If you are currently taking a prescription medication, the answer to that question would be yes.
Prescription medications deplete the body of essential nutrients.
The ways that drugs negatively affect the status of nutrients in the body include inhibition of absorption, synthesis, transportation, storage, metabolism or excretion of individual nutrients. Older adults are especially in the high risk group of developing nutrient deficiencies due to the multiple prescription drugs they are taking, in addition to consuming inadequate diets, thus compounding the problem of nutrient deficiency. In 1991, older Americans filled 650 million prescriptions for drugs. Many commonly prescribed medications may in some cases actually deplete your body of essential nutrients needed to treat the condition you are taking the medication to address. Let s take a look at some classes of commonly prescribed medications and the nutrients they deplete.