Osteoporosis Hip-Fracture Drug Risks?

Why am I not surprised that another highly popular 3.5 billion dollar drug (bisphosphonnate) turns out to be deleterious to your body.

Two new studies show the bones of some post-menopausal women who take a bone-loss drug like Actonel, Bonive, or Fosamax to ward off osteoporosis, result in hardening of their bones and eventual brittleness with a high risk of fracture of the spine or pelvis.

Researchers are now urging limiting the length of time people take these drugs.  The FDA is now reviewing the long term use of these drugs.

Here we are again spending a fortune on high priced prescription drugs which lead to the eventual  destruction of the very bones they were designed to protect, leaving these users at severe risk for spine and hip fractures.

Why are doctors prescribing these drugs in the first place when they have available a permanent cure for bone loss that is nutritional and only costs pennies a day?

Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser, chief of orthopedic-trauma surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York said, “These drugs are good drugs.  They strengthen bone and protect you from fractures for a while. (Italics mine)  But in some people they can become deleterious after a period of time.”

It is difficult for me to understand how a doctor, at his intellectual level, can claim that these expensive drugs are “good drugs” that will protect you from fractures “for a while”.

Whatever happened to Vitamin D-3, Calcium and Magnesium, which cost pennies a day, to naturally build bone strength and keep them strong for the rest of your life?

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said: ”Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure your patient with food.”

As usual, our FDA gets right on these findings and gives sage advice to protect you.

Here’s a copy of the FDA response to the findings on these limited advantages:

March 11, 2010 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that patients taking bisphosphonates should continue to do so, barring any recommendation from their physician, as the agency had no evidence to conclude that the drugs increased the risk for femur fractures just below the hip joint.

The FDA advisory came a day after ABC News cited “mounting evidence” allegedly showing that long-term use of alendronate (Fosamax, Merck), a popular bisphosphonate, or its generic versions could cause spontaneous femur fractures in some women.

“At this point, the data that FDA has reviewed have not shown a clear connection between bisphosphonate use and a risk of atypical subtrochanteric femur fractures,” the FDA stated, adding that it has been working closely with outside experts to investigate the issue. The FDA began their ongoing investigation on this topic in June 2008.  They must have suspected problems at least 2 years ago!

The FDA notes that healthcare professionals should follow the recommendations on the drug label when prescribing bisphosphonates, and adverse events potentially associated with bisphosphonates should be reported to MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event reporting program.

This is a typical FDA response to adverse reports against a popular drug.

If people are not dropping like flies, the FDA will not interfere with pharmaceutical profits.  And you can be sure that neither the doctors who have performed these studies nor the FDA will ever recommend something so simple as an inexpensive natural cure that is permanent.

A good dose of vitamin D-3, calcium, and magnesium should do it.  (Get your blood checked for vitamin D-3 — bet you are deficient.  Most everyone is!)

The FDA is fully aware how deleteriously it would be to the pharmaceutical industry, doctors, and hospitals if people stop buying these drugs and stopped breaking bones.

After all, who is the FDA working for?  You or me?  Not on your life!

The FDA first takes good care of the pharmaceutical companies as that is where most of their money comes from.

Second, the American Medical Association as traditional medical doctors are their main support in pushing the drugs the FDA approves.

There will have to be a lot of hip and spine fractures before the FDA will make drug companies to put a black box on the labels of these drugs.

Do yourself a favor.  Strengthen your bones nutritionally.  It’s cheaper and more effective.

Take a look at our Mirimmune Super D-3 and get the full story on the benefits of this amazing hormone.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Vitamin D Producing UVB Rays from the Sun

The sun’s rays that shine down upon us are UVA and UVB ultraviolet rays.

But only the UVB rays are vitamin D producing when they hit your skin.

Little known is that everyone living north of 35° latitude will get no UVB rays between the months of November through March because of the angle of the sun.

To give you some prospective, New York City, NY is in 40° latitude and Flagstaff, AZ is in 35° latitude.  Fully two/thirds of the U.S and all of Canada are above the 35° latitude mark.

As a further reference, the equator is at 0° latitude and gets the benefit of the highest level of the sun’s UVB rays, whereas the North Pole is at 90° latitude and gets the least benefit.

We do not get the same amount of UVB rays year round. As the seasons change, so does the angle of the sun’s rays.

In the summer, with the sun directly overhead, we get the maximum number of UVB rays.  As the season moves toward winter, we get fewer and fewer rays and in the winter, if you live in 35° latitude and above, you will get no UVB rays at all.

To make matters even worse, members of the medical profession, on advice of dermatologists, warned of malignant skin cancer from exposure to sun light.

Their advice was to cover up and load up on sun-block when you are in the sun.

For fear of getting skin cancer, most people today stay in the shade, cover up with protective clothing when they are in the sun and coat the exposed parts of their body with sun-block.

This guarantees that no UVB rays will ever penetrate their skin.

Result:  The world is full of sick people due to rampant deficiencies of Vitamin D-3.

Dark and Black Skinned People —- Pay Attention!

The melanin (color) content in your skin plays an important role in vitamin D deficiency.  The darker your skin, the more melanin content your skin has and the less vitamin D your body will produce with sun exposure.

People with dark or black skin are, therefore, at greater risk.  It is harder for them to produce vitamin D-3 in their skin.

People who have dark or black skin need up to 10 times the amount of sun than light-skinned people need to absorb vitamin D in their skin.  Many scientific studies have shown that black skinned people have staggering rates of vitamin D deficiency which seriously impacts their health.

