Latest / Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy / Understanding Medication Risks and Embracing Holistic Health Solutions...
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is a disruptor's podcast. Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast
- 0:07Speaker 1: dedicated to revealing the profound connections between body, mind, and spirit,
- 0:11Speaker 1: where we believe that true wellness arises from addressing the
- 0:14Speaker 1: root causes of our health challenges, not just masking the symptoms.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Here we dive deep into how holistic approaches such as
- 0:20Speaker 1: advanced chiropractic care, personalized nutrition, and natural healing practices can
- 0:25Speaker 1: transform your life. Now Here is doctor Troy.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. This next article that
- 0:39Speaker 2: ran across my desk I found quite liberating as well
- 0:43Speaker 2: as just refreshing. It was really quite nice to read
- 0:49Speaker 2: some things that were at least fairly truthful. But there's
- 0:53Speaker 2: this truth underneath some of the words that we're going
- 0:56Speaker 2: to go into and realize the dynamics of what they
- 0:59Speaker 2: actually said. And this particular article is medications that seniors
- 1:03Speaker 2: should use with caution.
- 1:05Speaker 3: And this comes from Medicine Net.
- 1:07Speaker 2: And now I've talked about medications in the past, but
- 1:09Speaker 2: for them to kind of come forward and say, hey, medications,
- 1:14Speaker 2: why why do we have medications as we age and
- 1:17Speaker 2: what is the big deal? Now I'm going to read
- 1:19Speaker 2: you for batum this first couple of sentences that it
- 1:24Speaker 2: discusses here, and I thought, wow, this is rather telling.
- 1:27Speaker 2: It's no secret that when you get older your body
- 1:30Speaker 2: doesn't work the way it used to. I was thinking,
- 1:33Speaker 2: what if everybody just kind of took that comment and
- 1:37Speaker 2: then said, yeah, why why does it do that? And
- 1:41Speaker 2: what do I need to do to ramp up my
- 1:43Speaker 2: body's ability to be better? That would be a much
- 1:47Speaker 2: better use. And we'll eventually get to that question, probably
- 1:51Speaker 2: in later podcasts, but I've already explored it at Nauseum
- 1:55Speaker 2: and many other podcasts. In fact, one of my first
- 1:57Speaker 2: podcasts I remember recording was starving on four stomachs. Not
- 2:01Speaker 2: a bad one to go back to and at least
- 2:03Speaker 2: take a gandert And the next sentence says, and that's
- 2:06Speaker 2: true for how you react to medications. Your digestive system
- 2:11Speaker 2: might not absorb medications as quickly. Liver problems might mean
- 2:15Speaker 2: the drug builds up in the bloodstream and doesn't get
- 2:19Speaker 2: into get into it as fast as it should. But
- 2:24Speaker 2: here was the other kicker, and kidney trouble could affect
- 2:29Speaker 2: how well medication moves out of the body as waste
- 2:33Speaker 2: as what as waste? Wait a minute, the medications waste. Yes,
- 2:40Speaker 2: indeed it is. That's how your body views it. So
- 2:44Speaker 2: the medication might be tricking your body into doing something,
- 2:48Speaker 2: but ultimately in the day it doesn't want it in it,
- 2:51Speaker 2: it's going to view it as waste. Now we could
- 2:54Speaker 2: say same thing for metabolites of the cell, and we
- 2:58Speaker 2: could be just as strict and harsh. So I don't
- 3:00Speaker 2: want to totally throw medications under the bus, because there's
- 3:03Speaker 2: still things that we use up and now are waste
- 3:05Speaker 2: that are technically natural. So if I have too much
- 3:09Speaker 2: calcium in my blood, well it's gonna be as waste.
- 3:13Speaker 2: But I'm gonna store as much as I can where
- 3:15Speaker 2: I can tell you we don't really want to store
- 3:17Speaker 2: any of the medications. Liver's not thinking, oh this is
- 3:21Speaker 2: so wonderful. I just want to store this because it's
- 3:23Speaker 2: gonna be helpful. Where all vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids,
- 3:28Speaker 2: the liver is storing those things fats, that's what it does.
- 3:32Speaker 2: And so we will store things like major fats and
- 3:36Speaker 2: things in the body because well, liver doesn't need to
- 3:38Speaker 2: be so big to store it, but there are certain
- 3:41Speaker 2: things that it will hold on to quite nicely, and
- 3:43Speaker 2: it becomes that repository that we so desperately need. And again,
- 3:47Speaker 2: if we even look at sugar, we're only going to
- 3:49Speaker 2: store roughly twenty five teaspoons of sugar in the body.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Everything else is gonna be created as fat or turned
- 3:57Speaker 2: into fat, so we can store it in fat cells.
- 4:00Speaker 2: And now if I need it later, I can at
- 4:01Speaker 2: least pull it off, convert it to glycogen and liver,
- 4:04Speaker 2: and off we go. So it's interesting that they were
- 4:09Speaker 2: quick to describe systems correctly that, Hey, your liver may
- 4:14Speaker 2: have problems and that drug may build up in your bloodstream,
- 4:18Speaker 2: or you may not get it as fast as you should.
- 4:22Speaker 2: Your kidneys may have trouble effectively moving the medication out
- 4:26Speaker 2: of your body as waste as you get older, if
- 4:29Speaker 2: your kidneys do not function well, and so wouldn't it
- 4:32Speaker 2: be wise that we begin to look at organ function
- 4:36Speaker 2: and do something about that. Well, of course, now the
- 4:39Speaker 2: vast majority of these things, like the first thing it
- 4:41Speaker 2: talks about is over the counter painkillers. Hey, all seniors
- 4:44Speaker 2: should be cautious of over the counter painkillers? Well, why well,
- 4:49Speaker 2: because it can damage organs like kidney, liver, heart, digestive system,
- 4:56Speaker 2: and while that is true, when you have an anti
- 4:58Speaker 2: inflammatory drug, it definitely damages the heart. They have proved
- 5:03Speaker 2: that over and over and over, every beat of your
- 5:05Speaker 2: heart has microtearing, and that microtearing creates microinflammation. That microinflammation
- 5:12Speaker 2: goes away relatively fast, I mean really fast. But when
- 5:16Speaker 2: you take an anti inflammatory drug, it actually inhibits that microinflammation.
- 5:20Speaker 2: And now all of a sudden you have a heart
- 5:21Speaker 2: that is not healing, and that heart now can collapse
- 5:27Speaker 2: on itself, known as a heart attack. And so these
- 5:31Speaker 2: heavy duty anti inflammatories have killed thousands upon thousands of
- 5:35Speaker 2: people with heart attack. Now, who's going to have to
- 5:38Speaker 2: detox these chemicals from her blood, liver, kidneys, and then
- 5:42Speaker 2: the digestive system is going to take a bit of
- 5:44Speaker 2: punishment as well. Next says muscle relaxes, only because they're
- 5:48Speaker 2: really concerned about you falling and hurting yourself. I'm like,
- 5:51Speaker 2: all right, yeah, you probably ought tomn know if you're
- 5:54Speaker 2: taking some medications that are going to have problems or
- 5:57Speaker 2: interactions or side effects with some types of muscle relax
- 6:01Speaker 2: and so caution. There certain diabetes drugs. Now, these drugs
- 6:05Speaker 2: that they talked about, I was like I've actually never
- 6:08Speaker 2: heard of these, and so I thought that was fascinating.
- 6:11Speaker 2: I learned some new things here. Diabinnies, I'm like, what
- 6:17Speaker 2: gly buride? Which is diabeta or glynase. I'm thinking, I
- 6:24Speaker 2: have never even heard of these things, and so what
- 6:27Speaker 2: they can do is apparently they work so darn well
- 6:29Speaker 2: that they gots hypoglycemia and that can make you shaky, hungry, tired, sweaty.
- 6:34Speaker 2: I'm thinking, yeah, it sounds like you're definitely in a
- 6:37Speaker 2: hypoglycemic state, and in rare cases they talked about seizures.
- 6:40Speaker 2: I'm like, interesting, So you ought to know your medication
- 6:45Speaker 2: almost as well, if not better than your doctor, and
- 6:48Speaker 2: you should be knowing your body well enough to figure out, Hey,
- 6:51Speaker 2: this medication, I think is.
