Dr. Deb 0:00Did you know that the average American child today consumes over 3000 food additives, chemicals that were never tested for long term safety, or that since the 1980s childhood chronic disease rates have tripled, while pharmaceutical profits have grown 1,000%
Dr. Deb 0:19for 25 years, integrative medicine practitioners have been sounding the alarm while being dismissed as fringe and quacks. Well, now that fringe movement has reached the highest level of government our White House,
Dr. Deb 0:34what if everything you’ve been told about maintaining your family’s health has been influenced by the same corporations profiting from your illness. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the most controversial health crusades in American history. This is not a story about left versus right. It’s about life versus profit from fringe to mainstream, how integrative medicine’s 25 year battle for health and freedom reached the White House. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness now this show where we uncover the root causes of chronic illness, explore cutting edge regenerative medicine and empower you with the tools to heal. I’m Dr dab, and today we’re diving into the hidden corporate forces corrupting our health care system and the controversial efforts by leaders like Robert F Kennedy Jr to make America healthy again.
Dr. Deb 1:32So grab your cup of tea or coffee, and let’s settle in for an amazing discussion.
Dr. Deb 1:39You know, I remember when I started practicing, people would come into the office with one blood pressure medicine, maybe an allergy medicine, and they didn’t have a lot of medical interventions. Now I see people on three to five blood pressure medicines, often three to five other medications. And you have to start to wonder, Is this our environment doing this, where we just can’t control things the way we used to? Today,
Dr. Deb 2:12we’re going to talk about this hidden health crisis, because it’s really become a major problem,
Dr. Deb 2:22the health crisis hidden in plain sight. What if your symptoms aren’t your true diagnosis? What if the rising tide of chronic disease in America isn’t just bad luck or genetics, but the result of systemic changes to our food water and our environment.
Dr. Deb 2:42Today, I want to take you behind the headlines and political noise to examine something that affects every single one of us, the forces shaping our health landscape and the controversial figures who’s now at the helm of our nation’s health policy. Let me start with something personal.
Dr. Deb 3:03In my practice at Serenity Healthcare Center, I’ve seen disturbing patterns over the last two decades, children and adults coming in with complex, multi system conditions that simply weren’t common. When I first started practicing, we would see one or two people with these type of symptoms. Now I see five to 10 people with the same type of symptoms. Autoimmune conditions that used to be rare are now commonplace. Developmental delays that once affected one in 10,000 children now impact one and 36
Dr. Deb 3:43and one of my grandchildren is one of those children. As a functional medicine practitioner, I’m trained to ask why, why are we seeing these dramatic shifts? What environmental factors might be driving this surge in chronic conditions? That’s exactly what Robert F Kennedy, Jr has been asking for years as an environmental advocate and now as Secretary of Health and Human Services, he has the power to do something about it. His make America healthy again. Initiative isn’t just a catchy slogan, it’s a fundamental challenge to how we think about health and disease in America,
Dr. Deb 4:26I need to be clear about something important. What’s happening now with the Make America healthy again movement isn’t new to those of us in integrative medicine for over 25 years, practitioners like myself and pioneers like Dr Mark Hyman, Dr Perlmutter and the late Dr Bradstreet, along with many others that you would never recognize because they worked in the trenches, witnessing these disturbing health trends and speaking out about them, but not in a public arena.
Dr. Deb 5:00Speaking out about them, one on one with the clients they touched every single day. That’s precisely why so many of us have stepped away from conventional medicine and entered integrative practice. We saw this broken system and wanted to create real change, and I’m really excited today to see Dr Casey means starting to speak out at a very powerful level on what’s been happening with the food industry, what’s been happening with our government and our pharmaceutical companies. It is a brave thing that she is doing, because many who have tried to do what she has done have lost their licenses, lost their livelihood and been turned away by their own families.
Dr. Deb 5:50We recognize that our medical system has designed, was designed to manage symptoms rather than address root causes. We see how pharmaceutical interventions were being prioritized over lifestyle changes. We understood the powerful influence that food companies chemical manufacturers and pharmaceutical Giants had on both medical education and on health care policy, and for 25 years, we were often dismissed as alternative or fringe, but now many of the same concerns we’ve been voicing for decades are being elevated to the highest levels of government policy. This isn’t a partisan issue. Chronic disease doesn’t care if you vote red or blue, the companies profiting from both illness and treatment don’t distinguish between conservatives and liberals when marketing their products, they market to the whole this is about something much deeper. It’s about how corporate influence has shaped our very understanding of what it means to be healthy. Take our food system. For instance, since the 1950s we’ve witnessed a complete transformation in how food is produced, processed and preserved. Over 10,000 chemicals are now permitted in our food supply, many without rigorous safety testing or any safety testing. For that matter, big food companies have engineered products specifically designed to bypass our natural satiety signals, creating what scientists call hyper palatable combinations that trigger addiction like responses in our brains.
Dr. Deb 7:39Is it any wonder we’re facing unprecedented rates of obesity, diabetes and metabolic dysfunction, and what has come to save the day for these food companies that have created these chemicals that have made us obese and made us have conditions that don’t allow us to lose weight? Well, of course, it’s GLP one, it is the best weight loss product on the market ever that costs $1,300 a month in this country, but yet in Europe, it costs $88
Dr. Deb 8:15a month. And we’re not just pushing this for adults. They want to approve this medication for six year olds. That means that we have six year olds that are obese enough that they’re having medical conditions like an adult, and they will need to take an injection every week for the rest of their lives to control their obesity and their diabetes, one that our pharmaceutical companies and our food industries created. Do you see the vicious cycle that goes round and round? They’re all in this together, making money together, off of all of us, and it’s time we take this back and join this movement to make ourselves and our country healthy again.
Dr. Deb 9:06Similarly, our pharmaceutical industry has evolved from producing life saving antibiotics and emergency medicines to marketing daily medications that manage but rarely cure any chronic illness and create many other side effects that you’re going to need another medication to manage. The business model here is clear. There’s more profit in treatments than there are in cures.
Dr. Deb 9:35So this brings us to Kennedy’s controversial appointment and the firestorm it has created in both public health circles and the media Love him or hate him, Kennedy has forced us to confront uncomfortable questions about the intersection of corporate power and public health.
Dr. Deb 9:55Robert F Kennedy Jr’s make America healthy again initiative.
Dr. Deb 10:00Of represents one of the most ambitious attempts to reshape American health policy in decades. He’s requested a $500 million boost in the federal health budget specifically earmarked for nutrition education and promoting healthier lifestyles, a dramatic shift from the traditional focus on disease management and pharmaceutical interventions, Kennedy has already begun pressuring major food companies to eliminate artificial dyes linked to behavioral issues in children. I’ve known this for a long time. When I started as a naturopath, I worked with a pioneer, Dr kanetsky, who did allergy testing in his office, I had the pleasure of meeting some of the most exquisite physicians in this industry that were doing cutting edge care back in the early 2000s
Dr. Deb 10:54Dr Kay had known about what food dice did to children for at least 10 years prior to that, and we used to allergy test kids in that office, where we would give them a dye underneath their tongue, and we would watch them to see what happened, and their behaviors completely changed. There were people that would lose their complete ability to focus. Dr Doris Rapp has written and documented allergy testing in her office for decades, and there’s one story that she tells that I will never forget, and it was a teenage boy who suffered from depression, and she was allergy testing him in her office, and she gave him citrus, and when she gave him this food that obviously was not completely natural, he would curl up in a ball and he would cry, and he would talk about committing suicide, and 10 minutes later, she would give him a different dilution, and he was back to normal, just like I’m talki...
