The Natural Health Resource has been created to educate and enlighten those interested in learning more about all natural ways to maintain and enhance a healthy lifestyle. In recent history our society has been bombarded with a non-stop stream of marketing from big pharmaceutical companies with one goal in mind. To cloud both practitioners and consumers minds into thinking that the only way to better or maintain health and wellness is with a pharmaceutical. The truth of the matter is that there are countless other quality products available on the market, many of which are over the counter supplements that do have substantial benefits with much less likelihood of side effects. You might be thinking if these alternative medicines are so great then why haven’t I heard much about them? The main reason that t
here isn’t as much info on natural remedies is simple. Money. For example, the number one selling pharmaceutical in the United States is Lipitor. This is an effective agent at reducing cholesterol. If you don’t take Lipitor, I’m sure you’re familiar with the name. In 2007 this blockbuster drug accounted for over 12 billion dollars in sales. That’s just one drug! Last year, combined sales in the dietary supplement industry only reached a total of $13 billion, according to the Nutrition Business Journal. So where does all that Big Pharma money go? It goes towards expensive FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval, commercials, large scale clinical tests, huge sales forces, physician practice lunches, loads of free samples, etc. So why doesn’t Big Pharma make dietary supplements if they can be just as effective? Well some pharmaceutical companies are actually beginning to enter the dietary supplement industry but it’s definitely not their focus. The most important thing in the pharmaceutical world is patents. It’s near impossible to get a patent on most supplement ingredients. Why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars performing double-blind studies on an ingredient like vitamin D that you can’t patent? The bottom line is that if Big Pharma can’t receive a patent on a parti
cular health solution then they have no desire to allocate large amounts of money to prove it’s effectiveness.
This blog was not created to jab at pharmaceutical companies. For the most part they’re products are effective. As for side effects, we’ll save that for a future post. The purpose of this blog is to shed light on all natural alternatives that are proven to be safe and effective. Our featured author is a cardiologist by the name of Dr. M. H. Chaudhry M.D., F.A.C.P. He has been practicing cardiology for over 35 years and recommends both pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements on a case by case basis. He is in the minority in regards to practitioners but is part of a growing movement towards the understanding and acceptance of natural alternative medicines. Whether you are well versed in alternative medicine or have yet to be exposed. We invite you to subscribe to this blog and look forward to your input.
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