Dear Editor,
[RE: Confused by MP support for natural health products, Feb. 21, The News]
In rebuttal to the letter from Claudia Peters MD (retired), I am writing in defence of natural health products (NHP) and to challenge the validity of the many points made in her letter.
Dr. Peters states she participated in the Harvard-based Cosmos – Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) – but neglected to say it was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mars Edge, and the drug company, Pfizer. As we all know, Pfizer is a massive drug company who made billions selling the COVID vaccine.
The head of the NIH, Francis Collins, is now called a co-conspirator in the weaponization of the Corona virus along with Anthony Fauci who shockingly received a pre-emptive pardon dating back to 2014 from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden. Even The National Review headline screamed, “How Collins and Fauci shattered our trust in public health.”
Americans experience more than two million side effects from drugs every year, and more than 100,000 people are killed from properly prescribed medications.
Man-made medications are now the fourth leading cause of death and were only created 150 years ago.
In the United States, more than 109,000 people died from drug overdoses in the 12 months ending Jan. 31, 2023. This is a rate of about 300 deaths per day. The deaths from natural health products is zero.
The natural health industry has evolved potions and concoctions over thousands of years using what nature gives us, and they work.
The Mayo Clinic, among hundreds of other medical outlets, has a lengthy list of the health benefits of vitamin D ranging from cancer, cognitive health, bone disorders, MS, rickets, psoriasis, and osteoporosis. They also list the possible interactions with prescription medications. That information is readily available and people can read.
NHP do not have to prove anything.
Time has proven it, because humans have used what nature provides to heal them since humans began. Prescription drugs, however, need to be taken off the market in droves because no one thinks killing 300 people a day is a good idea.
When my 98-year-old mom was hospitalized after a fall, the emergency room doctor was shocked to learn Mom was not on any prescriptions. All her life, Mom went to health food store for supplements when needed. She did, however, die after being injected her with some pharmaceutical – even though we had forbidden any and all prescription medication while she was in hospital.
Lastly, Peters' insinuation that health food stores have money to give politicians is laughable, but as recent congressional testimony proves many millions a year are funnelled to the elected regularly by Big Pharma companies.
Natural health products must be protected from being erased by Big Pharma and the physicians who profit from their largess, for the good of us all.
Susan Einarsson, Maple Ridge
