Thread by @JohnConstas

Confession: I used to work for Big Pharma

But when something eye-opening happened to me

I was forced to “switch sides”

I’ve got a pit in my stomach typing this...

Honestly scared to share this on the Internet

But it has to be done, so here we go:

THREAD

We’d all love to live in a "perfect world", right?

A world where we're all happy, healthy and stress free

But it's just not how the modern world works

Even me, the “Health Guy”

I’ve had a tons of health issues

So get ready for my most intimate post yet👇

Picture yourself watching a great movie

Or playing a video game

You know the feeling when eerie music is playing

And you know something bad is about to happen?

That’s how I used to feel. 24/7.

No bad thing was actually happening

But that's how anxious I used to be, daily

From the outside, I looked like I had my sh*t together

"Great" pharma job
Penthouse apartment
Gym daily

But inside, I felt like an empty shell, going through the motions

My stress caused anxiety -> anxiety caused stress

It robbed me of my energy

A never-ending loop

I remember walking through life in a haze

Constantly asking myself

If I’m doing all the right things, why do I feel like crap?

Was totally confused

Why don't I have ANY energy?

Why am I so on edge all the time?

And sleep?

Bro...

Don’t even get me started on sleep

Every night, I laid in my bed for 8, even 9 hours

But I woke up so many times

My mind was like a record playing at 2x speed

Uncontrollable thoughts about stuff I couldn't control

Things that could go "wrong"

I just couldn’t let go enough to sleep deeply

So when my iPhone alarm went off every morning...

I didn’t “wake up”

It was more like I went from a half asleep haze…

To being half awake

Then I’d go through the day in zombie mode, again

& man, I was getting tired of being tired

I needed a way out of this waking nightmare

So like any normal guy would do…

I went to the doctor

I opened up to this guy, reluctantly

He just sat there, typing on some old computer

Then, with a bunch of fluff words, he basically said

“It’s all in your head”

What?!?!

I left there PISSED OFF at how little he cared

Remember, I was working for big pharma back then

I fully trusted the system, the only real "science"

Maybe this guy was just a bad apple

So I went to see one more

Then one more

Then one more

The same BS, doctor after doctor

Pills, pills, more pills

“It’s all in your head”

“Eat a balanced diet”

I just snapped

And started to realize that:

It’s not how humans have lived for millions of years

Our ancestors never shovelled pills down their throats

So why should I live like that to feel normal?

It's not like I wasn't open-minded

Thing is... lots of family & friends we’re already on SSRIs

Prozac, Paroxetine, you name it

Best outcome? They became numb.

No downs... but no ups (and often no libido)

Many felt WORSE on all those pills

For me?

I became hopeless, fed up

Fed up to the point where I felt forced to go "against" big pharma

Even to join the “other team”

See, Big Pharma can be great for some people

But for most, it really isn’t the answer

I knew I had to look elsewhere

And coincidentally one day…

I drove by a health store

You know, the kind ran by a “naturopath”

They’re supposed to give all natural health advice

Now again, I work for Big Pharma at this point

But they clearly failed me, massively

So, feeling like a HUGE hypocrite, I walk inside this place…

For the 5th time in like 3 weeks

I poured my heart out, this time to a rando who wasn't a doctor

Hoping he would, somehow, get me out of my zombie-state + help me reclaim my energy

I felt hopeful, but extra anxious, feeling like a fraud, betraying pharma and “science”

In my head I was hearing this:

You know John, the guy who grew up around healthcare ?

The guy making good money from big pharma?

Yeah, he doesn’t even believe in that stuff himself!

I saw him in some all natural health store the other day

BEGGING for help, hypocrite!

I got over my fear, and my imposter syndrome

I was burnt out, and my fuse was about to blow

This was my last hope

But to my great surprise?

The naturopath listened --- he HEARD me

Unlike the doctors, he made eye contact!

It felt like an actual human interaction

He asked me profound questions

Then told me about these weird, all natural supplements

I got everything he told me about... then drove home

Hopeful, and skeptical
Feeling like a pharma traitor

I took the supplements EXACTLY as instructed.

I kid you not, within 3 days?

Holy crap!

I felt normal again ---I felt like ME again..

For the first time in a LONG time

My mind started to clear up

The stress of life didn’t stop though…

I could just handle it better

Now, I was excited, but also:

I was like, WTF???

It wasn't my first time taking supplements

I’d taken stuff like fish oil and probiotics

How the hell did all this natural stuff take me from

Crippling Anxiety, Stress & Poor Sleep
to
Energetic and calm

In a matter of DAYS?

I swear it felt like magic

Of course it wasn't ONLY supplements

I improved my nutrition

I completely changed how I exercised

And a bunch of other things I'll save for another thread, since this one is getting long...

But anyway....

The best way I could describe it is:

Before, I was like a car that was breaking down

And after taking the natural supplements…

While it wasn’t perfect…

It felt like every day my tank was slowly filling up

A week after, I had a whole new set of habits and routines

I remember looking back at how I was before

And just being AMAZED at how much I changed…

In just A WEEK, maybe 10 days, just wow

That's when I went DEEP down the rabbit hole

Imagine what I could do if I took it further?

And that was the first spark for me

I IMMERSED myself in natural and functional medicine

I wanted to learn EVERYTHING

So for months, I studied:

Books, courses, videos, even "gurus”:

I absorbed it all

The deeper I went, the better I felt

I unlearned as much stuff as I learned...

And my life improved, every week

My sleep was back!

No more Zombie-me!

I started to feel full of life again

I had the energy of a child in a huge playground

And slowly but surely…

I started to attract a different set of people

I left the pharma industry

And joined a company that provided natural solutions to open-minded doctors all over Canada

(Unlike the Doctors who failed me earlier)

Then in 2019…

My DEEP need to share this natural health knowledge?

It grew and grew

It started off as a passion project here on Twitter

And before I knew it?

People started reaching out to me for 1-on-1 help

Their stories were similar to mine: low energy, poor sleep, high stress…

That’s when I realised I wasn’t alone.

If you feel like:

There’s no end to your pain
The system is against you

Or even worse…

You feel like you have to take pills, forever...

Just know, that wasn’t true for me or my clients

And it may not be true for you, either

Returning to a natural way of living can completely transform your life

You can improve your biology & your genes

It’s never too late - you can be 30, 42, 55 to even 78

You deserve to feel your best for yourself...

And the people in your life that depend on you

I want this thread to touch people going through hard times.

I want them to know they’re not alone.

So if you can?

Please give it a retweet:

https://twitter.com/johnconstas/status/1437941664014798855

Here is the sequel to this mini-thread where I reveal my past working for “big Pharma:

https://twitter.com/johnconstas/status/1437569417219608584