Mike
Carruthers:
If you take medication, you should know that some of them are
"drug muggers."
Suzy Cohen:
Drug muggers - that's the term that I have been using to help
people understand what happens when you take a medication. It
actually can mug your body of vital life-savings nutrients,
causing all kinds of side effects.
Pharmacist and
newspaper columnist Suzy Cohen, author of the book The
24 Hour Pharmacist…
For example,
aspirin or ibuprofen - these are both medications that are drug
muggers of folic acid. When you run out of folic acid you have
a higher risk for depression, cancer and heart disease.
So what do you
do if you're taking these medications?
What I would
suggest that they do since aspirin is a drug mugger for folic
acid is that they take some (which you can buy it over the counter);
I would say about eight hundred micrograms every morning. That
will help replenish what the drug mugger stole.
Many antibiotics
are also drug muggers.
These are drug
muggers for vitamin B-12 and also drug muggers for our natural
normal flora in our gut. So this explains why some people will
take a course of antibiotics and they'll wind up with cramps
and things like this in the GI tract. Replenishing the GI tract
with healthy normal flora, with a supplement called a pro-biotic
and also with a little B-12 supplement, can really make you
feel better while you're taking these medications.
You can link
to Suzy's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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