Gary Brecka

I mean, the most bogus of all ICD diagnoses or DSM diagnoses in medicine is oppositional defiant disorder.

Ooh, that's a good one.

I mean, what is that?

I don't know.

A kid disagrees?

The kid doesn't like the fluorescent light desk for seven hours, now you have a diagnosis.

We've medicalized ordinary life.

And when we have a mass societal level of the medicalization of ordinary life, and where we are drugging our nation's kids at scale,

and not talking about the underlying root causes, the types of foods they eat, the importance of natural light, the value of community, the dangers of screen addiction.

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.

And I think that every parent that's listening to this just wholeheartedly agrees and is so thankful now that we have Food and Drug Administration that's actually listening and doing things.

But in terms of specific line items that you're addressing,

The problem is so vast, you have to start somewhere, right?

And so how do you start slowing the ship and changing direction?

Because the Food and Drug Administration is not an independent, all-encompassing entity.

I mean, you're fit into this governmental framework, the Department of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health.

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.

And can you talk a little bit about specifically where are we going from a nutritional perspective, dietary guidelines, food pyramids, things that the masses can actually begin to rely on to make reasonable choices for food choices?