"Drugs — when taken as prescribed — kill more than 106,000 Americans each year and the death toll from overdosing on painkillers is now greater than both car accidents and death from illegal drug use. (Unfortunately, almost half a million deaths attributed to COVID 19 in a year have superseded this statistic)
As noted in a recent New York Times article, "drug overdoses are driving up the death rate of young white adults in the United States to levels not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago."
Between 1999 and 2014, the rate of drug overdose deaths for Caucasians between the ages of 25 and 34 rose by 500 per cent. The overdose rate for 35 to 44-year olds tripled.
And while these rates include both illegal and prescription drugs, the latter FAR exceed the former. It's a sad fact that the cornerstone of modern medicine — drugs — is also a major killer of patients."
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Dr Mercola goes on to say that:
"The drugs commonly prescribed for Rheumatoid Arthritis are among the most dangerous on the market.
These include prednisone, TNF-alpha inhibitors (sold under brand names such as Humira, Enbrel, and Remicade. Side effects of these drugs include infection and an increased risk for cancer), and harsh anticancer drugs like methotrexate."
Not long ago another Rheumatoid Arthritis drug Vioxx was removed after 60,000 people died of heart attacks and strokes. Many of these drugs are based largely on pure fantasy, wishful thinking or outright fraud.
While the drug companies make billions, people are dying by the million. This report further emphasises the point.
Comment: I have a somewhat different take on the subject of Rheumatoid arthritis which would help very many patients to get off this deception. Please note this singer from The Eagles had Ulcerative Colitis AND Rheumatoid Arthritis.
What does this tell us?
In this case there was perhaps an intimate connection between gut dysfunction and the incidence of Rheumatoid arthritis as we have often noted. These two symptoms are never related by the pigeon-holing medical profession. The two disorders conventionally are treated as separate entities needing different specialists - a Rheumatologist and a Gastroenterologist. Readers should not be surprised to learn that the biggest departments in any hospital are those dealing with these two symptoms. The wishy-washy treatments meted out to patients do not have a hope in hell of curing anyone. In fact, the word "cure" is an anathema amongst medical nomenclature.
TNF-alpha inhibitors are some of the most expensive drugs costing around 20K per patient per year and hence the push from big pharma to call as many diseases "autoimmune" as possible. The words "autoimmune" and "cash cow" are synonymous! We might as well start saying that patients suffering from these "autoimmune diseases" have "cash cow disease" which generates huge profits for big pharma and keeps the Rheumatologists and Gastroenterologists very busy putting patients through numerous futile scans and tests and finally sending them home with sacks full of useless and often very dangerous drugs as per Dr Mercola.
The presence of any of the following will predispose a patient to Rheumatoid arthritis:
Gastric reflux disease.
Constipation
Diahrroea
Crohns disease
Ulcerative colitis
diverticulitis
unrefreshing sleep
Sleep apnoea
How does this cause Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Whenever there is a problem with the digestive organs the pumping action that we are supposed to get from the diaphragm is often poor or mostly absent. The abdominal organs have evolved reliant on the external diaphragmatic pump. If this diaphragmatic-pump was not present all the abdominal organs would have evolved with much more vascularity.
In the absence of a properly functioning diaphragm stagnation follows and all the various symptoms of IBS follow. The bacterial flora in the gut often contributes to various disease presentations. The 'leaky gut' phenomenon allows larger molecules to escape from the gut wall into the bloodstream. These molecules go and lodge in areas of the least blood supply which are our joints. Our body does not like this foreign invasion and an inflammatory reaction follows giving rise to the condition called "Rheumatoid Arthritis". Since no change is made in improving the breathing mechanism the foreign molecular invasion is incessant and the condition becomes chronic leading to severe damage of the joints and digits.
Suppressing this reaction with steroids, which damage the femoral head of the hips, block the sagittal sinuses in the skull and can produce psychosis is abhorrent. Using immune ablation drugs, which kill the bodies ability to safeguard itself, is the most idiotic if not ruthless form of medical care.
What can you do to overcome these symptoms?
