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Many Americans have voiced the belief that America's rising number of autism diagnoses is due to greater awareness of the disorder, and how vast the autism spectrum is. Though this might be true, could the rising number in these diagnoses also be connected to America's high rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or obesity?  TrueMed co-founder Calley Means joins to discuss why HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Trump are exploring the idea that the above trends could all be related in a "larger chronic disease epidemic". He also shares what factors he believes might contribute to the rising rates of autism in the U.S., and the challenges the government faces in accessing data that could reveal links between certain medications or lifestyle behaviors and medical diagnoses.  Follow Martha on X: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg and Matias interview Justin Mares, co-founder of TrueMed and Kettle & Fire on current US healthcare and how startups have the opportunity to change the system.In this episode, we discuss:How the US system profits from chronic illnessFixing the food system, environmental toxins, pharma incentives & moreOpportunities for founders building in brain and body health.Contrarian ideas Justin is investing in todayCredits:Created by Greg Kubin and Matias SerebrinskyHost: Matias Serebrinsky & Greg KubinProduced by Caitlin Ner & Nico V. Rey Find us at businesstrip.fm and psymed.venturesFollow us on Instagram and Twitter!Theme music by Dorian LoveAdditional Music: Distant Daze by Zack Frank

Farmer Mode hats are here! Preorder yours now: https://farmermode.com — Tim and Tyler talk to Justin Mares about founding Kettle & Fire and growing it into the largest bone broth company in the world, his thoughts on regenerative ag, and Justin's business ideas in food & ag. — This episode is presented by PF Partners. Unlock the exclusive AgTech Go-to-Market webinar HERE. — Links Kettle & Fire - https://www.kettleandfire.com TrueMed - https://www.truemed.com Justin's Substack - https://justinmares.substack.com Farmer Mode - https://farmermode.com 

Over one month ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the 26th Secretary of Health and Human Services. Co-founder of Truemed and co-author of the book "Good Energy," Calley Means provides a progress update on the Make America Healthy Again Movement. After Secretary Kennedy began his role, President Trump crafted the MAHA commission which focuses on how to get children healthier. Calley also discusses MAHA's recent accomplishments and future priorities, including changing the "grass standard," which allows a system where food companies self-police the ingredients in their food. He explained that Secretary Kennedy aims to drive radical transparency in the food industry.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Art of Being Well, Dr. Will Cole sits down with Calley Means - health activist, co-founder of TrueMed, and co-author of the bestselling book Good Energy. Calley exposes the shocking truth behind the medical system, big food, and pharma, revealing how corporate interests profit off of chronic disease. They dive into the rigged incentives behind healthcare, the SNAP to Medicaid pipeline, and how ultra-processed foods are designed to keep us sick. Calley also shares how he's working to reform health policy and why this is a pivotal moment for change. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.Sponsors:Visit ClevelandKitchen.com/willcole right now and grab your first Cleveland Kitchen product FREE!Head to MANUKORA.com/WILLCOLE to get $25 off the Starter Kit, which comes with an MGO 850+ Manuka Honey jar, 5 honey travel sticks, a wooden spoon, and a guide book!20% off all IQBAR products. Text ABW to 64000. Message and data rates may apply. Listeners of The Art of Being Well can claim an exclusive three-month free trial, with no credit card required at www.YNAB.com/willcole.Take proactive care of your health and head to OPositiv.com/WILLCOLE or enter WILLCOLE at checkout for 25% off your first purchase.Produced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Phil discusses a chronic illness epidemic sweeping the U.S. with Calley Means, of Truemed; Dr. Cate Shanahan, nutritionist; and Jillian Michaels, fitness expert. The health of American children is under attack- and its biggest threat is a basic need, food. Research is showing that ultra-processed foods are linked to the chronic illness epidemic that is sweeping our nation. More than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition, such as asthma, obesity, and behavior/learning problems. Less than 1% of children eat ideal meals. Ultra-processed foods currently make up nearly 60% of what a typical adult eats- and nearly 70% of what children eat. Dr. Phil speaks to Calley Means, co-founder of Truemed; Dr. Cate Shanahan, board-certified MD and nutritionist; and Jillian Michaels, a fitness expert and trainer to weigh-in on this uniquely American crisis. Thank you to our sponsors: FYSI: Visit https://FYSI.com/DRPHIL or call 800-877-4000 Preserve Gold: Visit: https://drphilgold.com/  Get a FREE precious metals guide that contains essential information on how to help protect your accounts. Text “DRPHIL” to 50505 to claim this exclusive offer from Preserve Gold today. G-Defy Shoes: Go to https://GDEFY.com and use promo code DRPHIL at checkout or text DRPHIL to 91888 to get 30% off orders over $120  

