Natural Cures
While natural products are of great benefit to our ability to treat disease, they represent a mix of known and unknown compounds and are not subject to the same level of testing and regulation as pharmaceuticals. That creates a potential risk that might be avoided by isolation and purification of active components. A good case can be made about the accessibility and cost of those natural cures that have undergone rigorous testing, but the potential toxic effects should also be included in the analysis. Wikipedia page on Taxol: en.wikipedia.org Fantastic long story of Taxol’s discovery and development (worth reading!): www.rinr.fsu.edu St. John’s Wort en.wikipedia.org Red Yeast Rice en.wikipedia.org
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Excellent video COncOrdance. So clearly explained!! One of your best IMHO on medicine.
Excellent video COncOrdance. So clearly explained!!
I remember “happy fun ball.” lol
Go ahead and continue taking all the drugs and vaccines the pharmcos sell you. I have no objection what so ever to you taking what you want to take as long as you don’t try to prevent me from taking or NOT taking what I want. Anyone disagree with that?
Saint John wort has a nice flower and going to looking at one is about as close as I want that in my body.
Some examples of all-natural: anthrax, arsenic, cyanide, strychnine, nightshade, cobra venom, asbestos, radon, HIV, lead, mercury, Death Cap mushrooms, ebola, botulism, e.coli, ricin, bubonic plague, staphylococcus.
@C0nc0rdance im not talking about that SDS im talking about sudden death syndrome sorry for the confusion
@PureBrutalSickness
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome is a genetic exocrine insufficiency. Magnesium citrate is a purgative. Beta blockers are useful for a lot of conditions, none of which can be replaced by Mg-citrate.
so its better to take an beta blocker then magnesium citrate witch both do the same but beta blocker has the side effect of SDS and magnesium doesn’t with many more benefits….
@C0nc0rdance That was pretty much what I did mean, thanks for the clarification.
@thargor2k
I said “bias or experimental design issue”, which would include improper blinding. The most likely culprit is a non-naive test population. They know what St. John’s wort tastes like and what it “feels like” so they could easily differentiate which group they were in (control or treatment), and could slant the data accordingly.
The best evidence for this is a lack of dose-dependent effect.
Very nice video, though I have a question: You said studies that in studies from Germany, St. John wort performs better than in studies made elsewhere, and provided some possible reasons why this could be the case which implied basically bad studies. Another idea: Could it be possible that due to the usage in folk medicine, the placebo effect is bigger?
That was stupid
@DanThePropMan I’ve tried the pharmaceutics versions. They produce horrible debilitating side-effects in me, and millions of other people. There are times when the natural versions work better than the pharmaceutics! Besides Mushrooms taste good too! And you can grow your own fairly easily! And much much cheaper! — I’m glad you don’t work for the chemical companies. — I’ve been so messed up by pharmaceutical drugs I’ve been on disability. Doctor drugs can be dangerous too!
If you are going to take any supplements at all, I recommend you buy a subscription to consumerlab. Its really cheap, like $39 or something for a full year of unlimited reports. They give reports on all types of stuff, from multivitamins to red yeast rice. I looked at the report and they tested major brands of red yeast rice. Several of them failed including the “solaray” brand which ironically, was shown in this video. They failed due to citrinin contamination. Look up all pills you take!
“Trust GOD not Pharma”
Wow, how arrogant does one have to be to believe that this world is perfectly tailored just for us?
@blazereef Well Zombie is a nearly perfect example. The christian variety pretend to eat flesh & drink blood and worship an mythological undead(zombie) creature.
@quinndiesel1977 So you have drugs to cure a ruptured appendix? Thought that took surgery, no? And the only time I got penile drip was after fucking YOUR sister. (She told me she got the std from you.) I don’t need a bunch of brainwashed idiots to peer review stuff that I KNOW works from using it myself! I guess natural cures made by GOD dont work until a bunch of “scientists” say that it works? Its really not your fault that you are is ignorant as you are, youve been brainwashed.
@quinndiesel1977 Well you certainly are deserving of the moniker fucktard! Sorry to use YOUR name! (Although I used it to describe you, so you should be proud.) Peer reviews? Yeah, theres so many peer reviews for natural cures that the drug companies cant patent and make billions on. Next thing youll be telling me that the FDA is there to protect me. Riiight. Topical use is only one use for colloidal silver. Not dangerous unless ingesting 100 times the recommended ammount.
@quinndiesel1977 I suggest the next time your appendix ruptures, or you get Strep throat, or a nasty case of penile drip after that romp with your sister, that you just get some silver and see what happens. No?
@SUPERSILVER7771 Fucktard is MY WORD not yours. As for the proven benefits of INGESTING colloidal silver, there are NONE in the peer reviewed literature. Silver is used antibacterially as a TOPICAL agent where it has proven benefits. Ingesting silver is dangerous, and people who recommend it for children should be sent to siberia. The side effect profile includes but is not limited to a severe case of fucktardery and gobshitedness.
@quinndiesel1977 Take colloidal silver and you become a smurf, right?? Your ignorance is astounding!! It takes ALOT of silver to turn your skin blue. Millions take colloidal silver for its long time proven antibacterial qualities, with no side effects (unlike the drugs you want to push on your patient!) You are an ignoramus, and since you started calling names, you are also a fucktard. You embody that moniker are very worthy of it. You are the fucking idiot.
@SUPERSILVER7771 Right….because most people like to be smurfs. You’re a fucking idiot.
@quinndiesel1977 you have done a great disservice to your patient!
Pharmaceutical companies arent even LOOKING for a cure for cancer, they want to create drugs that manage it, creating EXCELLENT customers and record profits for the drug mafia!! People that live after chemo and radiation live despite it not because of it. Most likely to the serious life changes they have made when confronted with a life threatening illness. Less stress, eating better, suppliments, etc. ALL drugs have toxic side effects!! What you are doing here is EVIL! Trust GOD not Pharma