How Big Ag/Big Pharma Keep America Sick

By Neenah Payne

American medicine excels in treating trauma. So, if you get hit by a car, are in a fire, fall off a ladder, or are shot, you can expect help at a hospital. However, American medicine is failing in chronic disease.

Americans spend an average of $12,555 per person on health care annually according to the Peterson-KFF Health Care Tracker. By comparison, typical health care spending across other developed nations is about $6,651, However, Americans are the sickest, fattest, unhealthiest population. The US ranks high in infant mortality and ranks low in life expectancy compared to other industrialized nations. This shows that the American approach to healthcare is not working.

Why are so many Americans, including children, so sick when we spend so much more for healthcare than any other nation? What if the food we eat undermines our health? What if the medical system is not designed to protect or restore our health but to make us permanent cash cows for Big Pharma? If so, how did this happen and how can we fix this unhealthy system?

We are told that Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived from around 460–377 B.C., was the father of Western medicine. Doctors reportedly take The Hippocratic Oath. Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine and medicine your food”. However, since the Rockefellers’ takeover of Westen medicine in the early 20^th century, doctors learn almost nothing about nutrition. Instead, they have a pill for every ill.

21^st Century Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine: 21st Century Healthcare shows that a growing number of MDs are going back to get their “ND” for Naturopathic Medicine. The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life by Dr. Jeffrey Bland, the father of Functional Medicine, explains the transition from 20^th century Allopathic Medicine to 21^st century Functional Medicine.

Dr. Bland, a biochemist, earned dual degrees in biology and chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, and completed his PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Oregon. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Nutrition where he is a Certified Nutrition Specialist and the Association for Clinical Biochemistry. Dr. Bland is a former professor of biochemistry at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, and served as Director of Nutritional Research at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine in the early 1980’s, working directly with two-time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling whom he considers his lifelong mentor.

In 1991, Dr. Bland and with his wife, Susan, founded The Institute for Functional Medicine, a nonprofit organization focused on educating healthcare practitioners on effective approaches to treating and preventing chronic disease. The 142-page white paper 21st century medicine: A New Model for Medical Education and Practice by the IFM provides a comprehensive overview.

In the video Dr. Mark Hyman: The Future of Medicine, Dr. Hyman explains how his life and health were transformed when he met Dr. Bland in 1996. In the video Dr. Mark Hyman and Functional Medicine, Dr. Hyman says he switched to Functional Medicine when he suffered from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which conventional MDs couldn’t resolve because they just prescribed drugs to suppress the symptoms. With Functional Medicine, he discovered that the CAUSE of the problem was mercury poisoning and intestinal infection. He was then able to fully restore his health.

Dr. Hyman recommends the 2014 documentary Fed Up available on Amazon Prime as a DVD. Dr. Hyman is a family physician and director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. He is also the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center, Board President of Clinical Affairs for the Institute for Functional Medicine, and a medical editor for The Huffington Post. He has been a medical contributor to CNN and many TV shows including CBS This Morning, the Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, Katie, and The Dr. Oz Show. Dr. Hyman a 10-time #1 New York Times bestselling author and an internationally-recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in his field.

In the 2016 video Dr. Mark Hyman and Functional Medicine Part II, Dr. Hyman shows how easily he was able to restore a very sick kid’s health by “removing the toxins and putting in nutrients“. Functional Medicine says there are two primary causes of all chronic illnesses: Excess Toxicity and Insufficient Nutrients.

Dr. Terry Wahls explains in her 2011 TEDx Talk Minding Your Mitochondria that she was wheelchair-bound with “incurable” Multiple Sclerosis in 2007 while following the best conventional medicine. However, by switching to organic food, Dr. Wahls was able to take an 18-mile bike ride in 2008 and to go hiking in the mountains! She is now the author of 2 books on the paleo diet.

Dr. Craig Hauser, an MD who turned to Functional Medicine to heal himself, is in the documentary Betrayal: The Autoimmune Disease Solution They’re Not Telling You.

Dr. Amy Myers turned to Functional Medicine to heal her autoimmune disease. The Evolution of Medicine: Join the Movement to Solve Chronic Disease and Fall Back in Love with Medicine discusses the exciting, growing, powerful shift to a new medicine that is known by many names including holistic, Naturopathic, and Functional Medicine. The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases by Dr. Myers is an Amazon Best-Seller.

Dr. Veronique Desaulniers healed her own breast cancer and is the author of Heal Breast Cancer Naturally: The 7 Essential Steps to Beating Breast Cancer.

Functional Medicine is providing a transformation not only for MDs, but also for a growing number of patients who have undertaken their own journeys to healing! The website Chris Beat Cancer is based on the experience of Chris Wark who reversed Stage IV colon cancer holistically. His site now features testimonials by people who also beat diseases holistically.

Big Pharma Whistleblowers

Casey Means, MD and her brother Calley (lawyer) discuss their #1 NYTimes bestselling 2024 book Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health with Tucker Carlson in the video below. Casey received her BA with honors. She graduated from Stanford Medical School at the top of her class in 2014 and served on the Stanford faculty. However, she decided to leave allopathic medicine in 2018 because she saw that it was ignoring root causes.

Casey left a successful career in traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick. Casey is the co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis..

Calley, Casey’s brother, is the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to purchase healthy food and exercise tax-free. Calley is a former food and pharmaceutical consultant. Since losing his mother to pancreatic cancer in 2022, has been obsessed with understanding the root cause of our metabolic disease crisis. Calley is an advocate/whistleblower about the corruption of the food and pharma industries. He explains that tobacco companies bought up the food industry!

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Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick

Whistleblowers Calley and Casey Means expose how Big Pharma co-opted government agencies and the food industry to poison America and keep us sick. Casey is the co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis. She received her BA with honors and MD from Stanford and has previously served on Stanford faculty. She left a successful career in traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick.