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Many People See Medication As The 1st Stop For Healing But How Is Your Body Reacting When You Are Taking The Medication · Health, Life & What’s Next

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  Welcome back to the podcast.
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  I have a special podcast for you today.
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  We will be talking about medications.
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  I've gotten so many.
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  Requests and questions about my philosophy, thought process beliefs about medications.
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  And today.
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  I'm going to put all of that to rest.
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  Because when people hear functional medicine practitioner, they think that we are against medication.
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  And yes, granted, there are some doctors out there that are completely against medications, but I am not one of them.
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  I repeat.
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  I am not against medications.
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  Wow, Dr.
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  Jensey.
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  What?
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  Yes.
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  I know I've done many podcasts, Facebook lives, I G talking to how bad medications are.
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  But what I felt to state is that I myself will recommend medications in state of emergency.
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  As a matter of fact, I prescribed a Z-Pak and.
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  Prednisone to a patient.
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  Who had really severe symptoms, chest congestion, wheezing.
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  Coffin, cut a virus out there.
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  And I did not want the patient to go to an urgent care or emergency room and wait for hours so I prescribe.
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  Uh, partner zone only for three days.
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  And also Z-Pak.
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  As needed, fortunately the partner zone after two days of taking the partner zone, She didn't need the Z-Pak.
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  which is really what a good, the cough the wheezing went away, she felt great.
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  And now we are working on building her immune system.
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  So that is how I use medications.
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  But let's talk about it.
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  What do I think?
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  What is my belief about medications?
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  Do I really hit medications?
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  The answer is no.
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  I don't.
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  I still maintain all my, licenses in the conventional world.
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  That I need to prescribe controlled substance medications.
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  Because again, my job as a functional medicine doctor is to make sure that my patient is safe.
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  They are stabilized.
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  And when you work with a doctor like myself, you don't really need to go to your primary care doctor because I can do exactly what they do.
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  So let's dig into it.
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  Let's talk about medication.
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  That's exciting.
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  So before we get started, let's just talk about what is medication.
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  I Googled it.
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  And according to all the online dictionary.
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  And medication is the treatment using drugs.
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  And medication is a treatment using drugs..
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  Illegal drugs.
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  That's what medication is for me.
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  Medication is a combination of chemical substances.
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  I put together.
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  To give somebody maintain or to numb they symptoms.
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  That's my personal definition of medication.
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  Because if you think about mitigation, the source what, where it was made, but vacations were made in a laboratory.
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  And there's nothing good.
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  Comes out of a laboratory with a whole bunch of wonderful scientist researchers putting together testing chemicals, mixing chemicals, and then.
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  Lisa to the public.
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  For us to take.
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  Now again.
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  The way I use medications.
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  Completely different my belief system is that we need medications to stabilize.
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  Your symptoms your body.
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  But temporary.
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  We should never be a medication longterm.
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  Of anything.
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  The body will fight you.
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  And if we put in tons of chemicals, we are increasing the toxic load in our bodies.
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  As we know, with every single medication, there are side effects it's listed on the internet.
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  And the FDA is making sure that we all know what we put into our body.
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  So we are taking these pills at our own expense.
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  The other thing I don't like about medication.
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  Is the way medications are being prescribed.
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  It's the belief that you got to be on the medication for the rest of your life.
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  If you have diabetes, there's no other solutions.
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  The medication is eight.
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  And new try this medication.
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  That didn't work or you increase the dose.
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  So there's never.
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  Uh, will solution provided by taking the medication?
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  And for me, that's a problem.
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  I don't want to be on a pill forever when I stopped taking the pill.
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  All my symptoms come back.
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  If medication is a treatment and is supposed to treat my problems.
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  So I should be taking it for however, like a day, two days.
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  Three days a week.
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  And then have my problems treated.
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  But unfortunately that is not the case with medications.
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  And another issue I have with medication is that there are so many for one condition.
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  I have diabetes, but there are 300 pills you can take.
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  There are so many insulin injections you can take and pharmaceutical companies, uh, we listen new medications every single day.
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  To me again, that's a problem.
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  Can I just stick one pill and just get rid of my diabetes.
