The Few. The Proud.

'When I graduate high school I am going in to the Marines.'

You are? Why? You'll get killed.

'Mom. It's okay. If I get killed, I'll go to Heaven.'

 If I don't get killed I will have been in the Marines.

'And when I am an old man people will say "You were in the Marines? Wow."

It's better than being some boring old man and not have anything to show for my Life.'

.....How can you argue with that?

So scary

Glad to be off of them! Good riddance!

ARE ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BONE DRUGS, AND STATINS CAUSING HEART FAILURE?

By Byron J. Richards, CCN
March 12, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Researchers have documented an alarming link between the use of antidepressants and the development of serious heart disease. The link was discovered by following 63,449 women as part of the Nurses’ Health Study. The results show a “specific relationship between antidepressant use and sudden cardiac death.” The specific conclusion of the study states, “In this cohort of women without baseline coronary heart disease, depressive symptoms were associated with fatal coronary heart disease, and a measure of clinical depression including antidepressant use was specifically associated with sudden cardiac death.”

This antidepressant news followed another recent and rather stunning finding, that antidepressants cause significant bone loss. The commonly used SSRI antidepressants double the risk for fractures in anyone over the age of 50 who uses them regularly. The mechanism involved is that too much serotonin from the drugs directly interferes with the formation of new bone.

On top of this disturbing news, it has become quite clear that the majority of negative studies about popular antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Effexor were never published, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, as reported in the New York Times. 37 studies the FDA considered positive were published, whereas only 3 negative studies were published. 33 studies the FDA considered negative or questionable were either not published (22) or published with spin to look positive when they were not (11). This made antidepressant studies appear 96% positive in the literature, when in fact the studies were only 51% positive.

In the Western medical model of treating symptoms as they arise, without identifying the cause, women on antidepressants losing bone mass will simply be put on the bisphosphonate drugs. This is another drug con job, as these drugs actually disturb the health of bone and at best keep old bone in place while blunting the formation of new and healthy bone. Two dimensional pictures can appear to show more bone density with their use, which is nothing but smoke and mirrors, as the bone is actually swollen and malformed (like a swollen ankle). The FDA has warned that these drugs can cause serious bone pain. Bone drugs are actually linked to rotting jaw bone, increased risk of fracturewith long-term use, and a poor bone-healing response if you happen to fracture a bone while taking them.

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To make matters even worse, going on bone drugs also increases a person’s risk for atrial fibrillation, which can also cause sudden cardiac death. A report in the Archives of Internal Medicineoffers conclusive proof that users of Fosamax are at an 86% increased risk for developing heart-related damage in the form of atrial fibrillation. The FDA, looking at the same data, has stonewalled the issue, allowing Big Pharma to go on injuringwithout proper notification of risks for the public.

Adding to the list of suspect cardiovascular drugs are the widely prescribed statins. These drugs are now proven to disturb how your cells make energy, meaning they are directly making aging worse. Also, energy is required to make your brain function normally and have a good and positive mood. It is amazing that a society is so brainwashed by their pill-pushing physicians that 20 billion dollars worth of fatigue-producing and nerve-deteriorating drugs will be gullibly swallowed this year. The side effects of statins are so bad, especially in older people, that a new study demonstrates their risks in people 70 or over far outweigh their benefits even if the person has heart disease.

This is a real double-edged sword. Statins cause depression by directly interfering with normal nerve transmission, a problem that gets worse with extended use and higher doses, the primary way these drugs are used. On top of that, the anti-energy effects of statins can weaken the heart muscle, setting the stage for cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure. Partly, this is because statins directly interfere with the production of Q10, an important nutrient your heart must have to work properly so as to make energy. Partly, it is because statins are directly toxic to muscle and injure muscle in more than 15% of users, and your heart is a muscle.

Thus, men and especially women can find themselves on a potentially devastating cocktail of drugs, any of which by themselves increase the risk for heart failure and taken together are really likely to boost risk. The drugs are so bad for health that they create the symptoms that imply the need for more drugs! It is a vicious cycle that is hard to break. In fact, whencombinations of cardiovascular and diabetes drugs are used to aggressively treat type II diabetic patients the results are abysmal, resulting in an increase in deaths.

This problem is not theoretical. At last fall’s meeting of theAmerican Heart Association researchers presented data showing a staggering and unexpected increase in congestive heart failure in patients 65 and over. During the past several decades, paralleling the expanded use of such drugs as statins, bone drugs, and anti-depressants, the rate of heart failure amongst Americans has risen to an extra 450,000 cases per year (900,000 total). This statistic cannot be explained by an increased population of older Americans. There is a real problem here. People are being injured and killed and virtually nobody is doing anything about it.

The FDA does nothing to ensure such combinations of drugs are safe to take for an extended period of time – failing to inform and protect consumers from actual risks. To the contrary, FDA managers negate risk data in favor of Big Pharma on a routine basis, often disregarding the warnings of their own safety scientists. Drug injuries are on the rise. The newer drugs people are taking are twice as likely to injure. The FDA shirks responsibility and does not demand follow-up safety studies by Big Pharma that are required by law. And the expense of this to society is staggering.

