{"id":251643,"date":"2024-01-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251643"},"modified":"2023-12-31T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T05:59:21","slug":"drug-induced-dementia-is-not-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/drug-induced-dementia-is-not-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe desire to take medicine is perhaps\u00a0 the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.\u201d<\/em>
\n \u2013<\/em>\u2013 Sir William Osler<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMore than 50 conditions can cause or mimic the symptoms of dementia.\u201d and \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s (can only be) distinguished from other dementias at autopsy.\u201d \u2014 from a Harvard University Health Publication entitled What\u2019s Causing Your Memory Loss? It Isn\u2019t Necessarily Alzheimer\u2019s<\/p>\n

\u201cMedications have now emerged as a major cause of mitochondrial damage, which may explain many adverse effects. All classes of psychotropic drugs have been documented to damage mitochondria, as have statin medications, analgesics such as acetaminophen, and many others\u2026Damage to mitochondria is now understood to play a role in the pathogenesis of a wide range of seemingly unrelated disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disease, dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, epilepsy, migraine headaches, strokes, neuropathic pain, Parkinson\u2019s disease, ataxia, transient ischemic attack, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, retinitis pigmentosa, diabetes, hepatitis C, and primary biliary cirrhosis. Medications have now emerged as a major cause of mitochondrial damage, which may explain many adverse effects\u201d \u2014\u00a0 Neustadt and<\/a>\u00a0 Pieczenik<\/a>\u00a0 authors of Medication-induced Mitochondrial Damage and Disease<\/p>\n

\u201cEstablishing mitochondrial toxicity is not an FDA requirement for drug approval, so there is no real way of knowing which agents are truly toxic.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Dr. Katherine Sims, Mass General Hospital \u2013 http:\/\/www.mitoaction.org<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!\u201d \u2013 Upton Sinclair, anti-fascist, anti-imperialist American author who wrote in the early 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo vaccine manufacturer shall be liable\u2026for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 President Ronald Reagan, as he signed The\u00a0National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act\u00a0(NCVIA) of 1986, absolving drug companies from all medico-legal liability when children die or are disabled from vaccine injuries.<\/p>\n

Over the past several decades there have been a number of well-financed campaigns, promoted by well-meaning laypersons, to raise public awareness to the plight of patients with dementia. Suspiciously, most of these campaigns come from \u201cpatient support\u201d groups lead the public to believe that every dementia patient has Alzheimer\u2019s dementia (AD).<\/p>\n

Not so curiously, it turns out that many \u2013 perhaps all \u2013 of these campaigns have been funded \u2013 usually secretly \u2013 by the very pharmaceutical companies that benefit economically by indirectly promoting the sale of so-called Alzheimer\u2019s drugs.<\/p>\n

Such corporate-generated public relations \u201ccampaigns\u201d are standard operating procedure for all of Big Pharma\u2019s drugs, especially its psycho-pharmaceutical drugs. Big Pharma has found that the promotion and de-stigmatization of so-called \u201cmental illnesses of unknown etiology\u201d is a great tool for marketing their drugs.<\/p>\n

(http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/blog\/item\/health-advocacy-groups-take-drug-company-cashoften-without-full-disclosures<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Recently Alzheimer\u2019s support groups all around the nation have been marketing a documentary about country singer Glen Campbell who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease (of unknown etiology) despite the obvious fact that Campbell was infamous for his chronic heavy use of brain-damaging, dementia-inducing, addictive, and very neurotoxic drugs like cocaine and alcohol. And, just like so many other hard-living celebrities like the (now cured) dementia victim Kris Kristofferson and the suicidal and early dementia victim Robin Williams. All three celebrities were known to have received prescriptions for legal neurotoxic brain-altering drugs, adding to the burdens that their failing brains, livers and psyches had to endure. It is highly likely that all three of them were also on statins and were up-to-date on their mercury and aluminum-containing vaccinations.<\/p>\n

It is an established fact that Alzheimer\u2019s disease can only be definitively diagnosed at a post-mortem examination of the cerebral cortex, something that dementia patients are almost never subjected to. Because of the rarity of coroners doing autopsies on dementia patients, we have to question the accuracy of the diagnoses of, for example, the still living Glen Campbell, Kris Kristofferson and our own memory-impaired spouses, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas, especially since so many of them have been on neurotoxic substances such as those mentioned in this article.<\/p>\n

