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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

So you've got Gen Z flocking to China, Chinese medicine.

0:10.7

This, as the trust in the U.S. health system, is plummeting.

0:15.0

And it's called China maxing.

0:17.4

And it's a new craze spurned on by influencers and it shows that a lot of

0:23.6

Americans aren't just curious about their wellness trends they're projecting their

0:27.4

distrust on the uf health health system onto everything else that they do it also i don't

0:33.7

know maybe to younger people might feel exotic or authentic.

0:38.8

It's anti-Big Pharma, so they're trying other alternatives.

0:43.4

This is a problem because we talked a couple of weeks ago.

0:48.0

We had the passing of actor James Vanderby.

0:50.0

He passed away from colorectal cancer, and there were reports that came out that said that he passed on traditional cancer treatments and went toward more non-traditional, eastern homeopathic methods to treat his cancer, and it didn't work.

1:05.4

We know Steve Jobs as well when he developed pancreatic cancer.

1:08.3

It came out that he also did the same thing.

1:10.5

Didn't take the normal traditional Western medicine routes,

1:14.0

went the holistic Eastern medicine route,

1:16.4

and he passed away very quickly after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

1:20.3

So look, the U.S. medical system, we got problems.

1:24.5

Big pharma, there's problems.

1:26.1

I'm not going to say it's perfect by a long shot.

1:28.7

But if you're having a serious medical issue, one that is even potentially life-threatening,

1:33.2

as somebody who's been through that, you find a new appreciation for our medical system

1:39.2

and our great doctors that we have here in this country and even find an appreciation for

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