I take all of these drug ads with a grain of salt. They seem to be designed to be deceptive because otherwise they wasted a lot of money developing a drug that nobody would want.

50 years ago it seemed that drugs were about healing people; now they are often about hiding people's problems. If you have cholesterol problems, it's probably because of your diet, which is usually directly influenced by TV ads and the lifestyle thrust upon us by society.

I figure that if the average person has to take daily/weekly drugs to stay healthy, then we have other problems...last I knew, biology dictated how survival works but these drug companies are pushing that only science can keep us healthy and without that you're a sad specimen of a human being.

If a drug helps you get to a healthier life so you can stay there, that's one thing, but then the drug is not needed afterwards. But the way these are marketed as lifetime drugs, I see it as the equivalent of what bulimics do to keep their weight problems down.