Should cholestyramine be OTC? Also, how much does cholestyramine cost you?

November 12, 2007

I was shocked to see the other day how expensive 'generic'

cholestyramine has become in the pharmacy I have gotten it from.

Which made me wonder, WHY ? What possible reason could they have to

charge what they charge? (BTW, did you know that the average

prescription costs 11 cents, plus the cost of

the bottle and other packaging, to manufacture?)

I was just wondering, lots of other drugs have gone OTC and their cost

has gone down, and I could see benefits to that with cholestyramine.

The pros would outweigh the cons..

Obviously, people would have to be warned about cramps, constipation,

etc. Do people see any other negatives? So many people could be

helped,

I think mold illness is much more common than many people realize,

especially with older people, where I think it causes premature

dementia.

People would get their inflammation down and then they could see where

their inflammation came from.. Maybe that is what they are afraid of..

November 13, 2007

Is there any type of herbal product or natural supplement that works the same as

CSM?

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: I was shocked to see the

other day how expensive 'generic'

cholestyramine has become in the pharmacy I have gotten it from.

Which made me wonder, WHY ? What possible reason could they have to

charge what they charge? (BTW, did you know that the average

prescription costs 11 cents, plus the cost of

the bottle and other packaging, to manufacture?)

I was just wondering, lots of other drugs have gone OTC and their cost

has gone down, and I could see benefits to that with cholestyramine.

The pros would outweigh the cons..

Obviously, people would have to be warned about cramps, constipation,

etc. Do people see any other negatives? So many people could be

helped,

I think mold illness is much more common than many people realize,

especially with older people, where I think it causes premature

dementia.

People would get their inflammation down and then they could see where

their inflammation came from.. Maybe that is what they are afraid of..

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November 13, 2007

I am not aware of any. Lots of people put forward product X or Y as

'helping detox' but this is a very specific

kind of activity and I doubt very strongly that any nonprescription

binding agent is effective as cholestyramine.

The closest thing I know of is activated charcoal, and I am not at all

sure of its activity on the worst mycotoxins.

They get into the bloodstream, they cause damage to everything they

touch, lungs, brain (they disrupt the BBB), liver, kidneys, etc.

The ones that the liver filters out go into the bile where there is a

moment of opportunity as they pass through the gut..

(the bile is used to help digest food)

Thats where CSM can bind the toxins, IF ITS THERE, so they end up in

poop rather than back in the bloodstream again

with the recycled bile salts..

On Nov 13, 2007 9:37 AM, Brown <charlesb35@...> wrote:

>

> Is there any type of herbal product or natural supplement that works the

> same as CSM?

>

November 13, 2007

I agree Live, I've read quite a bit on ageing and those illnesses

thought to be related to just getting older or not just because the

bodsy is wearing out, I think Doug Haney once stated something like

this. mold is working on decomposeing before we die. older people are

much more suceptable to even lower amounts of molds and toxins.

I posted a clinical trial a while back they were trying a cholesterol

redudeing drug on people with sarcoidosis, cant remember the name of

it, but I have a felling that the all these type drugs are going to

go up in price.

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

>

> I was shocked to see the other day how expensive 'generic'

> cholestyramine has become in the pharmacy I have gotten it from.

>

> Which made me wonder, WHY ? What possible reason could they have to

> charge what they charge? (BTW, did you know that the average

> prescription costs 11 cents, plus the cost of

> the bottle and other packaging, to manufacture?)

>

> I was just wondering, lots of other drugs have gone OTC and their

cost

> has gone down, and I could see benefits to that with cholestyramine.

>

> The pros would outweigh the cons..

>

> Obviously, people would have to be warned about cramps,

constipation,

> etc. Do people see any other negatives? So many people could be

> helped,

> I think mold illness is much more common than many people realize,

> especially with older people, where I think it causes premature

> dementia.

>

> People would get their inflammation down and then they could see

where

> their inflammation came from.. Maybe that is what they are afraid

of..

>

November 13, 2007

Dr. Marinkovich mentioned that Agar Agar has bonding properties like

CSM. One can find this in many health food stores I believe.

November 13, 2007

Thanks. I will check into Agar Agar. I really need to see Dr. Shoemaker but

he's just too far away.

salzberglver3 <salzberglver3@...> wrote:

Dr. Marinkovich mentioned that Agar Agar has bonding properties like

CSM. One can find this in many health food stores I believe.

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November 13, 2007

,

Why don't you just lay it on the line to your doctor and ask him/her

to prescribe it for you.

Its not exactly a 'drug of abuse'.

I can't speak for others but cholestyramine worked better than

activated charcoal for me.

(the only other myco-detoxicant I have had any experience with)

On Nov 13, 2007 5:35 PM, Brown <charlesb35@...> wrote:

>

> Thanks. I will check into Agar Agar. I really need to see Dr. Shoemaker but

> he's just too far away.

>

> salzberglver3 <salzberglver3@...> wrote:

> Dr. Marinkovich mentioned that Agar Agar has bonding properties like

> CSM. One can find this in many health food stores I believe.

>

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November 14, 2007

i can't stress enough that anyone who's chronically ill likely has a

toxic liver, even though blood work would say otherwise.

in lieu of CSM, i think doing liver flushes/cleanses (the BEST

protocol hands-down is from the www.sensiblehealth.com website) would

undoubtedly help. ask for when you call the ph #. essentially,

you take the Chinese Bitters (you start with a teaspoon & gradually

work your way up to a tablespoon which could take weeks or months) &

possibly the other liquid formulas ( & depending on other factors, like

your age, if you have a gall bladder, etc...which is why it's

important to speak with ) for 6 weeks, then do the actual liver

flush/cleanse (a 2-day process). continue taking the Chinese Bitters

daily and do the flush/cleanse every 2 weeks for 3-4 months, depending

on how toxic you are.

I was shocked to see

the other day how expensive 'generic'

> cholestyramine has become in the pharmacy I have gotten it from.

>

> Which made me wonder, WHY ? What possible reason could they have to

> charge what they charge? (BTW, did you know that the average

> prescription costs 11 cents, plus the cost of

> the bottle and other packaging, to manufacture?)

>

> I was just wondering, lots of other drugs have gone OTC and their cost

> has gone down, and I could see benefits to that with cholestyramine.

>

> The pros would outweigh the cons..

>

> Obviously, people would have to be warned about cramps, constipation,

> etc. Do people see any other negatives? So many people could be

> helped,

> I think mold illness is much more common than many people realize,

> especially with older people, where I think it causes premature

> dementia.

>

> People would get their inflammation down and then they could see where

> their inflammation came from.. Maybe that is what they are afraid of..

>

> ---------------------------------

> Never miss a thing. Make your homepage.

>

November 14, 2007

Thanks. I will keep that in mind as I figure out what to do next.

xhannahx24 <xhannahx24@...> wrote: i can't stress enough that

anyone who's chronically ill likely has a