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8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine
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Shane Ellison, M.Sc.
www.earlytorise.com
By education and by
trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for science
motivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis –
in both academia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed
first-hand the priorities of international pharmaceutical
companies (Big Pharma), which ranked wealth first and health
a distant second.
In the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes
science. Science no longer prevails in medicine. Instead,
modern medicine has been democratized. Drug approval is a
simple matter of 51% telling the other 49% that a
prescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome: deadly
drugs are approved for use among misinformed medical doctors
and patients. Herein lies a story of deceit and a chemist’s
abandonment of modern medicine.
My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed
by Eli Lilly to design a new generation of Hormone
Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs. Such drugs include
tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these drugs were
thought to block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen can
initiate cancer growth) and thereby halt cancer. As time
progressed, though, it was learned that they were also
capable of activating estrogen receptors.
The end result was a biochemical environment favorable to
cancer growth among users. [1] The Journal of the
American Medical Association recognized this trend and
stated "our data add to the growing body of evidence that
recent long-term use of HRT is associated with an increased
risk of breast cancer and that such use may be related
particularly to lobular tumors."
The risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured
from doctors by drug companies. This can be seen by the fact
that tamoxifen is the gold-standard used by medical doctors
to fight cancer among their patients, particularly breast
cancer. This explains why medical doctors might not notice
its ability to cause cancer – the patient already has it.
At any rate, my task was made
clear: Design HRT “knock-offs” that are effective
without causing cancer.
My attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful.
And after one year, the project was ended. However, access
to HRT drugs like tamoxifen was not. They remained on the
market.
The fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was
disinformation via Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising.
Since 1962, monitoring DTC advertising has been the sole
responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the FDA granted the
duty of DTC advertising to the pharmaceutical companies in
1997. Officially, this was done as a means of “promoting
health awareness to ensure health and safe
5. Tejal K. Gandhi. et
al.. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care. The
New England
Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:1556-1564.
April 17, 2003.
Number 16.
"An important
function of the immune system is to protect the body
from microbes that cause infections. Recently
scientists have discovered a possible microbe
connection in many chronic diseases that were
previously not considered to be infections. A
microbe connection has been identified in such
diseases as arteriosclerosis, heart disease,
Alzheimer's disease, duodenal ulcers, diabetes, SLE
(systemic lupus erythematosus), rheumatoid
arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, multiple
sclerosis, most forms of cancer, polycystic ovary
disease, some types of inflammatory bowel disease,
cerebral palsy and even most major psychiatric
diseases. The immune system, which spans the
boundaries of all the body's vital systems, could be
the key factor in understanding the cause of chronic
and degenerative disease."
--Dan
Kenner, Ph.D., LAc.
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