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one of the biggest...

I call it a big fat lie

because that's what

the cholesterol lie is.

The sickest people I've ever

seen in my 32 years of practice

were people whose

cholesterol was too low.

Without enough cholesterol

in your system,

your immune system

can't work properly.

All the long-term data

on the statins show

that you will die sooner

if your cholesterol is lower,

particularly if you're over 55,

if you're female or male.

There is no benefit

to the drugs.

I'm not saying that

there aren't some individuals

who should monitor

their cholesterol

because of the risk factor,

correct.

There are other means

of lowering cholesterol,

besides taking the toxic drugs

that the statins are.

This is a very ingenious

marketing plan.

What is one

of the major side effects

of cholesterol-lowering drugs?

Do you happen to know?

Impotence.

Impotence is one of the things

that's complained about

most frequently for men

that are on cholesterol drugs.

Well, guess what the same

manufacturer's 2-selling drug

is that makes Lipitor?

Viagra.

Viagra! Hey! Now we've got

a patient population

that we can sell

our next drug to.

Every time

I take something,

I always feel weird,

and then

somebody will say,

a doctor will say,

"Well, for the weirdness

you're feeling

by taking something,

take something else."

And the next thing you know,

I'm taking nine things.

Okay. Okay,

you're going to wind up

like Anna Nicole Smith.

Like, there was a point in time

when I had my hip surgery.

I just got so conditioned

to, like, taking a pill,

that when the next thing came

up, like, oh, these painkillers

are causing me anxiety,

so then I need the Xanax,

and I can't sleep,

so you need the Ambien.

Right.

And you can't focus,

so you need the Adderall,

and then, like, I was...

I had like probably

ten prescription bottles

you know, in my cabinet.

That's causing this problem,

so take this, and that's causing

this problem, so take this,

and then before you know it,

you do have ten prescription

bottles on your...

Because of one problem.

Why take it if you don't

need it, you know?

A lot of people

have this misconception

that the pharmaceutical

industry is altruistic,

and they're philanthropists

and that they're looking

to heal the world.

There couldn't be anything

further from the truth.

The pharmaceutical industry is...

Their vested interest is in

making their stockholders money

because the pharmaceutical

industry isn't in the business

of health and healing.

It's in the business

of disease management

and symptoms maintenance.

Big Pharma has a economic

incentive to classify things,

so that they can create pills

for them, right?

Do you know what

restless leg syndrome was?

I didn't.

Neither did I.

Uh, I'm so sorry!

Oh! Oh!

Oh!

It's my restless leg syndrome!

You know, they're sitting there

because they drank

six cups of coffee today,

and they've got

all these refined

carbohydrates

and sugars running through

their body, and they're

looking down and going,

"Yeah, that's what I've got,

restless leg syndrome.

Let me go get a prescription

for that."

And I mean,

there the indoctrination

goes right in.

75% of the time,

statistics say that if they go

in and request a drug,

the doctor will give it to them

because the doctor

considers it his business,

and they're his customer.

That's the problem

with the advertising,

the Big Pharma

advertising campaign.

What they tell you is,

"Whatever your symptom is,

we've got a pill

for it." Okay?

But that's not the way

the world works, okay?

You actually have to be a human

being and feel your feelings.

If your brother dies, okay,

you can expect to feel sad.

Feeling your feelings is hard,

but lucky for us,

Big Pharma has a solution:

psych meds.

Finally, we have the perfect

pill that promises

to take away

all of our bad feelings

and replace them with sunshine

and little happy trees.

With all these scenes of trees

and green grass

and convertible cars

and pillow clouds in the sky,

if life is like that when

you're on the purple pill,

give me some purple pills!

In 2001, the first Zoloft ads

hit the airwaves,

and we finally discovered

that we were suffering

from depression.

America had a sickness,

and depression was its name.

Suddenly the market was flooded

with a tsunami

of new psych meds.

Now one in every ten Americans

are on antidepressants,

including our dogs.

- - Doggie Prozac,

a beef-flavored version

of the well-known human

antidepressant.

- This little guy?

- This is Radar.

He belongs to

a friend of mine, Ryan,

who goes to my brother's gym.

Radar's been feeling

a little down lately,

so Ryan took him to the doctor.

So, we talked to the vet,

and she finally...

She prescribed him Prozac.

It's like a doggie-specific

Prozac.

It's little

8-milligram tablets

that come, like, flavored

and smell like a treat.

Have you ever taken

any prescription drugs?

Uh, I was on Zoloft

for three months,

about six years ago

at this point.

And why did you quit taking it?

I just hated it.

It turned me into a zombie.

And you don't fear that

for your dog?

I mean, I do.

Like, this is kind of...

Like, I was on Prozac

for three months.

I f***ing hated it,

but I'm gonna give

the same sh*t to him.

Yeah, I mean,

that's a good point.

There's been a huge change

in the nature

of how people think of

as being illnesses.

Doctor and author David Healy

is one of the most outspoken

critics of antidepressants,

especially SSRls.

Every disease can be oversold.

One of the ones

being oversold at the moment,

even though it's a real illness,

is bipolar disorder.

It's a rare condition.

It's become,

in the last 10 or 15 years,

5,000 times more common

than it was before.

Ever since they were introduced

first in the late 1950s,

it's been recognized back then

that antidepressants

don't suit all people.

If you're on an antidepressant

that doesn't suit you,

it can make you suicidal,

and it can also

make you homicidal.

This can happen to you,

even if you're a healthy

volunteer

taking these pills.

It's not something

linked to the illness.

It's a thing caused by the pill

and the fact that the pill

is the wrong pill for you.

When drugs worked

for tuberculosis,

tuberculosis vanished.

When drugs supposedly

worked for depression,

or bipolar disorder these days,

the illness doesn't vanish.

It gets incredibly more common.

Where the right kind of

treatment can help save a life

and save a career

and save a marriage,

all too often it's a condition

that doesn't need treatment

and where treatment can

cause you to lose your life

and lose your marriage

and lose your career.

That's a

billion-dollar industry.

Exactly, and they're not

going to give it up easily

because there is no medical

scientific evidence required

to diagnose someone

to take a psychiatric drug,

so it is the most lucrative,

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