Very simply, the cause of all these conditions is a poor breathing mechanism. This is largely due to:
Chest breathing;
A poor jaw to skull relationship;
A poorly developed lower jaw;
An asymmetry of the Atlas vertebra;
An asymmetry of the hips.
Collapsed foot arches.
Almost all sufferers are chest breathers often with a much-reduced capacity to breathe. Patients actually need to practice abdominal breathing. To attain good results patients should join Yoga classes and do abdominal breathing all the time. This would eliminate the problem in some 50% of the patients while others will get substantially better from their gastric disorders - a far better outcome than any medicine will ever provide.
Jaw treatment (not splints) will help almost eliminate the problem in many. This would also address the Atlas and hip asymmetry. Many patients are also found to be suffering from sleep apnoea confirming a problem with the breathing capacity and hence the necessity for dental and orthodontic correction.
Quite remarkably using foot arch supports also improves the breathing capacity greatly. Please check your feet and you can either buy them online for as little as £10.00 for a pair or see a proper podiatrist to be properly fitted as often both feet are not similar and the collapse can be greater in one arch.
The drugs used for Gastric reflux problems fall into a class of antacids called protein pump inhibitors (PPIs). They have terrible adverse effects on the patient's body. They boost the chances of heart disease, dementia, kidney dysfunction, and bone fractures. They impair the body’s ability to absorb vitamin B12, which can lead to B12 deficiency.
They also contribute to an imbalance of healthy gut microbiota that can lead to an antibiotic resistant diarrhoeal infection called c. difficile.
The treatment is SIMPLY to always belly breathe - not poison the system further with useless and dangerous drugs. Instead taking supplements such as turmeric is far safer.
To get much better outcomes and if your condition is very serious, you need an evaluation of your jaw and body asymmetries and the appropriate treatment to restore proper breathing function.
Comment received from a very senior hospital staff:
Dear Dr Amir
Now that I understand the anatomy and physiology behind your findings and the impact it has on the body I recall many patients who I nursed over my many years within the NHS who exhibited such symptoms.
I worked with many rheumatology patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis who often complained of gastrointestinal problems such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Ulcerative Colitis or other such diagnoses/symptoms.
There was never any understanding of the link between the two, in fact, I recall being told the gastrointestinal issues were likely linked to side effects of arthritis medication.
I hope individuals diagnosed with these conditions get the opportunity to receive your treatment and I will continue to try to influence the NHS to recognise this.
Mari Gay
Senior NHS Manager and Director
Comment: Perverting medical knowledge and ending up punishing patients is rife. Altruism in medicine disappeared a long time ago. The stranglehold of medicine by big pharma and it's cronies in numerous specialities warrants renaming many types of these specialists as the real snake oil salesmen or pharmaceutical agents - NOT doctors.
Criminal action needs to be taken against them for the wholesale looting of the NHS with scam disease labels.
Here is a recent input by a senior authority:
Update:
March 5th 2016
Queen Elizabeth II’s former Doctor, Sir Richard Thompson, is fed up with Big Pharma’s for-profit machine, and he’s calling them out on it. Thompson, former president of the Royal College of Physicians, was the Queen’s doctor for over 20 years. He is now a part of a group of doctors who are calling out Big Pharma for their egregious injustices and criminal acts. According to the Daily Mail (UK), the Doctor slammed pharmaceutical companies for making for-profit drugs with ‘little-proven benefits.’
Sir Richard said: ‘The time has come for a full and open public inquiry into the way evidence of the efficacy of drugs is obtained and revealed.
‘There is a real danger that some current drug treatments are much less effective than had previously been thought.’
He said the campaign highlights the ‘often weak and sometimes murky basis on which the efficacy and use of drugs, particularly in the elderly, are judged’.
Comment: The conventional take about RH is:
"Although there is no cure for RA, there are many different treatment options that can successfully relieve symptoms and prevent long-term joint damage. Doctors may prescribe medication, lifestyle changes, or a combination of both, with a goal of achieving a state of remission." But none ever comes about!
