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Get the fear in paranoia around Western medicine.

We live as Americans inside of a for-profit medical industry.

And that industry favors the wealthy and it drains the savings accounts of the middle and lower classes.

We're all collateral damage in this ongoing trilateral war between pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and hospital systems.

With lobbyists from each of them constantly pulling and pushing regulators in every direction, except the one that leads to socialized medicine.

I mean, my wife and I have just switched to our sixth insurance provider in under four years.

We've lost thousands of dollars in that time due to deductibles alone.

And I'm as frustrated in our government's flaccid response to regulating medicine in favor of citizens as anyone else.

Yet, I'm also perturbed by this alternative health industry that capitalizes on people's confusion and fears around science and medicine and profits from their willingness to believe in untested and often unfounded health claims.

So, for example, while it's true that an over-aliance on processed foods leads to negative health outcomes, the idea that supplements can fix what they believe to be a broken food system is hyperbolic.

It might feel right, but it's a statement without evidence and it's often wrong.

So, when Clinton made his pro-supplement statement, he was parroting the sentiment expressed in a 1992-time cover story that waxed poetic on the luminous benefits of megavitamins.

Terms like antioxidants and free radicals entered the public vernacular.

Studies showed that diets filled with antioxidant rich fruits and vegetables results in better health outcomes and then supplements manufacturers ran with this narrative.

Pediatrician Paul Offit wrote about this mindset at the time, quote,

if fruits and vegetables contain antioxidants and people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables are healthier, then people who take supplemental antioxidants should also be healthier.

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