The FDA: Approving Treatments of Unfamiliarity

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

I subscribe to the FDA updates by email on many subjects. Here is an email I received today:

FDA email on obesity device

FDA email on obesity device

It is hard to read since it is long but note the first paragraph last sentence: ” The device likely works by occupying space in the stomach, which may trigger feelings of fullness, or by other mechanisms that are not yet understood.”

Should the FDA approve a medical treatment it does not understand?

Should we not know how a device works before we are told it is safe to use? Is it safe? I have heard of other procedures where the lack of understanding made them fail–slipping of the band away from the place it originally was placed, for example, and several other types of injuries. Should these not be tested for some time in a proper laboratory setting as well as in life on volunteers before it is approved as a procedure? I can hardly wait to see the first lawsuits pop up!

But more importantly: should we not prevent obesity the first place?

Instead of preventing obesity, the FDA apparently supports its development and encourages even more people to become obese!  We know what causes obesity: added sugar into every single food items we eat proved and encouraged by the amazing number of enticing advertisements on TV, billboard, newspapers, junk mail, Internet, EVERYWHERE.

Have more sugar!

The FDA is now about to take this obesity encouragement a step further! We now have new FDA label proposal that will change labels to reflect the serving size of what people eat as opposed to what they should eat! Here is what the new label is recommending:

proposed serving size labeling

proposed serving size labeling

So if you now find 2 sizes of soft drinks, say a can of 12 oz and a bottle of 2 liters of the same thing side by side, both will say one serving! I think the FDA confuses selling size with serving size. As will the people who buy them! Today it is still clear that a serving size of sot drink is 8 oz or less but with the new label the serving size will reflect whatever is in the bottle. This provides encouragement and reinforcement to those who buy the larger serving size that it is approved to drink that much by the FDA so it is OK!

I think that we are heading into a very dangerous era where the FDA is beginning to look more and more like an agency serving those industries that lobby more feverishly at Congress. The FDA does not represent the people at all! It represents a disease industry whose business is to cause disease! It is to manage how sick you should get! Quite a turnaround from its original purpose to its final function!

I think the FDA needs a big overhaul! I also think that Congress should eat up their recommended serving sizes of an entire bucket of ice cream several times a day each day so each member gets a good chance to look from the inside what it is like to be obese and have diabetes! Perhaps then the serving sizes will reflect healthy reality–if there is in fact any health associated with eating sugar

Those of us outside are left for our own common sense–or educated guesses–to decide what is right or wrong for us to eat or drink and in what quantity!

Added sugar should be 0 (as in ZERO) grams for all. We do not need to eat sugar. Our bodies need to re-learn how to make blood-sugar by using insulin for conversion from complex carbs like fruits and vegetables. Learn how and what to eat from understanding food and not what the FDA recommends since clearly they are not serving our interests!

Comments are welcome as always!

Angela

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And the Fight Goes On!

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

An Eulogy and a Warning!

This was meant to be an eulogy for Dr. Gonzales but I decided to make it more than that. You may not be familiar with his name albeit thousands are. He was a doctor that pharmaceutical companies hated! Hated just like the other doctors, similar to him, who also mysteriously died. I have now been warned by my friends (and by Dr. Gonzalez as you will read) to watch what I am doing because I may be next so I decided to write-up the truth boldly and straight forward not leaving a stone unturned!

I very seriously believe that if I get hurt after this, the industry will indeed be in trouble! So let’s see that truth!

The last time I talked to Dr. Gonzalez was about two weeks ago when he called me. He had a policy of “no emails” so I sent him a letter describing that I found the cause for migraines.  Thousands are treated by me in my group and by my Stanton Migraine ProtocolTM without the use of any medicines. I explained to him that I discovered that migraine is not a disease; it is a mistreated brain that needs more electricity.

I explained that migraineurs have different brains: they have more sensory organ neuron receptor connection so their sensory organs are on alert; these organs are more hyperactive1. I also explained that migraine brains function at a different voltage frequency and without break; the resting potential in the brain of a migraineur is not much different from its action potential2 so migraineurs use more voltage. This extra voltage needs to be created by sodium chloride (salt). Migraineurs excrete about 50% more sodium in their urine3 as well. It is also known that there is some connection to metabolic syndrome but no study has yet been able to identify why4-9.

