Acetaminophen
Changes
By
Jenny Thompson at HSI
People shouldn't have to die before a law changes. But that's exactly what's happening right now.
For years I've been sharing stories of people who lost their lives thanks to Tylenol and other acetaminophen products. People like Marcus Trunk, who I first told you about a decade ago.
He died after his liver shut down from taking acetaminophen for a sprained wrist.
Or Ashley Campbell who was still a teen when acetaminophen destroyed her liver. She spent three agonizing days in a Canadian hospital before she died.
Ashley was just one of the victims we learned about from a Toronto Star investigation last year that looked into the dangers of acetaminophen.
Now Canada's national health agency is getting ready to make major changes to how acetaminophen is bought, sold and marketed. And when they do, there will be only one country in the entire western world that's doing nothing to protect its citizens from this proven killer.
And, surprise, surprise, it's our own Big Pharma dictatorship -- the U.S. of A.
"They don't tell you it can kill"
Ashley Campbell's father, Chuck, had been a policeman for 25 years. But he says he never knew that "regular strength, over-the-counter, buy it by the bushel load, Tylenol" could kill.
And he's not alone. For years now, I've been warning you how acetaminophen can cause permanent damage to everything from your liver to your heart.
But Canada and the U.S. are still the only two western countries that have practically no restrictions on how much acetaminophen you can buy or take. And that may be starting to change -- in Canada, at least.
The Toronto Star's exposé that uncovered thousands of ER visits and hundreds of accidental deaths linked to acetaminophen caused such an outrage that Health Canada is getting ready to act.
It's talking about lowering the maximum recommended dosage of acetaminophen, requiring that the drug be sold in smaller doses, and even launching a public health campaign to warn citizens about the med's dangers.
And when that happens, we'll practically be the only developed country on the planet that's not even trying to keep its people safe from acetaminophen
Our government refusing to lift a finger to protect us from dangerous drugs. Stop me if you've heard this one before.
In Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, for example, you can only buy acetaminophen in pharmacies. And in countries like France, Germany and Switzerland, there are limits on how many pills can be sold at a time.
But in the U.S., any kindergartner with a $10 bill can walk into a gas station from New Mexico to New York and buy a 100-pill bottle, no questions asked.
The FDA has been so useless at sounding the alarm on acetaminophen that it took 32 years for a warning about liver damage to appear on bottles. And the agency still recommends a daily maximum dose of 4,000 mg. that's so high that even McNeil -- the company that invented Tylenol and started this whole mess -- says you should take less!
And while the FDA looks the other way, here's just some of the damage acetaminophen is causing every single year:
People shouldn't have to die before a law changes. But that's exactly what's happening right now.
For years I've been sharing stories of people who lost their lives thanks to Tylenol and other acetaminophen products. People like Marcus Trunk, who I first told you about a decade ago.
He died after his liver shut down from taking acetaminophen for a sprained wrist.
Or Ashley Campbell who was still a teen when acetaminophen destroyed her liver. She spent three agonizing days in a Canadian hospital before she died.
Ashley was just one of the victims we learned about from a Toronto Star investigation last year that looked into the dangers of acetaminophen.
Now Canada's national health agency is getting ready to make major changes to how acetaminophen is bought, sold and marketed. And when they do, there will be only one country in the entire western world that's doing nothing to protect its citizens from this proven killer.
And, surprise, surprise, it's our own Big Pharma dictatorship -- the U.S. of A.
"They don't tell you it can kill"
Ashley Campbell's father, Chuck, had been a policeman for 25 years. But he says he never knew that "regular strength, over-the-counter, buy it by the bushel load, Tylenol" could kill.
And he's not alone. For years now, I've been warning you how acetaminophen can cause permanent damage to everything from your liver to your heart.
But Canada and the U.S. are still the only two western countries that have practically no restrictions on how much acetaminophen you can buy or take. And that may be starting to change -- in Canada, at least.
The Toronto Star's exposé that uncovered thousands of ER visits and hundreds of accidental deaths linked to acetaminophen caused such an outrage that Health Canada is getting ready to act.
It's talking about lowering the maximum recommended dosage of acetaminophen, requiring that the drug be sold in smaller doses, and even launching a public health campaign to warn citizens about the med's dangers.
And when that happens, we'll practically be the only developed country on the planet that's not even trying to keep its people safe from acetaminophen
Our government refusing to lift a finger to protect us from dangerous drugs. Stop me if you've heard this one before.
In Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, for example, you can only buy acetaminophen in pharmacies. And in countries like France, Germany and Switzerland, there are limits on how many pills can be sold at a time.
But in the U.S., any kindergartner with a $10 bill can walk into a gas station from New Mexico to New York and buy a 100-pill bottle, no questions asked.
