A viewer asks: “What percentage of patients take drugs for almost no real benefit, even while risking side effects and penalized by the cost?”

We can tell you that the percentage is well over 90% of such medication not providing a real and meaningful benefit, but simply serving false medical models and many false assumptions about the benefit of treating symptoms alone in the absence of any deep understanding of the causal factors underlying chronic illness. What results is a huge make-work enterprise, focused on relentlessly tinkering with laboratory values that are believed to be important because they are a sign of an illness. And while that might be so, it is almost always the case that the belief it is meaningful to change those numbers is not actually treating the condition, when it is merely reducing some of the signs but not truly helping the long-term outcome at all.