Brigham Buhler
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 27 Feb
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And then you hire a bunch of type A, young, hungry kids. You train them up, you put them into a marketplace and you say, go produce results. And then all of their incentives are not based on patient outcomes. It's based on pushing more drug and product into the marketplace. And so the company's based off that. The quarterly earnings are based off that. The hospital system's based off that.
The medical practice is based off that. Every touchpoint throughout the system has been corrupted and colluded to maximize profits and get patients in and out the door and get them on prescription drugs. And I learned that in my 20s. That was the most jarring thing that I learned. There were times I would go in and meet with doctors and they would go, no, I've got to deal with Pfizer.
Or no, I've got to deal with so-and-so. Or no, that guy just took me on a ski trip. I'm going to use their stuff. And... I was a young, dumb kid. And when I started, I sold Cialis. So the Viagra competitor. So walking in and selling that, you're like Elvis Presley. Seriously, like as a drug rep, it was like a big deal. It was a brand new drug. It had no mega side effects. Everyone loved it.
That means 70% of people on an antidepressant are not getting the results they hoped for.
Oh, it's insane. And for the last 20 years, it's been one of the fastest growing medications prescribed. But yet our deaths of despair are at an all-time high. Depression, anxiety, all-time high. We are chronically mentally ill as a society in addition to physically ill. And treatments that work way better than antidepressants are blocked from the marketplace.
Treatments like, you know, you and I talked about before we started the podcast, like psychedelics, Ibogaine, you know, a product like Ibogaine has an 80 plus percent success rate. One time use.
It's a psychedelic that's been used for over 8,000 years by indigenous cultures. It started on the plains of Africa and now Stanford University is researching it heavily for antidepressant, PTSD, anxiety, sleep, all of it. One time use. Over 80 percent right now. Right now it's at a clinic in Mexico or outside of the United States because it's not legalized yet in the U.S.
But I'm actually working with several different branches of the government and several different thought leaders. Governor Rick Perry is pushing for it. Former governor of Texas.
On MDMA. Okay. Yeah, MDMA. For veterans, right? Even this gets shady because what happens is a bunch of freaking billionaires have gone out and gobbled up these molecules. And so it's an arms race.
Again, even though I'm a big proponent of psychedelics, if we really look at what's going on with the FDA, you got a bunch of billionaires in pissing matches, sabotaging each other's clinical trials and trying to be first to market. They want to be the first to bring MDMA or the first to bring psilocybin or whatever it is because you're talking about a multi-billion dollar industry.
And so if you're first to market, you're going to print cash. And so it's sad because even really promising compounds are falling victim to the same old rhetoric of let's capture it. Let's corporate capture it. Let's monetize it. Let's limit accessibility so we can maximize our profits and control the flow.
I did it for about three years, right out of college.
I was a 21-year-old kid. I had a company car. I got paid $100,000 a year plus bonuses and commissions. I got president's council trips where they flew me to like, well, I'm here in Arizona with you. They, I literally was stated, uh, the Phoenician resort. Yeah. And like, this is like 20 years ago though. So it was like the bomb back then we stayed there and Britney Spears was at the pool.
Like it was wild. And it was always these crazy extravagant trips. If you were a top producer, but candidly, like, You don't see the dark side until you see the dark. Does that make sense?
So I came out and I was selling Cialis and I'm like, this is amazing. All these guys love it. My doctors love me. They're my friends. And I was a top rep in the country going on all these trips, selling a drug that I believed in, a product that people candidly loved and I was getting minimal negative feedback on. And I did so well that they relocated me to Houston, Texas.
where they put me in the Texas Medical Center and they moved me to antipsychotics and antidepressants. And I only did that for about eight months. And the day I started, I'm like, I can't do this.
Because it's products I don't believe in. It's them trying to grow a niche and expand the use of antidepressants and SSRIs. And I'm just looking at the efficacy rate and I'm like, it's trash. Like diet and exercise has way more efficacy for treating depression than any of the SSRIs.
A hundred percent. Yeah, no, a hundred percent. And I know people are looking for an answer, but that's where you've covered this a lot is the food system. I mean, front to back, like my main message in front of the Senate and I, and I stand behind this is we talk about Eisenhower speech and the corporate capture of of our institutions.
And the main thing that people focus on is his speech on the military industrial complex. But the second half of that speech, he warned, if we allow the capture of our scientific industrial complex, and that has happened, what he described and portrayed at that time is what we're living.
The day we allow private interests and special interest groups to control our science and innovation, the garage tinkers, the innovators, the solutions will all disappear and it'll be controlled by corporate capture. And so from our food... to our medical establishments, to our checks and balances, the NIH, the FDA, every check and balance we have has been eliminated.
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