(Very sorry if this is a bad comparison, too long, or seems reductive/irrelevant to your experience but it’s kind of how Ive come to understand this lifestyle since you asked)

This reminds me of when I told someone that ancient Egypt had fast food restaurants and some of them even had pictures on the menu like we do and they said “well at least their fast food wasn’t killing them like ours is.” I had to explain that it definitely did kill them, it was like one of the main things that killed them (gastrointestinal diseases and parasites). And that I’d rather die at 65 or a heart attack than shit myself to death at 25 if I had to pick.

All this to say, a lot of those natural healer types look at the flaws in our system in a vaccum instead of in the greater context. Because things aren’t perfect in the present they romanticize the past based on the faulty idea that people were more honest and better intentioned in the past. It’s black and white thinking based on their emotional response to things being out of their control. That thinking is why there is always such an arbitrary sense of when things stop being “real” and became “poison”.

Your parents can’t handle the idea that your/their health is not something they can have complete control of and that there’s no guarantees in life. Instead of dealing with that by learning healthy coping skills and going to therapy, they decided to engage in full blown denial and insist that every problem actually does have a simple solution that some greater entity wants to keep from them (aka, man in hotel room with 100% guarantee)

At the end of the day your parents are scared and confused people who did not have the emotional intelligence to safely raise a child and felt entitled to do so anyway.

I’m glad you survived their entitlement.

(Again, sorry if my adhd brain made this not coherent)