Leaving Big Pharma and Coming Back to Ourselves
Remembering What the Body Has Always Known
Hi dear one.
Somewhere along the way, we were taught a strange idea. That health comes from a bottle.
Tired? Pill.
Anxious? Pill.
Can’t sleep, can’t focus, can’t cope? Another pill.
Modern life turned normal human signals into diagnoses, and Big Pharma was more than happy to provide the solutions. Not cures. Solutions. Temporary, repeatable, profitable solutions.
And most of us didn’t question it. We were busy. We trusted the system. We forgot something essential.
The body was never broken to begin with.
The Business Model Nobody Talks About
Let’s be honest. Pharmaceutical companies are not wellness organisations. They are corporations, answerable to shareholders, not to your long term vitality.
Their ideal customer isn’t a healed person. It’s a lifelong one.
Chronic conditions mean recurring prescriptions.
Recurring prescriptions mean predictable income.
Predictable income keeps the stock price healthy, even if we’re not.
Advertising plays a powerful role here. Ordinary experiences like grief, stress, hormonal shifts and tiredness are framed as disorders. Once a label exists, a product follows. Side effects are whispered quickly at the end, as if they are a minor inconvenience rather than a warning.
Doctors, many of them kind and well intentioned, are stuck inside this machine. Ten minute appointments. Insurance codes. Treatment protocols shaped by studies funded by the same companies selling the drugs.
It is called healthcare.
But often, it feels more like business care.
What We Forgot Along the Way
Before industrial medicine, there was no such thing as alternative health. There was just life.
People healed with sunlight, mineral rich water, movement, rest, herbs, real food, community and purpose. The earth was the pharmacy. And it worked. Not perfectly, not magically, but in cooperation with the body.
Here is the inconvenient truth.
You cannot patent sunlight.
You cannot trademark turmeric.
You cannot monetise deep sleep or barefoot walks on real soil.
That is why these things are dismissed, minimised or labelled unscientific. Not because they do not work, but because they do not scale profitably.
Our biology has not changed in tens of thousands of years.
Our environment has changed dramatically in just a few generations.
Ultra processed food.
Artificial light.
Constant stress.
Endless stimulation.
Disconnected lives.
Then we act surprised when bodies start breaking down.
From Disease to Ease: Letting the Body Come Back into Balance
What we call disease is often better understood as a state of not being at ease.
Not every symptom is an enemy. Sometimes it is information.
Fatigue can be a signal. Inflammation can be a signal. Anxiety can be a signal. A message that something is out of balance. Nutritionally. Emotionally. Environmentally. Spiritually.
Suppressing symptoms without addressing the cause is like turning off a fire alarm while the house is still burning. Quiet, yes. Safe, no.
Your body is not stupid. It is intelligent beyond words.
It heals cuts.
It rebuilds tissue.
It detoxifies daily.
It recalibrates constantly.
Give it clean inputs and enough space, and it does what it has always known how to do. Return to balance.
This Is Not About Rejecting Medicine
This is not anti doctor or anti emergency medicine. Surgery saves lives. Acute care matters. Antibiotics have their place.
But everyday health, your energy, your mood, your resilience, should not start with a prescription pad. That foundation belongs to you. And reclaiming it does not require anything extreme. Start small. Start real.
Replace one processed meal a day with whole food.
Get natural sunlight on your skin.
Touch the earth, barefoot if you can.
Drink clean water.
Reduce screen time before sleep.
Breathe slower than your thoughts.
Do this consistently and something shifts.
Not just physically, but mentally.
You begin to feel sovereign again.
The Quiet Revolution
The real health revolution will not come from laboratories or lobbyists. It will come from remembering.
From people growing herbs instead of lawns.
From parents reading labels instead of advertisements.
From communities sharing knowledge instead of fear.
Every time someone chooses nature over dependency, it weakens a system that profits from disconnection.
Health is not a subscription.
It is not a product.
It is a relationship. Between you, your body, the earth and the truth.
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Not louder.
Just clearer.
Until next time,
stay curious and grateful.
Light and joy,
Kim
