Product Description
Reintroducing education, therapeutic nutrition, and choice to health care, Health Myths Exposed has liberated thousands of courageous and forward-thinking individuals. The general public as well as health-care leaders have used Health Myths Exposed to resist the current of greed that strives to push them toward prescription drug servitude. The end result has been health freedom – a vibrantly healthy life independent of prescription drugs. Health Myths Exposed is more than a book. With surging momentum it has become a movement ? a movement away from FDA approved drug addiction and away from medical doctors who dictate that one-drug-fits-all. Most important, it’s a movement away from complex, obscure health ideas and toward common sense which asserts that, except for emergency medicine, very few prescription drugs have value and those which do can usually be replaced with safer, less expensive natural medicine.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)

Good...as far as it goes

Though I agree 100% that it is the The Big$$$$ that Big Pharma throws at doctors and the FDA that REALLY determines which drugs are available regardless of whether they are effective or even safe for human consumption, and that there is nothing natural about the man-made concoctions that are so highly touted on the TV all of the time as the cure-all for every ill known to mankind (not much different than the Victorian Snake Oil Salesman), I was disappointed in this book in that it didn't really give much information on more natural alternative medicines, or foods. It's all well and good to say "we need to take responsibility for our own lives and well being", but some of us need/want a little more guidance than links to websites that give more information....for a price. And that information doesn't come cheap, either!!

I try to avoid prescription drugs (and doctors) as much as possible and rarely take them. I stopped HRT years ago because I figured menopause is a natural part of life and generations of women before me have survived it without the help of a prescription, so why was I taking this garbage? Unfortunately, I have had to have four surgeries in two years and I have refused the prescription pain killers simply because the side effects are worse than the pain! I've gotten by quite well with the OTC stuff.

In summary, the book is informative and a quick read, but I wish it just went a little deeper into the 'habits that will attract wellness" that is mentioned in the closing. The book is a bit like an infomercial....it's a teaser to go to the websites and buy the product.
July 07, 2007

Health Myths exposed

An excellent concise summary of all that is wrong with Western medicine.
May 20, 2007

common sense prevails

thank goodness for men like Shane. It is not hard to see the drug world working hard to
brain wash folks with their suppression of sympton approach. We can see it doesnt work.
I have never seen an older, healthy person walk out of the doctors.

common sense tells us the closest we eat and live to nature the healthier we will be. it is
sad that most people dont want to think, and more so, take action for their own lives.

ultimately it is people such as Shane who lead the way. i do not hold the average person in
a very high regard. this is not because i am judgemental, it is simply because they just dont
want to think for them selves.

responsibilty for our lives, health and quality of such needs work these days. come on leaders
like Shane, who really do help us emornously in our search for what we have lost to corruption,
power and a thoughless mindset.
April 01, 2007

Finally! Someone Who Knows What The Heck He's Talking About!

Every now and again, A clear and knowledgeable person changes their lives for the better through hard-earned Truth. When this rarity occurs in life, everyone around them benefits! Lives change with them, attitudes regain hope for the future, and the physical and spiritual body of man becomes whole again. Shane, thanks for changing your life so dramatically. You are helping others do the same from your show of courage.
April 01, 2007

Take This Book to the Doctor With You

After I had read the first edition of this book, which was loaned to me by a friend, I bought the second edition. It is a quick read, and I was glad I had read it. Shane organizes his chapters around the specific myths like "FDA-Approved Drugs are Safe and Effective" and "Drug Approval is Based On Science" or "Cholesterol is Bad for You." From there he brings in information in a very concise way that illustrates why these statements are myths. There have been whole books written on just one of these topics, and they have their place, in a more detailed investigation of the subject. But the beauty of this book "Health Myths Exposed" is the concise presentation of the essential arguments showing that so much of what official medicine teaches and preaches is simply not true or not helpful.

Every time I go anywhere near a doctor it seems they are pushing another drug. Rcently, I have had to refuse Lipitor about a dozen times. A decade ago they were trying to get me to accept hormones. One doctor did everything except hold me down and pour them down my throat. A decade later, we read all the articles about how those hormones were maybe not such a good idea after all, and for all the reasons I initially refused them. Sadly, many people are less cranky than I am, and do not contradict their doctors, but just swallow whatever is being touted.

My health is not the best, I am already taking seven different drugs, and I do not see how another like Lipitor can do anything positive for me. The doctor says heart disease is the major cause of death, but I say being alive is the major cause of death. In any case, there is no proof that Lipitor can prevent heart attack in a woman who has not had one. I strongly suspect that my troubles began as the result of drugs I took years ago, combined with a diet I thought was healthful, but was not. For the past 8 or 10 years, while I was having to fight off prescriptions for hormones and then Lipitor, not one single doctor ever did a two hour glucose test to determine that I had type 2 diabetes. If I could have known that, way back when it must have started, and changed my eating habits and begun helpful supplements, the problems I have now with my heart and neuropathy might never have develped. Every doctor kept telling me I had "idiopathic" neuropathy, instead of actually doing the simple blood test, while they were trying to get me to take Neurontin off-label and antidepressants and hormones and Lipitor!

The problem for us patients is the dissonance between what the authority of the doctors tells us, and what someone who ought to know like Shane tells us. One thing that upsets me is the use of the term "side effect." That is my only criticism of Shane's book. He uses that term. Drugs are toxic chemicals which interfere in a profound way with the normal functioning of our bodies. When we swallow them, they have effects on us. None of the effects are "side" effects, all are plain and simple effects. Use of that term is kind of like sleight of hand, meant to distract us into not looking closely at what is happening. Even though Shane uses that term, he also gives us the insight to help us recognize how and why drugs are developed, which is not necessarily for our best interest, but rather to make a business successful and lucrative, or, at best, simply to squash symptoms, not restore us to health. The information he gives us in this book is also very revealing about the whole cholesterol issue, and his discussion of ephedra is very revealing, illustrating how, in FDA/AMA land, the natural substance is rendered into a chemical, which is dangerous, but the discussion then becomes muddied, and the safe natural substance is banned.

For me, one reason Shane's book is so valuable is that it is a tool the consumer can use to gain some perspective. Many people who would not wade through a long book delving into all the research regardng the cholesterol theory could and would pick up this book, and get some essential information to counteract all the pressure that big medicine and big pharma and big advertising direct at all of us all day long.
March 31, 2007

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