TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - #698: How the Money Printer Hijacked Your Health with Dr. Ahmad Ammous

Episode Date: December 27, 2025

Marty sits down with Dr. Ahmad Ammous to discuss how fiat money has corrupted modern medicine, the pharmaceutical industry's capture of healthcare through medical guidelines and centralized control, and how adopting a Bitcoin standard alongside lifestyle changes could restore health sovereignty for both doctors and patients.

you've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free if you talk about a fed just gone nuts all all the central banks going nuts so it's all acting like safe haven i believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency bitcoin wins in the world of fiat currencies bitcoin is the victor i mean that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. Dr. Ahmad Amoos, welcome to the show. Thanks, Marty. Thank you for having me. Like I was saying, this is going to be a good follow up to the previous episode with Jessica Rose and Kevin McKernan, where we really talked about the corruption of the peer review system

within medicine which is just one area of it you're practicing doctor and you've been writing a lot and talking a lot about fiat medicine so i think maybe we'll just start there jump right into it fiat medicine it's your turn for you think is wrong with health care let's just walk through the thesis how does fiat money specifically corrupt medicine at the root level and where do you see it most visibly uh day to day yeah uh so thanks for the introduction uh medicine the way it is right now is not how medicine was practiced a hundred years ago things are very different and uh things are different in a bad way and in a monopolistic way where pharmaceutical companies have taken over uh the practice of medicine

And this was not possible without big government, without the Federal Reserve that is funding all of this and allowing certain institutions to take over medicine and dictate how doctors get to practice. And so all of these problems started in the early 1900s. So in 1903, the American Medical Association was formed, and the purpose of the American Medical Association was to standardize the practice of medicine, which sounds great on paper that, you know, oh, we want all doctors to practice the same way so that there are no snake oil salesmen, that everyone's up to a certain expectation. But what actually happened is only pharmaceutical medicine was allowed to prosper. Only medical schools teaching pharmaceutical medicine were allowed to continue their practice and everything else was shut down. And this is why we live in a current state where all other healing modalities are suppressed and the only cure for anything is a pill. and i saw you were tweeting earlier today or earlier this week prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the united states these days correct i mean this is like this is

such a crazy statistic that you know if if we live in actually a honest world everyone would be jumping on this and trying to figure out why but this is like medications prescribed the way they should be prescribed are absolutely lethal. They lead to side effects, they lead to dysfunction in the body, they lead you in order to need other medications, and then these medications interact with each other. And, you know, so many of the problems that I see with patients are simply because of the medications that they're taking. And it's just, pharmaceutical companies have such a huge uh propaganda and huge uh huge control about over this entire field that nobody discusses this can you talk about some of the some like hard examples of the side effects really

being yeah so i mean the the most prescribed medication in history are statins or cholesterol lowering medications. And these are absolutely detrimental to the body because cholesterol is essential for all important functions in the body. So cholesterol is an essential fat that's needed to regenerate your cell membranes, regenerate your neurons in your brains, make hormones. It's needed for the immune system function. And this medication drops cholesterol levels significantly, leading to disastrous consequences throughout the body. So the way it's done is studies looking at statins only follow patients for five years maximum. Some of them are done for even just only months. They see that it lowers the cholesterol level and that necessarily, okay,

so that is good for your heart and the product goes on the market. But if someone gets a disease, often serious ones 10 years from now nobody connects it to the statin because there's there's no profit there uh honest researchers that make these connections and put that data out there their material is not getting published journals are not going to accept their papers and that's because all these journals are funded by pharmaceutical uh the pharmaceutical industry yeah go listen uh not you mom anybody listening to this should go listen to the episode with jessica and kevin because we dive deep into that pub peer and just the whole uh research complex and and how it actually works peer review and all that is completely politicized and corrupted

with money but i i think let's take a trip down memory lane just talk about the history of this Because this has been building for, I think, over a century. And you talk a lot about the Flexner Report and Rockefeller's influence specifically. What's the five-minute sort of overview of that seed that was planted over a century ago? Yeah, so the definition of a doctor back in the 1800s was there were many kinds of doctors. So there were what we call allopathic doctors, which is the mainstream now, Western sort of medicine. which works on suppressing symptoms, suppressing works on mostly getting rid of symptoms. That's how things are treated.

