I'm an RN, worked in a lot of settings, they jab you when you're born and spoon feed meds as you die. It's a sick culture. Best advice, eat healthy, exercise, get sunshine, and avoid toxic people.

As a retired nurse, one of the most important observations I made over the course of my career was that all the people that I cared for that lived to be in their high 90s and beyond 100 years, all had one thing in common: they took either no meds or only a very occasional analgesic for rare instances of pain. They also looked healthier, were mentally more acute and were physically more active. Of those seniors who died younger and took more medications, many of them died from the side effects of the medications they were taking.

My late husband, my late stepfather and my late best friend were all Phd pharmacologists from prestigious American universities. All three warned that people should NOT take medications for any chronic condition that can be changed by lifestyle choices. And I don’t and never will.

"There's no money in healthy people. There's no money in dead people. The money is in the middle---people who are still alive.....sort of....but have one or more chronic conditions." ~Bill Mahr

I worked for big pharma for 15 years. It is only ever about the money. And in Australia, getting it fully funded or subsidised by the govt. The pure financial greed is extraordinary.

Hospitals end up getting people hooked on more drugs than steet sellers. Drug companies are really good at it.

As an American I forgot what real journalists asking questions looks like. Good to see!

The sad thing is that these companies own governments worldwide, and governments work for them, and not for you...

When I would go to my Physician, he was always stunned that I was not on any medications, he would always say “I am going to get you on one”. I told him “I don’t do Pharmaceuticals”. At the age of 61, I have never taken one and never will.

Be careful folks: Banned doesn't mean gone. Many times, it means, renamed

I always ask active people in their 70s, 80s, and 90s. What their secret to life is? They always answer " No Doctors and no pills."

I was overweight and depressed. My physician had me on a gang of pills...one day I had an epiphany. I saw a woman about my age, obese, riding a scooter and clutching a Big Gulp. I decided I wasn't going out like that. So I started walking. It wasn't easy. I huffed and puffed and used an inhaler every so often. But I made myself, every day. It didn't take long to see results! I also changed my diet. I was poor, and no matter how I worked and reworked my budget, I could only afford one meal a day. At first that frightened me. Then I began to think, and I realized that, unless you're still growing, or doing manual labor, you do not need three full meals every day. I learned that many people eat like this, the OMAD diet - one meal a day. The healthier I became, the less "medicine" I needed. The inhaler was relegated to the back of a drawer. Antidepressants, gone. I didn't have acid reflux anymore because my organs weren't being squished together. (I know, medical terminology there) 😏 in short, I took my health into my hands, and at 63 I'm in great shape, a size five and just two pills, one to sleep at night and something for anxiety, as needed. We take more medicines than ever. And we're in the worst shape ever. The sicker we are, the richer the pharmaceutical industry and the medical industry become. It isn't in their best interest for us to be healthy! I don't want my illness to pay some doctor's mortgage.

1. Exercise 2. Eat Healthy 3. Get Enough Sleep These 3 steps every day and you'll avoid most health problems.

Why would any greedy drug dealer want an addict cured???

72 shots for babies to age 18 in the US is a crime.

I truly believe your health are in the foods you eat.

I hope all pharmaceutical companies are made responsible for all the damage they have done and the many deaths they have caused .

I was blown away when arriving back in the United States after being gone for years, at the 100s a prescription drug commercials on TV in America. I've been all around the world and I've never seen a drug commercial in any other country I've ever been in except New Zealand

it is time to bring the psychiatric industry to accountability

I recommend the book „Anatomy of an Epidemic „ by Robert Whittaker. I am convinced that the mental problems being experienced by large swathes of western youth are in no small part caused by massively over prescribed psychopharmaceuticals. Parents, protect your children!

I have heard stories of doctors giving some of their patients horrible prognoses of shortened lifespans. Then those same patients outliving their "healthy" doctors by many years.😊

This documentary is extraordinary. I've done some research on what I call "The Triad"= The Pharmaceutical Conglomerate, The AMA, and medical insurance, but never got this far. Bravo to all involved!

