Karp: Long feedback loops hide the link between diet and metabolic disease
Jason Karp · Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life · Apr 4, 2023 · at 1:22:23
Jason Karp, founder of HumanCo, explains why selling unhealthy food remains profitable despite its long-term damage to consumer health.
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“When you are eating something that's inflammatory, that's not acute poison, but it's a slow poison where over 20 years you will develop metabolic disease. It's too long. It's just like the people that produce too much carbon emissions or, you know, use coal or, you know, pollute too much or use too much plastic. Like the problem is, is that the feedback loop is too long. So by the time you reach that point where you're metabolically sick, you don't realize that there was a connection with everything you were eating.”
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