THE MEDICAL BUSINESS OF LIFESTYLE DISEASES: A SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR DEPENDENCE, NOT CURE

Madhukar Dama
May 2
5 min read

INTRODUCTION: THE PARADOX OF MODERN MEDICINE

In an age where science has achieved organ transplants, robotic surgery, and AI diagnostics, it remains baffling that common lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disorders, obesity, and PCOD are considered "incurable." Why?

The short answer: because they are too profitable to be cured.

These diseases are the bread and butter of modern medicine, forming the bulk of outpatient visits, and driving the largest segment of the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries. Modern medicine promises relief, management, and control — but rarely, if ever, delivers true healing or reversal.

PART 1: WHAT ARE LIFESTYLE DISEASES?

Definition: Diseases primarily caused by how we live — diet, stress, sleep, environment, inactivity.

Common Examples:

Type 2 Diabetes
Hypertension
Heart Disease
Obesity
Thyroid disorders
PCOD/PCOS
Fatty liver
GERD/Acidity
Arthritis
Depression and anxiety
Autoimmune disorders

Root Causes:

Ultra-processed foods
Sedentary living
Artificial stimulants (tea, coffee, screens)
Chemical-laden products
Disconnection from nature
Emotional suppression and chronic stress

These causes are deeply cultural, systemic, and individual, requiring life transformation — not pills.

PART 2: THE BUSINESS MODEL OF MEDICAL MANAGEMENT

1. Endless Customers

A person diagnosed with diabetes, thyroid, or BP is converted into a lifelong subscriber. They:

Visit hospitals regularly
Undergo expensive tests
Take medicines daily
Fear complications

This isn’t a cure. It’s a subscription model.

2. Treating Symptoms, Never the Cause

BP medicines reduce the number, not the stress or salt imbalance.
Diabetes medicines reduce sugar levels, not insulin resistance or food habits.
Thyroid pills replace hormones but do not fix gut health or toxins.

The disease remains intact — masked, never healed.

3. Creating Further Diseases

Most drugs have side effects:

Statins (for cholesterol) may cause muscle pain, memory loss
Metformin (for diabetes) can cause B12 deficiency
Thyroid medicines lead to dependency and bone loss

Thus begins a cascade of illnesses, increasing dependency on more specialists, surgeries, scans, and devices.

PART 3: WHERE ARE THE CURES?

There Are Natural Cures — But They’re Ignored

Thousands have reversed diabetes and obesity through food, fasting, barefoot walking, sunbathing, stress reduction.
Thyroid and PCOD cases have been healed with holistic living and detoxification.
BP, cholesterol, and even heart blockages have been healed by switching to unprocessed food, yoga, and inner peace.

But such healing is not taught in medical colleges — not because it doesn’t work, but because it doesn’t pay.

Doctors Trained in a Narrow System

10 years of medical education rarely includes nutrition, sunlight, sleep, or emotional healing.
Pharma-sponsored journals define "evidence."
Most doctors are honest, but trapped in a system of procedures and pills.

PART 4: THE ETHICAL FAILURE OF MEDICINE

1. Conflict of Interest

How can a system that earns more when people stay sick be trusted to make them well?

2. Reduction of Human Beings to Data

Patients are reduced to:

Sugar levels
BP readings
TSH counts

No one asks:

What are you eating?
How do you sleep?
Are you emotionally at peace?

3. Institutional Silence on Root Causes

Hospitals don’t talk about:

Junk food
Sleep deprivation
Smartphone addiction
Financial stress

Because these don’t require medication.

4. Fear-Based Compliance

Patients are told:

"If you don’t take this pill, you will die."
"Once diabetic, always diabetic."
"This is for life."

They obey out of fear, not understanding.

PART 5: WHO IS HEALING THEN?