Ive diagnosed myself with physician dislike syndrome

The doctors had me on 14 different medications all at once. One day I decided I had had enough of that and without telling the doctors I stopped taking them. Changed my diet to what my son calls “single ingredient” foods. Nothing from a bag or box, and as fresh as possible. Cut out all sugar, seed oils, and processed anything. I ate eggs cooked in real butter on toast with real cheese (all local) with salt&pepper plus hot sauce. Fresh veggies 🥦, fish, poultry, beef, pork and rice or potatoes. Only ate from 11am to 5 pm each day. No sodas or alcohol except a glass of red wine and plenty of water purified in a Berkey system. And NO EXERCISE!! Lost 50 lbs in 3 months and 8” off my waist. BMI of 28% reduced to 15%. Then started lifting weights heavy weights. Funny how after 3 months had blood work done and everything was in the green and no more diabetes! Doctors tried to claim the meds/Rx’s worked until I informed them I had stopped taking pills months ago lol😂 I’m over 50 and my fiancé, who is 24 years younger than me is very pleased and in heaven 2-3 times a day most days😂 STOP TAKING A PILL FOR EVERY LITTLE THING!!!

The side effects after taking a prescription, is worse than the first sight of illness

Sad part is doctors really want to help people and many dont know about the system they serve

All one has to do is watch television. Every commercial break has at least one pharmaceutical ad. There is a pill for this, and pill for that, and when the pill gives you nasty side effects, there's a pill for that, too. It's awful.

Medicine commercials are slick. I don’t trust corporations as far as I can toss a piano. They don’t have my best interests at heart. They just wanna lighten my wallet.

I have been an ethical vegan for nearly twelve years and at nearly 69 yrs old feel the best iv ever been in my whole entire adult life. We are what we eat and i believe in that old saying let food be thy medicine and medicine be thine food. All the garbage/processed junk i put into my body was and had been making me sick for decades. When we know better, we can live and be better.

Doctors should explain everything before prescribing any addictive pharma drug. No different than street drugs.

Every time I go on the internet I see warnings about this or that illness. Even my Facebook news Feed is full of ads telling us to check this that.and the other. I'm sick to death of all the health paranoia around today. The media is turning all of us into hypochondriacs.

Like how did we survive this long without all this unnecessary crap?!

Metabolic Syndrome is a concert of all of the diseases listed in this video. It can be addressed by diet alone unless you believe you don’t posses the will to follow a healthy lifestyle.

They want customers not cures, hey?

The biggest risk to your health is in your diet. Avoid carbs sugar processed foods etc. a doc told me to eat food that existed 100 years ago. This eliminates all the boxed and canned foods at the grocery store. My diet is mostly beef butter bacon and eggs. Sone fruits a few veggies mostly meat fish eggs etc. my arthritisis is gone. My skin feels awesome. Less aches and pains. No hunger at all between meals.

We live in a corrupt world, where corporate greed is in control.

keep in mind these days that doctors are like mechanics. you can present an issue, and every single one of them will have a different diagnosis and treatment or repair advice. its all about the money money money.

My own doctor even told me about big pharma. It’s a crazy business. We have to be our own health advocate. Eat healthy, exercise, focus on what brings joy, peace, and meaning to our lives. May we all take care of our overall health and well-being. ❤🌎🙏🏼😊

Naturopaths and Holistic are the best doctors.

I got into this when I went in for a surgery and then ended up getting hooked on Percocets, all kinds of pills, never shot up because I was afraid of needles, but I blew 150k, lost my marriage of 20 years, everything. Thank k god my father was around to help me and let me heal. Thankfully I made it out and both of my kids got to see what pills can do to you and the doctors had no problem giving me whatever. This was back in 2010-11, I know I'm a rare case, but my kids and ex-wife are all I thought of and I was determined to get off the pills. I wish more would see that normal health is awesome. Pills were hiding other pains from my life. God bless all those trying to get off and get help, you can do it!✌️👍🙏👊❤️

I moved out of America in the early 2000s and when I came back 14 years later it seemed like everybody and their dog suddenly had been diagnosed with something called OCD that I had never heard of before.

I had to tell my doctor i was getting off prescription meds and to please help monitor any symptoms as i cut down further into nothing. He's doing it although not encouraging it. He's got to protect himself from the one eyed cabalist employer.

Dr. Thomas Szasz who is still way ahead of time has had a book out called " Medicalizing of everyday life".

Using weights and even walking can also increase bone density and doesn’t come with the risk of your jaw being eaten away.

