Casey and Calley Means expose how Big Pharma and processed food giants—backed by $3M Pfizer grants to med schools and FDA lobbying—engineer chronic diseases, from 74% U.S. obesity to rising childhood autism, using ultra-processed foods (e.g., HFCS, seed oils) and drugs like Ozempic, which a $3T Medicare bill would subsidize despite thyroid cancer risks. Their mother’s preventable pancreatic cancer and kids as young as six prescribed untested metabolic meds reveal a system prioritizing profits over prevention, with industrial farming’s omega-6-heavy crops and pesticide-laced produce (e.g., atrazine) rewiring biology for dependency. They demand executive orders to ban USDA conflicts of interest, cap drug prices, and replace Obamacare’s sick-care incentives with whole-food tax breaks—arguing metabolic collapse isn’t inevitable but a corporate design, masked by credentialed gaslighting from Michelle Obama’s soda-funded "Let’s Move!" to YouTube demonetizing their warnings. [Automatically generated summary]
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Okay, so I actually think this book so I actually think this book is going to...
Did well, was president of my Stanford class, you know, graduating, taught my class with honors in medical school and went on to a very competitive surgical subspecialty.
I'm in the operating room in my fifth year of my surgical residency, and I'm looking down at a patient in front of me who's on our third revision sinus surgery.
And I know how to diagnose her.
I know how to write the prescriptions.
I know how to do the surgery.
But what I kind of realized in that moment was like, I have no idea why this patient's actually sick.
She has so many other health issues, prediabetes, arthritis.
She's got some brain fog.
She's got obesity, and she's got this sinus issue.
And in my training, I was never, ever, ever taught.
To look at the whole patient, to look at how all these things are connected.
And I was only taught how to do the surgery and then bill for it.
And I realized that there's a huge problem in how we're practicing medicine right now, which is we're ignoring the root causes of why Americans are sick.
And we're profiting off of patients getting sick and then doing things to them.
That's the way the business model of healthcare works.
The way that healthcare, which is the largest and fastest growing industry in the United States, makes money is you have more patients in the system having more things done to them for longer periods.
And when I kind of put some of these pieces together and realized that my training had totally, essentially incapacitated me from really understanding why patients are sick and how to actually help them thrive, I actually had to walk away from the surgical world because I realized that I was going to be making money off of essentially...
Not spending time helping patients understand their health and actually just profiting off their illness.
I knew that I couldn't cut into one more person until I understood why Americans are getting sicker every single year.
I think that the unfortunate thing is that doctors don't really understand because every level of our education is systematically focused on blinding us from thinking about root causes.
We have over 100 medical and surgical subspecialties right now.
And how you make money in the American healthcare system is you take a patient with 10 different issues and you send them to 10 different specialists, put them on 10 different meds, eventually have 10 different surgeries.
You never actually are taught how to put the pieces together, look at the whole body as a system, which of course it is.
And part of this is because, you know, who are the people underwriting our medical education?
It's the pharmaceutical companies.
You know, we are taught how to be very algorithmic and robotic in how we look at patients.
And so, ultimately, I left the surgical world and I went down the rabbit hole of asking why.
This is the thing that I understood and that I am working and we are spending our lives to evangelize this book, Good Energy, is that the reasons why Americans are getting sicker every year are very simple.
Americans want to be healthy.
Americans do not want to die early.
They do not want to see their kids with all these chronic health issues like autism and food allergies and obesity and prediabetes and 40% of teens with mental health issues.
No one wants this, but the system is rigged against the American patient to create diseases and then profit off of them.
This is happening across almost every level of our major industries from processed food to tech to pharma.
And so really what Americans need to understand is that these trends can stop immediately.
We need to understand why we're sick, which is primarily our toxic food system, and the ways that systematically several industries are profiting off of our addiction and illness.
And if we can understand that and create very simple top-down and bottom-up strategies to address it, Americans will become rapidly healthier.
And so as a physician, I took an oath.
I took an oath to help patients thrive.
And so the way that we can do that is by helping people understand the levers of corruption that are essentially keeping us sick.
Yeah, so Casey was a bit smarter than me on the biology route.
I wanted to be contributing to politics from an early age and went to Stanford.
To go back into politics.
I studied economics, political science, went straight back to campaigns after school.
What I learned quickly is that in campaigns over, you work for the biggest spenders in D.C. And I found myself across the desk from food industry and the pharma industry.
The pharma industry spends five times more in D.C. than the oil industry.
By far the biggest spender.
Bipartisan, you're working for pharma.
But starting with food, I learned early on that the food industry, and this is my construct, the food industry...
And the processed food industry was created by the cigarette industry.
And I think this is very telling.
It's something I learned.
So in the 1990s, the two largest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris.
What happened is when the Surgeon General way too late in the 1980s said cigarettes were maybe problematic, these were some of the largest companies in the world with the largest cash piles of any company in the world.
So what they did is they used their cash piles to buy food companies.
We think about the 80s as the Wall Street era M&A in a lot of deals.
The two biggest M&A deals up until 1990 in world history were cigarette companies buying food companies.
So you had in the 90s these two cigarette companies very strategically do two things.
They shifted their thousands of scientists who were experts at making cigarettes addictive to the food department.
So we had the rise of ultra-processed food where our food now is a science experiment.
The second thing they did is they shifted their lobbying.
So the cigarette industry, of course, was the biggest lobbying spenders and had a good playbook.
They shifted their playbook on lobbying and rigging institutions of trust to food, so they created the food pyramid.
So the cigarette industry, through the food companies they bought, paid off the FDA, the USDA, Harvard to create reports saying sugar doesn't cause obesity.
And they lobbied for the food pyramid in the 1990s, we all remember, which said animal-based fats are bad, carbs are good.
Remember, carbs and sugar were basically the base of the pyramid.
So the American diet, because of that, because we trust our medical institutions, which they know, we shifted our diet significantly to ultra-processed food.
It was very intentional, the food pyramid.
That was an ultra-processed food marketing document that carbs were fine, sugar was fine.
And that shifted, and you look at dietary patterns.
Today, kids, a child diet is 70% ultra-processed food.
Now, what does that mean?
Those are literally foods invented by the cigarette industry to addict kids.
Obviously, we've got sugar, but there's thousands of different ingredients and science concoctions that scientists work in a lab to make it more palatable, to make it more addictive.
So food consumption, calorie consumption has skyrocketed.
And the byproduct of these toxic ingredients that the cigarette industry I watched and helped with this bought off the USDA, bought off the FDA, is they wreak havoc among our cells.
The foundation of our diet is ingredients that we aren't biologically made to eat that didn't exist 100 years ago.
The foundation of our diet is three things when you look at any label.
It's added sugar.
Processed sugar, which basically didn't exist 100 years ago.
It's just from natural sources.
Ultra-processed grains, which were invented 100 years ago.
The processing takes the fiber off.
They're basically hidden sugars, devoid of nutritional value.
And seed oils.
Seed oils are the top source of American calories.
This is the baseline of American calories right now.
And these seed oils...
We're actually created by John D. Rockefeller as a byproduct of oil production.
It's basically engine lubricant.
And Rockefeller and those aligned with him actually lobbied to have this suitable for human consumption.
That's how sea oils came into the American diet.
They're much cheaper, but they're highly inflammatory.
And just by definition, just at the highest level, these ingredients and all the chemicals we can't name that are in ultra-processed food are not...
So, you saw that?
Oh, my first week as working for these industries, it was a list of top professors.
And the food industry pays 11 times more for foundational nutrition research than the NIH. You go to any nutrition school in the country, the lifeblood of their school, they'll proudly admit this is from the processed food industry.
In the past two years, there's been 50,000 peer-reviewed research studies on nutrition.
We're the only animal that has peer-reviewed nutrition studies, and we're the only animals that are systematically obese, diabetic, and being crippled by metabolic dysfunction.
We're born with an innate sense of knowing what's right for us.
The problem, very strategically, and this is well-known among the industry, is the ultra-processed food does because they're able to do this science experiment with their food.
It hijacks our biology.
It hijacks our satiety signals.
High-fructose corn syrup, fructose...
It makes us want to eat more because in the wild, when you see a bunch of fruit out there, you're well advised to eat it historically.
We've basically rigged our biology to hijack our signals that make us satiated.
So that's what ultra-processed food does.
So that's the food industry.
The food industry actually, with their own set interests, want to make food addictive and cheaper.
It kind of makes sense.
The criminal devil's bargain.
Is that it's highly tied to the healthcare industry.
And as Casey said, the fastest growing industry in America right now isn't AI. It's not tech.
It's healthcare.
It's the largest and fastest growing industry.
And just as a statement of economic fact, the best thing for that industry is a child getting sick.
When a child gets sick or any American gets sick with a chronic condition, with diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, heart disease, whatever.
They go on a lifetime medication.
They go on the metformin.
They go on the statin.
They have lifetime treatments.
And they keep racking up more comorbidities.
If you're diabetic, you have an average of four other comorbidities.
So you keep racking up, but you don't die.
You just suffer.
You inevitably get infertility, depression.
You start racking them up.
So that's very good for the medical system to have these chronic conditions that need to be managed.
Just from a pure economic standpoint, that's how the system's set up.
That's all happening largely because of our food system and other metabolic habits we can talk about, but largely because of our rise of ultra-processed food that's really hacking our cells and really hijacking our cells.