But there are also other healing modalities that actually have a much longer history of being practiced all over the world. This includes homeopathy, which aims to treat things naturally, aim to understand the symptoms and give a treatment that's complementary to that to help the body recover on its own. Also, osteopaths and chiropractors were much more respected back then. And there were also naturopaths, which aimed to heal people using just natural remedies, herbal remedies. So back then, someone who got sick would go to any one of these doctors. You had the choice. If you thought that Western medicine was better for you, if you thought the pill was better

for you, you could go and do that. Then in 1903, the American Medical Association was formed in order to standardize the practice of medicine. And then in 1910, they hired someone by the name of Abraham Flexner, who wasn't really a doctor, but they hired him with the task of, we need to revamp and improve all of medical education in the US. So Flexner went around the entire country looking at medical schools, and he eventually decided that all medical schools that are not teaching pharmaceutical-based medicine

need to be shut down. So all of these naturopathic medical school, osteopathic medical schools, all of these were shut down. So more than 60% of US medical schools were shut down in the early 1900s. Flexner had strong ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and he was heavily funded also by the rockefeller foundation where the rockefeller foundation also was had heavy uh for rockefeller's pharmaceutical products were used were turned into pharmaceutical drugs so there was a lot of benefit for them to push everyone to push everyone to be on pills whether rockefeller himself was aware of this is not clear because uh basically at a certain point his foundation was just based on money he has given before, and other people were running it.

So I don't want to throw Rockefeller under the train, but definitely his foundation had a huge part to play in this. And so 60% of US medical schools were shut down. Only doctors practicing pushing pills were allowed to prosper. And this is the disastrous system that we live in right now, where nobody looks at lifestyle nobody looks at natural treatments nobody looks at natural things that have been used for hundreds of years the only cure is just a pill yeah and i've experienced well we have experienced this and in our family i mean i've always been skeptical of the medical industrial complex but post-covid my wife um her skepticism increased significantly as well and i mean i feel fine sharing this i know she's comfortable sharing

it because i think uh we've talked to many other couples who've had troubles but we had trouble conceiving our third child between um after our second and um she went to doctors went to push pills and do some injections and stuff and she sort of faded that we went the naturopathy way and after about six months of really fixing her diet and and focusing on some herbal we were able to conceive and have our third child and something we experienced firsthand this stuff does work 100 and there's just hundreds and hundreds of years of knowledge about all these things and overnight with the flexner report all of that was suppressed and currently you know anyone who discusses uh natural ways of treatment is just simply

labeled as a quack and uh we've lost all of that knowledge unfortunately and it it's really really frustrating for me because i've worked so hard to become a doctor and i studied so long i i did 11 years of training in order to become a doctor and i had to start from scratch to learn all these things and i mean this is pretty well known now but it's you look at the way that doctors are taught through the university system uh in the curriculum that's put before them and nutrition is basically an overthought uh an afterthought you maybe have one class on it and it's not even really taken seriously but this whole idea of preventative health care but particularly via good nutrition is completely overlooked it's all pills and remedies synthetic remedies yeah i had

40 40 minutes one lecture that's 40 minutes long of uh nutritional education my entire medical career and it was actually only they just taught us how to dose insulin based on what patients ate that's all the nutritional education that i uh that i've ever gotten and now having to re-educate yourself how how much nutritional curriculum would you recommend for doctors like how important is is that aspect of of health it's it's extremely important and uh it's it's it's quite crazy to live in a world where doctors are tend to be some of the unhealthiest people you meet and i have first-hand experience with this because i see them every day my fellow physicians And they just live in a plane where your daily choices don't matter.

You know, disease is this thing that comes on you because of genetics, because of luck. And if you get sick, then you need pills. There's nothing you can do to prevent it. And your daily choices just don't matter. And this is the fundamental issue that needs to be addressed with any medical education that's going to be successful, which is lifestyle matters. Your day-to-day choices matter. And, you know, my coworkers think that I'm just crazy because I think about these things. They still haven't realized that, no, no, this is what actually works.

And they're just so completely brainwashed by the system that they have no realization about how important this stuff is. No. And I guess let's dive deeper into the incentives too. because i i think if somebody in the turn of the 20th century 1900 were to see what the health care system looked like today they'd be completely petrified at the state of of health care and hopefully conversely we can look back 50 100 years uh it can be 2075 2100 and look back and be and recognize like oh that anomalous period between 1913 and the mid 21st century was completely insane and i think both people in the past and in the future will look at the financial incentives um and the corruption that that money has introduced to the medical system

specifically and pinpoint that as the core problem at the root of of this issue is just the monetary incentive that exists to push bills. Yes. If readers are interested in actually digging through the weeds of who actually led to this entire system being the way it is, a very helpful book is called Murder by Injection by Eustace Mullins. And he's the same person that wrote The Secrets of the Federal Reserve. And it's quite fascinating to see the same characters who were involved in creating the Federal Reserve, either them directly or their cousins or their best friends were also involved in creating the medical system. Both are centralized, both are aimed to just control people. And it's not a coincidence that they happened at the same time.

