Every year in the US there are:

  • 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;
  • 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;
  • 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;
  • 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;
  • 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

“No One Dies From Vitamins.”

By Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MB ChB, PhD

Supplements caused no deaths in 2014. This says it all. The great orthomolecular nutritionist doctor, Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD, always said: “No one dies from vitamins.” He was right when he said it and he is still right today. But that cannot be said of orthodox medicine.

In the year 2000, Dr. Barbara Starfield, from the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, published a shocking study which revealed just how incompetent doctors really are (there are always exceptions, remember).

Her study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, came to the following conclusions:

Every year in the US there are:

  • 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;
  • 7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;
  • 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;
  • 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;
  • 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA, the news media, and even some physicians still claim, then where are the bodies?

The 32nd annual report (2014, the latest report) shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, vitamin B-6, any other B-vitamin. There were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or from any vitamin at all!

But that’s not all. Dr. Saul also found that not only are there no deaths from vitamins, there are also zero deaths from any supplement. The most recent (2014) information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System, and published in the journal Clinical Toxicology shows no deaths whatsoever from dietary supplements across the board.

Additionally, there were zero deaths from any amino acid or single-ingredient herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John’s wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, or melatonin.There were zero deaths from any homeopathic remedy.

In closing, if someone give you a difficult time, just ask them where they read their information. When they stumble or say they don’t know, you know you stand on higher ground and gently bring them along.

Best regards,

Dr Kevin

References

1. Starfield B. Is US health really the best in the world? JAMA. 2000; 284(4):483-4

2. BMJ 2012:344:e3989

3. Mowry JB, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, McMillan N, Ford M. 2013 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 31st Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2014), 52, p 1032-1283.

4. Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 14, 2015

5. Mowry JB, Spyker DA, Brooks DE et al. (2015) 2014 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 32nd Annual Report, Clinical Toxicology, 53:10, 962-1147, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/15563650.2015.1102927

6. Zhang, J.; Patel, V.L.; Johnson, T.R (2008). “Medical error: Is the solution medical or cognitive?” Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 6 (Supp1): 75-77.

7. Medical error. (n.d.). Wikipedia.

8. Banja, John, Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism, N Engl J Med 2005; 353:324.

**This article derived from – Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 3, 2016. Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness.