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Encore: Exposing The Flaws In Our Broken Healthcare System | Dr. Marty Makary
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
Do you ever feel like the more meds you take, the worse you feel? The problem might lie in how our healthcare system operates. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Marty Makary to tackle the alarming rise of colon cancer among young people, explore how our microbiome plays a crucial role in preventing chronic diseases, and discuss the unsettling influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical practices. From the impact of antibiotics on children to the hidden dangers of over-medication, we unpack the urgent need for more transparency and a shift towards addressing the root causes of illness. In this episode, we discuss: The alarming increase in colon cancer among young people The microbiome's impact on overall health, from regulating the immune system to influencing mood and metabolism The deep influence of pharmaceutical companies on medical research, education, and policy, often at the expense of patient care The long-term health consequences of early antibiotic use in children The overmedication of Americans, particularly children, and the need for a shift towards addressing root causes of diseases View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal This episode is brought to you by Seed, PerfectAmino, Timeline Nutrition, and LMNT. Seed is offering my community 25% off to try DS-01® for themselves. Visit Seed.com/Hyman and use code 25HYMAN for 25% off your first month of Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic. Get pure essential amino acids today. Go to bodyhealth.com and use HYMAN20 to get 20% off your first order. Receive 33% off your order of Mitopure while supplies last. Go to Timeline.com/HYMAN33 today. Your future self will thank you! Get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any order—just head to DrinkLMNT.com/Hyman.
What are the alarming trends in colon cancer among young people?
Medical school education at every school in the United States is controlled by 19 people that serve on the board of a private company that determines the curriculum of every medical school in the country. And if you want to do something creative, talk about food or inflammation, You got to get back in line. Is this the company that creates the licensing exam? Or is this? AAMC.
They run, yeah, the USMLE.
Yeah.
And so these, and I've talked to deans of medical schools that have said, Marty, I'd love to talk about this stuff. All this stuff you talk about, all this stuff that are in the blind spots of modern medicine. And they say, we can't. Because the students know exactly what their learning objectives are for the boards. Yeah.
And if we teach something else, they're going to skip that class and they're going to focus on memorizing and regurgitating the 55 enzyme names they have to spit out on an exam. Why are we forcing our youngest, brightest, creative, most altruistic minds to regurgitate the names of enzymes that you can look up on a... smartphone.
And so we have this system now where a small group of people are controlling medical education, a small group of people control where the NIH dollars go, and who are funding the big questions central to health. For example, there's a new practice that's taking off of cutting the tongue under infants.
The frenulum, yeah.
The frenulum under the tongue. Sometimes they'll even do the side of the tongue or the frenulum under the inside of the upper lip. It's crazy to me. I have ENT docs that say there's a subset of kids that may benefit.
Well, if you've got your tongue tied, like fully tongue tied.
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