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Originally Posted by black57
The doctor is blinded by his own nose. Why is he insisting on giving meds? I would think that he would want to wait and see how her body does after being off the meds for a while.
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This is precisely why I have lost almost all faith in doctors. They are way more likely to treat a symptom, than prevent or cure the real disorder. It's all about the drugs.
Blood pressure medicine is a joke. High BP is a SYMPTOM, not a disease. Using BP meds to lower the volume of blood to low BP simply masks the cause. Simple physics tells us that if you make a pipe smaller, the pressure of the liquid inside goes up. Treat the thickening arteries, not the symptom.
I had a physical last summer (for life insurance) and they checked my cholesterol and proclaimed it high. I was given a couple of months to lower it through diet and exercise. Never mind that cholesterol has never been proven to have anything at all with heart disease (case in point is my Dad, who is overweight but has always had low BP and cholesterol. He had a triple bypass two years ago and still has quite a bit of angina, even though he is on statins and you basically can't measure his cholesterol).
I had only been dabbling with LC, mostly just cutting out sugar and refined flour, though completely giving up transfats, so needless to say, my bloodwork didn't change (actually got slightly worse, though my triglicerides went from 140 to 110). I got this stern phonecall saying I had to come in "right now" to be put on meds. I'm a healthy 40 year old and they want to put me on meds for life based on ONE test, and that on something that doesn't matter. I hope they aren't holding their breath
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You have to be in charge of your own health. Wading through all of the crap out there is hard work, but worth it. No one cares about your own health (and money) like you do.
For heart disease, eating a healthy diet of unrefined, low carb foods, exercising, reducing stress and not smoking is about all you can realistically do (it's enough, IMO). It's a quality of life issue.