Metabolic syndrome is defined now as having 3 of 5 symptoms, which are high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, high fasting glucose, low HDL and high triglycerides. If you have only 2, you don't have it even though if you have high blood pressure and abdominal obesity, this could kill you too. Also low HDL combined with high triglycerides are also a huge risk factor for heart disease. Basically, this movie is dead on. The medical system creates fake disease to sell products. High cholesterol is a fake disease that has never been proven to cause heart disease, true fact.

Doctors prescribe antidepressants for everything 😂

There is so much spending on unnecessary things that hurt people much more than they help. Over priced coffee drinks, vaping, readily available crap that has low to no nutrition marketed as food. The pharmaceutical's that so many people assume they have to take to remain alive because their parents & even grandparents trusted the doctors who got them hooked. Having watched a woman I knew, who is 10 years younger than me, get suckered into taking so many meds, she has to use 2 large organizers for all of the meds she takes. She was going to the gym with me for a while, began feeling better, looking better. Then, she stopped because, she said, a doctor told her to. She just didn't want to keep up a healthy exercise regimen because it's easier to sit on her butt all day, play on her phone & computer. The truth is that her whole family lives on restaurant junk every day which makes all of them sick in varying degrees.

I remember going to a workshop with an ex-pharmaceutical company employee who worked to market their drugs. She gave the example of fibromyalgia. They had a drug that they were trying to use for something else (I think it was depression), but it wasn’t doing very well, so the company literally asked what the drug worked for, clustered those symptoms together, and made up the name fibromyalgia! The medical system in the U.S. is great for emergencies/acute issues but sucks for ANY chronic problem. They are trained to see a symptom as THE problem and write a prescription - that’s it! They have no idea how to even go to root cause, and if they did, the majority of them would be put out of business. The majority, if not all, of the chronic disease we have today is brought on by inflammation, which is often caused by insulin resistance. People disagree on the diet to help (I like a low carb one with fasting that allows the body to lower insulin and puts the body into a state called ketosis, which is the cleanest fuel for the body). BUT, if you don’t agree with that, then, at a minimum, eliminate sugar, all processed foods, and vegetable/seed oils, and that will help immensely. Add in some fasting, meaning don’t eat from the time you wake up to when you go to sleep, stick to a max of three meals a day, and don’t snack, and that will also help. Another point to make is to never pay attention to the mainstream nutrition research. Nowadays, it’s bought and paid for by big food. And we have been lied to for DECADES about saturated fat and sugar. First, Ancel Keys cherry picked the countries he used in his study about diet and heart health. He picked the countries that agreed with his hypothesis and left out the ones that didn’t. Then, add to that the fact that the sugar industry paid researchers to say that saturated fat/cholesterol was the problem, not sugar. For all you doubters out there, this was actually reported in the article in JAMA. Then, add how much of an influence the Seventh Day Adventists (vegans) had early on in heading the agencies that determine the U.S. dietary guidelines, and no wonder you have the food pyramid suggesting mostly carbs. After all, one key Adventist is Kellogg, the guy who created Kellogg’s cereal.

First create a fictional illness convince the people that have it then sell them a drug to treat it; circular reasoning for profit.

" It's easier to fool someone, than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain

The food companies producing ultra processed foods are predominatetly to blame

without my consent, my opthamologist gave me a dry eye test....I knew I had dry eye already because of my age. The test cost me $200 and for nothing.

After taking Epilim for a year I had gained 53 kilograms, my nearves were shot I couldn't hold a pen or a cup and my hair had fallen out. Also In that first year I lost my gallbladder after nine months and my appendix. Both of which I put down to trying to keep my weight down because my doctor wouldn't change my medication. That was thirty years ago, I'm still overweight and my hair has never regrown properly. That drug, should never have been put on the market.

One thing I've noticed for sure, is that many doctors (influenced by big pharma) will promote medications to solve problems without first trying to address the issue naturally with things like lifestyle changes, seeing a therapist, seeing a dietician, etc. Oftentimes issues can be remedied this way instead of by a lifetime of medications that often work against the person. I know that my cholesterol skyrocketed due to side effects of another unnecessary medication I was on. And I was told to take a statin rather than try dietary changes first. The only advice doctors usually give on this is "lose weight", but since that wasn't an issue for me it was straight to the medication. I had an awful reaction to a statin that came on gradually, like many women who are on the smaller side. I came off of it as soon as I realized the medication was causing my issues (it took 2 years!) Since then I've cut down my saturated fat intake to 12g per day and my LDL cholesterol is near normal. I literally fixed the issue well enough on my own. And now that I don't have statin-induced exercise intolerance, I am active and healthier than before.