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in this realm of of centralized medicine obviously a big pharma with the incentive to get the pills pushed because they're going to make a ton of money um but now you have the hospital systems um which are becoming highly centralized uh and then paired with the hospital systems you have big insurance and then paired with big insurance now you have the federal government stepping in um or at least for the last uh 12 years with uh obamacare the american care act uh here in the united states specifically and they all sort of have this symbiotic relationship where they're all trying to basically grift and make things as expensive and least effective as possible so they can increase their bottom line yes and probably i mean the most centralized

aspect about this is the issue of medical guidelines so you know a physician nowadays can't just go and practice medicine the way they like so you know there's a lot of information out there about what's the best thing to do for a patient. So certain societies started forming, let's say the American College of Cardiology or the American Family Physicians Association, et cetera, to try and create guidelines or just easier summaries for physicians to follow. And which sounds great on paper, you know, we're just going to simplify it so that not every physician has to read every paper out there. There's actually an estimate that in primary care alone, around 1500 papers a day are published. So it's impossible for a physician to just

read all of these every day. And so these guidelines were written there to kind of streamline the process. But what is the crazy thing about this is all these societies that write the guidelines are heavily funded by pharmaceutical industry it'd be a society of like nine doctors and eight of them would have ties to pharmaceutical industry they pay them to go to on vacation they give them research grants they uh they give them gifts frequently and so all of these guidelines are of course favored favored to certain medications and usually expensive medications rather than generics that can be cheaper and help people save and then these guidelines are actually used to go after physicians so if you're not following

the guidelines if you are not following what the pharmaceutical company wants you to do you're at risk of losing your license you are medically liable if you practice something that wasn't following the guidelines, you're at risk of going to jail. So say someone has high cholesterol and I believe that high cholesterol is not bad. High cholesterol is actually good for you. If I don't put them on a statin

and they get a heart attack, which high cholesterol is not linked to heart attacks, I am legally liable if they get that heart attack. However, if I do put them on statins and the statins themselves actually increase inflammation in the body and could lead to heart attacks, and they do get a heart attack, then I'm not legally liable because I follow the guidelines. So it's absolutely insane.

It's just completely captured, and nobody can see past this insanity without – if you dare speak against this, you're going to be ostracized, you're going to be called a quack, and you're just not going to be heard, you're not going to get published, and that's how the system maintains itself. yeah i think there's a massive cognitive dissonance problem within the the medical industry because everybody's a lot of people are making a lot of money and they've spent a lot of time where there's also a sunk cost fallacy where you spend a lot of time uh and money on your education in your residency in your career and you don't want to believe that you went through

this system that is uh not what you believe it is actually at the end of the day but with that being said again post-covid i do think there has been somewhat of an awakening within the medical field at least i've had a number of doctors that have come on the show that have left the sort of centralized medical system started their own direct primary care practices and um marketing like hey i'm not part of this system i'm going direct to the patient are you optimistic that there are more people within your field beginning to recognize this and sort of branch off and try to do things different way yeah i mean every physician knows that something's wrong you know their health they're working hard they're trying to get people healthy but nothing's working

and people just keep getting sicker and the system's overburdened that everyone is overworked everybody knows that what is causing it very very few people are starting to realize this but i think more and more people are starting to so it is promising and we are grateful that there's the internet where you can just post random things and you can learn so much by just going online and it's really helping a lot of people yeah and you mentioned there the system sort of overburdened right now i think a big driver of that is the the insurance industry and this push towards universal free health care. And I think this ties back to money corrupting it.

You need price signals in a market. And this idea of universal health care, while it sounds good on paper, if you're a fifth grader or an ignorant adult who doesn't understand economics, people really play to the heartstrings and the empathetic side of individuals, Not realizing that, hey, medicine and the service that doctors offer is a service that should be priced and there should be pricing signals in the market.

And this push for universal health care is completely corrupting that price signal and therefore overburning the system because priorities aren't able to be able, the opportunity cost doesn't exist. And so you don't know what to actually focus on. Yeah, 100%. I mean, an example I like to illustrate so that people understand this is, if a random 70-year-old's knees start to hurt him, it's fine. He could run it off, he could take some pain medications and rest for a week, and then it'll be fine. It's quite different than if LeBron James' knee starts to hurt. so there's there's no such thing as health care for everyone it all depends on the context it all depends on what does what do you want out of your knee what do you want out of your eyes what do you want out of your back and so who gets to decide whether the 70 year old whose whose knee hurt them do should they get an mri for their knee if you leave it up to the 70-year-old, of course, he wants an MRI of his knee because it's free. LeBron James,

his knee means a lot to him. He's willing to pay for a knee MRI. Because it's just a wide spectrum of how much you can investigate everything and how much workup you're going to do for everything and how much treatment, the only way to give universal healthcare is to just have a lot of governing bodies that are deciding, oh, does this patient deserve an MRI or not? Does the 70-year-old deserve an MRI or should we give it to, prioritize it to LeBron James instead?

