Frightening – Prescription Drugs That Kill
This article features our conversation with a very special guest. He has been around the tracks for a fair while and he certainly knows his stuff on medicine. He is Dr. Richard Ruhling, a retired physician, and he is certainly the one to ask some really pointed questions to. Read on and learn about the dangers of (some) prescription drugs.
David: Hello Dr. Richard.
Richard: Good to be with you. Thank you for the privilege.
David: It's our pleasure of having you actually. I've noticed that you've got a lot of information on a very important topic here and it is certainly something which cannot be overlooked. Leading cause of death from prescription drugs sounds quite pointed.
Richard: Yes it is, but the medical literature supports it. I can briefly summarize. First of all, the JAMA, Journal of American Medical Association on April 15, 1998 cited 106,000 deaths in hospitals under monitored conditions. That made poor medical care the sixth leading cause of death at that point. That was in the hospitals. Two years later, the Western Journal of Medicine in the United States published a report on outpatients of 199,000 additional deaths. That makes a total of 305,000. Medical care is then the third leading cause of death and that was 14 years ago. Since then, and this is the third medical journal, the Archive of Medicines, Sept. 7, 2007, reported that in the seven-year period, from 1998 to 2005, that deaths increased 2.7 fold. That's three times nearly as many deaths. So instead of 305,000, it is now 880,000, and that's for a seven-year period. Now, 14 years later, TV ads in America still say, "Ask your doctor," and people are going for prescriptions for symptomatic relief. So I'm doubling it. I don't have any medical proof to say it, but for seven years, it was 2.7 times. If you double that, it's 5.4 x 300,000 or about 1.6 million deaths a year. That's enough for the leading cause of premature deaths before age 75. It's a shame. The definition, by the way, of an adverse drug reaction is, "A drug properly prescribed and administered that was not an overdose, not a malpractice or a wrong prescription." It's like in America, when someone took Flanax for arthritis but died of a heart attack.
David: Well, that's crazy, isn't it?
Richard: Yes.
David: So those deaths are purely in America, aren't they? They are not records from anywhere else.
Richard: Yes, that's right.
David: So I suppose that's even worse than the western world outside of America, like, Australia, England, Canada, New Zealand, and other western societies as well.
Richard: That's true. I believe it would apply across the board. I am only quoting medical literature here.
David: Well that's quite shocking actually. So can you tell us a little bit of yourself? Where you started from? Being a medical doctor, you had to have medical training.
Richard: Yes, I did. I took medical training at Loma Linda University and was going to be a missionary. A friend said you'll do more good if you take public health and I ended up teaching in the school of public health. I got a master's degree, with some emphasis on nutrition. In order to teach, I became board certified in Internal Medicine and had a year of Cardio training. While teaching there, I attended some Cardiology meetings where a man was reporting the results of his diet and exercise program. He was speaking to cardiologists, and here's a non-physician telling cardiologists how his diet program got 85%, out of 200 patients he had in his study, off their blood pressure medicine. They no longer needed it at the end of the month. It did not include alcohol or caffeine, they walked a lot, and they ate a low fat, low salt diet. 85% no longer needed drugs, and that was really exciting to me. I invited him to speak at Loma Linda and I saw that he was not just reversing blood pressure, but diabetes and heart disease as well. Since then I've seen other evidence of that. I don't want to talk too long though…
David: Oh, that's fine. That's really an amazing story, 85% of people got off their prescribed drugs. That's quite amazing! And you say it was in four to five weeks?
Richard: Yes. That was a one-month program and at another report for diabetes, he got a similar number off of insulin. There were Type 2 diabetics taking insulin. If you were Type 1, sometimes it's difficult. He got all of the people taking pills, you know oral agents for diabetes, off of their drugs. So that's quite a statement, especially in light of the fact that diabetic medicine is sometimes hazardous, with heart attacks, and so on. Avandia, in this country, had a 45% increase in deaths reported several years ago. But you know, it's just not good if people want to eat what they want to eat, and then just take their medication to cover the damage. It doesn't work well.
David: Wow. It's like putting bad fuel into your vehicle, I suppose, and expecting it to run well, and questioning why it doesn't in the end.
Richard: Exactly right.
David: It seems like… Well, I personally know a lot of people with diabetes and I know a lot of people who are on heart medication, cholesterol medication, and high blood pressure tablets. So you're saying that by changing some eating habits and lifestyle changes, that they could possibly be off these medications very quickly.
Richard: Yes, they could. I know that it's difficult for most people to make those changes. Just hearing something on the radio may not get to us. I have a website with a DVD that's really excellent. It helps motivate people, and one of the statements by Dr. Neil Barner, who's written the book on a program for reversing diabetes, testifies to the value of that DVD. I paid a friend 17 dollars for the DVD originally, but I'm now selling it for ten on my website because I buy them in quantity. I also have my books there too. It's a package deal for 25 if they want it, or just the DVD, or just one of my books. I have a book entitled, "Why you shouldn't ask your doctor," and it has about 100 different conditions for which people don't need to take medicine. They could probably get by with natural type remedies, as the book mentions for them. It's listed alphabetically.
David: So you're saying the package deal is 25 dollars for a book and a DVD.
Richard: Actually, there are two books. My inspiration actually came from the founder of Loma Linda University which, by the way, was featured in the National Geographic on the November 2005 issue. It's for longevity. It's the only community in the western hemisphere that shows a picture of a woman putting gas in her car who's aged a hundred. One of my teachers, who I had back in the sixties, is still doing surgery in 2005. He's 92, or 93, not a surgeon, but he is assisting in a surgery at that age. He's very good. That community has a heritage, based on the author of the second book that I'm offering. Everything together is 25 dollars. They can visit my website if they want, called leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com, and even see about six minutes of the DVD. I have a short intro posted there, which I got offline, but they can see what they think, and you know, 25 dollars is not a big deal. Anyway, that's just in a nutshell.
David: Well that sounds like a great deal actually. So they can go over there and order that, and have it shipped out, and I suppose, get a better understanding of this whole problem of substance abuse from prescription drugs. That sounds really interesting.
Richard: I would say this, you know. That website was not set up for shipping to Australia or New Zealand, and I don't know whether the cost on that would be significant. So maybe I would have to arrange for additional fee to cover the shipment.
David: Yes. Well, shipping costs today are quite low. I've shipped stuff from America and from England, and it's quite reasonable, actually. So it wouldn't be that much expensive. Well, I've got some other pointed questions for you, if you don't mind.
Richard: Sure.
David: People today have a lot of ailments, and they're always complaining about their legs being sore, or high blood pressure, or cholesterol. Now you're talking about natural remedies to actually change these circumstances. If I've got high blood pressure, what would be a natural remedy?
Richard: Well the truth is that even if people use the best version of olive oil or some other kind of oil vegetable or animal sources, oil makes your blood sticky. And when your blood is sticky, you need more pressure to circulate it. So a low fat diet is the way to go, along with the fact that people always hear that they shouldn't use salt, but together they are a bad combination, along with caffeine, alcohol, and stress. Lack of sleep is another factor. People don't get good sleep. If they're working too hard, their stress hormones would drive their blood pressure up. So, along with a good exercise program daily, it will certainly help keep the blood pressure down. So those are the natural remedies that I'm thinking of. There are others like garlic, which are known to help lower blood cholesterol. I'm not an authority on that, but they can Google it and see how much they want to take and try. But the key thing, in my opinion, cut out salt, oil, and fat in the diet. Don't use visible amounts. I've learned to use low fat or cottage cheese in a salad instead of the creamy dressing that usually goes with it. If you stop and think about it, it takes 12-14 ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil so it's highly concentrated. It takes a lot of corn to make a little oil and then when you put it there, it's, you know…
David: Yes, I noticed that the western diet is very high on transfat, which seems to be on a lot of our food. So they're the ones that should certainly be avoided.
