Originally Posted by DeadGrandpa

This comment made me laugh out loud. I thought it was a reference to the Phillip K. Dick 1969 novel called Ubik, which was about a product, as near as I can remember, that was good for everything. Or maybe not. I need to re-read that one. Then I noticed the link to some actual product, which I find both humorous and disturbing. I looked at the linked page. I could not discern why the product is helpful.

Personally, I think the physician/pharmacology collaboration is a bigger scam than the military/industrial complex about which Eisenhower warned us. We have as a culture swallowed the idea that the solution to our problems lies at the bottom of a pill bottle. Maybe it does for some of us/you. I don't believe it. I think the last good legal drug invented was penicillin, and before that, aspirin. I take half an aspirin every day unless I have a headache, in which case I take a whole aspirin and drink some coffee. I eat lots of salt, but do not have high blood pressure. The prescriptions you folks have discussed here leave me scratching my head, which does not itch. A year or two ago, I had my testosterone level checked because the man on tv said it might be low. He was wrong. However, the PA at my family doctor suggested it was time (long overdue, he said) I have a full physical, colonoscopy, etc., and I refused. When I told him I categorically rejected all his treatments for whatever the test results might be, he seemed to be genuinely offended. I don't know about my cholesterol levels or PSA score. I don't care.

My hands go numb when I lean on them in the same position on the handlebars for 15-25 minutes. When that happens, I sit up and move that arm slowly in a circle, windmill style. Numbness goes away. Truth is, I haven't gotten a decent pair of padded riding gloves yet and the handlebar tape isn't very comfy. That will probably be my next upgrade.

Generally, I believe that the life is in the blood, and that exercise is the greatest life prolonging act I can do. If you are already on a lifetime prescription of something or other which you consider essential, then you may be right. I hope it works for you. Personally, I prefer not to travel that road. You may ask, "What about aspirin? Why do you take that?" (1) I have noticed that aspirin isn't generally prescribed except for the exorbitantly priced enteric coated low dose variety; I don't think you would be served an aspirin in any hospital in the country today and probably not for the last 40 years. It's too cheap; there is no money in it for the hospital or the pharmacy industry.
(2) My mom (before she passed on) suggested that it wouldn't hurt me to take half an aspirin a day, so I do. Besides, sometimes my girlfriend gives me a headache. I'm sure there are all kinds of arguments against aspirin these days. I simply don't believe them. Until recently, I am given to understand that something called coumadin was commonly prescribed as a blood thinner. The active ingredient in this is the same ingredient as in rat poison, and I have a philosophical objection to ingesting poison when a non-poisonous substance (aspirin) is readily available and does much the same thing.

I believe that in general, the effectiveness % of many of the drugs prescribed for folks these days is unacceptably low, but patients take them because they go to the doctor expecting a prescription. Side effects are rampant and people accept them, often getting another prescription to counter the side effects.

Your results and mileage may vary. Good luck to all with your own approach to health.
I may die from a heart attack or be run over by a truck this afternoon. If so, it is a good day to die. Meanwhile, I'm going riding.