Most of the material you’re about to read comes right out
of the Physicians Desk Reference, the
bible for prescription drugs. You’re usually given this information when you
purchase your prescription drug.
Do
you know anyone who actually reads his or her prescription inserts?
Unfortunately, due to the never-ending promotion of “a drug for every ailment”
campaign, we’ve become jaded to the potential side effects of various
prescription medications. The commercials sound something like this; “Do you
suffer from wanting to spend time alone? If so, you may be suffering from ‘I’m
too shy’ disease. Ask your doctor about the latest psychedelic pill for shyness
disorder.” Then, in happy, positive, inflected, mind-numbing fashion comes, “In
clinical trials, this drug had the following minor side effects: headaches,
diarrhea, nausea, cough, bladder infections, depression, suicidal thoughts,
colitis, fever blisters, weakened immune system, and hair loss.”
Drugs
can and do save lives. However, relying solely on drug therapy for symptom
management can be risky, even deadly. Most drugs don’t cure anything. They
merely mask the symptoms. This isn’t all bad and we shouldn’t throw the baby
out with the bath water. However, the public at large is being lulled into a
false belief that drugs, particularly cardio drugs, are a safe (and only)
option to managing high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Today’s
standard, AMA-approved medicine is rooted in treating symptoms, rather than
causes. Its dependence on drugs and surgery is ruinously expensive to patients,
insurance companies, and society as a whole.”
—Derrick
Lonsdale, MD, “Why I Left Orthodox
Medicine
Calcium Channel
Blockers
Calcium channel blockers include the drugs Diltiazem
(Cardizem CD, Cardizem SR, Dilacor XR), Nifedipine (Procardia XL), and
Verapamil (Calan, Calan SR, Isoptin, Isoptin SR, Verelan).
Calcium channel blockers slow the rate at which calcium
passes to the contractile fibers of heart muscle and into the vessel walls, a
sequence that relaxes the vessels. Relaxed vessels allow the blood to flow more
easily, thereby reducing blood pressure. Calcium channel blockers are used to
treat chest pain (angina), high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and
irregular heart beats (arrythmias).
In 1995, the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group filed
a petition with the Food and Drug Administration to add a warning to the
labeling of all calcium channel blockers. This action was in light of
observational studies, which revealed that calcium
channel blockers increase the risk of heart attack and death.1
Calcium channel blockers were put on the market without
proper testing, according to Dr. Kurt Ferver, Wake Forest School of Medicine. For those who take them, there is not only
an increase in strokes, but a five-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks.2
The
National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute has warned doctors not to use
short-acting Procardia, if at all. The warning comes from 16 studies involving
over 8,000 patients. The risk of dying is 1.06 times greater than average when
a dose of 30 to 50 milligrams a day is used. However, the risk jumps to 3.0, or
three times the average, when 80 milligrams a day is recommended. The maximum
dose listed for Procardia is 180 mg a day.
Death is a pretty scary side effect
Why
in the world are doctors still using calcium channel blockers for individuals
with moderately elevated high blood pressure? Especially when there are safer and more effective drugs
to choose from.
One study shows that those taking a calcium channel
blocker are 60% more likely to have a heart attack than those taking a diuretic
or beta blocker.3
Common Side
Effects associated with calcium
channel blockers are fatigue, flushing, swelling of the abdomen, ankles, or
feet, and heartburn. Less common side effects are changes in heart rate,
tachycardia or bradycardia (slow heart rate), shortness of breath, difficulty
swallowing, dizziness, numbness in hands and feet, gastrointestinal bleeding,
chest pains, jaundice, and fainting.5
Calcium channel blockers may increase the risk of
developing breast cancer.6 Reports
have demonstrated an increased risk of cancer among users of Verapamil, but it
is too early to conclude that calcium channel blockers are associated with
cancer.7
Beta Blockers
Beta blockers “block” the effects of adrenaline (and
norepinephrine) on a cell’s beta-receptors. This slows the nerve impulses that
stimulate the heart. Therefore, the heart does not work as hard. Beta blockers
are generally prescribed to treat high blood pressure (hypertension),
congestive heart failure (CHF), abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), and chest
pain (angina). Beta blockers are sometimes used in heart attack patients to
prevent future attacks. Commonly prescribed beta blockers include: Atenolol
(Tenoretic, Tenormin), Metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol XL), Nadolol (Corgard),
and Propranolol (Inderal).
Beta
blockers have several potential side effects, including congestive heart
failure, shortness of breath, heart
block, fatigue, lethargy, drowsiness, depression, insomnia, headaches,
dizziness, tingling in the hands and feet, wheezing, bronchospasm, increased
severity of asthma or chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, decreased sex
drive, muscle fatigue, reduced HDL (good cholesterol), and increased LDL and
triglycerides.8
I’m going to guess
that if you knew a drug could cause heart death (congestive heart failure), you
wouldn’t take it.
I’d surely say, “No
thanks doc. I think I’ll pass on that drug.”
Does every female in America suffer from a beta blocker
deficiency? There are periods in my practice where every new female patient is
on a beta blocker.
Beta blockers must be the drug du jour since anyone with
slight mitral valve prolapse, high blood pressure, or migraine headaches is
placed on these drugs. Beta blockers can be very valuable for a minority of
patients.
However, the majority of patients who take
beta blockers don’t need them and suffer all sorts of health-robbing side
effects. Depression, poor sleep (depletes the natural sleep hormone melatonin)
severe fatigue, and breathing problems (bronchitis, Asthma, etc.) are common
side effects in those taking beta blockers. Patients taking these medications
often report that they just don’t have any energy.
I remember a recent patient who was on at least three
medications to control her beta blocker side effects. She was taking Lexapro, an
antidepressant, Ambien to help her sleep, and was using a bronchial inhaler for
asthma. Once she discontinued her medications with the help of her family
doctor and substituted nutritional supplements I recommended, her mitral valve
prolapse and blood pressure returned to normal. The fatigue, depression, and
breathing problems are slowly disappearing now that she is off her
beta-blocking medication. There
are a number of safe and effective natural approaches to reverse mitral valve
prolapse. I share these can’t miss
protocols in chapter 9 of my book Heart Disease What Your Doctor Won't Tell You.
Here's one of the most important health tips I could ever share-research your medications, be an informed consumer!
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