Richard: It's really any kind of fat, but transfats are especially bad for the heart.
David: Now, another one is high cholesterol. A lot of people are concerned with cholesterol and that they shouldn't eat eggs, or this food, or that food. Even avocado has got cholesterol in it. So what are your thoughts on natural remedies for high cholesterol levels?
Richard: Well, the DVDs that I have on the website entitled "Eating," and it is really excellent to help keep them motivated. It does discuss it in length. But in a nutshell, of course, as most people know, is that animal products do tend to make the cholesterol go up. Stress can do it and heredity is a factor as well. But even if I had a hereditary condition, unless it is really sky high, I don't think that I would take drugs. I think I would just do the diet, eat right, and face my odds, because the drugs are risky. I could say that's my personal opinion. I'm not anybody's doctor, so maybe they'll have to ask their doctor too. I would give it a try with the diet approach, and they can watch part of that on the sample DVD that I have on my website that talks about cholesterol.
David: Well, that certainly clarifies things. Going back to the natural remedies that have been around for years, there's no reason that they still won't work today, and the usual disclaimer is that, ‘I'm not a medical doctor and certainly not trained in any medicines.' But if you put my opinion across, well, if these things have worked for thousands of years and they've kept people alive through such longevity, then why is it any different today? Sure, go and check out with your health care professional and ask a second opinion. If you ask a doctor one thing, then naturally you'd check it out with the natural practitioner as well. There's got to be an alternative there.
Richard: There surely is.
David: I suppose in conversation with just around friends and family, they're talking about this, and they might go to your doctor about this ailment or that, when realistically, you just look back at simple methods that work. Why can't it work for them as well?
Richard: One of the areas that I'd like to address briefly is obscure to most people. When I was teaching at Loma Linda, I developed headaches. I couldn't figure out a dietary relationship. I went to the neurologist at the medical center, asking if anything I ate or drank could be the cause. He said that it would be very rare for my type of headache. I later learned that he did not know what he was talking about, that it was indeed, diet. When I left the university I went to practice with five doctors. One was on allergies. People drove hundreds of miles to see this fellow, so one day I asked him how many people with headaches he could help. He said about nine out of ten. I said, "Please test me." And I would not have guessed I was allergic to wheat, like in bread or pastries or pasta. I was overdoing those things and probably becoming toxic to them, although I didn't realize it because I love the taste and flavor. But when I left them out, no more headaches! If a person becomes allergic to something, it's like a poison. My example is nicotine. People don't get sick when they smoke. They get sick if they don't smoke. They go through withdrawal, and that's the way food allergies often are. Withdrawal from the food gives you symptoms. In my case, I get a headache every Monday morning. It was not partying over the weekend, it wasn't dread of my job that gave me a headache, it was the fact that Monday through Friday my wife knew that if I didn't have two sandwiches, I didn't feel filled up. So Mondays through Fridays, it's sandwiches. On the weekends, it's fresh fruits, vegetables, and other things. Sunday morning, it was waffles, but it wasn't toast, and I was going through withdrawal. But I didn't know I was addicted to bread or that kind of thing. I just couldn't figure out why I would get a headache on Monday morning, so interesting. If people understand that the other factors like stress, how much sleep, how much exercise, they can modify it so if people get sleep and good exercise, well that's better. But overall that's the underlying mechanism to headaches and many other problems as well, like colitis, gastritis, and many different problems.
David: Wow that's amazing. Is that related to the Candida issue as well?
Richard: Diet is related to Candida, but I don't know about food allergy. It could be that Candida could give some of the similar symptoms, but I'm not a specialist on it. I took part of my training, not with Ob-Gyn. I was in a veteran's hospital. I'm not too good with that.
David: Now you mentioned something on your website about the flu and getting flu shots, and I'm going to the causes of the ailments later, but, is there a natural remedy first up?
