The following is an excerpt from a Dr Joseph Mercola article and explains the dangers of blood pressure medications. Read the full article
- High blood pressure (hypertension) is increasingly common, with more people diagnosed each decade
- This is because the threshold for “high” blood pressure keeps getting lowered — despite no evidence existing that those levels reduce deaths
- Excessively low blood pressure carries significant risk. Likewise, many of the blood pressure medications have common and significant side effects doctors often don’t recognize
- In this article we will review the key aspects of each common blood pressure lowering medication and healthier ways to address elevated blood pressures
Frequently, when you dig into medical myths, you discover that many of the dogmas that underlie a popular drug are actually sales slogans a marketing company created. For instance, cholesterol lowering statins are widely prescribed despite the fact lowering cholesterol does not prevent heart disease (in fact cholesterol protects you, so when it’s low, you more likely to die1), statins don’t prevent death, and these drugs harm 20% of users (often severely).
In turn, since so many people have been severely harmed by The Great Statin Scam, more and more public figures, such as comedian Jimmy Dore and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have begun to speak out against this – https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/1833908586927501550.
Sadly, statins are not the only mass-prescribed drug that’s marketed on deceptive premises and frequently makes the problem it “treats” worse. For example:
•A chemical imbalance from low serotonin was never linked to depression (in fact patients who commit suicide are found to have elevated brain serotonin).
•Acid reflux is due to too little acid in the stomach (as acidity gives the stomach’s opening the signal to close). However, in medical school, we are always taught it is due to too much acidity.
•“Sleeping” pills are actually sedatives that block the restorative phase of the sleep cycle.