Medicine has come a very long way since the early days of bloodlighting and leeches.

Now everything feels so high tech, so clean and rational, but once upon a time, human beings

trust it a very different kind of cure.

The kind of cure that doesn't come from a fancy laboratory or any big chain drugstore.

Some of our ancestors opened wide and swallowed the stuff of nightmares.

Blood, bone, flesh.

Human flesh.

Hey, ask your doctor if medical cannibalism is right for you.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

I'm a real, real, wild. Weird. Stuff.

If it feels like most of the commercials you see on television or for prescription drugs,

you're right. In 2020 alone, Big Pharma spent nearly half a trillion dollars on TV commercials,

pushing everything from medications for diabetes and cancer to psoriasis and

erectile dysfunction. That's a lot of money. It's so much money. It's a figure that represents

75% of all the money spent on television advertising. Thank God for Phil Swift and the Flex Seal family of products or we'd

never get a break from all those pastel-hued drug spots with their fairy tale, small-town,

Main Street, knitting stores and ice cream shops and blandly attractive people out and about

living better lives through chemistry. That said, when you realize how people used to treat afflictions and ailments and injuries and pain,

you're just so thankful to be living in our ever so slightly more civilized age

because medicine used to be a pretty grubby business.

And medications, some of those used to be made not from unpronounceable chemicals,

but from people. People? Medicine made from human beings? Wouldn't taking that be like cannibalism?

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