Your Prescripitions May Be Poisoning You

Did you know that the same drug you’ve been taking for years could be slowly poisoning you? As you age, your ability to tolerate medication changes.

Your body recognizes drugs as foreign substances and tries to remove them. For most of them, your liver first “detoxifies” the drug then your kidneys excrete this metabolite in the urine.

This process of removal is calculated into the dosing of your drugs. But the way doctors calculate your dose can lead to problems with long-term medications…