BREAKDOWN: Seven-part series in the Globe&Mail

Interesting series, here.
But we at Pharmaceuticals Anonymous think they've got it wrong: mental illness can be prevented and corrected with nutrition. Why bemoan stigma and the high costs of mental health treatment ($1,000,000+ over the lifetime of a
person diagnosed with "schizophrenia") when the truth is that the individual may have a vitamin deficiency, an infection or an allergy?
Why don't the "mentally ill" receive proper
physical work-ups before the Dx/Rx is written? We wonder - could it have something to do with jobs?

Cancer Is A Fungus

You can stop cancer in its tracks simply by changing your body's pH. To do that, all you may need is a gentle, freely available ingredient: Baking soda or Bicarbonate soda. Isn't that wonderful?
Details here.
To learn more, please go to Dr. Simoncici's site.
Also see this article.
Listen to Dr. Simoncici on video here:

Hat tip and thanks for the suggestion to Mr. I.A.

Ignored: The mentally ill killed by drugs that are meant to help them

Article here

America to end era of mercury dental fillings

"The name 'Mad Hatter' was undoubtedly inspired by the phrase "as mad as a hatter". There is some confusion as to the origins of this phrase. Mercury was used in the process of curing felt used in some hats. It was impossible for hatters to avoid inhaling the mercury fumes given off during the hat making process. Hatters and mill workers often suffered mercury poisoning as residual mercury vapor caused neurological damage including confused speech and distorted vision. It was not unusual then for hatters to appear disturbed or mentally confused, many died early as a result of mercury poisoning. However, the Mad Hatter does not exhibit the symptoms of mercury poisoning. Principal symptoms of mercury poisoning are “excessive timidity, diffidence, increasing shyness, loss of self-confidence, anxiety, and a desire to remain unobserved and unobtrusive” -
- From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Hatter

End era of mercury fillings
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
BY CHARLES G. BROWN
The biggest change in the history of American dentistry is about to occur. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is on the verge of limiting the use of dentistry's 19th-century foundation-stone, amalgam fillings. Though promoted as "silver fillings," this material is 50 percent mercury and only 25 percent silver.

Mercury is, of course, highly toxic; it can cause permanent harm to a fetus, to a child's developing brain or an adult's kidneys. The World Health Organization says no safe level of mercury exists. Unlike lead, whose risk becomes acute when the child licks it, mercury is notoriously volatile (it is the only metal in liquid form at room temperature), so its vapors alone can cause neurological or fetal damage. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control warns that mercury from amalgam is "a major source" of mercury exposure to our bodies.

Article here.

How many of us have been given mood-altering drugs when in fact we may have been suffering from mercury poisoning?

What REALLY kills Americans?

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Risperdal for Man Boobs

This one's for Philip Dawdy, of
Furious Seasons. Go read him!
Congratulations on Philip's highly ranked article BITTER PILL here.

Evelyn Pringle: SSRI Pushers Under Fire

Brueghel: Blind leading the blind

"Throughout the 1990's, most doctors who attended conferences, medical seminars and other events were not aware that the so-called "key opinion leaders" encouraging them to prescribe the new generation of antidepressants for everything under the sun, including to children as young as infants, were nothing more than highly paid drug pushers for Big Pharma.

For years, the research that showed SSRI antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) were dangerous and practically useless was kept hidden, while the studies published and presented to potential prescribers painted a glowing picture of success. These days, a person would be hard pressed to find someone who does not have a family member or friend labeled mentally ill and taking drugs like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Lexapro and Celexa, or their chemical cousins Effexor, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin.

About once a year, a new round of headlines about all the money made by the SSRI pushers comes and goes; but nothing really ever seemed to stick, until now.

The Senate Finance Committee, with the ranking Republican, Senator Charles Grassley, leading the charge, is investigating GlaxoSmithKline regarding new revelations in a report filed in litigation showing that the company manipulated the numbers on adverse events related to suicidality in clinical trials back in 1989, to make it appear that Paxil did not increase the risk of patients experiencing suicidal behavior when, in fact, trial subjects on Paxil were eight times more likely to attempt or commit suicide than patients taking placebos.

Quite a few of the top pushers are also under investigation by the Committee due to revelations that millions of dollars has changed hands between the SSRI makers and the academics who signed off on some of the most fraudulently reported research in the history of modern medicine. A full list of names is easy to compile by scanning the literature on SSRI studies conducted on children. The same names appear repeatedly.

In alphabetical order, the Fortune 500 team of pushers, at a minimum, includes Drs Joseph Biederman, David Brent, Jeffrey Bridge, Daniel Casey, David Dunner, Graham Emslie, Daniel Geller, Robert Gibbons, Frederick Goodwin, Martin Keller, Andrew Leon, John Mann, John March, Charles Nemeroff, John Rush, Neal Ryan, David Shaffer, and Karen Wagner."
Article here