The School of Greatness
Dr. Mark Hyman: How To Reclaim Your Health In A Food System Designed To KILL You
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
Welcome back to the School of Greatness. Today, I sit down with renowned physician and 15-time New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman to uncover the shocking truth about America's health crisis and food system. Dr. Hyman reveals how our modern food industry is literally designed to make us sick, with 6 out of 10 Americans now suffering from chronic disease. But there's hope - through simple dietary and lifestyle changes, we can take back control of our health. Dr. Hyman shares inspiring patient success stories, breaks down exactly what's wrong with our food system, and provides practical steps anyone can take to start healing their body naturally. This conversation is a wake-up call about the state of our health and an empowering guide to reclaiming control of your wellbeing.Skip the waitlist and get EARLY access to Dr. Hyman's Function Health! Use the code GREATNESS100In this episode you will learn:The shocking truth about how 90% of the $4.1 trillion spent on healthcare in America goes to treating preventable chronic diseasesWhy ultra-processed foods are driving the epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer - and how to eliminate them from your dietThe five essential steps anyone can take to start reversing chronic illness and optimizing their health naturallyHow belly fat acts as a "toxic organ" in your body and the most effective ways to eliminate itWhy getting healthy is a team sport and how to build the right support system for sustainable lifestyle changesFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1695For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. David Perlmutter – greatness.lnk.to/1693SCDr. William Li – greatness.lnk.to/1410SCGlucose Goddess – greatness.lnk.to/1575SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What is the shocking statistic about chronic disease in America?
Six out of ten Americans will have a chronic disease in their lifetime.
Is that correct? No. Six out of ten Americans today have a chronic illness. Six out of ten have it now.
We went from a relatively healthy nation to one of the sickest nations in the world. Do you believe our food system is designed to help us heal or to kill us? Oh, that's easy.
It's designed to kill us. Physician and wellness expert, Dr. Mark Hyman.
14 New York Times bestsellers, none other than Dr. Mark Hyman.
We're spending more and more money. It's $1 to $5 in our economy. We're pouring more and more drugs on everybody, getting sicker and sicker. Nobody's asking why. I'm sorry. If another country was doing to our kids what we're doing, we'd go to war to protect them.
What would you say are three to five things that could help someone reclaim their health and end chronic illness forever in their family? That's a beautiful question. I mean, I thought a lot about it. Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness. I'm very excited about our guest. We have the inspiring Dr. Mark Hyman in the house. Good to see you, sir. Good to see you, buddy.
Welcome back to the show. We've got a crazy stat here. You've got 15 New York Times wrestling books. You've got amazing businesses, podcasts that are helping millions of lives around the world understand their health and understand what's causing them to get sick and unhealthy. That's right.
And there's a stat that I saw online that said nearly 90% of the $4.1 trillion spent on healthcare in America each year is attributed to chronic disease. My first question to you is, do you believe our food system is designed to help us heal or to kill us?
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Chapter 2: How is the food system designed to affect our health?
100%.
It wasn't starting out that way, Louis. I mean, we had, after World War II, a need to feed a hungry growing population around the world. And so the huge push to industrialize agriculture, to produce more calories, more starchy carbohydrate calories that could feed a growing hungry world. And the unintended consequence of that was two things. One, producing massive amounts of sugar and starch.
We actually have about 500 calories more per person in America than we did in 1970. Wow. Two, we also increased the amount of starch and sugar. And three, we industrialized agriculture in a way that has destroyed the environment because of the tillage that's destroyed the soil. The soil, yeah.
That is now, you know, one third of all the carbon in the atmosphere comes from the loss of soil carbon, which is the life in the soil. We destroyed our rivers and waterways because of the runoff from nitrogen that's caused eutrophication and has dead zones the size of New Jersey and in the Gulf of Mexico. There's 400 around the world of those that feed a half a billion people. What's a dead zone?
Dead zone means when you have too much fertilizer in the water, it makes the algae grow, sucks all the oxygen out of the water, and all the fish die. That's a dead zone.
Dead fish.
There's no fish. Dead fish. And so people are depending on that fish to live. And then, you know, we have the pesticides and the glyphosate, which is destroying this whole microbiome, our microbiome. It causes cancer. And so we have all these downstream consequences, not to mention how horrific factory farming is. So the whole industrial food system from field to fork is completely effed.
And I've actually had a nonprofit called Food Fix Campaign that's based on my book Food Fix that was entitled How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, and Our Planet and Our Communities One Bite at a Time. And it was really laying out from peel to fork what's wrong with our food system, with our food policies. And, you know, we really have to address this because it's why we've gone from, you know,
a relatively healthy nation, if you look even back in the 70s, you know, you can't... Pretty healthy, pretty fit. Yeah, I mean, you can't see that many overweight people. Now you can't find a skinny person. You know, like, if you look at the data, we've gone from, you know, about 5% to 10% obesity when I was born to now 42%.
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Chapter 3: What are the main contributors to America's health crisis?
Chapter 4: What steps can individuals take to reclaim their health?
We're in the boiling water right now. We are. And right now, probably, we're talking about the... you know, the economy and inflation. I mean, probably there's $2 trillion added to our federal deficit every year because of unnecessary health care costs because of what we're eating and because of environmental toxins and because of our lifestyle that are totally fixable. And what's happened is,
You know, companies develop, they create products, they make money, and then they keep wanting to do that. And so if you're making cigarettes, you want to sell more cigarettes. If you're making sugar, you want to sell more sugar. Or if you're selling Kellogg's Fruit Loops, you want to sell more Fruit Loops, right? And so there's only so much that you can do.
So you have to get people to eat more and more of the same stuff. There's only so many people on the planet. And in the food industry, it's the number one industry on the planet. And if you look at the full industry from farming to food processing to fast food to processed food to the restaurant industry and in grocery stores, it's the number one industry on the planet.
It employs more workers than anybody else. And so it's a huge economic driver. And There's an incredible set of insights that have now come out of the World Health Organization that I wrote about in my book, I didn't call it this, but essentially it's what they were talking about, called the commercial determinants of health.
We've all heard about the social determinants of health, which is if you're poor, access to food, if you're stressed, if you have trauma, if you live in tough neighborhoods, understand all that plays a huge role in our risk of illness. But the commercial determinants of health is the role that multinational corporations play in subverting public health and privatizing profits.
And they will do it at any cost. They're amoral. They're not immoral. They're amoral. So Coca-Cola just wants to sell more Coca-Cola, right? Of course, they don't feed it to their kids. Right, right. Yeah. If you go into this Coca-Cola building in Atlanta, they don't really drink a lot of Coke. They drink all the other products, like water. Darsani and they're not, yeah.
It's kind of, you know, like Steve Jobs wouldn't let his kids use an iPhone or an iPad, right? So I think there's something we know about that. And I think, so we now have a whole industry that profits off of doing the wrong thing. And governments are now paying the price, right? So we socialize the cost and we privatize the profits, right? We taxpayers are paying the price, right?
One, with government money, we pay for farming crop insurance that subsidize commodity crops like corn, soy, and wheat. that are turned into ultra-processed food that are deconstructed science projects. They're not actually food by definition. Food by definition is something that supports the growth and development of an organism. This doesn't do that. It makes you sick, right?
So they're not actually food. And it's then turned into all sizes and shapes and colors of chemically extruded food. food-like substances that we are consuming. It's 60% of our diet. It's 67% of kids' diet. And it's dysregulating our biology. It's screwing up our microbiome. It hijacks our brain chemistry. It hijacks our metabolism. It creates inflammation in the body.
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