- 6:52Speaker 3: Actually I'm over medicated. It's your medication. Now.
- 6:55Speaker 2: Again, the doctor might prescribe it, and you might get
- 6:57Speaker 2: mad at them if they do the wrong thing, but
- 6:59Speaker 2: ultimately is your body and you need to be like
- 7:02Speaker 2: figuring out what's going on with me and how do
- 7:05Speaker 2: I use this medication? Well, if that's what you're wanting now,
- 7:10Speaker 2: Next I thought was a little bit telling anti histamines. Now,
- 7:15Speaker 2: antihistamines can actually increase your drugs within cell structures because
- 7:23Speaker 2: antihistamines basically open up the cells and say, hey, take
- 7:26Speaker 2: back all your stuff. And so if you're trying to detox,
- 7:29Speaker 2: now these medications can actually build up in your system
- 7:31Speaker 2: and they can actually cause drowsiness confusion because some of
- 7:35Speaker 2: these medications are definitely neurologic suppressants, and when that happens,
- 7:41Speaker 2: this is not okay. You can actually do some pretty
- 7:44Speaker 2: good damage by being confused, drowsy, falling, whatnot certain sleep aids.
- 7:50Speaker 2: I thought, well, yeah, that goes without saying. It's kind
- 7:52Speaker 2: of like everything else. If you're too groggy and over medicated,
- 7:55Speaker 2: you might literally not even want to wake up in
- 7:58Speaker 2: the morning. And so sleeping pills can lead to dry mouth,
- 8:02Speaker 2: blurred vision, bladder problems, which is really fascinating because sleeping
- 8:06Speaker 2: problems are often calcium need.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Now, we went.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Through diabetes and we talked about those drugs. They definitely
- 8:14Speaker 2: will cause a hypoglycemia and even low blood pressure, but
- 8:18Speaker 2: what tones those blood muscles once again is calcium. So
- 8:22Speaker 2: sleeping can be very much helped by having the right
- 8:25Speaker 2: amount of calcium. And if you're diabetic, you have calcium
- 8:28Speaker 2: problems to begin with, and if you have dry mouth,
- 8:31Speaker 2: now you have an infection, which is a low calcium situation.
- 8:34Speaker 2: If you have dry eyes, same kind of thing, blurred
- 8:37Speaker 2: vision and bladder problems. Again, muscles of the eye, if
- 8:42Speaker 2: they can't contract and hold an image, then you have
- 8:46Speaker 2: a calcium problem. Because calcium runs every muscle in the body,
- 8:49Speaker 2: including your eyes, including your heart, and including all your
- 8:52Speaker 2: leg muscles, arms, muscles and all that, even the smooth
- 8:55Speaker 2: muscle of your gut. And so if you can't hold
- 8:59Speaker 2: the detrue user muscle to your bladder, guess what, It's
- 9:03Speaker 2: called incontinence. And you now have a leaky bladder. And
- 9:07Speaker 2: if you have chronic infections, guess what, your bladder's probably
- 9:11Speaker 2: not far behind it. Anxiety medication. I thought this was
- 9:15Speaker 2: fascinating because there's a lot of wild stuff about anxiety
- 9:21Speaker 2: medication when it comes to causing problems with falling with
- 9:26Speaker 2: confusion with I mean Alzheimer's like symptoms that people now
- 9:32Speaker 2: get misdiagnosed and now they're on other medication that tends
- 9:35Speaker 2: to compound their problem. Again, knowing your condition and knowing
- 9:40Speaker 2: your medication is important. So how many people over the
- 9:45Speaker 2: age of sixty five are on more than one medication.
- 9:50Speaker 2: It's not that they're on more than one, they're averaging eleven.
