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Yes?
I did not say otherwise?
You said that. And I think there's a difference between feeling better and getting healthy. Feeling better is more about treating the symptoms while getting healthy is about dealing with the underlying issues causing the symptoms.
Those drugs that target symptoms instead of underlying causes still sell well.
Also Alex Jones built up his empire in part by selling "brain pills" that wouldn't do much other than maybe give you lead poisoning, depending on who his source at the time was. Health shit sells as much on hope as it does on results, and with the placebo effect on top of it, people can strongly believe that something that hurts them is actually helping them.