Food: The Root Causes of Our Healthcare, Economic and Social Crises with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Mark Hyman

Jan 24, 2024

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is an independent candidate for President of the United States. He is the founder of the Waterkeeper Alliance—the world’s largest clean water advocacy group—and served as its longtime chairman and attorney. He founded the Children’s Health Defense, where he served as chairman and chief litigation counsel in its campaign to address childhood chronic disease and toxic exposures. He was also on the team that prosecuted and won the case against Monsanto for glyphosate's role in causing cancer.

As President, he promises to restore the middle class, unravel corporate capture, end the chronic disease epidemic, improve the quality of the water we drink and the air we breathe, heal the divide, fix our public education system, take care of our veterans, support the trades, make homes affordable again, support regenerative farming, among other key priorities.

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In this episode we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The state of health in America (5:41 / 4:01)
One of the main reasons RFK Jr. is running for president (8:39 / 6:59)
The beginning of the autism epidemic (12:38 / 10:58)
Addressing harms caused by ultra-processed food (15:03 / 13:23)
Eliminating corporate culture in government agencies (33:05 / 28:41)
America’s disproportionate deaths from COVID-19 (42:10 / 37:46)
How America’s health status is affecting our national security (44:34 / 40:10)

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Cozy Earth, Bioptimizers, and Fatty15.

Streamline your lab orders with Rupa Health. Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests and register for a FREE live demo at RupaHealth.com.

Right now, you can save 40% when you upgrade to Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to CozyEarth.com and use code DRHYMAN.

This month only you can get a FREE bottle of Bioptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough. Just go to magbreakthrough.com/hymanfree and enter coupon code hyman10.

Fatty15 contains pure, award-winning C15:0 in a bioavailable form. Get an exclusive 10% off a 90-day starter kit subscription. Just visit Fatty15.com and use code DRHYMAN10 to get started.

In this episode we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The state of health in America (5:41 / 4:01)
One of the main reasons RFK Jr. is running for president (8:39 / 6:59)
The beginning of the autism epidemic (12:38 / 10:58)
Addressing harms caused by ultra-processed food (15:03 / 13:23)
Eliminating corporate culture in government agencies (33:05 / 28:41)
America’s disproportionate deaths from COVID-19 (42:10 / 37:46)
How America’s health status is affecting our national security (44:34 / 40:10)

Mindsip insights from this episode:

Establish wellness farms to heal addiction through community and healthy living

A proposed solution for the addiction crisis is to create wellness farms where people heal through community, learning trades, and eating healthy food without screens.

#addiction

#wellness

Recognize food addiction engineered by ultra-processed products

Food companies engineer ultra-processed foods to hit a "bliss point" that activates the brain's dopamine centers in the same way as drugs like cocaine or heroin.

#dopamine

#processed-food

Address chronic disease epidemic as a national security threat

Over 70% of military recruits are rejected because they are overweight or unfit to fight, demonstrating that the chronic disease epidemic is a national security threat.

#chronic-disease

#risk

Recognize environmental toxins as epidemic triggers, not genes

Genes can provide a vulnerability to disease, but epidemics are caused by exposure to an environmental toxin.

#genetics

#toxin

Recognize 1989 as the turning point for chronic disease epidemic

An EPA study identified 1989 as the "change year" when the modern epidemic of chronic diseases like autism began to accelerate.

#chronic-disease

Transform NIH into a pharmaceutical incubator through Bayh-Dole Act

The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act allows NIH and its scientists to collect royalties on drugs, transforming it from a public health agency into an incubator for pharmaceutical products.