Feb 24, 2020
In this episode, Mark Hyman, M.D., director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine and the author of Food Fix, discusses that if we can fix the food system, we can solve many big problems—namely the chronic disease/obesity epidemic, the rising costs of healthcare, as well as the big problems facing the environment. Mark first briefly lays out the health consequences of processed food with a focus on the gut microbiome. From there, Mark discusses the environmental consequences of industrial farming and lays out how we can affect change on the individual level, through policy and regulations, and perhaps most importantly through regenerative agriculture. Additionally, Mark talks about the potential health risks of consuming GMO foods, herbicides, and other chemicals used in industrial farming as well as the environmental consequences, such as the loss of soil, caused by those same fertilizers and methods of farming.
We discuss:
- The negative consequences of the
existing food environment [3:25];
- What makes processed food so
unhealthy? [9:00];
- The gut microbiome: Inflammation
from gut permeability and how to measure gut health
[18:30];
- Steps to fixing a bad gut—The
Five R’s [24:30];
- Some staggering health
statistics, and which races might be more genetically susceptible
[27:15];
- An argument for government
regulations and policies to fight back against a massive food
industry with unlimited resources (and what we can learn from the
tobacco story) [29:00];
- Industrial farming and climate
change: The degradation of soil and use of fertilizer
[41:45];
- Regenerative agriculture: Could
it be the answer to food waste, our health problems, and the
environment? [51:45];
- Comparing the Impossible Burger
to regeneratively raised beef [1:06:00];
- GMO and Roundup—The potential
health risks of consuming GMO foods sprayed with Roundup
(glyphosate) and other herbicides and pesticides
[1:08:15];
- How the livelihood of farmers are
being affected by big ag companies and the current industrial
farming system [1:16:30];
- The loss of biodiversity in our
food, and what “organic” really means [1:19:00];
- What can people do on the
individual level to protect themselves as well as affect change to
the toxic food system? [1:25:00];
- What role does the USDA play in
this “toxic” food environment and how do we fix it?
[1:30:15];
- The top 3 changes Mark would make
if he was “food czar” [1:35:15];
- Mark’s rebuttal against the
argument that it’s best for the environment if we stop farming
animals and move to a fully plant-based diet (and his argument for
“agriculture 2.0") [1:36:30];
- What is Mark’s overall mission
with the work that he’s doing? [1:40:30];
- Bread in the US vs. Europe: Why
does bread (and wheat products) taste different and potentially
cause less health problems in Europe versus the US? [1:42:00];
and
- More.
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