McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

The Truth About Overmedication & Hidden Side Effects

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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McCall McPherson argues that common medication side effects like nausea and gastroparesis are dose-dependent, and that standard dosing practices developed for diabetics harm non-diabetic patients. She uses microdosing and individualized lower doses in her programs, finding most patients need much smaller amounts than prescribed.

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But I think where we need to start this conversation is so much of the side effects associated with these medications. Nausea, vomiting, gastroparesis, pancreatitis. These are dose dependent. And the problem is, is people are being over medicated. We are using doses that we created for diabetics, for people that do not have diabetes, and it is too much. Okay. We have, in happenstance over the years, ended up at utilizing microdosing in our programs, because we found that after tailoring doses to people over and over and over, adjusting them in nuanced ways, we found that people need a heck of a lot less medication than they're being given. They don't need to increase their dose every month. These doses are effective for far longer than a month at a time. And we are unnecessarily and wildly over medicating people. So if we want to deal with side effects, start with the dose.