My business partner sent me an email he received about a global detox market report and holy Hannah.
My primary exposure to detox sellers is the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Mark Hyman (who I hate follow on Twitter) who happily sells various detoxes to no doubt desperate patients.
I suppose I could sell them too. There’s nothing stopping me from selling bullshit detox products. Nothing except ethics that is. But you know what I can’t make money selling? Medications. At least not here in Canada where MDs receive zero dollars for prescribing medications and are forbidden from selling them.
But sure looks like bullshit detox products are good business as according that that report,
“The Global Detox Products Market size was estimated at USD 51.75 billion in 2021, USD 55.66 billion in 2022, and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.74% to reach USD 80.96 billion by 2027.”
And that’s just detoxes! As any trip through the pharmacy or “health food store” will tell you, detoxes are only the tip of the supplement iceberg.
All this to say, these sorts of products and promises? I can’t fathom why anyone is legally allowed to sell and make them, let alone why medical doctors don’t get their licenses yanked for peddling them, but the next time you hear a likely purveyor of bullshit cranking on about Big Pharma, please don’t forget, everything is big and that doctors get paid the same amount of money whether or not they write a prescription.