229. Dr. Marty Makary: Vaccines, Chronic Disease, Drug Prices & Hormone Therapy
The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If we were to evaluate the U.S. healthcare system over the last 50 years, in terms of the performance indicator of the health of the population, U.S. healthcare has been a 50-year failure. |
| 0:12.1 | We have got to do something different. |
| 0:14.5 | The pendulum has swung so far. |
| 0:16.3 | We are one of the largest, if not the largest, the largest spender on health care worldwide. |
| 0:19.9 | We're one of the sickest, the fittest, most disease-rid nations in the world. |
| 0:23.1 | 42% of our children having at least one chronic disease. |
| 0:26.5 | We don't have a lot of education around whole foods. |
| 0:28.7 | We know that there's a lot of corruption in our nutritional research, |
| 0:31.3 | which leads to things like poor food pyramid advice and nutritional guidelines. |
| 0:35.8 | We've medicalized ordinary life and where we are drugging our nation's kids at scale |
| 0:41.4 | and not talking about the underlying root causes. |
| 0:45.7 | And we ignore all those issues and all we do is we give doctors a prescription pad and |
| 0:50.5 | a surgical knife and say, go to work, fix all these problems. |
| 0:53.8 | You're going to have a |
| 0:54.3 | dysfunctional system. And that's where we are today. We're very good at disease management and symptom |
| 0:58.7 | maintenance. We're not very good at disease prevention. Your intention is to try to keep people |
| 1:04.4 | out of the system because we know that once they're in the system, they just continue to progress. |
| 1:08.9 | Do you have to have a sense of mission that you want to address a broken system? |
| 1:13.6 | My number one priority is to deliver more cures and meaningful treatments and healthier food for children. |
| 1:17.6 | And we're getting stuff done. |
| 1:19.6 | In a perfect world, what would you like to see accomplished by our FDA for the betterment of the population? |
| 1:25.6 | Look, our legacy, I hope, will be... |
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