Factual reasons why the world is more ready for you than ever before — and how to use your skills for bigger impact using sustainable practices.
The moment is here. The world is ready for you now. Here's the evidence to prove it and the strategies to help you act on it.
Dear friends and colleagues,
The old systems are crumbling. While this is overdue in my opinion, the transition is complex and can feel unsettling. With so many forces competing for our attention, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, or discouraged. What are we to do?
It can help to step back and consider the broader context: we are living through a period of profound transition.
Transitions are notoriously the most turbulent stages of cycles.
The purpose of transition is metamorphosis — a change in form and structure.
Like the caterpillar entering the pupa stage, its tissues dissolving into a cellular soup before reorganizing into a butterfly, transition is a time for breakdown and restructuring.
The breakdown is everywhere. But what about the reorganization? How does that happen?
Big Picture
We’ve got billions of people, each with a unique combination of life experiences that have led them to this moment. While we will all naturally have an infinite array of perspectives and experiences, many are experiencing some combination of the following:
A sense of being in crisis — emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, socially, or financially.
A growing awareness of how they’re well-resourced for this time and how they’re lacking — in mental and emotional balance, physical health, relationships, and finances.
A strong sense of needing to seek support, offer support, or both.
From the Bigger Picture to a Personal Perspective
If you’re reading this, you’ve invested much of your precious energy in non-mainstream endeavors — activities that were effective and deeply rewarding, even in the face of resistance from establishment forces and mainstream attitudes. But what about those who couldn’t or wouldn’t see what you saw?
We’re not all meant to think and act in identical ways. Not everyone is called to use the same methods. And yet, much of the resistance you encountered wasn’t thoughtful disagreement. It was reflexive and often self-defeating. Why?
Because all of us, to varying degrees, have been shaped by systems that distort perception — systems that narrow what we believe is possible and thrive on engineered ignorance and confusion. (That conditioning has been carried out using a range of well-tested strategies including trained obedience, censorship, corruption, and fraud.)
Those are the systems that are now fracturing and crumbling.
Your Role, Our Role Right Now
You’re experienced in forms of self-care and supporting others that are outside of mainstream systems. As such, you’ve spent many years operating within a particular context and being received in particular ways — ways that are now shifting so dramatically that you can’t help but recognize how profoundly different this moment is and what that difference means.
One implication is that the future will not be a linear extension of the past, but a discontinuous leap into something fundamentally different.
Another implication is that attempting to predict the future makes less sense than actively creating it with authentic vision. How is such vision articulated and expressed? By drawing on the perspective you’ve built over a lifetime of experience.
We’re in the midst of a metaphorical storm, experiencing a kind of change that, I propose to you, we are not meant to wait out.
I suggest to you that this is the kind of change we were destined to jump into with both feet — bringing our skills, courage, and compassion to help lead the reorganization phase of this metamorphosis.
In summary, I suggest to you that:
Old systems that became parasitic and harmful are breaking down.
With that crumbling, a significant amount of the entrenched resistance to authentic ways of healing and living is falling away.
You are more prepared than most to help lead the restructuring — to support others in actively redirecting their energy into meaningful, evidence-based action that enables them not merely to endure this transition, but to thrive.
Evidence & Support
I’m well aware that we each have our own perspectives and current priorities. That’s why I work hard to provide evidence from multiple angles, so you can focus your energy on what serves you in the moment.
Below, I’ve gathered evidence and support for the findings and strategies I outlined above. I invite you to explore the resources that are most immediately useful for your business planning, marketing, and client support.
Sincerely,
Shelly Thorn
Resources
The evidence and resources below are organized into the following categories. Use the structure to organize your thinking and pinpoint the areas that are most valuable for you in the moment.
Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
Drug & Diagnostic Harms
Health & Wellness Foundational Considerations
Food System: Corrupted & Severely Harmful
Cancer Reversal & Recovery
How Authentic Providers Serve
Provider Resources & Support
Conventional (Allopathic) Medicine: A Corrupt & Failed System
Problems
Failed Health Outcomes — The U.S. spends nearly twice the per-capita amount on healthcare than the next highest spender, yet Americans are the most chronically ill, and rank 48th in life expectancy, among other countries. In addition, medical misdiagnosis causes permanent harm and death to 795,000 people every year.
