ecessity. It is instead that, driven by what has become a savage and deadly greed, drugs are catastrophically over-promoted, over-prescribed, over-used and over-trusted in the Western world.

Always remember this: it is very rare for any drug to improve your health; rather they are nearly always a band-aid for your symptoms ... a patch that must be applied over and over for extended periods or permanently, and is therefore in a sense addictive, and is therefore incredibly profitable to the drug companies. Except for a little thing called social concern, why would the drug companies possibly want to cure the underlying health of people, since that would mean taking away the need for repeated use of their mere treatments and therefore their immense profits?

So to sum it up, if there were a total of ten notches, it's not that the drug companies should be completely eliminated from the post, but instead that they should be brought down about nine (maybe nine-and-a-half) notches. So what is the one way you can most effectively help this cause?

Voice IS More Powerful than Dollars

As some of you may know while others do not, I started my free health e-newsletter and Mercola.com driven by the vision to transform the current medical establishment from one focused on pharmaceuticals and other mere treatments -- at great cost to people in terms of their health, finances and lifespan -- to one focused instead on real prevention and real cure.

In short, the articles you will find in e-Healthy News You Can Use are all driven by this vision, and are dedicated to both exposing the truth the drug companies and others in the current establishment don't want you to hear and providing you real health and wellness solutions.

I also started this newsletter and website, and for years sustained it entirely, with the costs coming out of my own pocket. In the past few years, in addition to the ongoing free health insights(of which there are now 36,000 pages you can search on virtually every health topic on Mercola.com), I started carefully evaluating products and services that could contribute to REAL prevention and cure, and providing only the most highly recommended products based on my analysis to you.

There are tens of thousands of products out there in the natural health category, and many companies and individuals are making mega-bucks off of their sales the way pharmaceutical companies make mega-bucks off of their drugs, but many of these products are not exactly beneficial, and some are downright worthless. I NEVER have or will recommend anything just to make a buck -- that has nothing to do with my vision -- and as you can see in the Recommended Products section, to date there are only about thirty products that met my very high standards and are worth recommending and offering to you.

This is all to point out that, while today Mercola.com, this free e-newsletter, and their overriding vision are supported by the sales of the Recommended Products, there aren't exactly millions or even thousands of dollars to commit to marketing and advertising the site and newsletter. I personally have made my living (good but not extravagant by any means) from my clinic, not Mercola.com, and the funds from the recommended products instead go back into maintaining and expanding this site and the vision that drives it.

Instead, the free eHealthy News You Can Use newsletter has grown to nearly 260,000 subscribers, and Mercola.com has grown into the most visited natural health and wellness site on the Internet, primarily through your word-of-mouth ... your voice.

It has grown through readers like you encouraging people you know -- people whose health and wellbeing are increasingly threatened by the misperception of what health is fostered largely by the drug companies in their greedy quest for ever-greater profits -- to simply subscribe to the free newsletter ... to subscribe, that is, toward increasingly understanding that the most dangerous thing they can do is put blind faith in the current medical establishment versus taking back control of their own health through some of the strategies I and other contributors provide in the newsletter.

The pharmaceutical industry currently spends over $3 billion to advertise to and manipulate you, the consumer. I, meanwhile, wish I could merely afford one full-page ad in the major newspapers in the U.S. to counter their brainwashing, but still cannot.

So how can you start taking the pharmaceutical industry -- and the other entities in the current medical establishment whose main goal is increasing their already bloated pocketbooks, not improving your health -- down a good nine notches? The same way that every great revolution has occurred, with the one power that far exceeds their money:

Spreading the truth through your voice, and our collective voice.

You likely don't agree with every detail or piece of advice you find in my free e-newsletter -- that would be impossible -- but if you agree with the great need and vision to transform the existing health paradigm manipulated largely by the pharmaceutical industries ... and if you agree with my right to publish this newsletter dedicated to exposing that far and wide and instead encouraging people to take control of their own health with real solutions ... then please help spread the word by:

Forwarding a copy of this article, or the Reader Testimonials, by using the "Email to a Friend" feature in the upper-right corner of the page (or cutting and pasting should you choose), to as many people as possible. I recommend you add your own comments to the email you send out encouraging them to sign up for the free e-newsletter and read the articles ... again of course not everyone will agree with every detail, but most immediately understand and appreciate the overall insights I am dedicated to providing.

Review the "Recommended Products" section and consider supporting the vision, maintenance and expansion of Mercola.com and this e-newsletter by trying some of the healthy products. If you have not already read my Total Health Cookbook & Program, that is a great place to start as it contains my entire dietary health program from A-Z and over 150 healthy and delicious recipes, and comes with a full money-back guarantee.

Notch by notch we can and will make prevention and cure the norm, not the "alternative," when the word "health" is spoken!

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