The rise in obesity and chronic disease over the years is alarming. Rather than genetics, it can be attributed to environmental and dietary changes, emphasizing the role of food quality over quantity. And while GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic may show some promise in addressing metabolic dysfunction, concerns about long-term effects, muscle loss, and cost highlight the need for a more nuanced approach. Ultimately, a holistic strategy that includes diet, lifestyle, and personalized interventions is essential for sustainable health improvements. In this episode I discuss, along with Dr. Tyna Moore and Calley Means, the complexity of obesity, moving beyond the simplistic "calories in, calories out" model to focus on factors like insulin resistance, ultra-processed foods, and metabolic dysfunction. With nearly three decades experience in the medical world, Dr Tyna Moore is a leading expert in holistic regenerative medicine and resilient, metabolic health. Traditionally and alternatively trained in science and medicine as both a Naturopathic Physician and Chiropractor, she brings a unique perspective to those wishing to build a more robust foundation in their health and well-being. She is a podcast host, author, speaker, kettlebell devotee and mother. She is a fierce advocate for health autonomy and personal responsibility, which she helps others improve through her many offerings at drtyna.com and on her podcast, The Dr Tyna Show. Her true passion is coaching healthcare practitioners to utilize social media and build the online business of their dreams so they aren't shackled by illegal mandates and can enjoy more time, money and autonomy. Calley Means is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise. He is also the co-author with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, ofGood Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, and is now available for pre-order.Earlier in his career, Calley was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. In the past year, he's met with 50 members of Congress and presidential candidates advocating policies to combat the corruption of the pharma and food industries. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. Full length episodes can be found here: Can Ozempic Fix Our Obesity Crisis Ozempic: A Weight-Loss Miracle of Metabolic Menace? The Science of Weight Loss: What You Need to Know This episode is brought to you by BIOptimizers. Head to bioptimizers.com/hyman and use code HYMAN10 to save 10%.

Dr. Phil discusses a chronic illness epidemic sweeping the U.S. with Calley Means, of Truemed; Dr. Cate Shanahan, nutritionist; and Jillian Michaels, fitness expert. The health of American children is under attack- and its biggest threat is a basic need, food. Research is showing that ultra-processed foods are linked to the chronic illness epidemic that is sweeping our nation. More than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents have at least one chronic health condition, such as asthma, obesity, and behavior/learning problems. Less than 1% of children eat ideal meals. Ultra-processed foods currently make up nearly 60% of what a typical adult eats- and nearly 70% of what children eat. Dr. Phil speaks to Calley Means, co-founder of Truemed; Dr. Cate Shanahan, board-certified MD and nutritionist; and Jillian Michaels, a fitness expert and trainer to weigh-in on this uniquely American crisis. Thank you to our sponsors: Cozy Earth: Visit https://CozyEarth.com/PHIL and use code PHIL for up to 40% off Preserve Gold: Visit: https://preservegold.com/  Get a FREE precious metals guide that contains essential information on how to help protect your accounts. Text “DRPHIL” to 50505 to claim this exclusive offer from Preserve Gold today.  

In this episode, Calley Means, founder of TrueMed and co-author of Good Energy, discusses the growing health challenges facing children and parents today. From the rise of chronic disease to the overwhelming influence of the food and pharma industries, Calley shares insights on how our current systems are failing families. We dive deep into the struggles of American parents, the importance of teaching kids about processed foods, and how policy changes can support healthier lifestyles. Tune in for a powerful conversation on the urgent need to protect future generations' health and reclaim trust in our medical system.Topics Discussed:The impact of Big Food and Big Pharma on public health, especially in childrenHow parents are navigating a broken system that prioritizes profit over wellnessThe urgent need for policy changes to combat chronic disease and support healthier lifestyles for familiesSponsored By: Be Well By Kelly Protein Powder & Essentials | Get $10 off your order with PODCAST10 at bewellbykelly.com.OneSkin | Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEWELL at oneskin.coTimestamps: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:44 - The MAHA Movement 00:04:11 - Health is political 00:11:40 - Incentives and policy change 00:16:57 - The American medical association 00:21:36 - Weakening trust in the medical system 00:27:01 - The struggles of the American parent 00:29:45 - Teaching kids about processed foods 00:32:02 - Government and parental intervention00:38:18 - Issues with the FDA 00:44:31 - Truemed 00:50:24 - FSA & HSA Check Out Calley:TruemedInstagramTwitterBuy Good Energy by Calley & Casey MeansCheck Out Kelly:InstagramYouTubeFacebookMentioned in this episode:Be Well By Kelly Protein Powder & Essentials | Get $10 off your order with PODCAST10 at bewellbykelly.com.

