Former CDC Director on Rebuilding Public Health and Trust in America | Dr. Tom Frieden

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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My guest today on The Dr. Hyman Show, Dr. Tom Frieden has spent decades proving how small, smart changes can save millions of lives. We talk about his new book, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own—a fascinating look at what really works to prevent disease and rebuild public trust. We also dive into his See–Believe–Create framework—how it connects public policy with personal action to make prevention the easy choice. Catch the full conversation on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. We unpack: • Why rebuilding trust in public health is key to protecting your own wellbeing • How balancing sodium and potassium could transform your heart health • What the food industry learned from Big Tobacco—and how to take back control of your choices • Simple policy shifts that could save millions of lives and make prevention easier for everyone • How AI and team-based care could shape a future of medicine that works for you We already know what works. The challenge is putting it into action. This conversation is about how each of us can help create that change, one small step at a time. View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman https://drhyman.com/pages/picks?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal https://drhyman.com/pages/longevity?utm_campaign=shownotes&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=podcast Join the 10-Day Detox to Reset Your Health https://drhyman.com/pages/10-day-detox Join the Hyman Hive for Expert Support and Real Results https://drhyman.com/pages/hyman-hive This episode is brought to you by Seed, BON CHARGE, Function Health, AirDoctor and Pique. Visit seed.com/hyman and use code 25HYMAN for 25% off your first month of Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic. Head to boncharge.com and use code DRMARK for 15% off your order. Join today at FunctionHealth.com/Mark and use code HYMAN100 to get $100 toward your membership. Get cleaner air. Right now, you can get up to $300 off at airdoctorpro.com/drhyman. Receive 20% off FOR LIFE + a free Starter Kit with a rechargeable frother and glass beaker at Piquelife com/Hyman.

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0:00.0	We've got a deep hole to dig out of in public health.
0:02.3	I realized about a decade ago is there isn't a good understanding of what public health is,
0:07.5	why it's important, and how it could save a lot of lives, including yours.
0:11.9	How do we start to restore public trust in public health?
0:15.6	Dr. Tom Frieden serves as the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the CDC
0:19.9	and the commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He's a physician who's advanced training in internal
0:24.4	medicine, infectious disease, public health, and epidemiology. And he currently runs resolved to save
0:28.9	lives, a nonprofit that addresses the world's deadliest health threats. 100 million Americans don't
0:33.6	have a primary care doctor. That's ridiculous. Four trillion dollars in health care and we can't give this basic thing to a third of the people in this country.
0:40.5	That's absurd.
0:41.2	The scary data is that 14% of adults and 14% of children are biologically addicted to food, which is actually more people than are addicted to alcohol.
0:50.2	So this is a big problem because people can stop smoking, but they can't stop eating.
0:54.3	Where are the big problems? And one of the policies that need to happen? And what do we do for ourselves?
0:59.4	When it comes to public health specifically, I think there are three things we've got to do.
1:03.3	One is, as you know, I'm always talking about how central the gut is to living a long healthy life.
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