A recent drug study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (”Serious Adverse Drug Events Reported to the Food and Drug Administration, 1998-2005,” Arch Intern Med. 2007; 167(16): 1,752-1,759), reveals that over the past 8 years, the number of prescription-drug related deaths has more than doubled.

This research provides yet further proof of our warnings about the serious (even deadly) “side effects” of prescription medications. (Note that this study didn’t even examine the many other serious “side effects” of meds… only deaths.)

Even more alarming is the fact that the majority of this increase in deaths was attributed to 298 out of the 1,489 pharmaceutical drugs studied. This group of drugs accounted for 407,394 of the 467,809 events. In other words, 20% of the medications were responsible for 87% of these prescription-related deaths.

No question, this alarming research should have made front-page news…

Yet the pharmaceutical companies — nor did the FDA — made NO moves to withdraw these 298 drugs from the market… Neither did they make any attempts to make the public or media aware of the grave dangers these medications pose.

Even scarier is the fact that many top health experts concede that fewer than 10% of prescription-drug related deaths ever get reported. Some place those figures at 1%-2%. Thus, a conservative estimate would put the actual medication-related deaths at well over 1 million annually.

It would appear that the billions upon billions dollars of profit of the powerful pharmaceutical companies is more important than the lives of a “mere” million Americans each and every year…

- Trevor K. Neuman

Over the last number of decades, diabetologists had been highly optimistic that tight control of blood sugar levels would lead to greater success rates… less artery disease… lower death-rates… fewer strokes and heart attacks… less blindness and kidney failure.  Yet these hoped-for outcomes have simply not panned out.

Indeed, the situation has become alarmingly more grim.

Even much of the information and many of the guidelines offered by the major diabetes-specific organizations, such as the American Diabetes Association, have proven unhelpful in regulating glucose levels — a key component in keeping diabetes in check.

And government research funding programs have become so politicized, that the integrity of independent research has largely been destroyed.  Moreover, powerful lobby groups have become so influential, that any government grants actually achieve little in terms of practical value to suffering diabetics.

No wonder so many diabetics are becoming increasingly frustrated and disillusioned!

Unfortunately, there are now scores of online companies advertising phony “miracle” products that allegedly cure diabetes. In fact, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have just recently sent out over 200 warning letters to many of these companies.

In a October 19, 2006 press release, Margaret O’K. Glavin, the FDA’s Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, says, “We will not tolerate practices that raise false hopes and bilk consumers of precious health care dollars. Diabetes requires effective treatments and aggressive management, not bogus and unproven products.”

And Lydia Parnes, Director of FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, states: “The Internet can be a great source of information, but it also is a billboard for ads that promise miracle cures for diabetes and other serious diseases.”

Clearly, the Internet offers tons of information — Google.com lists over 90 million webpages for the keyword “diabetes”. Yet…

How Can You Distinguish All The Mis-Information From The Facts?!?

That’s where this breakthrough research website comes in. The Diabetes12.com research team collects and analyzes Diabetes Types 1 & 2 research from literally hundreds of researchers and scientists world-wide… and then summarizes the most important information in an easy-to-understand format on this website via timely blog postings.

According to the American Diabetes Association, “Diabetes causes 35 million heart attacks, 13 million strokes, 2 million amputations and 62 million deaths. That’s the expected toll from diabetes… unless major action is taken to curb and control it…”

Further, the American Diabetes Association calculates there are 20.8 million diabetics in America; with another 54 million people having pre-diabetes (placing them at high risk for developing Type II diabetes). This equates to 75 million Americans having diabetes, or being at high risk.

Contrast these alarming figures to 100 years ago, when diabetes cases were so rare, most doctors never saw or diagnosed the disease even once in their entire medical careers.

And ten years ago, Type II diabetes was virtually unheard of in children. Yet now, numerous doctors and health professionals predict that by the year 2010, 50% of our children will have Type II diabetes before they turn 20!

Most doctors believe that diabetes is incurable… that’s what they’ve been taught. The best you could hope for – according to what they learned in medical school – is to “control” this disease with medication and insulin.

And they’re right… Diabetes is incurable… At least it’s incurable if you follow most doctors’ advice of merely suppressing your diabetes symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs.

That’s because most doctors’ advice – taking ever-increasing doses of medications – doesn’t solve the root problem of diabetes. These drugs merely attempt to “control” the symptoms of high glucose levels, insulin resistance, etc.

