Welcome to the Healthy Moms Podcast with Katie from WellnessMoma.com.

Today, we again join Katie and pharmacist Mary Leesnaugress as they discuss the truth about

common medications, including those for cholesterol, high blood pressure, heartburn, and more.

In this episode, we will discover why we are seeing such a drastic rise of these medications

and their corresponding problems in the last few decades, as well as what we can expect if these trends

continue. Find out why taking medications like acid blockers might do more harm than good in a

long run. Why reducing cholesterol may be a bad idea and the supplements that can help undo

the damage from using these medications. To help you discover your own health answers,

Mary Lees has offered her PDFs showing the cascade of pharmaceuticals that can occur from taking

just one medication. To get this and all other bonuses from past episodes, join our community

at wellnessmoma.com-forwardslashpodcast. That's wellnessmoma.com-forwardslashpodcast.

Mary Lees, welcome back. I'm excited for this episode as well. Another topic that you and I have

discussed and that it seems like that has become a bigger and bigger topic recently is common

misconceptions when it comes to digestive health, especially with cholesterol and how heart health

is tied in here. I'm not an expert on this as you are with the pharmaceutical side, but from what I've

read, heartburn and indigestion have become really rampant problems lately. You probably, in the

pharmacy, maybe you see a lot of this firsthand. The sales of things like acid blockers and proton

pump inhibitors are some of the fastest growing in the pharmaceutical industry, at least from

the report that I read. Can you talk about some of these drugs, how they affect the body, and

do they really solve the problem, or what are they doing in the body? Yes, I can. First of all,

let me tell you how I'm still excited to be here, and I'm having lots of fun. We talked a little

bit about how medications deplete nutrients, and these nutrients depletions can cause another

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