Drugs – pharmaceuticals – are ’space alien molecules’: As Dr. Jonathan Wright described them on last week’s show, drugs are foreign to earth and foreign to our bodies. Drugs aren’t ‘just another consumer product’ advertised on TV. They affect our metabolism – our ‘bio-chemistry’ – powerfully and profoundly.

Will the Real Alternative Medicine Please Stand Up? Drugs – as recent inventions – are the real ‘alternative medicines’ (alternatives to natural therapeutics).

Alien Molecules Have Alien Effects: Dr. Wright asked: “Any time we take a molecule that has never been found naturally on the planet (and thus never found in the human body) and give it to humans, what should we expect?” Answer: Expect ‘alien effects’ on our chemistries (our biochemistries). We can’t and shouldn’t throw out all drugs, but it’s time to put more emphasis on science-based natural therapies.

If It Isn’t ‘Bio-Logical, It Isn’t Logical: We think our baby boomer listeners need to remember that we’re all animals living in nature, and we need to start integrating into our own health care plans a lot more of the molecules and modalities which nature has to offer, including lifestyle medicine approaches (we’ll cover lifestyle on upcoming Start-a-New installments).

Control Means Power, Power Means Control: Listen and learn why patent medicines – pharmaceuticals, drugs – give the FDA extensive power, and why the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry have so much control over our health care choices. Why are drugs so entrenched into US health care, while many effective, inexpensive natural products continue to struggle for a place in the market? And why do patent medicines set the FDA up for corruption by pharmaceutical companies? We discuss why.

Approval Power Means Control: We highlight the natural omega-3 fatty acid, DHA (docosahenoic acid) as an example of a natural product (for prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia) which – due to FDA politics – is unlikely to ever get FDA approval, and thus to ever become ’standard of care,’ and covered by our health insurance policies.

We Become Silent (the movie): click here. Government intrusions into our freedoms and privacy aren’t just from of the effects of 21st century religious terrorism, but also from issues around natural therapies. See why our federal government and global forces – the W.T.O. and U.N. – want to take control of the supply of natural products with Codex Alimentarius. What’s the simplest way to acquire that control? Simply reclassify natural products as drugs. Now there’s a twist.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Patent Medicines – human-altered or human-synthesized chemicals, designer drugs, which can be patented. Nature holds the ‘creative rights’ to natural molecules, which therefore cannot be patented.

Next week’s show: 1st installment of History of Killing/History of Healing – the real history of medicine – to continue laying the foundation for That’s Good Medicine.

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