I would rather say uneducated people instead of Lazy.
I know a pharmacuditcal salesman who only takes herb supplements never touches the stuff he pushes.
And look at the liver failure from years of taking meds that are not always needed but a doc prescribes them and the patient follows suit.
My bad cholesteral is not even in the high zone but is not perfect and I refuse to take the meds. as my friend the pharmacist says if it makes your muscles feel weak imagine the damage to your heart.
I even heard rumor that the drug companies want to have the Fed. gov lower cholesteral levels so they can prescibe more pills. NO THNAKS.
I take thyroxine due to not having a thyroid and with all the hiking and swimming this last year the levels did not absorb and I was toxic. Could not function for a few weeks and lost short term memory untill my doses were lowered and depleted. But the alternative to not taking replacement is death. Still gotta be careful.
The reason I say lazy is that many of the educated folks I know on Prilosec & Nexium refuse to change their lifestyle even though they read the prescription warnings.
A good friend of mine that has had migraines for 40 years went through a clinic of colonics and almost complete fasting for 3 weeks. In ten days her stomach had healed so she was able to nix the 6 Nexium's she was taking daily from the acid the migraine meds caused! Two weeks later she takes one (Imex?) pill every once in awhile when she pays for breaking her new lifestyle. She is amazed that her diet and dehydration from meds caused her a life of pain. We've had to take her to the hospital for morphine numerous times. Finally the pain was so bad she thought she was dying. Now, she's living and eating healthy foods that she actually finds she likes, even though they require preparation as no preservatives.
Most of our ailments are our choices and our fault, IMHO.
Keep up the great work.
Hubby had high cholesterol and took huge amounts of Lipitor to "fix" it.
Our new doc got rid of the Lipitor and ordered 4 grams of Niacin a day.
[the doc lives by his own rules and takes it for his cholesterol, btw]
Not only is hubby's cholesterol within normal ranges, his blood pressure is very good now *without* all the Rx crap the "heart specialists" gave him.
We were SO blessed to get this doctor.
He detests the pharmaceutical charlatans and is a medical heretic if there ever was one....:)
The new "level" for cholesterol is now a mind-numbing "100".
That's incompatible with life.