The criminal part, the devil's bargain, is that the healthcare system, you'd expect to be speaking out about why we're getting so sick.
But they're not only silent on the reasons.
They don't only train Casey the first day of Stanford Med School that we're basically taking it as a given that people are lazy and going to get sick.
We're just going to profit from treating them.
They're silent.
They're actually complicit.
Working for Coke, I helped steer money to the American...
They actually pay money to the American Diabetes Association.
They actually pay money to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
If there's one thing the American Diabetes Association, which sets the standard of care for diabetes management, should be doing, they should be saying, we're not going to accept money from Coke, which is diabetes water.
This was a condition that no pediatrician would have seen in their lifetime.
50 years ago, 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes.
We have 18% of teens with fatty liver disease, a disease that used to be in late-stage alcoholics.
Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the elderly.
Young adult cancers are up 79%.
And this is the first year in American history we're estimated to have over 2 million cases of cancer.
25% of American women are on an antidepressant medication.
40% of 18-year-olds.
a mental health diagnosis.
We have the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the entire developed world, despite sending 2X on infant and maternal care than any other country.
So you have a higher risk of dying as a woman giving birth in America than any other developed country in the world.
Autism rates in kids are one in 36 nationally.
This was one in 1500 in the year 2000, and the screening has not changed in California where I live.
Now, the thing that people need to understand is that all of these conditions are caused or driven by the exact same thing.
Which is metabolic dysfunction.
This core foundational issue of how our bodies on the cellular level function, which is driven by our toxic food system and our toxic environment.
These subtle insidious forces that are creating slow progressive illness starting now in fetal life that allow patients to be profitable and on the pharma treadmill for their entire lives.
They make us sick, but they don't kill us.
And then we are drugged for life.
You look at what's happening in children.
A child born in a hospital in the United States today, within hours of coming from source into this body, the first thing that happens to them is pharmaceutical intervention.
Without really asking, you know, I mean, there's barely informed consent about this.
That child's eyes are smeared.
With erythromycin ointment, and they're given a hepatitis B vaccine in their first day of life.
And what are these two things for?
I mean, I mentioned this because it's just emblematic of how we're put on the pharma treadmill from the moment we are born in this country for reasons that are very strange.
The erythromycin ointment is to prevent chlamydial infections of the eye, which we test women for chlamydia.
So why would every baby in the United States need this ointment if the mom doesn't have it?
And the Hep B vaccine is for hepatitis B, which is a sexually transmitted disease, an IV drug user disease, of course, which babies are not going to be exposed to.
And yet every single baby in America is getting the intervention.
So from literally the day we are born, we're in this treadmill.
So let's get out of the passion of this debate and just talk about the economic incentives.
Let's take the Hep B, okay?
There's actually no dynamic in American capitalism like the vaccine schedule because the second you get something on that schedule, the government's paying hundreds of billions of dollars for a product that's then mandated for every single American living.
And can I just say, so this will appear on all kinds of different social media platforms, but maybe the biggest is YouTube, owned by Google, and they will censor this, they will demonetize this video.
Just so far, you have not attacked vaccines, but you are...
I'm showing evidence of some skepticism of their efficacy or the need for them.
And YouTube will demonetize this video for what you just said.
You're a Stanford-educated physician, but YouTube has decided you're not allowed to say this.
And I think this is such an important conversation because I'd ask everyone listening, if they can still listen to this, is why is YouTube, why is the media, by the way, YouTube and the media are heavily funded by pharma.
Pharma.
Pharma is the number one funder of mainstream news media and one of the largest funders just demonstrably, just factually.
It's just a fact for YouTube ads.
You can't watch a YouTube video without seeing pharma ads.
So just like their funding and have a direct line.
As we talked about this last time, working for these industries, we paid tech companies, we paid media companies, not even to influence consumers, but to have a direct line to them.
It's part of the public affairs strategy, right?
We know that if we can fund a large part of YouTube's ad budget, we have a direct line of communication to those companies.
And then we have studies from Harvard that we've paid for, too, saying that it's anti-science to say anything that questions our products, which we can jam down the throats of the people that we now have a direct line of communication to.
There's very little conflict of interest rules for academic studies.
So the game is clear.
You fund the academic studies and you have the seal of Harvard, the seal of the NIH, saying that these pharmaceutical products are perfect.
And then you use those studies to influence the tech companies and the media companies that you've also paid and have a direct line of communication that there's misinformation.
Let's get back to Hep B, but I just want to make one macro point.
It's the selective outrage.
Why are we so concerned about talking about vaccines?
Why is it such an impetus from our trusted institutions that you are a horrible parent if you even ask a question about 72 shots to your kids?
And why isn't there that level of urgency around childhood nutrition?
Why is it, oh, we can't possibly expect parents not to load their kids with a bunch of sugar and all these toxic ingredients.
And by the way, those people can't afford whole food.
It's actually racist and classist even suggests people should be able to...
We can't possibly expect parents to have non-toxic food, but when it comes to pharmaceutical interventions, there's no price too high, and if you don't follow it to a T, you're a terrible person.
Why is it when we have 9 out of 10 killers of Americans are preventable lifestyle conditions, when 95% of medical costs go towards reversible chronic conditions that Casey's talking about, why isn't there that urgency?
Why during COVID, which was a metabolic condition, this was a disease that attacked weak immune systems.
This was a disease that only killed people that were overweight or metabolically dysfunctional.
Americans died at a much higher rate than European or Asian countries.
Why wasn't there the same?
Emphasis on hardening up our immune systems and attacking the root cause of that.
And it was all the airtime was around a pharmaceutical solution.
This doesn't actually make sense, but it gets to the money.
So working for the pharma companies, there's just nothing better than getting on the vaccine schedule.
And that should not be a controversial comment, right?
If you have a list of drugs that are mandated for every single American and pay for that government, you want to get on that schedule.
I would ask the media companies and ask YouTube to have the same passion for childhood chronic disease and nutrition as they do for enforcing unanimity on pharmaceutical injections for kids.
I pushed, and I welcome any doctor to respond to this.
I pushed leading medical experts on this.
I'm like, okay, so a child's born, let's just take the side, the child's born.
Hep B is spread by two routes, sexually transmitted disease or intravenous needles.
So my one-day-old isn't going to be having sex or doing heroin right away.
So what's the purpose of getting this on the schedule in the first day of life, the first hours of life?
And if you push, and I welcome anyone to do this with their doctor, you get to two things.
You get to the American patients are too stupid to remember, so we need to do it right away.
That's literally what they say.
And then my doctor told me that a child at daycare could trip over a needle that has hepatitis B on it.
That's literally what they get to.
That a needle could be on the playground that somebody just did heroin or something, threw the needle down and it has hepatitis B blood on it.
I asked the doctor, has there ever been in human history a case of hepatitis B being transferred that way?
They said no.
It's only through intravenous needles and sex.
So you actually, just to steel man this, and again, welcome anyone to respond.
There is not actually a scenario, absent of intravenous needles or sex, that a person gets hepatitis B. There is not a reason for this to be given.
But it happened, and I saw this.
It was a huge investment for this vaccine.
It was a huge, huge economic problem.
And this shouldn't be controversial.
Think about being at these drug companies.
You want the drug given out when you've made the investment.
So they're able to work with their buddies at the FDA. They're able to use the studies.
There's this constant feeling in the medical community that the American people are too stupid to ask a question or too stupid to remember to take these important drugs.
So there's this argument and momentum to get on the schedule day one.
But there's no, there's not actually a medical lesson.
I mean, there's not a single medication that exists that doesn't have side effects and where there's not some, you know, range of things that can happen when you inject something in the body.
And for the hep B vaccine in particular, I mean, the two of the handful of inactive ingredients are formaldehyde.
And aluminum, which is a neurotoxin.
And of course, they'll say, like, oh, for the body weight of the baby, it's negligible, whatever.
But when you're getting several shots at one time, these things make a difference.
You know, our bodies are overwhelmed right now with the amount of toxic inputs that are going in, and they're breaking our bodies, right?
If it's not necessary for the vast majority of kids to have this at birth, and you could give it to them when they reach teenage years, right?
And they're much bigger, and their bodies can handle more of these, you know, these chemicals and toxins that are in these shots, then you have to ask yourself, why are we exposing the whole population to potential risk that any pharmaceutical medication will have a risk of side effects?
If it's not necessary.
And that's a question that I think every parent should be able to ask.
But like Callie talks about, you follow the money, it's pretty sinister.
I mean, you look at the American Academy of Pediatrics and who are their main funders?
Mead Johnson, who makes formula, the company that makes influenza vaccines, Abbott Nutrition, which makes formula.
These people are funding the organization that cherry-picks the research to make our pediatric guidelines.
Hundreds of thousands of papers that are published every year about the importance of nutrition and exercise and sleep and avoiding pesticides and avoiding plastics in our foods.
Just tens of thousands of papers every single year.
But what goes into the guidelines, which are created by professional organizations like the American Diabetes Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, who are funded by things like processed food companies.
And then, of course, in the case of the ADA, people like Coca-Cola and Cadbury.
So, you know, people will always say...
Cadbury, the chocolate company, has funded millions for the American Diabetes Association.
So you just said at the five minutes ago, you were outlining this terrifying and sad and catastrophic series of stats describing the total collapse of public health in the United States.
And so who cares what the guidelines are?
