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Hi!
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about ‘Disease Begins in Rx? Key Medication Considerations for Practitioners.’ You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.
Here is some of what we covered:
- Loss of proper barrier function in the gut: a gateway to much disease. Yet these seemingly benign and unrelated medications are some of the common culprits.
- Hypertension! Important to address, but are you aware of these downstream effects of most common Hypertension RX?
- Prescribing or recommending vitamin D in a 50,000 IU dose? There are important mistakes you want to avoid!
- The blessings and the mayhem of immunosuppressive drugs? Yes, mayhem!
- Ask every patient if they are taking this medication which breaks digestion, on purpose.
- What we often overlook about antibiotics – Prescription OR herbal.
- Hypothyroid function: to identify it is divine, but clinical management often leaves much to be desired.
- The overlooked B vitamin (no, besides folate or B12), oh-so-commonly depleted by medications, can cause much downstream disease due to enzymes?
- So many “pop” these daily – likely without realizing the effects. Please educate your patients!
- Are you aware of the insidious effects of inhaled steroid medications? Perhaps not what you think!
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31 Questions for “Disease Begins in Rx? Key Medication Considerations for Practitioners”
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keisi xharo says:
Thank you for pointing out the connection between high dose vitamin D and magnesium.
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Cettina Cuffaro says:
Many common medications, prescribed or over-the-counter, can:
1) Cause nutrient depletions (e.g. hypertension meds, statins, high dose Vitamin D)
2) Promote immune dysregulation (e.g. steroids, biologics, antibiotics, herbal microbials)
3) Interfere with nutrient absorption (e.g. pain killers, Metformin)
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Cindy Fink says:
I didn’t realize beta blockers interfered with the synthesis of COQ 10 and melatonin. They were pearls here! I’m so glad SAFM 🙂
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Anna says:
Lots to take away, medications including natural remedies, are there to help managing symptoms in the interim and not for decades until we are able to eliminate root causes and return the body to a state of functional balance. To become conscious of the consequences of our lifestyle choices and not assume that as we age, hypertension or other health problems are inevitable. Understanding the interconnectedness and there are plenty of examples given, much to absorb and to remember!
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Maryam Ghaderian says:
I love the fact that you shared herbs that has very similar effects as Aspirin with little to no side effects. thanks for sharing your wisdom with us.
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Sophie Gauroy says:
So glad to get this wonderful reminders. Thank you.
As always I told my clients that medication could be life saving and not to be seen as a bad thing, but yes might be for a short term use while we are working on the root causes. I loved Tracy when you said that even herbal antimicrobial could kill commensal bacterias, Yess so often forgotten. thank you! 🙏 -
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Lorie Tesch says:
I always love the reminder of the downstream effects of so many common medications!!
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Jan says:
I was blown away by how little this vital information is not ( yet ) common knowledge . There was so many pearls of wisdom . I’m going to keep coming back to watch each of your videos as there’s so much more to learn . Absolutely brilliant conversation Tracy . The more I learn the less I know is so very true . Keep these videos coming , really looking forward to the day I start training with you .
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Carmela Cooke says:
Great information in this webinar – so many aha moments! I was particularly interested in the downstream effects of immunomodulating medications. They are useful in the short term but we need to be addressing the immune system dysregulation that is causing the disease process. I hope that through further research and education, we can have standard protocols in place for everyone to utilize in their everyday practices. People need to know what to do to heal themselves, otherwise, they are stuck with the standard pharmaceutical approach.
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Farida Hoosen says:
vitamin B12 depletion when taking metformin (which my husband is on it !)
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Thank you for the information. The education on medications having their place while uncovering root cause is essential! so many over the counter medications or natural remedies are not meant to be taken for very long periods of time. ie: metformin interfering with vitamin B12 absorption and statins and beta blockers decrease coq12. I will start observing my urgent care patients to see if they are being supplemented. Also, makes sense how if someone is mag deficient they won’t be able to absorb the vitamin D supplements that they are being prescribed!