Verifiably Corrupt — Establishment medicine as a system* is verifiably corrupt, serving the interests of industry — not health. (*Obviously, not every individual working in establishment medicine is unethical. Rather, the system that educated / indoctrinated them, and that sets policy, hires, pays, and promotes them is verifiably corrupted.)
Big Pharma & Biotech: Immoral Business Model — Corporations, by design, are beholden to profit above all else, acting as powerful entities that are “essentially psychopathic and without conscience.” Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are the utmost example of corporate psychopathy, demonstrating inhumanity in response to human suffering.
Regulatory & Professional Betrayal — Government agencies entrusted to regulate the field of medicine fail to do so. The majority of influential professional organizations such as the American Medical Association are corrupted by industry.
Not Evidence/Science-Based — The bulk of establishment medicine’s standard of care is not based on unbiased, reproducible science. (We prove it here.)
Harms by Drug and Diagnostic — Establishment medicine providers routinely utilize diagnostic testing and “treatments” that cause harm (“adverse”, “side” effects). Get verifiable evidence of the harms, organized by drug, treatment, or test (mammograms, CT scans, antibiotics, statins, benzos, etc).
Failed Philosophy & Strategies — Allopathic medicine (also called conventional medicine, Western medicine, and Rockefeller medicine) was created to exploit the profit potential of drug patents. Born from a compromised report published in 1910, this system does not acknowledge the conditions under which the human body creates health, nor does it seek to identify and resolve the root causes of illness. On the contrary, it suppresses symptoms with drugs, creating more symptoms and distracting efforts from true healing. Diagnosis is disconnected from the wisdom inherent in the purpose and message of symptoms.
Stifling of Treatments that Don’t Benefit Industry — Healing modalities that don’t benefit industry are underutilized, suppressed, and disparaged. Providers who are perceived as a threat to establishment dictates or lucrative markets are condemned, intimidated and attacked.
The Significance of Legal Precedent — Precedents involving “standard of care” and breach of duty have significantly influenced how physicians practice, and the state of establishment medicine as a system. This easily digestible overview provides important insight into why mainstream medicine has developed the way it has, demonstrating that physicians have been slaves to a corrupted system, and steeped in legal threat and uncertainty.
What’s the Impact from Creating More than 90,000 Diagnoses? — Establishment medicine’s diagnosis system (the ICD-10-CM) is 22 chapters and 288 sections, with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses. The U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services takes another 115 pages to document accompanying rules. Naming constellations of symptoms vs. identifying root causes: how has it impacted health?
Solutions
Beyond Diagnosis: Healing Principles — Establishment medicine’s diagnosis system (the ICD-10-CM) is 22 chapters and 288 sections, with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses. The U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services takes another 115 pages to document accompanying rules. Naming constellations of symptoms vs. identifying root causes: how has it impacted health? Going beyond diagnosis to identify key issues that underlie most disease, and healing principles that are consistently and verifiably effective.
Root Cause Index — In this vast curation of evidence, we cite hundreds of research papers on the root causes of diseases.
Health Systems & Techniques — We bring together 20 systems of medicine + nearly 200 health and wellness techniques, structuring the material in an organized way for efficient research.
Diseases & Conditions Glossary — A succinct glossary and resource links for more than 150 terms used in discussing health issues, conditions and diseases.
Drug and Diagnostic Harms
Pharmaceuticals & diagnostics, generally + over-prescription — “Doing nothing except terminating some of the most egregious prescriptions… resulted in a 23% reduction in their death rate,” explained a doctor regarding a 2007 study. AMA journal reported that 23% of patients were incorrectly diagnosed or experienced delays in diagnosis. In 1975, medical “treatments” caused more than 10x as many deaths as illegal drugs.
Acid blockers: PPIs, acid reflux, GERD, heartburn, gastric ulcer drugs — Increase cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, dementia, death, bone fractures, vitamin deficiency, pneumonia and infections. PPIs altered children’s gut microbiome, the foundation of immunity & health, and increased infections in children. Stomach acid is crucial for health.
