Faced with the possibility of his treatments being ineffective, he embarked on a 9-year-long journey where he started collecting empirical data from each of his patients to find out what was actually curing them. He started asking them about their lifestyle, their eating habits, and how close they were with their loved ones, and he even took into account the weather conditions of the places they lived.What he found out broke him.
The doctor became disillusioned after realizing hospitals were putting their economic growth over the patient’s well-being. “If you’re healing them, you can’t charge them,” he statedThe second realization that drove him to quit his lucrative career was that he came to believe that the healthcare industry was built not to heal people but only to treat them and perpetuate their suffering for as long as possible. Controlling the pain but never truly getting rid of it.
The channel has more than 200 videos at the time of writing, with the one where he talks about his epiphany surpassing 9 million views. “I had a knee injury at 18 years old, and led a healthy life supporting a torn ACL for another 18 years. 20 years later, I gained 50 pounds and my knee was weak and painful. I went back to my doctor, and he said to take shots of cortisone and when you can’t take it anymore, get a knee replacement. I left, lost the weight and now I live a more active life,” recounts another. “My knee has done so much better, no surgery! The doctor never told me to live a better lifestyle.