I urge you not to get complacent about what you’re taking
Taking 5 or more of these is dangerous
Matt Cook here, and doctors love to prescribe Big Pharma treatments, but they aren’t always so keen on taking you off of them.
This is a huge problem for people — especially if their treatments have bad interactions with each other or are no longer needed.
When a person is taking too many treatments, it’s called inappropriate polypharmacy.
Taking too many meds — especially if they aren’t necessary — is extremely dangerous.
Inappropriate polypharmacy — the use of excessive or unnecessary medications — increases the risk of adverse effects, including falls and cognitive impairment, harmful interactions, and disease interactions, in which a medication prescribed to treat one condition worsens another or causes a new one.
Inappropriate polypharmacy becomes even riskier when people have multiple providers all prescribing things and not consulting with each other.
Polypharmacy also creates a tremendous burden for patients and their families, who need to understand the purpose of the many prescriptions written by multiple providers, get refills, take each medication at the correct time of day, and recognize side effects.
It’s also EXTREMELY common for people over the age of 60 to be on five or more treatments at a time.
According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 83% of U.S. adults in their 60s and 70s had used at least one prescription drug in the previous 30 days and about one-third used five or more.
If you find that you are on many treatments or if you aren’t sure why you are on multiple treatments, you might want to talk with your doctor about deprescribing.
This is a controlled way to get off of treatments.
It can reduce the amount of things you are taking as well as reduce the risks from taking multiple treatments.
A group of researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical center recruited older patients who were taking at least 5 treatments and worked with them to deprescribe.
Results of this trial showed that the Shed-MEDS patient-centered deprescribing intervention was safe and effective in reducing the total medication burden at PAC facility discharge and 90 days after discharge.
The researchers were able to SAFELY reduce the amount of treatments that people were taking…
…and they didn’t see increased deaths, hospitalizations, or adverse events from this careful effort.
Taking fewer Big Pharma treatments is easier to manage and has fewer adverse side effects.
Managing multiple medications can be expensive, difficult to track, and hard to manage, especially for those who are homebound or who live in rural areas. In addition, the use of many medications can increase the risk for adverse reactions (problems or side effects caused by a treatment) and interactions (meaning two or more don’t work well together, causing unintended problems).
I want to be clear here…
If you are currently on many treatments, please don’t stop them without consulting your doctor.
If you want to start going off Big Pharma treatments, work with your doctor to see what you can deprescribe safely.
You will want to bring the complete list of what you take to a single medical professional.
I’m not 100% against Big Pharma products, but I’ve found that in many cases… they do more harm than good.
It’s a good idea to work with your doctor to take as few pills as you actually need.
—-Important Message—-
Blood pressure warning: stop taking this
Have you seen this serious warning?
Nearly all of these blood pressure treatments cause terrible health problems in men, but doctors keep prescribing them.
Sure they lower blood pressure, but they come with awful side effects…
We’re talking rockiness problems, cancer, even Alzheimer’s…
These treatments make the news, get pulled off the shelf, and then are reformulated under a different name.
And they keep making men sick.
In fact, you may not even know that the blood pressure treatment you’re taking right now is dangerous.
And you’ll also find a natural method for lowering blood pressure, so you can get off the dangerous treatments with your doctor’s blessing.
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