ADHD drugs, stimulants —Caused “long-lasting changes” in brain function “similar to those that occur with cocaine.” “There is no such thing as a Ritalin deficiency.” Harms from ADHD drugs are many, and effects from higher doses are severe. Get verifiable research and alternatives for resolving the underlying issues.
Alzheimer’s, dementia, and Parkinson’s drugs — Alzheimer’s & dementia drugs are less effective than B vitamins. And they cause fluid build-up & bleeding in the brain and increased death. Parkinson’s drugs deplete nutrients needed for brain health. Parkinson’s symptoms can be reversed. Successful therapies promote brain autophagy, “the removal of old and damaged brain cells and the creation of new and healthy brain cells.”
Antibiotics — “Like TNT for the body’s microbiome” and linked with kidney stones, infertility, miscarriage, birth defects. Since 70 to 80% of the immune system is in the gut, damage to gut health is damage to immune health. Review curated research + alternatives and considerations.
Asthma, allergy & hay fever drugs, antihistamines — Antihistamines cause heart problems, cognitive impairment, seizures in kids. Asthma “med” caused depression, anxiety, aggression, suicides. “Common medications like diphenhydramine [called benadryl, other brand names] cross the blood-brain barrier, disrupting normal brain activity and lowering seizure thresholds in vulnerable children.”
Blood pressure drugs — Allergies, Diabetes, Weight Gain, Sexual Dysfunction, Depression, Acute Kidney Injury, Lung Cancer, Abnormal Heart Rate, and More. Blood pressure-lowering drugs have not been shown to be effective; do not address the root cause(s) of hypertension; have been contaminated with cancer-causing agents; and cause harm (“side effects”).
Chemotherapy, other cancer drugs, radiation — “Chemotherapy makes cancer worse.” “Chemotherapy doubled the number of cancer cells in the bloodstream and lungs.” “Omitting radiation from treatment did not have an effect on survival rates.” “Radiation therapy increases the risk of solid tumors.” Chemotherapy drugs harm the healthcare professionals who administer them.
Diabetes drugs, metformin — Caused death, low blood pressure, slowed heart rate, reduced blood flow to brain & organs. 90% + of diabetes is reversible with diet but professionals push drugs that harm. Professionals avoid telling the simple truth about the effectiveness of low carb diets and push profitable drugs that cause harm. In 2023, the FDA approved more drugs to treat diabetes in children.
Osteoporosis drugs, bisphosphonates — Caused “substantially reduced bone strength” and caused more microcracks in bone than the controls. Osteoporosis drugs caused blood calcium levels to drop, digestion problems, internal bleeding, irregular heartbeat, bone fractures, and bone death.
Over the counter drugs (OTCs) — Tylenol: ADHD, autism, ulcers, GI issues, kidney disease, heart failure. Laxative given to children: rage, tics, insomnia, seizures. Ibuprofen: DNA damage, hypertension. Sunscreens? Nightmare. Prescription drugs cause great harm, but so do over-the-counter meds and personal care products. Get an organized curation of research and reports.
Pain relievers, NSAIDs, opioids — Even at “safe doses,” opioids cause confusion, dependence, depression, increased pain sensitivity, diminished energy, and low sex drive. Consistent use of NSAIDs caused heart attacks. Doctors are not trained in pain management or addiction, but they prescribe dangerous, highly addictive drugs. Get an organized curation of research and reports, plus alternatives and considerations.
Psychiatric drugs: antidepressants, SSRIs, anti-anxiety, benzos, other psychotropics — Anti-depressants cause suicidal thinking, violence, and homicide. Anti-anxiety drugs cause insomnia and anxiety. Anti-psychotic drugs cause agitation, psychosis and violence. This organized curation of research and reports makes it clear that the evidence of harm from psychotropic drugs is overwhelming. We also provide alternatives and considerations.
Scans, radiology, & ultrasounds (e.g. mammograms, CT scans, X-rays) — Medical scans (CT scans, mammograms, etc) use ionizing radiation which damages DNA and causes cancer. Research and resource curation, including research showing that 1) mammograms do not reduce risk of death, and 2) a higher incidence of breast cancer was caused from mammography radiation.
