What if your fatigue, anxiety, or brain fog isn’t from your condition—but from the meds you’re taking?
In this episode, Dr. Josh Axe uncovers how common medications can deplete key nutrients, trigger side effects, and keep you from true healing. Learn what’s really going on—and the natural alternatives that work.
- The top nutrient-depleting drugs and what they do to your body.
- Symptoms that are actually caused by medications (not your illness).
- Natural options for pain, anxiety, reflux, high cholesterol, and more.
- How to heal by getting to the root cause—not masking it.
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