Drug Muggers: Which Medications Are Robbing Your Body of Essential Nutrients--an

Description: Drug Muggers by Suzy Cohen Helps patients and their physicians learn why the leading medications may cause uncomfortable or seemingly unrelated side effects and how to reduce symptoms by installing a nutrient security system. This title discusses important nutrients a person needs and identifies which medications cause deficiencies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Unpleasant, uncomfortable, and unexplained side effects? Drug Muggers is your side effect solution.Prescription and over-the-counter drugs help millions of people with devastat-ing diseases and chronic conditions. But in the process, these medications can also deplete the bodys natural stores of vitamins, minerals, and hormones-the very nutrients you need to keep energy levels high, fend off infections, and be healthy. Pharmacist Suzy Cohen calls these medications "drug muggers," and she says its essential to replenish what a drug mugger steals from your body in order to feel your best and avoid side effects. Not understanding the drug-mugging effect may lead to new "diseases" and possibly catastrophic health con-sequences.Youll discover-. How to relieve uncomfortable or potentially serious side effects. How to remain compliant with your medication and still feel well. Which foods and drinks to avoid if you take certain medications. How to install a nutrient security system with vitamins, minerals, and food choicesPlus!. Improve your energy levels. Learn which minerals you need if you take heartburn medicine. Improve digestion and relieve constipation with a simple nutrient. Discover the antioxidant you must have to save your heart. Get your hair and nails to grow faster by replenishing nutrients. Find out which vitamins and minerals are the purest and highest quality. Learn which vitamins outperform medications in some casesDrug Muggers is an eye-opener! It reveals why you may be feeling so poorly and how to improve your well-being with affordable nutrients that are sold over the counter. You can (and will) improve the way you feel-whether or not you take medicine!Unpleasant, uncomfortable, and unexplained side effects? Drug Muggers is your side effect solution.Prescription and over-the-counter drugs help millions of people with devastat-ing diseases and chronic conditions. But in the process, these medications can also deplete the bodys natural stores of vitamins, minerals, and hormones-the very nutrients you need to keep energy levels high, fend off infections, and be healthy. Pharmacist Suzy Cohen calls these medications "drug muggers," and she says its essential to replenish what a drug mugger steals from your body in order to feel your best and avoid side effects. Not understanding the drug-mugging effect may lead to new "diseases" and possibly catastrophic health con-sequences.Youll discover-. How to relieve uncomfortable or potentially serious side effects. How to remain compliant with your medication and still feel well. Which foods and drinks to avoid if you take certain medications. How to install a nutrient security system with vitamins, minerals, and food choicesPlus!. Improve your energy levels. Learn which minerals you need if you take heartburn medicine. Improve digestion and relieve constipation with a simple nutrient. Discover the antioxidant you must have to save your heart. Get your hair and nails to grow faster by replenishing nutrients. Find out which vitamins and minerals are the purest and highest quality. Learn which vitamins outperform medications in some casesDrug Muggers is an eye-opener! It reveals why you may be feeling so poorly and how to improve your well-being with affordable nutrients that are sold over the counter. You can (and will) improve the way you feel-whether or not you take medicine! Notes A pharmacist shares her advice for restoring valuable nutrients to the body that are stolen by prescription drugs. Author Biography Suzy Cohen, RPh, has been a licensed pharmacist for more than 20 years and writes the syndicated health column "Dear Pharmacist." She has made guest appearances as "Americas Most Trusted Pharmacist" on many network shows, including The View and The Show, and hosts a medical minute on the syndicated TV health show Know the Cause. Suzy is a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine, American College for Advancement in Medicine, and the American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 What Is a Drug Mugger? And Why Should You Care? As a licensed pharmacist for 22 years, I have a confession to make: Some medications scare me! Dont get me wrong. As someone who has been dispensing prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs for many years, I have a deep respect for what they can do. Pharmaceuticals can ease your pain, help you breathe better, keep you from having a seizure, and alleviate allergy symptoms that