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Hidden dangers of
commonly prescribed drugs
Hi John
Here are some statistics that will open your eyeballs up on this Friday morning:
Current studies show that 7 out of 10 of us take at least one prescription medication each and every DAY.
And at least half of those people take 2 or MORE drugs per day.
That’s a whole lot of pill popping going on!
Now, while we’d all like to think that these chemicals just get inside of us, cruise on over to our “problem area” and innocently carry out their intended purpose, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Fact is, ALL drugs have side effects because it’s impossible for them NOT to!
When something is absorbed into your bloodstream (as ALL drugs eventually are), there’s no way to completely control where it goes and what it does to you. And since drugs are chemicals your body was never meant to ingest, it’s a given that they will cause harm to you in some way.
The liver and kidneys do their best job of filtering out what they perceive to be dangerous, but they can only do so much and they can’t prevent ALL of the possible harmful effects…plus they themselves are harmed by many drugs too (more on that below).
Now, with the exception of medications that are injected via a shot, administered by IV or in a suppository that’s put in “where the sun don’t shine,” most drugs have to pass through your entire GI tract. As a result, that also happens to be the area of your body that is most commonly affected by drugs.
Look at the potential side effects of ANY medication—I’ll bet my bottom dollar you’ll see at least one possible digestive side effect.
Problem is, these effects can get pretty severe—especially with some of the most popular drugs!
Let’s take a look at some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and their little-known but very serious side effects, as well as explore some ways you can help counteract any that YOU may be suffering from.
Hidden dangers of commonly prescribed drugs
1) Antibiotics
Antibiotics destroy the friendly flora in your gut, which is where 70% of your immune system resides. So in addition to making you even MORE susceptible to future infections because of poor immune function, antibiotics can also cause constipation, diarrhea and yeast overgrowth.
In addition, many studies have linked long-term antibiotic use to Crohn’s disease.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Because the stronger the antibiotic, the more nasty the side effects.
Tetracycline can cause fatty deposits to build up in your liver (aka fatty liver), and Erythromycin can cause cholestasis (decreased bile flow), making you less able to digest fats.
Plus the list of deadly effects of fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Levaquin, Cipro and Avelox continues to grow. In addition to depression, hallucinations and disabling peripheral neuropathy, these drugs can also lead to liver or kidney damage.
2) Antacids
Antacids “work” by preventing your stomach from secreting acid.
There’s just one small problem with that—you need stomach acid to digest your foods!
And when you don’t have it when you need it, you get poor digestion. That means gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and…
Acid reflux!
So antacids further aggravate the very condition they’re supposed to help!
Plus they also hamper your liver’s ability to filter toxins from your blood and can eventually cause damage to this very vital organ.
3) Antihistamines
These too can interfere with your liver’s detoxification process. That means that potentially dangerous toxins in your blood don’t get filtered out like they should and instead are given a green light to make you very ill or even kill you.
4) Benzodiazepines (like Halcion, Centrax, Librium and Valium)
These take their place in line along with antacids and antihistamines—they too can also shut down your poor liver’s detox efforts.
5) Birth control pills
Birth control pills can cause yeast overgrowth, which can mean vaginal infections, weakened immune function and bladder infections.
In addition, they can increase your risk of gallstones.
6) Laxatives
Stimulant laxatives (even the “safer” herbal varieties) “work” by irritating your colon into action and can be habit forming. Plus they can make your colon “lazy” to the point where you are unable to have a bowel movement without them!
Plus many laxatives contain a soluble fiber called psyllium, which can absorb 40 times its weight in water and dehydrate your bowel—which worsens constipation!
And prescription laxatives can cause mineral deficiencies, leaky gut and even kidney failure.
7) NSAIDS
NSAIDS like aspirin and ibuprofen irritate your stomach lining and can cause ulcers and leaky gut, and can interfere with your liver’s detoxification enzymes.
And prolonged aspirin use can cause GI bleeding, and liver and kidney damage.
8) Steroids (like cortisone and prednisone)
These cause deterioration of your intestinal lining which can upset your flora balance, weaken your immune system and make your gut wall leaky.
