@62milestogojoe Jeffrey Levy M.D. - "Corticosteroids (cortisone-type anti-inflammatory drugs) are the most abused and dangerous class of drugs.
Not only do they not cure the underlying cause of the problem, they usually make the underlying problem, that is, the real problem, worse."
Supplying hormones exogenously just sends a false message to the body.
Dr. Joseph Mercola - "...the treatment of a patient with prednisone at 60 mg per day for about three months can
actually cause AIDS. This treatment and doses often given to patients suffering from lung fibrosis, thrombocytopenia, or other chemically induced chronic illnesses." "...AIDS is caused by the heavy use of corticosteroids and/or cytotoxic drugs to treat many health problems. Fauci described in detail the effect of corticosteroids on the immune system. These effects resemble the immune abnormalities that are found in patients suffering from AIDS or Idiopathic CD4 T cells lymphocytopnea (ICL) which are also described by Fauci et al"
"Far from being a wonder drug 'cure all', steroids cannot cure one single condition. All they do is suppress your body's ability to express a normal response. In a few instances, this type of suppression will give the body a chance to heal itself. But more often, the effect is immediate, devastating and permanent damage. And we are only now realizing just how quickly damage can occur. Despite what doctors say, that steroids only have side effects after many years of use, there is no such thing as a safe dose.
Studies show that steroids cause permanent, debilitating effects after a single dosage.
Steriods cause Long-term damage: quick and dirty
Steroids don't take years to damage your system, as doctors maintain. Permanent, crippling damage can occur weeks after you've begun treatment such as:
- Osteoporosis can occur within a matter of months. Steroids cause 8 per cent reduction in bone mass after four months (Ann Int Med, November 15, 1993), the equivalent of the effect on your bones of having your ovaries removed. Even low doses of inhaled steroids (400 micrograms per day) reduce bone formation (The Lancet, July 6, 1991).
- Low doses (10-15 mg prednisone) for a year can cause cataracts (Surv Ophthalmol, 1986; 31: 260-2).
- Topical steroids may begin to cause eye damage or raise pressure after two weeks. Extensive visual loss can be caused by a 1 per cent hydrocortisone ointment, which is available OTC (BMJ, August 20-27, 1994).
- Rub-on steroids have caused Cushing's syndrome in children as soon as a month after treatment has begun (Arch Dis Child, 1982; 57: 204-7).
- Inhaled steroids slowth growth in children after six weeks (Acta Ped, 1993; 82: 636-40. See also, The Lancet, December 14, 1991).
- Dr. Al-Bayati - "High doses of corticosteroids and other immunosuppressive agents cause AIDS" Generalized immune suppression can occur, particularly at higher corticosteroid doses or with frequent administration of corticosteroids.
Side effects that may be caused by the long-term use of steroids include cataracts, muscle weakness,
avascular necrosis of bone and osteoporosis. (Necrosis means death.)
Steroids reduce calcium absorption through the gastrointestinal tract which may result in osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones. Osteoporosis can lead to bone fractures, especially compression fractures of the vertebrae, causing severe back pain.
Steroid diabetes (also "steroid-induced diabetes") is a medical term referring to prolonged hyperglycemia due to glucocorticoid therapy for another medical condition.
There is also a relationship between steroids and premature arteriosclerosis, which is a narrowing of the blood vessels by fat (cholesterol) deposits. Corticosteroids cause hypercholesterolemia.
Corticosteroids can be associated with a variety of effects on the brain including hippocampal atrophy and even neuronal death, mood changes, and declarative memory impairment. Psychological side effects of steroids include irritability, agitation, euphoria or depression. Insomnia can also be a side effect. Corticosteroid induced psychoses are reported.
A COMMON OCCURRENCE AND RAPID ONSET
The following review of the topic of the
neurpsychiatric sequelae of steroid treatment is based on a review of the PubMed database. Over 80 scientific articles on this topic were found and they encompass approximately the last 30 years of published research. In reviewing these articles, several conclusions can be made. First, the neuropsychiatric complications of steroid treatment are quite common. Second, the specific types of neuropsychiatric impairments comprise a range of symptoms from anxiety, irritability and impaired cognition to depression, mania, psychosis, and suicidality. Third, although the available literature fails to reveal a uniform approach to the treatment of these specific side effects, it is clear that these symptoms are common enough and potentially very severe so as to warrant aggressive and early intervention by psychiatric consultants. A number of publications on this topic appear to support symptoms of mania as being the most common psychiatric manifestation of steroid treatment8, 12, 20, 21.