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  Why do I have to take Metformin?
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  That didn't work because I have stomach issues or then I have to take glyburide Then I'm taking Januvia that didn't work like.
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  So many things Lente.
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  So human lands, so many medications out there for one condition.
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  And that was the same thing.
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  With high blood pressure.
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  I start with Lasix.
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  They didn't work.
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  Hydrochloric ties.
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  I didn't work.
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  Listen up.
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  Well, so there are so many different classifications.
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  But then again, you might say, well, Dr.
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  Genty.
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  And if you're a practitioner listening to this podcast while yes, we take medications because it depends on what, you know, Going into the body.
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  They are different mechanism taking place.
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  I understand that, but can we just do one pill?
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  Am I asking for too much for that mechanism?
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  It's just to me, doesn't sit well.
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  And that was the reason why I felt like a hypocrite.
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  Every single time that I prescribed medication in a conventional world, because that's all I was doing was prescribing.
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  I was never given the opportunity or creating the opportunity To really know the, with cause of the problem.
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  That's why I was able to see 20 people in one day, because all I'm doing is prescription.
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  Or I'll just write it and the nurse will call it in.
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  But at the end of the day, I'm always thinking about the individual is taking the medication.
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  Are they really getting their results or they will be getting the outcome or they will.
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  Healing.
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  I always pound on that.
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  Like, how are they feeling?
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  And many times I will give a medication for UNH rock infection and the patient will come back with a yeast infection.
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  Or I'll give you medication for acid reflux, then the patient will start having fatigue I still process or stomach issues, because again, The acid reflux medications is reducing the production of stomach acid.
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  That is needed to work on the food.
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  So there's, malabsorptions, or anemia.
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  Huge with acid reflux.
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  So I always wonder, like, why am I doing this?
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  Is there a better way of yet given the medication to stabilize and then find what caused.
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  Which is functional medicine.
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  So that's my issue with conventional medicine or with scription medication is that it is a drugs.
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  I feel like many of us are addicted And that's why every single aches and pains we have, we run to take the drugs.
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  We'll go to your local.
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  Pharmacy CVS or Walgreens, and then we'll get a medications.
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  Which is not good.
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  Believe it or not, that's an addiction.
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  And then we're afraid of letting go of the medication because we're afraid of getting the pain back.
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  When you do stop the medication, the fear is there.
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  The fear is powerful, but yet it's not really helping.
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  It's not really fixing the problem.
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  It gives you some.
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  Instant gratification, we leave, but at the end of the day, the problem is still there.
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  And that's what I want you to think about.
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  Like how can we fix the problem without numbing the symptoms?
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  So.
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  Let's talk about.
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  The discovery.
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  Of medication.
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  Back in the days in the 1950s, 1940s, 1960s.
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  Medicine or medications were administered in the form of herbal concussion.
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  And as science.
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  Advance and evolve.
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  Chemist.
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  We're able to extract the active ingredients from a natural source to make more potent medicine.
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  For example, aspirin that we all love, right?
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  The doctor says, take a baby.
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  Aspirin is good for your heart because aspirin used to be happy was discovered from the Willow tree, which is the bulk of which was used to meet traditional.
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  Herbal medicine.
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  Now, when you go purchase your aspirin now, You look at the aspirin.
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  Look at the side effects that aspirin can cause, and also the active ingredients.
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  So, we search in Asper and I'm like, okay, great.
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  It doesn't say whether to book here.
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  Says active ingredients Rocks.
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  Corn starch.
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  Hi, poor mellows.
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  Those powdered cellulose.
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  And then Which is, I don't understand what that is.
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  So there's no arable.
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  Concussion, when you look at that ingredients of aspirin, Over the counter.
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  But yet back in the days, Aspen used to be good.
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  We used to take an aspirin for anything for your headaches.
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  You take an aspirin to di.
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  Prevent world-class with the can Aspen.
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  But it's not the case now because as we get.
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  We are busy with diseases coming out.
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  Chemists.
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  We searchers have to make manmade products now.
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  And that's why we used to have fewer side effects back in the days.
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  Now we have a lot more side effects.
