Thalidomide is NOT a cure for Crohn's




There are certain words in the English language that are so hopelessly evil that you can actually feel your skin crawling when you hear them.

Words like "poison," "murder," or "fraud."

Or how about "thalidomide"? After all, Big Pharma's deadly morning sickness drug was like poison, murder and fraud all rolled into one, leaving thousands of dead or deformed babies in its wake.

And if your skin isn't crawling yet, just listen to what I have to tell you next. Drug company execs are pushing to make children the victim again by forcing deadly thalidomide right down their throats.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association claims that thalidomide may help children with the inflammatory bowel disorder Crohn's disease. Fantastic. You can also cure your high blood pressure by drowning, but I'm sure not going to recommend it.

If you're too young to have lived through the thalidomide crisis of the '50s and '60s, consider yourself lucky. Babies across Europe dropped dead by the thousands or were born with shrunken, deformed limbs, all because their mothers took supposedly "harmless" thalidomide to treat their morning sickness.

You'd think that nightmare would have been the nail in thalidomide's coffin. But this is Big Pharma we're talking about here and there wasn't any money to be made doing the right thing. No, instead the drug companies started looking for other uses for the nasty drug, and even managed to get bungling bureaucrats to approve it for leprosy and a type of bone marrow cancer.

But now they've REALLY crossed the line and this time they're heading straight for our kids. They expect us to believe that thalidomide leads to devastating deformities in the womb, but once our children are born it's perfectly safe for them.

I say no way. Especially when research shows that it may be possible to treat Crohn's disease without ever touching another prescription drug.

Recently, a small Italian study found that natural thiamine was 83% effective at relieving common Crohn's symptoms, such as fatigue. And just a couple months before that, scientists from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland discovered that retinoic acid can reduce bowel inflammation and even repair damage!

When it comes to your kids' or grandkids' health, bet on Mother Nature over Big Pharma any day. Because no matter how much lipstick Big Pharma slaps on thalidomide, it was, is now, and always will be one hideously ugly pig.


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