Show 1443: Rethinking Medications: Uncovering the Truth About Common Drugs

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Americans take a lot of medications. Luckily, the Food and Drug Administration only approves those that are safe and effective. However, the agency’s definition of “safe” includes medicines that can harm or kill some people, and the definition of “effective” covers some drugs that only work a little better than placebo. Has the FDA changed […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Americans spend more on drugs and have less to show forth than other countries.
0:20.1	Today, rethinking medications.
0:23.7	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:32.2	The FDA used to be the envy of the world.
0:37.2	Has it been captured by the pharmaceutical industry it's supposed to regulate?
0:41.9	You've heard of Ocempic and Wegovi.
0:44.6	They both contain simaglutide as the active ingredient.
0:48.3	How could they have dramatically different rates of side effects?
0:52.3	Are you fed up with all the prescription drug commercials on TV?
0:56.5	What about the high price of many prescriptions?
0:59.7	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, uncovering the truth about common drugs.
1:20.7	In the People's Pharmacy Health headlines, lowering sodium intake is good for cardiovascular health,
1:26.2	but increasing potassium intake may be just as important, if not more so. A Danish study of 1,200 patients with implanted
1:30.3	cardioverter defibrillators or ICDs compared usual care to a strategy designed to get potassium
1:37.5	levels into the upper end of the normal range. All of these study participants were at high risk
1:43.6	of atrial fibrillation and all started
1:46.4	with potassium levels at the low end of the normal range. The outcomes of the study were ventricular
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