Dr. Mark Hyman: Everything You're Eating Is Toxic, and Big Pharma Likes It That Way
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What is the role of Bobby Kennedy in health policy?
So, okay, Bobby Kennedy, your longtime friend, looks like he's going to be the HHS secretary. Assess. Did you think that was going to happen in your lifetime?
Well, not in my lifetime, no. Tucker, we're in this historic moment where, you know, America's waking up to the fact that it's been the frog in boiling water, slowly getting sicker and sicker and sicker, bankrupting our country with almost $5 trillion in healthcare costs, $1.5 of our economy. 80% of it or more is preventable. 99% of Medicare dollars are spent on preventable chronic disease. And never this conversation has happened in the political discourse until now. Which is a little crazy because you hear people talk about health care all the time. Well, they talk about health care as a way of limiting entitlements or Medicare for all.
Exactly. Everybody's upset about health care on some level for some reason, but I haven't heard anybody until recently in the public sphere say, address like why it's so expensive. Right.
How do ultra-processed foods contribute to obesity?
So the question, I know I'm a functional medicine doctor. Yes. My focus is on why. What's the cause? What's the root cause of the cause, the cause, the cause?
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Well, ideally, yes. But I remember sitting in my office years ago and I had a diabetic patient come in. I realized, you know, I can't cure diabetes in my office. It's cured on the farm and the food we grow. It's cured in the food manufacturing process. It's cured by what people buy in the grocery store. It's cured in the kitchen. And so we really have to look at the root causes of our food system. I said, why are my patients eating this food? Well, it's because of the food system. Well, why do we have the food system we have and the way in which it's operating that drives this chronic disease epidemic, which now is the biggest killer on the planet and is caused by food? Food has outpaced smoking as the number one killer in the world. It kills 11 million people a year.
It's the biggest killer in the United States. Why does that happen? It's because our policies are driven in large part by industry, by the food industry, the ag industry, chemical and seed companies. And those are the companies that are profiting. This is the biggest food, biggest industry in the world. It's over $16 trillion when you aggregate all the... food companies, the fast food companies, the agricultural chemical and seed companies. And this is enormous force that's driving our political process. And so a lot of the policies we have either by, you know, just kind of misalignment of our expectations and incentives of what happened or because of deliberate actions in the food companies have actually
driven a food system that's making us sick. And we have an illness industrial complex. We have a system that's driving disease and everybody's profiting from it. And no one's addressed that before. And this is why we have the system. So we're supporting commodity crops, wheat, corn, and soy that get turned into ultra processed food, which is basically chemical science projects that our bodies are not used to. They're not technically defined as food. Food is something that helps nourish a human being towards life and growth. These things don't. They do the opposite. They cause disease. And so we sort of slowly get into this system where we're seeing an enormous rise in chronic diseases over the last 50 years. You know, Tucker, when I graduated medical school, the cost for healthcare in America was half a trillion dollars. Now it's almost 10 times that in my lifetime. When I graduated medical school, there was not a single state with an obesity rate over 15%.
Now there's not one under 30, and almost all are over 40. 42% of Americans are obese now. In all 50 states. In all 50 states. And you know what? The highest diabetes mortality rates are in red states. 14 out of the 15 states with the highest diabetes mortality are red states. So this is affecting everybody in America. It doesn't matter whether you're Red or blue or purple. Biology is bipartisan.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the role of Bobby Kennedy in health policy?
0:00–0:56
2
How do ultra-processed foods contribute to obesity?
0:56–5:03
3
What is the relationship between junk food and chronic diseases?
5:03–10:54
4
Who benefits from the chronic health disease epidemic?
10:54–11:55
5
Can healthy food reduce violence in prisons?
11:55–13:01
6
What is the impact of vaccines on public health?
13:01–33:41
7
How does the food industry influence health policies?
33:41–37:17
8
What are the root causes of rising cancer rates?
37:17–1:49:42
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