This is ironic because steroids are often prescribed for arthritis, which is an autoimmune condition that is caused or worsened by leaky gut!
Plus they too are in the L-O-N-G line of drugs that are damaging to your liver.
9) Antidepressants
The list of antidepressant side effects is staggering and includes nausea, nervousness, headaches, sleepiness, sexual dysfunction, dizziness, weight gain and suicidal ideation.
Oh, plus they also affect your gut and can cause some serious constipation.
How to fight back
If you saw yourself in any of the examples I described above and are thinking that there’s nothing you can do besides accepting a life of suffering, know this right now:
There is a whole LOT you can do to help fight back against drugs and their side effects!
How?
By helping to create better HEALTH from within.
When you help your body naturally create a better state of health from within, not only are you making your body stronger and better able to work and counteract drug side effects, but you’re also making it far less likely that you’ll continue to need the drugs to begin with!
Talk about a win-win!
Here are the two biggest, most significant steps you can take toward preventing or saying goodbye to a sickly, diseased, medicated, side effect suffering existence:
Step 1- Eat your way to better health
There's no getting around it. If you want to prevent or stop a cycle of sickness and disease, you MUST eat for health.
Now don't you dare think I'm talking about existing on rabbit food and water!
Not at all. I'm talking about real, good-for-you foods that not only taste delicious and are LOADED with nutrients, but are easy to prepare and a breeze for your system to digest.
I will show you all you need to know in the Great Taste No Pain health system
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp
or if you have gluten challenges, Great Taste No Gluten.
- http://www.greattastenogluten.com/great.asp
Both systems give you straight-forward, easy to understand manuals that show you why eating real foods and having good digestion is SO effective, and teach you the simple principles you need to know to help break the cycle of sickness and disease.
And you'll also get a recipe book filled with tasty dishes that will soon become hits with the entire family!
Step 2- Bring your gut back into balance
The typical American diet (loaded with processed food, fast food, trans-fats and refined carbs) is murder on your friendly gut flora...and as you saw above, so are many medications!
And since your gut is where70% of your immune system resides, the protection of your little intestinal inhabitants is NOT something you want to be without!
Not only does your immune system help fight infections and viruses, but it also protects you against diseases including cancer!
Eating real foods like I mentioned above can certainly help rebuild your flora, but for many people, that's not enough...especially if you've had anything resembling a typical diet or have taken medications for a long time.
That's why a multi-strain probiotic supplement like Super Shield can be so beneficial for so many people.
- http://www.bluerockholistics.com/product/pross.asp
Super Shield's 13 strains of friendly flora each have their own unique job in terms of how they help enhance your health. More strains means better protection against sickness.
And Super Shield contains both strains of Lactobacillus bacteria (which live in your small intestine) and Bifidobacteria strains (which reside in your large intestine or colon), so this important stretch of your immune system is well covered!
You can make a difference…NOW
Sad as it is to say, our current state of "health" is NOT health at all!
If we were a "healthy" nation, 7 out of 10 of us wouldn't be taking prescription drugs, would we?
But you now have an advantage.
Because you are now armed with the information you need to help break the cycle of sickness, disease and drugs.
And instead help create true, lasting health from within.
Start now (like Kelly did below).
It's never too late and you'll never regret it!
To your health,
Sherry Brescia
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Sherry:
You are my lifesaver!
My doctor gave me an endless supply of Aciphex and Nexium to combat my stomach acid problems after a prognosis of Barrett’s’ Esophagus. The same doctor took out my gallbladder 9 months before.
My friend, Amy, turned me on to your Great Taste No Pain and your Super Shield Probiotics. I try as much as possible to balance my diet according to your plan. I refuse to take any acid reducers.
Thank you again for introducing me to a pain free, acid reducer free way of life!
Kelly
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Ph.:US/CANADA 1-888-724-4366 FAX: 315-468-5818
Ph: INTERNATIONAL 315-295-1236
Hi John
Here are some statistics that will open your eyeballs up on this Friday morning:
Current studies show that 7 out of 10 of us take at least one prescription medication each and every DAY.
And at least half of those people take 2 or MORE drugs per day.
That’s a whole lot of pill popping going on!
