140: Big Food + Big Pharma = Why We Are Sick | Calley Means of TrueMed

Realfoodology

Courtney Swan

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This weeks episode has me fired up! I sit down with the founder of TrueMed which is a payment integration that enables customers to use pre-tax HSA and FSA funds to purchase health promoting products or services from their favorite merchants. Calley Means is my guest today and I cannot wait for you to hear this. Please share this with your friends and family, because this is something we all need to hear. Topics Covered: Coca Cola and SNAP (food stamps) American Diabetes Association and how they take money from soda companies Sugar and obesity and how we have been brainwashed How humans make their pets unhealthy Tufts Food Compass Gas stoves The strategy of distraction and how big food weaponizes the debate to consume the general public Food, Pharma and how they are major funders of entertainment programming Importance of looking at who funds a study Weaponization of food studies and how it is hurting us and our children Healthcare and why it’s the fastest growing industry The incentives of the healthcare system How to take back our power Declining of life expectancy Ozempic injections Will Ozempic be recalled? Ozempic and possible muscle loss/erosion Flexner Report Government subsidies Letter of medical necessity and how you can be prescribed food and exercise for preventative care What can we do!? Check Out Calley: Instagram TrueMed Sponsored By: Healthyr www.behealthyr.com Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 15% off Organifi www.organifi.com/realfoodology Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 20% Off LMNT Get 8 FREE packs with any order at drinkLMNT.com/realfoodology Check Out Courtney: Courtney's Instagram: @realfoodology www.realfoodology.com My Immune Supplement by 2x4 Air Dr Air Purifier AquaTru Water Filter EWG Tap Water Database Further Listening: Why We Should Care About Organic with Max Goldberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the Real Foodology Podcast,
0:03.0	Pharma and the food are really connected
0:05.0	because we're clearly demonstrably getting sick from food
0:08.0	and we can really dive into that.
0:10.0	But I think the real shameful part is that the medical industry does financially profit when there's more patients that are sick to treat and working on a company now to change those incentives and just really think it's the biggest issue in the world.
0:25.0	Hi friends, welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology Podcast.
0:28.0	I am Courtney Swan, your host.
0:30.0	I am so excited about this episode.
0:33.7	Oh my gosh.
0:35.5	I'm so excited I said, oh my gosh for the first time and I have no idea how long.
0:39.5	I have such a fire lit under my ass right now.
0:42.0	I sat down with the co-founder of TrueMed, which is a payment
0:45.2	integration that enables qualified customers to use pre-tax HSA and FSA funds to purchase health promoting products or services from their favorite
0:54.9	merchants.
0:55.9	So essentially, people that are on food stamps can go to their doctor and their doctor can
1:00.5	write them a note that will give them tax incentive for foods and lifestyle
1:07.8	changes like exercise that are actually health promoting, that are actually good for us.
1:13.0	Kelly Means is my guest today and he goes more into detail about this, but just to give you a little
1:17.8	snippet of it, 40.2% of Coca-Cola's US revenue comes from SNAP benefits. So that's food stamps.
1:25.1	40% of Coca-Cola's revenue. That is insane. So he has set out to change that
1:31.9	with his company, True Med. He's also just an amazing voice in this, for lack of a better word, fight that we are in right now with our health care system and our food system.
1:41.0	This is something that I am so incredibly passionate about. It is one of the main
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