I have understood all that and found the missing link. I discovered the connection of all separate findings by others. I explained to Dr. Gonzalez that I am facing a world where one cannot take a breath of fresh air with certainty until a clinical trial was conducted by the funds or supervision of the pharmaceutical industry so I am at a dead-end as far as academia goes. So I left academia but I now find that no journal is willing to publish a paper—no matter how much sense it makes—unless a clinical trial is conducted. I received such comment from JAMA for instant. They said it was a very interesting finding and they would be interested but I need clinical trials.

Clinical trial for what? The Stanton Migraine ProtocolTM uses no medicines, no herbs or supplements. So what exactly is there to be tried in a clinical setting? Electrolytes? (already used by all hospitals) Salt? (we eat it every day) Water? (we drink it all the time) These are things we eat and drink every day! Why a trial? What trial?

Clinical trials also mean placebo treatment for half the trial patients. Shall I keep half the patients in horrible migraine pain? And they will not know they are on placebo? Really? What human ethical committee would ever approve a trial that causes pain on purpose? None I hope! Not to mention what exactly does it mean placebo when it comes to elements that combined make up 70% of our body and our diet every day? Should my placebo group be getting no food? No water? No salt? No electrolytes? What does placebo mean in terms of natural versus medicines?

His words to me were as follows and though I use a quote, it is not exact since it was a telephone conversation. He said to me this:

“Dr. Stanton. Do not ever run a clinical trial because the pharmaceutical companies will make your work impossible! They will undermine every effort you take to prove you are wrong and that medicine is needed for migraines! Do not try to publish in academic papers! No one will accept it but they may steal your ideas! Continue publishing your work in books and continue your work in your migraine group! Heck, over 1700 people getting well from your treatment and are migraine free most of the time; this sings songs to my ears and shows more value than any clinical trial! So keep on doing what you are doing.”

He also explained to me that he is using some of my protocol with his cancer patients but not all and has not gone as far as I have in sodium but he said he will try with his cancer patients because they seem to benefit from the extra volume enhanced hydration as well. His last words were “watch your back.”

And on 7/23/2015 he is dead.

He is one of several nature doctors who suddenly died out of the blue in a very short time. I am told there is no foul play, all are coincidental. I do not believe in 7 coincidental events one after the other, all equally unlikely and the same fate, the same way. In light of what he told me on the phone, I do not believe that there is no foul play!

So my dear readers and followers, I wrote this article to let you know that I belong to the same group of healers as Dr. Gonzalez belonged to and his wise words will resonate with me for the rest of my career. I will not pursue academic work anymore. I already have several pharmaceutical company supporters trying to blast my work into “quackery” even if it treats thousands of people, because treating people without medicines means longer unemployment lines for the pharmaceutical industry!

I welcome all attacks with open arms since attacks mean my protocol is successful and worthy to attack! Bring it on!

I have proof that the protocol works, thousands stopped all medications and have recovery: migraine free life without medicines. They changed their lives and are pain free as long as they observe and support the kind of brain they have. This will cost money to the pharmaceutical industry and yes, I will win and they will lose! Yes, all doctors who avoid prescribing medicines when they are not needed will win! At the end, the customers decide! Doctors supporting big pharma will be fired and replaced! We already have an open database where you can check if your doctor is getting paid off by big pharma. YOU can chose! Chose wisely!

Please watch out for big pharma! They cause harm to you and to those trying to protect you!

Sources (there are hundreds more, I just wanted to give here some start to those interested)

  1. Schwedt TJ. Multisensory Integration in Migraine. Curr Opin Neurol. 2013:248-253.
  2. Liu H, Huaiting G, Xiang J, et al. Resting state brain activity in patients with migraine: a magnetoencephalography study. The Journal of headache and Pain2015:16-42.
  3. Campbell DA, Tonks EM, Hay KM. An Investigation of the Salt and Water Balance in Migraine. British Medical Journal. 1951:1424-1429.
  4. Bhoi SK, Kalita J, Misra UK. Metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in migraine. The Journal of Headache and Pain. 2012;13(4):321-326.
  5. Casucci G, Villani V, Cologno D, D’Onofrio F. Migraine and metabolism. Neurological Sciences. 2012;33(1):81-85.
  6. Guldiken B, Guldiken S, Taskiran B, et al. Migraine in metabolic syndrome. The neurologist. 2009;15(2):55-58.
  7. Sachdev A, Marmura MJ. Metabolic Syndrome and Migraine. Frontiers in Neurology. 2012;3:161.
  8. Salmasi M, Amini L, Javanmard SH, Saadatnia M. Metabolic syndrome in migraine headache: A case-control study. Journal of Research in Medical Sciences : The Official Journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. 2014;19(1):13-17.
  9. Sinclair AJ, Matharu M. Migraine, cerebrovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology. 2012;15(Suppl 1):S72-S77.