Now, while we’d all like to think that these chemicals just get inside of us, cruise on over to our “problem area” and innocently carry out their intended purpose, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Fact is, ALL drugs have side effects because it’s impossible for them NOT to!
When something is absorbed into your bloodstream (as ALL drugs eventually are), there’s no way to completely control where it goes and what it does to you. And since drugs are chemicals your body was never meant to ingest, it’s a given that they will cause harm to you in some way.
The liver and kidneys do their best job of filtering out what they perceive to be dangerous, but they can only do so much and they can’t prevent ALL of the possible harmful effects…plus they themselves are harmed by many drugs too (more on that below).
Now, with the exception of medications that are injected via a shot, administered by IV or in a suppository that’s put in “where the sun don’t shine,” most drugs have to pass through your entire GI tract. As a result, that also happens to be the area of your body that is most commonly affected by drugs.
Look at the potential side effects of ANY medication—I’ll bet my bottom dollar you’ll see at least one possible digestive side effect.
Problem is, these effects can get pretty severe—especially with some of the most popular drugs!
Let’s take a look at some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and their little-known but very serious side effects, as well as explore some ways you can help counteract any that YOU may be suffering from.
Hidden dangers of commonly prescribed drugs
1) Antibiotics
Antibiotics destroy the friendly flora in your gut, which is where 70% of your immune system resides. So in addition to making you even MORE susceptible to future infections because of poor immune function, antibiotics can also cause constipation, diarrhea and yeast overgrowth.
In addition, many studies have linked long-term antibiotic use to Crohn’s disease.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Because the stronger the antibiotic, the more nasty the side effects.
Tetracycline can cause fatty deposits to build up in your liver (aka fatty liver), and Erythromycin can cause cholestasis (decreased bile flow), making you less able to digest fats.
Plus the list of deadly effects of fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Levaquin, Cipro and Avelox continues to grow. In addition to depression, hallucinations and disabling peripheral neuropathy, these drugs can also lead to liver or kidney damage.
2) Antacids
Antacids “work” by preventing your stomach from secreting acid.
There’s just one small problem with that—you need stomach acid to digest your foods!
And when you don’t have it when you need it, you get poor digestion. That means gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and…
Acid reflux!
So antacids further aggravate the very condition they’re supposed to help!
Plus they also hamper your liver’s ability to filter toxins from your blood and can eventually cause damage to this very vital organ.
3) Antihistamines
These too can interfere with your liver’s detoxification process. That means that potentially dangerous toxins in your blood don’t get filtered out like they should and instead are given a green light to make you very ill or even kill you.
4) Benzodiazepines (like Halcion, Centrax, Librium and Valium)
These take their place in line along with antacids and antihistamines—they too can also shut down your poor liver’s detox efforts.
5) Birth control pills
Birth control pills can cause yeast overgrowth, which can mean vaginal infections, weakened immune function and bladder infections.
In addition, they can increase your risk of gallstones.
6) Laxatives
Stimulant laxatives (even the “safer” herbal varieties) “work” by irritating your colon into action and can be habit forming. Plus they can make your colon “lazy” to the point where you are unable to have a bowel movement without them!
Plus many laxatives contain a soluble fiber called psyllium, which can absorb 40 times its weight in water and dehydrate your bowel—which worsens constipation!
And prescription laxatives can cause mineral deficiencies, leaky gut and even kidney failure.
7) NSAIDS
NSAIDS like aspirin and ibuprofen irritate your stomach lining and can cause ulcers and leaky gut, and can interfere with your liver’s detoxification enzymes.
And prolonged aspirin use can cause GI bleeding, and liver and kidney damage.
8) Steroids (like cortisone and prednisone)
These cause deterioration of your intestinal lining which can upset your flora balance, weaken your immune system and make your gut wall leaky.
This is ironic because steroids are often prescribed for arthritis, which is an autoimmune condition that is caused or worsened by leaky gut!
Plus they too are in the L-O-N-G line of drugs that are damaging to your liver.
9) Antidepressants
The list of antidepressant side effects is staggering and includes nausea, nervousness, headaches, sleepiness, sexual dysfunction, dizziness, weight gain and suicidal ideation.
