THIS Pill Causes Dementia!!!

Drug interactions can cause more complex side effects than the side effects of a single drug, and can even contribute to dementia. Join me as I interview Hal Cranmer, owner of several assisted living homes, and Dr. Roshani Sanghani, board-certified endocrinologist, to discuss the side effects of mul

most doctors know the side effects from taking medication but what I don’t think hardly any doctors really understand is the side effects from taking multiple drugs the interaction between certain drugs let’s talk about some really common medications that can actually cause dementia or at least put you at a major risk for getting dementia from my viewpoint I would get really upset if I got a side effect especially dementia from another medication let’s go through common drugs that have a known side effect of dementia first category of drugs are those that block or inhibit acetal choline that’s a neurotransmitter these drugs include benagil which is antihistamine certain drugs for depression as well as drugs that treat an overactive bladder if someone’s on these for a prolonged period of time the risk for dementia goes way up next one is something called benzo dipine this drug treats anxiety insomnia and seizures talking about vume and z X apparently this drug affects the central nervous system AKA your brain and it can greatly increase the risk of getting dementia then we have something called ppis proton pump inhibitors those medications treat indigestion heartburn like pyac and Nexium they can increase the risk of cognitive decline then the last one which is a big one is opioids like morphine or oxycodone anything that creates sedation on the brain like when you go in for surgery and they give you certain anesthetics that can greatly affect your cognitive function leading to dementia there’s also the side effects from drug interactions and unfortunately as people get older and eventually end up in an assisted living home or nursing home boy they just start just giving medications routinely in fact let’s interview this gentleman that owns several assisted living homes and see what he has to say we have a whole lot of people that come with between 20 and 30 medications each go our our record is 5 we had a guy who had 54 medications what’s really unique about your program is you do this very Cutting Edge complex therapy called Introducing real food right I basically you just is that simple you give them real food because as you told me like a lot of these nursing facilities or or Assisted Living they’re living on alter processed food right very much so yes it’s it’s what they use for their budget to keep you know costs low or they the big facilities have contracts with large food distribution companies and sort of serve what they provide you have to work with the family of course and because they have to authorize it but you have a whole protocol and give me an example of what foods that you don’t give them how long have you got um so anything pretty much if you think of the middle aisles of the grocery store that’s what we avoid any packaged food um we really try to avoid any sugars um I have a health coach that has taught my cooks and caregivers how to prepare the food and what foods to prepare um she’s given us lists of ingredients that are sugar basically but they don’t call it Sugar there’s 65 different names for sugar she’s taught us how to read food labels we really try to get one ingredient Foods when you buy broccoli or you buy steak there’s one ingredient on that list and that’s kind of how we do it anything with very multiple ingredients or something from a chemistry class we don’t serve them so simple now tell me are are any of the people coming to you uh kind of eventually getting off some of these meds oh tremendously we we argue with their doctors all the time we uh work off their meds um fre quently um our personal goal is to get them off we get a lot of diabetics so we we worked and we’ve successfully got people off insulin that formin blood pressure medications statins um obviously we work with all our medical professionals and and get them to deprescribe it we have to by the Department of Health have an an order to stop the medications but we’re constantly having those discussions of what we can do the guy with 54 medications he’s living on his own in an apartment by himself now and he’s down around 20 medications so give you an example now you have people that come to you that were actually in hospice oh frequently yes they they discharge from a hospital or Rehab on hospice and come to us and we’ll we’ll work very hard to get them to no longer qualify for hospice we call it graduating from hospice what type of results are you seeing in general physically physically we’re seeing all sorts of um a lot of the dementia people we work with an outside company to do a whole bunch of lab testing um but we see hormone levels go up we see um inflammation go way down vitamin D levels all kinds of vitamin levels go up um plus you see it physically you know that we we have people come bedbound and uh they go into Wheelchairs and the wheelchairs go to Walkers and the Walkers go to walking so um you know then they can spend more time with their family we had a we had a 98-year-old gentleman go on a cruise with his family for a week um you know something he couldn’t have done when he first came to us and we let them borrow a caregiver she got a free cruise out of it and um you know he had the time of his life came back passed away six months later but you know was very happy those last six months amazing I’ll tell you one thing if I know anyone um that is in that situation where they need to go somewhere I’m referring them to you so I will uh think you’re in Arizona I’m going to put your link down below so more people can know about it but it’s incredible I wish more organizations did what you’re doing and I think uh we need to spread the word it’s really difficult when dealing with someone on a lot of medications to know what is causing what the other complexity on top of that is you have multiple doctors involved they each have their own viewpoint they’re each focusing in a different part of the body there’s this term called adverse drug reactions this is the unexpected side effect directly caused from drugs 90% of these are Under reported adverse drug reactions are responsible for 10% of all hospital visits it’s also the fourth leading cause of death I wanted to bring on a board certified endocrinologist and ask her some questions about this topic we know drugs have side effects but have we studied the interaction between drugs patients don’t always know they get these little package inserts that are in fine print most of us it’s too difficult to read those little tiny papers and you know where I practice in India a lot of medications just come in aluminum blister packs without any insert so the patient may not really have a list of side effects to read through drug interactions is written in tiny print busy doctors are prescribing and what I do is I use a free free software there’s a free version of it it’s called hypocrates E P O C A tes and I look for drug interactions there just to keep on top of it because there’s so many new medications coming out even when I was in practice I would have patients come in they’re they’re on 5 10 15 up to 20 even more medications are you seeing some of that as well like just the number of prescriptions are just just really going high really long and especially in the space of where where you know you and I see a lot of you know things is chronic conditions where it’s not a fever or a back sprain and you’re done with your medications in four to seven days or a course of antibiotics it’s something more prolonged like blood pressure or diabetes and these pills end up not really being looked at as when do we get you off of it and that’s something I focus on a lot is to keep looking