How Killer Big pharma, Turns Healthy People, Into Sick Carbs, Sugars, Ultra Foods, Addicted Lifelong Customers
Dr Berry's Proper Human Diet Podcast:-
Big Pharma and Big Medicine do not make money only by treating sick people. The medical market also grows when healthy people are screened, labeled, medicated, monitored, and treated for years or even for life.
Alan Cassels has spent more than 30 years investigating the gap between medical evidence and medical marketing. He is the co-author of Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients and the author of Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease. His work examines disease mongering, overdiagnosis, pharmaceutical marketing, polypharmacy, medical screening, and the financial incentives that can turn ordinary people into lifelong patients.
In this conversation, we examine:
• How cholesterol became a massive market for lifelong medication
• How relative risk can make a small treatment benefit sound enormous
• Statin research, adverse effects, and the difference between lowering LDL and improving meaningful outcomes
• How an accurate screening test can still leave a patient worse off
• False positives, overdiagnosis, and the claim that “screening saved my life”
• How one drug’s side effect can be mistaken for a new disease and treated with another drug
• Why medications are much easier to start than to stop
• How GLP-1 drugs are being promoted to progressively healthier people
• What MRI abnormalities can and cannot prove about pain
• Operations that have failed to outperform sham surgery
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This is not an argument against medicine. Modern medicine can save lives and relieve tremendous suffering. It is an argument for honest evidence, absolute numbers, meaningful informed consent, and medical care that serves the patient rather than the market...........................................
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