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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This morning, I took four pills: two ibuprofen for a headache (I clench my jaw in my sleep when times are stressful), an antidepressant/ antianxiety, and an allergy pill. Tonight, I will take a few more: progesterone 'cause I'm 50, (plus an estrogen patch) and maybe half a benadryl for both sleep and seasonal allergies. I also take a fistful of tums most days.

And I have to wonder... my great grandmother and grandmother never took a pill. [i]Maybe[/i] something for blood pressure in old age. Maybe a vitamin C in the morning because it was trendy in the 70s. All my foremothers lived into their 90s. And some of them smoked.

So were they miserable with headaches and perimenopause and hay fever and anxiety and heartburn? Or was there something essentially different about previous generations? Did they not have the symptoms I have? Was tolerance for physical and psychological discomfort just different?

Every medicine cabinet in America is stuffed full in a way they just weren't before, even 20 years ago. Good because we're using science to reduce discomfort, and potentially heading off longer term problems? Or bad because it speaks to a larger problem about our baseline well-being? [/quote]

Because pharma runs the country. Even your fav orange prez is on in the scam. Heck, Mark Cuban and so many. No wonder have to declare medicines when entering Japan they know Americans are full on whatever it is that is being made in India.

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