{"id":31761,"date":"2025-09-25T10:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/?p=31761"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:45:42","slug":"are-blockbuster-drugs-really-that-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/are-blockbuster-drugs-really-that-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Blockbuster Drugs Really That Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guest Post Courtesy of the\u00a0Xtend-Life<\/a>\u00a0Blog<\/p>\n

The previous blog post has prompted me to put together this short post. I would preface this by saying that I am not totally anti-pharmaceutical.\u00a0 There are occasions where they undoubtedly save lives, particularly in emergency situations, but for general living they are usually not needed or grossly overprescribed and almost without exception lead to a deterioration in quality of life and trigger off other complications which in turn lead to more drugs and hence the start of the slippery slope into oblivion. What gets me is that much of the general population is \u2018conned\u2019 into believing many of these drugs are essential for their normal day to day living.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is done by direct to consumer drug advertising which puts pressure on Doctors to prescribe the drugs being promoted.\u00a0 Even normal healthy people can begin to doubt that they are healthy when they see adverts suggesting that \u2018just because you feel healthy, doesn\u2019t mean that you are!\u2019 The information given to the general public and Doctors although correct is often distorted with parts missing which if Doctors and consumers knew about, the Doctors would not prescribe them nor would the patient take them. Let me expand on these two points. Distortion: \u00a0 We often hear about how a fabulous new drug has reduced the risk of death from a certain condition by say a third.\u00a0 (33%).\u00a0 The natural reaction by the public is that is fantastic, and you better give me some.\u00a0 Now the 33% may indeed be correct but you have to consider the \u2018small print\u2019.\u00a0 The one third reduction in mortality is likely worked like this. One person in a hundred dies of this particular condition.\u00a0 BUT\u2026in the study they found that only 2\/3rd of a person dies per 100.\u00a0 This means whereas you previously may have had a risk of dying from this condition of 1 in a hundred, or 3 in three hundred, but now you have reduced that risk to 2 in three hundred, or in other words you have improved your chances by 1 in 300.\u00a0 Now, I am not a gambler but I doubt many gamblers would think these were good odds\u2026but, if you didn\u2019t read the small print you would think that your odds are 1 in 3 which is quite a different story, but the 33% reduction is technically correct so they can get away with this type of promotion. What\u2019s left out:\u00a0 Let\u2019s consider the popular statin drugs.\u00a0 Most of you are aware of how serious the potential side effects are from this drug.\u00a0 What is not widely known however is that your risk of mortality from all causes is greater if you take this drug than if you don\u2019t take it! \u00a0 I\u2019ll explain.\u00a0 When the results of a clinical trial is published\u2026as an example, a statin, they may state that there was a reduction in deaths from cardiovascular conditions which is what the drug is designed for.\u00a0 But, they are not obliged to give any information of mortality from other causes\u2026for example, cancer.\u00a0 There are studies done that support the overall reduction of mortality from\u00a0cardiovascular disease<\/a>\u00a0with a statin but they also show an increase in mortality from other causes\u2026but, that never sees the light of day unless you dig for it.\u00a0 Doctors are largely unaware of this as they get most of their info from the drug reps and they certainly aren\u2019t going to tell them Bottom line!\u00a0 If you are being pressured to go on any drug, be sceptical.\u00a0 Ask for evidence supporting the need for it.\u00a0 Carefully study the potential side effects, and there are always side effects as you cannot introduce a foreign molecule into your body without a side effect.\u00a0 Consider if you can correct whatever condition you are concerned about by lifestyle changes, dietary changes and natural supplementation<\/p>\n

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Guest Post Courtesy of the\u00a0Xtend-Life\u00a0Blog The previous blog post has prompted me to put together this short post. I would preface this by saying that I am not totally anti-pharmaceutical.\u00a0 There are occasions where they undoubtedly save lives, particularly in emergency situations, but for general living they are usually not needed or grossly overprescribed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-articles","category-health-and-vitality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}