5 Pharmaceutical Drugs that Immediately Destroy Your Health

by DailyHealthPost Editorial

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4. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI)

PPI are prescribed for gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD, or “acid reflux”) and ulcers. They work by blocking enzymes in the stomach that produce acid. Over-the-counter versions of this type of drug are also widely available.

Long-term use of PPI has been linked to significantly greater risk of gastric cancer, chronic kidney disease, neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Alzheimer’s, dementia, cognitive impairment), bone deterioration, colitis, and premature death. (28-33) In addition, less dire side effects include:

  • abdominal pain
  • constipation
  • diarrhea
  • fever
  • flatulence
  • headache
  • nausea and vomiting
  • skin rash.

Effectively treating GERD means finding the cause: too much or not enough stomach acid. Click here for some home remedies.

5. Statins

Prescribed to manage high cholesterol levels, statins like Lipitor are exceedingly popular (other brand names: Crestor, Livalo, Mevacor, Pravachol, Zocor). By 2012, 28% of adults over forty years old were taking cholesterol medication and 93% of those medications were statins. (34) The risks introduced with regular use of statins include:

  • breast cancer (35)
  • diabetes (36)
  • eye cataracts (37)
  • hemorrhagic strokes (38)
  • cognition and memory loss (39)
  • kidney and liver damage
  • musculoskeletal disease (40)
  • Parkinson’s disease (41)
  • and more.

Moreover, long-term use of statin drugs is known to deplete the body of important nutrients: vitamins D, E, and K and co-enzyme Q10 (CoQ10). Funnily enough, these nutrients are important to heart health—the premise for the existence of statin drugs. Statins work by inhibiting enzymes in the liver from producing cholesterol. In so doing, they block the production of ketones, which are active in cellular metabolism, thereby starting a ripple effect throughout the body.

“…naive indiscriminate acceptance of novel mainstream therapies is not always advisable and prudence is required in unearthing harmful, covert side effects…There is a categorical lack of clinical evidence to support the use of statin therapy in primary prevention. Not only is there a dearth of evidence for primary cardiovascular protection, there is ample evidence to show that statins actually augment cardiovascular risk in women, patients with Diabetes Mellitus and in the young. Furthermore statins are associated with triple the risk of coronary artery and aortic artery calcification. Cardiovascular primary prevention and regeneration programmes, through life style changes and abstaining from tobacco use have enhanced clinical efficacy and quality of life over any pharmaceutical or other conventional intervention.” (42)

You can control LDL cholesterol through diet and lifestyle changes that are neither difficult nor dangerous.

Generally speaking, pharmaceutical drugs work against natural body processes to address only symptoms. They therefore have absolutely zero chance of fixing the cause of the problem. Restoring what is broken requires a bit more work than scribbling on a piece of paper and swallowing a pill.

By the way, the risk of dying from natural healthcare and therapeutic products is much lower. (43)

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