And we also have to question the motivations of the Big Pharma corporations that financially underwrite patient support groups like the Alzheimer\u2019s Association. AND, equally importantly, given the total lack of recognition of the reality of drug-induced dementia, we have to question to oft-cited assertion that 2\/3 of all dementia cases are because of Alzheimer\u2019s disease (of unknown cause).<\/p>\n

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Are the Alzheimer\u2019s, Autism and Autoimmune Epidemics Actually Iatrogenic, Drug-Induced Epidemics?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Synchronous with the recent large increases in 1) childhood and adult neurotoxic aluminum-adjuvanted vaccinations, 2) the use of neurotoxic psychotropic drugs, 3) the use of statin drugs (cholesterol-lowering drugs)\u00a0 known to cause memory-impairment, and 4) the\u00a0 ingestion of a variety of neurotoxic food additives, there has been a large parallel increase in A) the incidence of chronic autoimmune disorders, especially in childhood, B)the incidence of autistic spectrum disorders, C) \u201cmental illnesses of unknown origin\u201d and D) dementia.<\/p>\n

For more go to: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/david-kirby\/new-study\u2014mitochondrial_b_147030.html<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each of those 4 root causes and the 4 neurological disorders that are closely correlated with them are admittedly multifactorial realities. But the important lesson is that they are also preventable. However, due to clever marketing by Big Pharma and the studied ignorance of Big Medicine and the refusal of Big Media to allow scholars to talk about the connections, \u201cwalks for the cure\u201d and drug treatment is what is emphasized rather that prevention.<\/p>\n

So what we need to ask \u2013 and then demand \u2013 is an honest answer to the question \u201ccould there be a connection between America\u2019s increasingly common over-prescribing of immunotoxic, neurotoxic, synthetic prescription drugs and the equally over-prescribed immunotoxic and neurotoxic vaccines (that often contain either of the heavy metals aluminum and mercury) and some of the neurodegenerative disorders that supposedly \u201chave no known cause\u201d? Could the disabling American epidemic of autoimmune disorders, psychiatric disorders, autism spectrum disorders, etc (all supposedly of unknown origin) be found to have recognizable iatrogenic root causes and therefore be preventable? Psychiatrist and scholar Grace E. Jackson has the answers in her seminal (and black-listed) book<\/p>\n

\u201cDrug-Induced Dementia: A Perfect Crime\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are extremely important issues, especially in the case of the dementia epidemic, because the Alzheimer\u2019s patient support groups seem to be unaware of the fact that many psychiatric drugs are known to irreversibly damage brain cells (partly by poisoning their mitochondria, the microscopic hearts and lungs of every cell) and therefore would be expected to cause a variety of other neurological and mental health disorders. (See more info on drugs and mitochondria below.<\/p>\n

One of the big problems in America\u2019s corporate-controlled culture, corporate-controlled government, corporate-controlled medical industries and corporate-controlled media is that the giant multinational (especially Big Pharma) corporations are in the business of developing and marketing known mitochondrial toxins with no oversight from regulatory agencies. These businesses obscure the fact that there ARE known causes for the disorders and that they are preventable. The unproven claims expressed in the TV commercials and medical journals advertising the newest drug-of-the-month are often later exposed as plain snake oil propaganda.<\/p>\n

It should be a concern for everyone that some Alzheimer\u2019s support groups are actually front groups for the pharmaceutical industry that profit handsomely from the handful of virtually useless drugs such as Aricept, Exelon, Namenda, Hexalon, and Razadyne.<\/p>\n

Prescription Drug-Induced and Vaccine-Induced Mitochondrial Disorders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acquired mitochondrial disorders (as opposed to the rare primary mitochondrial disorders like muscular dystrophy) can be caused by commonly prescribed drugs. They are difficult to diagnose and are generally poorly understood by most healthcare practitioners. When I went to medical school, none of my professors knew anything about the lethal effects that many synthetic drugs and vaccines do to the mitochondria of average brain or body cells. The science of the mitochondria was in its infancy.<\/p>\n

