What Could We Do If We Weren’t Paying So Much On Healthcare?

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It has been estimated that over the next 35 years, it's going to cost our society $95 trillion to address chronic disease. And not only is this affecting us economically, but our overall quality of life is decreasing. Imagine what we could do If we didn't have to spend as much money as we are currently spending on chronic disease. We would have enough money for other important things such as providing free education and healthcare. We could bring people up out of poverty, end social injustice, restore the environment, and help fund the reversal of climate change. By addressing the overall dysfunctions in the food system, we can solve these problems. The solutions exist and they will call on a lot of us to fix it—multiple sectors and stakeholders from citizens and consumers to businesses and farmers, to policymakers in every level of government, including city and state to nonprofits, philanthropists, scientists. By coming together we can transform the food system. Dr. Hyman speaks to all this and more in this mini-episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy. He also outlines the problems and the solutions in his new book, Food Fix. foodfixbook.com

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.6	A lot of the chronic disease that we see the cost of it is caused by mental illness.
0:06.0	And we know from the literature that mental health is directly related to our diets.
0:10.6	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy.
0:12.3	I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and that's pharmacy within F-A-R-M-A-C-Y, a place for conversations that matter.
0:17.8	And if you care about your health, if you care about food, if you care about social injustice,
0:23.7	our environment, our climate, if you care about improving the health of our children,
0:28.0	their academic performance and mental well-being, if you care about pretty much anything
0:33.9	that's going on in the world today, then this conversation should matter to you because
0:38.1	it's about our food system.
0:40.4	And these little mini-sodes are based on my new book, Food Fix, how to save our health,
0:45.4	our economy, our communities, and our planet one by the time.
0:49.3	The reason I wrote this book is because the food system as a whole connects the dots,
0:55.2	it's where everything that matters to us comes together.
0:57.6	Where all these issues are simply one issue.
1:00.9	That's the good news and the bad news.
1:02.5	The bad news is the food system is causing most of these problems, our economic woes, our
1:08.6	chronic disease, environmental damage, climate change, social injustice, and much more, even
1:15.4	threats to national security, but it's also the solution.
1:20.0	If we work together to solve these problems as individual citizens, as businesses and
1:25.7	innovators, as nonprofits and philanthropists, and especially as policymakers, because we
1:31.9	must have policy change, then we can solve these problems together.
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