Bitcoin for Millennials Doctor Explains Why Broken Money Leads to Broken Healthcare | Ahmad Ammous | BFM189
Sep 18, 2025
Dr. Ahmad Ammous, an internal medicine physician, champions lifestyle-based healing and critiques modern healthcare's reliance on pharmaceuticals. He shares his disillusionment with medical training and how personal diet experiments reshaped his approach to healing. Discussing the impact of fiat money, he argues it centralized medicine and stifled competition. Ahmad warns about medication risks and reveals how Bitcoin could decentralize healthcare, provide direct payment methods, and empower patient autonomy for better health outcomes.
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Medicine Trains Symptom Managers Not Healers
- Ahmad Ammous discovered medical training often fails to heal because it focuses on symptom management, not root causes.
- He linked personal dietary changes to better health and questioned why medical schools omit such teachings.
How Medical Education Was Standardized
- Ammous traces the narrowing of medical education to the 1910 Flexner Report that favored pharmaceutical approaches.
- He argues this shut down diverse healing schools and removed competition, homogenizing care.
Personal Diet Experiment Changed Practice
- Ahmad Ammous experimented with his own diet, cutting processed foods and sugar, and experienced big improvements in energy and mood.
- He uses self-experimentation as a core method before recommending treatments to patients.
