046: Mary Lee Snodgrass on the Overmedication of America
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, pharmacist Mary Lee Snodgrass talks about how and why the trend of overmedication has become so prevalent in America. As a second generation pharmacist, Mary Lee has a first hand account of how prescriptions have doubled and tripled over the last few decades.
After arthritis spread through her body, her sisters (who were also pharmacists and getting into nutrition and alternative methods) suggested that the deeper issue could be caused by a leaky gut. She ignored their diagnosis for a while but when Mary Lee started to examine her diet she couldn’t help but realize that this actually could be the issue. She switched up the food she was eating, began taking supplements and probiotics, and overtime she was off her medications and the arthritis was gone. This is when her journey with natural wellness began.
The Overmedication of America
Since then she has studied the two-fold problem of how doctors prescribe medications for every condition and illness (the drug cascade) and patients who do not want to take responsibility for their health.
Being on both sides of traditional and natural medicine, Mary Lee gives us great insight on the problems prescriptions cause by adding to and triggering additional medical issues. From her presentation “The History of Pharmacy According to Bag Size” to her explanation of how symptoms we experience are actually affected by deeper problems that need to be fixed, we’re uncovering the roots of our health issues.
We do have choices, but it’s going to take both the doctors and the patients taking responsibility and not just one side or the other.
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Katie: Mary Lee, thank you for being here. Welcome. I’m so excited that we’re going to
chat today. To start, can you talk to us about your personal story, and how you
got into the natural side of health as well as the traditional side, in being a
pharmacist, and how you tie those together?
Mary Lee: Sure, Katie. First of all, I’m so excited to
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Healthy Moms Podcast with Katie from WellnessMama.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Today, Katie sits down with Mary Leesnod Grass, who has been a pharmacist for 33 years. |
| 0:18.0 | In fact, she comes from a family of pharmacists and has a wide range of experience, both clinical |
| 0:23.6 | and retail pharmacy. Overall, she has spent over 40 years in the trenches in the business of |
| 0:29.5 | pharmacy. In the last several years, Mary Leesnod has shifted her focus to health and wellness, |
| 0:36.0 | especially involving patients in their prescriptions. Now she concentrates her efforts on helping |
| 0:42.2 | patients take better control of their lives through education, with a special interest in nutrition, |
| 0:48.1 | prescription drugs, hormonal balance, and discovering the root cause for patients' complaints. |
| 0:55.0 | Mary Leesnod now works with patients, physicians, and practitioners to help them find wellness |
| 1:00.0 | without the need for multiple prescription drugs and has a unique approach regarding finding |
| 1:05.1 | health and balance in the lives of her patients. She represents the next generation of growth |
| 1:11.1 | in this exciting new field of integrative pharmacy. In this episode, Katie and Mary Lees |
| 1:17.3 | tackle the topic of how over medication and lack of patient responsibility has led to problems |
| 1:23.4 | with the current medical system. To help you discover your own health answers, Mary Leesnod has offered |
| 1:29.6 | her PDFs showing the cascade of pharmaceuticals that can occur from taking just one medication. |
| 1:36.6 | To get this and all other bonuses from past episodes, join the community at wellnessmama.com |
| 1:43.2 | forward slash podcast. Now let's join Katie as she talks to pharmacists, Mary Leesn. |
| 1:51.0 | Mary Leesnod thank you for being here. Welcome. I'm so excited that we're going to chat today. |
| 1:55.3 | To start, can you talk about your personal story and how you got into the natural side of health |
| 1:59.6 | as well as the traditional side of being a pharmacist and how you tie those together? |
| 2:03.9 | Sure, Katie. First of all, I'm so excited to be here. I'm honored and I'm flattered and I'm nervous |
| 2:09.7 | but I'm ready to do this. This is a I'm a rookie but this is going to be fun. So yes, I have a |
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