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  And that's why people don't want to take medications.
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  They didn't want to experience the side effects.
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  So that's what medications used to be back in the days used to be nacho elbow concussion.
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  Not anymore.
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  We have a higher demand, not enough supplies.
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  And it takes time to extract nacho staff from a tree from a potluck.
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  And the chemist and researchers do not have time because they have to produce.
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  And that's why there's different formulations, different type of medicine, medications for one symptoms.
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  So let's talk about why people don't want to take medications.
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  Because so often patients will come to me and say that, the doctor prescribed it.
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  I don't want to take it.
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  And I asked, why is that?
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  I just don't want to take a pill.
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  I want to fix the problem.
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  Because they are not into alignment.
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  The medications.
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  Or that little intuition tells them not to take the medications or they've taken medications in the past and have not seen a solution.
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  Oh, they just go through that.
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  To get prescribed yet.
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  Another pill.
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  And not appeal and that appeal.
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  And it's frustrating when new, trying to seek help you trying to fix your problem.
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  But yet you get in the pill after pill.
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  That is very frustrating.
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  But people don't want to take medications because they don't understand the directions.
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  How many times your doctor prescribed medications to you and you still confused about, oh, how do I take this?
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  I hear that so often they don't understand the directions.
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  People need to understand the medication's purpose, the safety and effectiveness.
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  As well as potential risk for mixing medications, with food and supplements.
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  We don't understand why we taking this medication.
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  We don't understand what's in the medications.
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  We go to the pharmacies.
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  The doctor called it in the nurse call the day, but yet we just taken it, but we don't know why.
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  Why am I taking this medication?
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  I'm not always in why people don't take meds.
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  Because they forget.
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  The on so many medications.
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  Some people take 3, 4, 5 medications.
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  And they forget life happens.
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  It's not a priority.
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  Also the unpleasant side effects is huge.
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  Right.
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  We want to take the medications.
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  We don't want the side effects associated with it.
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  What is the purpose of taking a pill?
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  To be having.
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  Stomach issues.
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  So for instance, the baby aspirin now that are being produced or manufactured in a laboratory, the side effects of the baby Aspen is ringing in your ears.
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  Confusion, hallucination.
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  Rapid breathing.
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  I'm reading this from the FDA website.
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  Seizures, severe nausea, vomiting, stomach issues.
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  Coughing up blood.
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  That's the side effects of medications.
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  vomiting that looks at coffee.
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  Fever sometimes my last, up to three days.
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  So if you never had.
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  Rapid breathing, or you never had ringing in your ears or you never had stomach issues and you start taking the baby aspirin.
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  And you take one of those three, those in, sometimes it takes time for the, side effects to express themselves for them to take place.
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  Many people don't think it's not the medication that goes in the latest symptoms must be something else.
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  But yet the thing that you started is the medication.
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  And according to the FDA.
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  the most common side effects of baby aspirin or aspirin is upstate stomach and heartburn.
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  Wow.
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  Heart burn, acid reflux, drowsiness, and mild headaches.
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  but the most common ones are upset.
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  Stomach.
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  Heartburn drowsiness and mild headaches.
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  can you relate to that?
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  And I go to doctor's office for one particular health issues.
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  And they give me one medications.
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  That one medication doesn't work.
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  I go back and say, doctor, that doesn't work.
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  They give me another medication you ended up having more than you wanted more than you desire.
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  Of course, the more medications you take, the more side effects you experienced.
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  I just, the way it is.
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  So unpleasant side effects medication doesn't seem to be working.
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  Medications don't work.
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  They numb your symptoms.
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  They give you some relief, what you need to work on identifying the problem.
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  And not always in why people don't take medications because of the cost.
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  Right because now insurance is getting very smart.
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  I will have care.
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  Cost is going up.
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  Insurance denies medications all the time.
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  It's out of pocket.
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  I had a patient and went to pharmacy to pick up Medications.
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  And unfortunately the insurance didn't cover.
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  And she didn't have the money.
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  so she didn't pressure the medication.
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  And what happened to that patient?
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  Still struggling with the symptoms have more symptoms.