And once you do that, then you have an entire industry that's just there as a third party that's just trying to decide, allocate resources to allocate healthcare resources. And this is how you end up with Canada, where you have to work,

we have to wait for nine months in order to get an MRI. System is just, you know, it has to go to someone who's gonna approve it and then you're gonna have to wait in line and and it's just once you separate the price signals when you separate it from the free market there's no way that that's gonna work then you're just this is just communism and so do you think the solution to this is more doctors breaking off to this direct primary care because that's what we've been using my family we've opted out of health insurance we we use crowd health and then

we supplement that with direct primary care doctors and i find that the experience is far superior than sort of insurance networks of hospitals and pediatricians and physicians that you're thrown into 100 i mean we doctors are human beings like if you are interacting with people and offering services that want them that and you want to encourage them to come back so that they bring you bring you more money then the services we offer are going to be a lot better working in a system where everyone is insured and you're going to have to give give everything to anyone there's just no incentive for us to to perform better and uh you know that's why doctors are burnt out there's no incentive there they are uh they're just working you know working a

nine-to-five they don't really care about their patients the their pay is not is not affected by how they treat their patients but all of the all doctors that have branched out of this system are so much happier and their patients are so much happier do you um so what are like the long term do you think the medical system will get fixed internally um basically have people recognize like oh we need to decentralize this or do you think it'll be market forces like do you think a bitcoin standard is needed to fix the system from scratch yeah i think i think the system the way it is right now is going to collapse uh how bad it's going to get before it collapses like are people going to be dying outside of hospitals because there are no empty beds?

Or are the hospitals not going to run out of equipment, basic equipment to treat people? It's certainly possible. How hospitals are right now, that's kind of the direction we're heading. So there is no hospital in the U.S. right now that's not on overcapacity. There are people in the hallways. People wait in the emergency room for two days before they get a bed upstairs. You wait 20 hours before being seen in the emergency room. So these are all just indications of imminent collapse. Whether the system understands that it needs to go back to a free market standard before it collapses, hopefully that happens. And it also depends on how soon the entire world is just going to shift to a Bitcoin standard and we get rid of all this mess.

a little tangential but i think it's all connected and i've talked to your brother about this too because it is crazy if you just look at a hospital like the architecture of it the the physical landscape of it the fluorescent lights the beeping noises they're i mean you spend a lot of time in these places i imagine they're not really uh they don't really engender a sense of uh inspiration or uh very sterile and uninspiring and not a place that you want to be and whereas hospitals used to be these like grand buildings with tall windows natural lights and um how much of the the physical sort of um landscape of the modern hospital uh has been corrupted by this too and is the form factor of a hospital this day detrimental to people's health

Yeah, I mean, I, hospitals are probably the most toxic place to be in currently in the world. Like, you are better off if, if you can just heal yourself by staying in your bed, you're probably better off fighting this, whatever you have, then going to the hospital, if you can afford, if it's not serious enough that you actually need what's in the hospital. I always say, like, for my older patients, it's one thing for them to get over, like, whatever infection they're going through or whatever health condition. It's another thing for them to survive the hospital stay because you're under fake light. You're not getting any care or attention because all the nurses are overworked, all the doctors are overworked. The food is toxic. it's beeping you can't sleep well it's it's really there's a term called delirium which is basically confusion that happens with older people and it's because you know they go to this place when they're sick and they can't sleep and the fake lights are on all night so they don't

they they lose their circadian rhythm they don't know when it's day or when it's night and they end up just confused and delirious and your risk there's a lot of people that die because of this because the body just has no connection to reality anymore and it's it's really scary and yeah hospitals are a toxic place do you think we need to rebuild them from scratch like what So if you were handed a fascist authority over the hospital system, you were able to rebuild the physical buildings where we're sending people when they get sick, what would they look like? I mean, yeah, again, the entire why hospitals are so toxic is because nobody in the medical field thinks that the food that you eat or the lights that you're under or, you know, the quality of your sleep is going to affect the way you heal. You know, it's just if we give you these meds, things will magically improve and you'll get out of here and things will be magical.

