Joanne,

    There is a book called "Toxic Psychiatry by Peter Breggin. Prozac was
first tested on 600 humans in 3 months! What you say is very true, but the
same and more could be said about most presciption drugs prescibed by M.D.'s.
I am trying Co-Q-10 because over three years Lipitor almost made me unable to
walk any distance. I really appreciate the refeences and your obvious active
examination of the literature, but there are side effects to any things and
the "natural herbs" are unregulated and are much like the Patent Medicines of
the 1890's and 1900's. Most of those were mixtures of alcohol, cocaine and
opium! However, I am friends with my Dr. and see him every day. He did not
put me on Lipitor(the guy before him did). Despite all that my last blood
test showed my LDL's to be 62! So, Lipitor does its job, but depletes energy
from my muscles.  Any medication is taken at some risk. Buyer beware.

Bobby
In a message dated 9/3/01 8:41:12 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

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Magnesium isn't a harmless little supplement.It can interfer with
tetracycline and and if you have kidney problems can lead to problems.
Here is the med-line site for it:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/magnesiumsupplementssystemic202644

.html
You may have to type it into your browser as it is an awfully long line.
Then again you can just look up med-line itself.
As far as Co-Q-10 goes a web search showed hundreds of sites that gave
glowing reports and were willing to sell this awesome supplement "cheaper
than the next site. Looking at the prices it really isn't so cheap
considering I have a $5 co-pay on prescription drugs. Also as supplements
aren't regulated do you really know what the fillers the manufacture may
have put in with the star ingrediant?  >>