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HEALTH MYTHS EXPOSED
by Shane Ellison, M.Sc.

Learn about Deadly Health Myths
Add 10 Years to your Life

Health Myths Exposed marks the beginning of a war on deadly FDA-approved drugs and pharmaceutical industry campaigned health myths. In the name of exposing false promises, deceit, and blatant disregard for the health of all Americans, Health Myths Exposed promises to bring you closer to good health and longevity.

Led by Health Myths Exposed, this war will be energetically and boldly waged by exposing the ten most devastating health myths. To this end, you will learn about innovative medical research and natural alternatives that can safely and effectively cure the world's most pandemic killers, such as cancer, heart disease and obesity.

Leaving behind anecdotal and sensational claims common to other books and articles, Health Myths Exposed guarantees to bring you empirical evidence surrounding the sordid pharmaceutical drug racket.

As an added bonus to purchasing this book, a review of current nutritional supplements (nutraceuticals) on the market will be displayed in the members section. This will enable readers of Health Myths Exposed to utilize nutraceuticals rather than prescription drugs in their pursuit of general wellness, pain management, longevity, fat loss and sports performance.

Combined, the book and the nutraceutical review will serve as a key weapon against the relentless promulgation of deadly health myths by those who stand to profit from them. With this newfound knowledge you will become empowered with the ability to take your health into your own hands rather than giving blind loyalty to FDA approved drugs and medical doctors.

Ultimately, readers will become disengaged from Sick Care, often disguised as Health Care. Your life or the life of a loved one or friend may depend on your reading this book.

BEWARE: By exposing the myths that medical doctors, health practitioners, and pharmaceutical companies have blindly followed and perpetrated, this book will seriously compromise their reputations and status as leaders in the health community. No doubt, they will look away in hopes that you never read this material.

Get ready to be shocked, get ready to become angry. But most importantly, get ready to learn some amazing things about yourself and how to live naturally healthy for life, despite medical doctors and pharmaceutical drugs.

Myths discussed in the book are:

Myth #1 – FDA approved Drugs are Safe and Effective

Myth #2 - Drug Advertising Promotes Health Awareness for Consumers

Myth #3 – Pharmaceutical Drugs Improve the Quality of Human Life

Myth #4 – Professional Medicine Reporting is Honest and Trustworthy

Myth #5 – Nutritional Supplements (AKA Nutraceuticals) are Dangerous and Ineffective

Myth #6 – High Cholesterol is a Major Risk Factor for Heart Disease

Myth #7 – Cholesterol is Bad for You

Myth #8 – Cholesterol Lowering Drugs, known as Statins, are Safe and Effective at Preventing Heart Disease

Myth #9 – Ephedra causes Heart Attack, Stroke and Seizures.

Myth #10 – Dieting is the Cure for Obesity

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"This book is for those who are serious about achieving or maintaining exceptional health. It is informative and to the point, no hype. The facts are well documented and make the biggest skeptic think twice. Health Myths Exposed is an investment into your health. I will recommend it to all my students and professors."

Lynn Hardy, N.D., C.N.C.
Director of the Global Institute For Alternative Medicine and the Global College of Natural Medicine

"Shane Ellison's book, Health Myths Exposed is a must for any chiropractor that wants to share the truth about our present day health care system. It is presented in a concise, coherent and persuasive manner. His attention to research makes it impossible to dismiss as heresay. Using this tool will take dozens of hours off the busy chiropractors workload in educatiing their patients."

Dan Murphy, D.C.
Vice President International Chiropractors Association

"Shane's Health Myths Exposed is a must for anyone wanting to take back full responsibility for their health and the health of their children. Finally a scientific expose of the Medico-pharmaceutical industry and how it impacts the health of our nation."

Arno Burnier, D.C.
Founder of Master Piece Seminars

BOOK  REVIEW

Louise Mclean,
Editor, Zeus Information Service.

>At the very beginning of the book, Shane Ellison states these words of wisdom:  ‘If a man values anything more than his health, he will eventually lose his health.  The irony is that if it is comfort or wealth that he values more, he will eventually lose these too.’  Nothing is more important than our health – without it we do not have a life worth living. Everything stems from good health – happiness, good relationships, meaningful work and quality of life.

