Know Your Medication — Building Your Medication Protocol
The posts in this section covered specific drug classes — statins, blood sugar medications, antibiotics, PPIs, antidepressants, and painkillers. Across […]
Know Your Medication
Know Your Medication
What you’re actually taking, what it interacts with, and what alternatives exist.
Know Your Medication
Know Your Medication — NSAIDs and Painkillers: The Damage Hidden in the Medicine Cabinet
NSAIDs — non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs — are so ubiquitous they barely register as drugs. Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), aspirin
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Know Your Medication — Antidepressants and the Serotonin Story
In 2022, a systematic review by Joanna Moncrieff and colleagues published in Molecular Psychiatry examined the full body of evidence
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Know Your Medication — Proton Pump Inhibitors: The Drug You Forgot Was a Drug
Proton pump inhibitors — PPIs — are among the most prescribed and most purchased drugs in the United States. Omeprazole
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Know Your Medication — Antibiotics: When They Help and What They Cost
Antibiotics are the most genuinely life-saving drug class in the history of medicine. Bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, infected wounds —
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Know Your Medication — Metformin and Blood Sugar Medications
Type 2 diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance — a metabolic condition in which cells stop responding adequately to
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Know Your Medication — Statins and The Cholesterol Conversation
Statins are the most prescribed drug class in the United States. Approximately 40 million Americans take them daily. They are