The bad news about Bromo-Seltzer took half a century to become common knowledge because, as is customary, Big Pharma managed to keep the truth swept under the carpet.  Those in the know, however, were aware that too much of this hangover cure led to what became known as “Bromo-Mania.”

Don’t believe me?   Check The New England Journal of Medicine, and you will learn that between 1920 and 1960, alarming numbers of Bromo-Seltzer victims landed in psychiatric hospitals with acute paranoid psychoses, secondary to ingesting the bromine in Bromo-Seltzer, as well as another bromine tonic, known as “Miles Nervine.”

      Bromine, bromide, bromate, brominated, brominated vegetable oil (BVO) whatever they call it – shun it!  (For the sake of simplicity, I will refer to this chemical as “bromine.”) 

Bromine was eventually removed from these tonics, but not due to government diligence.  On the contrary, all it takes is a bit more digging to find that the U.S. Government dosed personnel during the Gulf War with pyridostigmine bromide. It was given to unsuspecting soldiers to prevent death in the event of exposure to chemical warfare.

As it happened, the chemical warfare didn’t eventuate – but Gulf War Syndrome did, and it should come as no surprise to those familiar with government to know that a cover-up was put into place.  Consequently, we can’t locate statistics on the number of service men and women who were sent home as incurably ill, hopeless psychotics.  (See Chapter 4, “Excitotoxins — Deadly Chemicals Your Government is Happy for You to Eat and Drink,” to learn about other, related, chemicals that contributed to Gulf War Syndrome.)

This deadly “side effect” of bromine was as apparent then, to governments and scientists, as it is now.  Yet, bromine use is still so widespread that it is nearly impossible to avoid.  It is even in some children’s asthma inhalers!  Has your doctor prescribed one of these inhalers for your child?  If so, I suggest you ask why he/she has put your child at risk of “bromine intoxication,” which can cause schizophrenia, delirium, hallucination and psychomotor retardation.     Prescribing a dangerous drug, when a simple change of diet easily banishes asthma symptoms, looks like malpractice to me.  If you agree, I strongly suggest a change of doctor, if you can locate one who isn’t under the thumb of the poison-pushers. 

Of course, if you are also being exposed to bromine, in your food or in some trusted medication you have been taking for years, you will probably suffer from depression and brain fog, and an inability to concentrate sufficiently to change doctors.  You may feel so dull and apathetic that you won’t have the judgement, wit or gumption to recognize what your doctor, in league with Big Pharma and governments, is doing to your child, and to most people in “civilized” countries.

Excerpt from: Take Control of Your Health and Escape the Sickness Industry by Elaine Hollingsworth.

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