Ellison is an American medicinal chemist with a master’s degree in organic chemistry.  He trained in drug design, yet decided not to pursue a career in corporate drug making and is dedicated to discovering and exposing the truth about the Federal Drugs Agency’s methods of approving pharmaceutical drugs in the USA.  He says: ‘Without their bias for wealth not health, this book would not have been made possible.  The bias would not exist if it were not for the encouragement and financial help of the pharmaceutical industry, who pocket billions of dollars every year from the suffering of others.’

We are told that prescription drugs tripled in the US between 1990 and 2001 to $140.6 billion dollars.  On the basis of these figures, in a further 11 years time by 2012, the total will be an unbelievable $445.0 billion -   startling statistics!  Nevertheless, the US stands almost at the bottom of the top 13 richest countries in the world for the health of its citizens, ranking 12th. It seems as if the more that is spent on pharmaceutical drugs to improve health, the sicker people seem to get.

The simple question should be asked: ‘Are FDA approved drugs safe and effective?’ Ellison has learnt how to rigorously interpret scientific data and studied a plethora of medical journals, clinical studies and university research papers in order to answer this question for the consumer.  He concludes from his research that the entire medical health industry was founded on deception and motivated by an ‘unquenchable thirst for profit’ by the pharmaceutical companies.

He states that not only is it a myth that FDA approved drugs are safe and effective but that many expensive prescription drugs were approved for release despite the fact that clinical trials had shown that they were unsafe.  This has led millions of people to a life dependency on prescription drugs, usually adding more brand names to their intake in order to counteract the dangerous side effects of the original prescriptions. 

Whilst revealing this truth, Ellison came up against blanket denial from the professionals with the most common argument being that he should look at the ‘big picture’ - that the benefits derived from FDA approved drugs justified the risk.  Ellison’s own conclusion was that apart from ‘emergency medicine’, the majority of FDA approved drugs offered little benefit and were generally ineffective, stating that side effects and death rates among users were more devastating than for illicit drugs.  (In fact homeopathy is the exception, working very fast as 'emergency medicine' in acute conditions).

Health Myths Exposed gives a history of the formation of the FDA in the days when people trusted its judgment.  It goes on to discuss numerous instances of FDA approved drugs that later proved dangerous and how marketing and advertising played the biggest part in promoting medicines.  For example, he states: ‘The popularity of Prozac is a result of marketing, not science.’ There have been over 20,000 reported suicides since Prozac was approved in 1987 and yet in 2003 this drug was recommended for use by children.

Misleading drug advertisements and the advice of medical reps are often the only source of education available for a doctor on the drugs that he prescribes. As a result of consumer advertising, America is consuming more drugs than any other country, comprising over 50% of total prescription drug use worldwide!  People in the US are bombarded by drug advertising through magazines, television and radio.  From 1962, advertising was the responsibility of the FDA but in 1997 the FDA handed this over to the pharmaceutical companies themselves!

Over half the experts hired by the FDA to advise the government on drug safety and effectiveness have direct financial relationships with the pharmaceutical companies.   This includes helping a drug company invent a medicine, as well as serving on the FDA advisory committee to decide whether a drug is approved for human consumption. 

Conflicts arise in the form of stock ownership and obtaining consulting fees or research grants from the drug industry.  In the past these conflicts of interest have been declared but since 1992 it has been acceptable to keep them secret.  It is now impossible to ascertain who exactly is serving in the FDA that stands to gain from drug approvals.  Though federal law prohibits the FDA from using experts with financial conflicts of interest to decide whether certain medications should be approved, since 1998 this restriction has been waived 800 times! Rules have become so relaxed, that since 1997 with the passing of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act, a new drug’s approval need only be based on a single clinical trial!

Although 12 commonly prescribed FDA approved drugs were removed from the market after serious side effects, injuries and deaths had occurred between 1997 and 2001, this was not before those medicines had generated $5 billion in sales.

