Food Is Medicine: How Doctors Can Prescribe Food For Chronic Disease with Mark Walker

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Super Simple Grassfed Protein, Sensate, and AquaTru. Our diets are the main driver of the chronic disease epidemic we are experiencing today. But food is also the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic diseases. The food we eat literally serves as information, instructions, or code that controls almost every function of the body—including our hormones, appetite, brain chemistry, immune system, gene expression, and even the microbiome. Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Mark Walker about incorporating food as medicine into the healthcare system, how we can prescribe food as physicians, and what it will mean for our nation's health and economy. Mark Walker is the Chairman and CEO of Performance Kitchen, the leading Food Is Medicine® company revolutionizing the US Healthcare System. Performance Kitchen specializes in the use of Medically Tailored Meals to treat chronic diseases. Mark is one of the leading experts in the country on the new industry of Food Is Medicine, which is the application of healthy food paid for by the US Healthcare System. Mark is a CPA and the founder of Dugout Ventures, an athlete-based investment group with Hall of Fame baseball player partners like David Ortiz, Nolan Ryan, and Barry Larkin. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Super Simple Grassfed Protein, Sensate, and AquaTru. Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests with Rupa Health. You can check out a free, live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com today. You can get 10% off Super Simple Grassfed Protein by heading to drhyman.com/protein and use code protein10. Head on over to getsensate.com/Farmacy and use code FARMACY to get 10% off your Sensate device today. Go to drhyman.com/filter to get $100 OFF the AquaTru water filter. Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The current state of our “healthcare” system (4:50 / 3:17) The effectiveness of food as medicine (7:47 / 6:30) Incorporating food as medicine into our existing healthcare system (9:21 / 7:48) How payers benefit from food as medicine (13:16 / 12:00) Medically tailored meals (14:59 / 13:42) The economics of food as medicine (21:47 / 18:41) Obstacles around prescribing food as medicine (31:59 / 26:50) Accessing medically tailored meal benefits (39:01 / 33:40) How Performance Kitchen is interfacing in this space (42:40 / 39:05) Mark’s personal story reversing prediabetes (47:08 / 43:33) Learn more at performancekitchen.com. Find the Meal Benefit Locator tool here and download the Performance Kitchen Whitepaper here.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, there's millions of people that qualify for these benefits nationwide right now
0:06.6	But almost nobody knows about I honestly have not talked to a doctor today
0:11.1	It is aware that they can actually prescribe meals
0:15.9	Everyone it's Dr. Mark was a functional medicine doctor looking at hormones organic acids nutrient levels and flammatory factors gut bacteria and so many
0:24.2	Other internal variables it helps me find the most effective path to health and healing from my patients
0:29.4	But such extensive testing can be very complicated and time consuming for both the practitioner somebody like me and our patients
0:36.6	The lab ordering became very quick and painless since I started using group of health
0:40.3	I can order track and get results from over 35 different lab companies within a few clicks in one lab portal
0:46.3	And this means one invoice for all labs paid online up front plus patients get practitioner pricing and receive full patient support
0:52.9	Through easier personalized collection instructions automated follow super bills and answers to testing questions and so much more
0:59.7	Best of all, it's free for practitioners. So sign up free today
1:03.7	You can find out more information by going to roopa health.com. That's rupia health.com
1:09.4	I'm so excited to share that I have a brand new protein powder called super simple grass vent protein
1:15.0	If you follow my work, you know how critical protein is for building muscle for optimal weight and overall longevity
1:20.0	I like to get a good amount of protein in every meal and sometimes as hard with a busy schedule
1:24.3	That's why I make a protein rich smoothie every morning featuring my super simple protein made with really clean ingredients and also minimal ingredients from grass fed beef protein
1:33.9	Right now I'm offering the doctor's pharmacy listeners 10% off all you have to do is go to drahimon.com
1:39.9	or slash protein and use the code protein 10. That's drahimon.com or slash protein and use the code protein 10. That's one and a zero
1:47.6	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm dr. Mark Hyman. That's pharmacy would have a place for conversations that matter
1:57.1	And if you've heard the term food is medicine, you're not sure what it means or why it's important or how it actually is the solution to our healthcare crisis and
2:05.5	Our obesity crisis our chronic disease crisis pretty much our economic crisis
2:10.4	I think you're gonna like this podcast because we're gonna talk about the nitty gritty of what is food is medicine
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