The FDA has been so useless at sounding the alarm on acetaminophen that it took 32 years for a warning about liver damage to appear on bottles. And the agency still recommends a daily maximum dose of 4,000 mg. that's so high that even McNeil -- the company that invented Tylenol and started this whole mess -- says you should take less!
And while the FDA looks the other way, here's just some of the damage acetaminophen is causing every single year:
- 100,000 calls to
poison control centers, due to overdoses and side effects. Even the
National Institutes of Health admits that acetaminophen poisoning is
practically a national epidemic.
- 56,000 emergency
room visits. And lots of those patients have suffered severe, irreversible
and life-threatening organ damage.
- Hundreds of
senseless deaths. The CDC claims there were 1,600 acetaminophen deaths
over a 10-year period. But many deaths never get reported, so that's
probably a small drop in a very large bucket.
It's clearly up to us to protect ourselves. But what makes acetaminophen especially dangerous is that you can find it in OTC and prescription medications that go by lots of different names.
So it can be easy to take a dangerous dose without ever realizing it.
Fortunately, an organization called KnowYourDose has a great list of meds that all have acetaminophen as an active ingredient. You can learn what they are -- and what to avoid -- by clicking here.
Omega-3 fatty acids cause cancer cells to self destruct!
Each year, the nearly two
million Americans who face a cancer diagnosis are a constant reminder that
Western medicine has certainly not found a cancer cure. In the early
1900s, one in 20 people developed cancer, in the 1940s, one in 16 people were
diagnosed, in the 1970s, it was one in 10, and now it is one in 3!
In the
early 1990s, one in twenty people were diagnosed with cancer; today, the numbers
are one in three!
New research has found
that by adding omega-3 fatty acids to anti-tumor medications, treatment
response is improved. The study examined 50 patients in the advance
stages of pancreatic cancer. They were give 1,000 mg of antitumor medication,
followed by 100 g of omega-3 lipid emulsion for three weeks. Patients
were then given a rest week. This entire protocol cycle was repeated six
times. The study found disease stabilization, reduction in liver
metastasis, and improved quality of life.
Western
medicine pairing nutritional therapy with existing cancer treatment
This information should
come as no surprise. Even without the anti-tumor medication, research has
shown that antioxidants paired with omega-3 fatty acids are a powerful way to
treat cancer. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in fatty fish, nuts, and
seeds and help protect the heart, maintain brain function, combat eye diseases,
arthritis and other health conditions.
Omega-3s have been found
to reduce inflammation, which is helpful since a variety of cancers have been
linked to chronic inflammation. When supplementing with omega-3s, it is
believed that they are able to restrict tumor cell growth and cause cancer
cells to self-destruct.
Omega-3s
reduce inflammation associated with cancer and restrict tumor cell growth,
thereby causing cancer cells to self-destruct!
Don’t forget to pair your
omega-3s with an antioxidant rich diet! This means eat plenty of berries,
greens, peppers and tomatoes. Kim Jordan, RD, at Seattle Cancer Care
Alliance, reports, “When you have cancer, it’s important to give your body
everything it needs to stay nourished and maintain a healthy immune system. The
only way to do that is with a balanced diet of real food.”
If you or someone you
love is facing cancer, remember that food is medicine and with the right fuel,
our bodies are designed to fight back!
Mastectomy madness!
When in doubt, cut it out! That's been the
breast cancer industry's sickening mantra for years.
The moment a mammogram or biopsy turns up a tumor -- or even abnormal tissue -- you'll have some mainstream surgeon in your ear promising that a lumpectomy or mastectomy will save your life.
He'll even tell you that it's better to be safe than sorry.
But a massive new study proves that thousands of American women are being needlessly disfigured and traumatized ever single year. All thanks to aggressive breast surgery that we now know won't add a single day to your life.
Evidence be damned!
Earlier this year I told you about the crucial importance of getting a second opinion for a breast cancer diagnosis, especially if that diagnosis is ductal carcinoma in situ. DCIS, as its known, is the presence of abnormal cells in the milk ducts of the breast.
Note the key word here: abnormal. The cells are not necessarily cancerous and may never become cancerous. They're simply abnormal.
That's why DCIS rates a zero in breast cancer's five stages. Zero!
And if that sounds like it deserves the lowest level of concern, you're right.
But instead of actually educating women about DCIS, it looks like mainstream surgeons are just steering them into painful, disfiguring -- and totally pointless -- surgeries instead.
In a study in the most recent issue of JAMA Oncology, researchers followed more than 100,000 women for 20 years after they'd been diagnosed with DCIS. Nearly all of them ended up having either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy.
And, believe it or not, some were even encouraged to get a double mastectomy.
A double mastectomy! For a condition that might not even be cancerous. It looks like an awful lot of surgeons must be checking their ethics -- and their shame -- at the operating room door.
