How the Medical Industry Was Hijacked - The Rockefeller Takeover & the Suppression of Natural Healing

How the Medical Industry Was Hijacked: The Rockefeller Takeover & the Suppression of Natural Healing

Most people assume that modern medicine evolved naturally, with science leading the way. But what if I told you that the way we approach healthcare today—hyper-focused on pharmaceuticals and symptom management—was carefully engineered over a century ago?

Allopathic vs. Holistic Medicine: Two Competing Paradigms

Before the early 1900s, medicine was a wild west of approaches—some effective, some questionable, but all competing in an open market.

• Allopathic Medicine (a.k.a. Western medicine) → Treats disease with drugs, surgeries, and radiation. Think of it as a “war on symptoms” approach.

• Holistic Medicine → Views the body as an interconnected system, focusing on root causes, prevention, and natural treatments (herbs, nutrition, acupuncture, energy healing, etc.).

For centuries, herbalists, homeopaths, chiropractors, and other healers thrived alongside conventional doctors. Then, everything changed—not because holistic medicine stopped working, but because of a strategic, top-down hostile takeover.

The Rockefeller Takeover of Medicine

Cue John D. Rockefeller, oil tycoon and the world’s first billionaire. Around 1900, he recognized a goldmine hiding in the medical field: pharmaceuticals—many of which could be synthesized from petroleum (yes, oil).

So how did Rockefeller and his elite friends pull off a complete overhaul of the medical industry?

Step 1: Commission the Flexner Report (1910)

In 1910, the Carnegie Foundation (closely tied to Rockefeller) funded a report on medical education, led by Abraham Flexner. You can read the full Flexner Report here:

📜 https://archive.org/details/flexner-report-1910

What did it do? It discredited and shut down most medical schools that taught anything outside of the pharmaceutical model—especially holistic and herbal medicine.

“All schools teaching homeopathy, naturopathy, holistic healing, and herbalism were systematically defunded and labeled ‘unscientific.’”

By the 1920s, the American Medical Association (AMA)—funded by Rockefeller money—had the power to license and de-license medical schools, ensuring that only allopathic medicine remained.

Step 2: Fund Medical Schools & Shape the Curriculum

Rockefeller then donated millions to medical schools on one condition: that they only teach drug-based medicine. Schools like Johns Hopkins and Harvard took the money and followed orders. The result?

• Doctors were trained almost exclusively in drug-based treatments

• Natural medicine was erased from the curriculum

• Big Pharma and Big Medicine were born

By the 1930s, homeopaths and herbalists were not just marginalized; they were criminalized.

Step 3: Control the Media & Public Perception

Rockefeller also bought up newspapers and funded “health” organizations to shape public perception. Suddenly:

• Natural medicine = “quackery”

• Synthetic drugs = “scientific advancement”

• Doctors who opposed the system were discredited or even jailed

This was the beginning of the modern pharmaceutical industry—an industry that doesn’t make money from health, but from lifelong customers dependent on medications.

How This Shift Has Affected Health

Fast forward to today, and we’re reaping the consequences of this shift:

✅ Explosion of Chronic Diseases → Heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders have skyrocketed, largely because prevention and root-cause healing were sidelined.

✅ Drug Dependency Culture → The average American over 65 is on 6+ prescription drugs (source: CDC).

✅ Loss of Medical Freedom → Treatments outside the pharmaceutical model are still ridiculed, underfunded, or outright banned.

✅ Big Pharma Dominance → The pharmaceutical industry is now a trillion-dollar empire with direct influence over medical research, government policy, and media narratives.

The Resurgence of Holistic Medicine

The good news? People are waking up. Despite a century of suppression, holistic healing is making a comeback. Functional medicine, integrative therapies, and alternative health practices are gaining traction as people realize that true health isn’t found in a prescription bottle.

Final Thought: Follow the Money

Whenever you hear that an ancient healing practice is “quackery,” ask yourself: Who benefits from you believing that?

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.”

—Thomas Edison

We were meant to heal naturally. But first, we have to unlearn what we were programmed to believe.

What do you think—was this just capitalism at work, or something more sinister?