The Hard, and Very Cold Facts…unless we do something about it now.

* Thalidomide is a sedative, hypnotic, and multiple myeloma (myeloma: tumor of bone marrow) medication. The drug is a potent teratogen (teratogen: an agent that interrupts the normal development of a fetus) in rats, rabbits, and primates.[1] Thalidomide was developed by German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal. It was sold from 1957 to 1961 in almost 50 countries under at least 40 names, including Distaval, Talimol, Nibrol, Sedimide, Quietoplex, Contergan, Neurosedyn, and Softenon. Thalidomide was chiefly sold and prescribed during the late 1950s and early 1960s to pregnant women, as a drug to combat morning sickness and as an aid to help them sleep. Before its release, inadequate tests were performed to assess the drug's safety, with catastrophic results for the children of women who had taken thalidomide during their pregnancies. From 1956 to 1962, approximately 10,000 children were born with severe malformities, including phocomelia (underdeveloped limbs), because their mothers had taken thalidomide during pregnancy.^[1] In 1962, in reaction to the tragedy, the United States Congress enacted laws requiring tests for safety during pregnancy before a drug can receive approval for sale in the U.S.^[2] Other countries enacted similar legislation, and thalidomide was not prescribed or sold for decades.

 

There is, of course, the (not so) small matter of the actual effects of their products – in terms of a lack of success rates in curative properties and, perhaps more importantly, the volume of harmful and even fatal side effects of many of these "wonder" drugs.

The motives are fully understood why pharmaceutical companies and their political allies do anything and everything possible on an international level to prevent people from becoming aware of the simple and yet highly effective results obtainable from high dose vitamins, minerals and amino acids. Consumer full understanding of this could eventually cause the end of the massive pharmaceutical industry as we currently know it.

Their solution for this threat is to maintain an elaborate mass media "fear" and propaganda campaign and to follow this with extensively funded lobbying to make high dose vitamin products unavailable, i.e. to make them illegal and/or only available in "safe" lower dosage levels that do not provide the health benefits needed. 

To achieve this Pharma utilizes their strong lobby and agency ties to government and multinational organizations like the European Union, Codex and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to force a "standardization" for all member countries of the WTO, (see next Newsletter article below).

Corporations, national officials and international organizations always justify their actions on the grounds of consumer protection, but the truth is their actions demonstrate that they seem to be hell bent on doing exactly the opposite – protecting corporate interests – to ensure the corporations remain enormously profitable, to the enormous detriment of consumers around the world.

With the financial resources and direct access to government available to the pharmaceutical industry, the strategy and campaigns to eradicate high dose vitamin products have been steadily developed over the past forty years in a well organized manner, at the highest political levels and always steered by the industry.

Germany was the starting point.

In 1976 the pharmaceutical industry in Germany managed to get a law passed making high dose vitamin products illegal. Since 1976 if you wanted to buy a vitamin C product with 500 mg or 1000 mg of vitamin C per capsules or tablet in Germany you cannot. However, you can still purchase them from England or the Netherlands.

From that early beginning, under the guise of consumer protection and trade harmonization, the pharmaceutical companies have worked through the institutions of the European Union to bring other European countries into line with Germany.  This culminated in an anti-vitamin law, the EU Food Supplements Directive of 2002. The first in a series of sub-directives survived legal challenges in the EU High Court and was reconfirmed as valid law in 2005. It is now binding in all member nations of the European Union.  See "The Approved List of Vitamins and Minerals" See http://www.winhs.org/members/e-letter200705.htm#section2

The law states what products may be sold by member nations. Other sub-directives and measures attempt to dictate the dosage levels in which the products may be sold. See

http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2002/l_183/l_18320020712en00510057.pdf

Meanwhile, many additional valuable forms of vitamin and mineral substances have been submitted to the European government for approval and re-inclusion into the approved list. Very few of them were approved. See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2006/l_094/l_09420060401en00320033.pdf

At the moment, it is doubtful whether the majority of the remainder of those applied for will ever be approved. In this case the use of hundreds of tried and tested forms of vitamins and minerals, amongst them, some of them the most easily absorbable forms, will be prohibited in 2009.