Richard: Yes, there is. I was working one night in an emergency room and I noticed I was getting sick. My nose was runny, my throat was scratchy, and felt achy a little bit, and I felt kind of cold. I took my temperature, it was normal, and so I thought for a moment and I realized that in medical school, they taught us that viruses are inactivated or killed with fever. And here I am, a sitting duck with no fever. I wondered what I could do to get a fever so I took a break from the emergency room, went to a tub, filled it with very hot water, as hot, as I can stand, almost uncomfortably hot, but forced myself in for about 20 minutes. My temperature went up and I sat up as the water was running out. I poured cold water, as cold as I could get, front and back, because it will double your white count, twice as many white cells circulating in you after a hot and cold treatment. So that doubles your immunity. I felt pretty good for a while. I didn't eat anything, didn't take any medicine, I don't have any vitamins with me or anything, but at 11 o' clock, I decided if it helped me, then I'd do it again. I had a second hot bath, finished with cold water, had a pretty good sleep, and in the morning I had no symptoms. No runny nose, sore throat, or any of that. It was all gone. So I thwarted it by getting it early. It was a good thing to do. People do not need vaccinations. I would run from vaccinations. My website also has good videos from people who are more authoritative than I am on vaccinations, so take a look at them at our website.
David: I noticed, on your website, it's got something about Alzheimer's from the flu shots.
Richard: Yes. Well, some of the things they put in the vaccines are aluminum preservatives. They are trouble for a variety of things and Alzheimer's could be one of them.
David: Wow. So if someone has too much aluminum in their system, they could actually develop a higher case, or has more of a chance of developing Alzheimer's.
Richard: Yes, that's right.
David: So that really comes down to body care as well, I mean, a lot of deodorants have a lot of aluminum in there as well.
Richard: Yes that's true, even in toothpaste. They don't have to say it on the label, so it's good to spit the toothpaste out or maybe consider something else. My mother used baking soda as toothpaste.
David: Now the big C question is the big cancer treatments. Everyone knows someone who's got cancer. That's a serious ailment. No matter what type of cancer, you've got to avoid these things in the first place. What happens if you've got cancer, and you want to go down the natural remedy methods, and try and rid your body of it? What would you say to that?
Richard: First of all, I would try to get a good diagnosis, and if there's any possibility that they could get it all, I'd be glad to have surgery to remove as much of the cancer as possible. I would try to change my diet to a vegan. The China study by Colin Campbell shows that casein is favorable to cancer. I mean, it's the same as getting cancer. So I would try a vegan diet and I would go with a lot of foods raw and juicing. There are centers that do these things already. Seeds and sprouts and things of that nature are high in nutrition, and too often people are talked into having chemo or radiation or both, when in reality the hope of being cured is very low. But they do work well for three or four kinds of cancers. Acute leukemia, Hodgkin's type lymphoma, testicular cancer, and some other one, but basically, the rest is treatment to palliate or slow down. But there's really no hope of cure and I would not go to that route to burn myself just to slow the thing down. You're killing out your own self as well and wiping out your body's chances of overcoming it. I think that's my perspective. I think I would do the best I could and be right with God and trust the outcome.
David: I've heard a lot of success stories where people have gone back to a natural raw and juicing diet and certainly cleaned their whole system, and basically keep starting and resetting their whole systems that way in the raw food diet, which sounds quite logical when you think about it. Just remember too that this is not advice, this is certainly just a pointed directional thing. You should go get a second opinion and try and ask a natural health practitioner as well, I mean what other avenues they may have.
Richard: Very good, yes.
David: Absolutely. Well it really sounds like you've got a lot of information there on your website. So if people do want to find out more information, then they should go to leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com
Richard: That's right. Thank you very much for the time. I enjoyed talking with you.
David: That's okay. I'm really thrilled to have you on, especially about these books that you've got here as well, and that package that you said.
Richard: I know it's a big package. Not everybody goes to the website, but I can see that in the future I might be, but right now the offer is still good.
David: Yes, that is fantastic. I noticed there's a growing trend in our society to turn back towards natural remedies and certain juicing and raw foods. So it certainly sounds like you've got a lot to offer there. I really appreciate your being here Dr. Richard. It's really good.
