I don’t your pharmacist would approve of you downing an entire bottle of crushed pills but you be you

well … most of them … we’ve had a few “unhealthy” medicines over the years …

Medicines don’t really make you healthy though, they fix you up when you’re unhealthy.

healthy is more of a modifier that narrows down the categorization of what we’re discussing, less often used as a highlight of an intrinsic property. also there’s the fact that medications are often saddled with less than ideal side-effects and are resorted to only as a trade-off where the issues caused are less deleterious to a patient than the issues they address, so not even they are intrinsically healthy. The reason healthy food is a concept is because the majority of people have a tendency to enjoy food that is unhealthy.

I don’t think I agree with you on this. Medicines may be a way to treat illness, but if we’re talking about health as a state of being as in, without the need for medical intervention, then I would have to say that the things that have the most direct impact are food and access to food, activity level, and environmental factors such as air and water quality and housing. But anyways!