FACT:  Vitamin D-3 is a hormone and not a vitamin.  It impacts 32 organs in your body as well as tissues and cells.  It also seriously impacts your heart and bones.

FACT:  Science has proven that vitamin D-3 impacts 105 different diseases and conditions of the body.

FACT:  Dermatologist’s warnings against exposing ourselves to the sun led to a huge increase in the use of sun-block.  Skin cancer has increased more than 3 fold since that announcement.

FACT:  Sun-block can block the sun’s health producing UVB vitamin D rays.

FACT:  Sun-block cannot block the sun’s cancer producing UVA rays that can occur through long exposure.

FACT:  Science has proven conclusively through a multitude of tests that we need Vitamin D-3 to prevent a whole host of cancers! And very specifically, cancers of the breast, colon, and prostate!

FACT:  400 IU a day of vitamin D-3 will prevent Rickets (a deformity of the bones).  That is where the government’s %DV (Daily Value) came from.

FACT:  Science has proven that the government’s %DV recommendation is far too low to prevent cancer, respiratory diseases, MS, other auto-immune, heart diseases,and osteoporosis, etc.  According to science, the minimum daily need for adults is 5000 IU to 10,000 IU of vitamin D-3 to maintain good health.

FACT:  Air pollution can dramatically block the healthy UVB sun rays from reaching us.

FACT:  Cloud cover can cut healthy UVB rays by 50%.

FACT: The best time of day to get the most UVB rays from the sun is between 10am to 2pm.

FACT:  Sitting in front of a window with full sunshine will give you no vitamin D benefit.  Vitamin D forming UVB rays do not penetrate glass.  Only UVA rays can penetrate glass.

FACT:  You cannot eat enough fish, eggs, or fortified cereals to get adequate—let alone optimal—amounts of vitamin D-3.

Vitamin D in food is inadequate to reap health benefits.   The best source of vitamin D-3 today is supplementation.

Our lifestyles limit our exposure to the sun even in the months UVB rays are available to us.  Most of our activities are indoors.

Work, TV, play, computers, etc.  Most people still fear skin cancer and will continue to cover up and use sun-block.  Even in countries close to 0° latitude people are vitamin D-3 deficient because they cover up.

The following list of vitamin D content in food is from the National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements:

•    Cod-liver oil, 1 tablespoon.                1,360 IU
•    Salmon, cooked, 3.5 ounces                    360 IU
•    Mackerel, cooked, 3.5 ounces                    345 IU
•    Tuna fish, canned in oil, 3 ounces                200 IU
•    Sardines, canned in oil, drained, 1.75 ounces            250 IU
•    Milk, nonfat, low fat and whole.  D fortified.  1 cup         98  IU
•    Ready to eat cereal.  Fortified 10% daily RDA for D         40  IU
•    Liver, beef, cooked, 3.5 ounces.                                          15  IU
•    Egg, 1 whole (vitamin D found in yolk)                 20  IU
•    Cheese, Swiss, 1 ounce.                                              12 IU

Now that I pointed out the many pitfalls you face in acquiring and maintaining optimal levels of life sustaining vitamin D-3, it gives me pleasure to present you with the Easy Solution to a Huge Health Problem.

Just take our inexpensive liquid Mirimmune Super D-3 @10,000 IU per dropper squeese.

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It’s all about nutrition and it’s there for the taking.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Stopping Cancer, Heart Disease and 100 Other Diseases On 26 1/2 Cents A Day?

Can you imagine the world-wide media explosion if a drug company announced it had developed a single pill that would substantially reduce the risk or prevent breast, colon, prostate, 14 other cancers, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, PMS, MS and other autoimmune disease, as well as flu, colds, other respiratory diseases and, last but  not least — Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and possibly ALS?

Can you imagine the euphoria to having access to such a miracle pill?

Well — guess what—that miracle is here NOW!  TODAY!

It is the miracle of vitamin D-3 and we not only have it, we have it in liquid form at a cost of only pennies a day.

It is estimated that about 60% of the diseases in the world today are probably vitamin D-3 deficiency based —as it has been well established that most people in the U.S. and around the world are vitamin D-3 deficient.

Can you imagine people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s taking a fall and not breaking a hip, or other bones because their bones are so strong?

Can you imagine not having to worry about the swine flu or any other kind of flu because your immune system is so strong?

In the last 10 years a whole new science has burst open upon the world.

It is the scientific study of the effects of the hormone known as vitamin D-3 on the body.  Yes, it is a hormone, not a vitamin.

D-3 impacts your heart, organs and most every tissue and cell in your body.

It is anti-viral, bacterial and fungal.

It regulates normal cell death thus maintaining life saving control over cancer.

It protects against gum disease and helps keep your muscles strong.

Vitamin D-3 is the most impactful and wide reaching nutrient for your body and you can have this incredible protection for as little as 26.5 cents a day.

That’s $7.95 for a month’s supply of 10,000 IU liquid vitamin D-3 per day at the special multiple bottle price for the NEW Mirimmune Super D-3.

That is 26 1/2 cents per day and no shipping cost in the U.S. and Canada.

Is your life worth 26 1/2 cents a day?  Are you dancing in the street yet?

Well you should be because this is the greatest medical discovery of the 21st century and the drug companies haven’t yet figured out a way to take it away from us!

So let’s make hay while the sun shines!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.