nutrition, exercise, natural remedies
Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Like most major institutions and industries at this stage, medicine has morphed into a network of virtually untouchable cartels, yielding a collusional market of hyper-inflated prices, unnecessary procedures, bloated bureaucracy, fear-based marketing, and a series of ongoing drug epidemics.
But don't take my word for it; here's some weighty testimony on the state of the medical industry, and science in general, from its most prominent journals:
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” source
—Dr. Richard Horton, 2015, then editor-in-chief of The Lancet
"Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." source
—Dr. Marcia Angell, 2009
Despite spending ever more on healthcare, lifespans in the U.S. and other countries are now in decline, and general fitness is substantially lower than it was in previous generations. There are certainly many factors at play here, but the modern diet —that is our consumption of synthetic "food"— along with mountains of petroleum-based toxins dumped on crops, plus a massive increase in pharmaceutical consumption are definitely prime contributors to this trend. So as the costs of "health care" have exploded, actual health has declined at the same time.
"In the previous edition of U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, we reported that people in the United States experience the worst health outcomes overall of any high-income nation. Americans are more likely to die younger, and from avoidable causes, than residents of peer countries." source
A 2016 study by Johns Hopkins found that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S., making it the third leading cause of death in the country. That number is absolutely mental, and not a peep from the media? Calling out the second largest source of ad revenue for directly causing 250,000 deaths per year would not be good for business, and so it goes.
Meanwhile, "Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California, are thousands of miles apart, but they share an important attribute: Their populations live much longer than average. Across these regions, called "blue zones," people live well into their 90s and experience lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and other noncommunicable diseases associated with age and lifestyle factors. So why, on average, are people in blue zones healthier than in other parts of the world? It comes down to a variety of factors including relatively low-stress lifestyles, plant-based diets, and belonging to communities (often religious)." source
What cannot be overlooked here is stress, known as the silent killer as it's directly associated with the six leading causes of death. Medical costs are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the US, accounting for well over 60% of the total while millions of people struggle daily to afford medications that are priced tens if not hundreds of times their actual cost. All told, the real cost of the medical system to society is astronomical.
This short documentary does a good job of exposing how the Gov/Corp/Media complex works (there's a real kicker at the 11:40 mark).
The disconnect between industrial health care and human health could hardly be more complete. It's time we start serious discussions on what is probably the most serious issue of the day at local and national levels, and we cannot wait on the wholly owned press to provide the forum.