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"Even the pharmaceutical industry admits: There are no drugs without side effects."
Gerd Schaller, born in 1944, German in origin, is known in many first-class companies as a top professional in relation to Direct Marketing techniques. Some of his clients read like the Whos Who in Business Success and belonged and belong to the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of economic prosperity.
Gerd Schaller, born in 1944, German in origin, is known in many first-class companies as a top professional in relation to Direct Marketing techniques. Some of his clients read like the Whos Who in Business Success and belonged and belong to the upper tenth of the upper twentieth of economic prosperity.
But this frequently published author made a big change about five years ago. He started a completely new career in the health industry. Today Gerd Schaller is the Executive Director of Nature Power Trading Ltd., a company that has tens of thousands of customers. The company concentrates on nutritive supplements and is one of the key opinion leaders in the field of alternative healing in Great Britain. As well, the company increasingly provides those supplements to other countries. Because of this international approach, we are able to obtain from Mr. Schaller a broader viewpoint to this problem called drugs and side effects than one normally does, because he has personally spoken to over 4000 people about this topic! Let's jump right into the subject!
"Mr. Schaller, what are your personal experiences with medical drugs? And what are your experiences with drugs in relation to your many customers?"
Gerd Schaller: "I guess my personal experiences are similar to other people. Actually, I had to learn that nearly all of us have a history of different doctor-prescribed drugs. In the past, I thought doctors wanted to help. For example, I even thought an inoculation against influenza would be the perfect idea. I had to learn the hard way that inoculation is often a lie and only helps to fill the pockets of some pharmaceutical companies. After receiving a preventative inoculation against influenza at one point in my life, I came down with influenza like never before, and never after that! Later I obtained the information that the pharmaceutical industry often uses mercury - and they label it with very different scientific names to hide it - to preserve the vaccine over a long time. So personally, drugs hit me very badly.
In addition, I know that some of our customers came down with multiple sclerosis a few days after an inoculation. They were not born with this disease!
In Germany we have a situation, wherein each newborn child gets its first inoculation a few days after birth. Actually, they just get their first doses of mercury!
Women, already loaded with mercury, detoxify their bodies during pregnancy; they just transfer about 50% of their mercury via placenta to the foetus. The result that can be widely seen is a growing number of kids with neuro-dermatitis and ADHD. To put it simply: they have problems with their skin and problems in learning.
But mercury is just one devil, although a dangerous one. Dentists use it as well. We have 82 million people living in Germany and in 49 million, new inlays made out of amalgam are set per year. But mercury is present in amalgam! I must tell you, that in some countries like Sweden and even Russia, amalgam inlays are forbidden.
This is only one of the problems that can be caused by drugs or substances used in medicine."
"Can you give other examples?"
Gerd Schaller: "Oh, I could give many. Some doctors, for example, prescribe antibiotics for virus infections - but everybody knows that they do nothing for viruses. Other doctors use it to fight bacteria - and they don't even bother to find out what bacteria is causing this particular illness; they just try a standard antibiotic and if it doesn't help, they try another one.
However, antibiotics cause a lot of side effects, as well as ruin your intestinal flora. This is standard knowledge. I suppose that only a minority of the medical personnel prescribe a gut flora supplement to a patient who has taken antibiotics."
"What else?"
Gerd Schaller: "Oh, we have thousands of customers, and nearly all of them suffer from the side effects of medical drugs. Each of them was not able to find the necessary help to get rid of certain illnesses. There is hardly a customer who is satisfied about his past medical treatment. Most of them suffer inveterate diseases. I could give you a shockingly long list."
"So what` s wrong with the pharmaceutical industry today?"
Gerd Schaller: "The answer in short is the pharmaceutical industry is often only interested in curing symptoms. If you have a headache, they have a pill or some drops to help you get rid of it quickly. They are very good at that. But they don't ask what really causes your headache. They don't have pills or drops to really handle the cause of your headache, which perhaps could even be toxicities. Perhaps you drank too much beer, wine or other drinks. They just give us a little red or white pill to conceal our pains and the real reasons behind them. We feel free of pain and instead of changing our lifestyle or undergo a detoxification we just go on. So we think the pharmaceutical industry has wonderful solutions. These companies are very successful with this method. Most of them are not really interested in healing. Why? It would ruin their business if they told you to detoxify instead of take a pill. From a business viewpoint they are unable to stop their brand of selling drugs - and I can guarantee that they won't stop, ever."
"So what are the results? Please give a specific example!"
