America’s Food Supply Is Rigged—Here’s How to Opt Out | Vani Hari & Dr. Shebani Sethi
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What is the number one cause of death today?
Coming up on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show. I'm just going to say it really clearly, unambiguously. Altered processed food is the number one cause of death in the world today, period. This is not my opinion. This is from the Global Burden of Disease Study of 195 countries. The data is very clear. Too much of that crap and not enough real food. You know, I often remind people that sleep is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. It impacts your energy, focus, metabolism, and overall health. You might not know this, but poor sleep used to dominate my life, leaving me exhausted and unable to function at my best. That all changed with sleep breakthrough from Bioptimizers. These capsules are scientifically formulated to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling truly rested. Unlike other products, Sleep Breakthrough doesn't contain melatonin, so there's no grogginess or side effects. They're designed with clinically optimized dosages and are perfect for travel or anyone who prefers capsules over powders.
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So let's talk about what exactly are ultra processed foods? What are the characteristics? How do we define them? Well, there's something called Nova classification. I'll get into a minute, but essentially it's deconstructed food. Basically take raw materials from things like corn, wheat, and soy. You deconstruct them chemically in a lab. all structurally alter them. So they're not actually the same chemical structure. And our body, remember, gets messages from the outside environment and regulates this biology through chemical signals that depend on the structure and shape of the molecule to create a signal in the body that does good or bad, right? This is really important. So these are funky, weird, Franken molecules.
And then they're turned into food-like substances that come in every color, size, and shape of chemically-distributed yuck, okay? Now, they're super energy dense usually. They're high in calories. They have pretty much no nutritional value usually. They're high in sugar. I mean, they may have added vitamins. You get your cereal or Froot Loops with added vitamins. Well, that's not exactly a health food. They are high in sugar. They can come from all different sources. High fructose corn syrup, dextrose, maltodextrin, cane sugar, fructose. There's a million different names of sugar. You can Google it and see. I'll put a link to all the different kinds of names of sugar, but they hide the names of sugar on the label so you get confused.
It doesn't just say sugar. It's also high in refined grains. So these are highly pulverized grains, mostly wheat, that are chemically altered and are not resembling their original form. And they're maybe from corn, from wheat, from beans like soy. Also high in unhealthy fats, usually trans fats still on the market, refined oils and so forth. They contain often excess salt. They're hyper palatable. They're easy to overeat. They're low in fiber, typically low in protein. They're low in vitamins and low in minerals.
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