TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast #698: How the Money Printer Hijacked Your Health with Dr. Ahmad Ammous
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Dec 27, 2025 Dr. Ahmad Ammous, a practicing physician and advocate for decentralized medicine, discusses the detrimental impact of fiat money on healthcare. He critiques how pharmaceutical interests have monopolized medicine and the risks associated with prescription drugs. Ahmad emphasizes the need for lifestyle changes and a Bitcoin standard to reclaim health sovereignty. They explore the failures of medical education in nutrition, the design of healing hospitals, and how Bitcoin could support independent practices and innovative care models.
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Pharmaceutical Medicine Became Institutionalized
- The modern medical system was centralized in the early 1900s to favor pharmaceutical-based medicine over other healing modalities.
- Abraham Flexner's reforms and Rockefeller funding led to closure of many non‑pharmaceutical schools and long-term suppression of alternatives.
Drugs Can Cause Systemic Harm
- Prescription medications rank among the leading causes of death due to side effects and cascading polypharmacy.
- Journals and publication channels suppress long-term harm data because of pharmaceutical funding.
Family Fertility Recovered With Naturopathy
- Marty shared his wife's fertility story where naturopathic care and lifestyle change enabled conception after conventional treatments were declined.
- Ahmad confirmed centuries of knowledge were lost after the Flexner-driven suppression of alternative modalities.