The Dark Truth About Medications: What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You

Every day, millions of people take medications to manage symptoms, prevent disease progression, or support their overall health. While medications can be lifesaving and play a role, there’s a side of the story that often gets overlooked: many of these drugs also deplete your body of vital nutrients. Has no doctor or pharmacist ever let you know?

While "treating" one issue, you could unknowingly be creating another. At Abundance Wellness Center, Dr. Jana Bunsic believes you deserve the whole picture of how medications affect your body—and how to protect yourself for the long term. Sometimes she has felt like the "un-doctor" since medicine has become so defined by the power of the prescription. The Truth is Doctors are supposed to help restore your healing mechanisms, not mask symptoms with drugs that create dependency, deplete nutrients, and cause side effects that lead to more medications.

In Fact, ALL medical societies have admitted that Lifestyle Changes should be the #1 Go-To for Disease Reversal but they are so intertwined with pharmaceutical and insurance companies that they gloss past this fact and into another prescription or surgical recommendation. The end result is most doctors will admit they DO NOT practice the best medicine but feel powerless to break the cycle.

After all, as long as they see 40 patients a day they get paid, and you leave with your medication refills you came for. Really? Is that Health Care?

Knowledge is Power. You be the Judge...

Short List Medications Quietly Drain Your Body

  • Antacids → Reduce absorption of Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, and Calcium that lead to Memory Loss, Nerve Loss & Weakness

  • Statins → Deplete CoQ10 and Essential Fatty Acids, essential for energy, heart health and protect against Alzheimer's

  • Oral Birth Control → Lowers Calcium, Magnesium, Folate, and many B Vitamins and decreases Circulation to the Brain!

  • Antibiotics → Wipe out good bacteria and reduce absorption of key fat- and water-soluble vitamins

  • Steroids → Drain Vitamin D and Calcium and decrease elasticity, weakening bones, ligaments & tendons and actually degrading your joints!

  • Diuretics → Flush out Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Calcium, and Zinc and BLOCKS weight loss!

    Benzodiazepines - Linked to Alzheimer's Dz that increases EVERY TIME you use them!

    Biologics- Medicines injected for Autoimmune issues DANGEROUS deplete your body's immune system 

    Miralax/Laxatives- weaken intestines, synthetic and similar to antifreeze, with microdoses absorbing and creating toxic buildup in your liver!


Over time, this hidden depletion can lead to fatigue, brain fog, weakened immunity, brittle bones, mood changes, and even accelerated aging.

Why This Matters for Longevity

Imagine two people at age 89. Both have lived long lives, but their quality of life is vastly different. One is thriving—active, sharp-minded, and independent. The other is struggling—dealing with bone loss, fatigue, and chronic illness.

One is active in the family and community. One is a drain on caregivers and essentially a ticking time bomb.

What made the difference? Consistently replenishing the body with the right nutrients and supporting natural health decades before issues show up. Whatever age you are, the best time to start is NOW.

At Abundance Wellness, Dr. Bunsic helps patients understand the long-term impact of their choices. Medication may be necessary, but so is rebuilding what those medications take away. She likes to use the analogy of a crystal ball. If you could see your life 5,10, 20 years from now if you make one series of choices versus another. Should you just go with the flow because it is what you have always done, what your insurance covers, what your friends are doing? If you have read this far you are a health seeker. You want better than what you have and what you have seen happen to your friends and relatives.

The Functional Medicine Approach

Instead of just looking at medications and symptoms in isolation, Dr. Bunsic takes a holistic approach:

  • Personalized testing to see what nutrients your body is missing. The List of available tests are long but every visit we make Individualized Recommendations.

  • Targeted supplementation with medical-grade products that restore balance. Often patients are taking several supplements but they are poor quality and in the wrong dosing and combinations to make any improvement in their health. They are flushing their money and their health down the toilet by lack of expertise and quality.

  • Lifestyle guidance - not just saying "loose weight" but looking at the cutting edge dietary science to boost your metabolism and rebuilt your gut health, drastically reduce your inflammation and REVERSE DISEASE or precursors to disease. This is. essential for the supports energy, focus, and vitality to live long and healthy.

  • Prevention-focused care so you thrive now and decades into the future! This is not the type of prevention dealing with vaccines and mammograms, this is a DETAILED physical exam that looks at your fat-muscle ratio, fitness level, endocrine imbalance signs, signs of yeast or bad bacteria overgrowth, spinal health, nervous system inflammation and more. Based on this we co-create a wellness strategy that fits YOUR WELLNESS GOALS.

You Choose the Path

You don’t have to wait until you’re in your 80s to think about longevity. Every decision you make today shapes how your body will feel years down the road.

At Abundance Wellness, we help you make informed choices—so you can thrive, not just survive.

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