Doesn't anyone just sort of zoom out for a second and be like, all these kids have diabetes, which leads to dementia.
I mean, it's how many chart notes can you write and bill every day?
That's why doctors are seeing 30 to 40 patients a day with 15 different diagnoses for each one.
Obviously, you can't help that patient thrive and get healthier.
All you can do is write the prescription because we are paid for volume.
And the unofficial mantra of all doctors must know that.
All doctors know.
The unofficial mantra of private practice medicine is you eat.
What you kill, which means you get paid, you eat, for how much volume you can do, how many surgeries you can sell, how many people you can get through in and out of your office.
Now, back in when Obamacare was coming about, they were, you know, which was an...
Really, an utter failure.
There was lip service that was paid to this idea of value-based care, which sounds great on paper, right?
So value is good outcomes over lower cost.
This sounds great.
We'll get paid more as doctors if we have better outcomes over lower cost.
What is the highest value intervention you can do for a patient?
Get them to eat healthy.
Doesn't cost a lot.
Incredible outcomes universally, right?
Get them to sleep, get them to exercise.
We would have moved towards that.
But even that was corrupted by corporate interests because how the doctor had to report on quality was through these metrics called MIPS, basically, you know, merit-based incentive little criteria.
Most of them were based on how many of their patients were medicated.
So instead of a doctor having to report quality as, I have a patient who got better, who got healthier, it was how much of the patient population was on long-term medication.
So the actual good outcome was defined by medication adherence in a practice rather than is the patient...
But can I ask you, I mean, again, I don't want to get too personal, but what about the doctors that you were trained with or served under who trained you?
I think that because med school is funded by pharma, when I was at Stanford Medical School, we got a $3 million grant from Pfizer to revise our curriculum.
And you can look up the articles from this time.
It was around 2011. The grant was with no strings attached.
They had no control over what the curriculum development was going to be.
But if you're accepting $3 million from Pfizer, of course it's going to have an influence on what we're learning.
It's sort of hard to hear that and not, again, one doesn't want to be judgmental.
However, that seems like criminal behavior to me.
Here's something you may not have known.
Back in 2015, the Congress of the United States repealed something called the Country of Origin Labeling Act.
Now, why is this relevant to you?
Well, it means, among other things, that when you buy beef at the supermarket that says made in the USA, it may not actually be.
In fact, it could be, likely is, from a foreign country.
It means that repackaging foreign meat...
It's a lie.
It's an absolute lie.
Most people don't even know what's happening.
So how can you be sure that the meat you're eating is from the United States and has been raised with the highest quality standards and is the tastiest?
It's truly made here.
Well, it's simple.
You can go to our friends at Meriwether Farms.
Meriwether Farms is an American small business.
It's based in Riverton, Wyoming.
We know the people who run it, and they're great people.
Is that we have convinced people and doctors that the body is a hundred separate parts.
The body is one system, one unified system, obviously.
Something happening in your toe can affect everywhere else in the body.
And yet we have essentially brainwashed people and doctors to believe that specialization is king, right?
What is the most prestigious doctor, right?
It's someone who is hyper-sub-specialized.
We basically diminish the value of primary care and pediatrics, these general specialties, yet someone who's a neuro-otologist is like at the peak of the lab.
What is that?
It's literally someone who did my residency, so five years of head and neck surgery residency, and then two additional years just focusing on...
Two square inches of the ear to focus on the ear, basically, and do surgery of the ear.
That is the Dean of Stanford.
Right now, the Dean of Stanford Medical School is a neurotologist.
So the more specialized you get, the more prestigious you get.
And what this does is it creates a system in which we actually start to see the body as 100 different separate parts, and we lose sight of how all of these things are connected.
We lose sight of the research that's telling us how all these diseases are connected, that the diabetes that's happening all over your body.
Actually, we know that type 2 diabetes greatly increases our risk for hearing loss, but a neurotologist doesn't really want to think about that.
They want to operate on the ear, right?
And so you lose sight of the connections and you get a patient in 15 different specialist offices.
So many Americans are going through this right now, where you go to the primary care doctor with 10 issues and you end up with 10 different referrals to different specialists.
And no one has any education, time, or financial incentive to think about.
How all those diseases are related.
So what you do is you have specialists reacting to the symptoms happening in different parts of the body rather than anyone understanding how to think about how it's all connected.
Which when you go down that road, when you start asking why, you realize it is extremely, extremely simple.
That all aspects of modern American society are rigged against the American patient to get us addicted to food.
Allegiant to pharma and just spending 10 hours a day on our phones addicted, and now we are all sick, our bodies are breaking, and it's leading to all these organ-specific symptoms that are related to a very simple root cause.
We were reading sacred texts and the Bible and Rumi and Ayn Rand and all these different things from a young age, discussing it at the dinner table, thinking about...
Even though, so the incentive for parents, at least in D.C., where I raised my children, is to tell people in your neighborhood, your friends, that you have a daughter who's a Stanford-educated doctor.
They never pushed us to even, they never, I never once ever in our entire childhood, they said, you need to go to your college counseling meeting, ever.
Ever.
They were about having fun and thinking.
We were, you know, they were older parents, too.
You know, my parents were in their 40s when they had us.
They lived lives.
They were not living through us.
They were spiritually grounded.
They're not afraid of death.
You know, they aren't driven by the materialism that just makes you rack up a wall full of, you know, awards.
And, I mean, there's privilege involved in it, too, of course.
Like, we had- Financial backstop.
A lot of my friends going to medicine, they were supporting their families, right?
And I have so much respect for that and the fact that people's options are limited.
But doctors are in a trap.
It's $500,000 of education.
You have this guaranteed salary and all you have to do is drink the Kool-Aid.
All you have to do is stay heads down and not ask questions, not ask why.
And you can really feel good about your work, right?
People are sick as hell in this country and we do need people to be doing heart surgery or else people will die.
The thing that is so imperative for people to understand is that the reasons we're having surgery, the reasons why we're getting sick, the reasons why American competitiveness is plummeting, the reasons why our kids are chronically ill, half of the kids in America are chronically ill, are all from preventable issues.
So if you're a doctor who's not spending any time on focusing on that, then unfortunately, for better or worse, you are bankrolling on the problem.
And, you know, I was told such a bill of lies, like, climb the corporate, you know, climb the medical ladder, become the chair of an institution.
I can think of no greater thing that we can do than have children and keep them healthy, right?
And I just, you know, up until a couple years ago, I didn't even want to have children because I thought it was a liability to this value system of just, like, rise the ranks, you know, make money, but...
I don't think there's anything more important we could be doing than creating healthy children who are thinking for themselves, who are eating healthy food, and I cannot wait for that role.
And I think it's a spiritual corruption of our society right now that we have forgotten that this is the most important thing that we can do.
You know, it's unbelievable how far off we are, and I think it is deeply a spiritual crisis because we have lost sight of what really matters in our lives.
And I think my mom, she's sort of the archetypal American patient.
She's someone who was totally faithful to the American healthcare system and like so many other Americans was ultimately completely let down by it.
You know, she passed away far too early after 40 years of completely missed warning signs of the root causes of all the different symptoms and conditions she was racking up.
She had me when she was 40. I was a humongous baby born at Sibley Hospital.
I was almost 12 pounds.
Callie was almost 12 pounds.
And that's a huge baby.
And there's actually a term for a baby over 8.5 pounds, which is fetal macrosomia, which portends metabolic issues in a mother and metabolic issues in the baby.
And I had them.
I was 210 pounds by the time I was in eighth grade.
And my mom...
Had trouble losing the baby weight.
Had a very tough menopause.
In her 60s, got all the American diagnoses.
High cholesterol, they gave her a statin.
High blood pressure, they gave her an acentibiter.
High blood sugar, they gave her metformin.
Oh, this is normal.
It's a rite of passage.
Every American's getting these diseases.
So she went to all the specialists.
She went to the cardiologist and the endocrinologist and her primary care doctor, got all these medications.
And then she's 72 years old, doing everything the doctors are telling her to do, taking the pills every single day.
And she gets a diagnosis of...
She has some...
Belly pain one day, went to the doctor.
It lasted for a few weeks.
She got a CT scan, stage four, widely metastatic pancreatic cancer.
She was dead 13 days later.
And she was seen at the best hospitals in the country.
She was getting executive physicals at Mayo.
She was being seen at Stanford and Palatal Medical Foundation.
And they looked at us in the eye.
They looked at us after her death and said, oh my God, this is so unlucky.
And I knew enough at that time to know there was nothing unlucky about this.
This was an entirely predictable sequence of events from the age of 40 to the age of 72. And she had, as you've suggested, I think, every possible advantage.
Like, clearly, high-functioning person who followed the guidance had the means to do it, had a daughter with specialty knowledge, a physician daughter.
So you believe, so pancreatic cancer specifically, if my memory serves, and I think it does, was kind of an unusual, it was always famously dangerous, deadly.
Ostensibly, these chemicals are being used 6 billion pounds globally per year because of pest control.
They're also being used on our children's parks and golf courses and all over the place.
They're invisible, they're tasteless, and they are directly toxic to our cellular biology.
So they're pesticide.
Side is the word for the act of killing.
So herbicides and pesticides, fungicides.
And they are so toxic that 20% of all suicides globally...
are performed by drinking pesticides.
And yet we're told by our government that they're totally safe.
