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Avoid being among 11 percent of Americans who take antidepressant drugs daily

Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks Editor

(Healingtalks) The admitted goal of the pharmaceutical industry is to have every man, woman and child in America taking at least two prescription drugs daily for the rest of their lives (whether sick or not)!

Through Big Pharma’s corruption of the establishment – including the FDA, medical journals, med schools and the mainstream media, it creeps closer to accomplishing this diabolical goal. Already one in ten Americans are now on SSRI antidepressant drugs.  The initials stand for selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. Kids are included in these horrid statistics. Roughly 25% of Americans are said to suffer from some “inner,” mental or spiritual illness. More than half have chronic physical ills that are also being treated by drugs that mostly suppress the consciousness of symptoms and don’t address causes. There is another and more sane way to go for the method of treating ills via drugs, whose sales are driven by the lust for profit, is itself socially ill – as a symptom of our “zombie nation.” Go visit any nursing home that has individuals treated with multiple drugs. You will see they walk the halls like zombies.

Do you want to join them for a Halloween party or do something better with your life?

By the way, the one out of ten figure for SSRI drugs  is according to a survey conducted by the CDC. It was further revealed that use of antidepressants jumped 400% from 2005 – 2008, while women are 2.5 times more likely to use antidepressants than men. (And whites are far more likely to use them than blacks.) (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011…)

The dangerous “side effects” (which are really main drug effects ) are legion. It is vital thus to get off these medications.

How to get off SSRI meds

First, realize that depression is not caused by a “chemical imbalance in the brain” that can be resolved by paying monopoly prices for a patented chemicals sold by a pharmacy.  ”Depression” is a warning sign that multiple areas of one’s life are out of balance and need to be brought back. Here are seven strategies for reversing depression:

Connect with nature

• Sunlight exposure beats back depression at the hormonal level.
• Breathing fresh air that’s filled with negative ions from trees and plants prevents depression at a bioelectric level.
• Touching the earth with your bare hands, hearing the sounds of nature, feeling the bark of a tree or even just seeing lush green foliage is all vibrational, sensory medicine.If you look at most people who are depressed, they often live inside amid sterile surroundings. They never run barefoot. They are depressed being disconnected from the natural, living surroundings.

Get exercise

This allows your brain to manufacture its own antidepressant drugs for free without a prescription. A treadmill run might save you $20 worth of drugs! And your body’s own brain drugs are better. Their biochemistry has no side effects. You simply feel good.

Improve nutrition

Most depressed people are eating mucho refined sugar, flour, pasteurized dairy and other life-depressing, devitalizing or junk foods. No wonder they feel as blue as blue cheese! Thus eat the highest quality foods instead.

• Eat more omega-3 oils from dietary supplements, wild-caught salmon, flax seeds, chia seeds and other such sources.
• Juice and consume lots of fresh, whole, and organic produce. They contain trace minerals that drastically improve cognitive function and moods.
• Eat more living foods. They make you feel great and alive because they are alive and build living cells! Primarily dead foods build dead, and depressed cells that then make you feel awful. So get yourself a juicer to extract the concentrated life force of your fruits and veggies. Go to it.

Find meaning in life

Many individuals are depressed due to a thankless job or occupation, Having a purpose in life is enlivening. Pursuing it with daily passion can reverse depression and help turn despair into joy.
Start searching for your real purpose in life!

Improve your personal relationships

Some individuals are in abusive and unfulfilling personal relationship. Reconsider how and who you intimately relate to in the world, and whether it is time for a change that will allow you to reach and support your potentials in life.

Find ways of being of service

Can you teach or lead by example or inspire others to improve their lives? Can you help someone in need? As you help others, you help yourself as well because we are all connected as One.

Meditate and soul-search

Have a quiet time in your life for inspiration, reflection, and being at one within. From that space of oneness, you can then tackle the challenges of your life and become more creative. You find and tap into the driving purpose of your life. You’ll be so busy pursuing your life’s mission and purpose you won’t have the time or space for any depression.

