Hi everyone, Drew Proud here. Today we're talking about three super crazy facts about big pharma.

When I say super crazy, I mean actually like freaking nuts. Some of these facts are going to blow your mind.

And by the way, your own doctor may not know that your doctor, well intentioned doctor who's there for you looking out for you,

they might not even know or have heard of these facts, which is why we're doing this episode. We got to spread the word and make sure that the average person who's listening and is trying to live a healthier life.

And by the way, drugs can be life saving. Drugs are life saving. Thank the Lord for all the incredible drugs that are out there like insulin and so many others that people depend on.

And our pharmaceutical industry, particularly in America because of how we do things over here, we'll get to that in a second, has gotten out of control, out of check.

And it's been that way for a while. And there's somebody that's speaking up about it and it's Dr. John Abramson, a little bit about Dr. John Abramson.

Before we break down these facts, he's a physician, a family physician, he's a member of Harvard's faculty and a guest lecture.

And he's the world's most notable expert on the drug industry's deceptive tactics. And in this book, sickening where I pulled three really incredible facts, you can find the book if you want to read it inside of the show notes, the link to it to order it on Amazon.

He reveals how the financial interest of Big Pharma have become the main factor that influences the way that we truly practice medicine in the United States.

Again, there are fantastic doctors that are out there. My family members are many of those individuals that are out there.

There are drug companies creating life saving products that are out there. And those can all be true. And there's another layer.

Another layer is that financial interest of the drug companies are changing how we practice medicine by prioritizing profits.

And by the way, that's bankrupting our country. And the thing about it is, okay, so a lot of people say, okay, so what? We know that we all know that Big Pharma doesn't always play by the rules and isn't always primarily driven by good merit.

And it's okay. Sometimes companies are going to be driven by profit. So what's new? Well, the first mind-blowing fact that I want to go into that I'm about to share is something that most people, even if they understand that pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit, and they should be, right?

I'm an entrepreneur, I run companies, and you know, the goal is to make a profit. And hopefully you want to look after your customers as well too. At least that's what I try to do as well.

But this first fact that I'm going to break down is again, something that even your own family doctor may not know about. Let me quote from Dr. Abramson's book, Sickening.

Quote, one of the best kept secrets in all of healthcare, understood by a few doctors, is that peer reviewers, medical journal editors, and the guideline writers who are assumed to be performing due diligence to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data reported from a company's sponsored studies, aka clinical trials.

Here's the key, do not have, do not have access to the real data from these trials. And John Abramson continues, he says, the published reports that doctors accept as fully vetted scientific evidence can be more accurately described as unverified data summaries prepared largely by or for the sponsoring drug companies.

I don't know if you guys heard that, but what Dr. Abramson is basically saying here is that when we see these studies or our family physician, again, great doctors that are out there, they're trying to figure out how to do right by their patients, they're reading the journals, they're getting education on the clinical trials that are out there.

Dr. Abramson is saying that the peer reviewers, you've heard that phrase before, right, peer reviewed study, those peer reviewed studies should be reviewed by colleagues, which include medical journal editors, guideline writers, and other doctors, those are all part of the peer reviewers.

The peer reviewers do not, do not have access to the real data from these trials. They only have access to the unverified data summaries prepared by the drug companies or the groups that they end up hiring to put these trials together.

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