This one will shock you.
But you look at...
So, you know, the largest merger ever done in Germany was Bayer-Monsanto, where Bayer, which is a pharmaceutical company, merged with Monsanto, which is an agrochemical company in the United States.
If you look at what Bayer makes, they make cancer drugs for things like non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
And if you look at what Monsanto makes, which is Roundup, which is the most widely used pesticide in America, the cancer that it causes is non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
They've paid out $11 billion in the past couple of years for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases.
So the companies are merging that are directly known to cause the disease with a medical company that has a treatment for the disease.
This is very, very...
And so, like Callie said, it's kind of this revolving door between create the illness, treat the illness, and hide the science that tells us what's happening.
But this is all a result of the food industry wanting food cheaper.
And we spend per capita half as much on food as they do in Europe.
But we spend three times more per capita on healthcare.
So, my big point to everyone is this is not the free market at work.
Food companies lobbying to have neurotoxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals on our food that are toxic that aren't allowed on any other food in any other developed country in order to make food a lot cheaper.
And then to your point about what do these chemicals do, it increases estrogen.
And these kids are inhaling hormone-disrupting chemicals.
So the New York Times recently had a front-page article.
That puberty rates, particularly among women in the United States, are plummeting.
The average girl in America is hitting puberty, which is sexual maturity, six years earlier than they were in 1900. We have the earliest puberty rates of any continent in the world.
It's age 10 to 13. And this is, in large part, thought to do.
Because we're literally giving children estrogen with all the plastics we're ingesting, which are xenoestrogens, meaning they are exogenous artificial estrogens, and the pesticides, which can activate the estrogen receptors like atrazine.
I mean, you can put atrazine, which is a pesticide that we spray about 70 million pounds of in the U.S. every year.
There are nanoparticles of plastic in the air we're breathing.
They're in our water.
They're covering every piece of food that we buy in the grocery store.
You go to Europe, all the vegetables are just, you know.
They're just in these free markets.
They're not packaged.
In the US, you go to Trader Joe's, every single piece of food is covered in plastic.
You've got the plastic water bottles.
Every single can that we drink in the United States is lined with a plastic coating.
Every single one.
It's all getting in.
And this can actually directly disrupt our mitochondrial function, which is the metabolic machinery of the cell.
So microplastics actually can disrupt the way we make energy in the body.
And we know that metabolic issues are the root cause of every chronic illness facing Americans today.
You can't make this up, you know?
And then there's many effects of these things, but endocrine disrupting and mitochondrial disruption are two of the really big ones.
Then you've got the kids eating 70% of their calories that a child is eating today is from a factory, industrially manufactured ultra-processed foods.
We know that these foods are destroying our cellular biology.
So it's really, you know, and with school start times, kids are not getting enough sleep.
So across sleep, across movement, you know, the average kid is spending Less time outdoors than a prisoner in America right now.
Like, kids are not going outside.
We're not getting the sunshine.
Our circadian rhythms are destroyed.
So every level of society, public school start times, are disrupting our food, our nutrients, our sleep, our stress and dopamine, our movement patterns, and our toxins.
There's nothing more profitable than a sick child, as I said, or really hijacking a kid's dopamine, right?
Think about the trillions of dollars that are generated from a child's dopamine being hacked being on that phone all day.
You know, it's neither good nor bad necessarily.
It's just an economic fact.
There's a huge incentive for that kid to be, you know, their chronic stress to be just triggered nonstop on that phone.
There's huge profit for a child to be addicted to ultra-processed food and continuing to demand from their parents that food.
There's huge incentive for a child to be sick and getting on the statins, which are doubled in prescription rates in high schools in the past 10 years, to get on the SSRIs that are now handed out like candy in high schools, to get on the metformin, to get on the Ozempic, which is now being recommended.
They're pushing for 60 years old enough for if your child is overweight, lifetime prescription Ozempic.
That's very profitable.
So you have basically the free market at work.
I think capitalism is the greatest invention in human history.
But just looking agnostically at the incentives, it's as many pills as we can give that kid, as much we can keep that kid in fear, as much as we can keep that kid sick without dying right away.
That's what's fueling the largest industries in the country.
Most of us, well, actually all of us, go through our daily lives using all sorts of, quote, free technology.
Without paying attention to why it's, quote, free, who's paying for this and how?
Think about it for a minute.
Think about your free email account, the free messenger system used to chat with your friends, the free weather app or game app you open up and never think about.
It's all free.
But is it?
No, it's not free.
These companies aren't developing expensive products and just giving them to you because they love you.
They're doing it because their programs take all your information.
They hoover up your data, private personal data, and sell it to data brokers and the government.
And all of those people who are not your friends are very interested in manipulating you and your personal political and financial decisions.
It's scary as hell.
And it's happening out in the open without anybody saying anything about it.
This is a huge problem.
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Let me just ask, there's so many, this could go on 10 hours.
Let's just stop with the Zempick really quick, because the Zempick, and you and I had a pretty remarkable conversation about the Zempick, and at the end of it, I thought, well, that's never going to be popular, because that's kind of terrifying.
I was wrong as usual, and now it is ubiquitous.
Kids are taking it, college students are taking it.
And what's so interesting, like Callie said earlier, we are the only species in the world that has an obesity and chronic disease epidemic.
The only species in the world that has a chronic disease and obesity epidemic because of ultra-processed food.
You think about every other animal in the wild, they're eating real natural foods, except for domesticated animals, which are also getting chronic diseases, just like humans, because they're eating our food.
But every other animal, they're able to regulate their satiety.
They're not eating themselves to death like we are.
We're literally eating ourselves to death.
The reason is because these foods, like Callie talked about with the cigarette companies and the scientists moving to create addictive ultra-processed foods, they are designed to subvert our satiety mechanisms like GLP-1 secretion so that we never know that we're full.
But if we were eating whole, real food, we would cue the exquisite satiety mechanisms in our bodies and we would not overeat.
If you're eating real, whole, unprocessed, nutrient-rich foods, we have receptors in our gut that make us feel full.
If you can convince people that this is not true and defy the entire animal kingdom, what's happening with other animals, this could be.
On track to be the most profitable medication ever in human history.
It will be if the powers that be let it.
And the unfortunate part is that it doesn't take our bodies out of the toxic stew that's crushing our biology.
Yes, we may melt some fat, but we're essentially creating starvation to melt fat and muscle without changing any of the other levers that we just talked about that are crushing our biology.
It disproportionately causes to lose muscle mass, which creates frailty, which is one of the things that can cause people in old age to have very poor quality of life and early death.
It has a higher rate of thyroid cancer.
Risks on the label of kidney dysfunction, of pancreatitis, of all sorts of things.
Every medication has side effects.
So if we're going to mass prescribe this...
So there's a bill right now in Congress, HR 4818, which is the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act.
And you look at this and you think, oh, this is great.
The government's focusing more on obesity and this is awesome.
There's one line that all that matters in that.
Which is that they want to expand Medicare access to include coverage for obesity medications, which are these drugs, for people that include overweight and obese.
That is 74% of the American population.
If this bill goes through and everyone who is eligible for this drug gets it paid by taxpayers, that will represent over $3 trillion per year in drugs to the American people without changing.
Any of the root causes of what is making us sick.
And to add insult to injury, this will be taxpayer money being largely funneled to Europe, who makes the drug.
And the American Academy of Pediatrics, in their most recent obesity guidelines, are recommending these drugs for kids as young as 12. And pushing for six.
This is a lifelong medication at the cost of about $1,500 a month with many side effects that does not change any of the root cause issues that are toxifying, literally destroying our brains and bodies.
But Harvard and the NIH and the American Academy of Pediatrics are saying it's a brain disease.
It's genetic.
And on 60 Minutes, as we talked about, a leading Harvard physician, Fatima Cody Stanford, said that throw willpower out the window.
This is a genetic condition.
And it's actually...
She said an affront and classist and racist to suggest it's anything other than genetic.
So that's the message being told from medical system.
You ask why?
Because the second you can get that six-year-old on a lifetime injection, and let's just take this to every drug, it's the chronic disease treadmill, they're told that injection is a savior, right?
And then the government, it's the largest line item in our budget.
It's going to bankrupt the country.
It's growing faster than any other line item in the budget, right?
And Medicaid, the government is going to pay for that lower-income kid $1,500 a month because the government also has to just pay the sticker price, right?
We're paying our sticker price is 10 times more expensive than Germany.
So the second you get something on the Medicaid schedule, then all lower-income people are open season.
And what's so criminal about this...
And what's so representative of why this is a problem is that the medical system is saying, they're saying it's a social justice issue.
It's a moral issue.
We have to pay $1,500 for 74% of U.S. adults who are overweight or obese per month.
We have to find the money.
The stock is the 12th most valuable company in the world at expectation that the U.S. is going to say that.
But where is that urgency from the medical system about why this stuff is happening in the first place, why it's not happening in Japan?
Where's the urgency on saying, hey, parents, maybe we shouldn't feed our kids toxic food.
Maybe we should be looking at the root cause of obesity.
This is the key point.
Forget any public policy.
The medical leadership should just say the truth.
They should explain why there's an obesity crisis among children.
It's not a ozempic deficiency.
It's because of very simple inputs to our metabolic environment and, frankly, a rigged system where our food has been compromised.
There's nothing conservative or liberal about our food system being compromised.