That's what textbooks teach you. That's what pharmaceutical industry wants you to believe. once we get to the point where we realize that all of these things are very important then yes you don't want it to be filled with blue fluorescent light all the time have natural lights in from windows use incandescent bulbs minimize artificial light that's also good that's all good minimize the devices so all these patients they're hooked on to like heart monitors when they come in and this is all just you know emitting electromagnetic frequencies directly into their bodies the moment they walk in that's also not great and then the food you know they're given

like typical american cafeteria food you know chicken fingers and fries and it's it's the goal is to you know minimize the cost of how much this meal costs the hospital but it's it's it's toxic to this patient and it's all it's all heart healthy so they use vegetable seed oils and it's all low-fat dairy and low-fat meat and and it's it's insane it's insane it's funny it wasn't like that because my mom and my aunts and my mother-in-law my wife and i we were born in the same hospital um late 80s early 90s and our moms talked fondly about the uh the steak dinners they were given steak and lobster after uh after they gave birth to us and it was like oh you guys are getting steak and lobster we got like oj and like a little plastic cup and some chicken fingers like

and french fries i was like for all three of our childbirths i would just leave the hospital and go find good healthy food and bring it back it wasn't even worth taking the slop that they were offering you yeah it's uh it's bullshit and it's bad for you well you mentioned light too that's another thing so again again post-covid my wife has really leaned into the uh natural solution so she's changed all the light bulbs in our house to incandescent and i think it's definitely had an effect on um particularly like the boys uh our sons like you can notice that they're they're much calmer because they're not subjected to these led flashing lights all the time okay talking about preventative care obviously diet is heavy but uh heavy focus but how much is like natural

lights and um avoiding led um fluorescent lighting and other things just getting out walk it's exercise generally yeah it's it's a hundred percent it's so important and you know some people argue that the light is even more important than the diet right a good way to understand this is in the cell itself this is not a very very uh known theory it's not not very well known but the reality is in your cells you don't actually directly use food to make energy you actually use light to make energy. Food you use in order to regenerate the cells. So make cell membranes, make channels, make proteins and fats in order to regenerate your body. But how your cell is actually powered is from the light that you're exposed to. This includes visible and invisible

light. So lights work on your cells, work on this molecule called melanin, which is light sensitive. And melanin splits water, creating an electric current. And this is the electric current that powers your entire body. The problem with blue LED bulbs, which only started in the 21st century, is that they only emit a very narrow spectrum of light that does not allow this process to happen efficiently. So you're not splitting water efficiently. you're not uh you're not powering yourselves as the way you should and this could be the reason why we all the the explosion of disease that we've seen over the last 20 years because we're all living under fake artificial light we don't go out as much and we're we're all definitely sun

deficient it is crazy to think that and it's even crazier to think about the biden administration try to ban incandescent lights because it hurts it hurts the climate exactly the climate the climate we got to worry about the climate so we can't use good lights and i mean putting the tin foil hat on like how much of that is pure virtue signaling for the climate versus they know that they are going to sort of disrupt the sort of natural health of of individuals and by extension their psychology make them more manic and depressed and more impressionable is there nefarious intentions behind it or is it simply just larping um for the for the environment i haven't read the direct data on this but i i follow dr jack cruz intensely he he is

very well versed with this topic and he says that darpa basically has data that shows that blue light is able to control people by destroying their dopamine levels and that's why blue light has just become uh prevalence everywhere and uh i don't know what the intentions are dr cruz argues that it's it's definitely uh preconceived and it's definitely intentional i know what the repercussions are and their precautions are pretty bad yeah speaking of repercussions too It seems like at least in mainstream medicine and now even in the tech sector or in Silicon Valley, the solutions to the systemic health issues that exist in the United States and broadly in other parts of the world is to create these synthetic drugs that really help you get back to a better state. that glp-1s i think being the most popular over the last um the last few years so zempik gobi and others like them uh manjaro what what do you what do you think of this this trend this like oh

we can just manufacture health via these glp-1s and peptides again it's just faulty faulty thing thinking of this is like the the complete fiat way of thinking about health which is health comes from something outside of me. Health is just, if I accumulate the correct series of pills, peptides, vitamins, then that's going to give me health. And it's just a completely fiat idea that's only started in the 20th century. It's the same as people thinking that inflation is necessary. It's that systemic. It's just completely false and everything built on top of it is false. The reality is health starts from your daily choices.

Everything you're eating, the light you're exposed to, how you move, this is what makes you healthy. And this is what people need to be putting all this effort on. Problem is, is that we live in a fiat world where everybody has such a high time preference

that nobody is willing to look into the future, look into things that take some time to give them some benefit. So nobody's looking into their lifestyle. Everybody's just looking for the easy fix. And there's a lot of people that are just feeding into it. You know, Brian Johnson tells you

that the key for him to live infinitely is to take 100 supplements a day. And there are people that believe that. They want to believe that because it's an easier fix than, no, it's just look at your fridge, look at your lifestyle, look at how stressed you are,