Gerd Schaller: "In my opinion each new pharmaceutical pill will increase the amount of poison in our bodies. They offer poison to obscure another poison. And if the red pill does not help, they give you a blue pill to handle the side effects of the red one.
My father is 84 years old and suffering from Alzheimer. It could very well be that this disease is the result of toxicities caused by pharmaceutical pills - at least this is the theory of some researchers. My father has a long history of taking pills. Here in Germany, we have a situation that 30% of all people over 80 years of age suffer from dementia; it is unbelievable! But it is big business. No-one tells the truth about the causes, which I believe truly lie in several medical drugs (like certain heart attack medicines), heavy metals (especially aluminium and mercury), and a lack of vitamins, minerals and some amino acids. Alzheimer could probably be avoided if people would live more natural lives and consider a detoxification program occasionally. Currently my father has to take twenty different pills each day - with actually no hope that his health will ever come back!"
"Who is responsible?"
Gerd Schaller: "We all are. Of course, Big Pharma is in the first place. But, in addition, the mighty doctors associations, the food manufacturers and the consumers themselves are; we are talking about a huge lack of knowledge about natural health. It is easy for Big Pharma to sell drugs: we don't ask, we don't look; we just take the drugs, believing that it is much more convenient to take them instead of changing our habits. We allow them to carry on their big business because we do not oppose. We allow them to take our money. This makes it easy for the pharmaceutical industry to present one pill after another, and we love it, because we are waiting for the next miracle pill."
"What is the exact mechanism behind it?"
Gerd Schaller: "Big Pharma tells you it is more important to fight against the one illness, and you have to agree that there are some side effects. Even the pharmaceutical industry itself admits there are no drugs without side effects. That is the price for our convenience. "But you can get rid of your headache. Oh sorry, you might get gastritis, but we have solutions for that too.""
"What are the exact numbers in relation to failure?"
Gerd Schaller: "Each year in Germany about 40,000 people die because of the side effects of the medications from the pharmaceutical industry. In the USA about 200,000 a year."
"But what about the successes of the pharmaceutical industry? There is a lot of talk about anti-aging pills, prolonging of life and new great inventions!"
Gerd Schaller: "The facts are the facts, and the numbers are the numbers.
Here are some of those numbers:
Of all 70-year-old Germans, 96% have at least one disease.
Every third person over 70 years of age suffers from five or more illnesses simultaneously.
More and more people, in Germany, in England and in the US, need professional care when they get old; it is already a lucrative industry!
Every third child and every fifth adult suffers from at least one allergy!
In the year 1900, 15% of all men died because of heart/circulation diseases; today it is 50% in some countries!
To make a long story short, I can't see any progress here!
One also has to realize that some so-called scientific research papers are forged, or at least manipulated to a degree."
"What is the connection between money and the pharmaceutical industry?"
Gerd Schaller: "This connection is very obvious, isn't it? I just quote from Bayer's 2001 company report: "Lipobay®/Baycol® was said to be one of the growth boosters of the pharmaceutical industry. Having been on the market since 1997 the anti-cholesterolemic has become a blockbuster in no time; at last the turnover forecast was - 2.5 billion a year. Worldwide, approximately 6 million people were on the Bayer product. The decision of August 8, 2001 to take the product from the market, therefore, had extensive consequences for the whole group. Vioxx had an unbelievable sales share of 20% in the total turnover of the Merck & Co. group."
There are more than fifty years of medical and scientific progress between Thalidomide and Vioxx. Well, this is cynical, but what has really changed? Nevertheless, the pharmaceutical industry still has the nimbus of scientific nature and of progress, and those researching pharmaceutical companies justify their high prices with their high costs for research and development before these new medicinal products can finally be marketed to become a blockbuster. I don't need to comment on this any further, do I?"
"What about all those alternative companies?"
Gerd Schaller: "Indeed, there are thousands of small companies worldwide that devote themselves to naturopathy and truly endeavour to hold high the banner of natural remedies. However, they are faced with permanent pressure to prevent them from saying that the products from Mother Nature can heal. Worldwide it is a criminal act to claim that natural active substances - mainly ones from the body - can heal. Vitamin C as ascorbic acid can only be marketed in many countries in powder form in plastic containers. If it is filled into capsules, many countries considered it to be a medicinal product and hence needs a marketing authorization by law. That sounds unbelievable, but it is true.
It is the law and one can be sentenced if it is violated. Naturopaths are being prosecuted - not because they cause harm - but because they violate laws that on the long term are intended to secure privileges for certain people and certain very big companies. And this is the privilege to have the right to control the health market at their own discretion, and to create blockbusters, explaining to us all the while that the chemical industry can heal our illnesses. Existing laws give them the right to disqualify the thousands-of-years old naturopathy as unscientific.
"Why don't our doctors protest?"
Gerd Schaller: "Because they are part of the system. As soon as a special medication is sanctioned to be on the market, the doctor can't do anything wrong anymore can he! He gave up his responsibility to the system!
He now has the perfect insurance, in other words; everything is legal.
He now has a so-called scientific permission to use this medication. You can no longer attack him; you cannot sue him.
On the other hand, that same system can sue any doctor who is using a different approach. This system, consisting of the legal power of the government, big Pharma and the doctor's associations, watches like a hawk to ensure nothing changes. Every alternative approach is called unscientific. Every alternative research is suppressed. But the allegedly scientific research is published by an exact ritual."
"But there exists alternative research as well!"
Gerd Schaller: "Yes. But funny enough it doesn't get published broadly. Additional new and very expensive research is asked for, which no one can pay. Research is delayed. The system owns enough money to stop alternative efforts."
"What would be a possible solution?"
Gerd Schaller: "I have daily contact with patients, doctors and pharmacists. Some know very well how this system works.
Some of them have decided not to support this system anymore. They look for alternatives. They leave Germany or other countries, and help people in countries that still permit them to heal and help people with solutions other than the so-called scientific solutions of the pharmaceutical industry. More and more people are in disagreement with these solutions; here develops a movement. Freedom of therapy is the slogan.
Right now there aren't enough people who disagree. But the number of protesters grows. One day the old system will collapse from within.
There are more and more doctors who suddenly realize their responsibility, and for whom integrity is more important than the dollar."
"What types of patients are already treated with alternative approaches?"
Gerd Schaller: "People who are chronically ill usually prefer alternative medicine. Most of them know that the side effects of the system are more dangerous than the disease they suffer from. In addition, most of them have been treated wrongly. There the phenomenon of wrong medication, overmedication and deadly medication exists."
"What is the first most efficient act the individual can do to escape the system?"
Gerd Schaller: "Every one of us can change nutrition. This is the true culprit of many dangerous diseases!
For example: in East Germany, before the wall came down, approximately 10% of the population suffered from allergies. Since the wall came down about 30% now suffers from allergies! Just after 15 years!
The reason behind that: poor nutrition.
People in East Germany today eat the same bad food as people in West Germany. There is only one logical consequence: we eat poorly. So we have to change our diet."
"To put it bluntly, in which direction should one change?"
Gerd Schaller: "One should avoid sugar in all its forms, also the hidden sugar in canned food and in beverages. It is, in any case, clear that one should not drink alcohol and not smoke. In addition, one should eat lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, but of organic origin.
And if one eats meat, eat organic meat only and not too much. In addition one should take vitamins and minerals, plus amino-acids and enzymes."
"What is the single most destructive influence of our times in relation to this topic?"
Gerd Schaller: "A very seductive question, but there is no single most destructive influence. However the culprits are the pharmaceutical pills themselves, the use of chemicals at home, heavy metals like aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and nickel, chemicals in our water, artificial stuff in our food, and of course street drugs and alcohol."
"In your opinion, what is the most effective way to make up for the damages we have done in the past to our bodies?"
Gerd Schaller: "One should undergo purification techniques. Today one can even purify the liver, the gall bladder and each individual organ.
To cleanse the liver only costs $25, but a gall bladder operation costs perhaps $4000, or more. One can cleanse from parasites, fungi, heavy metals, and any old, illness-causing debris in our bodies. One can clean the gut, and it's important to know that our gut is 80% responsible for our immune system! One can clean the kidneys, and indeed the whole organism. Even modern technologies exist today that have special cleansing programs as in the case of Alzheimer.
In fact, many diseases with impressive scientific names can be handled just by cleaning and purification techniques alone."
"Let's get a specific example here! What could one do in case of heart problems?"
Gerd Schaller: "Well, first of all I am not a doctor and I cannot give any advice. And secondly, each patient is different.
However, a more general advice would be: live a life that prevents the problem arising in the first place!
In our industrial nations, heart problems are the No. 1 cause of death.
First of all, there are special risk factors like smoking, lack of movement and exercise, poor nutrition, lack of vitamins and minerals. Alcohol should be taboo, and cigarettes definitely. Here one must say -no."
