They Prescribed Pills Before Anyone Asked About Sleep

They prescribed him three medications before anyone asked about his sleep.

Metformin for blood sugar. Lisinopril for blood pressure. A statin for cholesterol.

$400 a month. Side effects he had to “manage” with more pills.

Nobody mentioned that poor sleep drives insulin resistance. That it spikes cortisol and wrecks blood pressure. That chronic sleep deprivation is linked to every metabolic disease he was being treated for.

Sleep costs nothing. It outperforms most of those medications.

But there’s no patent on eight hours of rest.

The basics they skip right over.

And here’s why: There’s no profit model in teaching you to walk every day. No quarterly earnings from telling you to eat meat and vegetables. No shareholder value in you sleeping better.

But a pill? That’s renewable revenue. Every month. For life.

Your doctor isn’t hiding this from you on purpose. They’re trained in a system built on pharmaceutical solutions. They have twelve minutes with you. Writing a prescription fits that window. Teaching lifestyle change doesn’t.

The system isn’t designed to cure you. It’s designed to manage you.

At 72, I take zero medications. Not because I’m special. Because I did the boring things that actually work.

The things they won’t prescribe because they can’t bill for them.

So here’s your choice: Keep waiting for the next pill to fix you, or start doing the free things that actually heal your body?

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