With all negative news concerning Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAID's)
and the Cox 2 inhibitors Vioxx, Celebrex and Naproxin, it is notable that all
the
experts - doctors and pharmacists - have failed to mention one salient fact.
All of these drugs, including the oldest pain killer
Asprin, deplete the body of the B vitamin
Folic acid.
Folic acid is one of the most common vitamin deficiencies and it is vital in
metabolizing homocysteine, a toxic amino acid that is recognized as one of the
most critical independent risk factors to cardiovascular disease. Homocysteine,
directly damages the vascular system thereby starting a disease process that
leads to atherosclerosis and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Why doctors and pharmacists don't know this or, if they do know it, fail to
mention this fact to patients is a sad commentary on the state of nutritional
education in the medical and pharmacy faculties of our universities and
negligent failure on the part of regulatory authorities who approved the pain
killers in the first place.
Croft Woodruff
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