Another one of those days

My job consists of one annoying task after another. I've phoned photocopy repair yet again (If I don't do it, it doesn't get done.) The database server is down, has been since friday and that's something I can't fix. I want to stop coughing. And more than anything else I'd like a little sun right now.

More about how I've been poisoned by the medical "profession"

Yes, kids, it's time for another rant! I'm reading The Myth of Osteoporosis by Gillian Sanson. This book describes in simple terms what I was reading on various web sites last week after discovering I'd been duped by the doctor into needlessly taking a very toxic drug.

Fosamax artifically stops the bone from breaking down. However, breaking down and rebuilding is a normal and essential part of bone health. Old cells die; new cells are born. When you stop the breaking down process you also inhibit the rebuilding process. The book says ..."this suppression of bone remodeling may reduce bone toughness and increase microfractures, which could in turn increase bone fragility." (p. 109, and citing an article in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research as her source.) So what she's saying is Fosamax and other drugs like it may actually cause bones to become more brittle! Furthermore it takes more than 10 years for this poison to go away. By age 60 perhaps I'll have recovered from the damage this drug has done to me. Perhaps.

I took this drug for a year and a half. And I don't even have osteoporosis! I have osteopenia, a supposed "precursor" to osteoporosis. And I've never had a bone fracture. And I'm not alone: this is a "new epidemic" afflicting older women, with research funded by (surprise!) the drug companies! Isn't capitalism grand?

One more fun quote from the book: "An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed that doctors are the third-leading cause of death in the United States, after cancer and heart disease." (p. 35, with JAMA citation.)