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Dhru Purohit Show

Food Corruption, Tainted Science, And The Nuances Around Nutrition Research With Dr. Mark Hyman

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker, WHOOP, and BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough.  This week on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru welcomes Dr. Mark Hyman for part two of their conversation. This time, their discussion focuses on themes from Dr. Hyman’s previous book, Food Fix, and the need for a radical shift in food policy. Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Functional Medicine. He is the host of one of the leading health podcasts, The Doctor’s Farmacy. His new book, Young Forever, is available for purchase everywhere on February 21 or for preorder here.  In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Mark Hyman dive into: -Dr. Hyman’s latest take on the corruption in the food industry (0:58) -How industry-funded nutrition research yields biased outcomes (4:00) -Tufts University’s Food Compass: what it is and why it went viral (18:43) -Potential solutions for fixing corruption in the food industry (38:05) -Why we need to reform food policy from the ground up (47:24) -Addressing the “obesity is genetic” segment on 60 Minutes (55:06) -Why healthy eating is not elitist (1:09:45) -Kindness, community, and coming together for change (1:19:44) Also mentioned in this episode: -Tamar Haspel’s Tweet -EWG Good Food on a Tight Budget Shopping Guide -Young Forever, available for preorder here.  For more on Dr. Mark Hyman, follow him on Instagram @drmarkhyman, YouTube @drmarkhyman, or his website, https://www.drhyman.com. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself. WHOOP is a personalized digital fitness tracker and health coaching platform that monitors your physiology 24/7 and provides personalized recommendations based on what your body needs. To get yours, go to https://www.join.whoop.com and get 15% off your membership with code DHRU15. Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off plus special gift with purchase, so just head over to https://www.magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you look at Food Industry Research, if a food company has funded the study, you're

0:04.8

going to see a likelihood of a positive outcome eight times more than you would see if it's

0:09.3

a NIH or publicly funded study on the same product.

0:13.0

Hi everyone, Drew Brode here.

0:15.2

Today we have Mark Hyman back on the podcast for a whole new conversation.

0:19.6

Yeah, he has a new book out.

0:20.9

It's called Young Forever.

0:22.2

We had him on the podcast recently talking all about it.

0:24.8

Today we're going into a part two which is more focused on food corruption, the hidden

0:30.2

tricks of big food that are out there, how to make changes from the inside and how to

0:35.6

make changes from the outside, controversial topics like seed oils and the food compass

0:41.4

that was recently put out there.

0:42.8

Mark has a lot of thoughts on that.

0:45.2

And most importantly, how we actually genuinely make a difference and get the most vulnerable

0:49.9

populations healthy.

0:51.1

It's a fantastic episode.

0:53.5

Stay tuned.

0:56.0

Mark, welcome back to the podcast.

0:57.4

The pleasure to have you here.

0:58.4

I want to jump right in.

0:59.8

We've done a couple episodes recently where we've talked about food corruption and just

1:04.8

how kind of messed up the whole industry is and with big food.

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