Im not sure if this is all disease mongering. Osteoporosis is a very real thing and terribly common. Where the mongering fits in is in making people believe that their stupid drug treatments will save them.
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Im not sure if this is all disease mongering. Osteoporosis is a very real thing and terribly common. Where the mongering fits in is in making people believe that their stupid drug treatments will save them.
I think if you listened to the Web seminar you would understand better where she is coming from. She is not in denial that people do get osteoporosis.
The question is how many are diagnosed simply as cash cows for big pharma?
How many people take osteoporosis drugs with massive side effects which have no chance of benefiting them?
osteoporosis is a real problem for those who genuinely have it but the pharma companies invented the DEXA machine which diagnoses anyone with lower than average bone density as osteoporotic , they based the averages on athletic 20 year olds , and thats how they turn postmenopausal women into cash cows since every one loses bone density as they age but lower bone density doesnt necessarily equate to brittle bones , for a lot of people osteoporosis is indeed a myth
Recent highly publicized withdrawals of drugs from the market because of safety concerns raise the question of whether these events are random failures or part of a recurring pattern.
The inverse benefit law, inspired by Hart’s inverse care law, states that the ratio of benefits to harms among patients taking new drugs tends to vary inversely with how extensively the drugs are marketed.
The law is manifested through 6 basic marketing strategies:
1. reducing thresholds for diagnosing disease,
2. relying on surrogate endpoints,
3. exaggerating safety claims,
4. exaggerating efficacy claims,
5. creating new diseases, and
6. encouraging unapproved uses.
The inverse benefit law highlights the need for comparative effectiveness research and other reforms to improve evidence-based prescribing.
osteoporosis is a real problem for those who genuinely have it but the pharma companies invented the DEXA machine which diagnoses anyone with lower than average bone density as osteoporotic , they based the averages on athletic 20 year olds , and thats how they turn postmenopausal women into cash cows since every one loses bone density as they age but lower bone density doesnt necessarily equate to brittle bones , for a lot of people osteoporosis is indeed a myth
Same thing with cholesterol. They keep lowering the number to get more and more people on lipitor, crestor etc
The Myth of Osteoporosis
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