With MAHA taking over stages nationwide, we’re experiencing a deluge of wellness influence and contrarians screaming about systemic issues with food, medicine, and government. Yet the solutions they offer never actually address public health.
Ironically, the same trend has been occurring in investment-driven medicine, where both government and private sector money is flowing into individualized medicine at the expense of public health.
Derek dives into this sordid affair, concluding with six steps experts agree would actually do something about the state of our health.
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We know we have bad healthcare results in our system in America.
And we know that per capita we spend more on healthcare than I believe anywhere in the world.
And so we should have better results.
We know we have systemic problems.
We also know that the majority of those bad results are predominantly in poorer and minority areas of our country.
And this plays into the long-standing systemic problems that we have as a nation who built itself up out of slavery.
We know that women have experienced worse healthcare for a very long time in America because of gender roles.
And we also know, as we've been covering for four and a half years on this podcast, but especially this past month, And in my estimation, That has been given steroids recently because of Maha,
RFK Jr's Make America Healthy Again plan.
And we also know that when we're watching these panels in front of Congress or that ridiculous event
in Washington, DC or tomorrow for the Tony Robbins sponsored MAGA meets Maha panel that's gonna happen,
a round table town hall.
And for what happened this past Friday at Stanford with the platforming of anti-vaxxers again,
we know that a lot of what these people are saying, influencers, rogue doctors, contrarians, they get right.
They identify that we have systemic problems and we have issues with too much money
going from healthcare lobbying and from food companies into our government.
These things are all true.
What I'm thinking about is as I listen to them in front of Congress, as I listen to Bobby and Casey and Kelly Means and Food Babe and Jillian Michaels and Michaela Peterson and Jordan Peterson for some reason, as I hear what they're saying...
And I recognize that they're tapping into something that I think does cut across partisan lines and cuts across these lines of the people that we criticize on this podcast for a number of reasons.
What I hear them conclude is never what we actually need to be healthy.
What they're doing is actually akin to a lot of what's been happening
in the development of new drugs and medications in the quote unquote individualized medicine space
or personalized medicine space.
The sort of hundreds of millions and billions of dollars that have been flowing from Silicon Valley
into companies that are trying to develop personalized genetic protocols.
I'll get back to that.
What I'm hearing these influencers say is that we have systemic problems and we're going to take statistics that predominantly represent poor and minority populations in America because they are experiencing the worst health outcomes and we're only going to offer solutions to people who can afford them.
Because when you strip away all the anger and the rage and the pontificating about these topics, that's always what they're selling.
And that's what I want to talk about for a little while today.
I'm Derek Barris, this is the Conspirituality Podcast, and this episode is called What Are We Doing About Health?
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