No medicine after 75 – For health reasons

2023-07-24 10:53:46

The increase in average life expectancy at birth results mainly from the elimination of infant deaths and very little from the extension of the life of seniors. However, the evolution of consumption and medical practices lead to consider death as a reprehensible failure, whatever the age and the cause. This distortion stems less from real progress in biomedicine than from the ludicrous promises of its market. The simple observation of the results of past promises confirms this.

Statins have been widely prescribed to seniors once morest bad cholesterol; however, the level of this LDL cholesterol is found to be inversely associated with all-cause mortality. After a first cardiovascular accident, statins seem useful in secondary prevention, but they have never succeeded in demonstrating their effectiveness in primary prevention, that is to say before any accident. They are also useless in secondary prevention following 75 years. They no longer have their place on the podium of immortality.

The same can be said for testosterone (particularly deleterious), DHEA and the many antioxidants which, despite their fame, have never gained anyone a day of life and have often made them lose it.

Treatment for menopause had to be abandoned because it was too dangerous. It has been replaced by calcium, prescribed to prevent fractures, but the latter increases the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease.

After a certain age, the treatment of high blood pressure becomes more harmful than beneficial, increasing the risk of dementia, falls and fractures.

After vaccinating seniors once morest the flu and the coronavirus, we find that an ordinary rhinovirus can kill them just as much.

In general, drugs widely prescribed in geriatrics and often abusively such as hypnotics, anticoagulants or simple gastric antacids, are one of the leading causes of hospitalization and mortality. Despite this, hospitalization still increases the number of inappropriate prescriptions: discharge prescriptions are more loaded than at entry. In their last year of life, one in six hospitalized patients receives more than 35 drugs.

Even oxygen, emblematic of hospital care, does no better than ambient air to improve the condition of patients. Yet no hospital dares to remove this symbol of survival.

More trivially, hospitalization and bed rest aggravate the functional declines of old age: loss of bone, muscle and plasma mass. Treatments given in hospital are often more aggressive and less compatible with a peaceful death. Even at a hundred years old, exercise remains the best guarantee of survival.

The conclusion will seem sacrilegious: in order not to reduce life expectancy, clinical reason, supported by a very rich bibliography, requires avoiding medicine following 75 years.

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