John D. Rockefeller, the first U.S. billionaire, established the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1901 and funded the Flexner Report in 1910, which systematically eliminated natural medicine from medical education because it lacked profit potential and patentable elements; this profit-driven model prioritized pharmaceutical and insurance industries over patient health, creating a healthcare system built on financial interests rather than genuine medical care.
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Added:In 1901, he established the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, now known as Rockefeller University, dedicated to advancing biomedical research and was instrumental [music] in pioneering various medical treatments, including vaccines, antibiotics, and synthetic drugs, which would become the cornerstones [music] of the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Rockefeller spent $100 million of his own money, equal [music] to $2.6 billion today, to hire, train, and then deploy his doctors, clinical researchers, and chemists [music] who would perform and follow his guidelines.
>> The American healthcare system is all built on a lie.
And it started over 100 years ago.
Over 125 years ago, your healthcare fate was decided, and it had nothing to do with your health or care. It had everything to do with profit, and that is what we're seeing today. I'm Rosemary Hadsum. I'm back again to let you know that you can take full control of your life, but it all depends on what you choose to put at the end of your fork.
So, let's get into it.
Your healthcare system was built on a lie and a liar. And that was John D.
Rockefeller, but it didn't just start with him. It started before him because John D. Rockefeller, the first billionaire in the United States in the 1900s, came from nothing.
>> To understand [music] the cold, calculating mind of John D. Rockefeller, you have to understand the man who broke him in, his father, William Rockefeller.
But in the dusty streets of New York and Ohio, they didn't call him William.
They called him Devil Bill.
Bill was a botanic physician, or so his business card claimed.
In reality, he was a wandering con artist.
He wore fine silk hats and lived a double life.
In one town, he was a beloved family man.
In another, he was a cancer doctor named Dr. William Livingston selling bottles of worthless petroleum and water for $25 a piece.
>> His father, also known as Devil Bill Rockefeller, was known as a liar, a carpetbagger, a cheat, and uh a fraud, a complete and utter fraud.
John D. Rockefeller decided that a for-profit model of medicine and healthcare was the way to go. And the reason why he did that was that he wanted to make himself even wealthier than he was. He was the United States' first billionaire because he was an oil magnate, but not just an oil magnate. He monopolized oil in the United States. And of course, upon further research and digging, it was not ethical and it was not legal what he did at the time because he then decided that he would just recreate different facets of his company in order to continue to monopolize oil. So, he would have a parent company and he would have subsidiaries and pretend that they weren't his while he still collected the profit. Now, Standard Oil was the name of the company that led this monopoly.
Standard Oil later became Exxon and Chevron, and that is an amazing feat for someone who came from nothing.
His father, also known as Devil Bill Rockefeller was a fraudster was a person who robbed people and lied allegedly in order to to get a sale. He would go around as a snake oil salesman pretending and pretending to be a deaf mute in order to get sympathy and sales while telling people all kinds of lies about what would be contained what miraculous cure was contained in the rattling bottles of his carpet bagging business.
It became something very interesting that John D. Rockefeller when he grew older was embarrassed by his father allegedly supposedly and bought him a large ranch somewhere out of the spotlight so that John D. Rockefeller could focus on what he wanted to do which is world domination or at least the nation's domination.
He did it with oil and then in 1901 he developed the John D. Rockefeller University that was dedicated to biomedical research and synthetic medication.
He then took the bold step of going to Congress to pass the existence of his General Education Board. And from that General Education Board he used lies and manipulation to lead Congress to believe that he had a balanced and and factual way of looking at the education of medical schools.
>> In 1902 [music] he spent another $1 million to fund the creation of the General Education Board which was passed by Congress based upon selective and misleading data. Effectively he lied.
Which then proceeded to prevent medical colleges and universities from receiving federal grants if they did not abandon the teaching of natural healing.
>> He then developed the standard of care for medical schools.
And then he took $100 million of his own money to train chemists, to train doctors and teachers who would go and spread his philosophy of how medicine and health care should be practiced. And then in 1910 he found somebody that could write a report that sounded so official and correct about how natural medicine was doing a a poor service for the American people and that the American people needed to be be protected from quacks. Which is ironic when his own father was one of the biggest quacks out there, but I digress.
He called it the Flexner Report.
And in this Flexner Report, they made an argument about why natural medicine was not safe.
The sad reality is that the Flexner Report helped to break apart the natural health system and natural medicine because there was no profit and no patentable elements in natural health.
They've tried, but they can't do it.
So, breaking apart natural medicine means that people lost out on being able to benefit from a prescription that says, "Go and stay in the sun for half an hour. 30 minutes in the sunshine to feel better, to raise your vitamin D, and to raise your mental health outlook."
These simple things were done away with because John D. Rockefeller thought that there was no money in it. 125 years later, we're still seeing the fallout from Rockefeller's monopoly and manipulation and lies to get his way. We're seeing the slow poisoning of our systems, our food, our air, our homes, our clothes. All of that started because John D. Rockefeller felt that a synthetic way of living was much more profitable than having a natural way of living.
And black people are feeling that in the United States.
We We are the worst when it comes to outcomes, positive outcomes for things like preventable illnesses like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and overweight and obesity.
These are leading to all kinds of metabolic health issues that are causing early death.
And we have ourselves to look at. We need to really look at how we can improve our lives and our quality of life because nobody else is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You have to look at a way of accessing real food. Now, there are challenges depending on what communities we're looking at because we have to look at the reality of that as well. The problem is if we don't see an example of real food, it's hard to even think of what real food would be like in areas where there are food deserts. But, we still have a responsibility to ourselves to learn what we can learn about even growing our own food, getting a hold of heirloom seeds that still produce a crop year after year because it produces seed bearing fruits.
It's just so simple, but it's been made complicated. You know, I'm going to say this just quite simply.
I have personally experienced being shadow banned, being having my videos taken down when I I'm attempting to share knowledge about how to live healthfully.
And it's made me think about what our world is becoming where they're removing choice from people.
Because people are not reading, they're not finding out what they need to do in order to better their lives.
So, when you have messengers like me who are holistic nutritionists who are attempting to share knowledge with people, it's very telling when an entire algorithm is focused on on moving people away from my content.
And I'd like to think that that is just something that is a temporary thing. So, I do believe that it is a temporary thing right now, but I do as far as the algorithm is concerned. But, I also know that if we don't start taking care of our health and looking out for ourselves and being our own heroes, we're going to get caught up in this.
We're going to get caught up in this.
We're already losing so many black lives to violence, to early death because of preventable chronic illnesses.
And we're not being real with ourselves and with our communities to look at what is our responsibility and how can we save ourselves?
Because John D. Rockefeller did not care about anybody.
He even set up the school systems to get kids used to being in an environment, a controlled environment for 7 to 8 hours a day, which is mimicking a workplace.
Because he was just training workers.
So why would it be any different when it comes to your health? And if there's one thing that you can do to safeguard your health, then why aren't you doing that?
Why aren't you trying to eat healthfully?
Click the QR code. I've written a book.
It's not hard, but you do need to learn about certain food combinations that can help you win over metabolic disease.
Why keep financing Big Pharma and big insurance who don't care about you? What do you think?
Do you think John D. Rockefeller's influence is still happening today in our health care system? Put your comments below and and let's talk about it. And don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to this channel. And remember too that I have a YouTube channel that's Have Some, spelled H A V for Victor, S O M for Mother, where we'll continue the conversation there. To your good health.
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