Dr. Mark Hyman points out prescription use in the U.S. has exploded: diabetes medications up 400%, psychiatric drugs up 400%, autoimmune treatments up 500%. He argues the healthcare system treats symptoms with more pills instead of fixing what causes disease in the first place.
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Like, we've seen a 400% increase in use of diabetes drugs, a 300% increase in the use of cardiovascular drugs. We've seen a 400% use of psychiatric drugs increase. We've seen increasing cancer therapies and 500% increase in the use of autoimmune drugs and respiratory drugs, 200%. Pain drugs, 400%. GI drugs, 300% increase. So we're pouring more and more drugs on everybody. We're getting sicker and sicker. We're spending more and more money. It's one in five dollars in our economy. Wow. And nobody's asking why. It's like, we're just trying to plug the holes. Like, we've got 100 holes in the boat. Or we kind of bail the boat while the boat's sinking instead of going, why are there holes in the boat?