Osteoporosis Hip-Fracture Drug Risks?
Why am I not surprised that another highly popular 3.5 billion dollar drug (bisphosphonnate) turns out to be deleterious to your body.
Two new studies show the bones of some post-menopausal women who take a bone-loss drug like Actonel, Bonive, or Fosamax to ward off osteoporosis, result in hardening of their bones and eventual brittleness with a high risk of fracture of the spine or pelvis.
Researchers are now urging limiting the length of time people take these drugs. The FDA is now reviewing the long term use of these drugs.
Here we are again spending a fortune on high priced prescription drugs which lead to the eventual destruction of the very bones they were designed to protect, leaving these users at severe risk for spine and hip fractures.
Why are doctors prescribing these drugs in the first place when they have available a permanent cure for bone loss that is nutritional and only costs pennies a day?
Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser, chief of orthopedic-trauma surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in New York said, “These drugs are good drugs. They strengthen bone and protect you from fractures for a while. (Italics mine) But in some people they can become deleterious after a period of time.”
It is difficult for me to understand how a doctor, at his intellectual level, can claim that these expensive drugs are “good drugs” that will protect you from fractures “for a while”.
Whatever happened to Vitamin D-3, Calcium and Magnesium, which cost pennies a day, to naturally build bone strength and keep them strong for the rest of your life?
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said: ”Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure your patient with food.”
As usual, our FDA gets right on these findings and gives sage advice to protect you.
Here’s a copy of the FDA response to the findings on these limited advantages:
March 11, 2010 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday that patients taking bisphosphonates should continue to do so, barring any recommendation from their physician, as the agency had no evidence to conclude that the drugs increased the risk for femur fractures just below the hip joint.
The FDA advisory came a day after ABC News cited “mounting evidence” allegedly showing that long-term use of alendronate (Fosamax, Merck), a popular bisphosphonate, or its generic versions could cause spontaneous femur fractures in some women.
“At this point, the data that FDA has reviewed have not shown a clear connection between bisphosphonate use and a risk of atypical subtrochanteric femur fractures,” the FDA stated, adding that it has been working closely with outside experts to investigate the issue. The FDA began their ongoing investigation on this topic in June 2008. They must have suspected problems at least 2 years ago!
The FDA notes that healthcare professionals should follow the recommendations on the drug label when prescribing bisphosphonates, and adverse events potentially associated with bisphosphonates should be reported to MedWatch, the FDA’s safety information and adverse event reporting program.
This is a typical FDA response to adverse reports against a popular drug.
If people are not dropping like flies, the FDA will not interfere with pharmaceutical profits. And you can be sure that neither the doctors who have performed these studies nor the FDA will ever recommend something so simple as an inexpensive natural cure that is permanent.
A good dose of vitamin D-3, calcium, and magnesium should do it. (Get your blood checked for vitamin D-3 — bet you are deficient. Most everyone is!)
The FDA is fully aware how deleteriously it would be to the pharmaceutical industry, doctors, and hospitals if people stop buying these drugs and stopped breaking bones.
After all, who is the FDA working for? You or me? Not on your life!
The FDA first takes good care of the pharmaceutical companies as that is where most of their money comes from.
Second, the American Medical Association as traditional medical doctors are their main support in pushing the drugs the FDA approves.
There will have to be a lot of hip and spine fractures before the FDA will make drug companies to put a black box on the labels of these drugs.
Do yourself a favor. Strengthen your bones nutritionally. It’s cheaper and more effective.
Take a look at our Mirimmune Super D-3 and get the full story on the benefits of this amazing hormone.
To your good heath & longevity.
Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”
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