The Great American Health Hoax and the Current State of Mainstream Medicine by Jeffrey Dach MD

In the short 39 second  video clip below, Dr. Raymond Francis, DSc, MSc, RNC explains the current state of Mainstream Medicine, which waits for you to get sick, and then manages the problem with toxic drugs, never intending to make you well.

🚨 Our medical system is FALLING APART.
People are finally waking up to the truth after COVID.

It’s NEVER been about curing you.
It’s about keeping you sick, managing symptoms for life, and collecting the profits.
Toxic… pic.twitter.com/xQZpZYSq1G

— posted by Dr. Dawn Michael (@DawnsMission) August 5, 2026

The above speaker is Raymond Francis (also referred to as Dr. Raymond Francis, DSc, MSc, RNC), an MIT-trained chemist, author, and health advocate.

Transcript of 39 second video above:

We wait for you to get sick and you do.
Then once you are sick we don’t restore your health.
The doctor gives us a toxic pill.
We merely manage your symptoms
so we can manage your high blood pressure,
we can manage your pain, your arthritis pain,
we can manage your diabetes.
The current healthcare system is a hoax.
It is a disease management system.
We need to have a revolution in healthcare.

This ~39-second clip is a widely shared excerpt from Raymond Francis’s talks (including material related to his book, *The Great American Health Hoax. He was an MIT-trained chemist, author, and health advocate who frequently criticized conventional medicine for focusing on symptom management rather than restoring health.

The video clip is from one of his lectures, probably related to his 2015 presentation “The Great American Health Hoax: Why Getting Sick is a Big Mistake You Can Avoid,” given at the Silicon Valley Health Institute / Smart Life Forum). In it, he critiques the conventional medical system as a “hoax” and “disease management system” that primarily manages symptoms (e.g., high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes) with “toxic pills” rather than restoring health, and calls for a revolution in healthcare.

Dr. Francis passed away around 2020–2022 wrote books including *The Great American Health Hoax*, *Never Be Sick Again*, and others promoting the idea that most chronic disease is preventable/reversible through addressing cellular deficiency and toxicity via diet, lifestyle, and avoiding certain toxins/pharmaceuticals. He frequently lectured on these themes and founded Beyond Health.

Mainstream Medicine: Polypharmacy Merry Go Round

Many patients present to my office on multiple drugs prescribed by mainstream medical doctors. This is the polypharmacy Merry-Go-Round of Mainstream Medicine, aptly described in this short post by Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) which can be found on Twitter/X  HERE.

Note: My comments are in RED: 

A woman walks in feeling fine, has a routine cholesterol test, and leaves eleven years later on nine drugs, none of which treat anything she came in with.

Nothing went wrong. That is the [mainstream medicine] machine running exactly as it was built to run.

Day one: she is well. The nurse takes bloods because she has turned fifty and the computer said so.

Week two: cholesterol 6.1. Statin. She arrived a woman and leaves a patient, which is a promotion in this building. My comment: Statins are of no benefit for women. To get you off the statin, we first do a Calcium Score which is almost always below 100 which convinces all cardiologists the statin may be safely discontinued. See: Statins of No Benefit for Women

Month nine: her legs ache on the stairs. Told statins rarely do that, and to persist. My comment: Muscle pain is a well known adverse side effect of statins. See:  The Failure of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs

Year one: blood sugar has drifted up, which statins are known to do. She is now prediabetic. Metformin. My Comment: Diabetes is well known adverse effect of statins. In 2012, the FDA added a warning label to statin drugs causing diabetes and memory loss: See:FDA adds diabetes, memory loss warnings to statins.

Year two: metformin has introduced her to her own bathroom. She adjusts her life around it rather than mention it.

Year three: [Gastro-Esophageal] reflux. A proton pump inhibitor goes on, indefinitely, with no conversation about ever coming off. My Comment : We get you off PPI’s (Proton-Pump-Inhibitor Anacids) as soon as possible. See: Getting off Omepazole and Other PPI’s

Year four: stomach acid flattened, so B12 and iron stop absorbing properly. She is exhausted. Her bloods are described as satisfactory. Loss of gastric acid and B12 and iron deficiency are all well known side effects of PPI antaccids. See: Heartburn Reflux PPI Antacid Merry go Round

Year five: tired, aching, foggy, flat. Offered an antidepressant, and takes it, because by now she has accepted that she is simply someone who gets ill. SSRI antidepressants are chemically addictive drugs. We try to taper you off them. See: The Depressing State of Antidepressants.

Year six: osteopenia on the [DEXA bone] scan. Nobody mentions she was advised at forty to keep the weights light.
Osteopenia and Osteoporosis is loss of bone density caused by menopausal estrogen deficiency. The correct treatment is bioidentical hormone therapy (BHRT): See: Estrogen for Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment

Year eight: blood pressure up. Two more [blood pressure] tablets, one to fix the ankles [water pill]  the first one [first drug] swelled.

Year eleven: nine medications and a repeat prescription that renews itself without a human being reading it.

Her cholesterol is magnificent. She has never felt worse.

Not one of those prescriptions was an error. Every single one correctly treated the drug in front of it. A well person buys nothing. A dead person buys nothing.

The whole business sits in the corridor between the two, and forty years of expertise has gone into keeping people walking slowly down the middle of it. (end quote Sama Hoole)

My TrueMedMD Office – We Try to Make you Healthy

Dr Raymond Francis says: “We need to have a revolution in healthcare”. Here at TrueMedMD, we are that revolution.  In our TrueMedMD office, we practice medicine quite the opposite from the Great American Health Hoax. We actually try to make you healthy, preferably without toxic drugs, and preferably with natural treatments such as bioidentical hormones , natural thyroid, vitamins, and minerals, probiotics, when found deficient. We use advanced testing through Quest, Labcorp, Genova, and Enterolabs to uncover root causes, and then address them.

Jeffrey Dach MD
7450 Griffin Road Suite 180/190
Davie, Fl 33314
954-792-4663