Corporations Are Paying Research Groups For Falsified Studies - Right Now Talks To Calley Means
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Callie Means is the co-founder of TruMed in the United States.
He says every institution in healthcare, now whether that be hospitals, big pharma, medical insurance companies, and of course medical schools, they all rely on more sick patients for growth.
He is working to change these incentives.
Last week, Callie appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to reveal that as a consultant for Coca-Cola, he saw them fund human rights groups to slander their opponents.
Just unbelievable.
Callie, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Obviously, I want to get into TrueMed and what you're doing with that project.
But first of all, I just want to talk about your interview with Tucker where you were a consultant for Coca-Cola and they were paying millions of pounds to civil rights groups to slander their opponents.
That blew my mind.
Yeah, early in my career, I thought I was going to be in politics.
So, you know, I was going in for the right reasons and it was a little bit unsettling to see in the U.S.
Maybe in other countries.
From the left and the right, you finish the campaign and you go into consulting.
And inevitably, you're sitting around the table from pharma executives, food executives.
You know, there's not a lot of lobbying groups for diabetic children.
You're usually working for those moneyed special interests.
And it was shocking to see a playbook used again and again, and it's around rigging these institutions of trust, you know, rigging and paying off leading civil rights groups, you know, the NAACP, which has led a lot of great change in American history.
Just a quid pro quo.
We're going to pay you millions of dollars and you call our opponents.
In this case, parents concerned about their children drinking a hundred times more sugar than they did a hundred years ago, call them racist.
You go to think tanks, which are very influential in the United States, just totally pay to play.
And I think most importantly, universities.
University research was basically dictated from public relations offices in Washington, D.C., and that nutrition research, which processed food companies pay 11 times more in nutrition research than the NIH, that impacts nutrition standards, I think, throughout the world, and it's led to really devastation with the 25% prediabetes rate among kids.
Well, we've seen something here, and I saw it in the last couple of days, where there was a so-called study that was showing that the wheat-o's had more nutritional value than beef.
And I was looking at it and I was thinking, wheat-o's?
Like, you know, with all the sugar and all this sort of stuff.
And another thing you were talking about was the fact that, you know, these big corporations, whether it be, you know, in pharma or in food and drink companies, they can pay for peer-reviewed studies.
To show that their product is healthy when it blatantly isn't.
I think we still fall for it every time around the world where if it's on the news, a peer-reviewed study from Stanford, Harvard, from Tufts, it's kind of unimpeachable.
There's nothing more higher trust than a peer-reviewed study from an elite institution.
And when it comes to nutrition, and again, something I'm very passionate about because We're literally, you know, having mass cellular dysfunction, prediabetes, diabetes, you know, 50% of American adults now have prediabetes or diabetes.
It's shocking, right?
It's a first order issue.
You go back, that disastrous 1990s food pyramid, if you guys remember that, was Harvard research paid for by sugar, saying sugar didn't cause obesity.
The foundational research that led really the whole I think Western Diet to change more to carbs was from Harvard research.
And now, the leading nutritional study, as you alluded to, the leading study out of the National Institute of Health, millions of dollars of government funding says Lucky Charms is three times healthier than an egg.
And that would be funny if it wasn't being weaponized and used.
Again, I saw this.
These companies pay for the study.
And when companies are paying, there's billions of dollars spent by companies on nutrition research.
That's not out of philanthropic goodwill.
They're trying to get something.
And what they're getting is they're using those studies to influence nutrition policy.
That is, I was going to say that's unbelievable, but it's actually not at all with just how corrupt the world's become now.
And when I heard you speaking about that, it made me think, you know, Big Pharma, for instance, the last three years have been crazy with all these different, you know, so-called vaccines and new technologies and mandates.
You know, there's no informed consent or anything like that.
And the amount of times that, you know, I would say, you know, this is wrong, you can't force someone to take an injection.
And then people would go, yeah, but look, there's a peer-reviewed study.
And then I'm listening to you and I'm thinking, was there though?
How much did that cost?
Well, it's also just about the focus and the opportunity cost, right?
You know, a pharmaceutical intervention is such a small part of the overall health picture, right?
If a child or adult is metabolically healthy, is eating healthy food, is working out, you know, they have close to 0% chance of dying from COVID.
Of getting diabetes, of getting heart disease, even conditions like Alzheimer's.
That's now called type 3 diabetes.
If you don't have pre-diabetes or diabetes, you're basically not getting Alzheimer's, right?
And that's totally by choice, right?