Your comments are welcomed, as always!

Angela

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Sugar!!! Finally! Trash it!

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Press Release

Something of interest especially in light of my fight against sugar in everything I talk and write about:   Scientific experts: Sugar intake ‘should be halved

The article actually recommends this (by BBC) to reduce tooth decay… I think there is much more to this than rotten teeth! Like a rotten body health! So let’s see a bigger picture please and not only half that sugar but trash it completely!

The article recommends sugar substitutes.. nah.. that causes diabetes.. they are trading for one form of diabetes 2 (with tooth decay) to another form of diabetes 2 (no tooth decay)… Guess which is better? Neither.. let’s get rid of all sweets please!

So trash your sugars and trash your sugar substitutes. They kill you in either case!

Comments are welcome, as always!

Angela

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Vegetarian, Vegan Diets, & Antioxidant Supplements: Are They Good for You?

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Ironically the answers is no!

I bet you have not thought about this or heard of that but recent research shows that eating too much vegetables and antioxidant supplements is actually harmful. There are several reasons for this. I want to keep this article easy to read and short. For more information please visit the article “Toxic Chemical in Fruits and Vegetables Are What Give Them Their Health Benefits” in ScientificAmerican. It is a subscription only magazine so in case you have no subscription I summarize the main points for you.

Let’s start with the title, which is misleading.

The title lets you see half the truth! Indeed, eating fruits and vegetables is good for you because they contain toxic chemicals that change your cells by creating antioxidants in response. All true! BUT and this is a big “but” coming later in the article: eating fruits and vegetables without any break actually reduces your body’s ability to create antioxidants. Instead free radical elements start running free, causing damage: “free radicals disrupt and sometimes kill neurons… the antioxidants story is not quite so simple” says Mark P. Mattson, chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging and professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

So what is the problem?

Plants and fruits create toxins (pesticides actually) to protect themselves from predators. “The plants produce chemicals that act on neurons called sensilla in the bugs’ mouthparts, which are similar to the taste bud cells in the human tongue. Signals from those cells are transmitted to the brain, which then decides whether or not to eat the plant.” When we eat these fruits and vegetables, the same toxins enter our bodies causing a reaction even if we cannot taste them. Because vegetarians or vegans eat so much fruit and vegetables, the toxins keep on coming. Eating some of these chemicals stress cells mildly and this stress causes them to go through complex metabolic changes with the outcome of releasing antioxidants to clear the toxins (free radicals) from the body. But cells can only do so much! This cell reaction to toxins in fruits and vegetables is called the hormesis (not homeopathy!). A little stress is good. Too much or for prolonged periods stress is bad.

In particular they studied the effect of fruit and vegetable toxins on neurons (brain cells). “Too much stimulation of the receptors can damage or destroy neurons” so being a vegetarian or vegan causes nerve damage in the brain.  “More moderate activation of these receptors, however, turns on a chemical pathway in neurons that plays a critical role in learning and memory and in protecting neurons” meaning that if we incorporate fruits and vegetables into our diet but not always and mix in other foods we benefit! “Such discoveries began to raise the question of whether low levels of plant neurotoxins in fruits and vegetables might yield beneficial health effects by inducing similar mild stresses in brain cells.” So too much of a good thing may not be good but little is definitely good!

The bitter taste of many plants tells us not to eat too much of the bad-tasting leaves, roots and fruits or to simply avoid them entirely. There seems to be some innate justification for children not wanting to eat their broccoli after all. For insects, the noxious chemicals help to drive them off, but for us they serve as a warning to limit our intake.

