Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

CIRS Ep

27 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD breaks down how common drugs create cascading problems. Diuretics cause magnesium deficiency, triggering palpitations and insulin resistance. He estimates 30% of pharmaceuticals act as toxicants, and describes a chain where diuretics lead to diabetes that medical school never taught.

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Thirty percent of pharmaceuticals are monochromatic toxicants. This is standard pharmacy 101. A lot of medications have side effects. Like you put someone on a diuretic for their high blood pressure induces magnesium deficiency. And what happens? You get palpitations, you get potassium deficiency, you get insulin resistance. So the next thing that happens is the person develops palpitations and you get on beta blocker, which further makes more insulin resistance. Ten years later, they're diagnosed as a diabetic. And the question is, are these medication side effects? This isn't textbooks. I was not taught that in medical school. I.