So it's a real missed opportunity, particularly around COVID, that we didn't have a conversation about metabolic health and slanting the trillions of dollars.
You mentioned at the beginning, trillions of dollars of healthcare incentives.
Everyone makes money when interventions happen once people are sick.
But what if we just ask from blue sky how we could use that trillions of dollars to actually incentivize people to be healthy?
I just refuse to believe that 80% of Americans are overweight or obese.
And I just refuse to think they're systematically trying to kill themselves.
I really think there's systemic issues at play here, you know, that I saw from Greg's system, trillions of dollars of incentive against Americans.
And we need to rethink how we think about policy.
Think about food.
Well this is, you know, if you look at, say for instance, the tobacco industry or even the alcohol industry, you know, they get called out on certain things, they get taxed very heavily.
That's not happening within this side, you know, within the sugar industry or whatever.
And this is, like you said, 80%.
The death rate going forward of that will be astronomical, won't it?
Well, the only difference between I think what the sugar companies are doing and tobacco is the sugar and soda companies are an order of magnitude worse.
You know, our food system is fundamentally at the root of 8 of the 10 largest killers of Americans.
You know, if you have diabetes and diabetes is really just a proxy I use because You know, everyone's on some, almost everyone's on some scale of blood sugar regulation caused by food.
You know, you're three times more likely to be depressed.
Diabetes is cellular dysfunction and 20% of our cells in our brain.
So again, it's really a first order issue.
It's the same here in the UK.
Previously, we would look at America as the obesity capital of the world.
You'd almost make a joke about it, like, I hope I'm not on an airplane with some Americans because the plane will just tip on its side.
But Britain has become the same now.
The obesity here is going through the roof.
It's interesting for me because I was a personal trainer in a previous life.
I was given this food plate, which I think is maybe equivalent to your food pyramid, and I had to tick all the boxes in the exams, and I was thinking, that's nonsense.
Even then, I don't eat like that, and none of the other personal trainers, according to these parameters that they would give us.
And then on the other side, a PT that was far more qualified than me, he took me to one side and he said, mate, if you want to make an absolute fortune in the next 10 years, Get your specific obesity and diabetes level 4 qualifications because you will have a license to print money.
And at the time, I didn't think he was mad, but I was looking around thinking, well, we're not that bad.
And now, he was totally right.
Yeah, I mean it's a shameful situation and it's really discouraging as somebody that loves America and thinks America should be a leader.
We unfortunately are leading in nutrition and the rates of diabetes and obesity is skyrocketing around Asia and China.
China now has the most diabetic patients in the world, unfortunately, because we transferred some of our diet to them.
It's really around three elements.
The basis of the Western diet now is three things.
It's processed grains, And that's a new invention.
We take the fiber off, which makes that green.
The fiber blunts the sugar impact.
It makes it more shelf-stable, but it's a sugar bomb.
And it makes the food highly addictive.
It's a hidden sugar.
Then, of course, added sugar has gone up 100x in 100 years throughout the Western world.
And seed oils, you know, you look at any food, even if it's organic, healthy food, you're going to see canola oil, soybean oil.
These are cheap processed oils that are just created in the past hundred years that are highly inflammatory to actually make the food more addictive.
So that's the basis of the diet that unfortunately we've exported throughout the Western world.
And, you know, in the US, those items are subsidized.
Tens of billions of dollars of subsidies.
So if you can imagine just public policy insanity, where this rig system has subsidized the grains, the corn, which turns into high fructose corn syrup, you know, these foods that are leading to devastation for our health.
And then that costs trillions of dollars of healthcare costs down the road.
So we're really just shooting ourselves in the foot on both sides.
And it looks as well like you've got the big corporations, your Coca-Colas and all these other big food and drink corporations.
It's almost like them and Big Pharma, you know, whether it's a kind of hidden handshake, I don't know.
It's kind of like, look, you use all this cheap stuff so you can make a load, a load of money, make these people sick and then we'll come in to reap the benefits.
It just almost seems like it's a little bit, you know, hidden.
It's a devil's bargain.
I think it's the most important Incentive to understand that impacts our lives that the food system has systematically poisoned folks You know, it's just not normal looking around seeing so many people be so many people diabetic so many people depressed 25% of Americans are on a mental health medication right autoimmune conditions allergies Specific particularly among kids.
It's just off the charts and and the handshake is Is that the medical system has stood silent during that devastation?
