Substitute Fish Oil For The Blood Thinner Coumadin, It Could Save Your Life
How many patients need to be involved in a study before it’s taken seriously?
100? 1,000? 100,000?
How about 1.23 million?
Think that’s enough to finally knock down a widely used (and very dangerous) drug?
I hate to be a pessimist, but I doubt it.
After looking at data from 1.23 million patients, researchers have confirmed what the Nutrition & Healing team has been warning against for years-that warfarin (sold as Coumadin) significantly increases the risk of dying from a traumatic injury. In fact, the death rate for traumatic injuries is more than double for patients on warfarin.The research, presented at the American College of Surgeons 2009 Clinical Congress, showed that risk was increased in both elderly and younger patients. And that warfarin therapy brings even more risk for people under 65.
Think about it-if you’re younger, you have more of a chance of surviving trauma. So warfarin can have an even bigger effect on your chances of making it through alive.
None of this is really surprising for a drug that got its start as rat poison (that’s right).
But gets worse. The researchers had felt they were seeing more and more patients on warfarin among their trauma patients, and they were right. In fact, warfarin use in general has been climbing since 2002.
So, more and more people are being dosed with a drug that doubles your risk of dying from a traumatic injury. And there’s no end in sight. Sure, there’s a lot of talk of adding this information to the “risk profile” for warfarin, but absolutely no talk of pulling it from the market.
Which is ridiculous, considering that there are safe alternatives. In fact, Dr. Wright’s been using one in his practice for over 30 years with great success: fish oil.
Fish oil works by making platelets so slippery that they can’t stick together easily to form a clot. (Carlson’s Lemon Flavored Fish Oil is a good source…Leif)….you can mix it with rice or almond milk… For blood-thinning purposes, Dr. Wright recommends 2 to 3 tablespoons of cod liver oil each day along with 800-1,000 IU of vitamin E.
Yours in good health,
Christine O’Brien
