Their work has far wider implications than Viagra, including but not limited
to, the possibility that all free radicals have a role in the body and are
more than aging molecules that must be quenched by antioxidants for health.
The sadder side is that the work has been bastardized to produce such an
aberrant drug as Viagra. Start searching the web for Viagra and heart
disease. Sometime last spring Viagra was implicated in fatal heart attacks
in men who should not have been victims of such massive coronaries. Last I
searched there were more than half a dozen heart attack related lawsuits
against the drug. There is a watchdog group that has been trying to get
attention since this summer as they keep track of the death toll. I last
checked in September and it was up to 139 men.
What I can't understand is why the extrapolation couldn't be made that a
drug the dilated vessels in one part of the body will certainly do it
elsewhere. This alone would put a stress on the body. In the process, does
it also loosen cholesterol deposits in the process that can move and cause
and occlusion?
Whatever, this drug is being tested in the second largest, unsupervised
clinical trial ever. RBGH is first.
And Viagra will go the way of phen-fen, but not before more men die.
Where is their outrage? This part worries me. My perspective is unique
because I believe I have discovered the root cause of autoimmune
disorders(environmental toxins) as well as an effective functional food
treatment. The double blind clinical trial is scheduled to start Jan 1 for
use of my product in Fibromyalgia, a presently untreatable epidemic
autoimmune disorder. I would be appalled to see a discovery which has so
much to offer for healing misused to become an agent of death.
Whatever your opinion on the involvement of the Nobel Laureates in the
development of Viagra, it is the indifference in the aftermath that has
captured my attention. They have intimate knowledge of the possible side
effects of nitric oxide.
The inventor of DDT was also a Nobel Prize Laureate.
Donna Fezler
http://www.rhealiving.com
> According to the Nobel Prize Web site, the 1998 Nobel Prize in
> Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Robert F Furchgott,
> Louis J Ignarro and Ferid Murad for their discoveries concerning
> "nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system."
>
> Weren't these guys the inventors or discoverers or whatever you'd
> call it of Viagra? I mean, that's the mechanism by which it works,
> innit?
>
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