Marty Makary
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939 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
Marty Makary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're going to go into the pipeline, find out what sounds promising, and bring that to the forefront.
The FDA regulates 20% of the U.S.
economy.
And there are so many aspects to the FDA.
And there are so many things broken at the FDA.
If literally we had discovered and announced the cure for cancer, you would have some people say, well, the Trump administration interfered.
They did this too quick.
They did it too slow.
I was in the operating room the day before my Senate confirmation hearing and then immediately plunged into a whole world of working within government to try to make things better.
I came in with my team and we started doing an assessment.
And it was a very different life, although some of the basic principles applied.
And that is challenge deeply held assumptions, make a diagnosis before recommending any treatment option or change, and look at the patterns of dogma to find out where we are doing things just for the sake of doing things, not because it's the right way.
The modern day peanut allergy epidemic, which didn't exist two generations ago, was in part because of a medical dogma magnified by the American Academy of Pediatrics that young kids should avoid peanut butter until they're age three.
They thought they were doing the right thing by saying that to prevent a peanut allergy, just stay away from peanut products early in life.
Turns out they got it backwards.
They forgot about a basic principle in science called immune tolerance.
They never talked to the laboratory scientists who understood immunology.
It turns out that a kid should be exposed to peanut butter at age six months, seven months, as early as a kid can eat in tiny little safe doses.
And that reduces the risk of peanut allergies.
But by going in hard with dogma and no data, it became this perpetual vicious cycle where now it was banned in schools.
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