They actually literally have social justice components where they're actually not able to recommend natural food because there's a component in the USDA nutrition guidelines which takes into account social justice.
So it seems like yet another example, there are so many of them, and you've talked about them when you were lobbying for Coke, of the richest people in the society, the ones who are looting the society, using issues like racism or sexism or classism as cudgels to beat back criticism of their looting.
The part that makes us scratch our head is like, how are we so delusional that we think it is easier to inject a child weekly for life than find a way to get that child healthy food?
That is a track that we're on right now.
That is insane.
But we're believing it.
We're drinking that Kool-Aid.
It doesn't make any sense.
We could take these dollars so simply, so easily, and funnel them towards...
We could feed every single American family with organic food for $3 trillion a year.
But instead, we're taking those healthcare dollars and steering them towards drugs, which doesn't fix the root cause issue.
Chronic disease medications didn't exist before 1960. The first one was the birth control pill.
The first pill that you took for more than a couple weeks that didn't cure the issue right away.
Ever.
So in 1960, 0% of the medical logic was on chronic conditions.
We can talk about that.
But 0% was chronic conditions.
Today, 95% of spending is on chronic conditions.
The system realized that they can take the trust engendered after World War II with antibiotics and various medical innovations that helped win that war and then steer it towards chronic conditions.
So by the 1970s, 30% of women in the United States were on Valium, a highly addictive drug.
Yeah, I mean, I... I can speak as a physician, but I can also just speak as a woman who has taken all these different medications because it's liberation.
It's liberation.
We can do whatever we want.
And who needs to get a period when you can work in the hospital 100 hours a week and then freeze my eggs at 37 and have kids?
So as a woman, I do think, of course, these drugs have helped in some ways, but we are prescribing them like candy.
We're prescribing them for acne.
We're prescribing them for PCOS, polystic ovarian syndrome, the leading cause of infertility in the United States, which is a metabolic issue driven by our food and how the food interacts with genetics.
And then, of course, for birth control.
So you've got these medications that are literally shutting down the hormones in the female body that create this cyclical, life-giving nature of women.
We basically told women...
These hormones don't matter.
Your ability to create the most miracle of any miracles, which is create life, just shut it down.
There's no impacts.
That's crazy to me.
And as I've woken up from this, I've realized your cycle and having these hormonal cycles is part and parcel with our health in every possible way and also with the miracle of...
And so for years, you just lose the biofeedback of what's happening with your cycle.
It is one of the key barometers of female health.
How is your cycle doing?
Is it regular?
Is it heavy?
And we just shut it down and say there's no repercussions for that, which I think gets to a larger issue, which is a disrespect of life, right?
It's a disrespect of things that create life.
And I think about...
You've got the pill and it just goes hand in hand with the rise.
And this is going to seem a little far out there, but it goes rise and rise with the hand of industrial agriculture, the spraying of these pesticides, the things that give life in this world, which are women and soil.
We have tried to dominate and shut down the cycles.
For this delusion of short-term gains for yields, for profit.
But what we need to realize is that we live in an interdependent ecosystem that has to be harmonious, not dominated, which means gentler.
And so by taking a hammer to women's hormones, taking a hammer to pests, what we've done is we've essentially, we are destroying the The things that give us life in this country.
And that is why, that is, I think, part of the root cause of why things feel so dark right now because it's bigger than all of this.
And working for these companies, we actually used to use that argument.
You rig the market and then yell nanny state whenever anyone questions the rigged market.
And the fact that there's more agriculture subsidies that go to tobacco than fruits and vegetables, 0.4% of agriculture subsidies go to fruits and vegetables.
2% goes to tobacco, 90% goes to ultra-processed food, and it's highly slanted against small farmers.
You know, this gets dark.
I mean, talking about the Nazis, you know, 15% of...
Well, I mean, it's just, I do think it's not accidental that that was a regime based on occult practices that hated Christianity and whose signature act, which no one ever seems to remember, it was murdering hundreds of thousands of Germans in hospitals.
Through euthanasia, so-called mercy killing of kids and adults who were substandard.
So, yeah, does it surprise you that atomic weapons and poison pesticides both came from that regime?
No, not really.
Sorry!
That's just all true.
So they always tell you it's the most important election of your lifetime, but of course, this one actually is.
That's demonstrable.
And it's also, because it is so important, being censored at every level by the tech companies.
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How are you? - Today, 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall.
Adderall was created by Nazi Germany.
There's a great book called Blitz about this, but Merck developed the precursor to Adderall in order to give to German soldiers, so they got one pill a day.
And actually, it was discontinued by the end of the war because there was such psychosis among the German soldiers taking this every day.
It was to make them more aggressive.
They actually reformulated it, Merck, and made a stronger version, and that is Adderall, which is now given to 15% of children.
And this idea that many parents watching, just as Ozempic's being pushed on their kids, just as SSRI's being pushed on their kids, just as SANS are being pushed on their kids.
Parents being cruddled with medical studies saying they're putting their kid at risk for not following this medical guidance.
They're also, if their kid is a little bit distracted, sitting in a sedentary environment with limited sunlight, being force-fed ultra-processed food, they're getting a little fidgety, and they're prescribed Adderall right away.
That's the standard of care.
Think about any animal you put in a cage, low sunlight, sedentary, force-feeding, ultra-processed food.
Just as a societal level here, We're really committing mass child abuse in many ways, and we're normalizing that, and we're not speaking out about that.
And then we're giving people stimulants developed by Nazi Germany.
I mean, it's kind of crazy.
That's much more profitable.
I mean, from a pure economic standpoint, getting a kid off of this treadmill costs millions of dollars.
You know, a diabetic person on Medicaid, if they're diabetic by the time they're 30...
They're getting millions of dollars.
They're generating millions of dollars paid for by the government to pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
Millions of dollars.
If you train a lower-income person and talk to them about metabolic health, frankly, reading the principles Casey talks about in the book, and they're going on a path of thriving, of understanding with their family, what they're putting into their bodies of movement.
Getting to your point about how people let this happen on doctors, I think the brilliance of the systemic design is the most revered people in our society are basically able to keep up this system.
They're able to have their fancy studies that really just take responsibility for managing the disease instead of curing.
They censor.
I had a call when I attacked the dean of Tufts Nutrition School.
The most prominent nutrition researcher in the country, Darius Mozaffarian, he called me and actually threatened to call Stanford, where we both went.
And he said, you know, we know the same people at Stanford.
This is not right to be upsetting the apple cart.
And I said, well, does your school not take the majority of its funding from food companies to impact nutrition policies in the United States?
He said, of course we do, but that doesn't impact my judgment.
And the fact that you're calling that out and the fact that you're...
Question the study that we conducted with the NIH that said Lucky Charms were healthier than beef.
The fact that you're calling this out really isn't polite.
This isn't how it works, Callie.
And we know the same people at Stanford, and this isn't polite.
I'm going to call Stanford and basically threatening me to be kicked out of the club.
Would you believe, right, today, and I think this is one of the most criminal that we talk about, we can change.
Today, the USDA, which sets the standards that impact schools, that impact parents' perceptions, everything.
They say that a healthy diet for a two-year-old is up to 10% added sugar.
They're recommending added sugar for two-year-olds when we have a metabolic health crisis, a childhood obesity crisis, and where 33% of young adults now have prediabetes, which would have just been absolutely unthinkable.
There's an assault on children's cells because of our food.
Added sugar is a huge one.
And the USDA recommends it.
Imagine, and it's so simple.
If medical leaders actually had courage, if we had the...
The volume and the urgency of our medical community talking about the COVID vaccine, about the childhood chronic disease crisis, not banning sugar, not banning anything, but just from a medical perspective saying it's probably a good idea to re-look at what we're feeding kids in the midst of a metabolic health crisis and probably sugar should be discouraged.
They don't say that right now.
The USDA just put a report out saying a diet 93% in ultra-processed food for kids could be healthy.
The USDA is doing marketing for ultra-processed food.
They're not speaking in a clear voice because 95% of the advisors on the committee are corrupted.
40% of the advisors that President Biden has already put for the next committee are paid for by the maker of Ozempic.
Why do we have a huge chunk of the USDA Nutrition Guideline Committee paid for by Ozempic?
Can I ask, so you all are focused on children, which is, you know, indisputably the right thing.
But for, you know, people my age, maybe even your age, you know, watching someone you love die from dementia, from Alzheimer's, universally regarded as the worst thing, just the worst thing.
And it seems to me the incidence of dementia is, like, rising.
We're seeing Alzheimer's in people as young as 50. There are no drugs that actually reverse the disease.
There are no good drugs for Alzheimer's.
Still?
Still.
There are drugs that slightly slow the progression but do nothing to reverse the disease.
Research from top journals in the world like The Lancet have explicitly stated that it is modifiable lifestyle factors that drive the development of this disease.
Things like healthy eating, smoking, and moving, and exercise.
The best possible way we could prevent Alzheimer's in this country is by people getting up and moving more, eating unprocessed organic food, not smoking.
Unfortunately, you never hear that, right?
This is a largely preventable disease that is skyrocketing right now.
Right now, Alzheimer's dementia, many researchers are calling it type 3 diabetes.
Okay, we have type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 3 diabetes, because there is such a link between metabolic dysfunction and the development of the disease.
And you think about it, it makes complete obvious sense.
