{"id":1296,"date":"2011-06-27T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T05:38:15","slug":"pharmageddon-americas-top-selling-drug-cause-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Pharmageddon: America\u2019s Top Selling Drug Cause Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>Partial Reprint from drhyman.com<\/p>\n<p>IF ALL DOCTORS followed the latest cholesterol treatment guidelines, and all their patients took their prescribed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?page_id=55\">statin medication<\/a>, <!--more-->there would be 3.5 million more diabetics in America. But wait! There is another pill (injection actually) that has been shown to reduce the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/?page_id=55\">diabetes<\/a>. And it\u2019s only about $50,000 per year per patient. Let\u2019s see 3.5 million times $50,000. What does that bring us to?<\/p>\n<p>Pharmageddon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1297\" title=\"more pills - MP900315446-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/more-pills-MP900315446-1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/more-pills-MP900315446-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/more-pills-MP900315446-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are stuck in an absurd cultural habit of thinking that medication will save us from lifestyle and social diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Two separate studies in today\u2019s issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of the American Medical Association<\/a> (JAMA) underscore that we have come to the end of an era of being saved by medication. Antibiotics and vaccines were a huge advance in medicine in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. But the single pill for the single ill just doesn\u2019t work for 21<sup>st<\/sup> century chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drhyman.com\/pharmageddon-america%E2%80%99s-top-selling-drug-cause-diabetes-5825\/?utm_source=Publicaster&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_term=Get+the+story\">Read the full article\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D. Partial Reprint from drhyman.com IF ALL DOCTORS followed the latest cholesterol treatment guidelines, and all their patients took their prescribed statin medication,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,3],"tags":[27,15,129,40,142,136],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-ftc-censorship","category-health-and-the-ftc","tag-big-pharma","tag-diabetes","tag-metabolic-syndrome","tag-natural-foods","tag-prediabetic","tag-type-2-diabetes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellnesstruthnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}