I am sure children will love to hear this. It is also important to mention that those of you who are super-taster–like me–taste bitter taste in more foods than those without such super-tasting ability. After reading this article I now understand that being a super-taster and not being able to stomach Brussels Sprouts and beer among other things may be a good thing!

The effect of these plants on our nervous system can be graphed by an up-side-down U shaped graph (called the biphasic response curve) that shows the threshold at which point the benefit of consuming such toxins in fruits and vegetables turns from good to bad. An example is brought up in the paper that I find very intriguing.

Eating too many Brazil nuts can poison the liver and lungs because of the presence of the trace element selenium. Yet eating just a few supplies an essential nutrient that is incorporated into an enzyme that may help protect against heart disease and cancer.

Because of this “limit” in the particular toxin level’s benefit, the brain’s biochemical processes by hormetic stress dictates when antioxidants are available for brain cells to help and when they are not. Too much stress and antioxidants are no longer made. Some well-known antioxidant vegetables—such as garlic—also increase electrical activity in the brain by leading calcium into the cells. This is further proof that food is medicine. But garlic or any other fruits and vegetables do not visit our brain to open cells or kill free radicals. They merely call on enzymes to work for us. Because our bodies have these natural processes, two important functions may not work for us if we eat too much of these toxins.

Eating too much vegetables and fruits, and eating them all the time, means the cells do not have enough break to recoup their reserve to release enzymes and the toxins negatively affect neurons, often destroying them. Furthermore, taking antioxidant supplements work against the natural system our bodies have evolved to protect us and they prevent the natural process of antioxidant release. Taking antioxidants weakens our immune system.

What does this mean to you? 

  • if you are a vegetarian but are able to take a day off from your vegetables every now and then and switch to other acceptable non-vegetable food, please do! It will strengthen your immune system and improve your health!
  • if you are a vegan, you have some serious thinking to do. I truly honor all faith and support the goal of saving animals by eating only vegetable matter. I can relate to that. But this puts your health at risk. At least give this a thorough thought and make an informed decision that knowingly  you are sacrificing your health for the sake of animals. If that is your decision, at least you made that decision with full knowledge!
  • Should you continue to take your antioxidant supplements? Absolutely not! They clearly interfere with your body’s natural system for protection; let your body do the work for you!

Your comments are welcomed as always!

Angela

Source:

Mark P. Mattson Toxic Chemicals in Fruits and Vegetables Are What Give Them Their Health Benefits ScientificAmerican | Jun 16, 2015

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Diabetes 2 and Migraines? Read Why!

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Press Release

The article “Migraines, Serotonin, & Carbohydrates: the Connection” describes the intricate connection between migraines, electrolyte disturbance, serotonin medications, and metabolic disorders including diabetes mellitus 2. Please educate yourself on what the connection is and protect yourself from lifelong diabetes 2 damage and pain!

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Clueless Doctors Reporting Service!

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Press Release:

I just wrote a post on a letter that I emailed to the National Pain Report that I KNOW will never be seeing daylight because.. well.. what would there be to report if say migraines no longer hurt?

Well you see migraines need not hurt if doctors were not getting tricked by (or paid by) pharmaceuticals and if only they listened to what the patients are telling them. They not only aren’t listening, they are not even asking questions! And forget about reading up on recent science!

So here is the link to my article that contains my letter! Enjoy reading because this is the only person you will hear the truth: from me, whichever of my 3 blogs I write on and you read!

Enjoy the letter and enjoy being pain-free if you are a migraineur by following the links in that article to my book and to my migraine group where thousands are already pain-free and stopped all their medications! Yep! Migraine AND drug free! Nope, no supplements or herbs either!!! Nothing! Your knowing what migraine is can change your life! Enjoy!

Comments are welcome as always!

Angela

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Drugs & Doctors of Shame!

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Drugs of Shame Series

How about starting the series with a Doctor of Shame who in the ER gave to a migraineur 3 Drugs of Shame?