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  But yet no results, no relief.
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  Patient cannot afford to fill the prescriptions.
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  Uh, they decide to Deke less than the prescribed those.
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  Sometimes they just Don't fill up the prescription at all.
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  So.
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  Going back to the side effects.
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  When you have side effects, as I'm am went over with the aspirin, then you experience more health complications.
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  Because you have more side effects.
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  Your body's recognizing this chemicals you put into your body.
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  As a toxin.
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  Then you have massive inflammation.
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  And you wonder why you haven't stomach upset after he take the baby aspirin because your body doesn't want want the Aspen to be.
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  In your body for a long time, you have to decrease the use.
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  Again, medications are used as an emergency.
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  I use medications.
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  As an emergency.
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  If you have poison Ivy.
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  Oh, you have enough electric shock or you have an allergic reactions.
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  I'm not going to wait for the herbs to work.
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  I am going to give you.
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  Valtrex, I will give you a medication.
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  As I mentioned, I prescribed medication earlier today because I wanted the patient to really get some relief from all the coughing, the wheezing.
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  I didn't want her lungs to collapse.
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  I didn't want her lungs to be under so much stress and.
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  Natural medicine takes time to work.
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  So I'm always prescribing medication.
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  When I see feet as an emergency.
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  So according to the FDA.
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  Glad the FDA recommends that every single.
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  Manufacturer or laboratories to list all the side effects.
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  On the website.
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  The FDA wants you to know exactly what adverse side effects you could experience from medication.
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  All known adverse reactions should be listed on the website of the manufacturer or even on the package, into.
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  Because at the end of the day, everything you do, you do an at your own risk.
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  It is your decision.
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  Nobody will it came to your house, forces you to take any pill.
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  So therefore if you take an, a medication for a long time, you're not.
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  Not seeing the results you experience any side effects.
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  Think about you being in charge.
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  You be in control.
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  And how you can fix that problem.
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  So in order for medication to be approved by the FDA.
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  The drug manufacturer has to list all its known adverse reactions.
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  He has to be public knowledge.
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  Remember that.
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  Because again, it's At your own risk.
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  Now what could cause adverse reactions?
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  So first let's discuss what is an adverse reaction.
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  And adverse reaction.
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  According to the online dictionary is an Unexpected medical problem.
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  That happens, doing treatment with a drug or therapy.
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  And adverse reaction is an On inspected.
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  Medical problem that happens doing treatment with a drug or, or that therapy.
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  When I take a medication, I don't want any unexpected medical problem to happen.
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  I already have a medical problem.
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  I'm trying to treat them, trying to tackle.
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  Why would I add more than what I have.
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  Right.
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  Does it make sense?
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  to me.
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  Why I will ask for more unexpected problem.
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  When I already have the ones that I, I'm trying to get what of.
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  So all medications have side effects.
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  Every single one of them.
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  The baby aspirin.
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  I went over, it has side effects.
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  Now let's talk about the most common over-the-counter medication that all of us have used to.
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  We've taken them at one point in our lives, which is Tylenol.
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  Tylenol is.
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  Notorious for side effects.
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  But this side effects are silent.
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  And for me, I find that the side effects kind of creep in later on.
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  You don't see, you don't get, you don't feel the side effects right away.
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  So Tylenol acetaminophen.
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  We use that for pain.
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  We use that four to reduce fever.
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  It is a very popular over the counter medication, but let's look at the ingredient what's in the Tylenol.
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  If you purchase this, I know you look at the box what's in it.
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  So the first one is powdered cellulose.
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  Where do we get part of cellulose?
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  I don't know.
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  Starch sodium starch, magnesium stair innate purify water.
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  There's F D N C number.
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  40.
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  Which is a coloring, Red number 40.
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  So that's why you start to notice pigmentation of redness back it's red.
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  Aluminum lake.
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  Polyethylene glycol, which is dangerous.
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  Titanium dioxide, F D N C yellow, number six, eliminate some lake.
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  Police sobbing, 80 sucralose.
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  Oh, my.
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  Iron oxide in wax.
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  Now tell me any of these ingredients that I listed.
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  Can you identify any of them?
