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The Dr. Hyman Show

How Big Food Is Keeping Us And Our Children Sick with Calley Means

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

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We live in a world that claims to be based on science, goodwill, and policies intended to help people. But in reality, these things are often heavily influenced and manipulated by industry, particularly Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, which have corrupted many institutions, politicians, professional associations, research institutions, and medical schools. And it has, unfortunately, led to mass confusion and illness in the public. 


Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I sit down with Calley Means to talk about how Big Food and Big Pharma are rigging the system and profiting off of our ill health.


Calley is the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food-as-medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. 


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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

  • How big industry drives corruption (6:08 / 4:35) 
  • Calley’s early career experience and how he came to understand the system is rigged (9:06 / 7:24) 
  • How Big Food rigs systems of trust (14:02 / 10:50)  
  • The weaponization of nutrition research (17:11 / 14:07) 
  • Outside funding of medical associations (25:51 / 20:10) 
  • Our healthcare system incentivizes sickness (34:34 / 30:00) 
  • The recent news about Ozempic, which is being touted as a miracle obesity drug, perfectly encapsulates the rigged system (38:57 / 33:22) 
  • Is obesity genetic? (49:55 / 43:50) 
  • How we can fix the system (57:58 / 52:55) 
  • Food as medicine (1:16:03 / 1:11) 


Follow Calley on Twitter @calleymeans and on Instagram @calleymeans.



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0:00.0

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3:32.0

Now let's get back this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

3:36.0

Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Hyman that's pharmacy with an effort place for conversations that matter and this conversation today matters a lot because it's about your health.

3:49.0

It's about how we know what we know about nutrition about the way in which we're influenced by big food, big pharma, big egg and how they're corrupted in ways that are manipulating our population and causing us all to be sick and vet and miserable and depressed.

4:05.0

And we have somebody on the podcast today who is an interesting man who has been on the inside of how we manipulate people to eat the wrong stuff that makes us sick.

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