What's the Root Cause? by Dr Vikki Petersen

Is Your Doctor Prescribing Unneeded Drugs?


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Is your doctor prescribing drugs that you don't actually need? Is this a surprising concept or have you already experienced this?

Over 25 percent of doctors admit to prescribing medications that likely won't have therapeutic benefits for their patient.

Over 1 million ER visits and 350,000 hospitalizations take place every year in the U.S. caused by adverse drug events.

We see this a lot with patients suffering with Hiatal Hernia Syndrome. The common symptoms of heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and anxiety are frequently prescribed medications despite the patient's heart and lungs showing no evidence of disease.

Most commonly patients are prescribed heart medications for high blood pressure that they don't have, or asthma medications for asthma they also don't have.

Of course there are attendant side effects associated with all drugs, so taking medications associated with no disease state is concerning.

Anxiety medications have very dangerous side effects so it is again problematic that patients are being told they have a mental problem when their anxiety is stemming from their Hiatal hernia syndrome. It IS due to diaphragm imbalance and vagus nerve imbalance as I've described in earlier videos.

What should you do?
Defend your right to know why a drug is being prescribed to you. If there is no disease process present consider finding a doctor who CAN explain to you why your body is creating the symptom despite the particular organ not having a disease.

The Root Cause Medicine approach is one that analyzes your whole body and doesn't silo each part of your body as if it didn't interact with all the rest of your organs and systems. It understands interrelationships across your entire body and identifies causative factors that are creating your particular constellation of symptoms. It does not just try to band-aid each of your symptoms with drugs the way conventional medicine does.

As we get older we are likely to be put on more and more medication, with no one looking at how all the medications can be creating cross-reactions that are dangerous. Many mental symptoms that are attributed to cognitive decline or Alzheimer's are actually drug side effects: these include: confusion, memory loss, and brain fog.

If you would like to get healthy but haven't been getting the help you need, consider contacting us for a consultation: call us at 727-335-0400. We're here to help!

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