And here's the worst part -- it was all for nothing. The women who received surgery to treat their DCIS had the exact same chance of dying of breast cancer in the 20 years after the operation as they had before it.
These women were put through physical and emotional trauma that lasts forever. And they won't live one extra minute for their trouble.
About one-quarter of so-called breast cancer cases in America today involve DCIS -- so you can bet that tens of thousands of women are being victimized by these unnecessary surgeries every single year.
You can almost hear the disgust in lead researcher Dr. Steven Narod's voice when he was asked what his study revealed about how we should be handling DCIS.
"I think the best way to treat DCIS is to do nothing," he told The New York Times.
But as you can imagine, that's been a pretty tough sell with the breast cancer industry that's making a fortune off these operations. The chief breast cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the top medical officer at the American Cancer Society both said surgeons should keep doing what they're doing.
In other words, lop off those breasts -- the evidence be damned.
But the truth is, you should never agree to any course of treatment or DCIS without having at least two pathologists look at your results. As I told you this spring, a large study involving several of the nation's top hospitals found that pathologists misdiagnose DCIS all the time.
And no woman should have to suffer through a painful surgery, or have a breast removed, based on a faulty lab report.
If you're worried about DCIS progressing, experts say there are some simple things you can do to slash your breast cancer risk. Regular exercise, sufficient sleep, reducing stress, and eliminating added sugars (which feed cancer cells) can go a long way toward prevention.
Plus studies have found that your breast cancer risk is lowest when your vitamin D levels are consistently high.
And all of these healthy habits sound a lot better to me than agreeing to an aggressive, disfiguring surgery that's may wreck your life, but probably won't save it.
The moment a mammogram or biopsy turns up a tumor -- or even abnormal tissue -- you'll have some mainstream surgeon in your ear promising that a lumpectomy or mastectomy will save your life.
He'll even tell you that it's better to be safe than sorry.
But a massive new study proves that thousands of American women are being needlessly disfigured and traumatized ever single year. All thanks to aggressive breast surgery that we now know won't add a single day to your life.
Evidence be damned!
Earlier this year I told you about the crucial importance of getting a second opinion for a breast cancer diagnosis, especially if that diagnosis is ductal carcinoma in situ. DCIS, as its known, is the presence of abnormal cells in the milk ducts of the breast.
Note the key word here: abnormal. The cells are not necessarily cancerous and may never become cancerous. They're simply abnormal.
That's why DCIS rates a zero in breast cancer's five stages. Zero!
And if that sounds like it deserves the lowest level of concern, you're right.
But instead of actually educating women about DCIS, it looks like mainstream surgeons are just steering them into painful, disfiguring -- and totally pointless -- surgeries instead.
In a study in the most recent issue of JAMA Oncology, researchers followed more than 100,000 women for 20 years after they'd been diagnosed with DCIS. Nearly all of them ended up having either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy.
And, believe it or not, some were even encouraged to get a double mastectomy.
A double mastectomy! For a condition that might not even be cancerous. It looks like an awful lot of surgeons must be checking their ethics -- and their shame -- at the operating room door.
And here's the worst part -- it was all for nothing. The women who received surgery to treat their DCIS had the exact same chance of dying of breast cancer in the 20 years after the operation as they had before it.
These women were put through physical and emotional trauma that lasts forever. And they won't live one extra minute for their trouble.
About one-quarter of so-called breast cancer cases in America today involve DCIS -- so you can bet that tens of thousands of women are being victimized by these unnecessary surgeries every single year.
You can almost hear the disgust in lead researcher Dr. Steven Narod's voice when he was asked what his study revealed about how we should be handling DCIS.
"I think the best way to treat DCIS is to do nothing," he told The New York Times.
But as you can imagine, that's been a pretty tough sell with the breast cancer industry that's making a fortune off these operations. The chief breast cancer surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the top medical officer at the American Cancer Society both said surgeons should keep doing what they're doing.
In other words, lop off those breasts -- the evidence be damned.
But the truth is, you should never agree to any course of treatment or DCIS without having at least two pathologists look at your results. As I told you this spring, a large study involving several of the nation's top hospitals found that pathologists misdiagnose DCIS all the time.
And no woman should have to suffer through a painful surgery, or have a breast removed, based on a faulty lab report.
If you're worried about DCIS progressing, experts say there are some simple things you can do to slash your breast cancer risk. Regular exercise, sufficient sleep, reducing stress, and eliminating added sugars (which feed cancer cells) can go a long way toward prevention.
Plus studies have found that your breast cancer risk is lowest when your vitamin D levels are consistently high.
And all of these healthy habits sound a lot better to me than agreeing to an aggressive, disfiguring surgery that's may wreck your life, but probably won't save it.
Until next time, stay healthy and happy
JD
Roma
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