And because these medications cause other health problems (side effects), your doctor ends up prescribing more drugs to “control” those new symptoms… which cause yet further “side effects”… and/or render your original medications less effective, so your doctor doubles or quadruples your original dosages… and this vicious cycle just goes on and on…

You’re caught in the “Diabetes Trap”!

In fact, millions of diabetics are stuck in this trap of continually “needing” more and higher doses of medications. And what awaits them is an implicit death sentence of heart disease… stroke… obesity… kidney failure… debilitating nerve damage… blindness… impotence… and/or some of the many other seemingly inescapable diabetes complications.

Simply because the underlying cause of their diabetes was never addressed.

If we just learn the rules of health and show our body the respect it deserves, it is perfectly capable of efficiently managing the details, and there will be absolutely no reason to stress about all those levels.

Although many people tend to believe that disease is just the result of getting older, that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. Disease is normally the result of an unhealthy condition in the body, (not the result of our age), and something we all can control.

We just need to learn what our body really needs and then provide it, and stop abusing it with all those potentially dangerous and unnecessary drugs.

- Dr. David W. Tanton

According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA), between 75% to 80% of diabetics will die of heart disease or stroke.

And here are just a few more facts directly from the American Diabetes Association:

• Nerve Damage: 60% to 70% of diabetics are affected by diabetic neuropathy.
• Amputations: Diabetes is the #1 cause of non-traumatic amputations; diabetics have a 40 times greater risk of leg amputations than people with normal blood sugar levels.
• Kidney Failure: Diabetes is the #1 cause of kidney failure, and is responsible for 40% of all new cases.
• Blindness: Diabetes is the #1 cause of blindness; diabetics are also at increased risk for glaucoma and cataracts.
• Other Complications: Diabetes also increases the risk for infections, impotence, digestive problems, memory loss, dementia, periodontal or gum disease, and a host of other problems.

Additionally, according to numerous research studies, including a recent study of over 1 million people, diabetics are also about 30% more likely to develop, and die from, cancer.

And if these statistics aren’t bad enough for you, the American Diabetes Association puts the number of diabetics in America at 20.8 million; with another 54 million having pre-diabetes, which places them at high risk for developing Type II diabetes.

Worse, according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health, nearly half of American men today either have the disease, or are on the verge of developing it.

Since 1980, diabetic cases in the United States have sky-rocketed by an already alarming 47 percent, and this shocking trend is expected to go ballistic over the coming decade.

Pretty scary stuff…

- Trevor K. Neuman

You can’t always blame your doctor for lack of effective diabetes treatments, since doctors only knows what they were taught in medical school. Most medical doctors were trained to treat symptoms with drugs, rather than using natural nutrients for prevention. Your doctor likely devoted many years of his or her life, and a great deal of money, getting a medical degree.

If an M.D. chose to use a natural therapy (unapproved by the American Medical Association), he or she could help save a life… yet jeopardize their license to practice medicine in doing so. Conversely, if a patient dies as the result of a therapy or drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it would be considered perfectly acceptable (since the doctor followed “proper protocol”).

Avoiding disease by prevention obviously makes much more sense, and thus should be our first line of defense, as well as the primary objective of medicine.

A friend of mine once told me, her doctor indicated that he was taking a statin (cholesterol lowering) drug just for prevention, even though his cholesterol was not elevated. He suggested that she also take the drug just for prevention.

That is definitely not preventative medicine! (Because statin drugs — like virtually all other medications — have a long list of serious “side effects”… definitely NOT something you want to gamble with your health.)

She decided that a change of doctors was in order (a wise decision, I might add).

Another concern regarding modern medicine today is the approximate 7-10 minutes many clinics allot doctors to spend with their patients, and they normally schedule appointments accordingly. It’s obviously very profitable, and certainly makes good business sense… but what about the patients’ welfare?

Although it doesn’t take long to write a prescription, it would normally take a medical doctor considerably longer to adequately diagnose and properly resolve a particular health issue, as well as evaluating the potential interactions of the drugs the patient might already be taking.

Most natural practitioners normally spend approximately one hour on the patient’s first visit, and allow approximately thirty minutes on follow up visits. This approach may not be nearly as profitable, but is obviously much more effective. The same also applies to natural supplements versus drugs. The ingredients in natural supplements normally cost more than prescription drugs for the company, although they sell for far less to the consumer.

Serious Implications Associated With Many Drugs

I believe that many doctors are totally unaware of the serious implications associated with many of the drugs they prescribe daily.