- 9:56Speaker 2: It's crazy out there at a gall coming in those
- 9:59Speaker 2: on thirty three medic I did some math. It was
- 10:02Speaker 2: over fifteen hundred interactions with her medication. And yet here
- 10:07Speaker 2: if that should warm your heart to how dynamic and
- 10:10Speaker 2: amazing your body is to handle that many chemicals and
- 10:14Speaker 2: that many chemical or interactions and still be taking on
- 10:18Speaker 2: sustenance and breathing in and out. I mean literally, the
- 10:24Speaker 2: only time I'd heard of a patient on more is
- 10:27Speaker 2: I had a friend who told me he had a
- 10:28Speaker 2: client that was on fifty medications. I'm thinking, who in
- 10:32Speaker 2: the right mind would go on fifty medications and think
- 10:36Speaker 2: that was even remotely okay? And yet I'm sure their
- 10:40Speaker 2: doctors don't know. I'm sure the doctors didn't even communicate.
- 10:43Speaker 2: So if you find yourself on over four medications, I
- 10:47Speaker 2: would be seriously questioning all of them. At least get
- 10:52Speaker 2: an idea of what they do and what things that
- 10:54Speaker 2: they affect.
- 10:57Speaker 3: So, I mean, again, that's a little for you.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Now. Then they talk about anti colinergics, I'm thinking, how
- 11:04Speaker 2: many people even remotely understand what an anti colinergic is
- 11:10Speaker 2: now it is for things like Parkinson's irritable bowel depression,
- 11:15Speaker 2: these anti colinergics. Coline is a very important be vitamin,
- 11:19Speaker 2: and anytime that we heat food, we destroy all be vitamins.
- 11:23Speaker 2: They're very heat liable, and so when we lack coline,
- 11:28Speaker 2: we cannot make acetocholine. Therefore we have muscle trouble. And
- 11:34Speaker 2: so with this they talked about, hey, if you have
- 11:38Speaker 2: issues with anti colonergics, it could cause confusion, dry mouth,
- 11:42Speaker 2: blurry vision, especially in older adults and in older males
- 11:46Speaker 2: are more likely to have problems with going to the bathroom,
- 11:50Speaker 2: meaning they.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Can't let down their urine.
- 11:52Speaker 2: And so we have all these things for other conditions,
- 11:56Speaker 2: but they tend to affect everything else because the reason
- 11:59Speaker 2: that we have some of the conditions that we have
- 12:01Speaker 2: are because of deficiencies.
- 12:02Speaker 3: Now I say some, it really.
- 12:05Speaker 2: Should be changed to all conditions are due to deficiencies
- 12:09Speaker 2: of some sort. And so with that, I mean, you
- 12:12Speaker 2: can ferret that out as much as you wish.
- 12:15Speaker 3: But in my office, when.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I talk to clients, I tell them that whatever condition
- 12:19Speaker 2: you have, every cell in your body wants two things.
- 12:23Speaker 2: It wants to be told what to do by the brain.
- 12:25Speaker 2: So it needs good nerve communication that's chiropractic. And then
- 12:29Speaker 2: if it's told what to do correctly, it needs the
- 12:32Speaker 2: nutrients to take or rather to do that action that
- 12:37Speaker 2: nervous system told it to do, and so it needs
- 12:40Speaker 2: the workers. In other words, it needs nutrients. And so
- 12:44Speaker 2: if you supply the correct complete nutrients, food based with
- 12:48Speaker 2: all the phyto nutrients that go with it, now we
- 12:52Speaker 2: have a system that is able to do what it
- 12:54Speaker 2: needs to do to repair, to detox when it needs
- 12:57Speaker 2: to to fix, an coordinate against other body systems to
- 13:02Speaker 2: make hormones so.
- 13:03Speaker 3: That repair can happen.
- 13:05Speaker 2: All these things happen, and the body knows exactly what
- 13:08Speaker 2: it should be doing at any one time. If it
- 13:11Speaker 2: has those two things, now you can say, well it
- 13:14Speaker 2: needs water, well, yes, that would be considered a nutrient.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Well we need rest, well, yes, that's actually considered a
- 13:21Speaker 2: nutrient and it's also something that's required by the nervous system.