Richard: Well thank you so much and wishing you well with your program there.
David: Hello Dr. Richard.
Richard: Good to be with you. Thank you for the privilege.
David: It's our pleasure of having you actually. I've noticed that you've got a lot of information on a very important topic here and it is certainly something which cannot be overlooked. Leading cause of death from prescription drugs sounds quite pointed.
Richard: Yes it is, but the medical literature supports it. I can briefly summarize. First of all, the JAMA, Journal of American Medical Association on April 15, 1998 cited 106,000 deaths in hospitals under monitored conditions. That made poor medical care the sixth leading cause of death at that point. That was in the hospitals. Two years later, the Western Journal of Medicine in the United States published a report on outpatients of 199,000 additional deaths. That makes a total of 305,000. Medical care is then the third leading cause of death and that was 14 years ago. Since then, and this is the third medical journal, the Archive of Medicines, Sept. 7, 2007, reported that in the seven-year period, from 1998 to 2005, that deaths increased 2.7 fold. That's three times nearly as many deaths. So instead of 305,000, it is now 880,000, and that's for a seven-year period. Now, 14 years later, TV ads in America still say, "Ask your doctor," and people are going for prescriptions for symptomatic relief. So I'm doubling it. I don't have any medical proof to say it, but for seven years, it was 2.7 times. If you double that, it's 5.4 x 300,000 or about 1.6 million deaths a year. That's enough for the leading cause of premature deaths before age 75. It's a shame. The definition, by the way, of an adverse drug reaction is, "A drug properly prescribed and administered that was not an overdose, not a malpractice or a wrong prescription." It's like in America, when someone took Flanax for arthritis but died of a heart attack.
David: Well, that's crazy, isn't it?
Richard: Yes.
David: So those deaths are purely in America, aren't they? They are not records from anywhere else.
Richard: Yes, that's right.
David: So I suppose that's even worse than the western world outside of America, like, Australia, England, Canada, New Zealand, and other western societies as well.
Richard: That's true. I believe it would apply across the board. I am only quoting medical literature here.
David: Well that's quite shocking actually. So can you tell us a little bit of yourself? Where you started from? Being a medical doctor, you had to have medical training.
Richard: Yes, I did. I took medical training at Loma Linda University and was going to be a missionary. A friend said you'll do more good if you take public health and I ended up teaching in the school of public health. I got a master's degree, with some emphasis on nutrition. In order to teach, I became board certified in Internal Medicine and had a year of Cardio training. While teaching there, I attended some Cardiology meetings where a man was reporting the results of his diet and exercise program. He was speaking to cardiologists, and here's a non-physician telling cardiologists how his diet program got 85%, out of 200 patients he had in his study, off their blood pressure medicine. They no longer needed it at the end of the month. It did not include alcohol or caffeine, they walked a lot, and they ate a low fat, low salt diet. 85% no longer needed drugs, and that was really exciting to me. I invited him to speak at Loma Linda and I saw that he was not just reversing blood pressure, but diabetes and heart disease as well. Since then I've seen other evidence of that. I don't want to talk too long though…
David: Oh, that's fine. That's really an amazing story, 85% of people got off their prescribed drugs. That's quite amazing! And you say it was in four to five weeks?
Richard: Yes. That was a one-month program and at another report for diabetes, he got a similar number off of insulin. There were Type 2 diabetics taking insulin. If you were Type 1, sometimes it's difficult. He got all of the people taking pills, you know oral agents for diabetes, off of their drugs. So that's quite a statement, especially in light of the fact that diabetic medicine is sometimes hazardous, with heart attacks, and so on. Avandia, in this country, had a 45% increase in deaths reported several years ago. But you know, it's just not good if people want to eat what they want to eat, and then just take their medication to cover the damage. It doesn't work well.
David: Wow. It's like putting bad fuel into your vehicle, I suppose, and expecting it to run well, and questioning why it doesn't in the end.
Richard: Exactly right.
