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From: HSI - Jenny Thompson <h...@subscribermails.com>
Reply-To: hsiresea...@agora-inc.com
To: <goldenok...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Private Parts
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:14:00 -0500
Private Parts
Health Sciences Institute e-Alert
March 10, 2004
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Dear Reader,
Here's how you know when a drug's side effects are
completely out of control: When the federal government
requires you to place your name and personal details about
your sex life in a national registry in order to purchase
the drug.
Sound extreme? It is. But this is the plan that an FDA
advisory panel has come up with in an effort to reduce birth
defects caused by Accutane, the prescription medicine
designed to treat severe acne. As for other Accutane side
effects (mostly associated with emotional instability),
well, with those you're on your own.
But for anyone, young or old, who copes with the discomfort
and embarrassment of serious acne, the need for a drug and
all its side effects might be made completely unnecessary
with a simple change in diet.
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Someone to watch over you
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In the e-Alert "Dying of Embarrassment" (1/15/02), I first
told you about the problems associated with Accutane use.
Here are some of the highlights... or rather lowlights:
* According to the FDA, between 1998 and 2000 Accutane was
linked with at least 160 cases of suicide, attempted
suicide, suicidal thoughts, and hospitalization - more than
50 cases a year.
* Other side effects (listed on the web site of Roche,
Accutane's manufacturer) include depression, psychosis,
acute pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel disease and vision
and hearing impairment.
* In 1990, the FDA estimated that since the drug's
introduction in 1982, there had been 11,000 to 13,000
Accutane-related abortions, and 900 to 1,100 Accutane-
related birth defects.
All of these side effects are troubling, and the suicides
are particularly alarming. But last week's recommendations
from the FDA advisory panel specifically address the tragic
tendency of Accutane to cause severe birth defects when used
by pregnant women.
In 2001, Roche began a program to help prevent birth defects
associated with the drug. Under this program, all females
who take Accutane are encouraged to use two forms of birth
control and take regular pregnancy tests. Even though these
guidelines make it very clear that Accutane users who become
pregnant are putting their unborn children in grave danger,
the rate of birth defects stayed about the same. In
response, the FDA panel recommended that the guidelines
become mandatory, and that a registry be established to list
every Accutane user (male or female), along with a record of
pregnancy tests and birth control use.
If the FDA decides to accept the panel's recommendations,
Big Brother will be looking over the shoulders - and in the
bedrooms - of all Accutane users.
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Three strikes
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To say the least, the FDA is a very aggressive regulatory
agency. But this plan for a registry that will record
details about a patient's sexual life is an extreme invasion
of privacy, even by FDA standards. Furthermore, it's not
even necessary because it simply won't work. Here are three
reasons why:
1) The program to prevent pregnancy among Accutane users is
already in place. If users don't follow the current program,
they're not likely to follow it when it's mandatory, unless
each female user is escorted everywhere she goes by an FDA
Accutane policeman.
2) The regulations can't possibly be monitored and enforced.
During a time of budget cutbacks throughout government
agencies, is the FDA really going to mount an Accutane Task
Force to make sure all the pregnancy tests have been
submitted and everyone is taking their birth control? And if
not, what's the alternative? Will they start arresting
Accutane users when they become pregnant?
3) If you go to the Internet and search "Accutane"
and "without a prescription," you'll get scores of
responses - site after site after site - offering Accutane
with no questions asked. Needless to say, these sites don't
require pregnancy tests or any assurances about birth
control.
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Potato pushaway
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According to a dermatologist who's also a member of the FDA
advisory panel, one of the problems with Accutane is that
it's over-prescribed. The drug is intended to address only
very severe cases of acne that create large cysts.
Inevitably, however, many doctors prescribe the drug for
relatively normal acne cases.
This is a shame, because for people who don't have extremely
aggressive acne, a change in diet will often help clear
things up.
In a 2002 article published in the Archives of Dermatology,
researchers at Colorado State University wrote that acne is
a problem for as much as 95% of adolescents, and half of the
men and women over age 25 in westernized societies, while
the rates are much lower in non-westernized countries. In
fact, they call the difference in the rates "astonishing."
For many years, alternate medicine practitioners and
nutritionists like Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., and Adelle
Davis have known that wheat intake can prompt acne
outbreaks. And recent studies confirm that acne thrives when
the diet is rich in high glycemic foods. Here's the
suspected chain of events: Bread, cereal or potatoes are
consumed, digestion increases glucose levels, insulin
production rises and triggers hormones to secrete sebum in
pores of the skin, and the sebum attracts acne-promoting
bacteria.
According to many dermatologists, a wide body of anecdotal
evidence supports the theory that a low-carbohydrate diet
may be the best first defense against acne for patients of
all ages. If you know a young friend or family member who
suffers from this painful and often embarrassing problem,
let them know that there may be a safe dietary alternative
to powerful drugs with dreadful side effects.
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Same old same old
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Once again I can't help but note that if an herbal
supplement were associated with the level of problems that
Accutane is, we would hear nothing but long howls of
indignation that such a product is available to minors, let
alone frequently prescribed to them. And it would be
followed by a mob of congressmen demanding its immediate
removal from the market, which would probably still be
preferable to them monitoring the activity in your bedroom.
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.. and another thing
You are what you eat. And if you're a middle-aged woman, you
might say that your menopause experience will be shaped by
what you eat as well.
After I sent you the e-Alert "'Round and 'Round
and 'Round... " (3/8/04), about yet another HRT study being
shut down to protect the health of subjects enrolled in the
study, I remembered a book titled "The Menopause Diet: The
Feel-Good, Lose-Weight Plan for the Menopausal Woman," which
happens to be written by our in-house "Nutrition Physician"
and HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Spreen explains that when hormonal changes take place,
the body sometimes responds negatively to normal foods,
prompting headaches, weight gain, bloating and other
reactions. "The Menopause Diet" offers a plan to address
this intolerance of certain foods.
Naturally, Dr. Spreen also discusses how dietary supplements
can help with menopause symptoms. And the book includes a
large section on the use of natural botanicals, including
Cimicifuga (Black cohosh), Vitex agnus castus (Chaste tree
berry), and Angelica sinensis (Dong quai), to treat hot
flashes, etc.
The book may be somewhat hard to find in your local
bookstore. Unfortunately, we have not been able to make it
available through HSI, but if you search "Spreen"
and "Menopause Diet" on the Internet, you'll find several
sources listed.
To Your Good Health,
Jenny Thompson
Health Sciences Institute
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Sources:
"Panel Urges Stricter Limits on Acne Drug" Lisa Richwine,
Reuters Health, reutershealth.com, 3/1/04
"Panel Backs National Accutane Registry" Lauran Neergaard,
Associated Press, 2/27/04, aberdeennews.com
"FDA Announces Changes to the Risk Management Program to
Prevent Birth Defects Caused by Accutane" FDA Talk Paper,
10/31/01, fda.gov
"Bread May Be the Culprit Behind Acne" Dr. Joseph Mercola,
12/25/02, mercola.com
"Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization" Archives
of Dermatology, Vol. 138, No. 12, December 2002,
archderm.ama-assn.org
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