© By Lena Sanchez

Are you taking Prilosec or Prevasid or Nexium or Zantac or Pepcid and expecting your stomach to get better?

Not too likely according to the drug companies own findings and they even tell you that you can only take them for seven days or you will get worse! Maybe they don't exactly say you are going to get worse but it is implied in their medical jargon filled information inserts!

These so-called stomach medications are making billions of $ for the drug industry while making you worse and even risking your life. I've been warning anyone who reads my newsletters or ezine, for the last eight or nine years and hopefully some are listening! Fact is; your doctor probably believes Nexium, Prevasid, Prilosec, Pepcid, Zantac, etc. - these proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) and H2-receptor blockers - are a "lifesaver" and you HAVE to take it because it's the only thing that makes your stomach better.

What your doctor hasn't read can put you at risk. The insert that goes with each of those meds has a sentence in it that should be adhered to but isn't. Actually the premise of being the only healing medications is absolutely wrong and you are on the road to becoming hooked on a prescription drug as well as not getting better!

These proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) reduce the production of acid by blocking the enzymes in the wall of the stomach that produces acid. These medications are prescribed for heartburn, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux), Ulcers, Hiatal hernia and other stomach problems.  For proper digestion those acids are necessary to keep your digestive tract functioning properly. PPI's and H2-receptor blockers are said to prevent ulcers but the fact is that most ulcers are bacterial caused and PPI's nor H2-receptor blockers will not touch them!

In reality, the drug side-effects actually makes those conditions treated, "worse over the long haul" while hooking you on the drug so it becomes essential to your well-being or suffer painful symptoms. You are told that you cannot get by without "whichever PPI or H2-receptor blocker". What you are not being told is if using either of those medications for more than 7 days they create what is called "rebound effect". That means that the very symptoms prescribed for, you will experience when you stop the drug! If you read the insert included with your prescribed PPI, somewhere in that paper you will find the sentence, "Do not use longer than seven days!" As the drug company knows what will happen when you take it longer but by printing it and hoping you don't read it their backside is covered should you find out you are hooked and try to sue them!!!!

Sadly, that isn't the only problem when consuming those drugs!

Independent studies in 2010 and 2011 find that PPI's also create dangerous Pneumonia and warnings were issued by the FDA to that effect, no mention of the rebound pain though.

You read that right - pneumonia caused by the most popular prescribed drugs! The drugs in question belong to two classes frequently used to treat heartburn, GERD or stomach ulcers: PPI's, which include drugs like Nexium, Prevacid and Prilosec and H2-receptor blockers, such as Pepcid and Zantac. Sadly too many of them are now over the counter giving the opinion that they are safe to take without guidance. A very serious danger in that idea!

As of February 2011, the FDA put out a warning of a severe magnesium depletion when taking these PPI's and H2-receptor blockers. Magnesium - a mineral - deficiency is nothing to sneeze at as it is linked to critical health problems, including muscle spasms (caused by calcium not being utilized when a magnesium deficiency exists), convulsions (lack of minerals interfere in the brains ability to function), and severe heart problems--congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmia, even sudden cardiac death (all because more than just magnesium insufficiency exists), to name just a few. Learn how minerals interact and affect your body for good or bad CLICK HERE!

Studies found that people on either PPI's or H2 blockers were about one-quarter more likely than non-users to develop pneumonia. In the U.S. alone, people spent $27 billion on these medications in 2005 and double that in 2009. In 2010 Millions were spent in treating medication induced pneumonia!

One theory those researches reached with those problems; "is that by curbing stomach acid, the medications allow ingested bacteria that would otherwise be killed to instead survive and thrive and getting into the lungs."  To understand how they can say that you must learn about your Internal Ecosystem!

This is the first generations - born 1955 and after - that has had to not only deal with environmental pollution in all areas of life but also our health providers prescribing life altering drugs purported to be good for us yet killing and/or maiming millions.

Then we have to live with farmlands - Warning released in 1936 - deplete of minerals and nutrients necessary to create good health adding to our lack of quality of life but also early demise. Put those dangers together with medications that drain what little minerals the body does get from foods and you have many lives lost too soon!

If you were born between 1955 and now you’re a member of the first generations to grow up with the problems brought on by environmental and medical pollution. Impacting your health as well as following generations.

* Chlorine in our drinking and bathing water causing cancers of all types. Read about the water disinfectants being used world wide!
* Fluoride in our water, toothpaste and a host of other things deteriorating our bones and mutating our genes.
* Smog and Chemicals fills all our large cities causing various kinds of respiratory problems that are killing large numbers of people daily.
* Pesticides and chemicals now in our foods instead of nutrients that has led to a very obese society that in itself causes high blood pressure and heart disease.
* Chemical fertilizers replaced natural fertilizers and have not replaced lost vitamins and minerals in our foods.
* Antibiotics shot into our beef, lamb, chicken and fish has increased a resistant strain of staph bacteria and kills thousands each year as well as causing premature puberty to boys and girls.
* Prescribe drugs that shorten our life by creating a horrific quality of life!

I only ask that you take your life seriously and don't accept Conventional Medicine as the last word in treating health issues! There are alternatives for the most common to the most serious illnesses that do not leave you with lasting side effects or shorten you life and can give you quality of life. All you have to do is find out what you need, get a back bone to stand up to your doctor and tell him/her, "This is my body and my life and I will do the best possible for me. I hope you will be a partner in it but treat me with quality medicine not side-effect filled chemical drugs!"