Healthcare has become a bottom-line numbers game based on overmedicated, fear-based prevention. I could never prove it, but I'm convinced my Dad's dementia and Parkinson's are a result of him taking too many medications over the years. He was advised to take statins in his early 40s and he's 77 now. He's been on cholesterol meds and blood pressure meds for almost half his life. Insane. The nurses STILL shove pills into his mouth at his care facility.

I met a black woman who said she was registered as white in the Kaiser system. No recommendations were made for statins when she was white in the system but when they changed it statins were recommended. So many people taking the drug when its not needed. Pharmaceutical companies love it.

Good for you for researching and doing what feels right for you body!