High Blood Pressure Meds Result in Lung Cancer: Flaw in "Drugs for Health" Concept Revealed

Lung cancer rates increase in the millions of people taking commonly prescribed drugs for high blood pressure. In a study reported in The Lancet yesterday, angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs) were shown to lead to 1.11% more pulmonary cancer. These drugs are prescribed to millions as a primary method of attempting to lower blood pressure, so these drugs could be causing thousands of cases of lung cancer.

With millions of people taking these drugs and 172,570 new cases of lung cancer reported by the American Cancer Society in 2005, study results indicate that a significant number of people who would have remained disease-free will succomb to lung cancer.

Of course, makers and sellers of ARBs dispute the findings. German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim claims that the results contradict their own “internal safety data”. One must wonder, though, why they’ve kept such results quiet. One would think that they’d be promoting them loudly.

The Underlying Flaw in The “Drugs for Health” Concept

The inherent error is the use of drugs to suppress a symptom, rather than finding and dealing with the underlying problem. Modern medicine has defined blood pressure over a certain level as a disease, with the implication that it’s treatable with pharmaceutical drugs. The concept is seriously flawed. If one steps back for a moment and asks why blood pressure is high, the story looks entirely different.

If the person is overweight, then circulating blood through the extra distance—which can easily be miles more—would require increased pressure. Looked at in that way, it becomes obvious that forcing blood pressure downward is not beneficial.

Looking for obvious effects from artificially lowering blood pressure reveals that the nutrients, oxygen, and waste removal blood provides is lessened. This point alone would explain dysfunction resulting from the presumed benefit of lowering blood pressure. That doesn’t even touch on the toxic effects of the drug. Clearly, the so-called beneficial effectsmust have detrimental results.

It’s clear that modern medicine does not respect the body’s intelligence. Introducing foreign chemicals to forcibly change a biological function in an otherwise healthy person in an attempt to prevent illness is pure hubris.

People Told Not to Make Their Own Decisions About Whether to Take ARBs

This modern medical hubris is pervasive. It’s so ingrained that it’s now expected. Once entrapped in the medical system, people are converted into docile patients and presumed to have no right to self-determination…

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