Reporting of actual side effects is extremely poor with only approximately 15% actually recorded and it is estimated that 2.2 million Americans are severely injured from FDA approved drugs and are either hospitalised or permanently disabled.

In addition the FDA does not require pharmaceutical companies to test newly released drugs for dangerous side effects on children, so many drugs are prescribed without knowing whether they are safe.

Ellison also blows wide open the fallacies behind medical ghostwriting. As long as  ‘experts’ paid by the pharmaceutical companies continue to write favourable reviews and pharmaceutical companies conduct their own clinical studies, how is it possible to get unbiased, independent advice?!  He also discusses ‘chequebook science’, where drug companies will sponsor their own drug research by paying university researchers to boost popularity of their drugs and in many cases will be encouraged to have financial interests.

The book points out how rare it is for medical doctors to be educated in nutritional medicine, their only training being in medical drugs.  Doctors often dispute the value of nutritional supplements, branding them ineffective or dangerous. The whole situation of the absurdity of consumers having to fight for the right to use natural and safer alternatives to drugs is covered in this book, including a succinct summary of the political background.  

Health Myths Exposed contains a wealth of vital information about micronutrient supplements which can prevent and even cure a wide variety of serious conditions.  Many of these have been banned or suppressed from public knowledge, even though their effectiveness has been well documented for decades.  This is because natural medicine cannot be patented by pharmaceutical companies and their use would seriously threaten profits.

The book further exposes the myths of the health benefits of vaccines and Ritalin for children, reporting the dangers that were already known before approval for sale was granted. It reveals the truth behind the marketing hype of a variety of modern pharmaceutical drugs, showing them to not only be ineffective at what they purport to do, but also blowing wide open the science supporting them. 

Three chapters are devoted to putting to rest the myth that cholesterol causes heart disease and exactly why this cannot be so. There are very clear explanations showing that cholesterol merely acts as nature’s ‘band aid’ in repairing damage to the arteries which occurs during inflammation of the inner lining, known as atherosclerosis.  Ellison points out that the claim that cholesterol levels should not be higher than 200 mg/dL, is as spurious as saying we should all have the same size feet or breasts  – that one size should fit all.  In fact studies show that in elderly people in particular, low cholesterol can actually cause heart disease and cancer. In addition, major clinical trials on cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) were only trialled on middle-aged men, and their effects were never studied on the elderly, women or children.

The last two chapters explain why ephedra should never have been banned and why dieting is not the cure for obesity.  This chapter uncovers in detail the real reasons for obesity, how to beat it and what to take.

Health Myths Exposed is a meticulously researched and very well referenced book.  It clearly and systematically sets out everything that is wrong with the medical health industry.  This is an essential read for those who would prefer to look after their own health and wellbeing instead of becoming just another statistical guinea pig for the extortionate profits of Big Pharma.

ISBN:  1-4208-0027-2 (sc)

www.healthmyths.net

IMPORTANT NOTES FROM SHANE ELLISON

About my book - Health Myths Exposed

As a drug chemist, I have learned first hand that science no longer prevails in medicine.  Instead, pharmaceutically-compliant politicians have democratized the drug industry.  Rather than make informed and educated decisions surrounding the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs, approval by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists is a simple matter of 51% telling the other 49% that prescription drugs are safe and necessary.  Voting is fuelled by wealth, not science.  The end result has been health tyranny – one nation under drugs.

This subjugation has set a standard of health in America that by definition is sick care disguised as health care.  Health Myths Exposed has reversed this standard for tens of thousands of courageous and forward-thinking individuals.  Demanding health freedom, these people, the general public as well as health-care providers, have used Health Myths Exposed to resist the current of greed that strives to push them toward prescription drug servitude. 

More than a book, Health Myths Exposed has become a movement.  A movement away from FDA approved drug addition; a movement away from medical doctors who dictate one-drug-fits-all and a movement away from complex and obscure health ideas but towards common sense.  Common sense asserts that outside of emergency medicine and ‘prescription drug-induced sickness’, FDA approved drugs are unnecessary.   The advancement of science has shown that habits, both lifestyle and nutritional, create and eradicate disease – not prescription drugs.