The drug commercials imply that your doctor will know if you should be using their particular drug, and that he is basically an authority with all the answers. They then focus on convincing your doctor that many patients could benefit from their drug (even for unapproved uses).

There are more drugs being continually added, and many are just variations of the same basic class of drug. Although similar, they often vary in potency and potential for interactions with other drugs.

Unfortunately, your doctor is normally so busy with his practice, and dealing with many different patients on a daily basis that he has very little time left to research or evaluate the “side effects” of drugs, and the interactions of multiple drugs.

Natural medicine is in my opinion a true science, as the basic ingredients normally used were created by Our Creator, (who is much more brilliant than man), and whose major concern is our welfare, rather than the most profitable solution. Natural foods are far more complex than any drug produced in a laboratory, and organic (as is our body)… and therefore much less harmful to our bodies.

We must basically decide where we will place our trust, in man or in Our Creator who also created our body. He is obviously in a far better position to understand our body’s needs, and has provided many natural resources for our benefit.

Our body always knows exactly what it is doing and why. The only thing we need to concern ourselves with is providing adequate resources to allow it to do the job it was very efficiently designed by Our Creator to do. We must stop trying to second-guess our body’s intentions by using drugs to override our body’s very efficient functions.

Modern medicine seems to hypothesize that our body somehow has some major design flaws that must be suppressed and controlled at all costs through the use of high-tech drugs.

Our bodies were obviously designed to withstand a tremendous amount of abuse, but there is a limit. Unfortunately, we sometimes exceed that threshold, and many diseases continue to evolve as a result.

This basic problem will not go away unless we drastically change our course of action. One thing that should be obvious to all of us is: We cannot continue doing the same things, and somehow expect to get different results!

- Dr. David W. Tanton

Unfortunately, far too many doctors have only a superficial knowledge of the many medications they prescribe daily, both when it comes to diabetes prescriptions, or drugs for other health problems.

All too often, drugs are prescribed in potentially dangerous combinations, where apparent oversight seems to be obvious.

Now, with the assistance of the late news anchor Peter Jennings, we will evaluate the opinions of some medical experts that appear to have a conscience.

These are medical doctors who are totally aware of the corruption in the very powerful and profitable (legal) drug industry, and are not afraid to express their opinion. The following excerpts were taken from the ABC News Special Report - Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health. This report by Peter Jennings aired on Wednesday, May 29, 2004 on ABC.

Peter Jennings – …Dr. Drummond Rennie is an editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association. He says researchers who are critical get attacked all the time. Do you actually believe, Dr. Rennie, that drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs, which are not as good as older drugs, for the simple requirement of profit?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes. Yes, very much so. Absolutely. …They’ve got to be prevented.

Peter Jennings – … The top 10 drug companies combined made profits of more than $37 billion in the year 2001. And you, the taxpayer, are subsidizing research that benefits the drug industry.

Peter Jennings – The majority of the drugs approved by the FDA are simply modifications of old drugs…Consumers spend $90 billion more on prescription drugs last year than was spent just six years ago. And are we $90 billion healthier? …But what critics call this ‘gaming of the system’ may have a much more damaging result.

Dr. Sharon Levine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group – If I’m a manufacturer, and I can change one molecule and get another 20 years of patent life and convince physicians to prescribe and consumers to demand … then why would I be spending money on a lot less certain endeavor, which is looking for brand new drugs?

Peter Jennings – The pharmaceutical industry has more registered lobbyists than the number of senators and congressmen combined.

Dr. Jerry Avorn, Brigham and Women’s Hospital – I think there’s a sense that, for example, when the FDA approves a drug, everything that needs to be known about it is known. I think patients believe that. I think doctors sometimes believe that. And that is not true.

Dr. Matt Handley, Group Health Cooperative – I would personally wait years for long-term safety from the FDA’s monitoring program before I’d consider taking them. If they were free, I would do that same thing.

Peter Jennings – What does this say about the social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry? Or is the pharmaceutical industry supposed to have a social responsibility?

Dr. Sharon Levine – That’s a very good question that the American people need to answer, do we want to entrust critical elements of the public health to an industry whose purpose, whose mission is to earn return for shareholders?

Peter Jennings – Congress has never required the FDA to routinely compare new drugs with older drugs. This is costing consumers billions of dollars that we do not need to spend. And in some cases, it could be costing lives. …There is no law that says new drugs have to be proven 100 percent safe. … The government says they must be relatively safe, which means that every drug comes with risks. And the result of that is that sometimes new drugs turn out to be more dangerous than old drugs.