I never had metabolic syndrome, but when I entered into my 40s, I was feeling pudgy and sick. I went keto and no more icky feeling nor risk for metabolic syndrome.

Like a lot of other comments and your Grandma told you...? "You are what you eat. Garbage in, Garbage out."

In the U.S. on basic cable there are ads for pharmaceuticals 24 hours a day for all 7 days. They are constant. Some of them are horrendous: the ones for asthma are often scary as is the one for shingles (and I sincerely doubt 1 in 3 adults will get shingles in this lifetime.) There is one for ecsema that uses really unpleasant sound to freshen the unpleasantness of the condition in the minds of those who suffer from it. The point i make here is that these ads, being so prevalent and continuous, are just as much pushing the pharmaceutical "solution" as the more direct stories you report on, and just as much, ore even more, about profit for the companies. Moreover, WE are paying for these ads in hiked up prices, which in U.S. are already sickenly high. Next up rival for pushing (like drugs pushing) fantasy and sickness are the now ever-increasing ads for on-line gambling and "the joy of winning." Yeah.

Cure of metabolic syndrome is real food. Only eat meat, fish, chicken, eggs and some green leafy veggies. Avoid at ALL cost sugar, fructose, grains and carbs, alcohol especially beer and ALL processed food which is everything that has more than 1-2 ingredients. I've been on keto and now on carnivore 'diet' I'm 63 never felt better. Lost over 20 kg and my blood work and numbers are top notch.

Thank you so much for this. I personally know a dietician who confirmed that most of the diseases ppl catch are lifestyle and diet related. She works for the hospitals, and says doctors only refer her to patients when they are in a later stage of a disease or pre-surgery. In other words, they only tell the patients to change their diet as a way to control their disease but rarely as a preventive measure of the disease before it strikes.

When our health is based on shareholders profits....

But why did Shirley keep taking the drug? Why didn’t she and loved ones do research this? They tried to push Boniva on me….I asked whether after a year or two a bone density test would show increased bone density and was told, “no, it doesn’t show up.” I never went back, and notice they never prescribe regular aerobic exercise and balance training to prevent falls.

Metabolic syndrome is headed off by having a two-hour postprandial blood glucose test to discover hyperinsulinemia. I don’t have any of the symptoms described in the video, but I handle sugar horribly. The solution is exercise and a low carb, high healthy fat, high plant fiber diet. US doctors don’t use this test. They wait until the patient is diabetic or pre-diabetic and then medicate.

In journey through medical education and training it became obvious to me that SOMETIMES money drives which drugs physicians prescrive. It left such a vad taste in mt mouth that I changed my interest from an office based future career to a career where I would only use drugs tgat my patient absolutely needed. Anesthesiology allows that choice. I also chose to never do cases that were not medically becessary - no elective plastic surgeries. 30 years later I am so glad I chose not to be chasing the next great pill to treat the most lucrative disease of the day.

It's hard to understand just why Alzheimer's & senile has become the World's no 1 killer, I hope I am wrong but do you think it may be due to drugs

There’s a drug for just about any conditions, real or imagined. Drug companies make profit centers out of human suffering.

Thanks for exposing the low practices of the pharmaceutical industry, I only wish some British documentary makers would investigate these things.

I went to a drug store and looked at all the different headache medicines, extra strength, migraine, etc and it had all the same ingredients lol

Myself. Bi polar. I change my mind depending on which people I feel I need to help. People Pleasing? Yep. Dropped the meds and focus on myself. Yeah...I don't mind hearing about your problems, wants or needs. I just need to stop right there. I do not need to solve the issue

Metabolic syndrome is acta real thing. However, pharmaceutical solution is not a solution. It's first and foremost giving up carbs. Hence people are mostly reluctant to do it, it's easy to bait them by magic pill. Sweet-bitter truth. I've been doing keto & fasting for three years now, with great results and no pharmaceutical. But I also see how defensive people can get when I talk about giving up carbs or therapeutic fasting.

Used to read my Doctor fathers "medical journals". They were a SEA of Big Pharma Ads on Every Page.