David: It seems like… Well, I personally know a lot of people with diabetes and I know a lot of people who are on heart medication, cholesterol medication, and high blood pressure tablets. So you're saying that by changing some eating habits and lifestyle changes, that they could possibly be off these medications very quickly.
Richard: Yes, they could. I know that it's difficult for most people to make those changes. Just hearing something on the radio may not get to us. I have a website with a DVD that's really excellent. It helps motivate people, and one of the statements by Dr. Neil Barner, who's written the book on a program for reversing diabetes, testifies to the value of that DVD. I paid a friend 17 dollars for the DVD originally, but I'm now selling it for ten on my website because I buy them in quantity. I also have my books there too. It's a package deal for 25 if they want it, or just the DVD, or just one of my books. I have a book entitled, "Why you shouldn't ask your doctor," and it has about 100 different conditions for which people don't need to take medicine. They could probably get by with natural type remedies, as the book mentions for them. It's listed alphabetically.
David: So you're saying the package deal is 25 dollars for a book and a DVD.
Richard: Actually, there are two books. My inspiration actually came from the founder of Loma Linda University which, by the way, was featured in the National Geographic on the November 2005 issue. It's for longevity. It's the only community in the western hemisphere that shows a picture of a woman putting gas in her car who's aged a hundred. One of my teachers, who I had back in the sixties, is still doing surgery in 2005. He's 92, or 93, not a surgeon, but he is assisting in a surgery at that age. He's very good. That community has a heritage, based on the author of the second book that I'm offering. Everything together is 25 dollars. They can visit my website if they want, called leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com, and even see about six minutes of the DVD. I have a short intro posted there, which I got offline, but they can see what they think, and you know, 25 dollars is not a big deal. Anyway, that's just in a nutshell.
David: Well that sounds like a great deal actually. So they can go over there and order that, and have it shipped out, and I suppose, get a better understanding of this whole problem of substance abuse from prescription drugs. That sounds really interesting.
Richard: I would say this, you know. That website was not set up for shipping to Australia or New Zealand, and I don't know whether the cost on that would be significant. So maybe I would have to arrange for additional fee to cover the shipment.
David: Yes. Well, shipping costs today are quite low. I've shipped stuff from America and from England, and it's quite reasonable, actually. So it wouldn't be that much expensive. Well, I've got some other pointed questions for you, if you don't mind.
Richard: Sure.
David: People today have a lot of ailments, and they're always complaining about their legs being sore, or high blood pressure, or cholesterol. Now you're talking about natural remedies to actually change these circumstances. If I've got high blood pressure, what would be a natural remedy?
Richard: Well the truth is that even if people use the best version of olive oil or some other kind of oil vegetable or animal sources, oil makes your blood sticky. And when your blood is sticky, you need more pressure to circulate it. So a low fat diet is the way to go, along with the fact that people always hear that they shouldn't use salt, but together they are a bad combination, along with caffeine, alcohol, and stress. Lack of sleep is another factor. People don't get good sleep. If they're working too hard, their stress hormones would drive their blood pressure up. So, along with a good exercise program daily, it will certainly help keep the blood pressure down. So those are the natural remedies that I'm thinking of. There are others like garlic, which are known to help lower blood cholesterol. I'm not an authority on that, but they can Google it and see how much they want to take and try. But the key thing, in my opinion, cut out salt, oil, and fat in the diet. Don't use visible amounts. I've learned to use low fat or cottage cheese in a salad instead of the creamy dressing that usually goes with it. If you stop and think about it, it takes 12-14 ears of corn to make a tablespoon of corn oil so it's highly concentrated. It takes a lot of corn to make a little oil and then when you put it there, it's, you know…
David: Yes, I noticed that the western diet is very high on transfat, which seems to be on a lot of our food. So they're the ones that should certainly be avoided.
Richard: It's really any kind of fat, but transfats are especially bad for the heart.