You would assume, I think that the medical system, their goal would be to keep people healthy and would be speaking out when, for instance, I was working for Coke in 2012, and they were trying to keep the government subsidies for for soda, you know, 10 billion dollars.
of a government nutrition program goes to soda.
It's the number one item purchased on the chief nutrition program for lower income folks in the United States.
There was nobody from medical schools or, you know, doctors groups speaking out about that, but they've absolutely profited in a complete kind of circle, right?
Just in the past week, the US, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which credentials pediatricians, which is the gold standard, has said that children as young as 12 should receive this new miracle obesity cure.
Now, 40% of kids between 5 and 12 in the United States in 2021 were obese.
We're literally being told that 40% of teenagers should have a weekly obesity miracle cure.
Does anyone think that cure is going to work?
Every condition, chronic condition from heart disease to cancer to diabetes that we've treated in a silo, it goes up.
So this miracle obesity cure which leads to terrible side effects which you can never go off of weak injections for your life and you gain double the weight back.
Clearly, I don't think it's going to be the answer.
It's insane.
Just eat a healthier diet and do exercise.
There you go.
One prescription.
Done.
Well, if you take a statin, or take metformin for diabetes, or take this Miracle Obesity Cure, and a child is still eating that sugar, eating that canola oil, if they're not changing their behavior and diet, their cells are still their fuel for their body.
This is so simple.
I don't know why, you know, a tech pro is having to say this and doctors aren't.
But if they're still eating horrible food, you're right, they're going to get other diseases, even if
potentially there, this obesity drug is making them eat less. That's the fuel
for our bodies.
And the problem is we're fueling our bodies with poison. So until you change
that, that's why you know, all these silo treatments will, you know, lead to
other diseases.
Nothing's getting better.
And that's what pharma is profiting.
You know, pharma and hospitals and medical schools, as you said, they profit from interventions.
They profit from more people being sick.
You know, many good people in those industries, this is a larger than one person, but that is absolutely what is happening.
Yeah.
Well, a patient cured is a patient lost, isn't it, in terms of the finances?
But on a more, you know, positive note than TrueMed, let's talk about TrueMed.
So what is this?
You're the co-founder.
What are you trying to do through this organization in terms of making things better?
Yeah, so high level, and this is a It can be a somewhat depressing conversation and diving in and really caring about this issue.
Last year, I would say I was a little bit depressed about this.
I actually think it's empowering.
I actually think that this is actually optimistic.
The fact that, you know, in the Western world, we're able to talk about this, you know, people are able to write books, podcasts, many of which have influenced me.
I think there's a lot of people waking up.
And I think the fundamental question we have to ask is how do we change the incentives of the healthcare system to make people healthy?
So, I think personally, what TrueMed is doing is this idea of food as medicine.
There are thousands of studies.
We shouldn't need these studies, but there are showing that food and exercise are far more effective than a pharmaceutical product for almost any condition.
If you exercise 150 minutes a week for three months, that's more effective than SSRI.
For lowering depression, you know, obviously for heart disease, diabetes.
So, you know, we, we know that implicitly we need to incentivize food.
So the United States, if a doctor writes you a note for food, it actually can count for pre-tax spending.
A few people know that.
So we're working to make that as seamless as possible, actually write prescriptions for food, and you can buy exercise equipment or healthy food with pre-tax dollars is 30, 40% savings.
So It's one example of, I think, where healthcare policy needs to go.
And I think, frankly, some European countries are doing this a lot better, where there's more incentives for healthy food.
That's great.
So where can people find TrueMed?
Where can people see what you're doing and get involved potentially?
Yeah, TrueMed.com is our website.
You can sign up and learn.
And we're, you know, we're serving folks in the United States, but we're really creating movement and content around food is medicine and bringing a lot of leaders into space.
And so sign up there.
And my Twitter, Kali Means, I'm just announcing a lot on that.
We've got a highlighting a lot of these things, highlighting a lot of the corruption and also the solutions.
I'm writing a book with my sister, who's a doctor who left the medical system after seeing how bad it was.
Follow me on Twitter, Kali Means, and trumet.com is our website.
That's fantastic.
Thank you so much for joining us.
It's so important what you're doing because, you know, not only in terms of the lobbying and all this kind of stuff that these companies are doing, but also there's a normalization or there's a push to normalize obesity at the moment, particularly in the West, which is so dangerous for kids.
Thanks for highlighting this.
People are waking up and I think the first step is just understanding the incentives and being an empowered patient.
And I think a lot of people are doing that and understanding what's happening.