A lot of mitochondrial research has been done since then, especially starting in the 1990s,and that research has proven the connections between a variety of commonly prescribed medications and mitochondrial disorders. That evidence seems to have been cunningly covered-up by the for-profit pharma groups whose drug are the culprits. Big Pharma has tremendous control\u00a0 over the medical education of most health care providers, and they spoon-feed pro-drug and pro-vaccine propaganda to undiscerning \u201chealthcare\u201d journalists, which is where many physicians and patients get their health information.<\/p>\n

An Honest Patient Guide for Dementia Patients (from Harvard)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised recently to find a reasonably honest guide for dementia patients on a Harvard University website.<\/p>\n

The entire guide can be accessed HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

The information at that site stated that there were over 50 conditions that could cause or mimic early dementia symptoms. What medical practitioner in our double-booked clinic environment has the time to thoroughly rule out the 50 root causes of dementia symptoms when confronted with a patient with memory loss? It\u2019s simpler to just diagnose every case of dementia as another case of Alzheimers! Who will ever dispute such an authoritative-sounding diagnosis? Certainly not those who want to keep dementia from being recognized as a potentially iatrogenic disorder (doctor or treatment-caused disorder).<\/p>\n

I have often said to my patients and seminar participants: \u201cit takes only 2 minutes to write a prescription, but it takes 20 minutes to not write a prescription\u201d. In the current for-profit clinic culture, time is money and very few physicians are ever given the \u201cluxury\u201d of spending sufficient time listening carefully to their patients. (In defense of the physicians that I know, they are not happy about these realities but feel powerless to do anything about it.)<\/p>\n

It is so tempting for us physicians to use the popularized, but rather squishy label of Alzheimer\u2019s dementia rather than to educate ourselves about the possibility of drug-induced, vaccine-induced or malnutrition-related dementia. But what is so important is that many of the 50+ conditions are preventable or reversible, which will be therapeutic only if the real root causes are identified before permanent brain damage occurs. Just one example was the subject of the book \u201cLipitor: Thief of Memory\u201d written by former astronaut and flight surgeon Duane Graveline, M.D., M.P.H<\/p>\n

(for more information go to https:\/\/www.spacedoc.com\/articles\/lipitor-thief-of-memory<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The Harvard guide actually said that \u201cmedications are common culprits in mental decline. With aging, the liver becomes less efficient at metabolizing drugs, and the kidneys eliminate them from the body more slowly. As a result, drugs tend to accumulate in the body. Elderly people in poor health and those taking several different medications are especially vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guide continued with a list of the possible classes of prescription drugs that number in the hundreds:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe list of drugs that can cause dementia-like symptoms is long. It includes antidepressants, antihistamines, anti-Parkinson drugs, anti-anxiety medications, cardiovascular drugs, anticonvulsants, corticosteroids, narcotics, sedatives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Harvard guide went on to emphasize that Alzheimer\u2019s can only be accurately diagnosed on a post-mortem examination. The guide states that \u201cAlzheimer\u2019s is distinguished from other dementias at autopsy by the presence of sticky beta-amyloid plaques outside brain cells (neurons) and fibrillary tangles within neurons (all indicative of cellular death). Although such lesions may be present in any aging brain, in people with Alzheimer\u2019s these lesions tend to be more numerous and accumulate in areas of the brain involved in learning and memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leading theory is that the damage to the brain results from inflammation and other biological changes that cause synaptic loss and malfunction, disrupting communication between brain cells. Eventually the brain cells die, causing tissue loss and cell carcasses or scars.\u00a0 In imaging scans, brain shrinkage is usually first noticeable in the hippocampus, which plays a central role in memory function.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The FDA Does Not Require Big Pharma to Test its New Drugs or Vaccines for Mitochondrial Toxicity<\/strong><\/p>\n

But even the Harvard guide inexplicably fails to mention known mitochondrial toxins such as statins, metformin, Depakote, general anesthetics, fluoroquinolone antibiotics (like Cipro), fluorinated psychotropic drugs (like many of the SSRIs and the so-called antipsychotics).<\/p>\n

