How Big Pharma Turns Healthy People Into Lifelong Customers

I sat down with Alan Cassels, author of Selling Sickness and Seeking Sickness. For more than 30 years he has investigated disease mongering, overdiagnosis, pharmaceutical marketing, and the financial incentives that turn ordinary people into lifelong patients.

We cover:
-How cholesterol became a massive market for lifelong medication
-Relative risk vs absolute benefit
-Statins, screening, false positives, and overdiagnosis
-Why medications are easier to start than to stop
-GLP-1 drugs being pushed to progressively healthier people
-Operations that failed to beat sham surgery
Watch here: https://youtube.com/live/2LqmlWpaiEE