How Medications Cause Deficiencies

Medications can deplete nutrients in many ways.

Among them, they can block absorption, change them into anti-nutrients, cause them to be excreted, or over-use them in the process of eliminating excess (lithium depleting zinc) or the medication's biproducts. Perhaps most overlooked is the use of nutrients for the body to utilize the medication, particularly to combine in the body to create the chemical which actually treats the condition, and the enzymes required to make that chemical effective.

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An excellent image of how drugs interfere with nutrient levels, in Uwe Gröber's Magnesium and Drugs: 

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click%20on%20image%20to%20zoom&p=PMC3&id=6539869_ijms-20-02094-g001.jpg] There is also a table specific to interference with magnesium levels.

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