And Big Food corporations are guilty of feeding us neurotoxins also.<\/p>\n

For example, when the ubiquitous synthetic food, soft drink and chewing gum sweetener NutraSweet (aspartame) reaches 86 degrees (whether in our 98.6 degree bodies or in some MidEast desert (as was true for many American soldiers who developed Gulf War Syndrome) every molecule releases a molecule of the excitotoxic amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid and one molecule of the cellular toxin methanol (wood alcohol). Methanol then rapidly metabolizes into the known mitochondrial poison formaldehyde (embalming fluid), which is a serious cellular and mitochondrial toxin.<\/p>\n

The chlorinated artificial sweetener Splenda, which was initially developed as a neurotoxic pesticide, is in an uncountable variety of foods as well.<\/p>\n

These examples are only some of the synthetic chemicals in medicines, vaccines and processed foods that are capable of causing mitochondrial damage in brain and body cells \u2013 with memory loss, confusion and cognitive dysfunction, all early symptoms of dementia.<\/p>\n

It is a tragedy for reversible and preventable drug- or vaccine-induced dementias (or any of the many neurodegenerative disorders) to be mis-diagnosed as Alzheimer\u2019s disease (or neurological disorder) \u201cof unknown cause\u201d because if the root causes are not recognized preventive care will not be offered. And then, what may be worse, those patients might be placed on costly, potentially toxic and often useless medications that have not been tested for their own potential mitochondrial toxicities. (Tragically, the American pharmaceutical industry is not required by the FDA to test its drugs for mitochondrial toxicity, thus leaving physicians and their drug-consuming patients in the dark as far as safety of those medications is concerned.)<\/p>\n

There is much more in the basic neuroscience literature proving the connections between drugs and vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders. Those basic neuroscience researchers that do not have conflicts of interest with Big Pharma and Big Medicine should be listened to. Those authors with monetary or professional conflicts of interest should be regarded with suspicion.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect Big Pharma to respond to such unwelcome revelations as mentioned above. Don\u2019t expect Big Medicine to acknowledge the existence of iatrogenic illnesses or to offer apologies.<\/p>\n

Do, however, expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistle-blowers rather than honest mea culpas.<\/p>\n

So it must be up to the consumers of potentially toxic substances to do the research themselves, for those substances may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons that are presented to it).<\/p>\n

Professor of Medicine Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: \u201cIf all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish, but good for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enough said.<\/p>\n

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Originally Posted on 19 Sep 2016<\/a><\/em> – TMS<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Gary G. Kohls is<\/em> a member of America\u2019s Frontline Doctors, a retired rural family physician from Duluth, MN, USA and a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/a>. Since his retirement in 2008, Dr Kohls has written a weekly column for the <\/em>Reader Weekly, Duluth\u2019s alternative newsweekly magazine. His column, titled <\/em>Duty to Warn, has been re-published and archived at websites around the world.\u00a0 He practiced holistic mental health care in Duluth for the last decade of his family practice career, primarily helping psychiatric patients who had become addicted to their cocktails of dangerous, addictive psychiatric drugs to safely go through the complex withdrawal process. His <\/em>Duty to Warn columns often deal with various unappreciated health issues, including those caused by Big Pharma\u2019s over-drugging, Big Vaccine\u2019s over-vaccinating, Big Medicine\u2019s over-prescribing, over-screening, over-diagnosing and over-treating agendas and Big Food\u2019s malnourishing and sickness-promoting food industry. Those four powerful, profit-seeking entities combine to seriously affect the physical, mental, spiritual and economic health of the recipients of the prescription drugs, medical treatments, toxic vaccines and the consumers of the tasty, ubiquitous and disease-producing \u201cFrankenFoods\u201d \u2013 particularly when they are consumed in combinations, doses and potencies that have never been tested for safety or long-term effectiveness. Dr Kohls\u2019 <\/em>Duty to Warn columns are archived at, among many other websites:<\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/author\/?a=Gary%20G.%20Kohls,%20MD<\/em><\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/duluthreader.com\/search?search_term=Duty+to+Warn&p=2<\/em><\/a>; <\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/gary-g-kohls<\/em><\/a>; <\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/freepress.org\/geographic-scope\/national<\/em><\/a>; and<\/em>
\nhttps:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/gary-g-kohls\/<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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