Dr. Jerry Avorn, Harvard Medical School – If patients were aware of the limitations that all of us physicians have in terms of what we know and what we wish we knew and what we don’t know, they would be more scared than they are at present. …The saying that a lot of doctors use sometimes in jest is, ‘Always wait a year before prescribing a new drug. And if it’s for a family member, wait five years.’ And that’s an awful thing to say, but it reveals a perception that we really don’t know as much as we would like to know about a drug until it’s been around. INSERT: In other words, tested on the public.

Peter Jennings – The fact is, drugs can be used for years before we really know how safe they are. …Dr. Drummond Rennie is an editor at The Journal of the American Medical Association. He says researchers who are critical get attacked all the time. Why do you think the industry is able to get away with what you have in the past called ‘bullying tactics’?

Dr. Drummond Rennie, Journal of the American Medical Association – Money. Because if the shareholders are happy, whom else do they have to answer for? These are multinationals. They have no masters.

Peter Jennings – Can we trust studies funded by companies that have a vested interest in the results? …Will the pharmaceutical industry do whatever it takes to get the results it wants from research?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – The temptation to spin those results is always there, and it’s frequently used. Frequently.

Peter Jennings – For nearly every drug on the market, doctors must wrestle with conflicting and sometimes inaccurate information.

Dr. Drummond Rennie – If only the good news about a drug is published, and never the bad news, then a false impression is given of the quality, effectiveness of that drug. It may be entirely false.

Peter Jennings – Does the drug industry, on occasion or regularly, suppress data?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Oh, we suspect, and rather know, that this happens all the time.

Peter Jennings – Does a drug company ever not publish the results of a trial because it doesn’t like the results?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes.

Peter Jennings – Do you actually believe, Dr. Rennie, that drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs, which are not as good as older drugs, for the simple requirement of profit?

Dr. Drummond Rennie – Yes. Yes, very much so. Absolutely. …They’ve got to be prevented.

Peter Jennings – There is one last thing this evening which we believe is important for all of us. The questions about what we are getting for our money cannot and must not be answered only by the drug companies. Virtually everyone we talked to for this broadcast agrees on that. The rules by which this hugely profitable industry operates do not always serve consumers adequately. And nothing is going to happen, no matter how angry consumers get, unless the Congress and the president decide that the time is come. The country can do better. I’m Peter Jennings. Thank you for joining us. Good night.

I can’t help but respect Peter Jennings for conducting the interview to help us better understand the corruption in medicine that I am fully aware of, although many in the nation are not. All too often we see announcements in the national news promoting the use of drugs in deceptive ways, and at times for unapproved uses.

A prime example is the woman who was interviewed on the national news, claiming that after stopping Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), she discovered that Paxil™ seemed to help reduce her hot flashes. That announcement was aired shortly after it was announced that HRT had many potential associated problems, so many women stopped their HRT drugs. Although there are natural supplements proven to resolve the hot flashes, taking Paxil™ is much more of a serious threat than HRT.

Paxil™ is a very serious antidepressant never approved for hot flashes, or anything other than depression. Paxil™ is the same basic class of antidepressants as Prozac™, but an even more potent version.

One woman was actually prescribed Paxil™ to help her stop biting her fingernails! She soon discovered that biting her nails was minor compared to the major problem she experienced from the use of Paxil™. For over a year she could no longer control her movements, and as a result was unable to work.

I would guess that after the interview on the national news indicating that Paxil™ might possibly help prevent hot flashes, many women likely asked their doctor if they could try Paxil™. Unfortunately, many doctors would likely accommodate them, and write a prescription for Paxil™, just like the doctor did for the lady who was biting her fingernails. Hot flashes are basically a walk in the park compared to the many potential side effects associated with this serious class of antidepressants (diabetes being just one of many).

- Dr. David W. Tanton

There is often a cascade effect from drug use, resulting from both drug interactions, and the nutrient depletion they cause.

A prime example: The high blood pressure and congestive heart failure that results from the use of drugs used to lower cholesterol. Many doctors routinely put diabetics on cholesterol medication as “preventative” measure… whether their cholesterol is high or not.

Your doctor would likely then place you on anti-hypertensive (blood pressure) medication for that problem. There are several blood pressure medications, each with their own set of problems (which I’ll discuss in the future). They are often prescribed in tandem (combination) today.

