09-29-2012, 09:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2012, 10:47 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
Before I respond, there was one other point I wanted to make, but forgot in my post.
Polypharmacy is a huge area where I feel the public is highly misled. As the safety and efficacy of medications is proven using double-blind placebo-controlled studies, they of necessity only involve studying one medication at a time.
Yet in reality, one would be fairly hard-pressed to find people who are only taking a single medication. It is more common that people are on two or three medications, and in some cases upwards of ten or more. This in addition to all manner of OTC drugs that people self-prescribe.
The truth is that hardly anything is known about the safety or efficacy of various polypharmacy situations. And yet it is common practice to have a person on, say, an ACE-inhibitor, beta-blocker, thiazide diuretic and a PPI to boot.
Now as we both know, there isn't some kind of conspiracy against conducting proper research on these methods, as the methods simply don't exist given our current resources and mathematical capabilities. If they did exist, we would conduct them. Yet still, a false front is portrayed to the public with respect to polypharmacy. Your average person on the street is given the impression that these practices are backed by some kind of scientific evidence, when in fact there is little, if any at all.
... and there are things like, for example, when so many "mainstream" health professionals spread patent falsehoods such as "the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements". When, in fact, they do. The regulations are found in CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 PART 111 CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE IN MANUFACTURING, PACKAGING, LABELING, OR HOLDING OPERATIONS FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.
Polypharmacy is a huge area where I feel the public is highly misled. As the safety and efficacy of medications is proven using double-blind placebo-controlled studies, they of necessity only involve studying one medication at a time.
Yet in reality, one would be fairly hard-pressed to find people who are only taking a single medication. It is more common that people are on two or three medications, and in some cases upwards of ten or more. This in addition to all manner of OTC drugs that people self-prescribe.
The truth is that hardly anything is known about the safety or efficacy of various polypharmacy situations. And yet it is common practice to have a person on, say, an ACE-inhibitor, beta-blocker, thiazide diuretic and a PPI to boot.
Now as we both know, there isn't some kind of conspiracy against conducting proper research on these methods, as the methods simply don't exist given our current resources and mathematical capabilities. If they did exist, we would conduct them. Yet still, a false front is portrayed to the public with respect to polypharmacy. Your average person on the street is given the impression that these practices are backed by some kind of scientific evidence, when in fact there is little, if any at all.
... and there are things like, for example, when so many "mainstream" health professionals spread patent falsehoods such as "the FDA does not regulate dietary supplements". When, in fact, they do. The regulations are found in CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 PART 111 CURRENT GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE IN MANUFACTURING, PACKAGING, LABELING, OR HOLDING OPERATIONS FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS.
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