The Modern Myth of Health

Refreshed from October 2019

Do people still believe Americans are the most healthy?

Once upon a time, not too long ago, Americans talked at length about a long-life expectancy. They claimed the U.S. medical system to be the best in the world.

Today, they commiserate about chronic disease symptoms, a long list of drug prescriptions, and escalating insurance costs. If people are focused on disease, are they really that healthy?

The average American live span used to be 77 years. But that changed in the year of 2020-2021 when it dropped to its lowest level since 1996, according to a 2022 CDC report.

Age-specific death rates increased from 2020 to 2021 for every age group. – 2024 National Vital Statistics System

During the year of 2020-2021, deaths surged in the U.S.

Before 2020, life expectancy appeared to be comparable to that of the Victorian Era (1837 to 1901). After 2020-2021, “excess deaths” continued to rise in 2022 and 2023 . According to JAMA, more than 1.5 million excess deaths happened after the pandemic, and after medical countermeasures were in place.

The mid-Victorian Era (1850-1880)

It is a myth that people dropped dead at 40 in the mid-1800s. In the mid-19th century, the Victorians had stronger immune systems than we do today.

Today’s chronic diseases were extremely rare for the people living during the 30 short years of the mid-Victorian era. They lived, ate, and died in rural communities, worked long days, and ate 2000 more calories a day to sustain themselves. Obesity was virtually unknown except in the upper-middle and wealthier classes.

They consumed less sugar, alcohol, and tobacco. And they lived without modern diagnostics and medical treatments. Health was credited to a spiritual- not a medically-enhanced lifestyle.

According to a 2009 article (J Environ Res Public Health), the wisdom of mid-Victorian experience shows that:

Degenerative diseases are not caused by old age (the ‘wear and tear’ hypothesis); but are driven, in the main, by chronic malnutrition.
Our low energy lifestyles leave us depleted; and this imbalance is compounded by excessive intakes of inflammatory compounds.
The vast edifice of twentieth century healthcare has generated little more than tools to suppress symptoms of the degenerative diseases which have emerged due to our failure to maintain mid-Victorian nutritional standards.
The only way to combat the adverse effects of Type B malnutrition, and to prevent and/or cure degenerative disease, is to enhance the nutrient density of the modern diet.

A clue to their success?

Golden Age of Nutrition

The mid-Victorian era, between the years of 1850 and 1872, was a ‘golden age of nutrition.’ “They typically ate eight to ten portions of fruit and vegetables daily,” in a nutrient-dense diet of real food.” They ate seasonally and locally. They ate organ meats (brains, heart, liver, kidneys, and ‘pluck’), fatty fish, and prebiotic foods (including onions, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, dandelion greens, and leeks). They ate less salt (except to preserve corned beef), sugar, alcohol and tobacco.

They never knew a processed or refined food.

Unlike life in Victorian times, Americans today are habitually exposed to chemicals, toxic metals, and dangerous EMFs from wireless 5G towers and cellphones. Today we live in a toxic soup by what we ingest, imbibe, inhale, insert, implant, and inject.

In modern 21st century, 4 in 10 Americans, have been diagnosed with at least one chronic disease, a major reason of illness and death. And while the U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world, we are far from the healthiest.

Timeline of Life Expectancy Decline

A rapid decline of health has been reported over the decades, and ignored by the media. Few people know about life expectancy decline since the information remains hidden in medical journal articles. The following trail of disease begins with reports in 1999 and stops cold in 2015.

The Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report To Err is Human, estimated some 100,000 Americans die each year from preventable adverse events, events associated with the use of a medical treatment or procedure that results in injury or death.

The Starfield Report of 2000, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, cited western medicine as the third leading cause of death, including 2038 deaths per week from prescription drugs alone.

In a 2013 report in the Journal of Patient Safety, preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year at a cost of $1 trillion each year.

Medicine today invests heavily in information technology, yet the promised improvement in patient safety and productivity frankly have not been realized,” —Peter Pronovost, MD, senior vice president for Patient Safety and Quality and director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins.

The 2013 U.S. Health In International Perspective report shows that Americans are living less long in poorer health at all stages of life.

For many years, Americans have had a shorter life expectancy than people in almost all of the peer countries.

According to the 2014 Mirror Mirror on the Wall Report by the Commonwealth Fund, the US underperforms in most aspects of healthcare among 11 industrialized nations. We Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than those in other high-income countries.

What these numbers say is that every day, a 747, two of them are crashing. Every two months, 9-11 is occurring…we would not tolerate that degree of preventable harm in any other forum. —Peter Pronovost, MD, Senate Hearing July 16, 2014

In 2015, the Editor in Chief of The Lancet, one of the world’s most distinguished medical journals, published a statement claiming much of medical literature is false:

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.

A Future of Autism

A review of U.S. studies found the prevalence of Autism increased 10-fold between the 1970s and 1990s, from less than 3 cases per 10,000 children to over 30 cases per 10,000 children. The CDC found rising cases of Autism throughout the 1990s.

In 2015, 1 in 68 children was born with autism. By 2019, the rate was 1 in 32 children with a prediction from Dr. Stephanie Seneff, PhD of 1 in 2 by 2025.

However, according to a 2025 report from Autism Speaks, the autism rate fell to 1 in 35.

Did the Autism rate really improve?

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published… —Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, 2015

Autism did not exist in Victorian times.

Infectious Disease Highest in Most Vaccinated Countries

In 2014, a report released by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) displayed a map identifying the countries with the highest infectious disease outbreaks are the most highly vaccinated populations around the world.

This was especially true for measles, mumps, rubella, polo, and pertussis outbreaks. The US, Canada, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and Japan– each with the highest number of mandated vaccines – as well India and Africa where GAVI-implemented vaccine campaigns, led the list of nations. South America is almost void of any communicable disease dots.

The Original Council of Foreign Relations Disease Map showed: Highest Disease among the Vaccinated.

This CFR map is no longer available at the website. Instead, the map now says the opposite: “This Incredible Map Shows All The Infections That Vaccines Could Have Prevented.”

What Would The Victorians Say?

If the Victorians time-travelled to our time, would they question why so many Americans over 60 years old wear diapers, need walkers, and live in nursing homes? Would they advise us to reevaluate what we accept as truth from those we consider “experts?”

Would they travel back to their time as quickly as possible? Would they ask if we wanted to join them?

What if returning to the Victorian ideal meant eating nutrient-rich, unrefined, non-GMO, organic foods, moving your body, giving up the internet, cell towers and cell phones, and going back to Nature?

Would they ask what happened in 2020?

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