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  You might say, well, it has magnesium stereo in it, but that's a preservative.
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  There's no herbal in talent.
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  There's no herbs.
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  There's no nature in Tylenol.
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  But yet many of us take that medication for everything.
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  We have a pain with the Tylenol.
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  You know, fever with the tunnel.
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  And some people I know just they live on Tylenol because it's safer than a B.
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  Often.
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  Again, the side effects of Tylenol.
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  The side effects, stomach issues can affect your kidneys.
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  Can affect your liver.
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  There's so many things.
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  effect.
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  So we have to make sure we understand.
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  Like why we taking it?
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  And should we take it?
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  A better options of taking Tylenol.
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  If you have stomach issues.
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  You have stomach pain.
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  Do you take the ton or do you take something else?
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  Right because.
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  Blister is the side effects rashes.
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  stomach issues or side effects of Tylenol.
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  So all this go back.
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  Did I have this pain before I take the pill or has this been happening?
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  After I take the pill.
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  Every single medications have side effects.
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  So that's my thing with medication is that yes.
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  I don't mind prescribing it.
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  I don't mind taking it.
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  But many of us.
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  Not addicted to it and not only addicted to the medication, we overuse the medications, which backfires on us.
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  And makes us sick even more.
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  There shouldn't be a trillion medications for one condition.
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  And all the side effects that are listed on the website are not good for our bodies.
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  Who wants to have kidney failure after taking the medication?
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  Immunosuppressive medication.
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  At medications for your auto immune disease.
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  We want us to have.
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  Liver.
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  Issues after taking the medication.
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  And one thing we forget to understand too, is that yes.
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  We take the medication, your body recognize it.
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  Your body give you a break.
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  But your liver is the one that has to metabolize it.
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  And over time people go into liver failure.
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  Or sluggish liver or cancer because.
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  At the processes that are taking place is not is, is overwhelming for the liver.
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  Because everything was to deliver all this chemicals.
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  We are feeding our bodies by taking an over the counter, goes into the liver.
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  Over the counters.
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  Is as dangerous as prescription medication.
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  You remember one time you have to get a prescription to get Nexium.
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  For your acid reflux.
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  And now next year, I'm the purple pill.
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  Is so awkward tonic.
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  So pilot sex, they are so available.
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  Now you can just walk in and get them.
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  But when you look at the box, you see that according to the FDA, you shouldn't be taking any acid with Doosan medications for more than two weeks.
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  Because these, they can make your bone weaker.
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  You can get bone loss.
• 19:35
  But the doctor didn't tell you that I never told my patient that I never.
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  Any side effects with my patients.
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  I would give him the pill and then off I go to the next patient.
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  And this is what him to find out what the side effects are.
• 19:44
  And when they come, when they call me.
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  Oh, you could adapt and say doctor.
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  Well, I started taking the pill.
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  My stomach is hurting.
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  What is normal continue taking the pill.
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  Or they switch you to another pill, but yet same problem.
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  So medications.
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  Our use for emergency.
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  They are good.
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  They have the own.
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  Purpose.
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  Like with everything in life.
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  But I feel like many.
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  Prescribers are over prescribing.
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  And many of us are overusing the medications, and many of us are literally addicted to medications.
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  Because we go to take a pill for everything.
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  We don't want to deal with the pain.
• 20:16
  We don't want to figure it out.
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  We don't want to investigate.
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  We just go and just pop a pill.
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  Which is the wrong thing to do.
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  On every single level, take the medication when you have enough severe reactions or severe illness.
• 20:29
  And then once you are.
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  Stabilize and your symptoms has decreased.
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  Stop the medications, figure it out, find out why.
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  Don't depend on medications and I felt a lot of time people.
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  Have luck shackles around the feet.
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  But medications.
• 20:45
  And it came with free from the medications.
• 20:47
  Because the medication dictate what they do.
• 20:50
  Some people have to take a pill to function every day.
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  Which is not normal.
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  That's not life.
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  I know when created to take a pill to function every day, we're creating to evolve, to thrive.
• 21:00
  To have to have that we want.
• 21:01
  If you have any chronic health conditions and you feel like you don't understand my situation.