David: Now, another one is high cholesterol. A lot of people are concerned with cholesterol and that they shouldn't eat eggs, or this food, or that food. Even avocado has got cholesterol in it. So what are your thoughts on natural remedies for high cholesterol levels?
Richard: Well, the DVDs that I have on the website entitled "Eating," and it is really excellent to help keep them motivated. It does discuss it in length. But in a nutshell, of course, as most people know, is that animal products do tend to make the cholesterol go up. Stress can do it and heredity is a factor as well. But even if I had a hereditary condition, unless it is really sky high, I don't think that I would take drugs. I think I would just do the diet, eat right, and face my odds, because the drugs are risky. I could say that's my personal opinion. I'm not anybody's doctor, so maybe they'll have to ask their doctor too. I would give it a try with the diet approach, and they can watch part of that on the sample DVD that I have on my website that talks about cholesterol.
David: Well, that certainly clarifies things. Going back to the natural remedies that have been around for years, there's no reason that they still won't work today, and the usual disclaimer is that, ‘I'm not a medical doctor and certainly not trained in any medicines.' But if you put my opinion across, well, if these things have worked for thousands of years and they've kept people alive through such longevity, then why is it any different today? Sure, go and check out with your health care professional and ask a second opinion. If you ask a doctor one thing, then naturally you'd check it out with the natural practitioner as well. There's got to be an alternative there.
Richard: There surely is.
David: I suppose in conversation with just around friends and family, they're talking about this, and they might go to your doctor about this ailment or that, when realistically, you just look back at simple methods that work. Why can't it work for them as well?
Richard: One of the areas that I'd like to address briefly is obscure to most people. When I was teaching at Loma Linda, I developed headaches. I couldn't figure out a dietary relationship. I went to the neurologist at the medical center, asking if anything I ate or drank could be the cause. He said that it would be very rare for my type of headache. I later learned that he did not know what he was talking about, that it was indeed, diet. When I left the university I went to practice with five doctors. One was on allergies. People drove hundreds of miles to see this fellow, so one day I asked him how many people with headaches he could help. He said about nine out of ten. I said, "Please test me." And I would not have guessed I was allergic to wheat, like in bread or pastries or pasta. I was overdoing those things and probably becoming toxic to them, although I didn't realize it because I love the taste and flavor. But when I left them out, no more headaches! If a person becomes allergic to something, it's like a poison. My example is nicotine. People don't get sick when they smoke. They get sick if they don't smoke. They go through withdrawal, and that's the way food allergies often are. Withdrawal from the food gives you symptoms. In my case, I get a headache every Monday morning. It was not partying over the weekend, it wasn't dread of my job that gave me a headache, it was the fact that Monday through Friday my wife knew that if I didn't have two sandwiches, I didn't feel filled up. So Mondays through Fridays, it's sandwiches. On the weekends, it's fresh fruits, vegetables, and other things. Sunday morning, it was waffles, but it wasn't toast, and I was going through withdrawal. But I didn't know I was addicted to bread or that kind of thing. I just couldn't figure out why I would get a headache on Monday morning, so interesting. If people understand that the other factors like stress, how much sleep, how much exercise, they can modify it so if people get sleep and good exercise, well that's better. But overall that's the underlying mechanism to headaches and many other problems as well, like colitis, gastritis, and many different problems.
David: Wow that's amazing. Is that related to the Candida issue as well?
Richard: Diet is related to Candida, but I don't know about food allergy. It could be that Candida could give some of the similar symptoms, but I'm not a specialist on it. I took part of my training, not with Ob-Gyn. I was in a veteran's hospital. I'm not too good with that.
David: Now you mentioned something on your website about the flu and getting flu shots, and I'm going to the causes of the ailments later, but, is there a natural remedy first up?
