RFK Jr., Is the rise in pharmaceuticals the key to health or an indication of disease?

 IS IT TIME THAT SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS BE ASKED?

CAN WE DO BETTER?

The fear mongering concerning Robert Kennedy Jr . is most likely going to doom his nomination as "Secretary of health", or should it be "Secretary of Drug Therapy"

The prevalence of maintenance drugs that are administered to Americans is an indication of unhealth or chronic disease among the American population. It seems that most everyone over the age of 50, and many below that age, are taking numerous drugs on a daily basis. Maintenance drugs, the ones you will be taking for the rest of your life, are the bread and butter of the Pharmaceutical industry.

The U.S. healthcare industry, from the medical schools, funded by the drug business,  on up or down is centered on drug therapy, there is a drug for any possible ailment and it is the first choice encouraged by most of the healthcare industry, that is where the money is, not in preventive lifestyle choice or diet. 

Of course drugs have their place, antibiotics were a game changer in the preservation of life, infection at one time was the biggest cause of death, often from minor injuries, the end of lives of accident victims would  be enormous without the availability of antibiotics.

Everyone accepts that vaccines have been important in avoiding certain diseases. Vaccines at one time were always the administering of a dead or weakened virus that triggers  a response to the human immune system. There has always been some controversy about vaccines, they are not all the same, 

Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first Polio vaccine criticized the introduction of the Sabin vaccine because unlike his vaccine which used a dead virus, Sabin's, sugar cube vaccine,  used a weakened live virus. This had a risk of causing contagion or mild polio symptoms. Salk was not labeled an anti-vaxer.

Now we see labels of drugs as vaccines that do not insure non infection, they are not vaccines if they do not insure non infection.

There is evidence that very young infants should not be overloaded with numerous vaccines before they have the time to build a proper immune response. Sooner may not be better than later. Of course, the industry works on risk percentages and if the percentage is low, discount it, unless you or your child is part of that low percentage. Should parents be able to determine if certain vaccines do not have a credible risk/reward.  Some childhood disease did not have long term risks worse than the vaccine. Life threatening disease should be the priority. 

There is conclusive evidence that the population is experiencing a massive explosion of chronic disease at an earlier age than in the past. Diabetes, heart disease and other disease associated with old age are now common in young people, Drugs may mask the symptoms and extend life for some, but it is not the answer to overall health. 

Are the standards of normal for high blood pressure and diabetes continually being lowered in an effort to prescribe more maintenance drugs now a common practice?

We must realize that many would rather continue in their habits and just take a pill, but the younger generation should be given the information and opportunity to engage in habits that will help in maintaining life long health.

Does anyone ask why so many women today are unable to conceive without extradentary expensive intervention with In vitro therapy? Have the real risks of long term use of the birth control pill really exposed the risks of stroke, cancer and infertility? Is social expediency a priority over long term health?

While RFK Jr. has raised many of these questions and has been labeled and criticized for them, one must ask, Can we do better? While the habits of Americans may take years to change, Just taking a pill is not the answer to a healthy life.