Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Did you ever see that movie “The Matrix?”

It’s a scary movie — machines have enslaved all of the humans on earth and they’ve got them liv­ing in giant vats of slime and plugged in basi­cally. The humans think that they’re liv­ing nor­mal lives, but actu­ally, it’s all a dream state pro­grammed in the com­put­ers and fed into their heads. It’s a bad deal

So why am I talk­ing to you about “The Matrix?” Well because I think we’ve cre­ated a matrix of health­care in our coun­try. Some­how we’ve bought into this idea that the health­care is where it’s at. It’s a huge frac­tion of our econ­omy and we want to spend more and more on health­care.

We want more and more health­care, and we’re all tied up in this idea that health care can make us healthy at the same time as we’re get­ting less healthy than ever. It’s some sort of dream that’s being fed to us or that we’ve bought into it. It’s a matrix. It’s not right.

I think that’s wrong. I think that we’re being con­trolled by this matrix when what we really need is, more health, less care.

Now I used to be part of this matrix. I was a doc­tor; I was the CEO of an insur­ance com­pany, but I’m not in the matrix any­more. I’m a well­ness evan­ge­list. I wrote my book “More Health, Less Care,” and I “woke up,” and I’m try­ing to help other peo­ple wake up.

Now just like in the movie “The Matrix,” when peo­ple wake up, life gets harder. And if you wake up, like I did, to break out of the whole health care trap, life does get harder at first.

It is hard to eat healthy in a soci­ety where we’re sur­rounded by unhealthy options being pushed upon us, by every ad you see and every tele­vi­sion com­mer­cial you see.  It’s so nor­mal.

And it’s hard to take con­trol of your own exer­cise reg­i­men and exer­cise when none of your friends are doing it. And it’s hard to man­age your spir­i­tual and emo­tional life in a way to make you a calm, more peace­ful, more con­trolled per­son. It’s very hard, because most peo­ple aren’t doing that. The peo­ple in the matrix are not doing that.

But as you begin to do it more, life gets eas­ier. There are many, many peo­ple across the coun­try who have bro­ken free of the matrix that is enslav­ing most of Amer­ica to live dif­fer­ently and they can help you do it too.

I’m one of them, but there are lots of them. So you can take the one pill and wake up or you can take the other pill and stay in the matrix, the choice is up to you. But you should know, there’s a life out­side the matrix and if you’re will­ing to do it, it just gets bet­ter and bet­ter.