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that point that i've learned about vaccines and the safety of vaccines was like they need to be tested for more than a decade before you can deploy them to to the masses and when they were like all right we're gonna get this in nine months was immediately like okay based off of everything i've learned about vaccine safety up until this point in my life it just completely flies in the face of what we're supposed to be doing so i'm going to avoid it um then you have others that didn't and we're not only didn't avoid it but we're championing it and going further in some cases and saying that you were a monster if you didn't get yourself uh because you were protecting your fellow citizen uh and we're quickly learning a few years later that there are

pretty terrible side effects to this increases in excess deaths turbo cancers part issues and similar glp-1s and i think early data is showing that there's problems with this too like we don't know how this is going to to your point about high time preference very high time preference particularly because we don't have enough data to know what the long-term ramifications of this are going back to what you were saying earlier about statins it's pretty clear to me that we can see something very similar play out with GLP-1s in terms of the long-term effect

on individual health. Yeah, the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in the long-term consequences. This is just, it's up to you to deal with them. And it's the biggest scam how these drugs are allowed

into the market without intensive testing. And the people who are approving these drugs, people that work in the FDA, they're known that once they quit their FDA jobs, they get very expensive, very well-paying jobs in these pharmaceutical companies. There's a revolving door between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. So you can't trust the people whose job is to determine the safety of these drugs. the the classic leftist argument is that what we need to do is oh we need just stronger government that's not corrupt and we need people to you know we need to make sure that uh the centralized authority is has no relationship with pharma etc that is just you're just adding more power to the

government and therefore you're making them a more lucrative target for corruption what actually needs to happen is we remove all the suppression of alternative medicine so that anyone who has a solution that they think works can put it out there and let the free market come up with ways to test these medications. So it doesn't have to be the FDA that approves them. What if there are private societies that start to run experiments on these drugs? And if you are interested in taking a GLP-1, you will probably be willing to pay some money to this private society to test it for you before. And you know that this society is not biased. They're not government employees. You know that they're not corrupt. And they have to put their financial ties out there.

There are so many ways we can just optimize the system by having government get their hands off it and this is what hopefully life on a bitcoin standard would look like and the future is exciting once we get to that point yeah i mean you think of scott gottlieb going from the fda to the board of pfizer then he's on cnbc and all the talking head shows really pushing it and advocating like he literally went from the fda to he was pfizer's representative on a bunch of these talking head shows and very few people obviously yourself myself and others um that are like-minded we're like this is an obvious conflict of interest here like how how is this even possible but it is the the status quo of how this revolving door works the the entire

produce pharma and oxycontin and what led to the opioid epidemic in the u.s which has killed you know up for the 200 000 people at least uh all of this the drug was approved by one person in the fda who after he finished his role in the fda got a job at purdue pharma where he was getting around 350 000 a year this entire thing was just because this someone made a few million dollars that's it this is how powerful how easily corruptible the system is and when you have an organization that's as big as fda you're at risk of just the system being captured and this is the system we live in right now yeah i mean speaking of that obviously there was this big push for maha rfk getting into health and human services and it seems like they're trying to

shake things up at fda but what's your perspective are they um making any progress is it they're just being consumed by the the centralized beast are we moving in the right direction i mean it's clear that he's causing some ripples uh it's not a it's not as much change as i would have liked but it's clear that he's fighting a huge beast that is not easy to shake off but him now that the hepatitis B vaccine is off the schedule, that's huge. And just one thing, one small change can lead people to start questioning. And this is what we need. The beast is just so big that it's very difficult for him to change everything. But I think even though he has had to water down his message a lot, he is causing some changes.

So that's promising. But again, I believe that ultimately the solution is not going to come from the government the way we imagine it the solution is going to come once we make this government just a lot weaker than it is right now yeah well in the interim i mean i think we've talked a lot about sort of doctors branching off going direct primary care but what advice would you give to someone who's frustrated with their current doctor doesn't know how to find a physician like what would you how would you advise the consumer of health care to contribute to the fixing of this problem yeah i mean if if you don't have any doctors in your community that you trust direct primary care doctors that are less heavy on pushing pills or uh i think online you'll you

find a lot of good resources so you can you can research things a lot and don't rely on just google and chat gpt to tell you what's what actually works because they base their data on you know the most popular health websites, which are all pharmaceutical funded or based are from a big hospital. So do your own research. The best way I recommend is try and find people who you trust what they say, you trust their opinions on medicine, follow them, see what accounts they follow, see what sort of things they recommend. And I think more and more doctors are going to start offering online services that you can get health advice you can get recommendations online and i think people should start actively looking for that and then beyond that um

before they even need to get to a doctor if they hear what you're saying they're like okay i need to focus more on preventative health care get my lifestyle in order improve my lifestyle i'll improve my health what are sort of the lowest hanging fruits first steps that you recommend people take yeah so i mean the first thing to know is that uh diet is the cornerstone of health and do we have time to go into a bit more details of diet or do you want me just yes yeah we have plenty of time great so yeah i mean the the there's a lot of there's a lot of confusing information out there about what the ideal human diet is. And there's a lot of extreme diets that might not be effective for everyone. What I tell people is that the most helpful resource I found

