We are currently in the midst of a chronic disease epidemic, with conditions like obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, depression and type two diabetes at an all time high. Rather than prescribing a pill for every symptom, multimodal therapies like exercise, nutrition and cannabinoid-based medicines can be very helpful in these scenarios and significantly help to reduce polypharmacy.
Without a doubt, this approach should also be focused on more in med school, so that our new doctors have more patient-centred tools to tackle the modern chronic disease epidemic.