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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx</link><description>Just as agribusiness interests like Monsanto manipulate and ruin nature for the almighty buck, it shouldn't surprise you to learn 70 percent of the new drugs created over the past 25 years for all diseases were derived from or similar to chemicals in</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91463</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:37:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91463</guid><dc:creator>mmc88121</dc:creator><description>Seems like my grandmother was correct when she strongly encouraged us to eat our salads.&amp;nbsp; We never had any trouble eating fruit, we always had a bowl of it in the house to eat when ever we wanted.&amp;nbsp; The best medicine is your food.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;mmc88121&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91463" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91462</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:15:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91462</guid><dc:creator>proatc</dc:creator><description>It's the same excuse government uses on deleting the pork fat from Washington.&amp;nbsp; People will cry, 'you can't get rid of the pharmaceutical Co.'s, what are we going to do? Boo,hoo,hoo'!&amp;nbsp; Instead of listening to reason, thinking for yourself, healing thy self, they have to rely on others.&amp;nbsp; Just like there will be no flat tax in the US.&amp;nbsp; What will happen to all of the people who work for the IRS, what about all the CPA's??? Heaven forbid we should make life easier.&amp;nbsp; If we could just get over the hurdle and get more people intune with where we came from and what greater potential we have to genetically live longer (~120-140 years old) if we utilize unaltered resources.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;Can I politically say Homeopathic medicines?&amp;nbsp; Don't want to offend anyone or more importantly scare anyone away back to the chemicals because they think I am a Health Freak or something!&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91462" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91461</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:02:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91461</guid><dc:creator>Bryan - oz4caster</dc:creator><description>We are not suffering from a deficiency in refined drugs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We need nutrients from healthy  traditional nutrient-dense foods!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They taste much better : )&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91461" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91460</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:43:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91460</guid><dc:creator>Russ Bianchi</dc:creator><description>Actually, I have seen hard numbers, of upwards of 82%, of all synthesized, sequenced, and patented pharmaceuticals, being derived originally from nature, and botanical, sources.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By the HARMFUL man made modifications Big Pharma does, one loses, just like Bio Tech, the correct naturally created linkage of&amp;nbsp;amino acids (building blocks of protein) sequencing (in the millions of combinations) in the created drug.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is why Bio Tech &amp;amp; Genetic Human DNA patenting,&amp;nbsp;for venture/vulture capitalists, has be a giant BUST, because such&amp;nbsp;touted patented and branded&amp;nbsp;drug products do not optimally work in the body, because the body cannot recognize them to be used optimally.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Does preventive eastern medicine, botanically based, worked?&amp;nbsp; Yes, but if at efficacious dosage levels, for a specific individual, with specific predispositions for a specific time period.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Western reactive medicine HATES this fact, because, when correctly administered, botanically based plant sterols, anti oxidants, nutrients, active components, work FAR BETTER (without adverse side effects) than their man made artificial drug counterparts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just today, 3/19/07,&amp;nbsp;it was announced, in yet another peer reviewed prestigious medical journal, that certain forms of cancer (oral cancer was one example sited)&amp;nbsp;is reduced by over 48% in humans ingesting natural botanical sources of Vitamin C (not from not stripped or artificial Vitamin C delivery in tablets, pills, gel&amp;nbsp;caps&amp;nbsp;and tinctures)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Linus Pauling was, and remains, correct, that plant based Vitamin C can and does reverse many forms of cancer!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Eat your whole Citrus, daily!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91460" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91459</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:40:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91459</guid><dc:creator>enzo</dc:creator><description>I'll never understand mainstream medical doctors and scientists. They and their families are victims of the unhealthy processing of food that they promote. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Though they &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;should&lt;/span&gt; know better, they opt for a self-imposed ignorance which allows for them to feed off of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;inorganic &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;green leafy paper&lt;/span&gt;, rather than &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;organic&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;green leafy vegetables&lt;/span&gt;. When that doesn't work for them I suppose they will genetically modify money to curb their innate appetite for real food.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Doctors and scientists…open up your eyes, and not your greedy hands. You are harming your own children, too.&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91459" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Conventional Medicine Manipulates Nature to Create Most New Drugs</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/03/19/Conventional-Medicine-Manipulates-Nature-to-Create-Most-New-Drugs.aspx#91458</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:35:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:91458</guid><dc:creator>Josh Rubin</dc:creator><description>I think this is a question we will always ask. Why not use wester, eastern, chinese, etc herbs, energy healing, acupuncuture, etc in order to heal? Why use synthetic chemicals that are toxic to try to heal someone who is already toxic?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It is quite amazing when you use herbs to actually see the potential of them. I use a lot of western and chinese herbs to help my clients. The most amazing treatments I feel are the use of AA for depression, cravings, addictions, blah's, etc. Using food, GABA, DLPA, tyrosine, tryptophan, 5HTP, etc depending on the symtpoms of the client at hand has been successful.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There is so much of research to show for example that tryptophan or 5HPT actually creates more serotonin by 65% (where SSRI's just circulate what little is left) and has no side effects! Where SSRI's have so many that I can't even list them. So why do we use chemicals!&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=91458" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>