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1. I have been taking supplements for many years. I believe that they are helpful for me. I am almost 79 years old. I am in good health. I go out and walk several miles every day. I lift weights and do pushups and other exercises. I don’t eat what many would say is really healthy food like vegetables. I eat some, but, I don’t care for most. I know that the Food and Drug Administration says that supplements are dangerous and that the FDA should have the power to regulate them to be sure they are safe. The FDA is the government agency that says all pharmaceutical drugs are safe. I wonder why there are so many ads on TV where drug companies are being sued in class-action lawsuits because of the death and destruction that FDA approved “safe” pharmaceutical drugs are causing to so many people? The drug companies are paying out millions of dollars to settle these lawsuits, but, they don’t care because they are making billions!

2. Excellent article. Concise and easy to understand.
   Thank you!

3. Do not misunderstand what is really going on in the law suits against pharmaceutical companies. It is a legal theft of wealth nothing more and nothing less. The drug companies have no other choice but to place that cost on the people who buy and use drugs. But this is all about the Congress creating laws that allow the trial lawyers to extort billions from legitimate companies.

   Do drugs cause deaths? Sure. The worst drug for this is the common aspirin followed by the NSAIDS. Most drug deaths are simply the result of not following the prescribed dosage. Some drug deaths are nothing more then the affects caused by a particular individual’s reaction to a drug or dosage that would be safe for most people.

   Contrary to what some people seem to think the drug companies do not intentionally create drugs to kill you.

   What exacerbates this problem is that the newer drugs are trying to take on very difficult to treat health problems and these newer exotic drugs have more and often worse side effects. So while a drug may save 100 lives it may result in one death. This simple predictable statistical fact is seized upon by the trial lawyers who then take their cases to backwater cities in Mississippi or Texas where they find uneducated people for the juries to extract their pound of flesh from the drug companies. Make no mistake; these lawyers are not on your side and have no interest in making you or the rest of the world healthy. That they stifle new drugs and new cures means nothing to them and in the end all of us will suffer so a handful of lawyers can be inordinately rich.

   1. Gone With The Wind,you misunderstand what the pharmaceutical lawsuits are about. Dangerous ineffective drugs are being put out on the market for fast profits by the drug companies and their FDA lackeys and the public be damned. This is also used to coverup safe effective cost effective treatments and cures that don’t have the profitability or worse would take market share from them.

      1. PS,the easiest way to die from aspirin is to choke on them other wise they are relatively safe,you may have been thinking of Motrin which can cause liver toxicity if overdosed.

4. One thing to consider about taking supplements is to not to take them everyday all year long. If you do your body will probably start to rely on them and not want to get what you need from the foods. You build up a dependency on the supplement, so take them for a week and then then not for maybe 3 days. Think about it as we generally know it is eaay to become dependent on something. Enjoyed the article and have a good day.

5. Good article; thank you. I read a book by Suzie Cohen titled Drug Muggers, which lists which medications deplete what vitamins/minerals in the body. Many folks are on regular medication for various conditions, thus it is helpful to know what a specific drug deplete and what specifically to supplement.

6. Pine needle tea is an excellent source of vitamin C, and pines of some sort grow almost anywhere.

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