Hi, I'm Richard Ruhling, MD, a retired physician who taught Health Science at Loma Linda University after becoming board-certified in Internal Medicine. It wasn't easy, but I now see prescription drugs as a leading cause of illness, disability and death .

I will share the medical literature to support this in the middle column (>>>) but first, let me tell you about the most overlooked cause illness and medical symptoms, both by doctors and people--it can be a food or chemical that we don't suspect!  

Let me give you an example. While in Executive Health, I had one executive says that sugar bothered his joints. Another said that cheese gave him joint aches. A third said meat was a factor in his arthritis. They were smarter than I was to figure out a cause to their symptoms.

When I got headaches and couldn't see a relationship to what I ate or drank, I asked a neurologist who taught medical students, and he said, what I ate or drank would be a "very rare" cause of headaches. I later learned he didn't know. Most doctors don't know the cause of conditions in their textbooks that list most diseases as "Etiology [cause] Unknown." 

In my cases, I liked bread, pastry and pasta--I was overdoing it and it became toxic to me. I didn't listen to body signals like passing gas, and when headaches came, it didn't seem related to what I ate. The most likely time was Monday morning, but I hadn't been partying over the weekend, and I didn't hate my job--I couldn't figure  it out.

Though most allergists don't understand this, one wisely diagnosed my problem and it works like this. If you become allergiest to a food or chemical, it acts like a poison and you develop a tolerance to it, like to nicotine. And people don't get sick when they smoke--they get sick when they try to stop smoking, on withdrawal.

That's the way my headaches were. Monday to Friday I took two sandwiches to work, but on the weekend we had oat waffles (not toast) and other things that gave me headaches as withdrawal symptom. Different people may get colitis, arthritis, gastritis from a food or chemical they don't realize is the cause of their symptoms.

If you get symptoms and you don't know the cause and  you don't take a prescription drug, suspect the possibility that a food or chemical is causing it. #1 suspect for many symptoms is caffeine as in coffee, tea or colas. If this could be you, scan the list of known problems by clicking on Caffeine at this link .

If you don't drink caffenated beverages, you may still appreciate other information at
Be Your Own Doctor ! 

Adverse Drug Reactions put 2.2 million people in hospitals and 106,000 died, "making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death." Journal of American Medical Assoc, 4-15-1998  

But how many died at home? 199,000 according to the Western Journal of Medicine...

The problem is that we need medical care for emergencies, trauma and childbirth, and most people think any serious pain is an emergency need to see the doctor, even though, if you hit your thumb with a hammer, it will be ok even without seeing a doctor.

There are a wide range of chronic problems that we brought on ourselves by what we put in our mouths since childhood. If we were normal at birth and have problems now, we did it to ourselves, but this is reversible if we can discern the cause and eliminate it.

I wasn't smart enough to figure it out for my headaches . I even asked the neurologist who taught medical students if anything I ate or drank could cause my headaches. He said that would be very rare for my type of [tension] headache. I later learned that he didn't know either!

I loved pasta, pastry and whole wheat sandwiches and by overdoing it, became allergic, but I didn't get a headache when I ate them (two a day at work). I would get a headache after a weekend of other foods (oat waffles was a family tradition on Sunday) so that I was going through a withdrawal to a food that was a poison to me like nicotine that I had built up a tolerance to, just as people don't get sick when they smoke--they feel bad on withdrawal.

That's an example of a wide range of symptoms from foods or chemicals. An example from executives I examined is one who said sugar bothered his joints. Another said cheese gave him joint pains. A third one said meat gave him arthritis. These were smart men, but most people who don't figure it out get a prescription that sooner or later brings trouble.

So I wrote this book--

It has 100 topics from abscesses to vaccinations arranged alphabetically with natural remedies with a focus on foods and eating habits. It's for sale on Amazon, but to be honest, you'll get more for your money for similar price from the DVD and ebook offered at http://ChooseABetterDestiny.com

The online  Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies offers help--click it from the left column at http://pathlights.com/ If I had cancer, I would want to consider the information at http://CancerTutor.com   

Here's a short video with reasons why prescription drugs are risky.

60 School Shootings and 4800 Acts of Violence Linked to Psychiatrist, Drugs; Congress' Reaction--Take Guns

http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/01/60-school-shootings-in-20-years-of-4800-violent-incidents-all-linked-to-psychiatric-drugs-2464466.html/

Instead of addressing the issue with big pharma or FDA, Congress gets $400 million a year donated to their re-election campaign by drug companies. One senator, confronted with medical literature showing drugs as a leading cause of death said, "You are wasting your time, they own us!" Here's another MD insight: 


You don't think so? Watch this Big Pharma Executive Tell the Truth:

Drugs will kill you or make you sick sooner or later, but most people aren't able to get out of the system by cutting down on their own.   

Trouble is coming with Obamacare. Please read the middle column >>>

Prescription Drugs

  Western J Med. June, 2000. Deaths in and outside hospitals from Rx totaled 305,000 then, with 8 million admissions to the hospital and 3 million for long-term care (nursing homes--these people were messed up for life!)

"From 1998 through 2005, reported serious adverse drug events increased 2.6-fold...fatal adverse drug events increased 2.7-fold..." Archives of Internal Medicine, Sep 10, 2007, p 1752.

But if deaths increased 2.7 fold from 1998 to 2005, by 2013 they are increased 5.4-fold. Multiplying 305,000 deaths/year by 5. 4, prescribed drugs killed 1.65 million people/year-- these are not old people in nursing homes--most of them weren't even in the hospital.

1,650,000 deaths/year is 4500 deaths daily--like one and a half 9-11's daily!  Confronted with these figures, a U.S. Senator said told me I was wasting my time, "they own us," referring to the pharmaceutical industry that spends $400 million/year on congressional re-election campaigns, says (Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of New England Journal of Medicine (60 Minutes' interview), now teaching at Harvard. These people are false to their oath of office.

1. Drugs relieve symptoms and people think everything is okay. You don' t have to be as careful what  you eat. Your blood sugar, blood pressure or cholesterol will still be "normal."

2. Drugs do not cure disease. If they did, you wouldn' t need another prescription.

3. Drugs usually have a long list of adverse effects that people would not imagine. A purple pill (the ad said, "heal the damage") has 120 adverse effects in the Physician's Desk Reference.

4. Our bodies don' t have a chemical deficiency supplied by the drug, and they become toxic to it sooner or later. Then they go to their doctor for the 'headache, diarrhea, or abdominal pain' for an additional prescription instead of quitting the one that caused it. They are now at risk for the leading cause of death, prescription drugs.

Congress is "dancing with the devil," says Marcia Angell, MD, in The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us, 2004, published by Random House. Angell says, "Drug companies promote diseases to match their drugs. Millions of normal Americans have come to believe that they have dubious or exaggerated ailments like 'generalized anxiety disorder,' 'erectile dysfunction,' 'PMDD,' and 'GERD." Government should get the drug ads off TV, but congress likes the $400 million that drug companies spend on their re-election campaign.