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Correcting Micronutrient Deficiencies

Correcting Pharmaceutical- Induced Nutritional Deficiencies

While pharmaceuticals have lifesaving benefits, many of these medications can have serious side effects, ranging from cardiac arrest to suicide.

Many suffer from an almost completely ignored epidemic of drug- induced nutrient depletion that can cause grave health problems. A large number of pharmaceutical side effects are the direct result of these drug-induced nutrient deficiencies. In other words, a pharmaceutical medicine “robs” you of one or more nutrients or other helpful substances, and this lack of nutrients causes additional side effects. In a sense, the medicine acts as an “anti-vitamin pill,” taking away the substances you need for good health. Thus, nutrient depletion caused by the medicines, rather than the medicines themselves, is often directly responsible for many of the side effects associated with pharmaceuticals.

Among the most common medicines linked to nutrient depletion are oral contraceptives, cholesterol-lowering statins, and antibiotics. These and many other over-the-counter and prescription medications can interfere with your body’s ability to digest, absorb, synthesise, or make use of certain nutrients, leading to nutrient deficiency-related ?side effects.

The only solution to averting pharmaceutical-induced nutritional deficiencies is to replace the depleted nutrients through nutritional supplements, dietary sources, or both. This chart summarises some commonly prescribed medicines, along with the vitamins, minerals, and other nutraceuticals they are most likely to deplete, as well as which Solal products should be used at the same time as pharmaceutical medicines, to prevent these depletions.