It's near-miraculous how the food growing/processing/delivery chain has freed us to do other things with our lives.
When I was little, I was always right there, since my mom and Grandpa Bailey ran the store all day long. By the time I was heading into my teens, Grandpa Bailey got sick (lung cancer- he smoked), and they had to close the store. When I was 10, I got my first pony, so after that, I spent as much time as possible riding or caring for my horse, and not as much at the store. Back when I was younger, Comic books were 10 cents each, so we kids would set up a little stand and sell or trade our used comic books for ones that other kids had that we had not read. The front of the store was a perfect place, because just about everyone in our neighborhood shopped there. My mom gardened a lot (mostly flowers), and all of us kids in the neighborhood used to haul sawdust/shavings for her garden paths when we wanted to earn money, and she paid 15 cents for a garden cart full of sawdust. This is how a lot of the kids earned their candy money.
If I remember right from the literature etc, in the fifties the regular ama licensed doctors were still allowed by law to cure people, to actually help them, if they so chose to do. After the fifties, it was then illegal, and still is illegeal by federal laws passed by the drug makers money.
I think meds do help at times, but not the way they prescribe them today, so I partially agree with you on this Jeff.
A couple months ago I caught Inflammation respiratory thing going around, test results showed it wasn't Covid, wasn't the flu. The steroids allowed me to breathe and cleared up the inflammation. People having a heart attack don't have time to take herbs, they take nitro glycerin. Its not all the frugs ,its how so many are abused or pushed for proifit.
I take 1x4 aspitin a day for the stents they lied and put in me 2020. Now and then I take half my BP med when BP is high. I'm sure Mary has seen a doctor or she wouldn't know she has heart trouble. I don't take anything for diabetes, just exercise and diet.