Why Our Food System Is Killing Us| Dr. Mark Hyman EP 808

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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"When I went to medical school, there was nothing called type 2 diabetes... Now kids as young as 2 or 3 years old are getting type 2 diabetes." - Dr. Mark Hyman Dr. Mark Hyman delivers a sobering examination of America's deteriorating food system and its catastrophic impact on public health. From the post-WWII industrialization of agriculture to today's epidemic of chronic diseases, he reveals how our food production methods have led to environmental destruction, depleted soil quality, and devastating health consequences. His stark comparison of health statistics from the 1970s to today's 42% obesity rate illuminates the urgent crisis we face, while his expertise as a physician adds weight to the alarming rise in type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and childhood illnesses. The conversation takes a deep dive into the staggering statistics of chronic illness in America, where 6 out of 10 adults currently suffer from at least one chronic disease. Dr. Hyman connects the dots between our industrialized food system, environmental toxins, and the exponential rise in conditions like autoimmune diseases, mental illness, and cancer in young people. Through compelling examples and clear explanations, he demonstrates how our massive spending on healthcare and pharmaceuticals isn't addressing the root causes of these diseases, challenging listeners to reconsider their relationship with food and its impact on their health.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:05.0	Do you believe our food system is designed to help us heal or to kill us?
0:18.0	Oh, that's easy.
0:20.0	It's designed to kill us. Really? A hundred percent.
0:23.9	It wasn't starting out that way, Lewis. I mean, we had, after World War II, a need to feed a hungry
0:28.7	growing population around the world. And so they're a huge push to industrialize agriculture,
0:33.6	to produce more calories, more starchy carbohydrate calories that could feed a growing hungry world.
0:39.3	And the unintended consequence of that was two things.
0:42.3	One, producing massive amounts of sugar and starch.
0:45.3	We actually have about 500 calories more per person in America than we did in 1970.
0:50.3	Wow.
0:51.3	Two, we also increased the amount of starch and sugar.
0:57.0	And three, we industrialized agriculture in a way that has destroyed the environment because
1:01.6	of the tillage that's destroyed the soil.
1:04.0	Soil, yeah.
1:05.0	That is now, you know, one third of all the carbon in the atmosphere comes from the loss of
1:09.0	soil carbon, which is the life in the soil. We destroyed our rivers and waterways because of the runoff from nitrogen that's caused
1:14.6	euthification and has dead zones the size of New Jersey.
1:17.6	And in the Gulf of Mexico, there's 400 around those around the world of those that feed a half a billion people.
1:23.6	What's a dead zone?
1:24.6	Dead zone means, you know, that when you have too much fertilizer in the water, it makes the algae
1:29.0	grow, sucks all the oxygen out of the water and all the fish die.
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