I do realize the importance of physical fitness and the unfortunate over-reliance on western medicine as well as the lobbying power of big pharma. As an athlete and having worked in the industry for my entire career, I would like to respond to "Angell on Big Pharma" . I take exception to several inaccuracies and misunderstandings in the section under R&D of big pharma particularly innovation and innovation in comparison to academic labs. Bottom line is that drugs are most definitely NOT found in academia. There is a difference between finding interesting new biological targets and disease pathways (most of which need to still be proven) and the work required to research and develop medicines against those biological targets and diseases. The former is academia and the latter is big pharma, but this view has been distorted by Angell and others and has caught the ear of Congress and, as with many other wonderful stories is simply fake news - period. I refer you to this article which can explain better than I can, the facts of R&D and what it takes to make a drug. And until the general population learns to take better care of themselves, we will need drugs and big pharma, along with academic research, for years to come:
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/02/01/rep-ocasio-cortez-and-where-drugs-come-from