If you
have been diagnosed with myasthenia
gravis or any autoimmune disease, your doctor might have told you that
there is no cure for your disease, and that the only option for you is to treat
your disease symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs, such as some toxic steroids.
The
question is: Do you have other options?
But
before making your decision, you must know and understand the dangers of
pharmaceutical drugs and their lasting effects on your overall health and
ultimate recovery.
Millions
of people are suffering needlessly as a direct consequence of the
unconscionable zeal of the pharmaceutical industry to rake up billions of
dollars of profit aided and abetted by scientists and researchers who have been
paid handsomely, even to the extent of falsifying tests and research results in
some cases.
Some years ago, three of the top executives of
Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of misleading the public on
the risk of addiction and abuse associated with the painkiller drug OxyContin.
That was only another of the many scandals of pharmaceutical companies
doctoring research findings of the safety of drugs and masking their
undesirable side effects.
For decades, unreliable drug tests have abounded in
the medical and pharmaceutical research community, not only in the United States
It is not uncommon for pharmaceutical companies to
“influence” researchers through coercion, incentive, and even threat, to
produce the desired results in clinical trials. Fabricating data, such as in
the case of OxyContin, is no surprise
to the pharmaceutical industry.
Clinical trials, usually involving a small number
of people, may not truly reflect the outcome of those who will ultimately be
using those drugs after their approval by FDA.
In addition, drugs tested on some animal models may
be biased and even irrelevant on humans. An artificially induced disease in
non-human animal models may yield results incompatible to a spontaneous,
naturally occurring human disease. In short, there is no absolute safety or
reliability of many pharmaceutical drugs that are readily available to the
public.
The pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have
convinced not only the medical establishment but also the gullible public that
costly drugs are the only answers to all their health problems, despite their
dubious track records and often-deadly side effects.
The use, misuse, and abuse of drugs account for
250,000 to 500,000 deaths each year in the United States Harvard University
When you give your body a drug that replaces a
substance your body is capable of making itself, your body then becomes weaker,
not stronger, and begins not only to manufacture less of that substance,
but also to become more dependent on the outside source, which is
usually the drug you have been taking.
Unfortunately, no drug can give you insight into
the circumstance that created your problems. At best, it can only temporarily
reduce the symptoms or physical pain created by your medical condition. A drug
“cures” your symptoms at the expense of creating more potential symptoms
further down the road. For a while, you may be symptom-free, but soon enough
new symptoms may emerge, requiring yet a more potent drug to deal with them,
and thus forming a vicious cycle of taking more toxic pharmaceutical drugs.
Remember, there is no miracle cure, only natural
self-healing, which is holistic health of the body, the mind, and the soul.
According to Dr. John Tilden, author
of Toxemia, the
first and only cause of disease is toxemia, which is the accumulation of
toxic wastes over a long period of time. In other words, toxicity retained and
stored in our bodies is the common denominator for the causes of all human
diseases, including autoimmune diseases.
The bottom
line: I was on steroid medications for my myasthenia
gravis for a few years, but I have besen 100% drug free for more than two
decades now. The challenge to overcome the use of toxic drugs prescribed by my
doctor was huge but ultimately rewarding.
Stephen Lau
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