Oh, plus they also affect your gut and can cause some serious constipation.
How to fight back
If you saw yourself in any of the examples I described above and are thinking that there’s nothing you can do besides accepting a life of suffering, know this right now:
There is a whole LOT you can do to help fight back against drugs and their side effects!
How?
By helping to create better HEALTH from within.
When you help your body naturally create a better state of health from within, not only are you making your body stronger and better able to work and counteract drug side effects, but you’re also making it far less likely that you’ll continue to need the drugs to begin with!
Talk about a win-win!
Here are the two biggest, most significant steps you can take toward preventing or saying goodbye to a sickly, diseased, medicated, side effect suffering existence:
Step 1- Eat your way to better health
There's no getting around it. If you want to prevent or stop a cycle of sickness and disease, you MUST eat for health.
Now don't you dare think I'm talking about existing on rabbit food and water!
Not at all. I'm talking about real, good-for-you foods that not only taste delicious and are LOADED with nutrients, but are easy to prepare and a breeze for your system to digest.
I will show you all you need to know in the Great Taste No Pain health system
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp
or if you have gluten challenges, Great Taste No Gluten.
- http://www.greattastenogluten.com/great.asp
Both systems give you straight-forward, easy to understand manuals that show you why eating real foods and having good digestion is SO effective, and teach you the simple principles you need to know to help break the cycle of sickness and disease.
And you'll also get a recipe book filled with tasty dishes that will soon become hits with the entire family!
Step 2- Bring your gut back into balance
The typical American diet (loaded with processed food, fast food, trans-fats and refined carbs) is murder on your friendly gut flora...and as you saw above, so are many medications!
And since your gut is where70% of your immune system resides, the protection of your little intestinal inhabitants is NOT something you want to be without!
Not only does your immune system help fight infections and viruses, but it also protects you against diseases including cancer!
Eating real foods like I mentioned above can certainly help rebuild your flora, but for many people, that's not enough...especially if you've had anything resembling a typical diet or have taken medications for a long time.
That's why a multi-strain probiotic supplement like Super Shield can be so beneficial for so many people.
- http://www.bluerockholistics.com/product/pross.asp
Super Shield's 13 strains of friendly flora each have their own unique job in terms of how they help enhance your health. More strains means better protection against sickness.
And Super Shield contains both strains of Lactobacillus bacteria (which live in your small intestine) and Bifidobacteria strains (which reside in your large intestine or colon), so this important stretch of your immune system is well covered!
You can make a difference…NOW
Sad as it is to say, our current state of "health" is NOT health at all!
If we were a "healthy" nation, 7 out of 10 of us wouldn't be taking prescription drugs, would we?
But you now have an advantage.
Because you are now armed with the information you need to help break the cycle of sickness, disease and drugs.
And instead help create true, lasting health from within.
Start now (like Kelly did below).
It's never too late and you'll never regret it!
To your health,
Sherry Brescia
- http://www.facebook.com/HolisticBlends
PPS: Kelly’s done with
acid reducers and is feeling great!
You are my lifesaver!
My doctor gave me an endless supply of Aciphex and Nexium to combat my stomach acid problems after a prognosis of Barrett’s’ Esophagus. The same doctor took out my gallbladder 9 months before.
My friend, Amy, turned me on to your Great Taste No Pain and your Super Shield Probiotics. I try as much as possible to balance my diet according to your plan. I refuse to take any acid reducers.
Thank you again for introducing me to a pain free, acid reducer free way of life!
Kelly
Haven't taken the Great Taste No Pain test drive? Why not? Get over to
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/freereports/ and feel the power of Great Taste No Pain.
Orders: 1-315-295-123
* Forward this email to the people you care about the most!
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp
- http://www.greattastenogluten.com/great.asp
- http://www.bluerockholistics.com
(c) copyright 2013 Holistic Blends
Pain-Free Living is a permission-based newsletter. The only way to receive it is to request it here To stop getting this letter, simply use the link below and it will end automatically and immediately.
Holistic Blends Inc.
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp
PO Box 359 Syracuse, NY 13209
Ph.: 1-888-724-4366 FAX: 315-468-5818
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