“In the book Selling Sickness, authors Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels explain there’s a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they’re sick”…
Merck’s retired CEO Henry Gadsden published in Fortune magazine more than 30 years ago that “it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, because then, Merck would be able to sell to everyone.” Merck's not alone!
While one of Deep Nutrition’s authors was building her practice, their boss explained to her that “to be successful, you need more chronic patients in your panel. Putting people on blood pressure and other medications (which need monitoring) was the key to building a practice."
Doctors have spent a lot of money and time in schools and residency programs just to become doctors, then juggle practice overhead just to end up glorified pill-and-procedure-pushers. Drug reps do the same thing without the overhead, time spent in school/residency, or spending the the money to get the degree. Doctors are how drug companies can manage to continue profiting while slashing their drug rep payrolls--doctors have become the new drug reps.
Keeping patients healthy and free of medication was "bad for business"…the name of the game is to push as many drugs as you can get away with.
Merck’s former CEO dreamed of making people buy drugs they didn’t really need, but he was thinking small. What is happening now is much more sinister and widespread: creating sickness where none exists, and waging a massive campaign of nutrition-related misinformation that has reordered our relationship with food, and reprogrammed our physiologies.
Industry has moved beyond selling sickness and has learned how to create it, largely through a campaign of dissuasion of eating ancestral foods, using ancestral methods, and by the unadvertised use of genetic engineering (first with our foods, then with us). Less obvious is the lowering of thresholds for things like cholesterol and blood pressure, creating new customers by fudging the numbers to make people THINK they're sick.
But we can fight back, and many of us already have begun—not by hurling produce, but eating it.
I’ve always suspected that government is using (and allowing for use) these methods as a form of silent population control, and population-engineering us right into the hands of Big Pharma, and that the health care industry is really the only thing keeping our economy going in any meaningful way--a recession-proof customer creation machine. Shortening our lives and making them fraught with illness is their way of getting out of the New Deal—a deal Congress itself made with the public after the Great Depression. 70+ years later, they find they cannot afford to carry out the charade any longer—we’ve adapted as well we can, and many have overcome. Some have overcome to the point of centennarianism.
The large looming population bubble long dreaded, called the Baby Boomers, is beginning to come to call, and nobody in power wants to be the one to answer the door and say “we gave at the office.” The life-shortening yet profitable population-engineering goes on…and will be ramped up as the crowd at the door gets larger still. Since the slow genetic re-engineering of us and our food didn’t work too well, they’re doing something drastic by cutting off the access to those too-effective medicines and too-efficient diagnostic machines, and they’ll name it in such a way as to make people think they’re getting a good deal out of it. How about the Affordable Healthcare and Portability Act?
Then, they’ll make matters worse—they’ll mess up the tax system to the point that employers will choose to forgo offering healthcare insurance altogether, because the cost of THEIR plan will be just too tempting to pass up. Because their plan will no longer subsidize expensive drugs, pharmaceutical companies will stop producing them--even the everyday-use ones that aren’t really expensive, but are life-saving, and in heavy demand (think insulin--it's price has doubled in the last 5 years, and will keep on doubling with our rates of obesity). Medicine is a business now, and if there’s no money in it, the medicine we know of today goes away, and gets replaced with Third World hit-and-miss medicine. Precious drugs will go to the highest bidder, and of course, we as a country already dropped out of the bididng, judging by the shortages we’ve experienced from 2006 onward. Drugs that DO manage to get scored will, of course, be billed to the patient who uses them, making health care insurance disappear completely—nobody wants to pay Rembrandt prices for a paint-by-number medicine, not even the insurance companies!
You think medical bankruptcies are bad now, just wait.
There aren’t many living diabetics or cancer survivors, or people with hip, knee, or heart valve replacements in the Third World.* The Second World (what I call the socialized medicine countries) doesn’t have much more, and most of those patients 3ho want to be survivors are clamoring for our shores in search of the curative medicines they can’t get back home—their hospitals are selling off the drugs they DO manage to get, rather than using them to treat their own patients. Money has become more precious than life.
Legitimate medicines are going gray- and black-market, and life itself has been turned into a precious commodity for those living with preventable diseases. Global leaders, individually or collectively (I don’t know which), have decided to turn the clock back to save money.
