"What the Drug Companies Won't Tell You and Your Doctor Doesn't Know"

[ellenrr]

by Michael Murray.
recommended

[dipsydoodle]

1. Did you mean to post a link ?

:hi:

[Atman]

2. It seems that NO ONE will tell you!

;)

[trotsky]

4. LMAO!

:thumbsup:

[CanSocDem]

6. Seriously....

That only someone else can tell you what is going on in your own body is a myth designed to separate you from your money and your birthright.

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[no_hypocrisy]

3. amazon

http://www.amazon.com/What-Companies-Doctor-Doesnt-Life/dp/1416549390

This book is destined to become a classic among those that shift the paradigm from toxic drug use to natural healing! It is very reader friendly for the layman. In the first chapter, Murray illustrates how the drug companies only care about money, not health. (When I first discovered this years ago, it was like finding out your mother had Munchousen syndrome by proxy---a mental disorder in which moms poision their kids!) Dr. Murray packs the chapter with shocking facts: Though the USA buys 40% of the world's drugs, we rank 42 in life expectancy. $57 billion is spent on marketing to MDs, and twice as much is spent on marketing as on drug research. Their research is suspect, since they hire for-profit research companies and are also able to suppress the research that doesn't show the drug as effective. In the last 20 years, 2 million have died from adverse drug reactions!

In chapter 2, Dr. Murray explains that the knowledge of the body as self-healing has been forgotten by doctors. He points out that many drugs are really little more than a placebo effect, harnessing the power of the patient's mind to heal the body. Murray teaches us how drugs merely relieve symptoms but absolutely do not cure. One can never heal without getting to the root of the illness. As an expample, he had a patient with high blood pressure. Instead of giving him drugs, Murry learned the guy was jogging near the freeway, which made him breathe in lead. Once he switched to the beach, the blood pressure normalized!

In several of the chapters, Dr. Murray takes us on a detailed journey of common health disorders (such as headaches, osteoarthritis, asthma and more) and points out the pitfalls and side effects of drug treatment and the simplicity and effectiveness of natural remedies. After that, he exposes the cholesterol myth and shows the more sinister side of drug companies, explaining that "six of the nine expert members of the government panel that drafted the new cholesterol guidelines had either recieved grants from or were paid consulting or speakers' fees by the companies taht make some of the most popular statin drugs." He says that the levels of "normal" cholesterol were lowered just so more people would go on drugs! (There is a great deal of other shocking material like this in this book.)

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Dr. M. points out that many drugs actually CAUSE the symptoms they are supposed to be treating, so you get addicted to them! Examples include headache medicine and NSAIDS used for joint pain (which destroy the carilage!).He also shows us how to critically analyze media stories that belittle natural remedies like fish oil or Saint John's Wart. He tops the book off with a detailed chapter on how to get well and stay well.

[CanSocDem]

5. Well done-n_h Thanks for the link&info. (eom)

[BuddhaGirl]

7. +1

:thumbsup:

[uppityperson]

9. To counter the review in your post, here's another "med info is just plain wrong"

At the same link in your post...

The second point in this book is far less well made. This book would likely have been much better and stronger if it had focused just on the first point. This second point is discussed in such a way that it would make me wary of recommending this book to doctors or to anyone else. A lot of basic information is missing and a lot of the medical information given is just plain wrong.

For instance:
The author is very ignorant about fats and oils. Canola oil is recommended and there is a lot of scare-mongering about any oil that isn't monounsaturated - as if eating all mono fats is best for you. (That is not the case!)
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- There is a huge focus on mental attitude of the patient in this book. Some focus in this area is necessary of course but I do really feel it is bizarrely overstated. Two case studies are given - one of a man who was given a placebo and whose huge tumours all disappeared only to reappear when he found out his `drug' was said not to work, and another of a man who developed cataracts because there `were things in his life he didn't want to see' and whose vision completely recovered following psychotherapy to deal with these issues. If these cases are genuine then they are extremely rare. Far more likely these days are patients being told that they are not ill when they are. Considering this, how is making so much of the above two rare case studies helpful? The mind and body link is already way over-emphasised to the detriment of patients and the huge focus on it in this book distracts the reader from the far more likely issue of nutrient deficiencies and toxicity issues going undiagnosed and untreated and patients being unfairly blamed for not recovering due to a poor attitude. There are so many other amazing facts or case studies highlighting the success of nutritional medicine that could have been used and far more usefully.
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This book provides little useful or practical health information beyond the recommendation for taking a good quality multivitamin and mineral supplement and a bit of fish oil, calcium and magnesium. Some good basic points are made though about biochemical individuality, the importance of detoxification, the need to buy good quality supplements and not just any old brand and the fact that eating well is of primary importance and can't be made up for by any drug.

[HuckleB]

11. So the bad review still thinks that the book's push for "detoxification" is a postive.

I yi yi.

And since multiple studies have shown that most people do not need supplements, this book appears to be a whole lot of misinformation.

[HuckleB]

8. Is this the same Michael Murray, ND, who co-authored ...

"How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine?"

If so, it doesn't appear that he has much credibility. He certainly writes a lot of books, but he doesn't appear to understand the scientific process. He appears to be of the usual ND mindset, where his focus on selecting only those small, preliminary studies that agree with the quack treatments he pushes.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/bad-books/

Please don't hurt people by pushing this type of crap.

[HuckleB]

10. More about this sketchy author.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/bogus-diagnostic-tests/

"...DDI and another company, Genova Diagnostics (GDX), formerly the Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory, sell such bogus tests as hair analysis, urinary amino acids, “intestinal permeability,” “DNA oxidative damage assay,” and various “comprehensive panels” that generate reports explicitly or implicitly calling for “detoxification” schemes, “supplements,” “nutriceuticals,” or “bioidentical hormones,” which participating practitioners are only too happy to provide. Doctor’s Data is proud of its close ties with such PPOs as the ACAM and DAN!, and like GDX is a “supporter” of the ACAM.

Genova also has a cozy relationship with naturopath Michael Murray, a long-time shill for “natural remedies” and co-editor of the Textbook of Natural Medicine, previously discussed here. One of Genova’s former divisions was BodyBalance, which peddles “test kits” directly to consumers ostensibly to measure minerals, hormones, “antioxidant reserves,” and “the body’s natural safeguard for optimal sleep, mood and cell function — melatonin” in saliva, hair, or urine.

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It appears that Mr. Murray has no problem pushing unproven diagnostics and treatments, so I'm not sure why anyone would recommend his book.

[trotsky]

12. Why would anyone recommend his book?

Because like any good huckster, he says what suckers want to hear.

[HuckleB]

13. +1

But, but it's ok, because the health care system is in the toilet. So who cares about the hucksters?

[SidDithers]

14. Unrecommended...nt

Sid