• 21:05
  I have lupus and I have auto immune.
• 21:07
  I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
• 21:08
  I'm tired all the time.
• 21:10
  And I have cancer.
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  I understand just me.
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  I do.
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  But I also know that.
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  The medications you are taking.
• 21:16
  Can only go so far.
• 21:17
  And we continuous taking that medication.
• 21:20
  You only gonna get more symptoms is gonna interfere.
• 21:24
  Create more inflammation and you're not gonna get the results and the half that you so desire.
• 21:29
  I'm not saying that anybody should stop the medications, please.
• 21:32
  I'm not saying you should.
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  All I'm saying is work with your doctor.
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  Find the common ground.
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  Evaluate or assess and investigate to see if there's not a way you can get similar results by not taking the medication.
• 21:45
  And you can do that by working with your doctor, shouldn't be something you should be doing.
• 21:49
  Do not stop your medication.
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  Cold Turkey.
• 21:51
  the takeaway message on this podcast is that there's a solution for every problem.
• 21:55
  There are many options out there and medications are not the only option.
• 21:59
  It shouldn't be the only one you should always look in for the less.
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  Toxic.
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  Less.
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  side effects.
• 22:05
  because the it's out there back in the day, we didn't have medications that we do now.
• 22:09
  So what would people do?
• 22:10
  When somebody had a headache, what did they do?
• 22:12
  They stop the look.
• 22:14
  They said, okay, did I drink enough water?
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  Did I eat food?
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  Do I have food sensitivities?
• 22:18
  Am I under stress?
• 22:20
  Did I sleep?
• 22:20
  What's causing the headache.
• 22:21
  You have toxins.
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  That's what they did.
• 22:23
  When people have diabetes.
• 22:24
  Okay.
• 22:25
  Has my diet do have insulin resistance to have a gut infections?
• 22:28
  Like what's going on?
• 22:29
  And then you take that information.
• 22:31
  You fix it so you can stop taking the medications.
• 22:35
  Hopefully, I hope that when some clarity and what I see on how I view medications and how I use medications for my patients, because at the end of the day, we should never depend on anything.
• 22:46
  We should only depend on us the knowledge that we have, the education that we have, the power that we have.
• 22:51
  That's the only thing we should depend on.
• 22:53
  So not appeal because the minute you depend on the pill, it, depending on anything else, then you become very.
• 22:59
  Not addictive, but dependent on that pill.
• 23:01
  And then you lose your power that way.
• 23:03
  It's like you're asking the pill for permission to live like medication can have permission to go to work today can have permission to walk today.
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  You don't want to get permission from anything that's external to your body.
• 23:14
  You have everything that you need to heal within and you need to dig into that.
• 23:19
  Use that information wake up every single morning.
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  Try our very best.
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  And just take it one day at a time.
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  That's my recommendations for you.
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  So, if you have any questions at all, as I mentioned in previous podcast, I'm here for you.
• 23:33
  We're here to serve you.
• 23:34
  Any question, you see all our contact information in the show notes below, and let's talk about it.
• 23:40
  Let's have a conversation.
• 23:41
  Do you take medications?
• 23:42
  Are you happy with your medications?
• 23:44
  Are you getting the results that you desire from your medications?
• 23:47
  Are you experiencing any side effects from your medications?
• 23:50
  These are the questions you should ask yourself.
• 23:51
  Is your gut telling you to continue the current medications?
• 23:54
  Did you start with one medication ended up with 2, 3, 4, 5.
• 23:58
  Or I, do you understand why taking the medications?
• 24:00
  Do you know what the ingredients are in the medications?
• 24:04
  If you have answers to all these questions, you're on the right path.
• 24:08
  Take that information and then make the best decision for you.
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  Fantastic.
• 24:12
  See.
• 24:12
  Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for listening to this episode.
• 24:17
  Do me a favor.
• 24:18
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• 24:22
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• 24:25
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• 24:29
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• 24:34
  Send us any questions you have, and then we'll be more than happy to help you until then.
• 24:40
  Stay tuned and I'll see you in the next episode.
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  Bye-bye.