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23. Are your Medications Fixing You or Making Things Worse? (The Band-Aid Approach vs Root-Cause Healing)
Are you taking your prescriptions faithfully but still feeling worse? Do your labs look “normal” while your body feels anything but?
In this episode, Karin Allumbaugh shares the functional medicine perspective on why so many chronic conditions aren’t healed by managing numbers alone. We walk through the three most prescribed medications in the U.S. — statins, metformin, and levothyroxine — and explain how they often silence symptoms without addressing the inflammation, gut issues, nutrient deficiencies, and stress driving disease underneath.
You’ll learn why cholesterol is often a messenger…
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