My Eyes Were Burning... [GreenMedInfo's Crazy Origin Story]

Back when GreenMedInfo.com was little more than just a good idea, and I was spending most my evenings, after coming home from my day job, eyes glued to an old cathode-ray computer screen in my garage in Bonita Springs, FL, copying and pasting abstracts within an old HTML web framework, I never really thought about how much time it would take me to create the world's most widely referenced, evidence-based health resource that you have before you today.

When you are deeply committed and in love with what you are doing, time simply doesn't figure into the equation. You just do what needs to be done, then move on to the next task! 

Just like a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step, I would just read one study abstract at a time on Pubmed.gov, which over a decade included reviewing close to a million of these, carefully pulling out the clinical pearls on the science of natural healing, which presently comprises our database of 85,000+ abstracts across 10,000+ distinct categories. Yes, that's 10,000+ topics to empower you with!

Each study that made it onto our database is truly a marvel to behold, as far as validating that Nature does it best when it comes to disease prevention and treatment. Each one, I savored as if a precious gift to the world, and which was made forever sharable on GreenMedInfo.com (a gift that keeps giving!) 

Had I realized the toll this project would take on my eyes, and body, when it was all said and done, and that somehow this rather benign task would make me the target of my own government, claiming that simply by housing peer-reviewed research on the dangers of pharmaceuticals we are "killing people with misinformation," and are now being labeled "domestic extremists" for being advocates of natural health and informed consent, I am not sure I would have continued. Would you have?

But now, having the full benefit of hindsight, knowing that literally hundreds of millions of people have used GreenMedInfo.com to support their right to informed medical choices, and realizing how few sources exist that provide access to this primary literature, without which we can not make good decisions about our health and well-being, I do not regret a thing about where I put my energy and time after all these years.

That said, I am tired. Tired of the attacks, and the technological hurdles required to stay alive on the web, after being deplatformed across the entire Big Tech stack, since the great censorship purge of natural medicine began in 2019. I have ran a marathon, before, but sometimes just keeping GreenMedInfo.com afloat, feels like it requires more endurance and commitment than running those 26 miles non-stop.

Keeping a newsletter going, that is entirely free to our subscribers, on a website that does not present advertisements to its users (because we do not wish to color your experience with conflicts of interests or products we do not endorse), carries incredibly high costs. Our email service provider charges us over $100,000 a year to send the 150 million emails to our users, across the over 200+ countries that subscribe to our free service.

The phrase "nothing is free," is actually true when it comes to the way the internet is presently constructed. If you are not paying for a service, as the saying goes, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT, i.e. your privacy and data are being compromised and sold on the open and even black markets, without your full consent. 

We don't participate in the "surveillance capitalism" model, because we value your privacy, and your right to keep your online behavior, and data, to yourself.

Yet, this means we have only one source of revenue which keeps the lights on: your membership fees, donations, and your support of the products and services that exist in our Regenerate Project store, as well as free events we promote year round. In other words, you can help us by helping yourself!

We also would love to accommodate larger gifts, which can be ear-marked towards specific advocacies, given we can expand any aspect of the GreenMedInfo.com's massive, 10,000+ topics upon request. You can contact us directly to let us know your interest in partnering with us in this way here, and we would be happy to keep your support anonymous, or put you on our public wall of deep appreciation, if you feel so charmed. 

If you believe in a future of medicine which includes herbs, foods, vitamins, minerals, and basic lifestyle and mindset practices as the first line of defense against disease, please consider helping us keep GreenMedInfo.com alive and well by joining our REBUILD GreenMedInfo.com campaign. We've been tirelessly serving the world since 2007, and have set a fund-raising goal which will ensure we can update our technological infrastructure to keep us healthy, but growing and expanding in ways we can best help the world keep the vision alive for a more compassionate, more affordable, more natural system of healthcare.

We are now a little over 10% towards attaining our fund-raising goal. If I had stopped working on GreenMedInfo.com when I was only 10% towards my goal, it would not have evolved to the place it is today. That said, if you stop here, and don't lend a helping hand at time we are most in need of support, I am not sure what the future will hold for us, or humanity as a whole when it comes to health freedom. 

This last part (the funding gap we face) is out of my hands. Only our users and supporters can fill it. Every penny counts, which is why we like to remind those of you who receive this free newsletter that our Friend membership starts at just 30 cents a day, and if everyone on our newsletter made this simple commitment, we'd be well on our way to attaining our crowd-funding goal, which will result in the entire world having a resource which will serve not just our generation, but succeeding ones, long into the future.

Thank you again for everyone who has answered the call. And for those who are about to, I can not fully communicate how grateful I am for your support. But I will certainly try, as evidenced by all the good works that you will soon see follow the successful completion of our campaign. There is a rainbow at the end of this journey, I am certain, and I look forward to meeting you there.

Warm regards,

Sayer Ji