John Mellencamp
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Listen, I was in New York once with a girl, and I went to the doctor with her.
And she was getting a physical, and she wanted me to go, so I went with her.
And she went to the best doctor in New York City.
And I found myself alone with that doctor.
And I said, so the doctor in Bloomington just put me on metformin.
What's the side effects for metformin?
And this guy, Joe, the guy, he went longevity.
And he said, if it was up to me, I'd put the entire United States on metformin and a statin because the fucking food we eat is terrible.
And he just said the human body was not meant to eat this crap.
My mom died of diabetes.
So I was always borderline and I'm still borderline and this was โ Did she get type 1 or type 2?
Well, she started out with two, and then she paid no attention to it, wouldn't take her medicine.
We'd drive by Krispy Kreme, and she'd go, don't tell your dad.
And she'd get a half a dozen Krispy Kremes and eat them, and it's just like, hmm.