How to Make America Healthy Again | Dr. Mark Hyman & Dr. Andrew Huberman

00:00:00.000 | what do you think it's going to take to make america healthy and this is not maha propaganda

00:00:06.900 | this is just can maha do it what do they need to do better what do they what can what can you do

00:00:12.800 | what can we all do great question and it was funny to me i was thinking as you're talking about how

00:00:17.100 | you know when michelle obama started her let's move campaign it was a blue issue a lot of the

00:00:23.040 | people who were like pushing this agenda was shelly pingree who's a democrat from maine or

00:00:27.540 | mcgovern to mcgovern who's from massachusetts or cory booker introduced all these bills about food

00:00:33.500 | safety like the last congress and all of a sudden it's like it flipped and became a republican issue

00:00:39.980 | which is staggering to me and we now see bills and you know a few dozen states or more actually now

00:00:45.860 | every day i hear about new bills that are helping push forward an agenda to fix our food system and

00:00:50.440 | before you dive in i will i just want to see this answer with one thing forgive me audience they don't

00:00:54.720 | like it when i interrupt but the goal of the left if i may seems to be to make anyone associated with

00:01:04.020 | health and maha on the right a jock not a scientist yeah that's what i'm seeing they're trying to take

00:01:09.740 | away their science credential yeah and make them a jock now bobby kennedy is not a formerly trained

00:01:15.380 | scientist but um the scientists that are going into nih directorships who i can't share who they are

00:01:20.840 | besides jay it's been announced the other ones but you know who they are yeah these are serious

00:01:24.880 | scientists yeah these aren't jocks no these are people that may or may not lift weights these are

00:01:29.340 | but but there seems to be this effort to say we're going to we're going to strip maha of its power

00:01:34.420 | by making it a bro science biohacking jock thing real science is about reductionist stuff and i just say

00:01:42.740 | listen it's all it's all valuable yeah and so i'm i'm fundamentally frustrated and it hasn't even begun

00:01:49.020 | so educate us i mean listen you know uh my friend rick warren said i'm not left wing or right wing i'm

00:01:53.940 | for the whole bird otherwise you'll fly around in circles i like that and who said that rick warren

00:01:58.600 | you know who's rick warren is the head of saddleback church which is an evangelical church in southern

00:02:03.520 | california i we did a whole program with this church where we got a 15 000 people to lose a quarter

00:02:08.620 | million pounds in a year by doing health together in groups and it was it was amazing actually i love

00:02:13.440 | that quote it was a great quote and and you know health isn't red or blue or purple it's like a human

00:02:19.220 | issue and it's to make to make it partisan it doesn't make any sense to me and yet we live in a partisan

00:02:25.900 | world and anything the democrats do the republic is going to hate anything the republicans do the

00:02:29.600 | democrats are going to hate it's like hey guys can't we just talk to each other and have civil

00:02:33.440 | discourse and agree on the things we can agree on and disagree on the things we're going to disagree

00:02:36.700 | agree on and i and i know that i know behind the scenes there's collaboration bipartisan on these

00:02:41.640 | issues there's bipartisan caucus that well on the psychedelic issue i was at a meeting where you know

00:02:47.240 | governor rick perry former governor rick perry texas like who describes himself as a knuckle-dragging

00:02:53.520 | republican those are rick's words by the way rick's a very nice guy and there were several members of the

00:02:59.200 | the dems there and you got rick doblin who is like a you know counterculture uh conscientious

00:03:05.560 | objector during the vietnam war and they're all up there being proponents for psychedelics for the

00:03:09.800 | treatment of ptsd and veterans so they've joined hands yeah i think that's one area that's very

00:03:14.540 | exciting yeah it's not happening in nutrition no it's not happening on this thing of get exercise

00:03:19.620 | those have become red labels yeah it's unfortunate because you know americans are suffering you know

00:03:25.740 | americans are really suffering those 93 percent of us have some metabolic dysfunction psychiatric

00:03:31.520 | illnesses on the rise in both kids and adults autoimmune diseases are skyrocketing obviously

00:03:37.040 | obesity is a huge problem diabetes is a huge problem you know heart disease deaths are going down but the

00:03:43.300 | incidence is going up meaning you're there's more people getting it but because we have better

00:03:46.820 | treatments they don't die from it same thing with cancer so we're not winning on the health front in the

00:03:52.020 | war on on chronic disease we're losing disastrously and so we have to come together as a country to solve

00:03:57.440 | this and it's unfortunate men polarized i think i think the good part about um covid was that people

00:04:03.960 | became aware that this edifice of science and medicine had cracks in it and that they needed to

00:04:09.880 | be more empowered around their own health and to start questioning things and i think that's part of the

00:04:16.600 | genesis of this bigger wider movement around make america healthy again and why bobby kennedy was able to

00:04:22.620 | catalyze a huge base he was democratic candidate at first then he was independent now he's in the

00:04:28.620 | republican administration it doesn't mean he's shares all the ideology that they have but he cares about

00:04:33.520 | this issue and so i think i think what's happening and behind the scenes is there's a lot of bipartisan

00:04:38.880 | interest in how do we begin to address this look the health care bill is five trillion dollars

00:04:44.800 | of that the government federal government pays forty percent it's one in three federal tax dollars so

00:04:52.500 | one in three dollars you paid for your taxes goes to health care of that eighty percent is mostly for

00:04:57.960 | chronic disease that's either preventable or reversible through intensive lifestyle therapy

00:05:03.080 | and and you know some things are on the margins if insurance is private how does that work like how is

00:05:09.100 | it that my money is going to take care of somebody who has for example heart disease for example like like

00:05:14.780 | if you get on to medicare advantage and that's that's a government program but it's administered by

00:05:21.120 | humana or by cigna or by these insurance companies kind of deploy federal resources to deliver health care

00:05:27.900 | but if you actually look at the end-to-end with medicare medicaid indian health service federal

00:05:34.380 | employees children's health program you just add up all the things that the government pays for

00:05:39.400 | it's it's almost two trillion dollars a year for for health care most people don't realize that so

00:05:45.580 | the government has enormous levels and when i was sitting in my office treating my patients who are you

00:05:51.160 | know just endless stream of people with chronic illnesses coming diabetes obesity autoimmune disease this

00:05:56.120 | that the other thing i'm like why is this patient sick well it's mostly because of the food they're eating

00:06:01.600 | and if that's the problem then what's the cause of the food they're eating well it's our food policies

00:06:09.440 | and what's the cause of our food policies it's the food industry that has pressured our government

00:06:16.500 | to into creating a food system that's harming us and we have very different policies than they do in

00:06:22.000 | europe for example they don't allow many gmo foods or glyphosate they don't know they have those

00:06:26.540 | high fructose corn syrup they have it there but it's limited i mean more limited there's toxins

00:06:31.320 | there's 10 000 additives to food in america there's 400 that are allowed in europe

00:06:35.060 | so

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