to understand diet is the work of this dentist called Weston Price. So Weston Price was this dentist in the early 1900s. That was the time when vegan and vegetarian diets were starting to get popular and everyone thought that a vegetarian diet is the answer to is the ultimate human diet so western price what he did he actually traveled the world going to tribes that haven't been touched by industrialization these tribes you know had their uh their their their local diets that have hasn't haven't changed in hundreds or thousands of years and so he went and saw what these people ate. And what he found is that these people tended to be very healthy because they haven't been touched by processed food yet. And what all these tribes had in common is that they

all had an animal-based diet. So the cornerstone of their diet was animal meat and fat and whatever else grows in the environment locally. So he went there trying to prove that a vegetarian diet is healthy. But what I actually found is the opposite, is that animal meat and fat were always appreciated by these older societies. So I think the ideal human diet should be built around animal protein and fat. And this should be the cornerstone of your diet. It should be there in every meal that you eat. If a meal doesn't have animal protein or fat, then it's not a meal. And whatever you eat on the side, I don't think a carnivore diet is for everyone. I don't think a keto diet is for everyone. But I think what's really helpful is to eat whatever grows locally in your

environment. So if you live in the East Coast of the United States, you're not going to have pineapples in December. You're not going to have mangoes in December. And funnily enough is that your metabolism, it is affected by the light that you're exposed to. So you are less able to handle the sugars from this pineapple in December versus if you get it in the summer. So eat whatever grows locally in your environment. And of course, avoid anything that's processed, anything that comes from a factory. This, I think, is the cornerstone of a healthy diet. And if people do that then you've gotten 80 of the benefit with only 20 of the work if you want to complicate things further you can but this is just a very good starting point now it is crazy how eating

local how humans are connected to their locality and the one example that i always have fun telling people is that when we moved to texas cedar fever was a real thing for me cedar fever for the first few months and then i had somebody tell me like hey you need to go find some raw local honey and eat that so that you're really getting exposed to these these pollens um and incorporating them into your body and that's exactly what i did and i didn't have cedar fever for the rest of my the time i was living in austin and it's it's crazy how something as simple as that can contribute to better health? Yeah, it's quite simple. There's a lot of confusing information about diet, but I think that's a great way to start. Eat from a local farmer's market. Whatever

grows there is whatever is local, and get a good butcher, and you are solving 90% of the problems. Another very important thing about preventive health is the light that you're exposed to. so most of us these days are not getting enough sunlight you want to try and be outside every day even if it's cloudy try and go outside you're still getting a healthy rays of sunlight coming to your body even if your your body is entirely covered up even if you're just your eyes being exposed to the sun is good what i recommend for people is aim for at least 10 minutes of morning sunlight before it's 10 a.m go outside 10 minutes looking in the general direction of the sun that's just going to upgrade your metabolism for the entire day start ramp up your metabolism and

it's going to make you feel so much better for the rest of the day if you if you are in a environment where you're under artificial light a lot whether it's your office etc try and go outside and take frequent breaks so go outside at noon again and then go again in the afternoon this being outside in the sun reconnects uh uh you your circadian rhythm to the sun recalibrates it and this uh fixes all your hormones and neurotransmitters for for that day and speaking of circadian rhythm it's funny because that when we're doing a natural we're going the natural path to get my wife's um body more in sync and preparation for her third child that was the the first advice she got from her doctor was hey go outside before 10 a.m and

make sure you're getting sunlight particularly before 10 a.m but bring this because it kicks off your circadian rhythm your metabolism get your neurotransmitters firing and um but on this point of circadian rhythm, how important is sleep to all this as well? Sleep is very important. And what people don't realize is that sleep is the most important regenerative phase in your body to try and get rid of inflammation, to get rid of toxicity, to get rid of free radicals. And even if people sleep seven hours at night and wake up refreshed, there are still levels you can improve your sleep better and i think the major thing disturbing our sleep these days is artificial light exposure after sunset so this is a very very important and it's a low yield

fruit for anyone who's trying to improve their health is after sunset you want to limit the amount of artificial light you're exposed to so blue led bulbs are the worst try and replace them with either candlelight or incandescent bulbs. But even with incandescence, you wanna try and minimize the light that you're exposed to because that fake light that you're exposed to at night disturbs the synthesis of melatonin in your body. And melatonin is important not only to make you sleep,

but it also has a lot of important regenerative properties in the body, including anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties. So be very conscious of the light that you're exposed to, and that will help your sleep significantly. Somebody who values the sleep. I can't operate on less than seven hours, which if I don't get at least seven hours,

