Wouldn’t it be empowering to truly understand how to support your body naturally? Imagine knowing that, given the right conditions, the body has the ability to heal itself—without the need for synthetic substances that only suppress symptoms while causing harmful side effects.
The truth is, natural remedies often provide the answers—without the risks. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry continues to rake in obscene profits while paying out billions in compensation for injury and death caused by its products. Even more disturbing? These companies enforce gagging orders, preventing victims and their families from speaking out once they’ve received compensation—often paid from public funds due to no-liability clauses. Hard to believe? Yes—but it’s happening.
And how do they get away with it? By controlling the entire system. Doctors are financially incentivised to prescribe medications, ensuring the cycle continues. The studies used to justify these drugs are often manipulated—negative results are buried, hidden from public view unless obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The so-called "success rates" of many medications are based on cherry-picked data, meaning their claims are, at best, misleading and, at worst, outright false.
If my approach to patient care resulted in widespread harm, repeated payouts, and silencing those affected, I’d be forced to take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask: Am I doing this because I care, or is it just about money? Unfortunately, for the pharmaceutical industry, the answer is clear. It’s a profit-driven machine with zero regard for the people it claims to help.
To fully understand why this system exists, we need to look at how the modern healthcare model was built—and who was behind it.
How the Rockefellers Hijacked Healthcare: Why We are Really Living Longer But Sicker
When you look at the state of modern healthcare, you have to ask yourself: Why are so many people living longer, yet spending those extra years battling chronic illnesses? Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune conditions — they’ve become so common they’re almost expected as part of aging. But what if I told you this wasn’t always the case?
To understand how we got here, you need to go back to the early 20th century and look at how powerful figures like John D. Rockefeller reshaped the entire healthcare system — not to improve health, but to profit from it.
Natural Healing Was Once the Norm
Before modern medicine was industrialised, healthcare was diverse. Herbal medicine, naturopathy, and nutrition were the backbone of healing. People relied on treatments that supported the body’s natural ability to heal rather than just suppressing symptoms.
But that changed when Rockefeller, an oil tycoon, saw an opportunity to profit from pharmaceuticals made from petrochemicals — oil-based compounds. By funding the Flexner Report in 1910, he essentially wiped out natural therapies from mainstream medicine, ensuring doctors were trained to prescribe drugs, not promote wellness, whilst people in his circles still used naturopaths for their health and wellbeing.
Living Longer... But Why?
One of the biggest misconceptions is that we’re living longer because of modern pharmaceutical advancements. While emergency care and antibiotics have undoubtedly saved lives in acute situations when used properly, they’re not the main reasons life expectancy has increased over the last century.
The real drivers of increased life expectancy are far more basic — yet powerful:
1. Improved Sanitation
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, people often died from infectious diseases like cholera, dysentery, and typhoid — not because these illnesses were untreatable, but because sanitation was virtually non-existent. Rancid drinking water, poor sewage systems, and overcrowded living conditions allowed diseases to spread rapidly.
The introduction of modern sewage systems, clean water supplies, and improved hygiene practices drastically cut down on these infections. Washing hands, proper waste disposal, and access to clean toilets are simple interventions that saved millions of lives, especially among children who were most vulnerable.
2. Clean Drinking Water
Access to safe, clean drinking water is one of the greatest contributors to improved health and longevity. Before water filtration became standard, waterborne diseases were a leading cause of death, particularly in children under five.
Once communities had clean water systems, death rates — especially in infants and young children — plummeted. Clean water not only reduced infectious diseases but also improved nutrition because diarrhoeal diseases that caused nutrient loss became less common.
3. Better Nutrition
Malnutrition was another major killer in the past, particularly among the poor. As access to diverse, nutrient-rich foods improved, so did people’s resilience to disease.
Greater food availability due to advances in farming and food storage meant fewer people starved or suffered from vitamin deficiencies like scurvy or rickets.
Breastfeeding education and improved infant feeding practices helped reduce child mortality rates.
Nutrition plays a fundamental role in strengthening the immune system, supporting growth, and preventing disease — far more so than medications ever could.
4. Reduced Child Mortality: The Real Game-Changer
One of the biggest factors behind rising average life expectancy isn’t that people are living much longer; it’s that fewer children are dying young.
In the early 1900s, child mortality rates were shockingly high due to infections, malnutrition, and unsafe birthing conditions. Improved sanitation, clean water, better maternal care, and basic hygiene drastically reduced deaths in children under five.
This shift alone caused life expectancy statistics to rise. But living longer doesn’t necessarily mean living healthier — and that’s where modern medicine has failed.
So Why Are We Sicker Than Ever?
If sanitation, clean water, and nutrition were responsible for longer lifespans, why are chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer more common than ever?
The truth is, while we solved many problems of the past, modern lifestyles have created new ones. Processed foods, sedentary living, chronic stress, environmental toxins, and over-reliance on pharmaceutical drugs have led to a population that may be living longer but is spending those extra years chronically ill.
Instead of addressing these root causes, the healthcare model — run by profit-driven pharmaceutical companies — focuses on managing symptoms with drugs. Statins for cholesterol, blood pressure pills, lifelong diabetes medications... These treatments rarely aim to reverse disease; they keep you dependent.
The Pharmaceutical Industry: Built on Profit, Not Health
When Rockefeller shifted medicine to focus on pharmaceuticals, he wasn’t interested in curing disease — he was interested in creating customers for life.
Today, pharmaceutical companies spend billions influencing medical education, advertising to both doctors and patients, and lobbying governments. They’ve paid out billions in legal settlements for harm caused by their products. If patient care were truly the priority, would these payouts be so common?
Reclaiming Your Health: Knowledge is Power
Here’s the reality: You don’t need to accept chronic disease as a given. Just because a system profits from your sickness doesn’t mean you have to play along.
Eat whole, nutrient-dense foods, Move your body daily — even a walk helps, Manage stress through mindfulness and breathwork, Question prescriptions and seek natural alternatives when possible, Prioritise sleep, hydration, and connection with nature.
Final Thoughts
Yes, people are living longer — but far too many are living those extra years battling preventable diseases. It’s time to shift the narrative. Longevity shouldn’t just be about how long you live but how well you live.
Improved sanitation, and better nutrition are what gave us longer lives — not an endless supply of medications. Don’t be fooled into thinking health comes from a pill. True wellness starts with you taking back control, making informed choices, and supporting your body’s natural ability to heal.