Common, overprescribed drugs lead to election dopiness and immaturity

As Bill Maher, New York Magazine, the Washington Post and countless cable news and Internet sources have pointed out, the 2010 midterm campaigns and elections seem to have brought to light an American electorate capable of shocking illogic, ignorance and even violence.

"This is the stupidest electorate ever, it's at a babyish level," said Bill Maher on HBO.

Dr. Nancy Offenhauser, author of Healing Cancer Peacefully: A Memoir (http://www.TheRoundHousePress.com), practices drug-free chiropractic medicine in Amenia, New York. She points to the drugs -- including dangerous antipsychotics -- that are relentlessly promoted on TV as one major cause of election and year-round dopiness and immaturity.

Here are Dr. Offenhauser's reasons:

• Cholesterol-lowering statins inhibit the liver's metabolic pathway and are linked to cognitive defects and even dementia.
• Proton-pump inhibitors interfere with absorption of minerals and nutrients, can cause memory loss.
• Chemo is famous for a fogged "chemo brain."
• Blood pressure-lowering drugs cause dizziness, indicating poor blood supply to the brain.
• Allergy drugs contain judgment-impairing "speed."
• Sleeping pills interfere with the architecture of sleep, affecting brain function.
• Anti-depressants stunt emotional growth.

Such common drugs, with their deadly side effects, are overprescribed, rarely monitored or lowered in response to changes in weight and age, or stopped altogether, notes Dr. Offenhauser, who healed herself of endometrial cancer without drugs or surgery.