Across India, real healing is happening outside hospitals:

Dr. Khader Vali (Millet doctor): reversed thousands of diabetes and kidney cases
Acharya Mohan Gupta (Thyroid & PCOD reversals)
Sunita Bhonsle in Maharashtra (fasting & sun therapy)
Naturopathy centers across India (many affordable or free)

They treat with:

Whole food
Sunlight
Rest
Barefoot walking
Fiber
Emotional cleansing
Grounding

These are not secrets. They are ancient truths hidden under modern profits.

PART 6: WHY ISN’T THIS COMMON KNOWLEDGE?

1. Institutional Inertia

Medical boards are slow to change.
They are closely tied to pharma lobbies.

2. Media Dependence on Pharma Ads

Newspapers and TV depend on drug ads.
So they rarely publish natural healing stories.

3. Societal Conditioning

"Doctor knows best."
"Natural healing is superstition."
"If it worked, hospitals would tell us."

4. The Pain of Unlearning

It’s easier to pop a pill than to change your diet, routine, beliefs, emotions, and identity.

PART 7: WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE

For the Patient:

Take full responsibility for your healing.
Use doctors as guides, not gods.
Change what caused the disease.

For Doctors:

Speak up about the limits of your training.
Collaborate with nutritionists, therapists, naturopaths.
Study real healing stories outside journals.

For Institutions:

Break pharma-hospital collusion.
Make nutrition and lifestyle the core of healthcare.
Create incentives for healing, not managing.

CONCLUSION: A SYSTEM OF SICKNESS

The medical industry, despite its miracles, is not built to cure lifestyle diseases. It is built to manage, monetize, and maintain them — turning suffering into profit.

But truth, once seen, cannot be unseen. And healing, once experienced, needs no advertisement.

NEXT SECTION: HARD QUESTIONS FOR DOCTORS — A TOOLKIT FOR ETHICAL CONVERSATION

Here is a long list of questions you can ask any medical professional, especially in the context of lifestyle diseases:

A. QUESTIONS ON ETHICS AND HONESTY

If lifestyle changes can reverse diabetes, why don’t you offer that as first-line treatment?
Do you believe it’s ethical to prescribe lifelong medicines without exploring root causes?
Are you financially or professionally benefitting from patients not being cured?
Do you inform your patients about natural methods of healing?
Do you tell your patients when a medicine will not heal, but only manage?

B. QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING

How much training did you receive on nutrition, sleep, sun, fasting, and detoxification in MBBS?
Have you ever questioned what was left out of your medical curriculum?
Are you allowed to study alternative healing methods or is that discouraged?
Do you believe your education serves patients fully or protects institutions?
Have you seen patients heal without medicine? Did that change your approach?

C. QUESTIONS ON CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Do you receive incentives from pharmaceutical companies?
Is your hospital pressuring you to increase prescriptions, tests, or surgeries?
Do you believe pharma should influence medical journals and research?
How would your practice change if healing became unprofitable?
Can you survive financially if most of your patients are fully healed?

D. QUESTIONS ON PATIENT RIGHTS AND TRUTH

Shouldn’t patients be told when a disease is reversible through lifestyle?
Why don’t most doctors discuss food, stress, and sleep during consultations?
Why are patients told “this is for life” when reversals are happening outside?
Is fear a legitimate tool to ensure medicine adherence?
What is your responsibility when patients trust you blindly?

E. QUESTIONS ON THE SYSTEM ITSELF

Why are natural healers mocked despite thousands of success stories?
Why do hospitals invest in machines and not in community food education?
Why are spiritual, emotional, and relational factors ignored in healing?
Why are side effects normalized instead of questioned?
Why is health seen as the absence of symptoms, not the presence of wellbeing?

F. PHILOSOPHICAL & MORAL QUESTIONS

Do you believe you are healing people or managing them?
If money were not involved, would your methods change?
Can a system built on disease ever deliver health?
Do you ever feel helpless, or complicit, or dishonest about what is offered?
Would you treat your own family the same way you treat your patients?