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Nutritional deficiencies are rampant. I believe many people are falsely lulled into a sense of security by RDA (recommended daily allowances) listings on food and nutrients.
What you don’t know is that RDA requirements are the bare minimum to stave off diseases of deficiency like scurvy or rickets.
RDA requirements do NOT promote optimal health! [Read more…]
For a limited time, you can watch the documentary film “Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-up“, which walks through published research studies showing that there is no lowering of risk of death from heart disease by taking statin drugs, which approximately 40 million people are taking, despite the FDA’s recent warning about them.
You can read more about the dangers of statins in my recent blog post about the topic here.
Some of the known dangerous side effects of statins are memory loss (transient global amnesia), type 2 diabetes, muscle pain and weakness and heart failure. Are these risks really worth it, especially when considering that what is now considered high cholesterol used to be considered normal cholesterol? [Read more…]
Believe it or not, acid reflux medication dangers are real, and these medications do major harm to your body. Shocking, right?
It’s true. All of those medications (Prevacid, Nexium, Zantac, Prilosec, omeprazole, even Tums) reduce stomach acid, which is what they are designed to do.
The problem is that acid reflux is actually caused by TOO LITTLE stomach acid, not too much. Counter-intuitive, right? So what happens when you have too little stomach acid? For starters, you can’t properly digest food, leading to nutritional deficiencies, particularly magnesium, calcium and vitamin B12.
A magnesium deficiency is linked to:
A calcium deficiency is linked to:
A vitamin B12 deficiency is linked to multiple neurological disorders, including
Not only do acid reducers cause nutritional deficiencies, but they also take away an important component of our immune system. Stomach acid is used to kill nasty bugs, viruses, parasites and bacteria. Without enough stomach acid, guess what happens? That’s right – infection.
By prescribing proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), doctors are putting their patients at a higher risk for infections like pneumonia and gastroenteritis, as well as getting more colds and stomach bugs.
In addition, by taking acid-reflux drugs, you’re more likely to get sick more often because your immune system can’t fight off these offenders. It also makes the rest of the gastrointestinal tract susceptible to bacterial overgrowth.
Is it worth taking acid-reflux medication? I don’t think so, and I can tell you that, as a mom, I was furious at the doctors who prescribed them to my boys for their acid reflux after I found out how truly dangerous these drugs are.
Recent research has found no link between salt consumption and an increased risk of death or cardiovascular disease. I recommend using a non-white sea salt or a land salt, like Himalayan pink salt, because these salts contain trace minerals vital to our health and often missing from our diets. Read more…
SOURCE: GreenMedInfo
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