Making the transition

If you hate nature, love pastries and junk food, and prefer no purpose in your life but to vegetate, go for it. Then SSRI drugs are for you. They will help you fake happiness and suppress symptoms. With one pill, you can add illusion to insult, yo making you “feel” okay while your life inside dies. Getting off SSRI drugs requires courage, not passivity.

It may be the hardest thing you’ve ever done, but it will be rewarding Subsisting on mind-altering drugs is no life at all. And the longer you take drugs, legal or illegal, the more detached you will feel, making you even more isolated and depressed. That’s why you need to get off your drugs and meds NOW! Turn off the TV and take your life back! Get off the couch, out of the pharmacy and away from your toxic potions’ prescribing doctor. Get in touch with nature, real foods, and the real you inside of yourself. This will get you back on track for spiritual fulfillment, having meaning in life, for being joyously at One.

Who’s got time to be depressed when you are fulfilling your highest snf best purpose in life?

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27 Years:

Zero Deaths

from Vitamins,

3 Million

from Prescription Drugs

By Nathan Batalion, Global Health Activist, Healingtalks editor

(Healingtalks) Over the past 27 years a recent data compilation shows no…that is zero or nada deaths from vitamins and over 3 million deaths related to prescription drugs! The latter is almost 100,000 deaths per year or 274 per day.  That is the equivalent of a jet crashing accidentally every single day for the past 27 years. If that were to happen, would you continue to fly on jets without fear or concern? How would you feel, on top of that, if there was a news blackout of the jets crashing everyday and in all the major, corporate-owned media because airline companies are significant advertisers in those media!

Now just substitute pharmaceutical companies for airline companies and you get the picture, or sense of what is really happening with the false promises of “better living through chemistry.”

Shocking News: Drug Deaths Also Outnumber Deaths from Car Accidents

In fact, going back 54 years there have only been 11 claims of vitamin-related death, all with little or no substantial evidence to link vitamins to the cause of death. The news comes after a recent statistically analysis that pharmaceutical drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the US.

In 2009, prescription drug deaths exceeded traffic-related deaths, killing at least 37,485 people nationwide.

The findings go against the claims of mainstream medical ‘experts’ and mainstream media outlets who often push the idea that multivitamins are detrimental to your health, and that prescription drugs are the only science-backed option to improving your health. While essential nutrients like vitamin D are continually being shown to slash your risk of disease such as diabetes and cancer, prescription pharmaceuticals are continually being linked to such conditions. In fact, the top-selling therapeutic class pharmaceutical drug has been tied to the development of diabetes and even suicide, and whistleblowers are just now starting to speak out despite studies as far back as the 80s highlighting the risks.

Mainstream medical health officials were recently forced to speak out over the danger of antipsychotic drugs, which millions of children have been prescribed since 2009. U.S. pediatric health advisers blew the whistle over the fact that these pharmaceuticals can lead to diabetes and even suicide, the very thing they aim to prevent. What is even more troubling is that half of all Americans will be diagnosed with a mental condition during their lifetime thanks to lack of diagnosis guidelines currently set by the medical establishment, of which many cases will lead to the prescription of antipsychotics and other similar medications.

Covering up prescription drug side effects

In order to protect sales, the link between suicide and antipsychotic drugs was completely covered up by Eli Lilly & Co, the makers of Prozac. Despite research stretching as far back as the 1980s finding that Prozac actually leads to suicide, the company managed to hide the evidence until a Harvard psychiatrist leaked the information into the press. The psychiatrist, Martin Teicher, stated that the American people were being treated like guinea pigs in a massive pharmaceutical experiment.

Greedy and oftentimes prescription-happy doctors are handing out antipsychotic medication like candy to adults and young children alike. In 2008, antipsychotics became the top-selling therapeutic class prescription drug in the United States and grossing over $14 billion in sales.

