There is a great Truth about the simple cause of why we get sick that is buried in the legitimate fundamental medical research. The mainstream medical industry goes to great lengths to keep you from thinking about this truth -- and to disparage the great medical philosophers who try to communicate this basic fact.
Linus Pauling, who won two Nobel prizes, expressed this basic truth this way: "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency." Dr. Joel Wallach echoes this truth and proved it in his 1200 page book, which is enshrined in the Smiithsonian Institution, but ignored in the general practice of medical doctors as they busily create new synthetic drugs and electronic devices to treat the symptoms of our ailments, while ignoring the basic cause of dietary deficiencies.
For years medical doctors told Americans that vitamin and mineral supplements "just give you expensive urine" -- thus discouraging us from looking to the true cause of our illnesses. It is true that many vitamins and other supplements are cheaply-made and not up to the standards for doing what is needed. And besides, insurance doesn't cover them, so most people just give up looking up this promising avenue of reversing disease.
This medical ignorance and denial of a brilliant truth about why we get sick and what we could do about it, keeps us getting sicker while we spend about a 20% of our U.S. Gross National Product treating merely the symptoms, never the cause of our diabetes, etc.
This practice of treating only the symptoms of diseases lets the underlying cause (dietary deficiencies) get worse and has led to widespread opioid addiction and death.
When the average American finds something that works more satisfactorily than pharmaceutical drugs, such as kratom, the FDA takes action to try to scare us away from using anything that doesn't put money into the pharmaceutical industry's pockets. Since many of us are desparate and in extreme, unremitting pain, we don't scare so easily. We fight back.
The current system of medical care in the USA is designed to make the most money by ignoring the cause of our diseases and only treating the symptoms, while we slowly get sicker. Few of us bravely follow he advice of Linus Pauling and Dr. Wallach and find our health greatly improves. Funny thing!
The respect our patent-wielding pharmaceutical industry commands is undeserved. Too bad more of those in Congress can't see this.