By
Gary Craig (creator of EFT)
There's something scary
about drugs that concerns a growing number of physicians and should
wobble the knees of every patient on the planet. It's obvious to any
mathematician butsomehow has escaped the general scrutiny of the health
industry. It has to do with combining meds.
Ever since I can remember
I have been fed the perception that drugs are governmentally evaluated
and thus are safe if taken under the guidance of competent physicians.
However, even if we accept the presumed safety for the ingestion of
one drug, we must ask ourselves how might that safety change if we take
multiple drugs?
For safety assurances, proper
testing should be done for every drug combination we are advised to
take. If we take Prozac and Tylenol, for example, we should be presented
with all the possible benefits and consequences before allowing these
two foreign substances to mix with the chemicals our bodies already
create. Same thing goes for combining Paxil with Viagra or Interferon
with Lipitor.
The list of possible problems
here is monstrously long because there are a b'zillion drugs and mega
b'zillions of combinations. Nonetheless, I've never seen or heard of
any studies that test any of these combinations ... have you?
Thus, if you take two drugs,
the odds of their combination having been adequately tested for safety
are skimpy at best. But if you take 3 or more drugs the danger possibilities
multiply even faster.
Here's how the mathematics
work: If you take 3 drugs then adequate safety testing of the various
combinations require 7 separate tests. If you take 4 drugs the combinations
require 25 separate tests. If you take 5 drugs it amounts to 121 tests.
If you take 10 drugs the number of required safety tests total 362,881.
The conclusion here should
be obvious. Namely, there is questionable safety testing if you take
2 drugs and nominal, if any, safety testing if you take 3. Beyond that
you are clearly into the land of, "I have no idea what these combinations
of drugs will do."
To me, this tosses our dedicated
docs into a tenuous position. They have patients with problems who aren't
willing to exercise, eat right, do EFT
for emotional issues or much of anything else to help their own
health. Instead, the patients hope the physicians will produce a magic
pill (or pills) to make their problems go away.
I have met many patients
who are on several drugs and take some drugs to counteract the effects
of other drugs. As a non-physician I look at this with a shudder. These
folks are being fed chemical cocktails with little or no safety testing
behind the combinations. Maybe I need some help with my perceptions
here but, to me, they are playing drug roulette.
I don't know if lawyers
have picked up on the simple, but compelling, math here. But I do know
that I wouldn't want to be a doctor in court facing these clear facts.
In the 15+ years I have
been involved in the health field, I have had the good fortune to count
many physicians as my personal friends. With few exceptions, they agree
that it is our lifestyles, diets and emotional stresses that cause most
of our health problems ... and ... the vast majority of these problems
would vanish if people would live common sense lives. Yet patients repeatedly
abuse their bodies and ask for more and more "miracle drugs"
as the convenient solution. I don't envy the docs at all as I often
hear them complain that this is a highway to NobodyWinsVille.
Maybe what we really need
are good salespeople to persuade folks to take care of themselves. I
suspect that, if truly persuasive, they would do more good than the
ocean of drugs at our disposal.
Love, Gary
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