Critique of Medical School Nutrition Education

It's not an overstatement to say

that I learned virtually nothing at Stanford

Medical School

about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that

elucidate these root causes of why American health is plummeting and how

environmental factors are causing it.

For instance, in medical school, I did not learn that for each additional

serving

of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by

eighteen percent. This now makes up sixty-seven percent of

the foods our

kids are eating. I took zero nutrition courses

in medical school.

I didn't learn that eighty-two percent of independently funded

studies show harm from processed food, while ninety-three

percent of industry-sponsored studies reflect no

harm.

In medical school, I didn't learn that ninety-five percent of the people who

created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of

interest with the food industry. I did not learn that one

billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on

our food every single year. Ninety-nine point-- ninety-nine

percent of the farmland in the United States

is sprayed with synthetic pesticides, many from China and Germany.

And these invisible, tasteless chemicals are strongly linked

to autism, ADHD, sex hormone disruption,

thyroid disease, sperm dysfunction, Alzheimer's, dementia, birth

defects, cancer, obesity, liver dysfunction, dis--

liver dysfunction, female

infertility, and more