“Deep brain stimulation” is what they’re calling it.
It almost sounds soothing and nice.
Did you hear about this? Scientists use electrodes to “stimulate” the brains of depressed people.
The whole thing works through surgically implanted probes in your brain that are connected to an electrical device sewn into your chest.
They say it’s like a pacemaker for your brain.
I call it the new shock therapy.
People with Parkinson’s disease use similar things to improve their mobility. But when the devices are turned on, the patients can’t talk. The flow of electricity interrupts other brain functions.
I don’t believe anything that invasive can be good for you.
One More Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Anti-psychotic drugs were originally created and sold only to treat schizophrenia and extreme manic depressive disorder.
But now they’re no longer just being prescribed for mental illnesses that incapacitate people. And that’s how the drug companies have managed to make this the number-one selling class of drugs.
What Doctors Are Reading May Put Your Health at Risk
Most doctors rely on a handful of medical journals as a main source for information.
But drug companies are influencing what these journals publish.
And more importantly, what they don’t publish.
Many unfavorable facts and trials about new drugs don’t make it into these journals.
Why?
FDA Targets Harvard Doctor
The assault by the FDA on your supplements has turned into an all out war.
In a letter both the FDA and FTC, Dr. Andrew Weil was threatened with criminal prosecution.
I’m not making this stuff up. Look at what the letter actually said:
“If your firm fails to take corrective action immediately, FDA may take enforcement action, such as seizure or injunction for violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act without further notice.”
What did Dr. Weil do to risk “possible criminal prosecution for violations of the FFDC Act”?…