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr's confirmation hearing begins this week for Secretary of Health and Human Services, for months, the Trump Administration has spoken about making a major change in the United States.     Co-founder of Truemed and co-author of the book "Good Energy" Calley Means discusses improving American health. Calley's goal is to restore American's trust in the health system by detecting the root cause of underlying conditions which stem from food.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) joins to expose the RINO obstruction to keep Florida from deporting illegal immigrants. As some Republicans claim RFK Jr. isn't pro-life enough to be HHS secretary, Truemed co-founder Calley Means joins to explain why RFK Jr. must be confirmed. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins to discuss the process of implementing a “letter of marque and reprisal” to help combat the drug cartels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The daughter of the president of Colombia issued a threat, saying that for every immigrant Trump sends to Colombia, Colombia will send an illegal immigrant back to America. Glenn explains the difference between genuine empathy and the Left's twisted version of empathy. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) joins to expose the RINO obstruction to keep Florida from deporting illegal immigrants. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey joins to explain how local counties in Florida are cracking down on immigration. The Left's arguments for keeping illegal immigrants in this country are morally questionable. As some Republicans claim RFK Jr. isn't pro-life enough to be HHS secretary, Truemed co-founder Calley Means joins to explain why RFK Jr. must be confirmed. RNC Youth Advisory Council co-chairman CJ Pearson joins to discuss New York magazine cropping a photo to push a racial angle. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joins to discuss the process of implementing a “letter of marque and reprisal” to help combat the drug cartels.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There has been a cultural sea change over the last year when it comes to health in America. It is shepherded by an unexpected coalition of nutritionists, longevity experts, wellness influencers, holistic and functional medicine doctors, moms wearing babies and natural deodorant, mushroom shamans, and some vaccine skeptics. They've gathered under the banner of Make American Healthy Again, or MAHA, and they're here to tell us that plastic cutting boards, Diet Coke, and pasteurized milk—all things that once seemed perfectly normal in American life—are actually killing us.  A decade ago, if you read that list of personas you would think MAHA is some woo-woo, hippie progressive movement. But here we are in 2025, and this is the same group that helped usher Donald Trump to power.  What does MAHA stand for? What does it look like when it marries itself to power? And what will MAHA actually be able to accomplish over the next four years, under their fearless leader—and risky Health and Human Services nominee—Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?  Live in D.C. during inauguration weekend, Calley Means, Jillian Michaels and Vani Hari explain. Calley is the founder of Truemed and co-author of Good Energy. Jillian is America's original fitness expert and the author of nine books. Vani is the founder of Truvani, and you probably know her from her blog Food Babe. She also got Subway to remove “the yoga mat chemical” from its breads. And, the fact that there was a yoga mat chemical in its bread is the whole purpose of this conversation. Today, the three MAHA whisperers explain why this movement just might be the most powerful political force in American life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a copy of Calley Mean's book: Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health   Episode Timestamps [00:00] - Intro [05:39] - Can We Trust the Healthcare System?   [12:18] - What You Should Know About the FDA  [17:05] - The Truth About Food Addiction [22:55] - How to Take Charge of Your Health [28:24] - Episode Recap [30:45] - Outro   Take control of your health today!   Making healthier choices starts with small, consistent changes that can lead to long-term benefits for your well-being. Whether it's eating nourishing foods, staying active, or prioritizing self-care, every positive choice adds up to a healthier lifestyle. In this episode, The Holistic Kids and Calley Means dive into the problem with today's healthcare system, what the FDA means for your health, and simple ways to create lasting habits.   Calley Means is the co-founder of Truemed, a company that lets you use HSA funds for healthy food, supplements, and exercise. He's also the co-author of “Good Energy,” a book written with his sister, that shares tips for improving health and boosting energy.    Make healthier choices while using HSA: Truemed    To learn more about Calley Means, visit: https://calleymeans.com/ or follow him on social media: Facebook | Instagram    Check out Dr. Madiha's newest book: Adam's Healing Adventures: Fake Food vs Real Food   Connect with Dr. Madiha Saeed: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

The growing coalition of Americans concerned about our country's health presents a unique opportunity to confront the misalignment between our medical, health, agricultural systems, and the American people. A critical examination of corporate influence, government regulatory agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry reveals systemic issues contributing to our country's health crisis.Join us for an in-depth discussion of these critical issues as experts explore the origin of these challenges, the failed role of our public health systems, and the need for a comprehensive bipartisan effort to restore the good life and help Americans live the healthy life again. Agenda Keynote Remarks Kevin Roberts, Ph.D., President, The Heritage Foundation Panel I: Failures of our Public Health Institutions The Hon. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senator, U.S. Senate Martin Kulldorff, Epidemiologist Robert Redfield, Former Director of the CDC Roger Severino, Vice President, Domestic Policy, The Heritage Foundation (moderator) Panel II: Food, Drugs, and America's Chronic Disease Epidemic Tammy Born Huizenga, Owner and Operator of Born Clinic, Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician Calley Means, Founder of Truemed and Co-Author of Good Energy Nina Teicholz, Investigative Science Journalist, Author, and Founder of the Nutrition Coalition Jay Richards, Director, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, The Heritage Foundation (moderator)