Incidentally, there are over 20 brands of beta-blockers, a popular blood pressure medication, and they all just happen to deplete the very same critical nutrient CoQ10 that is also depleted by the statin (cholesterol lowering) drugs, which would just make a bad problem even worse. CoQ10 is a natural and extremely critical enzyme used in every cell of the body for energy production. We will soon be discussing the importance of CoQ10 in considerable detail.

Although the combination of many prescription medications may be very profitable for the pharma companies, it just increases the potential for side effects for the recipients.

The congestive heart failure that can also be caused by statin drugs and results in edema (fluid retention) is then treated with diuretics. The problem with the diuretics is that they remove critical vitamins and minerals along with the excess body fluids. The most critical mineral depleted is magnesium, which often results in an irregular heartbeat, for which your doctor might then recommend installing a pacemaker.

That might sound like a stretch, but that is often standard protocol for modern medicine that considers drugs and surgeries as the only available options.

Regarding the pacemaker implant to resolve a temporary mineral deficiency, my aunt Daisie is a prime example. Over 50 years ago her doctor indicated that she needed a pacemaker. When she refused, he insisted that he would no longer be her doctor unless she agreed to the implantation. Fortunately, she didn’t give in, and is still alive today at 93, and without a pacemaker!

The question remains: Just how long can we allow this obvious deception to continue?

Millions of lives were already at stake, and even millions more are now with the more aggressive measures regarding cholesterol-lowering drugs in place. We will soon experience a dramatic increase in not only strokes and heart attacks, but also kidney failures requiring dialysis or transplants (if any available kidneys can be found).

Sadly, we are not the only country having this particular problem. The following article, regarding the frustrations of doctors in Britain, was taken from an emailed issue of the McAlvany Health Alert (October 23, 2004):

The Royal College of General Practitioners has accused drug companies of “disease-mongering” in order to boost sales.

The college, whose members include many of Britain’s 37,000 GPs, says the pharmaceutical industry is taking the National Health Service to the brink of collapse by encouraging unnecessary prescribing of costly drugs.

In evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, the college accuses the companies of over-playing the dangers of conditions such as mild depression or slightly raised blood pressure.

Dr. Maureen Baker, the college’s honorary secretary, wants the Commons health inquiry to investigate the companies’ practices.

“It would be fruitful to look into the increase in disease-mongering by them,” she told The Sunday Telegraph.

“It is very much in the interest of the pharmaceutical industry to draw a line that includes as large a population as possible within the ‘ill’ category. The bigger this group is, the more drugs they can sell. If current trends continue, publicly funded health-care systems will be at risk of financial collapse with huge cost to society as a whole.”

The college lists hypertension, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression as examples of common conditions that, in mild forms, are often inappropriately treated with drugs.

Sound familiar? I can only add “Amen!” That is my sentiments also. Britain is apparently experiencing the very same problems associated with the pharmaceutical industry that we in the U.S. have been dealing with. Apparently, they are now attempting to deal with the issue head on… and the problem in this nation will not go away unless we also begin to address this critical issue.

- Dr. David W. Tanton

No question. Diabetes is big business.

In the U.S. alone, over $132 Billion is spent on diabetes treatments each year – with about $66 Billion being spent on drug treatments. [Yes, that’s Billion, with a “B”!]

There are currently 18.2 million people diagnosed with diabetes in the United States, and 171 million world-wide. And there are major studies suggesting that another 40 million Americans simply haven’t yet been officially diagnosed with the disease.

So it’s not at all surprising that the amount of money being spent on diabetes is expected to at least double (or even triple) over the next years.

In fact, diabetes already has the highest direct costs for health care of ANY disease category. And these costs are skyrocketing at an increasingly alarming rate.

A huge part of the problem — according to Bradford Kirkman-Liff, a W. P. Carey School professor of health policy and biotechnology — is that doctors have little financial incentive to help people control their diabetes correctly.

It’s primarily about the money…

“Physicians get paid so much when they do a diagnostic test or a surgery. They get paid so little when they actually spend time talking with a patient,” Kirkman-Liff says. “Counseling patients is under-rewarded, and that’s unfortunate. It causes incentive for physicians to spend more time testing and less time teaching patients to manage their own health issues.”

Additionally, a Dartmouth University study uncovered a lack of compliance with medical treatment protocols. “Many physicians still are prescribing the wrong medications for patients,” Kirkman-Liff adds. “So the patient… winds up in the emergency room more often.”

