by Unbekoming
Unbekoming is an Australian medical researcher. His takes go beyond the commonplace and question “everyone knows” assumptions that have been accepted for so long that their validity is never questioned.
Here is an excerpt from his essay, “Five Walls.” To read the entire article go to
The Five Walls
There are four causes of disease: toxic exposure, nutritional deficiency, electromagnetic radiation, and chronic stress. There are over 70,000 ICD diagnostic codes. The gap between these numbers is where the money is.
More than 350,000 synthetic chemicals saturate modern life. Glyphosate laces the food supply. Heavy metals accumulate in tissues. Endocrine disruptors line food containers, saturate thermal receipt paper, infuse drinking water. Vaccines inject aluminium, mercury, formaldehyde, and foreign proteins directly into the bloodstream beginning within hours of birth. Industrial agriculture strips minerals from soil while processing strips nutrients from what grows in it. Artificial electromagnetic fields blanket the planet at intensities unimaginable a century ago. And the chronic stress of modern existence — compounded by emotional patterns encoded in childhood — depletes the body’s adaptive capacity faster than it can be restored.
The body responds to these insults with symptoms.
Inflammation brings repair resources to damaged tissue. Fever accelerates metabolic clearing. Mucus encapsulates and removes irritants. Fatigue enforces rest so energy can be redirected to healing. Diarrhoea rapidly clears toxins from the digestive tract. Skin eruptions push poisons outward rather than letting them circulate internally. Pain signals that something requires attention. These are not malfunctions. They are the body’s intelligence at work – a system refined over millions of years doing exactly what it was designed to do.
The modern medical system takes these intelligent responses and inverts them. Healing gets labeled as disease. The label generates a billing code. The code justifies a prescription. The prescription suppresses the symptom – which is to say, it chemically interrupts the body’s repair process. The underlying cause continues. New symptoms emerge. These receive new labels, new codes, new prescriptions. The child who walked into the clinic with his body intelligently responding to toxic insult walks out as a patient, a customer, whose lifetime value to the pharmaceutical industry runs to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A child eats processed food saturated with glyphosate, artificial colours, and preservatives for years. His body, doing exactly what it evolved to do, initiates a detoxification response. Mucus production increases to flush irritants. Inflammation rises to repair damaged tissue. A fever develops to accelerate metabolic clearing. His mother, frightened by the symptoms, takes him to the doctor. The doctor delivers a diagnosis: respiratory infection, or allergic rhinitis, or asthma – depending on which symptoms present most prominently and which billing code applies. The diagnosis triggers a prescription. The prescription – an antibiotic, an antihistamine, a steroid, or all three – suppresses the symptoms. The child feels better, which is to say: his body’s repair mechanisms have been chemically interrupted.
The toxins that provoked the response remain. The underlying damage continues. Weeks or months later, new symptoms emerge. The antibiotics have disrupted his gut microbiome, producing what will be diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome. The steroids have weakened his immune regulation, producing what will be diagnosed as recurrent infections. The antihistamines have masked an escalating sensitivity that will eventually be diagnosed as severe allergy requiring an EpiPen prescription and lifelong vigilance. Each diagnosis generates treatment. Each treatment generates consequences. Each consequence generates further diagnosis. The child who walked into the clinic with his body intelligently responding to toxic insult walks out as a patient, a customer, whose lifetime value to the pharmaceutical industry runs to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Florence Nightingale understood this over a century ago: “The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.”
The symptoms are real. The suffering is real. What is artificial is the conversion of symptoms into seventy thousand named entities – entities that justify intervention, generate revenue, and ensure the patient remains within the system. A cured patient is a lost customer. A managed patient is an annuity. The language of modern medicine reveals the business model: diabetes is managed, hypertension is managed, depression is managed, arthritis is managed. Never cured. Never resolved. Managed. Billed. Renewed.
This is extraction dressed as healthcare – the systematic transfer of wealth from those experiencing the body’s healing responses to those who have learned to interrupt and exploit them. In the United States alone, healthcare spending exceeds four trillion dollars annually, nearly twenty percent of GDP. Seventy-six percent of American adults are now chronically ill. These two figures are not a paradox. They are cause and effect. The spending does not produce health. It produces customers.
But the extraction requires more than simple profit motive. It requires a population that cannot see what is happening to it. It requires explanatory frameworks that redirect attention from the four actual causes of illness toward explanations that demand medical intervention while protecting industrial interests. It requires walls.
The Architecture
Five concentric walls surround every person born into the modern medical extraction system. The first wall – the innermost circle, encountered from the first hours of life – is vaccination: mass poisoning marketed as prevention. The second is allopathic medicine itself, the inversion that suppresses symptoms while ignoring the body’s intelligent healing responses. The third is bacteriology, the confusion of firefighters with firestarters. The fourth is virology and its twin fiction, contagion – neither yet proven despite a century of trying. The fifth wall – the outermost circle, the final barrier to freedom – is genetics: the claim that your DNA is defective, that disease is destiny, that no environmental factor is responsible for your condition and no solution exists except lifelong pharmaceutical management.
Each wall serves the same function: to redirect attention from the four assaults on human health toward explanations that generate dependence on the medical system. Each wall captures a different population. Many who escape one wall remain held by another. Some who refuse vaccines never question their prescriptions. Some who grasp the terrain paradigm still believe viruses spread through populations. Some who reject every pharmaceutical intervention accept a genetic diagnosis without hesitation.
The awakening moves from inside out. Escape the first wall and you still face four more. Escape four walls and the fifth – the outermost, the one disguised as identity – still contains you. The extraction requires only that you accept one wall, any wall, to keep you as a customer. The architecture is designed so that the wall you never question is the wall that holds you.
What follows is a tour of the prison. The key is already in your hand: four causes, not seventy thousand diseases. The body heals; it does not malfunction. Symptoms communicate; they do not attack. Hold that key and each wall becomes visible for what it is – not protection, not science, not identity, but containment.
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