Life on Earth will literally (and for some, already has) become a game of Your Money or Your Life. If you want to opt out of this game, do what millions of others have done (or have done all along), and follow the advice given by such people as the Deep Nutrition authors, Weston A. Price, authors of Paleo diet books, and other sources where you find nutritional information that’s contrary to what you might hear spewing from AMA-sanctioned mouths. Back away from the microwave, put down the manufactured foods, stop listening to the man behind the privacy curtain, and start eating grown, fished, and hunted foods. Learn to like water again, and not the kind in the plastic bottle, but the kind that comes from a faucet filter. Turn your own clock back by eating what your grandparents ate, in the form they ate it (usually fresh, raw, and/or wild).
We got here because the Powers That Be told us for decades to eat the cheap foods (by rationing), then even went so far as to create cheap foods (with factory farming, mechanized farming, and subsidizing), and followed everything up by creating clever Pyramid-shaped ad campaigns to reinforce the whole thing, turning us into human guinea pigs. Then they waged a decades-long campaign of nutritional misinformation so you wouldn’t know any better--their voices would be the loudest. The medical field joined in with their "pills for fake ills" campaign—everybody capitalizes on you but you. Even Obamacare capitalizes on you, and now you have a chance to fight back and avoid all this mess, starting with what you choose to put in your shopping cart, and in your mouth. If we’re all healthy, who needs Obamacare, Big Pharma, or any of the rest of it? Only the ones who choose differently, and may god help them.
It's high time YOU capitalized on you!
These Powers that Be are well on their way toward their goal: to create a population of sick, malformed, mindless, and dependent sheeple for easy control and manipulation--Uncle Sam wants more slaves for his "plantation.". For some of us, it's already working.
Do you choose money or life? I hope you choose life, because it’s all you can really afford to do these days—the economy’s already dead and staying that way, drug prices are sky-high, and there isn’t enough money in the world to buy back your life through drugs and procedures, assuming they still exist after 2014. I know some cheap places where you can start buying back your life at right now affordable rates: the produce section of any grocery store, a farmer’s market, a roadside stand, a CSA, a health food store (why do you suppose they call it that?), and even cheaper places—your own garden, and foraging.
Hunting and fishing aren't so cheap any more, with the skyrocketing prices for ammo, tackle, and licenses, so teaming up with a hunting/fishing buddy would be the cheap route for protein (unless you choose to raise your own). Don't know anybody who does these things? Try buying your meat at an agricultural college--as long as it's grass-fed, it should be okay, but be sure to ask lots of questions before plunking down money. I'm not going to advocate vegetarianism here, because way too much sugar in our diets (in all forms--including starch) is the root cause of most of our chronic ills which force us into the hands of Big Pharma in the first place. A normal, safe fasting blood sugar number (despite what you hear from your doctor or the American Diabetes Association) should be down around 89--beyond that, health problems start to occur.
You wouldn't BELIEVE what sugar and Omega-6-laden vegetable oils are responsible for in helping to ruin our bodies from the inside. The cheapest form of medicine for these ailments would be to stop consumption of these products altogether. Doing this will allow you to see for the first time that buying and eating convenience foods really is a form of DECADENCE: people buy and eat these foods, the foods do damage, and then they run to the doctor for pills to undo the damage, while they continue to consume more convenience foods and go looking for more pills, and then the damage has mounted to the point where pills are no longer the solution--now it's IV drugs administered on a daily/weekly basis, or machines to clean out your kidneys several times a week, or surgery to remove a gall bladder or bowel section, or maybe to implant a pacemaker, or they themselves get nuked with radiation therapy. One day, they'll realize their medical bill rises right along with the convenience food bill, and maybe they'll stop eating it...or just stop seeking the pills, and start seeking the ER instead.
All I know is that you'll never be able to drive by a fast-food place and view the parking lot and drive-thru lane the same way again--these people are seated (or lined up in cars) eating (or waiting for) their daily dose of poison (sometimes two), and the effects compound.
Since nobody's going to brick up the drive-thru windows, blow up the restaurants, or reform the grocery store aisles, you have to do the reforming yourself by not going down those aisles in the first place--vote in the produce section with your dollars, and commit invisible tyranny with your shopping cart. Refuse to be capitalized upon by this heinous system!
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*The Third World largely eats in old, traditional ways with ancestral foods using ancestral methods, so there isn’t nearly the degree of avoidable chronic illness and disease we see here. Diabetes and cancer are rare in those places, because they aren’t exposed to toxic amounts of sugar (in any form, including starch), salt, processing chemicals, and food grown in depleted soil, then doused with oceans of pesticides like we are. Only in places where commercialization and convenience has come to the area do you see cases of diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
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