TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - Episode #698

"How the Money Printer Hijacked Your Health" with Dr. Ahmad Ammous

Host: Marty Bent
Guest: Dr. Ahmad Ammous
Date: December 27, 2025

Overview

This episode explores how fiat currency and the central banking system have fundamentally corrupted modern medicine. Host Marty Bent and guest Dr. Ahmad Ammous, a practicing physician and writer on ‘fiat medicine,’ discuss the historical and present-day mechanisms through which monetary policy and financial incentives shape health care. They examine the monopolization of medicine by pharmaceutical interests, the marginalization of alternative therapies, the perverse incentives driving the system, and how a potential Bitcoin standard could restore sanity and patient-centered care.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction: Fiat Money and the Medical System

• Marty opens by connecting themes from previous episodes about corruption in medical peer review to Dr. Ammous’ expertise on ‘fiat medicine’.

  “Fiat medicine, it’s your term for what you think is wrong with healthcare. Let’s just walk through the thesis. How does fiat money specifically corrupt medicine at the root level?” [00:42]

• Dr. Ammous explains the evolution of medicine over the past century, tracing its corruption and centralization to fiat money and government intervention via the Federal Reserve.

  “Medicine the way it is right now is not how medicine was practiced 100 years ago... All of these problems started in the early 1900s.” [01:22]

2. The Pharmaceutical Takeover and Its Consequences

• Monopolization: The American Medical Association & Flexner Report (early 1900s) centralized medical education around pharmaceutical approaches, eliminating alternative modalities (e.g., homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy).

  “More than 60% of US medical schools were shut down in the early 1900s.” [08:15]

• Suppression of Alternatives:

  "Currently, anyone who discusses natural ways of treatment is simply labeled as a quack. And we've lost all of that knowledge, unfortunately." [10:34]

• Pharmaceutical Influence: Corporate funding of research and medical guidelines leads to overmedicalization and dangerous drug dependency.

  “Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the United States..." [03:07] "All these journals are funded by the pharmaceutical industry." [05:11]

3. Medical Education and Patient Care: What's Gone Wrong?

• Lack of Nutrition Training:

  "Nutrition is basically an overthought, an afterthought... I had 40 minutes, one lecture that's 40 minutes long of nutritional education my entire medical career." [11:41–11:58]

• Doctors as Victims of the System:

  “Doctors tend to be some of the unhealthiest people you meet... They live in a plane where your daily choices don't matter.” [12:16]

• Lifestyle Medicine is Sidelined:

  "Nobody looks at lifestyle, nobody looks at natural treatments... The only cure is just a pill." [09:10]

4. Financial Incentives, Centralization, and Coding for Profit

• Profit Before Patients: The convergence of Big Pharma, hospital conglomerates, insurance, and government (e.g., Obamacare) results in a self-serving system.

  "They all sort of have this symbiotic relationship where they're all trying to basically grift and make things as expensive and least effective as possible..." [17:24]

• Medical Guidelines as Control Mechanism:

  “All these societies that write the guidelines are heavily funded by pharmaceutical industry... And these guidelines are actually used to go after physicians." [17:53–19:41]

• Draconian Accountability:

  “If I don't put them on a statin and they get a heart attack... I am legally liable.” [19:09]

5. Universal Healthcare and Price Signals

• Problems with Universal Health Care:

  "This idea of universal healthcare, while it sounds good on paper... this push for universal healthcare is completely corrupting that price signal..." [22:31] "Once you separate the price signals, when you separate it from the free market, there's no way that's gonna work. Then you're just... This is just communism." [24:56]

• Direct Primary Care as an Alternative:

  "All doctors that have branched out of this system are so much happier and their patients are so much happier." [26:06]

6. The Coming Collapse and Rebuilding Healthcare

• Systemic Overload:

  “There is no hospital in the US right now that's not overcapacity. These are all just indications of imminent collapse.” [27:23]

• Reimagining Hospitals:

  “Hospitals are probably the most toxic place to be in currently in the world.” [29:21] “If you can just heal yourself by staying in your bed, you're probably better off... than going to the hospital..." [29:25]

• Design & Environment Matter:

  "Have natural lights from windows, use incandescent bulbs, minimize artificial light..." [31:15]
  “The food is toxic... It’s all heart healthy, so they use vegetable seed oils and it’s all low fat dairy and low fat meat and it’s insane.” [31:55]

• Personal Experience:

  "I would just leave the hospital and go find good healthy food and bring it back. It wasn't even worth taking the slop..." [33:06]

7. Lifestyle Factors: Sunlight, Lighting, Sleep, and Local Diet

Light and Health

• Natural vs. Artificial Light:

