Millions of people take medicines such as cholesterol-lowering statins, metformin for diabetes and contraceptive pills. But these widely prescribed drugs can come with a hidden cost.
They are just a few of the life-saving and life-changing medicines which can disrupt nutrient absorption. And the more of them you take – and the longer you take them — the greater the risk of developing potentially dangerous nutrient deficiencies.
Michael Wakeman, a pharmacist and specialist in nutritional medicine, was alerted to the danger after spotting a scientific paper which was aptly titled: “Effects of widely used drugs on micronutrients: a story rarely told.” It led to five years of research, trawling medical journals and scientific papers, which he
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