make your life miserable. The list of life- enhancing benefits goes on and on and on. But--and, oh boy, is this a big but--while fixing the one problem that you take the pharmaceutical to fix, that drug is likely robbing you of life- sustaining nutrients in the process. Many, in fact most, of the medicines youre taking have the potential to steal the life out of you slowly. How does that grab you? The ultimate effects of this nutrient depletion explain everything from nagging aches to life-threatening diseases. Millions of people are slipping through these drug-caused nutrient deficiency cracks as they get sicker and sicker each year. The system is so out of whack that people think its normal to see eight or nine different physicians for an ailment that eludes diagnosis. And theres a good chance that the ailment can be traced back to a single nutritional deficiency! While drugs often do provide blessed symptom relief, in most cases they dont actually cure the disease. By virtue of the fact that they steal nutrients from your system or prevent their absorption, they could even be causing more diseases. As you will soon see, if you run low on even one vital nutrient, you can experience a veritable cascade of uncomfortable side effects. Then these will likely be diagnosed as a new disease, for which you will be handed yet another pricey prescription. Sad to say, youll get on a medication merry-go-round, and its a hard ride to get off of. Thats why I wrote this book. I want to empower you to learn what is causing your problems and to help you feel better. Also, knowing what nutrients to replenish will help you to stay compliant with your medications, and this will please your physician, too. Lets talk about nutrients and their dosages, because you will soon find out while supplement shopping that dosages vary widely from brand to brand. You may be afraid to take more than the US Recommended Daily Allowance, which I sometimes suggest you do, so allow me to give you a primer on the RDA and dosages in general. The RDI Is Not the Be-All and End-All In my professional opinion, the reference daily intake (RDI) is just a starting place. Its not the be-all and end-all of good nutrition. The suggested amounts for each nutrient are definitely not enough to provide optimal health or offset the drug mugging effects of your medicines and lifestyle. To tell you the truth, I dont pay much attention to the RDIs on labels because I dont eat a lot of foods that come with labels. Thats because I lean toward vegetarianism. (If you do, too, then please eat intelligently, because many vegetarians do not know how to eat properly. They quickly run out of important vitamins, amino acids, and minerals, among them vitamin B12, L-carnitine, and iron.) Fruits and veggies dont come with a food label stating the RDI. I assure you that these foods are highly nutritious even if they dont have a label to prove it. Not only are plant foods good for you, but they also do away with the compulsive need to read the RDI and make sure youre getting it. I am bent on keeping a nutritious kitchen, so you wont find many canned foods in my pantry. I keep a can of ravioli for my dad because he loves it and has stayed alive for 80-something years despite eating it. It would take you an hour to find this can. I realize that Ill be in serious trouble if another hurricane barrels through Florida, where I live, but canned, boxed, or highly processed foods are simply not part of my familys diet. This does not mean that you wont find chocolate-covered macadamias if you search hard enough. Okay, fine, there are some in the top drawer of my desk in case of an unlikely emergency, like if my computer freezes or umm, I umm . . . develop writers block . . . or misspell a werd :-). I do not normally buy, eat, or store foods that have lengthy nutrition labels on them. We as humans are at the top of the food chain, so we have the most highly developed brains and impressive cognitive function. This enables us to make a choice to eat consciously, or not. If we all ate organic fruits and vegetables, we could get by with fewer drugs. There would be no stress about whether or not we met the RDI for a nutrient. We would be getting enough of each nutrient naturally. This whole rant isnt to nag you. I do it because I care. Ive read thousands of readers e-mails and letters over the years. I know that many people are concerned about improving their diets, losing weight, and avoiding a heart attack or diabetes. Many of my readers must take medications that are drug muggers, sometimes multiple drug muggers. Perhaps you are among this number. I can imagine how you feel, taking so much medicine and feeling worse and not knowing what else to do or who else to ask. This is like being stuck in the middle of a giant whirlpool and not being able to get out. As a pharmacist, I want to get as many people as possible on the right track of taking fewer prescribed