Sure people have legitimate health issues that need to be improved. There are safe ways of doing this. It takes work. It takes personal responsibility. It takes commitment to a healthy lifestyle and spending the time needed to do the right things for your health on a consistent basis. There are no quick fixes.

Doctors are being paid on the side by Big Pharma to push Big Pharma drugs on you, and psychiatrists are the worst offenders. This is creating a clear path to seriously worsened health – and that path is through the use of Big Pharma medications to treat symptoms and numbers on paper.

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La Villa Strangiato

Before you think you know why I posted this conversation... think again.

It's not about my homeland
or the Hanford Nuclear plant
 or the K-Basins or the single-walled storage tanks that all of that awesome nuclear waste is being stored in.

While all the above are obviously of grave concerns to those who lived in the inland Northwest, there is a different reason behind this blog entry.
So please refrain for all of your 'No Nukes' rhetoric. Been there. Done that. 

 I posted this is because I think I have seen a genetic mutation present in all mid-40-aged males born in the Pacific NW.

All males who grew up in my hometown have an undeniable attachment to the band Rush.
Maybe it's because they're Canadian--- only a hop skip and a jump across the Northern Border.
I mean, look at how they poisoned  Bob and Doug McKenzie.

Maybe it's because of the fact that actually,
 regardless of their lack of physical attractiveness, the Canadian progrock trio is

•  ridiculously talented, 
• has an impressive catalog of classic songs
• gives hope to a generation of short, ugly boys. The belief system that hey, too, could capture the fancy of a generation of hot chicks.

 (I mean seriously, look at Uncle Kracker. It. Works. )

But yeah. If you're a dude and you grew up in the 509 you were

likethis with the boys from Toronto...

This attraction- nay obsession- about the trio is made apparent in the most arbitrary of instances.

 I have a number of male high school classmates on my Facebook friends List, and they truly never disappoint in the arena of Rush Fanboy.
I am reminded of the plethora of pictures of all types of Pacific NW hirsute males-many of  whom I grew up with- as they descended on Key Arena last year to witness the band in its aged and manliest perfection.

And am reminded again when they choose Rush as the perfect counterpoint to a serious discussion.

Whether it be about socialized medicine and the Canadian health-care model  (helllOoooo guess who's Canadian? That's right. Rush.) or the currently ablating K-Basins in our hometown of Richland, WA (helllOooo see below....). There is serious hero worship at play here.
 
The incapacity for any man from the Pacific NW to not mention progrock demigogues as the Geddy, The Neil and The Alex-- in even the most convoluted manner-- is always apparent.

Witness below the Facebook interchange between me and Fanboy Scott... :)

Kim Olsen

Friday at 5:07pm · 

• Go big or go home?
  Glow big when we go home!
  Yay Richland!

  
  

  Radioactive waste leaking at Hanford

  www.kirotv.com
  

  The Department of Energy said a tank at Hanford is leaking high-level radioactive waste, but there is no immediate threat to the public.

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    Jenna  I just hope they didn't discover the leak using the oh-so-popular rock-on-a-rope method... this time...

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    Fanboy Scott I am so completely unconcerned that I going to that area to catch a steelhead tomorrow.

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    Kim Olsen Two-headed? Ha ha

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    Fanboy Scott Note that the leakage has not been detected in the monitoring wells. No one wants nuclear stew in the water supply, but take a deep breath Puget Sounders.

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    Tiffany now Richland is really going to glow in the dark!

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    Kim Olsen Scott I guess I don't understand what your comment meant. Can you clarify the Puget Sound remark? Thanks. I think living downwind had its disadvantages (ha) I have no idea what you're talking about. Enlighten us 

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    Fanboy Scott The regulators and media in the puget sound were panting like the leak had already oozed directly into the river and the tank should be removed immediately (which would cause a whole other set of problems and would have been done long ago if it were th...See More

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    Kim Olsen The leak is coming from the tank furthest away from the river. Here's an article about the K-Basins, which are much closer to the Columbia. These are disturbing.http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/K-Basins
    

    
    

    K-Basins - Hanford Site

    www.hanford.gov

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    Kim Olsen Again...the concept on building radioactive storage containment units so close to water is perplexing, but that is like asking for a Time Machine. Now we pay for their incompetence. I'm no chemical pro by any stretch either. 

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    FanBoy Scott  I was at the Rush Time machine concert in 2011, ironically very close the Columbia River and we drove by the K-basins to get there! And now they are in the hall of fame! Coincidence? Rock on!

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    Kim Olsen If the band Rush needed the K-Basin to get into the Hall of Fame...bottle that $h!t up  because it is magick

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    Kim Olsen No not really but once you start referencing progrock bands from the 70s everything goes all sideways and the conversation is hopeless.

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    Fanboy Scott I think that they raise salmon in some of the K-basins now, presumably different basin than in the article, so there may actually be $hit from them to bottle up. I'll pass on that no matter the majic. I wasn't planning to make it into the H-o-F anyway. I don't even have a speech ready for the induction.

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