Justin Mares is the founder and CEO of Truemed. He addresses lifestyle factors and screen time contributing to modern public health issues.
Assertion Partly supported
Mares: Coca-Cola spent $140M influencing US nutrition guidelines over 15 years
“Coca-Cola spending one hundred forty million dollars to influence our nutrition guidelines like they have over the last, you know, 15 years.”
Assertion Partly supported
Mares: Ketogenic diets can resolve schizophrenia, epilepsy, and bipolar symptoms
“One of the best therapies for someone that is schizophrenic or epileptic Or even, in many cases, bipolar. If you put them on a ketogenic diet, these things will, in many cases, just resolve.”
Assertion Contradicted
Mares: Average American gets almost 20% of calories from soybean oil
“Today, the average American gets almost 20% of their caloric intake from soybean oil.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mares: Ozempic users eating standard diets will suffer nutrient deficiencies
“If you're still eating the same crap that the average American is eating today, but you're on Ozempic and eating less of it, like, you are almost certainly going to be deficient in protein and micronutrients and a bunch of things that will have, like, long-ter…”
Assertion Contradicted
Mares: No US healthcare payer covers exercise for heart disease prevention
“And yet, if you look at our healthcare system, nothing in the healthcare system thinks about someone who is at risk of heart disease exercising as a healthcare intervention. No payer pays for it. No one incentivizes you to do that.”
Insight
Mares: Health requires changing personal environments, not relying on discipline
“I think that that is, like, an important idea that people don't think about enough is just how do you shape your environment so that it's naturally health promoting, as opposed to you know, having to, like, Discipline yourself and doing all the stuff that most…”