How do we have more medicines but less wellness?

​The medicines in the market follow the law of demand in that market. [1]

When people (consumers) demand more medicines, suppliers see an opportunity to increase their profit, and produce more medicines to meet the demand (at any price level).

While this describe how a competitive market work, it doesn't answer your question.

In general people ask for more medicines for various reasons, and probably the most common ones are that the medicines they have do not fully satisfy them (anymore), or they want to try a new medicine to improve their condition.

The general approach is this: "I've a problem, and I'm looking for something able to fix it."

While this may work in the short-term, and is probably desirable in an emergency situation, in the long term it usually create a dependency, which bind us to something (or someone) that we put in charge to guard our health.

In other words, we delegate our wellness to something external, with the hope that it will improve it.

This creates a dependency.

In this context it could be a synthetic drug, eg. a painkiller, or an herbal remedy eg. St. John's Wort.

The problem with this approach is that we assume that the remedy will cure the problem, while most of the time it only manage the symptoms, and the root-cause of the problem (with time) stay as is, or usually become a bigger problem.

It's a cultural habit that we need to change , if we want to have a better quality of life.

For example, we tend to associate muscles with health, but body builders have been hit badly by Covid, whereas old ladies came out of it much faster. [2]

Addiction to painkillers and to psychotropic drugs have become a global issue. [3]

A synthetic drug could be more harmful to health, especially those who require a medical prescription. [4]

So my suggestion is to get educated about the basics of Medicine, and how Natural Medicine [5] can help the individual to have a better quality of life, by using Nutrition, Lifestyle and Psychology (NLP) [6]

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