Imagine that you are in horrific pain! You are also partially blinded by the pain and parts of your body are paralyzed because you have hemiplegic migraines. You head to the ER and the resident neurologist gives you the following three medications:

Tramadol, Ergotamine tartrate, and Propranolol

Before I give you the details of the drugs in brief, I show you what I could find simply by placing the 3 drug names into an online dug interaction checker:

Interactions for the following two medications I put in there:

“Tramadol and Ergotamine tartrate

Interactions  All (1)  Significant (1)

Ergotamine tartrate + Tramadol

Ergotamine tartrate and Tramadol both increase serotonin levels in the blood. Too much serotonin is a potentially life-threatening condition. Severe signs and symptoms include high blood pressure and increased heart rate that lead to shock.”

So your doctor is giving you two medications that both achieve the same chemical alterations in the brain: overdose by duplication. One of the side effects of such overdose is an increased blood pressure by blood vessel constricting so the third medicine, Propranolol, is doing what? Reduce blood pressure? Nah… It increases it further! It is a strong vasoconstrictor that is not even supposed to be given to a low blood pressure patient (the migraineur in questions has typical blood pressure of 90/60, way below normal!). So as you see, a clueless doctor can sure make a mess of already shameful drugs!

These 3 drugs will be revisited later in greater detail but for now in brief, I just explain the main functions and how they work so you can see the cluelessness. Later each drug will have its own decorated page under Drugs of Shame. The purpose of this introduction to Drugs of Shame is to show you how many doctors have absolutely no clue what the drugs they prescribe do and by what mechanism.

The three medicines in brief:

Tramadol: is an opioid that binds to the μ-opioid receptor and also acts as a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor so it is an SNRI. Inhibiting reuptake in the brain is synonymous with plugging the overflow in your sink or tub. When the brain had enough serotonin and norepinephrine already, it does not know about it because its overflow hole (reuptake) is plugged (inhibited). Hence the brain continues to make these neurotransmitters thinking it needs to make more. This in turn overflows the brain with serotonin and norepinephrine endlessly, 24/7. Tramadol alone is already troubling and can cause serotonin syndrome on its own.

Ergotamine (Ergot for short): is structurally similarity to several neurotransmitters like serotonin at the5-HT1A receptors, dopamine at the D2 receptor and epinephrine, and can thus bind to several receptors acting as an agonist. Agonists “excite” the receptors to take up more. So one medication is already flooding the brain (Tramadol) with these neurotransmitters forcing the brain receptors to sponge up as much as they can and now they are instructed to sponge up more and more!  At the same time Ergot acts as a vasoconstrictor as well. It works by constricting the intracranial extracerebral blood vessels through the 5-HT1B receptor and by inhibiting trigeminal neurotransmission by 5-HT1D receptors. This not only causes a double dose (overdose) but also causes the BP to increase.

Propranolol (Inderal) is a beta blocker that increases blood pressure by vasoconstriction achieved by vasospasm. Vasospasm refers to a condition in which a blood vessel’s spasm leads to vasoconstriction. This can lead to tissue ischemia and tissue death (necrosis). Cerebral vasospasm may arise in the context of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Propranolol is not recommended for the treatment of hypertension because of its relatively high rate of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke. Propranolol has inhibitory effects on the norepinephrine transporter and/or stimulates norepinephrine release (? which one??? So we know what we prescribe?). Propranolol increases synaptic norepinephrine at the α-adrenergic receptors so this is yet one more medicine that double doses—or rather in this case triple doses since all three drugs contribute to norepinephrine release. In addition propranolol may function as a partial agonist at some serotonin receptors. Propranolol also blocks the voltage-gated sodium channels.

In quick summary:

  • Tramadol forces neurons to make two neurotransmitters: serotonin and norepinephrine and increases blood pressure by its vasoconstriction. It is also an opioid.
  • Ergotamine increases serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine and has a vasoconstriction action.
  • Propranolol is a vasoconstrictor that either inhibits or stimulates norepinephrine (we don’t know which?) and most importantly it blocks voltage-gated-sodium-channels. Voltage gated sodium channels are necessary to manufacture neurotransmitters!

So 2 drugs are given to load the brain with neurotransmitters and the 3rd drug prevents that!

Note also that all three constrict blood vessels and increase blood pressure that can cause stroke and other harm. All three take part in modifying brain neurotransmitters in some way that have serious consequences to our body, not one of which has anything to do with reducing migraines! Not one of these drugs is expressly for migraines albeit off label they have been used so.

