Gary Brecka
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We have got to do something different.
The pendulum has swung so far.
We are one of the largest, if not the largest, spender on healthcare worldwide.
We're one of the sickest, fattest, most disease ridden nations in the world.
42% of our children having at least one chronic disease.
We don't have a lot of education around whole foods.
We know that there's a lot of corruption in our nutritional research, which leads to things like poor food pyramid advice and nutritional guidelines.
We've medicalized ordinary life and where we are drugging our nation's kids at scale and not talking about the underlying root causes.
And we ignore all those issues.
And all we do is we give doctors a prescription pad and a surgical knife and say, go to work, fix all these problems.
You're going to have a dysfunctional system.
And that's where we are today.
We're very good at disease management and symptom maintenance.
We're not very good at disease prevention.
Your intention is to try to keep people out of the system because we know that once they're in the system, they just continue to progress.
You have to have a sense of mission that you want to address a broken system.
My number one priority is to deliver more cures and meaningful treatments and healthier food for children.
And we're getting stuff done.
In a perfect world, what would you like to see accomplished by our FDA for the betterment of the population?
Look, our legacy, I hope, will be