Seizure drugs, anticonvulsants, anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) — Devastating effects, negatively impacting virtually every system of the body, including damage to blood vessels and reduction in all three types of blood cells. Seizure drugs caused liver failure and death in young people and in healthy adults. A long list of non-harming alternatives listed below, with links to research on their effectiveness.
Sleeping pills, sedatives — Sleeping pills make you unconscious, not asleep. They impair the sleep cycle. They increase dementia, falls, and death. And they’re highly addictive. Sleeping pills deprive people of true sleep and they impede essential brain functions (which are causes of dementia, Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases)
Statins — Statin drugs damage health at foundational levels — mitochondria, muscles and nerves — which can lead to more than 300 health problems. Research curation on statin harms, plus research showing that 1) lowering cholesterol does not improve heart health, and 2) statins do not lower all-cause death rates.
Steroids — Cause osteoporosis and double the risk of bone fractures. They increase heart failure, diabetes, psychiatric issues, glaucoma, and serious infections. Steroid users report rapid weight gain, intense hunger, irritability, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, acne, stomach pain, nausea, joint pain, and withdrawal reactions, among other adverse events.
Vaccines — Reports by vaccine type.
Weight loss drugs — Ozempic & Similar Weight Loss Drugs Cause Kidney Failure, Pancreatitis, Thyroid Cancer, Gallbladder Issues, Depression, Severe Stomach Problems, Bone & Muscle Loss, Blindness, and Death. “Ozempic, similar weight loss drugs linked to 162 deaths in U.S.” Get an organized curation of research and reports, with quick links to verify sources.
Health & Wellness Foundational Considerations
Chronic Inflammation — Be familiar with the vital significance of chronic inflammation and its serious disease manifestations, plus symptoms, tests, and root causes.
Toxins — Understand the prevalence of toxins and how the accumulation of toxins affects the body’s physiology.
Oxidative Stress & Detox — Understand the condition and implications of oxidative stress, how the body naturally removes waste and toxins from the body, and how to support the body in detoxification.
Good Stress & Chronic Stress — Understand the necessity of “good” stress (positive challenge) and the significant negative impacts of chronic (“bad”) stress on immunity and disease, plus the consequences of elevated stress hormones and developing stress resilience.
Emotions: Significance & Impact — Understand emotions as a core aspect of being human and recognize their wide-ranging impact on physical health, happiness, spiritual well-being, creativity, and intuition.
Sleep Physiology & Impacts — Understand the physiology and profound significance of sleep, and how quality sleep and poor sleep impact health and well-being.
Nutrients, Vitamins, Minerals — Be familiar with terminology related to nutrients, including vitamins, minerals, amino acids and essential fatty acids.
Vitamin D — Have a factual understanding of how essential vitamin D is to bodily functioning, health, and disease; the consequences of insufficient vitamin D; and techniques for ensuring sufficient levels.
Placebo & Nocebo Effects — Be prepared to discuss how therapeutic context is related to placebo effects (including sham surgery) and the findings and implications from extensive research, plus how drug makers and vaccine researchers have responded to this information.
Food System: Corrupted & Severely Harmful
Corrupt System Protects Industry, Harms People — The organizations entrusted to serve humanity have served industry instead, allowing it to dominate the food system with unnatural food products that cause serious health issues, chronic disease, anxiety and depression, suicidal thoughts in children, and death.
Ultra-processed “Food”: A Toxic, Addictive Cash Cow — Be prepared to cite research on UPFs, junk food, fast food, energy drinks, diet drinks, and fake/lab-grown foods demonstrating that they provoke overeating and addiction and cause devastating harm including anxiety, depression, diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, suicidal thoughts in children, and death.
Seed Oils, Vegetable Oils, LA, PUFAs — Seed oils are industrially processed concoctions, often referred to as “vegetable oils.” Replacing natural fats with manufactured “vegetable oils” was never proven to lower the risk of heart disease or death. In fact, it showed the opposite. And now we know seed oils cause chronic disease.
Salts — The processing to create table salt strips it of natural minerals & adds toxic substances. In contrast, “Natural salt contains a vast array of essential minerals & is incredibly valuable for health. Verifiable facts on table salt, natural salt, and sodium, with research-proven health consequences of each. Plus, propaganda examined so that you can more easily identify and correct it for yourself.
