Gary Brecka
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It didn't matter if it's ultra processed food or cardboard with sugar on it.
It didn't matter.
It's just, you could walk it off.
It was a equation that became the dogma.
And this was what I was taught in medical school.
It's done tremendous damage.
We are finally going to talk about the importance of the quality of whole foods, fruits, vegetables, food that comes from animals that are raised well.
So we're rewriting all that now.
I think it's going to be an amazing moment in American history.
And how soon will the new dietary guidelines be out?
I think within the next two months.
Within the next two months.
Okay.
And is this going to be... I mean, are we going to take the food pyramid out of the ground and flip it over and stick it back in the ground, basically?
I guess, probably.
It's almost like the grains, which are the base now, might become the apex.
Because you said we're going to talk about the importance of proteins.
I mean, and you, having been a surgeon and done work on frailty, I mean, you understand that sarcopenia, age-related muscle wasting, frailty like grip strength, inability to actually support your own weight, these are enormous risks to our elderly population.
I watched it happen in my own father, you know, just...
He broke his humerus getting into the bathtub here over Thanksgiving last year.