Did you know that Big Pharma made $81.9 Billion dollars in 2022? That;s an increase of $8 billion over 2021 which was one of the most profitable years in history because of the covid vax. That’s $81.9 Billion out of your pockets and into their’s. How do we fix that?
I want to say at the beginning that I’m not someone that doesn’t believe in medicine. I take blood pressure pills and am glad they exist but the amount of money these companies have extracted from our pockets is getting to be insane and continues to grow year after year.
Big Pharma is Big Business
There was a Goldman Sachs analysis done in 2018 that flat out asked the question, “is curing patients a sustainable business model?” It referred directly to Gilead Sciences new Hep C treatment that cured the disease. It dropped their sales from $12.5 Billion in 2015 to less than $4 Billion because once you are cured, you no longer need the treatment. You can imagine how, if your job is to generate larger sales revenue year over year, that would be a problem.
I believe it’s this tension between profits and cures that is driving a lot of the insanity I see in our medical system. The most obvious example is how we treat Type II Diabetes. If you get a blood test that shows a high A1c, you get a pill. What you don’t get is a conversation about how your diet is causing the high blood sugar and how a low carb diet would reduce the need for medication.
No One Makes Money Off The Healthy
If the point of a business is profit and medications are the chief driver of profits, why would anyone in the medical establishment ever do anything that would reduce their profits by reducing the number of medications prescribed? I don’t know if I’ll ever get over the anger I felt whan I was 400 lbs and had to read dozens of books and listen to hundreds of podcasts to really begin to get a handle on my health. Why didn’t my doctor help me? Why didn’t my doctor want to make me healthy?
So it’s down to us. The people who want to fix our own health and not spend the rest of our lives on pills. How do we do that? I had a post a few days ago where I shared that Dr Oz said it was our patriotic duty to be healthy because continuing like this will bankrupt us, both personally and as a country. I got quite a bit of pushback from that from people mocking the idea that good health is patriotic but what happens to us if America really does go belly up? I don’t think it’s that far-fetched to think our collective health could make that happen.
Here’s How to Bankrupt Big Pharma
So how do we do that? How do we fix this issue? Essentially the question is, how do we reduce the profits of Big Pharma before the costs of their drugs bankrupt us or the country as a whole? Jordan Petersen was on the Joe Rogan podcast a few weeks ago and made an offhand comment suggesting that we really only have one health problem in this country and that’s Insulin Resistance. It was kind of surprising to hear because rarely do I hear someone state the actual problem so clearly and succinctly but he’s right. If you can fix your Insulin Resistance, you can lower your weight, reduce your blood pressure, get your blood lipids where they need to be, reduce your risk of cancer and almost every chronic disease you can think of and generally improve your quality of life. But most importantly, get off medications and stop sending your money to Big Pharma.
The answer is simple and one I’ve said many times on this blog. It’s how I lost 200 lbs and improved my own health. You stop eating anything that raises blood sugar like sugar, grains, starch and (even though it doesn’t raise blood sugar), seed oils. You take those ingredients totally out of your diet and switch to a mostly meat and vegetable diet with a heavy emphasis on the meat and you will see your blood sugar levels drop almost immediately. Combine that with a simple exercise program that focuses on putting on muscle and you will be shocked at how quickly the weight comes off and your health improves.
It took me about 3 years to lose 200 lbs but I came off most of the medications I was on very quickly. I no longer take a statin or anything for blood sugar levels. I’m still on blood pressure medications because there seems to be some kind of genetic component to my high BP but many people come off those pills as well. Try it and see and if you do, let me know in the comments how it works for you!