Only adverse drug effects with drugs which upset the stomach lining - the very cause of Rh. arthritis and possible death as with Vioxx
You can also read the impact of extraction orthodontics on gut health here: http://dramir.com/blog/categories/117-Orthodontics I dredged up this article I had written during 2013 from the original version of this website:
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
A 20-year-old young patient attended to resolve her jaw pains due to TMJ dysfunction.
The history the patient had presented with was as follows: The patient had been suffering with joint pains and effusions which were first aspirated at age 13 when she was diagnosed into JRA. The patient had previously and during the first years also, suffered from gut problems. The table below shows the various surgical procedures she had undertaken over the years.
Please note that the steroid injections had a slight immediate benefit and NO long term benefit. It should be noted that steroids are the first-line drugs in cases of any condition which has been labelled as an autoimmune disease. MS is a prime example.
Here is what the professor at ST. Bartholomew hospital says about the use of Steroids: For those not in the know who may have to read this document, Steroids were a chance discovery made in the '50s and almost any illness which is ill-understood is treated using Steroids. However, there are serious consequences to using Steroids in any illness.
This is an article from another 'MS' Blog:
Bone damage from steroid treatment in 'MSers Posted: 27 Jan 2013 03:15 AM PST Epub ahead of print:
Sahraian et al. Avascular necrosis of the femoral head in multiple sclerosis:
Report of five patients. Neurol Sci. 2011 Dec 31. AVN
Osteonecrosis (death of bone due to blockage of blood vessels) of the femoral head (top of the thigh bone) is a severe complication of steroid use, which may lead to more disability in 'MSers because of delayed diagnosis. The exact dose and risk period of steroids which cause the necrosis are not clearly known. The aim of the study was to enhance the attention of clinicians to leg pain in 'MSers with regard to steroid therapy. This is a report [about] five 'MSers with femoral head necrosis who had RR'MS' [Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis] and received different doses of methylprednisolone.
The cases consisted of 3 females and 2 males. The duration of disease varied between 1 and 3 years. The least interval between the last pulse of prednisolone and diagnosis of avascular necrosis was 6 months. 2 of them received one pulse of 5 g of methylprednisolone. All 5 patients had delayed diagnosis because the signs and symptoms' were attributed to 'MS', which indicate the necessity of further focusing attention to early evaluations
The doctor posting the above says: "This is one of the reasons why I try and avoid using steroids for treating relapses; avascular necrosis (AVN) is a serious complication and when it involves the femoral head it usually requires a joint replacement. 'MSers need to know that the final outcome from a relapse (recovery or non-recovery) is the same whether or not the relapse is treated with steroids.
All that steroid treatment does is hasten the recovery period; you only recover about 2 weeks earlier, on average. If you receive steroid therapy.
In addition to AVN, steroids are associated with a large number of other side effects."[hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, cataract, anxiety, depression, colitis, hypertension, ictus, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, hypothyroidism, amenorrhoea, and retinopathy.]
The author further notes: "I have seen too many of these events in my career to accept high-dose pulsed steroids as being safe."
This is a sad state of affairs The patient already has problems with her joints requiring aspiration of the exudate. Steroid use actually ends up permanently damaging the patient. Consequently, we see serious walking problems amongst RH and MS patients.
If we delve further into this patients history we find that she was being treated by an osteopath with high-velocity neck adjustments. This is the most nonsensical treatment I have ever come across. I banned it within a few years of coming across it and never allowed it on my patients. I fell out with many Chiropractors and Osteopaths where I would refuse to accept any referrals from them if they were to continue this unsound practice.
Readers of this blog will note in a number of places where I have brought this error to the forefront. Neck asymmetries emanate from dental asymmetries and incorrect weight bearing on the neck from cranial asymmetries.
At around age 16, the patient had very unconvincing and unsatisfying orthodontic treatment for a couple of years which did not address the root cause of her dental/orthodontic problems..............................
Some idiot suggests that:
"Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition. It can result in the pathology of the TMJ and thus result in TMD but is not caused by TMD and treating TMD will not resolve it."
Did I hear this right? "It is an autoimmune disease of the TMJ and thus results in TMD"!
I have heard this "autoimmune" scam too often!
I am left aghast!
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