Re: Leukemia: Vitamin A is better, and safer, than chemo

From: Salisha (daffman_at_yeahright.ca)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:43:02 GMT

If you listen to the studies that have been done on the NSAIDS, you will
also notice that these studies have been done with regards to finding out if
NSAIDS are useful in preventing plaques within an Alzheimer's type dementia
patients brain. Aspirin (and family) has been know to cause stomach
problems and such if taken in high doses. This is why Doctors always say to
take with food, which helps to coat the stomach and help keep the less
desirable qualities of these meds at bay.
As well, Alzheimer's is caused a loss of acetylcholine neurons that project
from the basal forebrain (just anterior to the hypothalamus) to the
neocortex. Within NSAIDS, there is no acetycholine in these medications.As
well, neurotransmitter changes are present within Alzheimer's patients.
Again, there are no neaurotransmitters within NSAIDS.
These medications are used for anti inflammatory reasons. They decrease the
amount of pressure which is within blood vessels, joints, and other areas of
the body with nerve endings. These nerve ending then are able to decrease
the rate of firing because they are not over stimulated.
Now with NSAIDS and Alzheimer's and heart attacks/strokes. It would make
some sense that if the cerebral cortex was already having difficulties
processing information due to a lack of neurons, and then it was then
decreased in blood supply because the NSAID is doing what it is meant to do,
and the brain is already compromised, does it not make sense that the brain
would missfire and send signals to the heart to miss beat, or for the
decrease diameter within the ventrical system of the brain to place more
pressure on buildup of debrie within the arteries which causes them to
release form their place that they originally were causing little problem,
and then follow through the blood flow where it causes a problem? The
difference with an Alzheimer's patient who is not in need of
anti-inflammitories for those purposes, but is given them for reason which
the body cannot justify, the medical properties of the medication is
absorbed into the body and wreaks havoc when should have otherwise not been
taken. The studies done on recent NSAIDS...ie: celebrex, naproxen, Advil,
Aspirin, do have these properties that have become widely known. But what
is not known, is that, these studies were NOT on what these medications are
being marketed for now. IE: inflammation, and headaches.
Sali (Employed as a recreation therapist)
Education as Psychatric Gerontologist (diploma from an accredited
university)

"john" <nospamoridiotss@vaccine.con> wrote in message
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> WHAT DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU - E-NEWS BROADCAST No. 120 - 13 January 2005
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> NEWS CONTENTS
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> Drug alert: Now the entire NSAID family gets a warning
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> DRUG ALERT: Now the entire NSAID family gets a warning
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> America's drug 'watchdog', the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had a
> nice Christmas present for the pharmaceuticals. On Christmas Eve it told
> all doctors in the USA to treat with extreme caution the entire family of
> NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), such as aspirin, and which
> embraces the more recent version, the COX-2 agents.
> While nobody was especially surprised about the COX-2 warning after their
> association with serious heart problems, few expected a blanket warning
> about the entire NSAID family, one of the most lucrative to the
> pharmaceutical industry.
> The FDA has been very slow to act over the COX-2 drugs, which even the
> manufacturers were admitting represented a danger to health as far back as
> last September. Possibly sensitive to public concerns about its role as
> watchdog, the FDA moved with speed in issuing a warning about the entire
> NSAID range, so catching everyone out, including the pharmaceutical
> companies.
> Just days before the Christmas holidays the agency received the results
from
> a clinical trial that suggested long-term use of naproxen, an NSAID, could
> cause heart problems.
> This follows on from concerns about the COX-2 drugs Celebrex (celecoxib)
and
> Bextra (valdecoxib), which have been linked to an increased risk of heart
> attack and stroke.
> While the warning went out to doctors, the FDA is also concerned about
> consumers who regularly buy an NSAID, such as aspirin, for long-term use.
> Use them 'in strict accordance with the label directions', the FDA states,
> and never take them for more than 10 days at a time.
> (Source: FDA website).
>