🧠How Western Medicine Got Hijacked: A Forgotten Chapter of History
🛢️ Oil Took Over Our Health?
When people think of healthcare today, most imagine doctor’s offices, prescription pills, and insurance cards. But the truth is, the roots of real healing — herbs, food, movement, and human connection — were stripped away from modern wesetern medicine on purpose. This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s history.
And it starts with John D. Rockefeller, the man who changed the future of medicine — not as a doctor, but as a businessman.
John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, best known for the “Cleveland Massacre” and creating the oil monopoly that led to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.
🧨 Meet John D. Rockefeller: The Original Monopoly Man
Born in 1839, Rockefeller became the wealthiest man in modern history by building Standard Oil, a company that came to control over 90% of the U.S. oil market by the late 1800s. Ruthless in business, he was known for crushing competition — either by buying companies out, bankrupting them, or shutting them down.
In 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court found him guilty of violating antitrust laws and forced Standard Oil to be split into 34 smaller companies (some of which became Exxon, Chevron, and Mobil). But Rockefeller wasn’t done.
Instead of retreating, he turned his attention to medicine — specifically, to pharmaceuticals, made from the very thing he still had plenty of: oil. This marked the beginning of a calculated takeover — not just of products, but of public health itself.
🔥 From Oil Barons to Medical Gatekeepers
In the late 1800s, Rockefeller controlled 90% of the oil industry through Standard Oil. After public backlash and antitrust laws forced the company to break apart in 1911, Rockefeller needed a new way to hold power…
Enter petrochemicals — synthetic compounds made from crude oil. They could be used to manufacture drugs that could be patented (unlike herbs or homeopathy)… a subject I plan on diving into specifically on a separate blog! Rockefeller saw gold: a system where synthetic medicine could dominate, and he could own the entire supply chain — from the oil to the pills.
But to make it work, he needed doctors on board. That meant controlling medical education.
1902 medical students from Yale University.
🧠The Flexner Report: How Medicine Got Hijacked
In 1910, the Flexner Report was published — a “study” funded by the Carnegie Foundation at the request of Rockefeller. The report was written by Abraham Flexner, who wasn’t a doctor or scientist. He was a schoolteacher — but he had a mission: evaluate and reform American medical education.
What the Flexner Report really did was declare war on natural medicine.
At the time, medical schools in the U.S. taught a wide range of healing modalities — including:
Homeopathy
Naturopathy
Herbal medicine
Nutritional therapy
Eclectic and indigenous medicine
Flexner’s report deemed these practices “unscientific” and “unreliable.” His recommendation? Shut down or defund any medical school that didn’t align with the new “scientific” model — one focused on pharmaceuticals, surgery, and lab testing.
As a result:
Over 50% of medical schools in North America were closed
Women and Black medical schools were disproportionately defunded
Herbalism, homeopathy, and nutrition were effectively erased from formal education
And Rockefeller? He funneled massive funding into the remaining schools — as long as they taught allopathic medicine rooted in drug-based treatments.
What once was a diverse, holistic, and people-first approach to healing became a pharma-driven, one-size-fits-all system controlled by industry giants.
đź’Š Controlling the Narrative
Rockefeller didn’t stop at education. He used his media influence to reinforce the new standard. Natural medicine became “quackery,” and only drug-based treatment was seen as legitimate. The public believed it, because it came from doctors — who were simply repeating what they’d been taught in a Rockefeller-funded institution.
This shift wasn’t about public health — it was about power, patents, and profit.
And the ripple effects are still with us:
Doctors receive almost no training in nutrition (0-6 hours on average)
Patients are prescribed pills first instead of lifestyle changes (P.T. if lucky)
Chronic disease is normalized instead of reversed (we don’t prevent sickness now, our primary objective is just wait till it’s onset than help alleviate symptoms of a diseased/toxic body)
And holistic practitioners are still fighting to be taken seriously
🌱 Reclaiming What Was Lost
But there’s hope. People are waking up. They’re asking questions and turning toward real food, realigning with nature and their ancestral DNA, movement, breath-work, herbal remedies, and ancestral wisdom — the very things that kept humans healthy long before Big Pharma came to town.
Your body isn’t broken. It doesn’t need to be managed, medicated, or labeled. (Disclaimer: this not medical advice and I am not a MD).
It needs to be supported, nourished, and trusted.
It’s time we stop calling that “alternative” — and start calling it what it really is: the original medicine.
Real Ancestral Foods!
True fuel and medicine come from wholesome primal foods that align with our DNA. These nutrient-dense foods support optimal digestion, hormonal balance, and overall cellular function by working in harmony with our evolutionary biology. When we nourish ourselves with these foundational foods, we’re not just feeding hunger; we’re supporting the very essence of our health from the inside out.
đź“š Sources & References:
The Flexner Report (1910) – AAMC Archive
“How Rockefeller Founded Modern Medicine and Killed Natural Cures” – Global Research (2020)
“The Flexner Report: How John D. Rockefeller Used Education to Take Over Medicine” – Alliance for Natural Health USA
“Rockefeller Medicine Men” by E. Richard Brown
“The Truth About the Drug Companies” by Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of New England Journal of Medicine
“Why We Should All Be Skeptical of the Medical Establishment” – Dr. Zach Bush
Historical data on medical school closures – National Library of Medicine