- 13:24Speaker 2: Well we need exercise. I'm actually going to disagree with you.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Exercise makes one fit. I'll say it again, exercise makes
- 13:33Speaker 2: one fit. But if you lack nutrients and you try
- 13:37Speaker 2: to work out your body, is it going to create
- 13:39Speaker 2: nutrients where there are none. No. In fact, trying to
- 13:42Speaker 2: get in shape is actually going to take more nutrients
- 13:44Speaker 2: out of your body to do those enzmeatic processes that
- 13:47Speaker 2: you're trying to do to get fit. It will actually
- 13:50Speaker 2: cause you a detriment. So I have folks, I say, look,
- 13:53Speaker 2: I don't want you doing a lot of exercising until
- 13:55Speaker 2: you actually have an excess of energy just normally and
- 13:58Speaker 2: you're sleeping well and you're waking up rested. Now we
- 14:01Speaker 2: have an overabundance of nutrients. Now go out and start
- 14:04Speaker 2: doing some things. But let's have some caution beginning. Let's
- 14:07Speaker 2: not go willy nilly. So all these things like love
- 14:11Speaker 2: and relationships and spiritual wellbeing and water and sleep and sunlight, yes,
- 14:20Speaker 2: those are all nutrients. So when you give every cell
- 14:23Speaker 2: the nutrients it needs and you have good nerve supply,
- 14:28Speaker 2: you have a system that knows how to run and
- 14:31Speaker 2: do what it has been programmed to do since time began.
- 14:35Speaker 2: So these are kind of interesting. The tricyclings. The antidepressants.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Now these two will cause irregular heartbeat, blurred vision, confusion,
- 14:49Speaker 2: memory trouble, even constipation, dry mouth in men again, trouble
- 14:55Speaker 2: with peeing, and so it's these kinds of things that hate.
- 15:00Speaker 2: If you're affecting the nervous system and suppressing things, you're
- 15:03Speaker 2: gonna have all kinds of other issues. And if you're
- 15:06Speaker 2: suppressing with an antidepressant, now we have a global effect
- 15:12Speaker 2: on the brain itself, and so we affect calcium with
- 15:16Speaker 2: some of these things. That's partly why the constipation. Partly,
- 15:19Speaker 2: these particular chemicals are really hard on our bowels, but
- 15:23Speaker 2: they're super hard on the liver. And if you've got
- 15:27Speaker 2: a liver and bile that is trying to detoxify the
- 15:31Speaker 2: blood all the time, you're gonna have constipation or slow
- 15:34Speaker 2: bowels because you don't have the bile that lubricates the
- 15:37Speaker 2: bowels to move it. And if you don't have the
- 15:40Speaker 2: decent amount of calcium, because you've got these blockers going
- 15:43Speaker 2: on and these suppressants. We now have a regular heartbeat,
- 15:46Speaker 2: blurred vision, even dry mouth because now our immune system's
- 15:50Speaker 2: being affected, we may not urinate correctly. And then if
- 15:54Speaker 2: we look at things like confusion and memory trouble, suppressing
- 16:00Speaker 2: the nervous system itself. So with irregular heartbeat, I'm going
- 16:05Speaker 2: to pick greatly on B vitamins, not only calcium, So
- 16:10Speaker 2: the chances are likely you already had a regular heartbeat,
- 16:13Speaker 2: but it wasn't that bad. But now that you're going
- 16:15Speaker 2: to be on an anti psychotic of some sort, now
- 16:19Speaker 2: we've got other issues. So again, be cautious around some
- 16:23Speaker 2: of these heavy duty, you know, weird medications like these. Tegument.
- 16:30Speaker 2: I'm like thinking, Wow, let's just name it, and it's
- 16:36Speaker 2: its medical name is semitodide, which I mean, who wants
- 16:40Speaker 2: to say that five times fast? I think I'd rather
- 16:42Speaker 2: stay tegument. And so with this this heartburn and indigestion
- 16:47Speaker 2: and ulcer treatment that some people are on, you have
- 16:50Speaker 2: to be careful because this will cause side effects too.
- 16:54Speaker 2: Now what I find interesting is it doesn't it doesn't
- 16:58Speaker 2: even matter if it's a regular dose like these are
- 17:02Speaker 2: just like taking the normal, not extra, just being cautious.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Regular dose causes confusion, that's the biggest deal. But it
- 17:09Speaker 2: doesn't actually even say here that heart attacks are commonplace.
- 17:15Speaker 2: Now we spoke about this earlier, but this is combination medications.
