Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is part of the plot (yes, a plot) to rob you of choice and health to the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry. But that’s not the only thrust the forces of profitable illness. There’s the accelerating, but intellectually meaningless, poison press against the safe, inexpensive and natural health options you and I treasure to help us get well and stay that way.

The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) tells us that vitamins and minerals have no value and may actually be harmful and the press trumpets the “news” as if it were science. The Wall Street Journal says the same. Propaganda outlet after propaganda outlet says the same. What it it’s all just business as usual? What if nutrients are the single greatest threat to drug profits ever created? What if health people are just bad customers? What if? No if: that’s where we are!

The poison press denigrating and degrading vitamins, minerals and other nutrients we can use to get healthy and stay that way without drugs continues for the absolutely obvious reason that money talks. Big Pharma money talks through blatant Direct to Consumer advertising and through the near total corruption of science, once believed to be neutral, incorruptible and meaningful. Now we know that science that deals with drugs is literally none of those things any longer.

USA Today recently (5/25/06) ran a front page story which noted that studies paid for by manufacturers (that’s Big Pharma) were favorable for a psychiatric drug 8 out of 1o times if the manufacturer paid for the study, but only 3/10 times if a competitor paid for the study. If no pharmaceutical company paid for the study, studies were favorable only 5 out of 10 times. The Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and other leading medical journals have decried the corruption of drug “science” but they continue to accept the lucrative ads and sell the lucrative reprints of “scientific” articles published only because of the total infiltration of the scientific publication industry.

Bad science, bought science, financially compromised scientists and corrupted regulators mixed with virtually limitless money have brought us A MINIMUM of 106,000 deaths in the US each year from drugs used according to instructions . No one knows the real death count but it is many times higher according to all sources, including the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association.

Since drug companies not only own the research results but have financially compromised the peer reviewers who determine what is good science and what is not as well (as the scientists at the FDA, the supposedly neutral regulatory agency), the regulated now control the regulators virtually completely. Step one of a business as unusual accomplished.

The public and their ill-healthcare professionals are well on the way to being completely brainwashed about the absolute necessity, indeed, the “right” to take more and more and more and more dangerous, toxic and often lethal drugs. Direct to consumer advertising and direct to teacher and doctor propaganda are strikingly effective in this regard. Step two of business unusual accomplished

But there is one more step to be accomplished in making sure that drugs, and only drugs, reign supreme despite any (all) disastrous consequences of this supremacy: make sure the consumer does not want and does not have access to, high potency nutrients. After all, healthy people are bad [drug] customers. The nutrient poison press comes at us from every side. But is it science? Not at all. Here is what the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service has to say on the subject:

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 26, 2006

Vitamin Safety Review Panel Issues Follow-Up Report May 26, 2006

Independent Vitamin Safety Review Panelists:

Abram Hoffer, MD
Michael Janson, MD
Thomas Levy, MD, JD
Carolyn Dean, ND, MD
Harold Foster, PhD
Erik Paterson, MD
Woody R. McGinnis, MD
Allan N. Spreen, MD
Michael Friedman, ND
H. H. Nehrlich, PhD
Andrew Saul, Chairman

Vitamin-bashing articles are typically based on studies with faulty design whose conclusions were preordained. One example is the “meta-analysis.” A meta-analysis is not new research, but rather a review of existing research. It is not a clinical study, but rather a statistical look at a collection of studies. If you analyze enough failed studies, you will get a negative meta-analysis. If you exclude enough successful studies, you preordain the conclusion.

PROVING EFFECTIVENESS

Low-dose vitamin studies are the ones that get negative results. Most vitamin research is low-dose. You cannot test the effectiveness of high doses by giving low doses. Any time nutritional research employs inadequately low doses of vitamins, doses that hundreds of orthomolecular physicians have already reported as too small to work, vitamin therapy will be touted as “ineffective.”

You can set up any study to fail. One way to ensure failure is to make a meaningless test. A meaningless test is assured if you make the choice to use insufficient quantities of the substance to be investigated. If you shoot beans at a charging rhinoceros, you are not likely to influence the outcome. If you give every homeless person you met on the street 25 cents, you could easily prove that money will not help poverty.

PROVING SAFETY

One reason commonly offered to justify conducting low-dose studies is that high doses of vitamins are somehow dangerous.

They are not.

There are those who may not believe this next statement, but it is not a matter of belief. It is a matter of fact: There is not even one death per year from vitamin supplements. (1)

However, there are at least 106,000 deaths from pharmaceutical drugs each year in the USA, even when taken as prescribed. (2) This may be a low estimate. Carolyn Dean, ND, MD, said, “784,000 people are dying annually, prematurely, due to modern medicine.” “These are statistics from peer-reviewed journals and government databases.” (3)

Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, who conducted the first double-blind placebo controlled studies in psychiatry, has called for double-blind placebo controlled testing of alleged vitamin side effects. He said, “Let the opponents of vitamin therapy cite the double-blind placebo controlled studies upon which they have based their toxicity allegations. They can’t, because there aren’t any.”

ELIMINATING BIAS

It is ironic that critics of vitamins preferentially cite low dose studies in an attempt to show lack of vitamin effectiveness, yet they cannot cite any double-blind, placebo controlled studies of high doses that show vitamin dangers. This is because vitamins are effective at high doses, and vitamins are safe at high doses.

Health professionals and other interested persons are invited to personally search the literature for evidence of deaths caused by vitamin supplements. You will not find even one death per year. (4)

Physician reports confirm this. A panel of researchers and physicians experienced in high-dose vitamin therapy unequivocally states, “Vitamins are very safe for the public.” Woody R. McGinnis, MD, writes: “In my practice, high doses of vitamins and minerals have retrieved hundreds of otherwise desperate patients from severe behavioral disorders without a single severe complication.” Adds Michael Friedman, ND: “I have never seen any toxicity with any vitamin prescriptions in my practice.”

Michael Janson, MD, said, “In decades of people taking a wide variety of dietary supplements, few adverse effects have been noted, and zero deaths as a result of the dietary supplements.” Thomas Levy, JD, MD, said assaults on the theoretical toxicity of vitamins are “ridiculous.”

It is the conclusion of the Independent Vitamin Safety Review Panel that high dose vitamin supplementation is strikingly safe and highly effective.

References:

1. Watson WA, Litovitz TL, Klein-Schwartz W, Rodgers GC Jr, Youniss J, Reid N, Rouse WG, Rembert RS, Borys D. 2003 annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Exposure Surveillance System. Am J Emerg Med. 2004 Sep;22(5):335-404. http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/03report/Annual%20Report%202003.pdf

2. Lucian Leape, Error in medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, 272:23, p 1851. Also: Leape LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated. JAMA. 2000 Jul 5;284(1):95-7.)

3. Dean C and Tuck T. Death by modern medicine. Belleville, ON: Matrix Verite, 2005.

4. Testimony before the Government of Canada, House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, regarding nutritional supplement product safety (Ottawa, May 12, 2005). http://www.doctoryourself.com/testimony.htm

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as “the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body.” Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Andrew W. Saul, Editor. Email: drsaul@doctoryourself.com

Propaganda distorts. In this case, propaganda kills. If you buy into it, step three is on its way to being accomplished, too. What can you do? Tell your friends and neighbors that there is a war against their health and their health freedom. Ask them to go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and sign up for our free news letter. Show “Nutricide: the DVD” to everyone you know and generate awareness.
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Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director