By design per Rockefeller. Took us off plant based drugs in the 1930 iirc and wreaked havoc on our health. But it did help protect the MDs source of money.
By any chance, do you have a book reference that discusses that change?
I’ve been thinking about it a little, and about the rather basic level of medicine that I received when I was a child. It wasn’t exactly “nature based herbal medicine” but it was clearly based on that sort of tradition. But today, it’s all fancy chemicals from enormous conglomerates and I suppose some would say it’s now “better” but I’m not sure that I agree it’s truly “better”. I’m trying to do a little research into how we got here.