Reply #19: No worries from Big Pharma!

[Patiod]

Someone who works with Big Pharma here to say they're not worried.

What you said is absolutely correct, and can sometimes apply to diabetes and high cholesterol as well (sometimes). Radical change in diet and exercise - it's physicians' #1 choice for 1st line treatment for many of these conditions.

But very very few people have the willpower you do.

Docs tell me they threaten, exhort, use carrot AND stick, and still, very few people are willing to change their habits, so for 99%, it's onto drugs they go (although they're usually cheap generics these days - most HTN drugs are off patent). Good on you for being in the 1%. Think of all the other benefits that are accruing from your change in lifestyle!

Seriously - congrats!