Peter Schiff defends Pharma: "It costs a lot of money to bring a prescription drug to market"

X ^ | May 12 | Peter Schiff

[TigersEye]

Thanks for that reminder! That’s probably bigger than the payouts on lawsuits.

[TigersEye]

1/3 is a lot.

I started noticing in the ‘90s that ads for lawsuits about Rx drugs were constantly popping up and it seemed to me that it hadn’t been that long before that there had been big ad campaigns to sell those same drugs.

That pattern has held through the 2000s and the 2010s.

I hope you weren’t one of those who had problems with Zantac.

[woodbutcher1963]

I was not. I did not take it often. However, I did have package of it in my office desk drawer when they took it off the market.

It definitely worked better than TUMS or Rolaids for heartburn.

FYI, my son is a Scientist for a major Pharma corp in MA.
He works in drug development. Mostly on cancer drugs.

[Veto!]

“Do you also avoid the seed oils: corn oil, soy oil, etc? What about excess sugar?”

Only use California Olive Ranch extra-virgin olive oil; Comes in a glass bottle, don’t want plastic. Good stuff. Sauté chicken thighs and Wild Caught Alaskan salmon in it. I steam little organic potatoes, serve them with olive oil on top, maybe parsley and fresh ground pepper too.

No sugar or honey. For desert, nonfat yogurt -Trader Joe has single serving black Raspberry, may have a little sugar, but yogurt has healthy probiotics in it.
Of course, other stores have yogurt too. Non-fat a little harder to find.

Don’t have a salt shaker and avoid anything that contains salt. Salad dressing is tricky, almost all are loaded with salt and yucky oils. Found one on AMZ that’s not perfect but OK

[Blennos]

Ditto on only using California olive oil. Don’t trust the others. Many are adulterated and old, despite the fancy imported names and bottles. Sometimes we splurge and order a set of fresh-pressed oils from the olive oil club. Great flavor, but pricey.

https://freshpressedoliveoil.com/

[TigersEye]

The best antacid I have ever used was Titralac. Small pills, best minty taste, dissolved quickly and easily and, most importantly to me, they worked exceptionally well. Never needed more than two.

My father, a family doc, first gave them to me in the ‘70s. After that I found them at Walmart until sometime in the ‘80s when they became unavailable. I searched for them again in recent years and found that they are still made in Australia but found no retail source in the U.S.

Now I use Gelusil tablets but they are big, somewhat chalky and it takes two to four of them depending on how much I screwed up my stomach.