“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! If you love exploration books as much as we do, you'll definitely enjoy this episode. Today, we're talking about Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. Join us as we explore Shackleton's legendary expedition, where a crew of 28 men faced nearly two years of extreme conditions after their ship became trapped in ice. We cover a wide range of topics including: How Shackleton's leadership prevented descent into madness Physical vs. mental challenges in extreme survival situations Were previous generations tougher than we are today? Antarctic exploration's parallels to modern space missions The life-or-death decisions in the final rescue attempt And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Equip (1:35) TrueMed (1:39) Gusto (3:15) CrowdHealth (4:16) Ross Sea Party (9:31) SpaceX 'Chopsticks' (14:20) Kerbal Space Program (15:57) Oppenheimer (22:55) Apollo 13 (40:06) The Martian (40:35) Endurance Documentary (43:50) Free Solo (44:34) JD Vance on Joe Rogan (1:14:04) Justin Mares - The Next (1:20:19) Anthony Gustin - The Feed (1:20:43) News article on Epic (1:21:43) Books Mentioned: Colony One Mars (19:21) The Fourth Turning (28:08) (Book Episode)  Dune (33:57) Musashi (34:11) East of Eden (34:12) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) Lord of the Rings (35:29) The River of Doubt (48:10) (Book Episode) Hatchet (1:02:36) The Lost Men (1:04:17) Where Is My Flying Car? (1:08:07) (Book Episode) Energy and Civilization (1:10:00) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) How the World Really Works (1:10:03) (Book Episode) The Prize (1:10:44) Oil 101 (1:11:31) The Brothers K (1:12:00) Power to Save the World (1:12:19) How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor (1:12:29) Crypto Confidential (1:29:43) People Mentioned: Ernest Shackleton Alfred Lansing (10:47) Amundsen and Scott (12:19) Alfred Cheetham (19:58) Jimmy Chin (44:20)  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (44:24) Show Topics: (0:00) After an unintended hiatus, we're back! We begin the episode with a tangent on our favorite blender, health insurance plans, and protein powder. (5:44) We begin our discussion of Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Nat shares a unique perspective, having read the book during his own trip to Antarctica. (09:15) The timeline of Shackleton's expedition spanned from August 1914 to September 1916, marking nearly two years of survival against impossible odds. Later on, Shackleton would help rescue another stranded crew in January 1917. (11:16) Endurance draws from the crew's journal entries, a common practice during the age of exploration when survival wasn't guaranteed. We discuss how these historical records parallel potential Mars missions in the future. (13:46) We explore current Mars exploration initiatives across the globe. China aims for a sample return mission by 2030, SpaceX targets 2028 for their missions, and India continues to advance their rover program. (18:01) The core of Shackleton's story unfolds: an attempted Antarctic crossing, leading to a two-year fight for survival. Despite the world presuming them dead, every crew member survived, with many later serving in World War I, highlighting their extraordinary resilience. (22:11) "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." Shackleton's legendary recruitment advertisement exemplified his unique approach to crew selection. Nat, Neil, and Adil also discuss whether the people of previous generations were tougher than we are today.  (30:30) Shifting the conversation to growing up in the pre-Internet era. We reminisce about outdoor adventures, early video games, and how different forms of entertainment shaped our imaginations compared to today. (35:54) The physical hardships endured by the crew were severe, with frostbite being a constant threat. Shackleton's leadership proved crucial, maintaining strict schedules and discipline to prevent the crew from succumbing to despair during their long wait trapped in ice. (39:26) We draw parallels between Shackleton's earlier failures and the Apollo 13 mission.  (42:41) The type of ship they chose for the journey actually had a huge impact on the outcome. Its specific shape made it vulnerable to being trapped within the large blocks of ice. (46:31) National parks and the preservation of nature. There are very few places left in the country where there is no light pollution at all. (49:43) After a year on the ship and another camping on ice, they modified their lifeboats for a perilous journey to Elephant Island. Shackleton's team then faced the task of scaling mountains without proper gear and navigating treacherous waters. (55:12) Nat, Neil, and Adil debate whether the physical or mental challenges were the most difficult to overcome in this expedition. Would you rather have been on the boat with Shackleton, or waiting for the boat to return for rescue?  (1:01:32) The book itself has an interesting publishing history. Though it achieved only modest sales during Lansing's lifetime, it found massive success about a decade after his death. (1:07:49) We reflect on a few other books we've read on energy. If you have any recommendations, send them our way!  (1:13:07) A discussion about current political leadership's understanding of technology and its implications for policy decisions. (1:20:55) The 'Make American Healthy Again' efforts, healthcare system incentives, and potential future programs in the U.S. What is to come under the new administration? (1:24:59) It wouldn't be an episode of MYT without a little crypto and meme coin talk! (1:34:58) That concludes this episode! If you're interested in reading Endurance, you can grab a copy of the book here. Next up on the podcast, we will be reading Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Make sure to stay tuned to our website to see what's next and leave us a book rec! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. 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There are dangers lurking in our food that affect your health and the health of our entire society, and you should know about them. In this episode, get the highlights from two recent Congressional events featuring expert testimony about the regulation of our food supply, as well as testimony from the man who is soon likely to be the most powerful person in our national health care system. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources Joe Rogan Episodes The Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience. Ron Johnson Scott Bauer. January 3, 2023. AP News. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Daniel Cusick. October 28, 2024. Politico. Rachel Treisman. August 5, 2024. NPR. Susanne Craig. May 8, 2024. The New York Times. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. FDA “Generally Recognized as Safe” Approach Paulette M. Gaynor et al. April 2006. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Paulette Gaynor and Sebastian Cianci. December 2005/January 2006. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Glyphosate September 20, 2023. Phys.org. Lobbying and Conflicts of Interest OpenSecrets. OpenSecrets. OpenSecrets. LinkedIn. Shift from Democrats to Republicans Will Stone and Allison Aubrey. November 15, 2024. NPR. Helena Bottemiller Evich and Darren Samuelsohn. March 17, 2016. Politico. Audio Sources September 25, 2024 Roundtable discussion held by Senator Ron Johnson Participants: , Author, Good Energy; Tech entrepreneur, Levels , Co-founder, Truemed; Advocate, End Chronic Disease , aka the Food Babe, food activist Jillian Michaels, fitness expert, nutritionist, businesswoman, media personality, and author Dr. Chris Palmer, Founder and Director, Metabolic and Mental Health Program and Director, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Brigham Buhler, Founder & CEO, Ways2Well Courtney Swan, nutritionist, real food activist, and founder of the popular platform "Realfoodology" , Founder and CEO, HumanCo; co-founder, Hu Kitchen Dr. Marty Makary, Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery, Professor of Surgery, and Public Policy Researcher, Johns Hopkins University Clips Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: When discussing improvements to US healthcare policy, politicians from both parties often say we have the best healthcare system in the world. That is a lie. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Every major pillar of the US healthcare system, as a statement of economic fact, makes money when Americans get sick. By far the most valuable asset in this country today is a sick child. The pharma industry, hospital industry, and medical school industry make more money when there are more interventions to perform on Americans, and by requiring insurance companies to take no more than 15% of premiums, Obamacare actually incentivized insurance companies to raise premiums to get 15% of a larger pie. This is why premiums have increased 100% since the passage of Obamacare, making health care the largest driver of inflation, while American life expectancy plummets. We spend four times per capita on health care than the Italians, but Italians live 7.5 years longer than us on average. And incidentally, Americans had the highest life expectancies in the world when I was growing up. Today, we've fallen an average of six years behind our European neighbors. Are we lazier and more suicidal than Italians? Or is there a problem with our system? Are there problems with our incentives? Are there problems with our food? 46:15 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: So what's causing all of this suffering? I'll name two culprits, first and worst is ultra processed foods. 47:20 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: The second culprit is toxic chemicals in our food, our medicine and our environment. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: The good news is that we can change all this, and we can change it very, very, very quickly, and it starts with taking a sledgehammer to corruption, the conflicts in our regulatory agencies and in this building. These conflicts have transformed our regulatory agencies into predators against the American people and particularly our children. 80% of NIH grants go to people who have conflicts of interest, and these scientists are allowed to collect royalties of $150,000 a year on the products that they develop at NIH and then farm out to the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA, the USDA and CDC are all controlled by giant for-profit corporations. Their function is no longer to improve and protect the health of Americans. Their function is to advance the mercantile and commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry that has transformed them and the food industry that has transformed them into sock puppets for the industry they're supposed to regulate. 75% of FDA funding does not come from taxpayers. It comes from pharma. And pharma executives and consultants and lobbyists cycle in and out of these agencies. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: Money from the healthcare industry has compromised our regulatory agencies and this body as well. The reality is that many congressional healthcare staffers are worried about impressing their future bosses at pharmaceutical companies rather than doing the right thing for American children. Today, over 100 members of Congress support a bill to fund Ozempic with Medicare at $1,500 a month. Most of these members have taken money from the manufacturer of that product, a European company called Novo Nordisk. As everyone knows, once a drug is approved for Medicare, it goes to Medicaid, and there is a push to recommend Ozempic for Americans as young as six, over a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago. Since 74% of Americans are obese, the cost of all of them, if they take their Ozempic prescriptions, will be $3 trillion a year. This is a drug that has made Novo Nordisk the biggest company in Europe. It's a Danish company, but the Danish government does not recommend it. It recommends a change in diet to treat obesity and exercise. Virtually Novo Nordisk's entire value is based upon its projections of what Ozempic is going to sell to Americans. For half the price of Ozempic, we could purchase regeneratively raised organic agriculture, organic food for every American, three meals a day and a gym membership for every obese American. Why are members of Congress doing the bidding of this Danish company instead of standing up for American farmers and children? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: For 19 years, solving the childhood chronic disease crisis has been the central goal of my life, and for 19 years, I have prayed to God every morning to put me in a position to end this calamity. I believe we have the opportunity for transformational, bipartisan change to transform American health, to hyper-charge our human capital, to improve our budget, and I believe, to save our spirits and our country. 