Toxic Additives: Pesticides, Dyes, Forever Chemicals, etc. — This resource list curates evidence of the toxic additives used in the industrialized food system, including phthalates, microplastics, heavy metals, glyphosate and other pesticides, synthetic dyes, and hundreds of additional chemicals including “forever chemicals” and other endocrine-disruptors.
Apeel — Apeel is a chemical formulation that may be put on organics and cannot be washed off. It has mono- and diglycerides, which cause inflammation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and hardening of arteries.
Genetically Engineered / GMO “Foods” — Genetic modification is the alteration of an organism’s genome. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are often used by industrial agriculture to create “frankenfoods” that will survive the use of toxic pesticides that devastate human health, soils, and biodiversity.
Industrial Agriculture, “Big Ag”, Factory Farming — Mechanization of agriculture has increased the use of poisons, and devastated the health of food and communities. Industrial agriculture is at the root of many of humanity’s crises. Factory farms are continuing to get bigger and bigger.
Food System Solutions — Solutions to the problems created by a corrupted food system include: 1) Prioritizing food security, reclaiming food sovereignty and de-centralizing systems, 2) Developing localized food networks and family & community gardens, 3) Healing soil, 4) Supporting regenerative farming, and 5) Rewilding dead, dying, and imbalanced spaces.
Cancer Reversal & Recovery
To help compensate for the lack of information from establishment medicine on successful cancer treatments, we’ve curated the following.
Cancers & Tumors — Be familiar with root causes and characteristics of cancers and tumors, plus evidence-based harms from cancer drugs and radiation.
Research — Be prepared to cite more than 200 references to research documenting cancer reversal and recovery successes.
Testimonials — Be prepared to cite more than 600 medical and personal testimonies of cancer reversal and recovery successes.
Evidence-Based Therapies — Be familiar with more than 70 successful evidence-based therapies for cancers and tumors, plus potential priorities and treatments to reconsider.
Recovery Protocols — Be familiar with references and considerations for cancer reversal protocols and dosing.
“Chemo Makes Cancer Worse” — Research verifying significant harms from chemotherapy, other cancer drugs, and radiation.
Root Causes of Cancer — Be familiar with root causes and characteristics of cancers and tumors, plus evidence-based harms from cancer drugs and radiation.
Covid Vaccines, Aggressive Cancers— Peer-reviewed research links Covid mRNA injections to “turbo cancer.”
Treatment Suppression — Evidence demonstrating that healing modalities that don’t benefit the medical industry have been underutilized, suppressed, and disparaged, and providers who are perceived as a threat to establishment markets have been condemned, intimidated and attacked.
Cancer & Yoga — Be familiar with research and considerations for teaching yoga to people who are experiencing or recovering from cancer.
How Authentic Providers Serve
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
Providers Face a Changed Wellness Landscape — We’re in the midst of a metaphorical storm. Shall we pause for a moment to assess and consider how we’re moving forward, individually and together?
Symptoms, Conditions, Root Causes — Use these teachings to help clients and students frame their situation by differentiating symptoms and diagnoses, underlying conditions, and root causes.
Evidence-Based Decision-Making — Help clients move from the illusion of making evidence-based decisions to actually doing so.
Using Context to Individualize Wellness Strategies — A decision can be helpful in one situation and not in another. Providers need concrete ways to evaluate context with authentic and practical tools that hold up under real world conditions.
Foundational Considerations, Universal Truths — A springboard for client discussions or workshops on health and wellness: universal truths. These significant and practical teachings create a strong foundation from which to build.
Incontrovertible Facts about Germs & Immunity — You know this, but many clients need to see the evidence for themselves. AMA research published in 1919 proves without a doubt that germs don’t cause disease. How immunity works and why we must dismantle false beliefs to inspire people to identify the real causes of illness.
Chronic Inflammation — Teach about chronic inflammation. It’s rampant and causes an extravagant number of symptoms & chronic diseases. Get comprehensive summaries of 100% evidence-based root causes & reversal therapies.
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