Over the Counter Pain Killers Damage Your Liver

Many people who are heavily into natural medicine, still have pain killers at the ready, just in case.

But pain killers do nothing to redress the problem and DO harm your liver.

So it’s far better to find out why you are in pain and address that homoeopathically. That way the cause and the effect will disappear, without doing any harm.

For instance, you drank too much last night and now have a hang over. The alcohol is already damaging your liver. The pain killer goes on to do more harm.

But if you take the remedy Nux vomica, your hang over disappears AND your liver gets some help. A win-win situation.

Or perhaps you fall over and hurt yourself. Your body is already trying to deal with the injury and then you pile into the pain killers, thereby damaging your liver AND stopping your body deal with the injury repair.

But take the remedy Arnica will help your body repair the injury, with no sid effects.

Another win-win situation.

Having a homoeopathic first aid or common ailemnt kit handy at home could eliminate the need for pain killers.

And here’s what Shane Ellison has to say about the subject.

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Over-The-Counter (OTC) pain meds are not as safe as you might think... Don't let commonly used pain killers like tylenol and aspirin seriously damage your liver - forever! Take 6 minutes to learn what your doctor isn't telling you about common pain killers.

It was a beautiful Colorado day. I wanted to avoid the daily grind of research and writing. I decided to go mountain biking - minus all the fancy lycra.

I took my usual endurance supplements and was on the trail in a matter of minutes. Ipod volume on max, I was screaming downhill. It happened in a split second. Over my handlebars I flew, only to bounced off my shoulder - collarbone shattered in half. I hitched a ride home. Called a friend to go back and get my bike.

I healed in 4 weeks with zero medical intervention. And I never swallowed a single OTC pain killer. Instead, I melted pain for sleeping and daily tasks with my own, natural concotion that is non-toxic...Few people realize how damaging common pain killers can be. I'm on a mission to change that. You want to avoid them at all cost.

Is your favorite pain reliever or anti-inflammatory putting your health at serious risk? The people hospitalized last year because of Celebrex, Tylenol, Aspirin, Ibuprofen and other NSAID pain relievers didn't think so either...How many were hospitalized? Try tens of thousands! According to the New England Journal of Medicine NSAIDS killed over 16,000 Americans annually.

Researchers writing for the medical journal Hepatology recently showed that, "acetaminophen [Tylenol] poisoning now accounts for at least 42% of U.S. acute liver failure cases seen at tertiary-care centers [large hospitals] and one third of the deaths."

Even short Term Use Causes Health to Tailspin

According to a recent study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, even short term use of acetaminophen can cause serious health problems for your liver. Healthy participants with no sign of liver failure used acetaminophen at recommended doses for only four days. At the end of the four days, blood tests revealed significant increases in certain liver enzymes which have been shown in the past to be key indicators of serious problems and damage occurring in the liver.

Your liver is your number one weapon against toxic exposure. Just like it wards off a hangover, it can remove or neutralize toxins from the blood. It's also mandatory for boosting immunity and protecting the body from viral and bacterial infection. But it's not invincible. When it gets damaged, it leaks enzymes into the bloodstream. Your health tailspins!

How to Protect Yourself

So what can you do to avoid these harmful effects if you currently use Tylenol for pain relief? Your first instinct might be to throw your bottle of Tylenol in the trash and switch to another popular pain reliever like Aspirin or Ibuprofen.

Unfortunately, studies conducted on these pain relievers showed similar harmful affects on the liver, especially in cases of long term use. Not to mention the long list of other harmful side affects like gastrointestinal bleeding, ulcers, and heart problems that are responsible for tens of thousands of hospitalizations of unsuspecting users each year.

Consider Aspirin. Users sometimes drop dead faster than non-aspirin users. Whether they are taking 75mg or higher, "No conventionally used prophylactic Aspirin regimen seems free of the risk of peptic ulcer complications," said the British Medical Journal. Any pain stopping benefits or cardiovascular cures that might come from the anti-clotting drug are clearly negated by excess bleeding.

The People's Chemist No-Risk, Pain Relief Solution

These health damaging (and even life threatening) side effects are the reason I set out to formulate a safe and effective pain killer that was natural and non-toxic to the liver and rest of the body.

I knew there was no way I could feel comfortable giving commonly used pain killers like Tylenol or Aspirin to my friends and family... especially not to my children! I wanted a pain reliever that I could feel confident giving to people without any fear of long term damage. I began studying the earliest known pain killer of our time; white willow bark.

Natural Pain Killer Discovery Impractical

White willow bark can safely prevent the spinal cord from transmitting pain messages to the brain. From a hangover, to a migraine or even cancer pain, this allows it to be wildly effective for many different types of discomfort. Unfortunately, you need a lot of the bark in tea form for it to be effective. Furthermore, the effects don't last long.

Chemist Carl R. Gerhardt recognized this over 150 years ago. He wanted to increase the pain killing properties of white willow bark by designing a chemical cousin. He synthesized acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) from the naturally occurring salicylic acid found in white willow bark. Aspirin was born not out of genius and creativity, but by copying what was already available in nature. Unfortunately, in the process of synthesizing the pain killing properties of white willow bark, Mr. Gerhardt unknowingly created the unsafe, liver poisoning compounds found in Aspirin today (specifically, the "acetyl" chemical group that was added on to the naturally occurring "salicylic acid").

Bayer trademarked the anti-platelet drug as Aspirin in 1889 and ASA is now used in place of white willow bark. But it isn't nearly as safe. The small molecular change made for big dangers! The ASA copycat of Mother Nature comes with severe bleeding and liver complications.

But that was 150 years ago. Today, modern chemistry breakthroughs have allowed me and my team to develop a much more potent and 100% safe concentration of the naturally occurring white willow bark. Giving you all the original safety benefits of the original white willow bark while at the same time increasing its potency to a level that will quickly and easily relieve your worst aches and pains...

Prescription Drug Induced Obesity

Many factors regulate a person's weight. The metabolism dictates the rate at which food is converted to fuel substrates. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) stores and releases fat burning molecules known as catecholamines. Thermogenesis, the receiver of the SNS signal, converts fatty acids to heat. This prevents fat storage. The messenger hormone leptin controls the hunger switch. Receiver of the leptin message, the brain tells us when to eat, how much to eat and when to stop eating.

Commonly used prescription drugs can interrupt many weight regulating factors. When used long term (6 months or more), these drugs elicit obesity among most users. This is true despite rigorous workout or diet routines that may be employed. Ever met someone who exercised religiously yet failed to lose fat?

The most common of these drugs are those used to treat high blood pressure (beta blockers such as Atenolol), depression (SSRI's such as Zyprexa), and diabetes (sulfonylureas such as Amaryl and thiazolidinediones such as Avandia).