and deaths from these were declining before the advent of vaccination. They decreased due to better living conditions.

And going back to the times in which we live, we all know the diseases we suffer. They are largely the result of our way of life, the food we eat and the rhythm of life, among other factors. These diseases consist of coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, arthritis, diabetes and mental disorders, and an increasing number of autoimmune diseases.

Let’s examine one of these modern afflictions:

Coronary heart disease

What we are told about the cause, prevention and treatment. Is that what we are being told and how are we being treated within medical institutions in fact the whole story or is there more to it? Who benefits from the expensive treatments promoted in this disease industry?

Heart disease was very rare in 1900, responsible for about 8% of all deaths in the US. USA Compared to current figures of approximately 45%.

But why has this become so common today to account for around 45% of all deaths?

One of the promoted risk factors for heart disease is high blood cholesterol levels.

But do high blood cholesterol levels lead to a heart attack? And what do we mean by high cholesterol levels?

From the Australian Institute of Health and Wellness website we learn:

Total blood cholesterol levels above 5.5 mmol / L are an indication of a much higher risk of developing coronary heart disease. Levels above 6.5 mmol / L are considered to indicate an extremely high risk. The trend these days is to promote cholesterol testing in all adults, and the likelihood of cholesterol-lowering medications for the rest of your life is very strong.

What is cholesterol anyway and what happens in the body when we lower it?

Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance, which plays many important roles in the human body. It is vital for the proper functioning of the cell membrane. Cholesterol is the body’s restorative substance. Cholesterol is the precursor of vitamin D, which in turn is invaluable for mineral metabolism. Cholesterol plays an important role in proper neurological function and in the regulation of blood sugar levels. It is also a precursor to the production of sex hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.

Surely we should be concerned about the number of people taking a medicine to reduce this important substance that is part of our body and integral for its proper functioning!

This is never discussed …

Medications that are prescribed to lower cholesterol are called statins. Examples of these are lipitor, zocor and provachol and they have many dangerous side effects such as muscle pain, neuropathy, heart failure, dizziness, cognitive decline, cancer, pancreatic rot and depression.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs lower cholesterol, but do they prevent heart disease?

Well, even a drug maker has admitted that cholesterol-lowering drugs don’t prevent heart attacks.

Pfizer is the manufacturer of the cholesterol-lowering medication Lipitor and on its website was the following disclaimer:

Lipitor has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks.

So what is going on here?

We have been led to believe that high cholesterol levels can lead to heart attacks, yet the manufacturers admitted that their medication they have designed to lower blood cholesterol has not been shown to prevent heart attacks.

What it means is that Pfizer knows that its medications don’t prevent heart disease and that we are simply the pawns in its profitable game. Lipitor has annual sales of more than $ 6 billion.

Today, Australians spend $ 94 million a year at the pharmacist’s counter on lipitor cholesterol-lowering medication, according to data from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Plan.

But more than double that amount is spent marketing the drug, bringing the total cost to the taxpayer, after the PBS subsidy is added, to $ 581.5 million each year.

and for a medicine that does not prevent heart disease ……

Since then, Pfizer has been able to withdraw its disclaimer from its website now that the United States has passed laws promoting pharmaceutical amnesty.

This is very serious when you consider that it is believed that more than fifty thousand Australians are injured each year by the medicines they take, but with laws like this, where they will seek redress.

Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry is a major player in the disease industry.

Throughout the 20th century, the pharmaceutical industry was built and organized with the aim of controlling health systems around the world by systematically replacing non-patentable natural therapies with patentable and therefore cost-effective synthetic drugs. The goal is simply to cover the symptoms but never address the root cause of an illness.

The 2005 figures for prescription drug sales were $ 200 billion. This figure refers to the purchase of medicines by the consumer in pharmacies, but does not include the amount spent on medicines in hospitals and nursing homes. The total of these three areas totals $ 400 billion.

You might get the impression that all of these new drugs appearing on the market are better than previous ones, but … Of the 78 drugs approved in 2002, only 17 of them had new ingredients, the others were variations of more drugs. ancient. . It was me, drugs

The ALLHAT trial, which was a trial of treatments for high blood pressure, compared four types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure.

1. a calcium channel blocker 2. a beta blocker 3. an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor 4. and a generic diuretic or water pill that has been on the market for over fifty years.

The results were surprising.

The old diuretic turned out to be just as good at lowering blood pressure and better at managing some of the devastating complications of high blood pressure, mainly heart disease and stroke.

However, over the years, these diuretics were ignored in favor of the new drugs. Diuretics were priced at just $ 37 a year in 2002 compared to $ 715 for Norvasc, one of the newer medications for me, so this means that if you are taking Norvasc to control your high blood pressure, then you will have to pay 19 times more for the privilege. And the cost to our health can also be worse. There are many side effects of these new medications.

And how many drugs do we really need? A little morphine for pain, Lasix as the simple and cheap diuretic, Penicillin for serious infections that the body cannot treat on its own, Digoxin, a common antiarrhythmic medication for the heart, Anginine for heart pain, Adrenaline for anaphylaxis.

Nothing like the hundreds or thousands of drugs on the market today.

Marcia Angell, author of The Truth About Pharmaceutical Companies, tells us that this industry is taking us for a ride.

And a trip in which the Bush administration is intricately involved ….. Since 2000, the pharmaceutical industry has disbursed more than $ 70 million in campaign contributions, with 70 percent going to Republicans. In addition, a total of fourteen senior Bush administration officials have “passed through the revolving door of the federal government and are now lobbying for the prescription drug industry.”

Let’s see how the disease industry is commercialized.

“Be a man” was the message delivered by a procession of high-profile doctors and celebrities in sunny Martin Place recently. Michael Lascelles wrote:

“Ask your doctor about a prostate cancer checkup” was the message promoted by people like GP Kerryn Phelps, Bigwig Wayne Swan, Marcia Hines, Magda Szubanski and a cast of thousands of people. There was a real atmosphere of well-being among the lunchtime workers sitting around the small auditorium, as they were told not to be apprehensive, but to check them out. Lascelles found himself agreeing with them and enjoying the good vibes. However, in the back of his mind, he knew that prostate cancer screening is messy and highly controversial. All family arguments: does it save lives? [We just don't know] … Do you want to be incontinent and powerless when receiving treatment for a non-threatening slow-growing tumor? Should we scare many older men by labeling them as having cancer? Of course, none of this was mentioned in the solemn presentation hosted by some MTV video jock. Nor was it the fact that the organizers of the event, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, are funded by Astrazeneca, Sanofi and Novartis, makers of treatments for men diagnosed with prostate cancer. It may not always be wise to “be a man”. You may have a better old age being a coward

This disease industry is a vital part of the economy of our countries.

Mike Adams of newstarget.com writes that

We have created so much disease in the USA. USA And we have based our economy to such a degree that, frankly, we cannot untangle this situation without causing economic problems.

Adams calls it the economics of disease.

One of the latest innovations in the disease industry is the cervical cancer vaccine.

This is a new vaccine that is marketed in girls and probably boys from 9 to 26 years old. It is said to be a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. The organism believed to cause this cancer is HPV.

However, this is a great leap of faith.

Does a virus cause cancer?

Well, there are many researchers who would argue with this hypothesis. Cancers are not caused by viruses but by carcinogens.

The US National Cancer Institute. USA He says direct causality has not been demonstrated. In the United States, the incidence of cervical cancer in all women, with and without HPV, by age 70 is approximately 1%. In a controlled study of women of the same age, 67% of people with cervical cancer and 43% of those without HPV were found to be positive for HPV.

So what is this all about?

The incidence of this HPV virus is rampant in society. 70-80% of women and men carry this virus, and our bodies shed this virus over time, and very few of us get cervical cancer.

The 2000 figures for cervical cancer death rates are 3.3 women per 100,000 population in the United States and 4 women per 100,000 population in Australia.

It is not a pleasant disease, but the numbers do not have epidemic proportions, right?

Even if HPV was somehow indicated in this cancer, there is no need to vaccinate an entire generation of children when most people with this virus naturally fight it off and can be detected by a Pap test.

No, this is just another money spinner for a desperate industry, one that is forced to come up with product after product.

What About Cervical Cancer Vaccine Trials? These were successful and safe, right?

Well, no! The FDA allowed Merck to use a placebo containing potentially reactive aluminum as a control for most of the trial participants, instead of a placebo non-reactive saline solution. A reactive placebo can artificially increase the safety appearance of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial.

The vaccine itself contains 225 mcg of aluminum. And we know that aluminum is not something that we should inject into children or anyone else.

About 60 percent of those who received Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia. Gardasil recipients had more serious adverse events such as headache, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm, and arthritis.

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) sums it up correctly: with cervical cancer causing about one percent of all cancer deaths in American women due to routine Pap tests , it was not appropriate for the FDA to speed up Gardasil treatment. It is too early to tell all young women to receive three doses of a vaccine that has not been shown to be safe or effective in their age group. ”

Gardasil could be Merck’s top pipeline contributor to front-line growth, financial analysts predict, with peak sales of at least $ 2 billion, revenue Merck urgently needs after the Vioxx scandals. That income figure assumes that Gardasil will be required for admission to the school.

The whole sorry episode is a scam

How does the disease industry cope?

There is a mistaken faith in the medical establishment and this continues and is aided by the mainstream media that has been silenced on many health issues, especially in the vaccination industry. Today our children and grandchildren are receiving 50 vaccinations before starting school. We need to ask why. What are these vaccines doing to children’s immune systems? The rise in autoimmune disease is rampant. Even the Australian newspaper hinted at the connection between the vaccine and asthma recently. The belief in vaccination persists in part due to the deep belief in the germ theory that Pastuer was famous shortly before his death. And, of course, the huge vested financial interests involved. But our children are becoming the words of Meryl Dorey from the Australian vaccination network … little voodoo dolls.

All of these problems require that we do our own learning.

As with the cervical cancer vaccine, if you don’t understand that the HPV virus causes cancer and that the body can kill the virus, then you will undergo increasingly unnecessary and harmful vaccines.

As in the case of heart disease, you need to look at history. Heart disease, as we know it, was relatively rare until the 1950s, when diets began to change. The 1950s saw the beginnings of the edible oil industry and the development of margarines. Margarines are trans fats and clog arteries. Trans fats are found in margarine and in foods like potato chips and fried chicken, donuts, cookies, cakes, and crackers. This modern industrialized fat works at the cellular level by interfering with chemical reactions that lead to heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Medical research is being driven by pharmaceutical companies’ stock prices, not people’s health needs. We need to ask if we are living healthier and happier lives. Are the extra years worth it?

Now Ruby’s old heart beats regularly once more. You will not feel dizzy and you will not collapse, but the cramps and loneliness will go on and on … Like the industry of disease.

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