Richard: Yes, there is. I was working one night in an emergency room and I noticed I was getting sick. My nose was runny, my throat was scratchy, and felt achy a little bit, and I felt kind of cold. I took my temperature, it was normal, and so I thought for a moment and I realized that in medical school, they taught us that viruses are inactivated or killed with fever. And here I am, a sitting duck with no fever. I wondered what I could do to get a fever so I took a break from the emergency room, went to a tub, filled it with very hot water, as hot, as I can stand, almost uncomfortably hot, but forced myself in for about 20 minutes. My temperature went up and I sat up as the water was running out. I poured cold water, as cold as I could get, front and back, because it will double your white count, twice as many white cells circulating in you after a hot and cold treatment. So that doubles your immunity. I felt pretty good for a while. I didn't eat anything, didn't take any medicine, I don't have any vitamins with me or anything, but at 11 o' clock, I decided if it helped me, then I'd do it again. I had a second hot bath, finished with cold water, had a pretty good sleep, and in the morning I had no symptoms. No runny nose, sore throat, or any of that. It was all gone. So I thwarted it by getting it early. It was a good thing to do. People do not need vaccinations. I would run from vaccinations. My website also has good videos from people who are more authoritative than I am on vaccinations, so take a look at them at our website.
David: I noticed, on your website, it's got something about Alzheimer's from the flu shots.
Richard: Yes. Well, some of the things they put in the vaccines are aluminum preservatives. They are trouble for a variety of things and Alzheimer's could be one of them.
David: Wow. So if someone has too much aluminum in their system, they could actually develop a higher case, or has more of a chance of developing Alzheimer's.
Richard: Yes, that's right.
David: So that really comes down to body care as well, I mean, a lot of deodorants have a lot of aluminum in there as well.
Richard: Yes that's true, even in toothpaste. They don't have to say it on the label, so it's good to spit the toothpaste out or maybe consider something else. My mother used baking soda as toothpaste.
David: Now the big C question is the big cancer treatments. Everyone knows someone who's got cancer. That's a serious ailment. No matter what type of cancer, you've got to avoid these things in the first place. What happens if you've got cancer, and you want to go down the natural remedy methods, and try and rid your body of it? What would you say to that?
Richard: First of all, I would try to get a good diagnosis, and if there's any possibility that they could get it all, I'd be glad to have surgery to remove as much of the cancer as possible. I would try to change my diet to a vegan. The China study by Colin Campbell shows that casein is favorable to cancer. I mean, it's the same as getting cancer. So I would try a vegan diet and I would go with a lot of foods raw and juicing. There are centers that do these things already. Seeds and sprouts and things of that nature are high in nutrition, and too often people are talked into having chemo or radiation or both, when in reality the hope of being cured is very low. But they do work well for three or four kinds of cancers. Acute leukemia, Hodgkin's type lymphoma, testicular cancer, and some other one, but basically, the rest is treatment to palliate or slow down. But there's really no hope of cure and I would not go to that route to burn myself just to slow the thing down. You're killing out your own self as well and wiping out your body's chances of overcoming it. I think that's my perspective. I think I would do the best I could and be right with God and trust the outcome.
David: I've heard a lot of success stories where people have gone back to a natural raw and juicing diet and certainly cleaned their whole system, and basically keep starting and resetting their whole systems that way in the raw food diet, which sounds quite logical when you think about it. Just remember too that this is not advice, this is certainly just a pointed directional thing. You should go get a second opinion and try and ask a natural health practitioner as well, I mean what other avenues they may have.
Richard: Very good, yes.
David: Absolutely. Well it really sounds like you've got a lot of information there on your website. So if people do want to find out more information, then they should go to leadingcauseofdeathprescriptiondrugs.com
Richard: That's right. Thank you very much for the time. I enjoyed talking with you.
David: That's okay. I'm really thrilled to have you on, especially about these books that you've got here as well, and that package that you said.
Richard: I know it's a big package. Not everybody goes to the website, but I can see that in the future I might be, but right now the offer is still good.
David: Yes, that is fantastic. I noticed there's a growing trend in our society to turn back towards natural remedies and certain juicing and raw foods. So it certainly sounds like you've got a lot to offer there. I really appreciate your being here Dr. Richard. It's really good.
Richard: Well thank you so much and wishing you well with your program there.