Need instant energy ?? Take your shoes off , feel the earth then walk to a tree and lean with your back against the tree . You're welcome ☺

Big Pharm propagating hypochondria. The sad thing is that the masses buy into it and then need more meds to treat the side affects and even more to treat those. I just now read the comment beow the one I'm writing now and she is 💯spot on!

People ask me how I'm so healthy? I don't go to the dr.s office!!!!

WHAT A SICK WORLD!! Soooo dissapointing.

More of this research work should be done‼️ The big risk is big pharma and their medical alliances‼️

I hardly watch any TV because of the nonstop med ads 24/7. Just try to eat right, get out and exercise.

Watching the facial expressions and body language of those doctors and others being interviewed is very interesting. You can see that they're lying if you know what to look for!

Health lies in the lap of mother nature .eat what comes from hardworking farmers farm without pesticides,gmo seeds original nature & not packed food be it any . Healthy eating,active lifestyle,early to rise early to bed ,positive thoughts,gratitude,always be thankful to almighty GOD & there will be no illnesses.

The fearfully&wonderfully Created human body is self-regulatory and self-healing... After much research, had come to the conclusion; that superior to other life-style changes; the most powerful healing modality to employ prayerfully - towards facilitating healing miracles - is FASTING from food (regularly on a daily basis, as well as for extended periods).

Remember this👉 if its urgent or if its for emergency we need pills or medication for that or maybe an anesticia for surgery. But if its not emergency and you need a permanent healing dont replace herbs medicine and healthy diet with pills and tablets. Thats where they go wrong

This must go viral

The craziest thing about their tests, the seem to never once have stopped to think that if the people that took a placebo and had positive results, that just maybe half of the people that took the drug had the same affect. The placebo effect. Think about it!!!

The problem I see is that we who know what these companies are up to still buy their products. And that shows that we don't care hour evil they are. I am not advocating huge sacrifices or boycotting what is really necessary. There are lots of products that we consume that either we don't need our clearly have other options. I stay healthy and will exhaust all natural options before I reach for pills made by these companies. I spend less than a couple cents a year in total on pills/ doctors.

Make a drug... Invent an illness.

BAN PHARMA ADS!! Selling us the idea we are sick and MUST take their drugs. Promotes anxiety, neurosis, hypochondria

Dr. Sebi tried to warn folks but till today very few understand!

Bravo. Standing ovation from South Australia.

But all of those factors generally fall under 1 umbrella; the need to reduce weight. But with a healthy diet that can be accomplished without a marketed pill...which adds to a doctors coffers. A pill for this, a pill for that, an injection for something else. We are almost walking billboards for pharmaceuticals. Go spread the good news! You know what else I'm taking!!!

I’ve managed to survive almost seven decades without pharmaceuticals. Two or three more decades without them will be a cinch.

When some of these doctors and assorted other people working for the pharmaceutical industry are being pressed by a real journalist, or in a deposition by a lawyer, their answers and body language is very much liked those of the post WWII defendants at the Nuremberg trials.

I'm a carnivore now, and have been for more than thirty years since my immunologist took me off everything that might contain anything containing vegetable matter. Drugs are made from vegetable matter. Our bodies are not. We're red meat, fat and cholesterol, we require some glucose which our body makes and salt which we need to obtain. We have a digestive system like that of a wolf or a lion. We don't have hooves or horns. We don't have four stomachs or a tail. Vegetables always contain chemicals that can harm us, natural chemicals that people never consider, or think about.

Ancestral diet, keto diet, intermittent fasting are healthy. Stay away from refinated vegetables and seed oils, sugar and processes flour and food.

Thank you for your reporting! We need more journalism like this..

LoL... My favorite voice over guy from those Dangerous Roads videos!

Fresh air and sunshine and exercise and rest with real food- raw fruits and vegetables and nuts. No Garbage or cooked foods

lots of pharma bots doing damage control in the comments

Elevated blood pressure and increased cholesterol production are not root causes of diseased states. To the contrary: Both symptoms had been proven to be associated with decreased mortality risk. Instead of demonising and fearing these and other natural adaptations of the Intelligently Designed human body; let's rather be appreciative of these efforts towards securing our survival when subjected to physical-, chemical-, and/or emotional stressors.

The abdominal fat is caused by high insulin levels.

more of this investigative documentary must be made!!! bravo

they scare you in to taking medication