Agreed, I don't take anything at all. My husband was talked into statins for awhile but it made an elbow ache all the time. Turned out this is a common symptom! He went off it and no more achy elbow. He does take blood pressure meds but it's easy to see what does and doesn't work: he just tests it. (One of them turned out not to work at all! Poison-taking for nothing.)Statins and BP meds are prescribed to patients that have never had high cholesterol or high BP as a post-operation protocol to protect the doctors from liability. I had arterial blockages that required bypass surgery to correct, although I was otherwise in good health, with no history of high BP or cholesterol. I took the prescribed statins and BP meds for some years before they finally began to affect my general health. After I quit taking them my muscle strength improved as well as my BP which returned to the normal range. The worst effect I suffered was my BP, which while taking Lisinopril, was all over the place, even spiking so high that it required nitroglycerin to control it.
I stay as far away from docs as I can get and I am well aware that I'm an unrealized asset: If they could just get AT me they could milk all the Medicare and insurance right out. By doing dozens of procedures and diagnostics and intrusive screenings and blood work and biopsies and prescriptions and prescription "management" visits and lots and lots of scare talk harassment. Anything to transfer the money from the accounts in my name to their bank accounts.
I take NO, (0) pills now but I'd be taking at least 6 a day like everyone else my age if I let them get at me, just poisons being ingested for no reason at all: I'm healthy. You think that would stop them from testing, testing, testing, and prescribing? No, it sure wouldn't.