Critique of Medical Education on Health

You would think that the American healthcare system and our government agencies would be clamoring to fix metabolic health and reduce American suffering and costs, but they're not. They are deafeningly silent about metabolic

dysfunction and its known causes. 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 to 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, all by hurting our metabolic health. I did not learn that the eight billion

tons of plastic that have been produced just in the last hundred years, plastic was only introduced about-- i-invented about a hundred years ago, are being broken down into microplastics that are now

filling our food, our water, and we are now even inhaling them in our air. And that very recent research from just the past couple of months tells us that now about point five percent of our brains by weight are now plastic.

I didn't learn that there are more than eighty thousand toxins that have entered our food, water, air, and homes by industry, many of which are banned in Europe, and they are known to alter our gene expression, alter

our microbiome composition and the lining of our gut, and disrupt our hormones. I didn't learn that heavy metals with al-- like aluminum and lead are present in our food, our baby formula, personal care products, our soil, and many of the

mandated medications like vaccines, and that these metals are neurotoxic and inflammatory. I didn't learn that the average American walks a paltry thirty-five hundred steps per day, even though we know based on science

and top journals that walking-- simply walking seven thousand steps a day slashes by forty to sixty percent our risk of Alzheimer's, dementia, type two diabetes, cancer, and obesity. I certainly did not learn that medical error

and medications are the third leading cause of death in the United States. I didn't learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full-blown prediabetes. I learned nothing about sleep, and we're getting about twenty percent less sleep on average than we were a hundred

years ago. I didn't learn that American children are getting less time outdoors now than a maximum security prisoner. And on average, adults spend ninety-three percent of their time

indoors even though we know from the science that separation from sunlight destroys our circadian biology, and circadian biology dictates our cellular biology.

I didn't learn that professional organizations that we get our practice guideline from, like the American Diabetes Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken tens of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury,

processed food companies, and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna. I didn't learn that if we address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle

patterns with united strong voice, we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in healthcare costs per year. Instead, doctors

are learning that the body is a hundred separate parts, and we learn how to drug, we learn how to cut, and we learn how to bill. I'll close by saying that what we are dealing with

here is so much more than a physical health crisis. This is a spiritual crisis. We We are choosing death over

light. We are ch-- We are choosing death over life. We are choosing darkness over light for people and the planet, which are inextricably linked. We are choosing to erroneously believe that we are separate from

nature and that we can continue to poison nature and then outsmart it. Our path out will be a renewed respect for the miracle of life and a renewed respect for nature.

We can restore health to Americans rapidly with smart policy and courageous leadership. We need a return to courage. We need a return to common sense and intuition.

We need a return to awe for the sheer miraculousness of our lives. We need all hands on deck. Thank you.