  “Some people argue that the light is even more important than the diet.” [34:12] "Blue LED bulbs... only emit a very narrow spectrum of light that does not allow this process to happen efficiently..." [34:58] "Biden administration tried to ban incandescent lights because it hurts the climate.” [36:04]

• Manipulation via Environment:

  “DARPA basically has data that shows that blue light is able to control people by destroying their dopamine levels.” [36:48]

• Prevalence of Screens:

  "Most people never stood a chance.” [58:31]

Diet and Locality

• Weston Price and Traditional Diets:

  "The most helpful resource I found to understand diet is the work of this dentist called Weston Price... all these tribes had in common is an animal based diet." [51:08] "Eat whatever grows locally in your environment... if you live in the east coast... you're not going to have pineapples in December..." [52:31] "Eat from a local farmer’s market. Get a good butcher and you are solving 90% of the problems." [54:55]

Sleep and Circadian Rhythm

• Importance of Sleep:

  “Sleep is the most important regenerative phase in your body to try and get rid of inflammation, to get rid of toxicity, to get rid of free radicals.” [57:07] "Fake light that you're exposed to at night disturbs the synthesis of melatonin in your body..." [57:34] "If there's one gadget people should invest in, it's blue blocking glasses...” [59:20]

8. The Role of Bitcoin in Fixing Healthcare

• Decentralizing Funding and Speech:

  “If doctors that want to speak out start getting paid in Bitcoin, then... there doesn’t have to be a third party.” [61:52]

• Supporting Independent Practices:

  “Small doctors can still run their own practices... Once we get on a bitcoin standard...” [63:08]

• Peer Review and Funding via Bitcoin:

  “They’re creating their platforms online, they’re getting funding from bitcoiners, and the future is bright.” [65:25]

• Summary:

  “Once we get rid of this money printer, then... there’s no big enemy that we’re fighting anymore.” [64:15]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the United States these days.”
  — Dr. Ahmad Ammous [03:07]
• "All these problems started in the early 1900s... Only pharmaceutical medicine was allowed to prosper. Only medical schools teaching pharmaceutical medicine were allowed to continue their practice. And everything else was shut down."
  — Dr. Ahmad Ammous [02:09]
• “There is no hospital in the US right now that’s not overcapacity... These are all just indications of imminent collapse.”
  — Dr. Ahmad Ammous [27:23]
• "Once we get rid of this money printer, then... there’s no big enemy that we’re fighting anymore."
  — Dr. Ahmad Ammous [64:15]
• "The future is bright. It is a white pill — the only pill I'd like to take here."
  — Marty Bent [65:38]

Timeline of Key Segments

• [00:42] – Defining “Fiat Medicine” and overview of corruption in medicine
• [06:12] – The Flexner Report and the Rockefeller Foundation’s influence
• [11:41] – Problems with medical education (nutrition, lifestyle neglect)
• [14:31] – Financial incentives that distort healthcare priorities
• [17:53] – Pharmaceutical capture of medical guidelines
• [22:31] – Critique of universal healthcare and the need for price signals
• [27:23] – Signs of collapse in the current medical system
• [29:21] – Hospitals as toxic environments, environmental design, and food
• [34:12] – The role of natural light, artificial light, and DARPA data
• [51:08] – Diet advice, Weston Price’s research, eating local
• [56:30] – Sunlight, circadian rhythms, and sleep’s connection to health
• [61:52] – The potential for Bitcoin to decentralize and savior healthcare
• [64:32] – Distributed peer review and Bitcoin bounties

Dr. Ahmad Ammous’ Practical Advice for Listeners

• Diet:
  “The most helpful resource I found to understand diet is the work of... Weston Price... the ideal human diet should be built around animal protein and fat... Eat from a local farmer’s market. Get a good butcher...”
• Light & Sleep:
  “Aim for at least 10 minutes of morning sunlight before it's 10 am... After sunset, wear blue blocking glasses...”
• Taking Action:
  “If you don’t have doctors you trust locally, look for direct primary care or reputable voices online. Avoid relying exclusively on Google or ChatGPT for health decisions.”
  — [49:28]
• Bitcoin’s Role:
  “Doctors who want to speak out start getting paid in Bitcoin... Small practices can become viable... Decentralized funding and peer review is the future.”

Further Resources

• Follow Dr. Ahmad Ammous:
  • X/Instagram: @MooseMD
  • Website & Newsletter: amoosemd.com
• Recommended Books:
  • “Murder by Injection” by Eustace Mullins
  • Work of Dr. Jack Kruse on light and health
  • “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston Price

By distilling the episode’s history, personal stories, practical advice, and Bitcoin optimism, this summary offers a clear roadmap for reclaiming personal and collective health in a world warped by fiat incentives.