Migraine is a special brain with enhanced sensory neuron connections (migraineurs smell better, hear better, see better in dark so light bothers them), etc. So their brains need different energy for their heightened activity! The energy they need is extra voltage and not neurotransmitter release enforcement guards with blood pressure increasing!

Please read my book to understand what a migraine brain is! Do yourself a favor: when you are hit with a migraine or know someone who has migraines, please buy them the book Fighting the Migraine Epidemic or have them send a message to me via the comment option below! I am glad to help! Save your life and run from doctors!

Your comments are welcome as always!

Angela

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Drugs of Shame – Introduction

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Drugs of Shame Series – Introduction

So let’s talk drugs. In particular, I only focus on drugs that are prescribed for migraine pains of members of my migraine group on Facebook, since that is my area of expertise. I ask many questions on a questionnaire and know what medicines they take. The number of medications migraineurs receive these days is staggering. Most migraine pain sufferers take anywhere from 3 to 20 medicines. One of my functions is to analyze conflicts, interactions, and duplication of the medicines. It is very scary when I find duplication of medicines that damage the brain.

New research shows that migraine is not a disease but in fact a structurally different brain that medicines cannot “cure” only “dull the pain down.” I also happened to be a scientist and I figured out the cause of migraine pain. I can say with great confidence that a migraine-brain is a brain in energy crisis that can easily be changed into pain-free brain without any medicines. Migraine-brain is structurally different from all other “normal” brains and so it cannot be “cured” from migraines since it is a brain type represented by a different physiology. The pain of this unique brain is caused by the different energy requirement a migraine-brain needs from a brain that is not a migraine-brain. The cause of pain, pain prevention, and long-term treatment with proper energy is explained in my book.

Here I focus on medicines that are prescribed to dull and take away the senses that also take with them the ability to think, to make decisions, to work, and a host of other negative side effects.

Many migraineurs are children. In fact my Facebook migraine group has several moms whose children—as young as 2 years old—have migraine pains. Some of the members who have migraine pain themselves have started at age 2 and 20, 30, and 70 years later they still have the migraine pain in spite of all the prescribed medicines they have been taking. If you visit Facebook and type “migraine” in search for groups, you will probably get over 100 groups filled migraine pain sufferers, some with over 15,000 members, taking all kinds of prescription medicines. Yet they are all having migraine pain on a regular basis in spite of their medicines. Some migraineurs even have electrical or magnetic stimulators and still are in groups complaining of pain. Some in my migraine group had electrical brain stimulator built-in under their skins, still they were put on many migraine medicines, and still had migraine pains enough to join my group.

Because medicines for migraine pain do not address the underlying cause, they do not work. Some of them work some of the time but none of them works all the time. The few occasions when they do work signal the unique time when the particular neurotransmitter type they provide happens to be identical to the one the brain was unable to create. This happens when these specific neurotransmitter-making neurons are unable to generate action potential–these show up as dark regions of no electrical activity in scanners and are called regions of cortical depression (CD)– and are the very ones that would have to manufacture the neurotransmitters but cannot for lack of enough energy. This can happen with serotonin, for example, when the serotonin-making neurons have no energy. If they are not able to create serotonin, providing serotonin externally will in fact take the pain away. It seems, based on my statistics in my group and in other groups, that serotonin happens to work approximately 30% of the time but when it works is not predictable. For a person it may work one time but not the next time. Hence taking serotonin all the time as preventive makes little sense in terms of preventing migraine-pain from happening.

Instead, most members in my group apply special methods to change their brain energy levels to match the brain they have rather than to force the brain down to a non-migraineur’s brain type and take medicines for the pain.

The many medicines that are prescribed to treat migraine pain with little success goes unnoticed by all doctors and pharmaceuticals because they can prescribe and prescribe and prescribe and make billions of dollars in the process so why should they stop? Can you envision a day when migraineurs do not need any medicines? According to the WHO (World Health Organization) over 10% of the global population has migraine pain. In the US the percentage is more than double the global average. It is in no one’s interest to admit that migraine pains do not need medicines!

Note I do not use migraines as a term. I use migraine-brain or migraine pain. The term migraine has no meaning anymore. So please follow my future postings on the list of medicines in no special order but in order of what I prefer to show the damage many people have to suffer as a result of the pocket books of pharmaceuticals. If you want to find out about migraine-brain, please read my book linked to above and join my migraine group to learn more.

