Is Big Pharma making Americans sick – and costing us billions of dollars unnecessarily? Can we find a cocktail of nutritional supplements on the cheap that can protect us from cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease?

According to Shane Ellison, M.S., an award-winning scientist with a Master’s Degree in organic chemistry, the answer to both questions is an unequivocal “yes.” In his new, eye-opening book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures: 10 Lifesaving Supplements for Less Than $10, the former Big Pharma chemist exposes how the drug industry fails America’s health while costing us huge sums of money and reveals how 10 supplements - that can easily be found on the shelves of mass retailers like Walmart - do a far better job of restoring and maintaining wellness.

“Slowly but surely, I came to realize prescriptions have become more deadly than the so-called diseases they are trying to fight,” says Ellison. “As a young chemist working within the pharmaceutical industry, toiling over the design and synthesis of new medications, I was burdened with this paradox and chose to ignore it. I wanted to believe that prescription drugs could serve as the healing compounds they were promoted as, and that my work and that of others was an asset to the health of millions. But as time passed, it became irrefutable. Outside of emergency medicine, the mass use of prescription drugs as vitamins was undermining health and longevity and big bucks were helping the paradox flourish. Trained as a chemist to identify health problems and solve them at the molecular level, I set out to find a solution to the myriad of health and financial problems caused by this corrupt logic.”

Over-The-Counter Natural Cures reveals:

• How to replace prescription drugs with supplements.

• Why symptom-masking drugs from Western medicine are powerless against serious health issues such as obesity, lethargy, depression, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

• How to easily and inexpensively avoid being nutrient-deficient.

• Why 90% of Americans are nutrient-deficient and how we spend $6 billion a year in search of the ‘right supplement’ while making decisions based on false advertising claims.

• Ways to combine nutritional supplements with healthy diet and lifestyle habits.

• How to avoid dangerous drugs/supplement interactions.

• When to administer the proper supplement dose for maximum efficacy and insure safety.

Ellison, known as “The People’s Chemist,” is followed by 400,000 readers with his monthly health advocacy articles on www.thepeopleschemist.com. His prior books include Health Myths Exposed and The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. He also has been published by On Fitness magazine and quoted in Woman’s World and USA Today.

 In Over-The-Counter Natural Cures, Ellison points out how we can:

• Gain total prostate health with a single supplement.

• Beat illness without antibiotics or a vaccine.

• Administer an alternative to cholesterol-lowering drugs.

• Utilize Mother Nature’s detox cure.

• Wake up with younger-looking skin – and a stronger heart.

• Conquer failing vision in 30 days –without surgery.

• Enjoy the longevity jackpot by eating chicken liver.

• Take six action steps to recover quickly from a cold or illness.

• Capture health’s silver bullet by controlling our blood sugar levels.

Over-The -Counter Natural Cures fills a nutritional void with efficient, inexpensive, easily accessible disease-beating nutrients. Ellison also teaches the true causes of today’s pandemic killers and educates us on how certain supplements, combined with select lifestyle factors, can help you defy the ugly effects of premature aging.

Along the way, Ellison rails against the government-mandated food pyramid, complains that physicians have little or no training in herbal medicine, and exposes why Big Pharma can’t financially capitalize on nutrient logic.

He notes 200,000 patients die annually from using prescription drugs as dictated by their doctor. And because most Americans are not adhering to nutrition logic, illness continues to proliferate.

“I abandoned my career as a drug design chemist because I grew so disgusted with Western medicine’s blatant willingness to ignore nutrient logic as a viable and inexpensive alternative to drugs,” says Ellison. “Since then, my goal has been to advise consumers about safe, natural supplements, that can help them finally become healthy. Proper nutrient intake is the biggest determinant of health, longevity, and sports performance.”

Ellison concludes: “The more we spend on medicine, the sicker we get.”

Over-The-Counter Natural Cures: 10 Lifesaving Supplements for Under $10

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Author: Shane Ellison M.S.

Bound: Trade Paperback

240 pages

Retail price: $15.99 U.S.     $19.99 Canada

ISBN # 9781402225055

Available at all major booksellers - Fall 2009