Are the medicines we take causing our ills?

HAS anyone noticed how we are constantly being terrified by experts?

First, we are all going to die from bird flu, swine flu and who knows what else.

Then we get crazes like we all have high cholesterol, we are obese, we have diabetes and the latest craze is we are all going to get dementia, as one craze goes out of fashion another, comes in.

Don’t worry these experts say we can fix it just take these pills.

OK, but most of these cure-alls often cause more damage which they deny, of course, because they want to sell them.

Old drugs like Valium etc caused untold damage in the 1960s and 70s now we find statins to reduce cholesterol have many side effects and I find today that metformin, a drug used by 90 per cent of diabetics to reduce sugar is said to kill off vitamin B12 and lead to nerve damage, heart problems, and ulcers that won’t heal leading to amputations.

I am not saying stop taking them, what I am saying is it seems the medicines we take to cure all our ills and pains, in fact, seem to be causing most of our problems.

Today we take something to cure one thing then have to take something else to cure what the first one has caused.

Our problem is the society we live in today and experts are constantly looking up what we are all going to die from next. Sara Moor Shaw Heath