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We're Not Sick, We're Being Sold:
Why I Spent a Year Investigating What Broke American Health
A coronary calcium score of 450 shouldn't happen to someone who's tried to do everything right. Twenty years on a statin. Doing my best to avoid fat. Following all the guidelines. Yet there I was, with arterial plaque worse than 92% of people my age.
That's when I stopped asking "What's wrong with me?" and started asking "What if the advice itself is wrong?"
This book is the result of that investigation. Not as a doctor - I'm not one - but as someone who learned to read research the way journalists read documents: looking for who benefits, who's funding the studies, and what's deliberately not being said.
What I found was a pattern. The same playbook used repeatedly across nutrition myths, pharmaceutical marketing, and medical dogma:
Find a weak correlation in observational studies
Ignore confounding variables
Transform preliminary findings into definitive headlines
Create institutional consensus through industry funding
Profit from the fear while blaming individuals when the advice fails
The food myths made us sick. The medical myths made sure we stayed that way.
We're Not Sick, We're Being Sold is not anti-medicine or anti-science. It's pro-appropriate medicine and pro-actual science. It's the result of following the evidence wherever it led, even when that meant questioning institutions I have trusted for decades.
I've included over 380 peer-reviewed citations because every claim matters. I've been transparent about my methodology because you deserve to evaluate the evidence yourself. And I've written it for people who are tired of being told they lack willpower when they're actually following advice that's designed to fail.
If you're frustrated that conventional approaches haven't worked, if you suspect you're not broken but the system is, or if you're just tired of being sold solutions to problems that were manufactured in the first place - this book is for you.