The brain...
is 2% of our body weight, but it uses 20% of our energy because it's like a computer.
It's high processing power, right?
It's using tons of energy to make all these billions of neurons work, right?
So 20% of our body's energy.
Metabolic dysfunction is a problem with how our body makes energy because our cells are destroyed by our food and our environment.
So you have a problem in the body systemically like diabetes or pre-diabetes that's an overt representation of our body is not making energy properly.
That is going to disproportionately affect The brain.
Okay?
So an underpowered brain is going to not be able to think properly.
And that's what's happening in Alzheimer's.
There's a neuroenergetic theory of Alzheimer's that creates the downstream issues that we talk about, like the plaques in the brain and things like that.
These are responses to a fundamental issue with how the brain is powering itself.
So we need to just all wake up and realize...
We need to support the cells of the body with the simple evidence-based habits that let us be metabolically healthy so our brain has the energy to do its work.
He talks about how there's not one thing here, right?
It's a breaking of the cells.
And that can happen from a lot of different things in our environment.
So he talks about like 36...
Holes in the roof that basically have to be plugged for the rain to stop pouring into the house, right?
So it's not just one thing.
We've got to check our vitamin D levels.
We've got to check our insulin levels.
We've got to get our B12 levels, right?
There's all these things that we know affect the cellular biology of our brain.
And essentially, when you overwhelm the body too much and undernourish it, there's going to be breakdown.
And so we have to examine each of these factors that we know is linked to dementia and then fix each one.
The path for you might be different for me, right?
Some of those 36 factors might be fine in you, but not fine in me.
And we might have different ones.
So that's why personalized medicine is so important because we have to understand, you know, it's from all aspects of our environment that our cells are getting hurt.
So we have to realize through testing and personalized, you know, medicine.
Which in our body are causing the problems.
But by and large, the simple reality is if we're eating nutrient-rich whole foods, moving our bodies, getting enough sleep, staying intellectually stimulated, not smoking, and avoiding toxins, our cells are going to do a much better job of doing their work.
The first chapter of when we get into plans is really guiding, KC guides through a list of how to read blood tests.
You know, I got on a path a couple years ago when I had my regular cholesterol test.
They said I was perfectly fine.
Showed a tertiary.
She's like, this is blaring metabolic dysfunction.
I go back to my doctor and they're like, oh yeah, it's really bad, but you're not treatable yet.
You're not ready for a statin, so we just say you're fine.
Like a key thing is actually- Yeah, so you get to treatable levels.
But we're brewing metabolic dysfunction.
Everyone, especially people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s that are healthy, are brewing metabolic dysfunction.
They're brewing those things.
But my mom- I was told she was healthy by her primary care provider months before the cancer diagnosis because she was on five medications, which was less than the average American her age, right?
These are all rites of passage, right?
So, I wasn't quite at the statin level.
So, a key thing, and we armed this with a book just with the free blood test, and then there's new services, this personalized medicine revolution where you can get 100 blood tests, companies like Function Health, or you can go to a functional medicine doctor who can order these tests at just a couple hundred bucks.
And you can get more of a personalized view, and then you can attack those deficiencies with food and with supplementation and get the root cause of things under control.
And to our point in the book is that dementia is on the same, it's a branch of the same tree as diabetes, as heart disease, as kidney disease, of even dying of COVID. These are all very similar things.
If you can cure the root, if you can understand.
So a lot of our advice would just be...
Work through the personalized blood test, understand what's happening to you, and then match those nutrient needs with your food and with your supplementation to cure what your blood test is telling you.
And if you get your metabolic biomarkers more under control, you're able to reverse and absolutely prevent most of the conditions that are plaguing the American people that have really only become new phenomenons in the past generation.
It's all kind of rooted in the same thing.
And that's really...
What our big mission is, is like we need actually a new paradigm of how we view chronic disease.
I mean, it's actually just a lie, right?
That if you have a high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and depression, you're seeing three different doctors who aren't talking to each other at all.
That's just wrong.
It's very profitable, but it's wrong.
You're on three different lifetime plans.
You can really solve it with the root cause.
And that's if the medical system was saying...
With lower costs and unleashed human capital.
We're debating on the margins right now, on the left and the right, about how to change page 300 of Medicare Part D. Unless we're attacking the core incentive that was embedded by Obamacare, which was probably the deadliest law passed in recent history, what Obamacare did is it ingrained the incentive that the medical system makes more money when people get sicker.
Through this populist idea of taking on the insurance companies, it said insurance companies can only make a 15% profit margin medical loss ratio.
They need to pay out 85% of their spending.
But because now insurance companies can only get 15%, but by law, enshrined in Obamacare, they can raise premiums to get that 15%.
What's their incentive?
Your incentive is for the pie to grow.
Your incentive is for costs to go up.
So, Obamacare actually incentivized insurance companies to have no cost controls.
What does no cost controls mean?
It means more people getting sick.
So, we're talking about inflation a lot right now.
By far, the top driver of inflation in America right now is healthcare.
And that's happening because there's no rain on cost.
There's no rain on cost because everyone makes money when we get sicker.
Obamacare, out of a populist kind of, we're going to cap their profit margins.
But they lobbied, again, they can raise prices to get that 15%.
So there is zero, and I mean this.
Every single institution that impacts our health, insurance companies, pharma companies, hospitals, medical schools, they make more money when more Americans are sicker for longer periods of time and they lose money when Americans get healthy.
That's the incentive.
And then you go to Medicaid, which I talked about.
There's just a huge incentive for more and more poor people to get sick because that's an annuity then to the pharma companies.
So until you attack that incentive, and as Casey said, people just don't understand this.
Everyone kind of makes sense.
And actually, I think these things are very easy to change.
But the problem is that it's enshrined that there's profit when people are sick and then they use the Stanford and the Harvard and the AH. It's all this fancy club where people, it's like uncouth to talk.
It's so marginalized when you talk about nutrition.
Wimphified.
It's wimphified.
It's like Casey was yelled at by an attending surgeon.
Day one, state of emergency for childhood chronic disease.
Fully within the Constitution for the President to declare a state of emergency for public health.
That's what happened during COVID. It was very little, it was no congressional legislation.
It was a state of emergency.
What's happening in childhood chronic disease is a much, orders of magnitude, bigger state of emergency right now and more imminent emergency in America than COVID. So you declare a state of emergency.
You declare a state of emergency for childhood health.
We actually started a nonprofit and we have executive orders drafted.
And there is so much stuff you can do, but it's attacking the incentives.
Just for starters, Biden's talked about this and President Trump's talked about it.
But I think the fact that you need a president there who's willing to take some heat from these ingrained industries, you could sign a bill tomorrow saying pharma companies can't charge Americans more than what they charge people in Europe.
We are spending, in some cases, 10 times more on drugs.
We are subsidizing the largest companies in Europe with our insanity.
No, but the Republicans, I will say, as a lifetime Republican voter, but they provided the ideological cover for that because they said, I was there when this happened, Hillarycare, Obamacare, so between 1993 and 2011. They made this case consistently through their think tanks that it was a choice between socialism and capitalism.
And if you were controlling costs, that was socialism.
75% of the FDA's funding doesn't come from taxpayer.
It comes from pharma.
And there's a revolving door, as we all know, where people go from the FDA to pharma.
Institutions in the D.C., as we both know, are built to grow.
The FDA grows when the pharma's influence grows.
The FDA should be an independent organization.
It's not.
That's an executive order tomorrow.
So you just rob the conflicts of interest out of these things.
Personnel.
I sign doctors that we both know onto the USDA nutrition panel and have the president, have the secretary of the treasury, because we're going bankrupt from healthcare costs, have the secretary of defense, because 77% of young adults aren't eligible to join the military, have them say, we are not banning any company.
We're not even giving public policy recommendations, but we are saying from a medical perspective that we should reduce ultra-processed food consumption among children.
That is a medically valid statement.
And medical leaders need to start telling the truth.
And in public policy, I'm fine with the public policy chips may fall where they may.
But the president, the secretary of defense, the head of the NIH, the head of the FDA should be saying the medical truth.
The most important dynamic in America, I believe, is when a child or a parent is sitting across their doctor at the first stage of metabolic dysfunction.
They're shoved into a one-size-fits-all.
The medical guidance comes from the NIH, the FDA, and their associated groups like the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
That guidance itself is corrupt and says that Ozempic is the cure for obesity and statins and heart disease.
If a doctor was recommending the right things, we'd be a healthier country.
So you just have to go after...
The medical guidelines.
That would transform the country.
The last one I'd say, just going after incentives, I think it's a huge deal that our information sources have been totally co-opted.
50% of TV news spending coming from pharma is a huge deal.
And why the hell is our media playing referee for defending pharmaceutical companies?
Why are they suppressing any questions around that?
You know, that's a huge problem that our dominant information sources for the past generation have been able to be co-opted by an industry that, just as a statement of economic fact, profits from Americans getting sick.
Just undeniable.
Tomorrow, tomorrow, the president could sign.
That was actually DTC farm advertising was an executive order from Reagan.
It could be an executive order tomorrow.
It's actually beautiful.
You would cut.
50% of mainstream media revenue and be on the moral high ground.
That's absolutely something.
So stop recommending the bad stuff and stop subsidizing.
There's also a host of things you can do.
Before we get into any taxes, any bans, which I'm not even interested in talking about, Coke should exist, but it shouldn't be subsidized by food stamps.