I'm pretty thrown off for the whole day. And that's the light. It's something, too. It's like I'm looking at a screen here. I've got another monitor right to my left here, and it's like something that is anomalous maybe not anomalous but it's just new in the last three decades is like humans particularly the workforce most of it at least white collar work this is our lives is standing in front of these blue light emitting screens for hours upon hours every day

day in and day out and then you add the phone to it and you're uh it's like most people never Yeah. I don't usually recommend gadgets. I'm not a Brian Johnson kind of figure. But if there's one gadget that people should invest in, it's blue blocking glasses. So what these do is they have red lenses. And what they do is that they don't allow the blue spectrum of light to come into your eyes. And it's very important because your circadian rhythm is set on based on the how much blue light you're exposed to. So you can get the other spectrum of light, but as long as you're not getting that much blue light, it still allows your melatonin to continue being synthesized. So what I recommend is after sunset, wear these blue blocking glasses so that even if you're exposed to blue light in your environment, at least your eyes are not getting exposed to them. and you're going to notice that the quality of sleep is just so much better once you start using them yeah i've got to pick up a pair of those yeah i typically stay up a little later writing as well yeah i used to think it was just you know just a gadget that's not helpful and because i

thought my sleep was very good but once i tried them my quality of sleep just became so much deeper and so much more refreshing and you feel so much better the next day all right i gotta pick these up let's throw it on the christmas list um to wrap this up though really leaning into the bitcoin standard and how it can help medicine again like what from like a doctor's perspective so i've talked about this in many different capacities i know there's um a health services account um companies getting started up like a health savings account company if you want to um basically do a personal sort of health health care budget um using bitcoin over the long term to um basically make sure that you can pay for your medical expenses because you're

saving in a in a money that that is going to increase the purchasing power i've heard of doctors incorporating it into their um into their practices to make sure that they're able to have a sustainable business obviously health insurance seems like a low-hanging fruit if you have long duration sort of health health cost uh liabilities that that you need to line up bitcoin as a perfect long duration asset to pair there like where do you see bitcoin being introduced into the medical system to to help doctors and patients yeah i think it has very important uh uses in in the health space uh firstly is you know there have been a lot of doctors that speak up speak out against the system and you know they get repercussions where they their funds are

canceled their bank accounts are confiscated etc so there there are repercussions on free speech with people using fiat money but if doctors that want to speak out start getting paid in bitcoin then if the people who like what you're saying they can just send you bitcoin directly doesn't have to be a third party that's meddling in between. And so that's going to help with doctors speaking out against the system and hopefully people getting out of this fiat system. Another aspect of this is one of the main problems with modern medicine these days is that all the small practices are getting taken over by bigger practices, bigger hospital

groups, bigger clinics, et cetera. And the reason is, is because, you know, small fish can't survive these days because you need to be big in order to get access to easy credit. So, you know, when we live in a debt based society, the more debt that you can get, the more you're able to survive inflation. And so all these groups are getting taken over by bigger groups because bigger groups have easier access to loans. Once we get off this inflationary system, once we get on a Bitcoin standard, then still small doctors can still run their own practices. And I think that's going to be very helpful for their patients. And then finally, the most important part is, you know, people are writing medical guidelines, people deciding what needs to be researched. uh people pushing pills on us they all get their power from this uh big government that's uh

all powerful and how is this government so powerful because it has access to the money printer and unlimited amounts of money so once we get rid of this money printer then the system then there's no big enemy that we're fighting anymore and you know uh smaller doctors smaller clinics uh more uh free research more free medical guidelines can prosper and that's going to help uh doctors practicing now that was one thing um that jessica kevin and i covered again this peer review process and the fact that it's completely centralized like they they're trying to create like a separate distributed peer review process and using bitcoin bounties to get certain papers peer-reviewed like so if you have a priority

um you know if you're just interested in um in a particular ailment or area of study and you don't want to wait for the centralized peer review uh networks and journals and publishers to look at your work and take it seriously you just like okay let's use this system and we'll use a bitcoin bounty program to incentivize people to do the research to review these papers and i think that makes a ton of sense to me yeah that's that's where the future is heading and smart people are already starting to realize this they're creating their platforms online they're getting funding from bitcoiners and the future is bright it is bright it's a it's a white pill the only pill i like to take here yes um uh ahmad this has been a pleasure where

can anybody who's listening find out more about your work get in contact with you uh if um if they have questions or um suggestions or they were inspired where can people find more about you yeah so uh on social media on instagram and x i'm at amos md uh i also uh have a free newsletter that people can sign up for at moosmd.com. And I also offer online consultations for those interested also on my website. Awesome. Well, this has been a pleasure.

We'll have to do it again because I think there's definitely going to be some change in the field of medicine over the next many years, hopefully positive change. And we'll love to have you back on to discuss these things as they evolve great thanks marty all right peace love freaks thank you for listening to this episode of tftc if you've made it this far i imagine you got some

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