1:23:10 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Our next presenter, Dr. Marty Makary also bears a few scars from telling the truth during COVID. Dr. Makary is a surgeon and public policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. He writes for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and is the author of two New York Times best selling books, Unaccountable and The Price We Pay. He's been an outspoken opponent of broad vaccine mandates and some COVID restrictions at schools. Dr. Makary holds degrees from Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University and Harvard University. Dr. Marty Makary: I'm trained in gastrointestinal surgery. My group at Johns Hopkins does more pancreatic cancer surgery than any hospital in the United States. But at no point in the last 20 years has anyone stopped to ask, why has pancreatic cancer doubled over those 20 years? Who's working on that? Who's looking into it? We are so busy in our health care system, billing and coding and paying each other, and every stakeholder has their gigantic lobby in Washington, DC, and everybody's making a lot of money, except for one stakeholder, the American citizen. They are financing this giant, expensive health care system through their paycheck deduction for health insurance and the Medicare excise tax as we go down this path, billing and coding and medicating. And can we be real for a second? We have poisoned our food supply, engineered highly addictive chemicals that we put into our food, we spray it with pesticides that kill pests. What do you think they do to our gut lining and our microbiome? And then they come in sick. The GI tract is reacting. It's not an acute inflammatory storm, it's a low grade chronic inflammation, and it makes people feel sick, and that inflammation permeates and drives so many of our chronic diseases that we didn't see half a century ago. Who's working on who's looking into this, who's talking about it? Our health care system is playing whack a mole on the back end, and we are not talking about the root causes of our chronic disease epidemic. We can't see the forest from the trees. Sometimes we're so busy in these short visits, billing and coding. We've done a terrible thing to doctors. We've told them, put your head down. Focus on billing and coding. We're going to measure you by your throughput and good job. You did a nice job. We have all these numbers to show for it. Well, the country is getting sicker. We cannot keep going down this path. We have the most over-medicated, sickest population in the world, and no one is talking about the root causes. Dr. Marty Makary: Somebody has got to speak up. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs, not just putting every kid on obesity drugs like Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about treating diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at everybody. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemo to treat it. We've got to talk about food as medicine. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): So, Dr Makary, I've got a couple questions. First of all, how many years have you been practicing medicine? Dr. Marty Makary: 22 years. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): So we've noticed a shift from decades ago when 80% of doctors are independent to now 80% are working for some hospital association. First of all, what has that meant in terms of doctors' independence and who they are really accountable too? Dr. Marty Makary: The move towards corporate medicine and mass consolidation that we've witnessed in our lifetime has meant more and more doctors are told to put their heads down, do your job: billing and coding short visits. We've not given doctors the time, research, or resources to deal with these chronic diseases. 1:32:45 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Dr. Casey Means is a medical doctor, New York Times Best Selling Author, tech entrepreneur at Levels, an aspiring regenerative gardener and an outdoor enthusiast. While training as a surgeon, she saw how broken and exploitative the health care system is, and led to focus on how to keep people out of the operating room. And again, I would highly recommend everybody read Good Energy. It's a personal story, and you'll be glad you did. Dr. Casey Means: Over the last 50 years in the United States, we have seen rapidly rising rates of chronic illnesses throughout the entire body. The body and the brain, infertility, obesity, type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer, heart disease, stroke, autoimmune disease, migraines, mental illness, chronic pain, fatigue, congenital abnormalities, chronic liver disease, autism, and infant and maternal mortality all going up. Americans live eight fewer years compared to people in Japan or Switzerland, and life expectancy is going down. I took an oath to do no harm, but listen to these stats. We're not only doing harm, we're flagrantly allowing harm. While it sounds grim, there is very good news. We know why all of these diseases are going up, and we know how to fix it. Every disease I mentioned is caused by or worsened by metabolic dysfunction, a word that it is thrilling to hear being used around this table. Metabolic dysfunction is a fundamental distortion of our cellular biology. It stops our cells from making energy appropriately. According to the American College of Cardiology, metabolic dysfunction now affects 93.2% of American adults. This is quite literally the cellular draining of our life force. This process is the result of three processes happening inside our cells, mitochondrial dysfunction, a process called oxidative stress, which is like a wildfire inside our cells, and chronic inflammation throughout the body and the gut, as we've heard about. Metabolic dysfunction is largely not a genetic issue. It's caused by toxic American ultra processed industrial food, toxic American chemicals, toxic American medications, and our toxic sedentary, indoor lifestyles. You would think that the American healthcare system and our government agencies would be clamoring to fix metabolic health and reduce American suffering and costs, but they're not. They are deafeningly silent about metabolic dysfunction and its known causes. It's not an overstatement to say that I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate these root causes of why American health is plummeting and how environmental factors are causing it. For instance, in medical school, I did not learn that for each additional serving of ultra processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%. This now makes up 67% of the foods our kids are eating. I took zero nutrition courses in