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“The way medicine exists today, the guiding law in Congress is called the Flexner Report, which actually mandates that we can't look at disease holistically. We have to look at things in silos, evidence-based. We need to name a condition and then treat it with …”

“Reached out to the Dean of Stanford Med School, who was a pain specialist, and we funded him directly with consulting payments, and then made a donation to Stanford to his lab for four million dollars from opioid companies to study ethics and pain management.”

“The Dean of Stanford Med School who just took a bunch of money from opioid companies was appointed in 2011 to the blue ribbon panel on opioid recommendations. He shows 19 other elite academics. 15 of the 19 had direct payments from opioid companies that we Ver…”

“The number one item on food stamps is soda and more than 60% go to ultra processed food.”

“You've had Democrats passionately arguing that we need to continue to have a ten billion dollar subsidy from the federal government to soda companies on snap just reflexively because, you know, the Trump administration happens to be talking about this.”

“A better UX on medical records is putting lipstick on a pig. The problem is the underlying incentives of the system. You know, shipping pills in a millennial pig packaging is an innovation. You know, a lot of healthcare startups are just wrappers on the existi…”

“The biggest mistake we've made since World War II is that we've segmented these chronic lifestyle conditions when they're really the same thing.”

“In 1990, two of the three largest M&A deals in American history were cigarette companies buying food companies. So every single processed food companies we can actually point to is either still owned by a cigarette company. We don't even realize this craft is …”

“Essentially it is liquefied anorexia. I mean, truly, truly that's what it is. It's making you not want to eat. It's a crash diet.”

“50, excuse me, 75% of the FDA is actually not funded by taxpayers. It's funded by pharma itself, and bureaucracies are built to grow.”

“I talked to a lot of esteemed healthcare VCs and they think innovation is putting a millennial pink package on Viagra and shipping it to people more conveniently. They think that innovation is like better UX on medical records. You know, you look down the list…”

“Nine out of 10 killers of Americans are foodborne illnesses. I mean, we can dance around it. It's just that simple. Like, you would wipe out heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, respiratory illness, COVID deaths even, if you got our country metabolically m…”

“The USD nutrition guidelines committee, which basically approves and recommends various foods. 95% of it is funded by 95% of the panelists are directly funded by food companies or pharma companies.”

“Kellogg's is a stark example, but their ingredient list, they changed completely for the American kids versus just across the border in Canada. It has addictive ingredients. It has the colorings that make it really bright that are linked to ADHD and other deve…”

“We prescribe 15% of high schoolers basically meth, you know, Adderall, which is literally like one molecule away from meth.”

“50% of the US food supply was controlled by Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds in the early 19 nineties.”

“Today in America, a child's diet is 70% ultra processed food. In Japan or Italy, it's 15%.”

“Kellogg's makes fruit loops with carrot juice and watermelon juice and ships them across the border to Canada and ships them over to Europe. They make the same product with petroleum based dyes here in the U S.”

“It's 90% to corn, soy, wheat.4% of subsidies go to fruits and vegetables.”

“The pharma industry particularly, Is the lifeblood of news and advertising over 50% for most news channels.”

“35% of teens are on some kind of chronic disease drug.”

“I personally think we need to think about it as a 12 year strategy. We're not going to reorient the incentives of the largest industry in America, the fastest growing industry in America, because we're getting sick, the most employed industry in America. We're…”

“If those voters can help Republicans, which is my hope in the midterms, I think you have 2028 where both sides are basically arguing who's more maha, which I think is a positive thing.”

“The largest and fastest growing industry in the country, and again, largest and fastest growing is the healthcare industry, and 95% of those dollars are around drugging and managing disease of people that are already sick.”

“So we have something unique going on where 50% of teens are overweight or obese, and then 80% of American adults are overweight or obese.”

“Like, it's gonna be 40% of GDP healthcare costs in the next 20 years.”

“90% of doctors graduate without taking one nutrition class. To this day.”

“The drug is 15 times cheaper in its home country and throughout Europe through totally dysfunctional rigged policies. We're actually literally paying 15 times more as taxpayers for that drug.”

“This Danish company is one of the 10 largest lobbyists of US politicians and one of the 10 largest spenders on TV news.”

“They fund politicians directly five times more than the oil industry.”

“In the US, we have much worse than socialism. We have a kleptocracy where the system's just totally been rigged, and every single impulse is for people to get sick, be fed into the system, and then stay sick to be treated. That's every single impulse in the sy…”

“We literally thousands of ingredients that aren't legal in Europe are allowed in the United States.”

“This professor He surveyed white blue collar workers, different socioeconomic classes, you know every different professions, you know, like, 30 different cohorts. The most depressed group was these graduates 10 years out.”

“We spend five times more per capita on health care than Spain, but live six years less.”

“We're the only country in the world where a low-income nutrition assistance program goes to soda and Twinkies.”

“A teenager boy in America has less testosterone than a sixty-eight-year-old man.”

“77% of military-aged youth cannot join the military in America right now.”

“SSRIs, now 25% of women are in SSRIs.”

“Something's happening, and 33% of young adults have prediabetes right now. 20% of young adults have fatty liver disease, right? 40% of high schoolers qualify as having a mental health disorder.”

“We now eat a hundred times more sugar than we did a hundred years ago.”

“The acute innovations of the medical system, if we have an infection, gunshot wound, burst appendix, complicate childbirth, that's great, but that's five to seven percent of overall spending. The vast majority of the medical system is basically pilling and put…”

“About 80 to 90% of the profits expected are not from its home continent, Europe. It's almost all from the United States.”

“One statistic that's alarming, doctors have the highest suicide rate and highest rate of burnout of any profession in America.”

“You're four times more likely to be suicidal or depressed if you have diabetes as a kid, right?”

“The genetic makeup of a grass-fed cow versus a grain-fed cow is entirely different. It's a reversed ratio of omega-three or omega-six. The grain-fed, which cows are not made to eat, which is totally a new phenomenon, are Predominantly omega- six fatty acids, w…”

“One thing we're doing, we're working with a guy named Jason Karp and a bunch of health leaders. We, we've done a legal action against Kellogg's.”

“COVID was a metabolic health crisis. We were 16% of COVID deaths. And four percent of the world's population”

“One is that the drug costs 10 times more than it does in Germany or Sweden.”