Summer barely started and I turned neon pink. on its very first day. As my mother is globbing full-fat sour cream across my thighs like some kind of war paint, I felt the familiar sting turning into something almost tolerable. Blistering sunburn begone. Once more, the enzymes did their thing. Lactic acid, live cultures—they cool the fire, calm the inflammation, and start rebuilding what the sun tried to murder. No prescription. No co-pay. Just the fridge.
This is exactly why I keep going back to my naturopath instead of a white-coat corporate drone who calls themselves a doctor.
Western medicine does not want you fixed. It wants you on a subscription plan. Your family doctor hears you sniffle once and suddenly you are “high risk” for something like Covid and need to be shuttled off to a specialist three towns over “just in case.” They do not ask what you ate, how you sleep, or whether you have been marinating in stress and seed oils. They glance at the chart, scribble a script for something that costs insurance, and send you out the door. The goal is not healing. The goal is moving product.
Big Pharma owns the pipeline from medical school to the pharmacy counter. They fund the studies, ghost-write the papers, lobby the regulators, and then act shocked when the “safe and effective” drug of the decade gets pulled after it kills enough people. Your doctor is not evil—he is just a well-trained not in medicine, but a sales rep who will lose his license if he steps too far outside the approved list of profitable interventions. That is why they never talk about food, sunlight, movement, or sleep. Those do not come with monthly refills.
Naturopaths, on the other hand, actually studied nature. Real school. Botany, nutrition, the body’s own repair systems, herbs that have been used for thousands of years before anyone invented a patent. They are not trying to suppress symptoms so you can keep destroying yourself. They are trying to remove the obstacles so your body can do what it already knows how to do. That is why when my skin was on fire, the first thing in my mind was not “I need some steroid cream that thins your skin over time.” It was “try sour cream or plain yogurt. The enzymes and probiotics will help.”
I have watched the same pattern play out with everything else: Doctor wants to give me antibiotics that wreck my gut and set me up for the next infection. Naturopath hands me a protocol with oregano oil, neti pot with salt and xylitol instead of wrecking my gut with antibiotics. And that depression that normies talk about (that was “just anxiety”)… Doctor offers benzos that turn me into a zombie. Naturopath looks at my magnesium, my light exposure, my evening cortisol, and hands me a tincture plus a bedtime ritual that actually works
Science is constantly being questioned and revised. That is literally why it is “science.” One decade, eggs are heart attacks on a plate. Next decade, they are superfood. One year, hormone replacement will kill you. Ten years later, it is the greatest thing since sliced bread for certain women. They retract papers, flip guidelines, and still expect you to treat their current consensus like gospel. Meanwhile, the traditional systems that actually kept humans alive for millennia get called “anecdotal” because they were not run through a double-blind trial funded by the company selling the competing drug.
I am not saying every single thing in a pill bottle is evil. I am saying the system is structurally incapable of admitting that most of what actually keeps people healthy is cheap, unpatentable, and does not require a middleman in a lab coat. Nature does not need a monopoly to be effective. It just needs you to stop poisoning the land and start giving the body the raw materials it evolved to use.
I will probably always keep the sour cream in the fridge for the next inevitable sunburn. I will keep seeing the practitioner who treats me like a whole organism instead of a collection of billable symptoms (but I will still get the annual physical and blood tests done by the normie doctors). And I will keep ignoring the people who think the solution to every problem created by industrial civilization is another industrial product.
Nature was here first. It will still be here when the latest blockbuster drug gets its warning label.
Kat’s Musings 