9 Prescription Meds that Could Kill You | DrEricBergDC

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let’s talk about the nine prescription

medications that have the ability

to

kill you now of course check with your

doctor before taking any of the

recommendations i’m not telling you to

come off these medications i’m just

increasing your awareness on the risks

versus the benefits and the

effectiveness

versus some of these side effects now

the first one on the list

is a very common drug

called cortical steroids so typically

these steroids are the silent

killers

one of the most frequent uses is for

inflammation

allergies autoimmune diseases

asthma

psoriasis etc etc and i’ve taken

corticosteroids for many many years for

my poison ivy and it definitely had some

serious side effects but i want to

differentiate short-term use versus

long-term chronic use i’m going to be

focusing on more of the chronic

long-term use of these steroids and what

they can do to your body

and i’m not actually talking about the

steroids that you would use

if you’re a bodybuilder for example

these are different steroids some of the

side effects includes a loss of appetite

uh moon face like your face becomes

round belly fat

buffalo hump you have this big fat pad

in your upper back

thin skin

increased risk of infection

mood changes osteoporosis

suppression of your adrenal glands and

the worst side effect is the suppression

of bone marrow now you have to realize

that your red blood cells

and your white blood cells and your

platelets

are made

by your bone marrow so when you suppress

the bone marrow

it can lead to some pretty serious

problems because eventually those cells

are going to die and they can’t be

replaced so you get a severe loss of

white blood cells and you also get

anemia but you can lose your immune

system so a simple cold or

you get the flu or even a simple sore

throat can end up killing you so people

end up dying from very simple and mild

infections so just make sure if you’re

taking

cortical steroids of a chronic nature

that you get with your doctor and really

understand these

serious side effects all right number

two chemotherapy and i’m mainly talking

about a type of chemotherapy

called systemic anti-cancer treatment

where you’re taking a certain type of

chemotherapy that affects the whole body

there was a study which i’m going to put

a link down below

that is called the 30-day mortality

after systemic anti-cancer treatment

which showed that this cancer treatment

actually increased the risk of dying

within 30 days now the problem with

chemotherapy is it

kills more than the cancer it kills off

your own immune system it kills healthy

organ tissue it doesn’t differentiate

and the other problem is that it doesn’t

address the root cause of cancer which

is in the mitochondria instead it

targets the dna of the cell so a lot of

the research right now on the on the

root cause of cancer is actually in the

mitochondria not the dna and ironically

chemotherapy increases your risk of

getting cancer so the side effect of

chemotherapy which is supposed to get

rid of cancer ends up causing cancer

maybe a secondary cancer after you get

rid of your primary cancer maybe a

reactivation of the

original cancer that you had that

initially went in remission because

chemotherapy basically suppresses your

immune system the key system that helps

to fight cancer and keep you alive and

over 200 billion dollars just the united

states is spent on these cancer drugs

and procedures and radiation therapy and

unfortunately 40

of medicare is spent in the last 30 days

of one’s life

when they’re battling most of the time

cancer all right next one is

antidepressants one in every eight

people is on an antidepressant

antidepressants can increase your risk

of dying prematurely by 33 percent with

ssris there’s an increased risk of

suicide there’s an increase of risk of

getting a car accident by 40

and if you add alcohol it can increase

up to 70 percent and that is because of

the side effect drowsiness sleepiness

and then you have something called

serotonin syndrome which occurs when you

have too much serotonin you see what

most people don’t realize

is serotonin is needed

by many other organs like your heart and

the lungs and the kidneys

and the liver so as you take things to

manipulate serotonin and decrease

serotonin you’re affecting all these

other organs as well increasing your

risk of dying from that particular organ

failure so there’s a mortality risk of

dying of heart attacks and strokes and

other diseases alright the next one is

the medication called bromocryptin now

that’s used to treat uh parkinson’s as

well as high prolactin in your blood it

can lead to something called lethal

circulatory collapse

where your blood flow basically stops as

well as something called sudden sleep

and let’s just let’s say you’re driving

for example and then you fall asleep i

mean that’s a major

side effect of this medication all right

then we get to clarithromyosin which is

an antibiotic for certain type of

bacterial infections taking this

medication can actually increase your

risk of dying by 27

mainly of a cardiovascular incident and

it can even occur after you stop taking

medication so i don’t know about you but

i don’t like that risk factor then we

get to another medication called

clozapine and that’s for schizophrenia

that has a really high risk of

major side effects

including myocardial death and something

called slow gut which you can get severe

constipation and even die all right

number seven is humero now i’ve talked

about this in other videos

it’s the number one selling medication

for inflammation and everything related

to inflammation and it’s a type of

medication called a biologic it actually

suppresses your immune system and

there’s a black box warning on the

medication which indicates a more severe

side effect and that side effect is risk

of getting

infections

leading to sepsis which is a systemic

infection and even death and one thing

about this medication is that you don’t

want to take it if you

have tb because it can be lethal just

from that all right now we have

colchicine now this medication is used

to treat gout and the fda

put a very high risk on this medication

because it has significant toxicity

which can create death at small doses

like 35 milligrams and lastly we have

digoxin also known as lanoxin and this

medication is usually used for heart

medication for cardiovascular failure

and atrial fibrillation but the problem

with this medication is it can increase

your risk of dying by 20 percent

that’s pretty high especially if you’re

combining with quite a dime so i just

wanted to bring this video up to

increase your awareness

that if you’re on some of these

medications

you might want to get with your doctor

and really review it to see if it’s the

best option now if you haven’t seen my

video on how to dramatically

take your health to a whole new level

you might want to check that out i put

it up right here