Watch for the series of articles that will appear regularly on Drugs of Shame!

Your comments are always welcome!

Angela

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Migraineurs Are Forced to Quit Drugs in Secret!

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Yep, I am serious: migraineurs are forced to quit drugs in secret because of prescription-paid doctors!

I run a large Facebook group with migraineurs. My group has a goal: become migraine free without adding any new drugs and if possible, reduce those a migraineur takes. We use the Stanton Migraine ProtocolTM which is a non-medicinal but scientific understanding of what migraine is, why it causes pain, and how to prevent or abort it without any medicines, without any herbs and without any supplements. Just by understanding what is causing it, prevention and treatment is completely possible. The explanation–though not the protocol–is available in paperback or e-book from many sellers (I used the links to Amazon).

In the Facebook group, once members start the protocol they see results very quick–some are able to abort their migraines immediately but those on many medications often cannot for some time. Many medications prescribed to migraineurs interfere with hydration of the cells. A very large number of these medicines block the functions of the voltage gated sodium pumps that would allow the cells to open their doors for nutrition while others block the high voltage gated calcium channels, which would permit the neurotransmitters to be released by the neurons. Both sodium and calcium blockers are systemic, meaning they block the functions of cells all through the CNS and sometimes even the heart and other vital organs.

In spite of that, many migraineurs are able to overcome their pain by at first increasing some parts of the protocol to override the block of the medicines. Once they are pain free, they would like to stop their medications! There is a long list of medications I am collecting that will be written up under the title “Medicines of Shame” in later blog posts. But the worst part of it is that often times these medicines are extremely addictive–or let me be politically correct: “discontinuation syndrome” is the proper name now and not addiction.

This means that reduction can take a very long time–sometimes over a year–of a single medication! Reducing a medication this slow requires the doctors’ cooperation since they have to refill the prescriptions at decreasing doses as the patient feels at comfort with the reduction speed and NOT at the speed the doctors usually prescribe. I now understand why that is. Since many doctors have a vested interest in their patients continuing to take these medications, the last thing on their mind is to let them reduce it comfortably! No way! Let’s make them so miserable in the reduction that they will come right back on and take it again!

So now patients check first for the name of their doctors in the open database that lists (supposedly) doctors who take payments (interestingly some doctors’ names do not appear even as doctors; no idea why). Those who take no payments simply show as $0 accepted.

However there are many doctors who take tens of thousands of dollars each year for prescribing medicines. For them to have a patient quit medicines is money lost!

Conflict of financial and medical oath interest!

Hence if migraineurs find their doctors in the database, they need to hide that they are reducing and quitting else they get dumped and go through living hell and then back on the drugs again! Unfortunately this happens quite often. Often enough to prompt me to create this blog to call attention to doctors of shame who chose money of their own financial wealth over the welfare of their patients!

Shame on you!

Opinions and comments are welcome! Please share this blog so those doctors to whom this is relevant get their faces burning and feel like hiding!

Angela

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Act Now Against Cipro! The FDA is Ready!

Posted on May 2, 2015 by Angela A Stanton, Ph.D.

Cipro is only one killer of many in the fuoroquinolone class antibiotics!

As some of you may know, I have filed at the FDA a Citizen’s Petition again the antibiotic drug class fluoroquinolones, the most frequently prescribed antibiotics today. I started my attack with Cipro as guilty #1 since that is what nearly everyone gets and the number of people getting sick from Cipro is staggering. Cipro is now also understood to be the cause of the Gulf War Syndrome since soldiers were mandated to take it every day against anthrax in the field.

Many people have been permanently injured–some even have committed suicide. I am a firm believer that fibromyalgia is yet one more of the diseases we may be able to point to this class of drugs. The citizen petition docket is still open.

I just received a letter from the FDA stating that the matter is so complex that they have not yet been able to make a decision–please see below.

FDA letter to me about Cipro docket

FDA letter to me about Cipro docket

 

This may be the time to act and add comments please to help the FDA make the decision in our favor! Here is the link to the docket:

Where to comment:

comment here

comment here

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=FDA-2014-P-1753

Please act!!!

File a comment!

Thank you on behalf of all who suffer and those who committed suicide!

Angela

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