Critique of American Healthcare Education

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 alu--

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.