If Ivermectin Cured Everything, We’d All Be Immortal by Now

Cancer? COVID? Depression? Baldness?
Surely the answer was in a horse paste tube all along.

If the internet is to be believed, ivermectin isn’t just a medication—it’s a miracle.
A pharmaceutical unicorn.
A cure for everything that ails you, and probably some things that don’t.

Got COVID? Ivermectin.
Feeling tired? Ivermectin.
It’s been touted as a miracle cure for everything from COVID to fatigue—even WiFi issues, if social media is to be believed.

🐴 Let’s Be Clear: Ivermectin Is Real Medicine—for Worms

Ivermectin is not fake. It’s a legitimate drug.
It was developed in the 1970s to treat parasitic infections—and in that context, it’s a genuine medical success story. Ivermectin is FDA-approved for treating conditions like river blindness and scabies in humans, and parasitic infections in animals.
It even won a Nobel Prize.¹

But here’s what it doesn’t do:

Cure viral infections like COVID
Shrink tumors
Repair brain chemistry
Regrow hair
Reverse aging
Fix your marriage

No matter how many YouTube “doctors” swear by it.

🤷‍♂️ The Cult of the Cure-All

Let’s be honest—there’s a deep appeal to the idea that one simple, overlooked medicine can cure everything.

It feels like a secret the elites don’t want you to know.
It makes you feel smart for rejecting the mainstream.
It’s cheap, it’s accessible, and it comes in a fun horse-size syringe.

But history has a word for substances that claim to cure everything: snake oil.

📉 What the Evidence Actually Says

When ivermectin was first floated as a COVID treatment, real scientists did what they always do: they studied it.

The first wave of studies? Small, flawed, often retracted.²
The well-run studies that came later? Showed no benefit.

A major meta-analysis published in Cochrane Database—the gold standard of scientific reviews—found no evidence that ivermectin prevents or treats COVID.³
Just a lot of noise, wishful thinking, and misplaced faith.

🧠 When Confidence Outruns Reality

The myth of ivermectin thrives in a strange place: where mistrust of experts meets overconfidence in Google skills.

It’s powered by the same energy that says:

“Sure, epidemiologists have decades of experience and peer-reviewed data, but I watched a 12-minute Rumble video, so…”

This isn’t curiosity. It’s certainty without understanding.
It’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect in pill form.

🧪 Real Medicine Is Boring and Complicated—But It Works

Vaccines didn’t go viral on social media because they weren’t “sexy.”
They weren’t underground. They were… institutional. Regulated. Peer-reviewed.

But they worked.
And they saved millions of lives.

Ivermectin, on the other hand, became a symbol.
Not of medicine, but of rebellion.
And once a drug becomes an identity, it stops being about health.

💬 The Real Danger Isn’t Just a Wasted Dose

Ivermectin probably won’t help your COVID, but it likely won’t hurt you either—if you’re using the human-approved version in reasonable doses.

But that’s not what happened.

People started using veterinary formulations.
People skipped proven treatments.
People got sick. Some died.⁴⁵

Not because ivermectin is poison—
But because misinformation is.

🧍‍♂️ Let’s Be Adults About This

Trusting medical experts doesn’t make you gullible—and rejecting proven treatments doesn’t make you a rebel. It just makes you vulnerable in a confusing world.
You’re not a free thinker for eating horse dewormer.
You’re just a person trying to stay healthy in a confusing world.

And that world gets safer when we stick with science, not memes.
When we trust data, not viral videos.
When we remember that the best medicines come from rigor, not rebellion.

So, no—ivermectin won’t fix your blood pressure, your COVID, your taxes, or your soul.

But if immortality ever does come in a tube…
You can bet it won’t “For horses only” on the label.