Some additional data:

• 45-million Americans don’t have health insurance.
• Uninsured patients add around $922 to the average family’s health-insurance bill. Meanwhile, the uninsured are more likely to need emergency care, because they’re less likely to manage chronic illnesses, such as diabetes.
• Quality-care standards are not being practiced consistently, and some health plans actually contribute to inappropriate prescribing activity.

- Trevor K. Neuman

About 80% of diabetics suffer from a hypothyroid (low thyroid) condition. In fact, according to clinical trials done by Dr. Broda Barnes, even when many of his diabetic patients were able to stabilize their blood sugar, most of the other symptoms of diabetes wouldn’t go away until they were given effective thyroid therapy.

He also notes: “Thyroid therapy prevented complications in Dr. Eaton’s diabetic patients twenty years ago and has been preventing the same complications in my patients, diabetic and non-diabetic, for twenty-four years” (Hypothyroidism – The Unsuspected Illness, 1976, p. 227). That was in my opinion, quite an amazing discovery, with tremendous potential for diabetics.

When the thyroid is suppressed, the metabolism is reduced, requiring less sugar to be used for energy. Less glucose would obviously be required to maintain a lower-than-normal body temperature, than if the body temperature was maintained at the appropriate 98.6 degrees.

If a person were still consuming the same foods, as well as the same amount, the result would be an excess of unused sugar in the bloodstream. This would then result in increased insulin production, leading to insulin resistance, increased fat storage, and eventually Type II diabetes.

Possibly the worst combination that could contribute to obesity would be an excess of insulin (which is very efficient in storing fat), plus a deficiency of the thyroid hormone (which is responsible for fat removal), combined with an excess of unused sugar. The elevated blood sugar can be potentially dangerous, so it must be converted and stored as abdominal fat (another contributor to insulin resistance).

Modern Medicine’s Flawed Thyroid Evaluation and Treatment

Many of the symptoms associated with hypothyroidism are very similar to those associated with hypoglycemia, and both are often experienced by diabetics, with depression, mood swings, and behavioral disorders being the most common. The question is: Could these symptoms possibly be even more pronounced, when experiencing both conditions concurrently?

If that holds true (which seems logical), depression would probably be even more serious, and a prescription for an antidepressant, (or possibly an additional antidepressant), would all too often be many doctors’ solution.

There are also other symptoms associated with hypothyroidism, such as: brittle nails, dry skin and hair, low metabolism or inability to lose weight, fatigue or low motivation, headaches, fluid retention, heat or cold intolerance, as well as depression and mood swings to help identify the condition. Unfortunately, most medical doctors fail to take the time necessary to properly diagnose the underlying problem, thus a prescription for an antidepressant is all too often the typical response.

If you went to your doctor, who like most medical doctors studied traditional (allopathic) medicine, a hypothyroid condition could easily be misdiagnosed to begin with.

Standard procedure practiced by most medical doctors (even endocrinologists, who specialize in hormonal disorders such as thyroid), would rely on the standard blood test evaluating your Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) and possibly T4 thyroid levels. In many cases, the TSH and T4 thyroid levels would be considered as normal, and you would thus be notified that your thyroid is not a concern (although it very well could be).

Then, even if your doctor decided that thyroid supplementation might possibly be in order, he like most allopathic doctors, would likely prescribe Synthroid™, Levothroid™ or Levoxyl™, one of the artificial forms of T4 thyroid. The problem is you are likely not experiencing a T4 thyroid deficiency, and thus your medication will seldom work, and could at times make matters even worse, by shutting down even more of the active T3 thyroid that would normally be produced by the thyroid.

Following The Money Trail…
Why Thyroid Conditions Likely Remain Unresolved

The basic problem is: A low thyroid condition can potentially lead to many different of symptoms (thirty or more), which are likely due to a reduction in the enzyme action of all 3,000 enzymes in the body.

This then opens the door for a lot of prescriptions to deal with each of the potential symptoms. One of the most common symptoms associated with a hypothyroid condition is depression, and thus unnecessary prescriptions for antidepressants.

Unfortunately, the most common class, known as SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac™, Paxil™, Zoloft™, and Celexa™, etc., stimulate the adrenals to produce the stress hormone cortisol, which actually leads to elevated blood sugar.

The SSRI antidepressants can thus not only worsen existing diabetes, but are also known to contribute to the development of diabetes in non-diabetics, from their long-term usage. That’s not the only problem, as they also contribute to another serious condition known as adrenal fatigue, which is seldom properly diagnosed by most medical doctors.

- Dr. David W. Tanton