It shouldn't be recommended by the USDA as something okay for kids.
It shouldn't be funded.
Billions of dollars by the federal government, right?
These things just shouldn't be incentivized.
So we have a whole host of executive orders to cut the recommendations, to cut the conflicts, and then cut the incentives for these things.
So, what I see with that is that you don't, working hard doesn't make you super depressed and suicidal.
Like, missionaries aren't committing suicide.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I'm working hard on this mission.
I feel really good about it.
They actually had a New York Times article recently that identified what doctors are feeling.
It's the same psychological dynamic that soldiers who get in the fight for the right reasons but then are forced by their superiors to commit war crimes.
It's actually similar.
The New York Times compared doctors to Abu Ghraib soldiers who were forced to do horrible things or felt like they were forced.
That's, I think, what's happening to the medical profession.
These are all good people.
There's much easier ways to make money.
We actually are this magnet that attracts the best and the brightest from all of the world.
We saddle them with debt.
They have no other skills, and then they have societal expectations from their parents and all these credentials.
But they do feel trapped.
So I hope, it's certainly inspiring to me, it changed my whole life kind of learning from Casey's story.
I hope more and more people realize that there's light moving away from this system.
And I always go back to Elon.
Remember when he said, you know, you're speaking out about all these issues you care about, but advertisers are flocking away from you.
And he goes, I don't give a fuck.
That's the attitude we need in the healthcare industry.
We need some people with that type of attitude because it's the same thing.
It's like, well, all these children are dying, but what are you going to...
It's like, well, they're playing along with it.
I'm talking to senior people at pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies.
Everyone knows what's going on.
It's like, ugh, it's hard.
We don't know what to do.
We need some leadership.
We need some leadership.
But again...
With simple executive orders, you can start changing these incentives.
Yeah, I mean, I think what Callie's talking about with the incentives is absolutely key.
You know, why is 75% of the FDA budget coming from pharma?
But I think there's a couple other things we could also sort of do to really change things.
I mean, one is that we need to stop recommending added sugar to two-year-olds, 10% of our diet.
So that's easy, right?
Like, the science supports that.
And actually, when we were creating the...
2020 to 2025 Food Guidelines for America, the Medical Advisory Board to that panel said that we should absolutely reduce sugar recommendations from 10% to 6% of total calories, and it was rejected by the USDA, even though the doctors said to do it.
So all these conflicts, we need to get the sugar out of that because then we'll have better school lunches, and we will not be telling parents that it's okay to give your kid 10% of their calories at two years old from added sugar.
Also, I think there's something really interesting we can do by actually using the existing tax and legal system to incentivize healthy purchases.
Because right now, the healthier things are more expensive.
And that's a problem.
And that's because of our farm bills.
So we need to change the farm bills.
But we also need to give people more flexibility to use tax-free dollars to buy...
Healthy products like organic food.
And Cali has started an incredible company called TruMed, which is helping to allow this to happen.
Why is it that we can use our HSA, FSA funding to buy drugs, but we can't use it to buy organic food?
This is crazy.
This should be what we spend our tax advantage dollars on.
So things like that, creating more patient choice with HSAs.
We also need to talk about things like food marketing to children.
We're one of the only developed countries that's allowing our TVs, Nickelodeon, for 28% of the ads to children to be ultra-processed foods that we know are associated with chronic disease.
And so there's other things, I think, that would be very high yield that are just very basic.
And when that ovary is stimulated by excess insulin, which is the hormone in the blood that helps us take blood sugar out of the blood and into the cells, insulin levels go up in the setting of metabolic dysfunction.
We basically destroy our cells with our toxic food and lifestyle.
The cells can no longer process sugar to energy.
So the cell rejects sugar and it stays in the bloodstream.
The body compensates by making more insulin to try and drive the sugar into the cell that's putting up a block because it's broken, essentially.
That high insulin floats all around the body and does bad things all over the body like drives cancer growth and also stimulates the ovary to make more testosterone.
So you have women who are supposed to be making, you know, estrogen and progesterone in very specific levels throughout the...
So that we can ovulate.
And instead, insulin is driving the ovary to create testosterone, which totally disturbs the balance between all the sex hormones in the female body, and we don't ovulate.
So you get these cysts that form because you've got an egg trying to basically ovulate, but instead it can't because the hormones are disrupted because of insulin, which is because of metabolic dysfunction, because of our food.
And this condition is reversible in as little as 12 weeks with dietary interventions.
There is peer-reviewed studies to show this.
If we get our blood sugar levels under control and our insulin levels under control, we restore the hormonal balance.
And many women...
All the symptoms will disappear and they'll be able to become fertile.
And yet doctors do not learn.
The average doctor is getting zero education in nutrition.
And so they don't even see this.
They reach to the clomiphene, the metformin.
The treatment that the OBGYNs are giving to these women is a diabetes drug.
And they're not talking about blood sugar.
I started a company called Levels, which consumerizes access to a device called a continuous glucose monitor.
There are so many women in our community who have PCOS, who's doctors, who want to understand their blood sugar so that they can naturally heal their PCOS. Yes, and have babies.
And these are not devices that they will only give it to late-stage type 2 diabetics, even though we know that PCOS is insulin resistance, and that if we can monitor our blood sugar with this device and get our blood sugar under better control, it can absolutely set us up to sort of naturally heal.
But it's not being talked about by the OGMs because doctors are not.
If that woman goes on a keto diet, which is the best reversal technique for a PCOS ever studied, 12 weeks, they are robbing that doctor, just from an economic perspective, of tens of thousands of dollars.
For a gruesome invasive IVF procedure, which is a great procedure, but I think we all should agree.
Like, that woman across the table would love to hear that there's a more natural way.
Just the correct way to reverse this condition, which, by the way...
And not to mention, if the woman doesn't heal the underlying metabolic issues, it's going to pretend issues for the baby too.
And the mom.
Even if you get pregnant with IVF, which is wonderful if that can happen, if you're not healing the root cause issues of the metabolic dysfunction, that's affecting the fetus and affecting the mom's future risk of disease.
So by ignoring this, we're just continuing to put people on this treadmill.
So ultra-processed food is basically all the things that you're seeing at the grocery store that have this laundry list of ingredients that usually are based on three ingredients.
Ultra-processed flour, Ultra-processed added sugars and ultra-processed seed oil.
So this is going to be like white flour, cane sugar, and things like cotton seed oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil.
So these crappy foods that did not exist 150 years ago, ultra-fine white flour, added sugars, and seed oils.
I mean, we have a list in the book of what you should not eat, and it's basically everything at the grocery store.
I mean, we should all be shopping at the...
There are 9,000 farmer's markets in the United States right now.
People can make the effort and reprioritize their values to focus on getting nutritious food.
We need to be eating organic, unprocessed foods for the vast majority of our calories.
And we need to get back to having a sense of pride and responsibility in our households to cook food.
One of the unintentional downsides of the feminist movement is that we somehow made people feel that food preparation was like a less-than activity.
I bought into this for my entire early professional life, that it was somehow beneath me.
I was like a slave in the kitchen if I was cooking for husband or family.
There is no more important thing we can be doing than feeding our children and our families healthy food.
Less than 30% of American families are eating together more than once per week.
We need to be sitting down at the dinner table eating real, unprocessed food cooked with love at home.
There is no way to drug ourselves out of the fact that we eat 40 to 70 metric tons of food in our lifetime.
It's a lot of food, right?
This is the molecular information that is building our bodies, building our brains, making our hormones, feeding our microbiome.
The food is what we are built of.
And right now, 70% of it is trash made from a factory to addict us.
Of course we're sick.
So that is number one.
So to answer your question very specifically.
I don't follow dietary dogma.
I eat organic, unprocessed foods that I buy at the farmer's market and I cook every single meal for my partner and I. And when I have children in the next few years, I am so deeply excited to cook every meal for them from scratch because there's nothing more important.
You know, for people who can't necessarily get to a farmer's market, it's go to college.
I was so deep in this in my 20s, I cannot even tell you.
Like, I was deep, deep in the opposite of this.
And so, you know, I believe that people, no one wants to be sick, you know?
But the answer is on our fork.
So, I would say...
To get very specific now, organic fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, meat, poultry, eggs, game meats, grass-fed, organic, pasture-raised.
They have cortisol because they're so stressed, and they're eating GMO corn and soy.
That impacts their biology.
So actually, the factory farm meat has a much higher omega-6 content.
Whereas ones eating grass outside are omega-3, much more omega-3 fatty acids.
Omega-6 is inflammatory, omega-3 is not.
So actually, and again, we go through this in the book, but just being on a path of curiosity about this, eating food how it's meant to be made and meant to be raised, the actual biology and makeup of the food itself is different when it's factory farms.
So actually, when you're eating a traditionally industrial-raised meat...
You're much more inflammatory.
Items are going into your body.
So you just always need to strive.
That's why we do think, and there's problems with the organic designations, but as much as you can get away from the pesticides being spread on this food, as much as you can get to how the food has been raised for all of history up until a couple generations ago, because the way the food is manufactured and the stuff that is put on food is very corrupt.
It's just not the case in other countries.
So as much as you can get to...
To how it's been made forever, the better.
And that's why we say and how if we were in charge of everything, I would fire every...
And I truly mean this.
I'm not joking.
