I don't think it's a pharma line exactly, but an easier way of explaining things. Not everyone can follow along when you discuss the issues of seritonin and the synaptic gap direclty. "Dumbed down" perhaps, but not necessarily pharma.

I think it's important for a health care provider to be understanding of all types of treatment. Both holistic and non-holistic. For example, I had my first son naturally by the Bradley method (which is all natural without meds.) Everyone around me said i was crazy. But my instructor was a woman who had three sons. The first she had an epidural, the second she had naturally, but the third she had by c-section. In her instruction she made it very clear that if in the end you needed meds or a c-section that you weren't a failure, you weren't less of a woman, and you weren't less of a mom because the important thing is a healthy baby and a healthy mom at the end of the day. This is the mindset you need in a healthcare provider.

However, my original OB/GYN for that son, I told her I was doing the Bradley method and she said, "Are you a farm animal? Because that method is for farm animals." That was my last appointment with her.