University of Michigan researchers would like people to be aware of a new link they found between
serious conditions and short-term steroid use:
Short-term use of steroids like prednisone has been linked to significantly higher rates of sepsis, venous thromboembolism (VTE) and fractures, according to University of Michigan experts. New findings indicate that people taking oral steroids for short-term relief are more likely to develop a potentially dangerous blood clot, develop sepsis in the months after treatment, and even break a bone compared to adults in similar circumstances who were not given the steroids... The research from the highly respected University of Michigan was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The study involved examining data from 1.5 million adults with private insurance. None of the adults included in the study were elderly adults.
The most common cause of secondary adrenal insufficiency is prolonged administration of steroids to treat medical conditions such as severe asthma or kidney, joint or skin problems. This is also called iatrogenic adrenal insufficiency.
By far, the most common cause of adrenal cortical insufficiency is pharmacotherapy with synthetic glucocorticoids (0.5 to 2% of the population) (
5).
A common mistake often seen in patients trying to improve the function of their hormones, whether it be thyroid hormones, sex hormones, adrenal hormones, or the grandmother of many steroid hormones - pregeneolone;
is to go directly to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) before they give the body a chance to restore optimal hormone health on its own.
That can have dangerous consequences. At the very least, it will certainly not solve problems caused by nutrient deficiencies and the damage from deficiencies will continue to increase without the appropriate vital nutrients. Hormones are not nutrients, they are only/just messengers. Supplying hormones exogenously just sends a false message to the body. These false messages interfere with negative feedback loops such as often encountered with the use of corticosteroids resulting in adrenal insufficiency, atrophy and failure, a common iatrogenic problem with fatal consequence. (Pregnenolone is involved in a natural negative feedback loop against
CB1 receptor.) -abstracted from the writings of by Dr Joseph J Collins RN, ND who specializes in hormones.
Although doctors...prescribe steroids unnecessarily....doctors reveal the treatments they would personally avoid:
Doctors treat a wide range of conditions, but often we don't quite understand the therapies that we're offering, and why or how they work. Twelve years ago, I had
colitis. One of the treatments is steroids but, as a doctor, I knew that steroids are one of those treatments we apply to many illnesses without really knowing why they work. We know they're an anti-inflammatory, but all you're doing is masking the problem, and there can be side‑effects in the long term: steroids can make your skin more fragile, they can affect your connective tissue, they can...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jan/19/what-doctors-wont-do
Steroids, even in low doses, can kill or maim.
The hell that corticosteroids will put you through could easily make you want to die. And corticosteroids may eventually kill you, directly or indirectly through lowered immunity to infections and diseases, or the body damaging and miserable side effects.
Google "corticosteroid induced" to start your research. Also google "complications of corticosteroids." And "iatrogenic secondary adrenal insufficiency."
Complications of corticosteroid therapy.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/356588
The complications of corticosteroid therapy in children are protean. Perhaps the most important of these are adrenal insufficiency after withdrawal of steroids ...
A very short dose of corticosteroids might be used as a lifesaving measure, but it is not the cure to the problem and continued use has devastating consequences.
Most doctors have little to no training in nutrition. Yet it is through food and drink that we survive and repair our bodies.
With regard to the use of chemotherapy see:
https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/how-effective-is-chemotherapy/
http://www.burtongoldberg.com/home/...therapy-to-five-year-survival-rate-morgan.pdf
“The Contribution of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival in Adult Malignancies”.
Researchers at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Northern Sydney Cancer Centre studied the 5-year survival rates of chemotherapy on 22 types of cancers in the US and Australia.
They studied 154,971 Americans and Australians with cancer, age 20 and older, that were treated with conventional treatments, including chemotherapy.
Only 3,306 had survival that could be credited to chemotherapy.
Study Results:
“The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1 % in The USA.”