drugs. My point is that if youre eating really well--and I know you can--then it wont matter much what the fine print on your food labels says. The same goes with your vitamin or dietary supplement. It may have the RDI listed on it, but if you are being mugged by a drug, you are going to need much more than the RDI suggests. Let me tell you a good story. A woman came to the pharmacy 1 month after I had suggested that she take additional vitamin B6 to help her with her carpal tunnel syndrome. She had been taking birth control pills, which I knew to be a drug mugger of vitamin B6. She told me she wasnt doing any better on the B6 she had picked up and showed me the bottle. It was a popular multivitamin that contained 2 mg of B6. I told her it was abysmally low for her needs, but she insisted that it met 100 percent of the DV and pointed out the ingredient label to prove it. We went round and round for a few minutes until I walked her over to the vitamin aisle and showed her a bottle of B6 that contained 50 milligrams and suggested she try that for another month. She happily returned a month later to tell me she was totally relieved of her pain. Im one of the health-care professionals who happens to think that the RDI is just a minimum requirement that should keep you from developing a deficiency of a nutrient and perhaps dying of that deficiency. For example, the RDI for vitamin C will keep you from developing and dying of scurvy. The recommended amount of vitamin B1 will prevent you from dying of beriberi. The suggested amount of vitamin D will keep you from developing rickets, and the list goes on. This leaves me deflated and thinking, "Thats it?" Im meeting 100 percent of the DV and all this means is that I wont die from a deficiency? Sheesh! There is a huge gap between suffering from a deficiency and being healthy, isnt there? I choose health. Thats why I want more than what the DV recommends. For more on Daily Values, see Chapter 26. Science Looks at Pharmaceuticals The idea of helping people replenish lost nutrients didnt just suddenly dawn on me; Drug Muggers was years in the making. Many other scientists studied this topic before I did. As a pharmacist, I have made it my business to pay attention to every medication on the market and all the interactions that may occur with them. I also watch for news about medications and food or herb interactions. Because I specialize in medication and herbal interactions, I keep files on certain drugs and on all those black box warnings that the FDA comes out with every now and then. A black box warning is basically a warning to physicians stating the possibility of a particularly dangerous side effect. Keeping files and computer documents about such things is part of my professional life. I havent included every single clinical research study or trial in this book because it would make it very long indeed. When it is most interesting, however, I have included certain citations in each chapter, but most of my references are in the back of this book so you can see them for yourself at your leisure. The fact is that drugs cause side effects, and many do so by stealing vital nutrients from our bodies. Im proud to share all this information with you in the coming pages. My information doesnt come only from studies, however. It also comes from my heart. I want you to know that I used to work in nursing homes, where I saw firsthand the horror of living under the shadow of disease and the negative side effects of multiple medications. I so wanted to have a positive impact on peoples lives, and I was saddened that many of the medications that came from my pharmacy did more harm than good. Before I teach you how to restore balance to your own life, I need you to master the basic definition of a drug mugger. Drug mugger: noun An over-the-counter or prescribed medication, food, herb, medical condition, or lifestyle choice that is capable of robbing your bodys natural stores of an important vitamin, mineral, or hormone. Usage: Acid blockers are drug muggers of zinc. Smoking is a drug mugger of vitamin C. Drug mugging: adjective Of or relating to a drug mugger. Usage: My legs are cramping; I could be suffe Details ISBN1605294160 Author Suzy Cohen Year 2011 ISBN-10 1605294160 ISBN-13 9781605294162 Media Book Publisher Rodale Press Short Title DRUG MUGGERS Language English Format Paperback Imprint Rodale Press Place of Publication Pennsylvania Country of Publication United States Qualifications Ph.D. Pages 384 UK Release Date 2011-02-15 AU Release Date 2011-02-15 NZ Release Date 2011-02-15 US Release Date 2011-02-15 Illustrator Katya Longhi Birth 1974 Affiliation Brad Paisley Position Author Publication Date 2011-02-15 Subtitle Which Medications Are Robbing Your Body of Essential Nutrients--and Natural Ways to Restore Them DEWEY 613.28 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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