165: Too many meds?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We know that pharmaceutical drugs have their place. But often we are too quick to prescribe and take medications when dietary or lifestyle changes could very well address our health concerns. Today, Sally Fallon Morell, the head of the Weston A. Price Foundation walks us through several articles from our fall Wise Traditions journal that highlight why seniors, in particular, are targeted by the drug companies. She discusses which drugs are most commonly prescribed--including statins, blood pressure medications, and more--and she explains their deleterious side effects. She also touches on our children's health, why their IQ scores are plummeting, and how the environment affects their well-being.
Visit our website, estonaprice.org, for the show notes for this episode and for access to some of the articles from our fall Wise Traditions journal.
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| 0:00.0 | It's very common for seniors to be on five or more drugs, many of which have interactions with each other. |
| 0:08.0 | Of course, the first drug is the statins. |
| 0:11.0 | And unless you have your parents home with you it's very hard to keep them |
| 0:15.2 | off those statins. |
| 0:16.2 | They are routinely given in the nursing homes. |
| 0:19.4 | And of course the next thing will be blood pressure medications. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm not saying that they're not |
| 0:23.5 | necessary sometimes if you have extremely high blood pressure, but they're giving |
| 0:27.5 | them to people with normal blood pressure. Yeah, well the seniors are easy target |
| 0:32.4 | and for more money for the drug companies and then they |
| 0:36.7 | put various types of subtle pressure on the doctors or not so subtle like withholding their |
| 0:42.4 | bonus or docking their pay if they don't write enough prescriptions. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast brought to you by the Weston A Price Foundation |
| 0:57.0 | for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and The Healing Arts. |
| 1:01.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 1:06.3 | optimal health. I'm Hilda Labrada Gore, the host and producer of the show. This is episode 165, a bonus episode which highlights articles |
| 1:16.3 | from the fall 2018 Wise Traditions Journal. This quarter the focus of the |
| 1:22.0 | journal was the overuse of prescription medications. |
| 1:25.3 | Don't get us wrong we know that pharmaceutical drugs have their place, but we are too |
| 1:30.9 | quick to be prescribed and take medications when dietary or lifestyle |
| 1:36.1 | changes could very well address our health concerns. |
| 1:39.2 | Today Sally Fallon Morel, the head of the Westin A Price Foundation walks us through several articles that |
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