medical school. I didn't learn that 82% of independently funded studies show harm from processed food, while 93% of industry sponsored studies reflect no harm. In medical school, I didn't learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA Food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry. I did not learn that 1 billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on our food every single year. 99.99% of the farmland in the United States is sprayed with synthetic pesticides, many from China and Germany. And these invisible, tasteless chemicals are strongly linked to autism, ADHD, sex hormone disruption, thyroid disease, sperm dysfunction, Alzheimer's, dementia, birth defects, cancer, obesity, liver dysfunction, female infertility and more, all by hurting our metabolic health. I did not learn that the 8 billion tons of plastic that have been produced just in the last 100 years, plastic was only invented about 100 years ago, are being broken down into micro plastics that are now filling our food, our water, and we are now even inhaling them in our air. And that very recent research from just the past couple of months tells us that now about 0.5% of our brains by weight are now plastic. I didn't learn that there are more than 80,000 toxins that have entered our food, water, air and homes by industry, many of which are banned in Europe, and they are known to alter our gene expression, alter our microbiome composition and the lining of our gut, and disrupt our hormones. I didn't learn that heavy metals like aluminum and lead are present in our food, our baby formula, personal care products, our soil and many of the mandated medications, like vaccines and that these metals are neurotoxic and inflammatory. I didn't learn that the average American walks a paltry 3500 steps per day, even though we know based on science and top journals that walking, simply walking 7000 steps a day, slashes by 40-60% our risk of Alzheimer's, dementia, type two diabetes, cancer and obesity. I certainly did not learn that medical error and medications are the third leading cause of death in the United States. I didn't learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full blown pre-diabetes. I learned nothing about sleep, and we're getting about 20% less sleep on average than we were 100 years ago. I didn't learn that American children are getting less time outdoors now than a maximum security prisoner. And on average, adults spend 93% of their time indoors, even though we know from the science that separation from sunlight destroys our circadian biology, and circadian biology dictates our cellular biology. I didn't learn that professional organizations that we get our practice guidelines from, like the American Diabetes Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken 10s of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury, processed food companies, and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna. I didn't learn that if we address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle patterns with a united strong voice, we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives, and trillions of dollars in health care costs per year. Instead, doctors are learning that the body is 100 separate parts, and we learn how to drug, we learn how to cut and we learn how to bill. I'll close by saying that what we are dealing with here is so much more than a physical health crisis. This is a spiritual crisis we are choosing death over life. We are we are choosing death over life. We are choosing darkness over light for people and the planet, which are inextricably linked. We are choosing to erroneously believe that we are separate from nature and that we can continue to poison nature and then outsmart it. Our path out will be a renewed respect for the miracle of life and a renewed respect for nature. We can restore health to Americans rapidly with smart policy and courageous leadership. We need a return to courage. We need a return to common sense and intuition. We need a return to awe for the sheer miraculousness of our lives. We need all hands on deck. Thank you. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): I'm not letting you off that easy. I've got a couple questions. So you outlined some basic facts that doctors should know that truthfully, you could cover in one hour of an introductory class in medical school, yes. So why aren't we teaching doctors these things? Dr. Casey Means: The easy thing to say would be, you know, follow the money. That sounds sort of trite, but frankly, I think that is the truth, but not in the way you might think that, like doctors are out to make money, or even medical schools. The money and the core incentive problem, which is that every institution that touches our health in America, from medical schools to pharmaceutical companies to health insurance companies to hospitals offices, they make more money when we are sick and less when we are healthy. That simple, one incentive problem corrodes every aspect of the way medicine is thought about. The way we think about the body, we talked about interconnectedness. It creates a system in which we silo the body into all these separate parts and create that illusion that we all buy into because it's profitable to send people to separate specialties. So it corrodes even the foundational conception of how we think about the body. So it is about incentives and money, but I would say that's the invisible hand. It's not necessarily affecting each doctor's clinical practice or the decision making. It's corroding every lever of the basics of how we even consider what the human body is and what life is. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): In your book, you do a really good job of describing how, because of the specialization of medicine, you don't see the forest for the trees. The fact is, you do need specialized medicine. I mean, doctors can't know it all. So I think the question is, how do we get back to the reward for general practitioners that do focus on what you're writing about? Dr. Casey Means: I have huge respect for doctors, and I am incredibly grateful for the American health care system, which has produced miracles, and we absolutely need continue to have primary care doctors and specialists, and they should be rewarded highly. However, if we focused on what everyone here is talking about, I think we'd have 90% less throughput through our health care system. We would be able to have these doctors probably have a much better life to be honest. You know, because right now, doctors are working 100 hours a week seeing 50, 60, 70 patients, and could actually have more time with patients who develop these acute issues that need to be treated by a doctor. But so many of the things in the specialist office are chronic conditions that we know are fundamentally rooted in the cellular dysfunction I describe, which is metabolic dysfunction, which is created by our lifestyle. So I think that there's always going to be a place for specialists, but so so many, so much fewer. And I think if we had a different conception for the body is interconnected, they would also interact with each other in a very different way, a much more collaborative way. And then, of course, we need to incentivize doctors in the healthcare system towards outcomes, not throughput. 