Pharmacist & Researcher Shares Insider Knowledge About Why Patients Often Don’t Get Better on Rx Meds Alone

Meg Kilcup, PharmD is a pharmacist who was involved in Health Care research but left the industry after growing frustrated that nutrition and lifestyle change were not part of the conversation in a major Seattle health care center. Support your Sleep and Electrolyte levels with the improved Myo Relax & Calm by MYOXCIENCE Nutrition: http://bit.ly/2HgCPOs This new blend now has Glycine and Potassium, in addition to a range of other sleep supportive nutrients. Save with code Podcast at checkout Link to video and show notes: https://bit.ly/3Co4JmK Connect with Meg: https://www.instagram.com/awholehealthlife Key Time Stamps 0:00 Intro 05:00 Meg found that most patients were not getting better with pharmaceuticals. Lifestyle was never considered. 06:45 On a patient level and system level, getting to the root of the problem was the answer, but it wasn’t happening. 08:30 Western medicine helps many people and kills many people. 09:44 Health is created by the choices we make every day, not healthcare. 12:00 Most people are eating synthetic chemicals for food. 12:45 You can wreck your gut when you eat synthetic foods, instead of natural food. This, in turn, can disrupt your mood, emotions, your hormones and more. 13:25 Doctors have a quality incentive. 14:20 Polypharmacy is a risk factor for disease severity. 16:50 Anxiety can come from many sources: food, hormones, gut health, heavy metal toxicity, poor sleep or a stressful life situation. 19:00 Anti-depressant drugs can increase risk of suicide. 20:00 Increased estrogen from birth control pills can cause hyperpermeability in the intestinal lining. 20:20 Antibiotics wipes out both the pathogenic and the commensal bacteria in your gut. 21:30 PPIs can increase risk of stomach cancer. 24:34 To make an anti-biotic more effective, and reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria, you can take a probiotic and saccharomyces boulardii probiotic yeast, 4 hours outside of the dosage window. 26:27 Sugar feeds the bad bacteria. 28:37 You can stop taking antibiotics when your symptoms are gone, depending upon the situation. 29:39 There are 47 million antibiotic prescriptions each year. 36:00 Medical journals can be biased. The data can be manipulated before it is published and when it is reported on the news. 44:25 Natural supplements can be as effective and as dangerous, if used incorrectly, as drugs. 57:20 Meg’s morning routine.