Big Pharma just will NOT stop!
The mega millions bids them gain more control
Back in the 1990s or so I got more and more interested in vitamins supplements. I had been taking some since the 1970s when I started learning about tissue wound healing and importance of Vitamin C.. and magnesium, and Zinc. Old Col Clyde Hagood who taught so many of us vascular surgery was a big believer in Zinc supplements. Because zinc is part of the necessary milieu when it comes to Collagen development and strength. Vascular surgeons are interested in that because collagen abnormalities lead to weak blood vessel walls and thus “aneurysms” - Add to that the law of Laplace and lateral pressures, the abdominal aorta for example, has a risk of rupture when it enlarges. When the adult aorta reaches 6 cm diameter, the risk of rupture and death is 25% at one year. Thus that was the trigger for us to recommend and perform a big open abdominal operations to replace the abdominal aorta with a synthetic tube graft. Dr Mike DeBakey developed the first graft using Dacron and his wife’s sewing machine at home, making a Dacron tube graft. After sterilizing it, and removing the old aneurysm and sewing the tube in place voila, he invented a graft, a new operation and a cure for abdominal aortic aneurysm ruptures. Yes, I did hundreds of those learning at the hand of “The Professor” Dr DeBakey… as I held retractors and learned. But still, some 40 thousand Americans (males 7:1) die of a ruptured aneurysm each year. The simplest test is to feel or palpate the abdomen and feel the pulsation. We can estimate the size from that but an ultrasound examination can document the size. Now with “Endografts”, inserted through a puncture in the groin (femoral artery) we can place a graft without much morbidity and we have dropped the trigger to five centimeters. The risk of rupture at five cm is only 5% per year, but do you want to play the odds and wait til six? I didn’t think so.
But back to zinc and supplements. In the 1990s we got involved in more supplements taking the “Body Wise” formulation. I don’t even know if they are still in business, but we get many of our vitamins from Dr Mercola’s store or Life Extension Institute. Look them up for more details. In the 1990s the government threatened to intervene into nutritional supplements. They are doing the same again. This article explains what is going on. As they say “Follow the money”