Hey, this is Buck Sexton and you're listening to the Tudor Dixon podcast, part of the Clay Travers and Buck Sexton podcast network.

Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. I'm Tudor Dixon and today we're talking about the junk we put into our bodies.

And I know that some of you may want to check out talking about this because I also sometimes want to check out talking about this because I hate anyone telling me that I'm putting something bad in my bodies or worse yet.

My body or my children's bodies. The idea that someone tells me that I'm feeding them bad stuff, but on the other side of that, I want to know. And so I thought you might want to know too.

And I've been following someone on Twitter who has been talking quite a bit about this from a perspective of understanding from a historical job.

And so I said, I've got to have him on. I've got to talk to him. This is the co-founder of true med. Callie means Callie.

Before I got you on here, I was telling you, I've been watching what you're saying. And like I said, as a mom, I have guilt over what I put in my kids' lunches, what we're eating at dinner, whether or not we're going out to dinner.

And so you've really opened my eyes to certain things like sugar. And I think that we consume a ton of sugar. So I thank you for coming on the program.

And I want you to just kind of give me a background of how you got into talking about this.

I think so much to do. And just so grateful to be to be talking about this issue. I, you know, it's been a long time coming on this for me, but I think it's the most important issue for America.

I mean, what we're fueling our bodies with. I think how the systems rigged against us. It's the first order issue because it impacts our bodies and our brains, which impacts how we how we look at the world.

But my stories I grew up in Washington, you see a good young conservative work for President Bush worked with the Heritage Foundation. And really was on this, this kick about really appreciating and just implicitly trusting, you know, all American industries basically.

I actually consulted for big food, consulted for pharma and espoused how, you know, American agricultural innovation, American pharmaceutical innovation was just, you know, the best in the world. And I would say over the past 10 years, getting getting out of politics, more and more entrepreneurship inspired by some personal family, health tragedies, my sister, who is a top of her class Stanford med school surgeon and and dropped out of the medical system after seeing a lot of corruption and problems.

Really was was was brought to this to this realization that with food, particularly, we are not dealing with a free market. We are dealing with the rig market. I think as a conservative, I think this idea of personal responsibility, personal accountability means a lot to me.

But there's something very wrong where 80% of American adults are now obese or overweight. And you know, if you want to talk about personal responsibility versus a rig system, you just have to look at kids. And this is just a stat I can't get my heads around 25% of kids right now have prediabetes.

You know, a generation ago you would have diabetes, I did not know that I have prediabetes. So 50% of American adults have prediabetes or diabetes and 25% of kids, 15% of kids right now have fatty liver disease. This is a condition that, you know, a doctor wouldn't see, you know, among anyone that's not an elderly alcoholic. Now it's 15% of kids. And then of course, 45% of kids right now you go into any classroom. And I think this is why a lot of people waking up to this issue.

And it's becoming a big issue. And that's resonating a lot is parents are very concerned. There's something there's something very off happening with when you look at close to 50% of kids being overweight or obese. And and and it's been a progression for me, but, but, but I don't think Americans, particularly, you know, parents with their children are our system, had to be trying to shorten, you know, their lives and and miss their kids wedding.

I think that's so important to talk about because I've had some young people that have said, oh, these parents just don't care. And I think it's happened so fast. So I will say that growing up, I was in classrooms where we had, you know, maybe one kid that suffered being overweight, but it was really pretty rare. And then I think it was shocking to me when my kids went into kindergarten, because I remember coming home and saying to my husband, the kids so many of the kids are overweight.

It was shocking to me because it seemed like there's something else going on here. And you've seen it seems like you've identified what's going on. Those brands that we trust. And I think it's interesting. We're so used to big pharma. I haven't really thought about big food, but there is a lot that goes in behind the food companies being allowed to market to our kids to put this on the in the lunchroom at school.

Talk a little bit about how this is getting to our kids without really us realizing how bad it is.

Yeah. And, you know, I very rarely in my life look to Europe as a model of much, but I do think it's notable, right, that the US and New Zealand are the only countries in the world that allow pharmaceutical ads.

And then almost every other developed country in the world does not and has limits on food ads, which I really do consider sugar a highly addictive drug that we're pushing on children.

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