I'd fire every single nutrition scientist in the government.
I'd stop every single, you know, all this complicated nutrition guidelines.
The point of the USDA putting out thousands of studies literally and all this guidance is to confuse people because they're bought off by the food companies.
I'd replace it with one guideline is that we need to...
As a public policy matter, reduce altered processed food consumption among children.
That's like the sugar of, you know, 15 oranges, right?
And the oranges have the fiber.
So, you couldn't even physically eat all of the whole food, unprocessed food, to get the sugar that's weaponized in those sugary drinks and all the things we're getting at Starbucks and all the things kids are drinking.
Even juice, which Michelle Obama is now supporting as sugar water, literally.
She partnered with a private equity company that specializes in junk food influencer partnerships.
Oh, yeah.
They're a private equity company that works on the rocks, energy drink, and specializes in partnerships where high-level influencers partner to promote junk food.
And she is the chief spokesperson and co-founder of Plesi, which is a sugar water for kids.
The crazy thing that Callie talked about, the soda and how it's weaponized, I really want to drive that point home.
High fructose corn syrup, which is what's in a lot of these drinks, was invented in the 1970s.
It's a brand new substance.
And the invention of high fructose corn syrup, which is subsidized by the government through commodity crop farm bill subsidies to corn.
So it's basically, we're giving the soda companies this cheaper product, which is then turned into high fructose corn syrup.
Something interesting about fructose that we learned from bears who hibernate is that aside from other calories that you eat them and they cue satiety, with fructose, it's a very interesting molecule that's found in berries.
And when you have an animal who needs to go into hibernation, they need to pack on fat in their body, right?
So before hibernation, you have to load your body with fat.
So fructose, aside from other calories, different than other calories.
Actually, it does not cue satiety.
It cues the feed-forward violence and aggression mechanism in that animal to basically outcompete all other animals to eat as many berries as possible in the fall to store fat, which is fructose, creates metabolic dysfunction, causes us to turn our sugar to fat, to basically store fat for winter.
So soda companies know all this.
So they put this molecule in the sodas that you're chugging, which is like Callie said, like 15 oranges and the fructose you'd get in this.
And it's causing kids to be insatiably hungry because essentially it's telling their brains that winter is coming, pack on the fat, but of course that winter is never coming.
Absolutely.
Whole foods are great.
You know, anything that is a whole food that has not been broken down into its constituent parts and made into a frankenfood in a factory by a multinational corporation is a food that I'm going to eat.
And the reason I choose organic or regenerative is because that berry, a berry just...
In a grocery store that's not organic, it's going to have less nutrients in it than the berry that you buy from a farm.
These foods contain anti-cancer compounds.
They contain tens of thousands of molecules, literally medicine, that changes our gene expression.
It's nothing short of gaslighting to convince us that these tons of food we eat are kind of this fringe science and these pills are the only thing that's serious science.
I mean, these truly are medicine.
I just say, Tucker, we get so confused, and this is a core point we try to drive home in the book, is that there's confusion by design.
There's not an epidemic of people, I guarantee you, that are eating a 90% non-ultra-processed food diet that have health epidemics.
I don't care if you're a carnivore or vegan, because if you're on that path of being curious for you and your family and taking that rebellion to actually cook and eat whole food...
You're going to adjust.
You're going to look at your blood tests and make certain—it's different for everybody, but just as a public policy matter, as a spiritual matter in the country, we should be trying to engender more awe and curiosity about what we're putting on our bodies.
And I want to be clear to everyone watching, this is not about lecturing you or your family to eat.
You know, any type of food.
I'm making the point that there has really been something done to us.
I don't think the American people are just a lazy suicidal population where everyone wants, 94% of the country wants to be- No, but that's such a smart point.
And if you cannot understand a word on that package, what these ingredients are, if you can't visualize it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body.
Well, I mean, for me, it's the freshest possible foods.
Foods that I know the farmer and I got it from the farmer's market and they're beautiful.
And I think this sort of gaslighting, I think there's been this incredible dissociation.
It's indoctrinated in us from childhood to not trust our intuition, right?
Like to think we have to give our power away because we're dumb and we're not smart.
And it's built into every level of the healthcare system.
I mean, in many American states, patients don't even own their healthcare records because Basically, doctors don't trust patients in understanding that they can understand.
They don't own them.
Like the doctor or the hospital does.
Because we have so built in this idea that patients are not smart enough to understand their own health.
This even plays into HIPAA and all these laws about patient privacy.
It's like, oh, you know, we have to sequester...
Have you ever tried to get your healthcare records?
Because if you can keep people ignorant about their own health, then there's a power dynamic where you can sort of give them any solution.
So let's get back to food because I think a lot of this comes back to trusting our intuition.
When I... Every Sunday after I go to the farmer's market, I lay out all the food, the venison that came from someone who owns a beautiful ranch outside of LA, the beautiful heirloom tomatoes that are colorful with purples, the watermelon radishes, and I lay it all out on my counter and I literally pray with it.
This is awe-inspiring to me.
This is all the atoms and the molecules that over the next week or two are going to make up.
My cells, they are going to become me.
I am going to take on the characteristics of this food.
And I know, I look at that food, and if I stop and let myself trust my intuition, I know this food is healthy for me.
I just know it.
But we've been so divorced from our common sense by design.
There's no fat giraffes, right?
They know, right?
But we've been told that we can't understand.
Every sixth grader in America can understand basic biology, metabolic health, and nutrition, but we have been told it's too complicated.
Like Kelly said, by design, confusion is the product.
So to answer your question, what makes me feel good?
It's the freshest, most beautiful foods that I have complete and utter awe for because those molecules...
And atoms are going to go into my body.
They're going to heal anything that's going wrong.
They're going to change my gene expression.
They're going to fortify my immune system.
They're going to feed my microbiome, which makes 95% of my serotonin, which lets me think and have creative ideas and love my partner and all these things.
It's going to be my partner and my bodies and my future children's bodies, right?
And so I am in awe and reverence of food.
And I think that...
And I do.
I bless it because it's going to become me.
And I think we need to get back to that appreciation.
There's a metabolic health crisis among babies that are born.
Mothers are passing metabolic dysfunction and essentially almost pre-diabetes onto kids in mass.
That's how bad this has gotten.
Kids are being born with dysfunctional microbiomes and metabolic dysfunction.
You know, literally, I've talked to Harvard doctors about that.
I talked on one of the podcasts about this to a Harvard doctor.
And she said that's a case for Ozipic, that babies are being born with such horrible metabolic dysfunction that we need to start jabbing them right away.
I say that's a sign of a crisis.
And the fact that babies are being born sick is actually, you know, maybe we shouldn't be doing more of the same and just keep drugging them more.
We should actually be asking why there's a metabolic health crisis among babies.
It's a root of a lot of, I think, what's happening.
The biggest societal, I think, dynamic, historical dynamic of the past decade has been this populist uprising towards institutions.
I don't think people can quite put their finger on it all the time, but there's this frustration that we're really being let down.
To me, what's happening to our health and the gasoline that's happening to our health and the fact that we're not hearing things like this and hearing that drugs are our saviors and just keep doing more of the same.
From industries that are profiting from that sickness.
To me, it actually is the number one example of what's fueling this populist frustration.
Healthcare is the largest industry, and it's something that's impacting these incentives, I think, I would argue are impacting Americans across the kitchen table and impacting their lives more than any other industry.
Well, I mean, for so many reasons, Tucker, but I mean, to name a couple of them, you know, if you have a big blood sugar swing, which the average American, because the vast majority of our calories are coming from ultra-processed food that turn into glucose in our bloodstream, blood sugar, right?
When you have a big glucose spike and crash, that is associated with reduced fact recall.
Literally, that crash and spike, you know, like the post-meal crash, like you eat something and then you might feel lethargic afterwards.
That's in part because your blood sugar is skyrocketing and crashing.
The average American child is probably on this roller coaster all day long.
It's making us lose our minds early with Alzheimer's.
It's making our kids not able to sit down and learn because of ADHD and autism rates that are skyrocketing.
And it's all going up all at once.
And we know it's because of our toxic food systems and the chemicals in our environment.
And we're not protecting kids.
And that is very sinister.
And I think on the biggest macro level, kind of the most zoomed out spiritual level, I think...
What we have to realize is that we are miracles.
Every human is a miracle.
This life is a miracle.
Spiritual beings having this insane experience on planet Earth.
And fundamentally, the thing that we're doing with metabolic health is we're making energy in the body.
The way we're doing that is we're taking food that got its energy from the sun.
The sun literally, photosynthesis happens.
It creates...
Starches in plants and then we eat them or animals eat them.
And what metabolism is, is taking the starches that are stored energy from the sun through photosynthesis, liberating it in our bodies to create energy to fuel our minds and to fuel our bodies so that we can think and reach our highest purpose.
And right now, in the vast majority of Americans, our toxic food system is blocking that process, which means it's blocking the miraculous process of essentially taking this beautiful...
This is not woo-woo.
This is just fact of science.
Taking this universal...
Sun, light energy, and liberating it to fuel our lives, that is broken.
This is dark.
This is very dark.
Americans are not only sick, but the core process of being able to create and transform energy is...
Broken.
And we need to fix this because we need all hands on deck right now in America to solve these big issues.
And we need to be thinking properly, feeling good.
And we can rapidly with some of these simple changes.
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