A Health Principle You Need to Know


by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life

This article contains an interesting factual story that demonstrates a very important principle if you are serious about your health. I felt that I just had to share it with you. I hope you get some value from it.

Here it is.

Around three months ago we had a phone call from a lady in Arizona, USA who was concerned about her husband whom she felt was a potential heart attack victim. Our receptionist put her through to me. She explained that her husband's blood readings were:
  • Total Cholesterol - 268
  • HDL - 48
  • LDL - 191
  • Triglycerides - 176
I am not a physician!

As you know I am not a physician so I cannot dispense medical advice but what I did say to her is that if I was in his situation I would do the following. She decided to follow these suggestions totally except that she would double up on the dosage for the Cholesterol formula, which is OK.

That was almost 3 months ago. Anyway, yesterday we received a very happy email from her which prompted me to telephone her.

This is her story

"My husband visited a new doctor last week for the first time. He took with him the blood work that he had carried out 9 weeks earlier by his previous doctor. This was just prior to starting your products." (Editors note: his results were the ones referred to above)

"When his new doctor saw those results he immediately wrote out a prescription for Zocor and insisted that he take it." (Editors note: this is a statin drug for lowering cholesterol. For more details about statins have a look in the more info section of the Xtend-Life website on cholesterol)

"During the visit my husband showed the doctor a bottle of your Cholesterol formula which he had taken with him. The Doctor nodded and said that the ingredients looked OK and then dismissed it.

"At the same time the doctor took a new blood sample, and my husband left his office reluctantly agreeing to take the Zocor, even though he was aware that he may suffer bad side effects.

"Now, the great news...his blood work came back within three days and these are the results...
  • Total Cholesterol - 268 - down 17% to 222.
  • HDL - 48 - up 4% to 50.
  • LDL - 191 - down 20% to 152.
  • Triglycerides - 176 - down 32% to 119.
"My husband has sent the Zocor back because he doesn't need it and his doctor agrees. My husband did not change his diet or alter his level of exercise. The only thing that he did in addition to your recommendations, was to take some lecithin granules plus drink a large cup of green tea every morning. We are so delighted with the results"

Back to me...

Now what is the principle behind all of this? In a nutshell, I am trying to convey that it is the standard practice of mainstream physicians to write a 15sec prescription for a drug INSTEAD of reviewing effective natural alternatives and/or truly investigating the cause of the illness. As a result of these practices and drug use with all the side effects the general population will continue to become sicker and sicker. The statistics bear this out.

Is the doctor to blame? Not at all! The overwhelming majority of doctors genuinely care for their patients but their entire medical training is centered on pharmaceutical and interventionist medicine. They don't know anything else!

As an example, during their many years of training only a few hours is allocated to nutrition and even less on natural alternatives, so they simply don't know any other way.

It is not the doctors, but rather the SYSTEM that is at fault. The system makes it very difficult for mainstream doctors to deviate from the 'accepted' treatments which revolve around the writing of prescriptions.

If a doctor deviates from 'normal' and 'proven' treatments such as those written up in the text books or that which has been published in the likes of the JAMA (Journal of American Medical Society) then he/she runs the risk of being branded a 'quack' or worse losing their license and maybe ending up in jail.

Are approved protocols safe?

Does this mean that the treatments and recommendations which are written up in the JAMA are effective and safe even though they are approved? Not by a long shot! JAMA is indirectly controlled by the pharmaceutical companies. If it was not for the advertising revenue from the drug companies it is unlikely that JAMA would exist. As a result the content and the protocols published in this journal are slanted heavily towards the use of prescription drugs.

There is a lot more that I would like to tell you about this, but space does not permit me doing so today. So, briefly what should you do?

When faced with a doctor wanting to put you onto a prescription drug?
  1. Question the need for it.
  2. Find out what it does and in particular ask to see a copy of the 'fine print' which sets out all the potential adverse reactions.
  3. Ask if there is a natural alternative which is as effective.
  4. Ask if your problem is due to diet or lifestyle. (95% of problems are)
  5. Remember it is your body. You must be the final arbiter of what goes in it. Don't accept things on blind faith. Understand potential consequences from substances that you ingest.
Remember that your Doctor is a normal person. They should be treated like any other professional, not put on a pedestal.

Remember that they can also be fallible and they could well have been doing something else (like being a lawyer…perish the thought!) just like you, they had a choice of occupation.

Dependency for life?

Never lose sight of the fact that much of the medical industry is designed to separate you and the government from its money by getting you dependent upon drugs for life. Doctors are usually unwittingly assisting that objective because they are so busy doing what they believe is right and do not have the time to really think through what is going on.

Once you start taking prescription drugs you are on the start of a slippery health slope down from which you may never recover. One drug generally leads to another often to counteract side effects. This in turn generates symptoms which require outside specialists who treat them and before long the original problem is minor in relation to all the others that have resulted from the original treatment.

Because the principles behind this issue of Xtend-Your-Life are so important I would urge you to copy it to all your friends and relations whom you think would benefit. The story that I have related is NOT an isolated example. I would hazard a guess that it is repeated millions of times a day throughout the world.

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