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Matthias Rath:
'It is the multinational pharmaceutical companies that control the world'
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Dr
Matthias Rath's profile is not that of a typical
doctor. His
research work on the positive effects of lysine and vitamin C as
alternatives to pharmacological
treatments for some of the most serious
diseases faced by mankind, including cancer,
has brought him into open confrontation with the guardians of conventional
medicine and with the pharmaceutical
industry.
We discussed his
natural therapies last
month. On this occasion we talked to Dr Rath about his condemnation of the machinations of a number
of major multinationals aimed at outlawing natural products as alternatives to
pharmaceutical drugs via the so-called Codex
Alimentarius , which is soon going to rule on the matter, and also
on his decision to accuse
US President George Bush and the major
pharmaceutical corporations of ‘crimes
against humanity' before the International Court in The Hague.
Matthias Rath argues that high
blood cholesterol is not one of the main causes of cardiovascular
disorders. According to him, this claim is just one more myth
created by the marketing men in the pharmaceutical
industry, this time to sell cholesterol-lowering
drugs. If high blood cholesterol damaged artery
walls, Matthias Rath argues, it would do so
in other parts of our blood circulatory system. In other words, we would also
have infarctions in the nose, ear, knees, elbows, fingers and any other bodily
organ. But this does not happen.
Cardiovascular disease
is
virtually unknown in the animal kingdom, whereas among human beings it
is the number one cause of death. ‘Why?', Matthias Rath wonders. The answer is that animals are able to
synthesise their own vitamin C, whereas human beings cannot. The more vitamin C
we take, Matthias Rath insists, the more collagen we
will have, and thus greater stability in our blood vessel walls and fewer heart
attacks. Animals rarely have heart attacks because their bodies produce
sufficient quantities of vitamin C.
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The pharmaceutical
industry, Matthias Rath claims, was created
artificially by investors who, in order to make money out of disease,
had to block non-patentable natural medical therapies to make sure that they
were not available in any part of the world. It is a scientifically
proven fact, argues Matthias Rath, that
vitamin C is the main factor in preventing cardiovascular disease and many
other disorders.
Two out of three people
could probably have been saved from death over the past few decades if
information about the molecules necessary for good cellular functioning which
our own bodies do not produce had only been made widely known, insists Matthias
Rath. Pharmaceutical industry executives, says Dr Rath, quake at the idea that the truth about their
pharmaceutical trade in disease may come out. If this happens
they would be held responsible for the deaths of millions of people from
preventable diseases.
The pharmaceutical
industry has deliberately withheld vital information that could have saved many
people's lives, That is why we are beginning to
witness people turning their backs on the pharmaceutical industry on a
worldwide scale.
Research…
but not at any price. Be successful, yes, but not at the expense of abandoning
one's principles for wealth and power. It is clear that Dr Matthias Rath is a worthy disciple of Linus Pauling ,
the only scientist ever to receive two outright Nobel Prizes. First he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
and later the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in bringing
about the first ever disarmament treaty, the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of
1963. Pauling, one of science's true giants,
discovered the molecular structure of countless organic and inorganic
molecules, discovered the structural properties of proteins and identified the
first genetic disease.
Over 20 years ago, when
Dr Rath began to make his name as a spokesman for German medical students and formed part of the
council of the World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Students' Association,
he first met Linus Pauling.
During this early period their relationship was based
not on science but on a mutual interest in achieving peace and nuclear
disarmament. However, years later Dr
Rath 's
research in the field of cardiovascular health led him to demonstrate
the vital role played by vitamins. In response Linus Pauling offered him the
post of the first Director of Cardiovascular Research at Pauling's
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