On the positive side, one can say this: specials oils are important, such as cold-pressed olive oil for example. Antioxidants help, as do Vitamin C, E and Co-Enzyme Q10. In addition, Vitamin B12 and B6, Omega-3-fatty-acids, folic acid, Magnesium and L-carnitine (a special protein-building substance) are vital.
Together with the right nutrition and exercise one can probably avoid heart-problems to an astonishing degree.
However, even when the problem is already there, one can do a lot with the right nutrition and the right nutritive supplements; many people don't know how far this help can actually go."
"What about depression and fear? Here the doctors very quickly prescribe pills!"
Gerd Schaller: "Unfortunately yes. But many folks don't know that even bad eating habits can cause depression. In addition, allergies may be responsible for depression if one continues to eat the wrong food. Even excessive coffee may be the culprit or too much sugar!
On the other hand, Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B6 and B-Complex may help. Vitamin C is a must, as well as lecithin, calcium and magnesium.
You can find this advice in a lot of literature, but Big Pharma is not necessarily interested in divulging this information.
Sports and exercises are the third components in fighting depression naturally.
When it comes to fear, again many people don't know that once more sugar may be the cowboy in the black hat. Special vitamins and calcium and magnesium are of outmost importance as well.
In general of course, one has to ask a health-care specialist who is permitted to give advice and is knowledgeable in natural therapies."
"Now let's take up a really difficult subject like cancer. What can alternative medicine do in this case?"
Gerd Schaller: "This is a tricky subject, because when one talks about cancer one immediately faces opposition from the system as I call it.
This much is true: many charlatans operate in this field - on both sides, by the way. First of all, one has to differentiate the many types of cancer. Some are not even very dangerous and are easy to heal today. But cancer is a shock word and it is used to impress people. Again prevention should be the talk of the day.
General advice for every type of cancer is nearly impossible to give - there are too many forms. But if one would be forced to do so, one would give the advice to do all sorts of cleaning and cleansing methods - all sorts of purification first. In fact, complete packages of know-how exist today when it comes to cancer.
First of all, the environment can cause cancer. We live today in a polluted world. Again, purification should be the talk of the day. Secondly poor nutrition may be responsible. Special types of nutrition stop cancer from growing! On the other hand, certain nutrition can support cancer.
Too much fat, especially animal fat and even cow-milk have been named as culprits; meat grilled or fried is worse than meat cooked. Stale fat, rancid oil, excessive sugar, bad carbohydrates, food with fungi in it, pesticides, artificial food colors, alcohol, coffee and even harmful chlorinated drinking water may contribute to cancer!
Helpful nutrition for example would be: corn products, organic vegetables and fruits, salads, onion and garlic.
In addition, antioxidants are important, as well as beta-carotene, vitamins, especially E and C and B complex; in fact nearly all Bs, B 12 and B17 are champions in helping in the case of cancer.
However, there are entire books on this subject today, and my remarks should not be misunderstood as medical advice."
"So in a word there is a very different type of approach. How would you envision the health sector over the next 100 or 200 years?"
Gerd Schaller: "Well, permit me to give an extensive answer. Martin Luther King, the famous American pastor and civil rights leader once said: "I have a dream." He fought for the rights of the Afro-American community, and he won despite many obstacles. He fought against suppression and for social justice. He ended up in jail more than 30 times and many people tried to kill him.
Basically he created a movement. Many people, black and white, shared his vision. His dream: All people are equal in the eyes of the law, whatever color they have. He fought against racism and he fought for freedom. What did he do? He repeated the same message again and again, in hundreds of speeches and in many tractates.
We have to do the same. There are many problems on this planet that have to be solved. One is the oil price. When the price for gasoline goes up, we just complain. The TV commentators talk about it a little bit, and tomorrow the topic is forgotten. And then we accept.
But what would happen if we would just not agree?
What would happen if the consumers would join together and all together say to one of those companies: "No, we will no longer buy gasoline from
Shell until the price is really low!"
Well, after a while Shell would have to accept in order to avoid bankruptcy. Then one could take on the next oil company!"
"So what is your dream?"
Gerd Schaller: "May I give a real long answer?"
"Please do!"
Gerd Schaller: "I have a dream that our efforts join together to create a saner, better health industry.
Man has started to intervene into the natural routine processes of life and is on the verge of destroying the natural order on our planet. We are destroying woods and inventing medicinal products which no longer cure but cause long-lasting damage to the well balanced harmony and function of our bodies.