An Incremental Take Over Strategy

Built into the EU Food Supplements Directives are additional measures being implemented, bit by bit, over a number of years. This process is being reinforced by a most unscientific approach to "risk assessment" implying that vitamins are risky substances. In fact, and unsurprisingly, it is the pharmaceutical products that are ‘risky' and they kill ten to twenty thousand Europeans a year. Vitamins, on the other hand, are the vital biochemical tools of nature that keep the body alive and well that have been tried and tested by nature during the countless millions of years over which we have evolved. 

If vitamins really were dangerous there would be no animal life on earth because all organisms would have died from "vitamin poisoning". On the contrary, nature has definitely voted in favor of vitamins.

If you consider this little known fact; all animals and mammals, except man and the other primates, fruit bats and guinea pigs, have a built in vitamin C factory. For example in the case of a mere goat, while somewhat smaller than a human being, produces up to 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C per day. 

This was a major, eye opening revelation made in the well researched book by Dr Matthias Rath, ‘Why Animals Don't get Heart Attacks and People Do', which you can download from  The Dr. Rath Foundation web site: http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/About_Dr_Matthias_Rath/why_book_2003.htm

The anti vitamin propaganda from the pharmaceutical companies, those in government and the media who do their bidding is designed to give the uninformed consumer the false idea that vitamins are something from which they need to be protected.  Countless biased reports are fed to the media for which pharmaceutical companies are a significant source of advertising  revenue. The truth is usually the direct opposite of these reports, but your health is far less important to them than their profits. 2000 heart deaths every day in the U.S. alone cause them no sleepless nights.

This unscientific "risk assessment" approach, designed to fully marginalize food supplements is leading in a dangerous direction. If Pharma can manage to find just one person who gets diarrhea from 60 milligrams of vitamin C, 60 mg will be too much for everybody else. Everybody needs to be "protected" from it. And note, the so-called "upper safe level" for vitamin C is set to 50 milligrams.

However, the scientific fact is that a human body needs several thousand milligrams of vitamin C per day in order to stay, not only alive, but 100% healthy, i.e. to develop no insidious heart disease and no business for big Pharma.

Just 300 milligrams of vitamin C daily, compared to 60 milligrams of vitamin C, you can cut your heart attack risk in one half.  And if you wanted to eliminate  cancer cells with vitamin C, you would need much more, which is another scientific fact, proven by no less an authority than the U.S. National Institutes of Health.


So this "risk assessment" procedure will lead to low dose, ineffective vitamin products if we do not manage to stop it and steer it in the right direction beneficial for everybody, rather than just the shareholders of the pharmaceutical corporations.

One of the next steps built into the European law is to inhibit the use of high dose amino acids. With certain high-dosed amino acids you can stop cancer from spreading in the body. If high-dosed amino acids are no longer available, cancer cannot be stopped.

The implementation of this policy in the European Union is also being carried out internationally.  The World Trade Organization's ‘Codex Alimentarius' (which is Latin for ‘food code' and sounds harmless) is an insidious project.

You do not hear much about it.  Under the shield of the United Nations the industry is manipulating the truth in order to restrict availability of vitamins, minerals and amino acids for all nations of planet earth, to very low and thus ineffective levels that do not have the health benefits available from high dosages of vitamins. 

The ‘work' of the European Union is used as a blueprint and further justification for this with the intention of ensuring that eventually only low dose vitamins are available in every member nation of the World Trade Organization.  These are going to be dosage levels that are ineffective in curing and preventing disease, so as to maintain and protect the business interests for the pharmaceutical industry.

Recent encouraging news resulting from a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice will not affect the eventual outcome. The decision removed food derived supplements from the scope of the directive; however, food derived vitamin products are low-dosage in regard to their vitamin content and thus are not effective in preventing or curing disease. The pharmaceutical industry was not interested in restricting these from the outset.

And to clear up a common misunderstanding: Vitamins are natural substances no matter if they are synthesized in a manufacturing plant, in the human body or in a good laboratory. "Synthetic" does not necessarily mean "artificial". It just means "put together." So if vitamins are put together correctly in a laboratory they are the exact substances that are found also in nature and the human body. And only in this way can high dose vitamin products be made, and only high dose vitamin products can cure or prevent the main diseases of mankind that otherwise kill 20 million people annually.

Thus it is vital if we are to rid the world of the scourges of heart disease and cancer that we maintain our access to high dose vitamin, mineral, and amino acid products. 

What should you do?  Just two things.

Firstly, prove to yourself the health benefits of high dose vitamins and secondly work with other informed and aware individuals to put pressure on your government to prevent this from happening