Authored and published by Autumn Marshall (Founder & CEO, The Conjuring Mystic Ltd.)© 2024–2025 Autumn Marshall. This essay examines how capitalism, consumerism, and generational trauma converge within the human body as a site of inscription, dependency, and resistance. Writing from the positionality of an African-American woman born in 1994, the analysis traces an interlocking cycle connecting industrial agriculture, bioengineered food, pharmaceutical dependency, healthcare reimbursement structures, debt culture, and media saturation. Drawing upon epigenetic science, political economy, cultural critique, ancestral lineage, and lived experience, the essay argues that food, debt, and entertainment function as socially sanctioned anesthetics—legalized drugs that pacify the body while numbing collective awareness. Through ancestral remembrance and embodied praxis, the essay advances a counter-framework: health as sovereignty, healing as resistance, and the body as the first and most exploited temple. Herbal medicine, fasting, hydration, movement, sunlight, disciplined consumption, and frequency awareness are framed not as lifestyle trends but as ancestral technologies of survival. Ultimately, the essay concludes that true freedom is biological, spiritual, and economic—and that reclaiming the body is the first act of liberation in a system built on extraction.

This essay emerges from the intersection of lived experience, ancestral memory, and interdisciplinary research, positioning the body as both archive and site of resistance. It expands conventional health discourse by examining how food systems, healthcare incentives, consumer culture, and media saturation collectively shape biological and psychological outcomes across generations. Rather than treating illness as individual failure or genetic inevitability, the work reframes health through epigenetics, embodiment, and pattern disruption, emphasizing how repeated environmental inputs—dietary, economic, emotional, and informational—condition long-term well-being. The essay intentionally bridges scientific research with ancestral and spiritual frameworks, arguing that prevention, frequency awareness, and disciplined consumption function as acts of self-governance within systems that profit from dependency. This piece is written as part of a living archive dedicated to reclaiming health sovereignty, restoring bodily literacy, and transforming awareness into measurable practice. It is intended for readers interested in critical health studies, decolonial thought, embodied scholarship, and holistic approaches to healing that integrate biological, spiritual, and socio-economic realities.