Never seeing a doctor could be why some Brazilians live past 100, says Bryan Hubbard
A small group of Brazilians is baffling anthropologists—they seem to be living forever. There’s Sister Inah, who was recognized as the world’s oldest person until she was brought down in her prime at the age of 116, while one of the men is 113 and still going strong.
The gift of longevity is passed down the generations. A 110-year-old woman has nieces aged 100, 104, and 106, making theirs one of the longest-lived families ever documented in Brazil. The oldest niece, now 106, was still competing as a swimming champion at age 100.
What’s their secret? Researchers from São Paulo University aren’t sure, but they think genetics might be playing a part. Brazil has one of the most diverse genetic profiles in the world—but then that would also be true for the Brazilians who aren’t living to such a ripe old age.1
There’s something else. All the long-livers are in isolated areas of Brazil, far away from doctors and health services. They’ve likely never met a medic in their life, and they certainly didn’t have the Covid jabs. All of this could be the key to living a long and healthy life, as Prof. Cosmic Onion, our resident naysayer, explains.2
He has outlined the eight steps of medicine that ensnare everyone and quicken their death, unless, of course, you’re a Brazilian:
Step 1: The medical diagnosis
A doctor issues a set of words— “You have X” — and instantly a disease exists. A patient is created and a lifetime revenue stream ignites. Everything that follows is downstream from that naming moment.
Step 2: The test
The diagnosis often triggers a series of tests. Each has wide “normal” ranges that move over time, and patterns are matched to pre-written categories. No test produces a disease; they produce measurements. Once the label is applied, the map becomes the territory.
The name becomes the reality.
Every diagnosis and test result becomes a type of spell. We know the power of the mind over matter from the placebo effect, which is healing via meaning. But its dark side is the nocebo, disease via meaning. Modern medicine is built on the latter because fear is more profitable than hope, Prof. Onion reminds us.
Define a condition as chronic, genetic, progressive, and you have a patient for life. Cure the patient, and you lose a revenue stream. The “gold standard” diseases include autoimmune disorders, metabolic syndromes, mood conditions and pre-diseases that blur into diseases. You don’t cure these; you manage them forever.
It used to be germs, then it was chemicals—now medicine is adopting the genetic model of disease. People are told they were born broken, their DNA is a ticking time bomb, and nothing they do can override their blueprint. Only medicine can save them. Once that’s established, they’re locked into psychological dependency and compliance with zero exit doors.
After diagnosis, the patient is subject to repeat visits, follow-up scans, dosage adjustments, newer drugs, specialists, second opinions, invasive tests and procedural interventions. These aren’t separate activities but reinforce one another like gears in an engine.
Language is the prison cell, and people pronounce, “I have arthritis” or whatever disease has been diagnosed. It’s a linguistic twist that turns experience into identity, when actually the arthritis patient should say, “My body is inflamed,” and the phrasing would keep agency intact. Labels steal that agency.
If symptoms aren’t invading monsters, what are they? They’re messages from a body overwhelmed by toxic load, nutritional deficit, chronic mental stress, contamination and the like. But the terrain model is too cheap, too empowering and too effective to be allowed.
So, what to do? Prof. Onion suggests we stop treating labels as truth and instead observe symptoms without adopting them, clean up our environment and treat the body as intelligent rather than defective. Simply asking, “What happens if I wait?” breaks half of medicine’s spells, and choosing curiosity over fear dissolves the other half.
That, or move to Brazil.
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