It is time to distinctly announce that health for all living beings can only be achieved if things are in line and in agreement with natural laws. By not curing the causes of illness, but by merely fighting symptoms by interfering in body processes, and hence bringing about additional undesired side effects, pharmaceuticals have not, by any means, improved man's health during the past decades. There is a worldwide increase of illness, and man is buying a supposedly longer life expectancy at the price of a distinctly lower quality of life in one's old age. This is demonstrated in a dramatic increase of dementia and other diseases caused by today's lifestyle.
I have a dream to show functional ways, in harmony with nature, which can be followed by everyone with or without therapeutic support in order to take back responsibility of one's own health into one's own hands.
I have a dream to increase man's knowledge about successful healing techniques. He is the only one who is capable of making himself recover even if he sometimes depends on some good advice.
I have a dream that not only the experts, but also everyone knows naturopathy, and that this precious knowledge will not become lost. Naturopathy - unlike arguments that occasionally come up is by no means unscientific. Naturopathy can heal on the basis of thousands of years of experience with naturopathic treatment.
I have a dream we start re-thinking the true causes of illnesses and diseases more carefully, and listen again to the words of Prof. Dr. Antoine Béchamp, who said 'Le microbe, c`est rien, le milieu, c`est tout' - The microbe is nothing, the milieu is everything.
I have a dream that people die less because of the side effects of pharmaceutical products.
I have a dream the word science is not misused by the high priests of Big Pharma.
I have a dream naturopathic healers are not threatened by the mighty pharmaceutical industry.
I have a dream Big Pharma loses its privileges in relation to healing and the system is corrected.
I have a dream naturopathic healers are not looked at as criminals in some countries.
I have a dream everybody can choose the medicine and healing therapy he wants.
I have a dream that the ministry of health is measured by the amount of people who are healthier than before.
I have a dream that more and more responsible doctors see what is really going on and join the movement of naturopathic healing.
I have a dream people recognize naturopathy as the oldest kind of medical science. It is neither primitive nor has it outdated itself, and even modern society is part of nature. It was back in the Stone Age when man discovered the healing benefit of various herbs. The ancient Greeks saw the first practicing and teaching physicians who were written into history books; long before that time there were shamans and druids. In the Middle Ages naturopathy was cultivated in monasteries.
I have a dream people learn that illness is always a lack of something and that there is something in the body that should not be there.
I have a dream that every one of us is free to choose the medical treatment that we have decided to be the right choice and method. In my dream there are physicians who are free of the constraints of an institutionalized doctor's office and, with the mutual agreement of their patients, apply such therapy that they consider suitable for them; hence they will not be disciplined by or excluded from various organizations or associations.
I have a dream that those politicians and secretaries of state responsible for the health resort are not judged by the political enforceability of higher contribution rates to health insurance companies, but by what they have done to improve people's health in a measurable way and with a lasting influence.
I have a dream we find ourselves in the end to have achieved real progress and not a pretended one. I am dreaming of the day when medical progress is not just a PR cliché but true reality. In my vision, better health resulted in decreasing costs for the health care system.
I have a dream that we have a world where naturopathy without constraints and threats has the same liberties that our legislation has given to the pharmaceutical industry. In my dream, the better concept will be successful on a free market with no regulations, for the benefit of the individual and then for the benefit of all.
I have a dream that health information is provided in a way everybody can understand. It is my dream, the usual medical mumbo-jumbo that the ordinary citizen cannot comprehend will be forbidden one day. I believe that it is urgently necessary to tell people the truth about the side effects of one method compared with another one in a much more compelling and lucid way.
I have a dream more and more responsible doctors give up being afraid of losing income and reputation, and decide to show the people the way to long-term and natural health by means of proper nutrition.
I dream of a time which can be compared to the past when doctors in China could get very rich because they succeeded in having an abundance of healthy patients. Such a doctor used to have a plethora of lanterns in front of his house so one could see that he was very successful and the people in his surroundings were very healthy. May all our doctors be wealthy and have many lanterns as long as they bring us health instead of medical products with side effects.
I have a dream we unite many individuals into a huge movement. We are convinced that only a target-oriented unification of all those who are focused on natural health will bring about the achievement of permanent and effective positive changes.
I have a dream we are free to make our own decisions. In my dream there are more and more people each day who also make use of their liberties and thus contribute to make our dream of health come true in exactly the way we expressed it.
I have a dream every one of us uses the freedom of speech and we unite in this noble cause."
"Mr. Schaller, thank you very much for sharing your vision with us!"
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