Antipsychotic drugs are not the only dangerous pharmaceuticals. The average drug label contains 70 side effects, though many popular pharmaceuticals have been found to contain 100 to 125. Some drugs, prescribed by doctors to supposedly improve your health, come with over 525 negative reactions.

Ritalin Side-Effects

Ritalin, for example, has been linked to conditions including:

* Increased blood pressure
* Increased heart rate
* Increased body temperature
* Increased alertness
* Suppressed appetite

Cold and Allergy Medication Side Effects

Perhaps the hundreds of negative side effects is part of the reason why the FDA announced last year that it is pulling more than 500 cold and allergy off the market due to health concerns. Prescription drugs kill more people than traffic accidents, and come with up to 525 negative side effects. Avoiding these drugs and utilizing high quality organic alternatives like whole food-based multivitamins and green superfoods will lead to a total health transformation without harsh side effects and an exponentially increased death risk.

Harmful Side Effects Are Really Main and Essential Effects of Pharmceuticals

It is part of corporate brainwashing and psychological manipulation to call the almost universal presence of many harmful effects from taking almost any drugs as being a so-called side-effects  – as something negligible and not really important to consider. What an ultimate corporate deception.

Think again as this contrived illusion and propaganda of modern medicine often kills.

Sources:

Most recent year: Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2009 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 27th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2010). 48, 979-1178. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2009%20AR.pdf

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So Young and So Many Pills

More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescriptions on a Regular Basis

Based on an article by ANNA WILDE MATHEWS

Comment: What drug companies won’t tell you is that “side-effects,”  being common, are really main effects of drugs, that routinely harm adults and children

(Healingtalks) Gage Martindale, who is 8 years old, has been taking a blood-pressure drug since he was a toddler. “I want to be healthy, and I don’t want things in my heart to go wrong,” he says.

And, of course, his mom is always there to check Gage’s blood pressure regularly with a home monitor, and to make sure the second-grader doesn’t skip a dose of his once-a-day enalapril.

These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such drugs, based on the company’s database figures for 2009.

Doctors and parents warn that prescribing medications to children can be problematic. There is limited research available about many drugs’ effects in kids. And health-care providers and families need to be vigilant to assess the medicines’ impact, both intended and not. Although the effects of some medications, like cholesterol-lowering statins, have been extensively researched in adults, the consequences of using such drugs for the bulk of a patient’s lifespan are little understood.

Many medications kids take on a regular basis are well known, including treatments for asthma and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Kids are taking more drugs that are associated with adults

But children and teens are also taking a wide variety of other medications once considered only to be for adults, from statins to diabetes pills and sleep drugs, according to figures provided to The Wall Street Journal by IMS Health, a research firm. Prescriptions for antihypertensives in people age 19 and younger could hit 5.5 million this year if the trend though September continues, according to IMS. That would be up 17% from 2007, the earliest year available.

Researchers attribute the wide usage in part to doctors and parents becoming more aware of drugs as an option for kids. Unhealthy diets and lack of exercise among children, which lead to too much weight gain and obesity, also fuel the use of some treatments, such as those for hypertension. And some conditions are likely caught and treated earlier as screening and diagnosis efforts improve.

Gage, who isn’t overweight, has been on hypertension drugs since he had surgery to fix a heart defect as a toddler, says his mother, Stefanie Martindale, a Conway, Ark., marketing-company manager.

Chronic use of  prescriptions by kids untested

Most medications that could be prescribed to children on a chronic basis haven’t been tested specifically in kids, says Danny Benjamin, a Duke University pediatrics professor. And older drugs rarely get examined, since pharmaceutical firms have little incentive to test medicines once they are no longer under patent protection.

