Why so Many Meds?

Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.

 

Medication use as we age will likely increase to some degree. The older we get, the more things that can go wrong with our bodies. The problem is that it is getting out of control compared to years ago.

The New York Times reports that the average person in their mid to late 60’s today is taking 15 prescription medications per year! That doesn’t even count the over-the-counter medications many are adding.

In 2016, 75% of people over the age of 50 were taking at least one prescription regularly. Today more than 80% are taking two, and 50% are taking 4 or more regularly.

From 1988 to 2010, adults over 65 doubled the prescriptions they took regularly from two to four. The proportion taking 5 or more tripled in the same time frame. Yet the health of seniors overall is declining

Pandemic Fear Mongering

Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.

 

The fear in this “pandemic” is like nothing I’ve ever seen. The breadth and depth of the strategies used to stoke these fears is insane. Emergency use orders, mask mandates, stay at home orders, arresting pastors for holding church services are all part of the mass propaganda narrative. All of this over a disease with a survival rate over 99%.

“It bears repeating that a review of literature by respected Stanford University professor of medicine and epidemiology, John Ioannidis, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), found the infection fatality rate for Covid-19 as of September 2020, was 0.23%!”, Says Dr. Mercola. In people younger than 70 years it was much lower. This rate is determined by dividing total deaths by total cases.