- 17:21Speaker 2: So though you might be on four, five, six, ten,
- 17:24Speaker 2: fifteen medications, there are medications out there that are combos
- 17:28Speaker 2: and so some medications, even though they tend to work
- 17:32Speaker 2: better as a combination. If if you have other issues
- 17:35Speaker 2: that just seem to jive with this particular combo medication,
- 17:40Speaker 2: like cold and sinus medication or a decongestant along with
- 17:44Speaker 2: an antihistamine, you can have all kinds of drowsy, confused, groggy,
- 17:49Speaker 2: and blood pressure issues.
- 17:51Speaker 3: And I can't tell you how.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Many clients that have had that, literally are going to
- 17:55Speaker 2: the bathroom the middle of the night and they fall
- 17:58Speaker 2: and hit their head on their counter or the toilet
- 18:01Speaker 2: or the bathtub. It is not a few, it is
- 18:05Speaker 2: it's at least once every six months. In my office,
- 18:08Speaker 2: I hear somebody, I'm thinking what happened? And again it's
- 18:12Speaker 2: this combination medications or all of their medications at once.
- 18:17Speaker 2: And the first thing we'll ask is, hey, are you
- 18:18Speaker 2: on any new medication? No, now I have to wonder
- 18:22Speaker 2: if one of the medications is building up in the bloodstream.
- 18:24Speaker 2: So it just generates a whole host of other questions
- 18:29Speaker 2: as somebody comes in about trying to figure out, hey,
- 18:32Speaker 2: why am I taking care of this neck? And why
- 18:34Speaker 2: did you fall over and have a concussion on your bathtub?
- 18:38Speaker 2: So these are things to be cautious of. And again
- 18:41Speaker 2: for all of you out there, if you're over two
- 18:44Speaker 2: or three or four medications, you should be asking some
- 18:47Speaker 2: super good questions of your doctor and say, why am
- 18:50Speaker 2: I on this? And what are the interactions? What can
- 18:53Speaker 2: I expect? And what can I get off of? Because
- 18:56Speaker 2: that would be ideal. And if he's like, you can't
- 18:58Speaker 2: get off any of these? You can't get off any
- 19:00Speaker 2: of these, then it may be time that you speak
- 19:04Speaker 2: with somebody like myself that says, well, I'm not here
- 19:07Speaker 2: to take you off your medication because I didn't put
- 19:09Speaker 2: them on, but I am here to make them obsolete.
- 19:14Speaker 3: And so as we.
- 19:15Speaker 2: Begin to repair your body and your systems with good
- 19:19Speaker 2: nutrition and good chiropractic care, now do we have a
- 19:24Speaker 2: body that no longer needs the medications that it once did.
- 19:29Speaker 2: So if you begin to change what you do, and
- 19:32Speaker 2: you change what you've done, what you did got you
- 19:36Speaker 2: to where you are now. So if you change it
- 19:38Speaker 2: in a positive direction, it is likely that you now
- 19:42Speaker 2: can let go of those things that you had to
- 19:44Speaker 2: limp along the body because you didn't take care of
- 19:48Speaker 2: the systems well enough. I mean, let's just be honest.
- 19:50Speaker 2: I don't want to pull any punches here. Let's just
- 19:53Speaker 2: be honest with ourselves and look at it directly and realize,
- 19:57Speaker 2: you know what, I think I need to do something different,
- 19:58Speaker 2: and that's a good thing. That's a positive thing. That's
- 20:02Speaker 2: not something to be shamed and embarrassed about unless you
- 20:04Speaker 2: want to be. But I don't recommend that. I recommend
- 20:07Speaker 2: letting go quickly and changing and doing something different, something
- 20:11Speaker 2: more positive for you, and then when you get healthier,
- 20:15Speaker 2: that you let go of those medications. So I hope
- 20:18Speaker 2: that was helpful. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy, and
- 20:20Speaker 2: remember there is way more right with you than there
- 20:23Speaker 2: is wrong with you.
- 20:25Speaker 1: The information on this podcast from doctor Troy Munson is
- 20:30Speaker 1: meant to educate the listener on a variety of health issues.
- 20:34Speaker 2: It is not meant to diagnose or treat any conditions.