Should You Go Down the Road?

Happy Friday. I’ve been getting a lot of questions along the lines of “What if I [or my parents] are told by the doctor that I’m at risk for heart disease or diabetes? Should I not take the drugs?

This email isn’t a “100% anti-drug” mindset, but I do recommend several steps before embarking on a chronic disease drug plan: 

1. Realize that specific lifestyle interventions (which you probably won’t hear about from your doctor) are almost always more effective than drugs. The graph above is a study about reversing diabetes. 
2. Get a second opinion from a functional medicine doctor. Search for one here. 
3. Read The Blood Sugar Solution by Mark Hyman

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