Still, a growing number of studies have been done under a Food and Drug Administration program that rewards drug companies for testing medications in children. In more than a third of these studies, there have been surprising side effects, or results that suggested a smaller or larger dose was needed than had been expected, Dr. Benjamin says. Those findings underscore that children’s reactions to medicines can be very different than those of adults. Long-term effects of drugs in kids are almost never known, since pediatric studies, like those in adults, tend to be relatively short.

“We know we’re making errors in dosing and safety,” says Dr. Benjamin, who is leading a new National Institutes of Health initiative to study drugs in children. He suggests that parents should do as much research as they can to understand the evidence for the medicine, confirm the diagnosis, and identify side effects. Among the places to check: drug labels and other resources on the FDA’s website, published research at www.pubmed.gov, and clinical guidelines from groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics.

When a child psychiatrist diagnosed their then 8-year-old daughter with bipolar disorder four years ago, Ken and Joy Lewis, of Chapel Hill, N.C., sought a second opinion from another child psychiatrist.

They also worked with a psychologist. Dr. Lewis, who leads a company that does early-stage drug studies, reads all the available research on each medication suggested for the girl, now 12, who has taken antipsychotics and other psychiatric medications including Risperdal and Haldol.

“If your child has a chronic problem, then you have to invest the time as a parent,” he says.

Exploring Non-Drug Alternatives

Parents and doctors also say nondrug alternatives should be explored where possible. Tom Wells, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who sees patients at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, frequently pushes diet and exercise changes before drugs for hypertensive kids. “Obesity is really the biggest cause I see for high blood pressure in adolescents,” he says. But only about 10% of families adhere to his diet and exercise recommendations, he says.

Beverly Pizzano, a psychologist who lives in Palm Harbor, Fla., spent years struggling with behavioral therapies for her son Steven, 10, who showed symptoms of ADHD at a young age. She worked with a counselor on a system of rewards for good behavior, and even had a research team watch him and suggest interventions. But she turned to medications after he struggled in kindergarten. “We tried everything before I would get to that,” she says.

Monitoring Side Effects

After a drug is prescribed, children must be closely monitored, doctors say. They may not recognize or communicate a possible side effect, or whether their symptoms are improving. They also don’t always follow prescription instructions.

Robert Lemanske, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, says patients at his pediatric asthma clinic are checked regularly for side effects such as slowed rates of growth. He quizzes parents and young patients on details like where they keep their inhalers to make sure they’re taking their prescribed medicine.

Nichole Ramsey, a preschool teacher whose 9-year-old son Antwone is a patient at the clinic, watches her son’s basketball practices so she can head off any wheezing or other symptoms. She also makes sure she’s around when he gets his regular Advair dose. If Antwone stays at a friend’s house overnight, she asks the parents to watch that he takes steps like rinsing out his mouth to avoid a fungal infection that can be a side effect of the inhaled drug.

“You’re still the best monitor of what’s going on with them,” she says of a parent’s role.

Ms. Ramsey is particularly concerned about Advair, which has been tied to rare instances of asthma-related death, but says it works better than a previous drug he was using. Before he started the medications, Antwone was hospitalized several times for asthma attacks.

As children’s bodies change and grow, they often need different drugs or doses, says Greg Kearns, chairman of medical research at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Jennifer Flory, a homemaker in Baldwin City, Kan., says that after her daughter Cassandra, now 16, started taking a higher dose of the asthma drug Singulair a few years ago, she became more moody and sad. Ms. Flory didn’t connect the change to the drug, but when she eventually mentioned it to a nurse practitioner at the girl’s asthma clinic, the nurse suggested stopping Singulair, which currently has a precaution in its label about possible psychiatric side effects. Cassandra, who continued taking Advair, became far more cheerful and didn’t have any increase in asthma symptoms, Ms. Flory says.

A spokesman for Merck & Co., which makes Singulair, said in a statement that the company is “confident in the efficacy and safety of Singulair,” which is “an important treatment option for appropriate patients.”

Write to Anna Wilde Mathews at anna.mathews@wsj.com

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