Dr. Marty Makary

That's not bad. That's not saying that we're not getting cut on Medicare, but- The healthcare system is more than just fighting for more money for your own special interest.

You know, maybe we need to be treating more diabetes with cooking classes instead of just throwing insulin at people. We are the most over-medicated generation in the history of the world, right? And so we can keep treating high blood pressure with first line after second line, or we can start talking about sleep quality and stress management. And this is the new movement now in medicine.

You know, maybe we need to be treating more diabetes with cooking classes instead of just throwing insulin at people. We are the most over-medicated generation in the history of the world, right? And so we can keep treating high blood pressure with first line after second line, or we can start talking about sleep quality and stress management. And this is the new movement now in medicine.

You know, maybe we need to be treating more diabetes with cooking classes instead of just throwing insulin at people. We are the most over-medicated generation in the history of the world, right? And so we can keep treating high blood pressure with first line after second line, or we can start talking about sleep quality and stress management. And this is the new movement now in medicine.

It's a real tension to address these giant blind spots. The microbiome is one of them. Food is medicine, general body inflammation, all the stuff that you've been teaching the public and the medical community about for a long time now. The microbiome may be the central organ to health. But it has no center at the NIH.

It's a real tension to address these giant blind spots. The microbiome is one of them. Food is medicine, general body inflammation, all the stuff that you've been teaching the public and the medical community about for a long time now. The microbiome may be the central organ to health. But it has no center at the NIH.

It's a real tension to address these giant blind spots. The microbiome is one of them. Food is medicine, general body inflammation, all the stuff that you've been teaching the public and the medical community about for a long time now. The microbiome may be the central organ to health. But it has no center at the NIH.

There's a little tiny unit, and I talked to the person who runs it, and they're massively underfunded. But the microbiome trains the immune system, digests food, produces vitamins. It's involved in mood because some of the bacteria produce serotonin. It even regulates estrogen. It deconjugates estrogen into an active form. Now you're sounding like a functional medicine doc there, Marty.

There's a little tiny unit, and I talked to the person who runs it, and they're massively underfunded. But the microbiome trains the immune system, digests food, produces vitamins. It's involved in mood because some of the bacteria produce serotonin. It even regulates estrogen. It deconjugates estrogen into an active form. Now you're sounding like a functional medicine doc there, Marty.

There's a little tiny unit, and I talked to the person who runs it, and they're massively underfunded. But the microbiome trains the immune system, digests food, produces vitamins. It's involved in mood because some of the bacteria produce serotonin. It even regulates estrogen. It deconjugates estrogen into an active form. Now you're sounding like a functional medicine doc there, Marty.

I think at heart I want to be one, but I don't have the expertise on which foods and vitamins. But what I'm interested in as almost a journalist within the medical profession is we have new, exciting research that relates to every disease process, every specialty, and it gets almost no attention. And this one study by the Mayo Clinic-

I think at heart I want to be one, but I don't have the expertise on which foods and vitamins. But what I'm interested in as almost a journalist within the medical profession is we have new, exciting research that relates to every disease process, every specialty, and it gets almost no attention. And this one study by the Mayo Clinic-

I think at heart I want to be one, but I don't have the expertise on which foods and vitamins. But what I'm interested in as almost a journalist within the medical profession is we have new, exciting research that relates to every disease process, every specialty, and it gets almost no attention. And this one study by the Mayo Clinic-

I think maybe the most significant study of the last 10 years, in my opinion, that got almost no attention. They looked at 14,000 kids and compared kids who got antibiotics in the first couple years of life compared to kids who did not.

I think maybe the most significant study of the last 10 years, in my opinion, that got almost no attention. They looked at 14,000 kids and compared kids who got antibiotics in the first couple years of life compared to kids who did not.

I think maybe the most significant study of the last 10 years, in my opinion, that got almost no attention. They looked at 14,000 kids and compared kids who got antibiotics in the first couple years of life compared to kids who did not.

And the kids who got antibiotics in the first few years of life went on to have higher rates of chronic diseases. They had a 20% higher rate of obesity, a 21% higher rate of learning disabilities. Mm-hmm. a 32% higher rate of attention deficit disorder. All these things are on the rise. 90% higher rate of asthma, almost a 300% increase in celiac disease. All these diseases are going up.

And the kids who got antibiotics in the first few years of life went on to have higher rates of chronic diseases. They had a 20% higher rate of obesity, a 21% higher rate of learning disabilities. Mm-hmm. a 32% higher rate of attention deficit disorder. All these things are on the rise. 90% higher rate of asthma, almost a 300% increase in celiac disease. All these diseases are going up.

And the kids who got antibiotics in the first few years of life went on to have higher rates of chronic diseases. They had a 20% higher rate of obesity, a 21% higher rate of learning disabilities. Mm-hmm. a 32% higher rate of attention deficit disorder. All these things are on the rise. 90% higher rate of asthma, almost a 300% increase in celiac disease. All these diseases are going up.

We're messing up the microbiome. That was the mechanism believed to the end, which how the antibiotics worked to induce the increased risk of these diseases. And how can you look at that and say, yeah, let's ignore that. There's nothing there. We may have Because there's no pill, Marty, to fix it. There's no statin for the microbiome. No pharma company CEO gets rich. But it's amazing now.