1:46:25 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Our next presenter is Dr. Chris Palmer. Dr. Palmer is a Harvard trained psychiatrist, researcher and author of Brain Energy, where he explores a groundbreaking connection between metabolic health and mental illness. He is a leader in innovative approaches to treating psychiatric conditions, advocating for the use of diet and metabolic interventions to improve mental health outcomes. Dr. Palmer's work is reshaping how the medical field views and treats mental health disorders. Dr. Chris Palmer: I want to build on what Dr. Means just shared that these chronic diseases we face today. Obesity, diabetes, fatty liver, all share something in common. They are, in fact, metabolic dysfunction. I'm going to go into a little bit of the science, just to make sure we're all on the same page. Although most people think of metabolism as burning calories, it is far more than that. Metabolism is a series of chemical reactions that convert food into energy and building blocks essential for cellular health. When we have metabolic dysfunction, it can drive numerous chronic diseases, which is a paradigm shift in the medical field. Now there is no doubt metabolism is complicated. It really is. It is influenced by biological, psychological, environmental and social factors, and the medical field says this complexity is the reason we can't solve the obesity epidemic because they're still trying to understand every molecular detail of biology. But in fact, we don't need to understand biology in order to understand the cause. The cause is coming from our environment, a toxic environment like poor diet and exposure to harmful chemicals, and these are actually quite easy to study, understand, and address. There is no doubt food plays a key role. It provides the substrate for energy and building blocks. Nutritious foods support metabolism, while ultra processed options can disrupt it. It is shocking that today, in 2024, the FDA allows food manufacturers to introduce brand new chemicals into our food supply without adequate testing. The manufacturer is allowed to determine for themselves whether this substance is safe for you and your family to eat or not. Metabolism's impact goes beyond physical health. I am a psychiatrist. Some of you are probably wondering, why are you here? It also affects mental health. Because guess what? The human brain is an organ too, and when brain metabolism is impaired, it can cause symptoms that we call mental illness. It is no coincidence that as the rates of obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing, so too are the rates of mental illness. In case you didn't know, we have a mental health crisis. We have all time prevalence highs for depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, deaths of despair, drug overdoses, ADHD and autism. What does the mental health field have to say for this? Well, you know, mental illness is just chemical imbalances, or maybe trauma and stress that is wholly insufficient to explain the epidemic that we are seeing. And in fact, there is a better way to integrate the biopsychosocial factors known to play a role in mental illness. Mental Disorders at their core are often metabolic disorders impacting the brain. It's not surprising to most people that obesity and diabetes might play a role in depression or anxiety, but the rates of autism have quadrupled in just 20 years, and the rates of ADHD have tripled over that same period of time. These are neuro developmental disorders, and many people are struggling to understand, how on earth could they rise so rapidly? But it turns out that metabolism plays a profound role in neurodevelopment, and sure enough, parents with metabolic issues like obesity and diabetes are more likely to have children with autism and ADHD. This is not about fat shaming, because what I am arguing is that the same foods and chemicals and other drivers of obesity that are causing obesity in the parents are affecting the brain health of our children. There is compelling evidence that food plays a direct role in mental health. One study of nearly 300,000 people found that those who eat ultra processed foods daily are three times more likely to struggle with their mental health than people who never or rarely consume them. A systematic review found direct associations between ultra processed food exposure and 32 different health parameters, including mental mental health conditions. Now I'm not here to say that food is the only, or even primary driver of mental illness. Let's go back to something familiar. Trauma and stress do drive mental illness, but for those of you who don't know, trauma and stress are also associated with increased rates of obesity and diabetes. Trauma and stress change human metabolism. We need to put the science together. This brings me to a key point. We cannot separate physical and mental health from metabolic health. Addressing metabolic dysfunction has the potential to prevent and treat a wide range of chronic diseases. Dr. Chris Palmer: In my own work, I have seen firsthand how using metabolic therapies like the ketogenic diet and other dietary interventions can improve even severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, sometimes putting them into lasting remission. These reports are published in peer reviewed, prestigious medical journals. However, there is a larger issue at play that many have talked about, medical education and public health recommendations are really captured by industry and politics, and at best, they often rely on weak epidemiological data, resulting in conflicting or even harmful advice. We heard a reference to this, but in case you didn't know, a long time ago, we demonized saturated fat. And what was the consequence of demonizing saturated fat? We replaced it with "healthy vegetable shortening." That was the phrase we used, "healthy vegetable shortening." Guess what was in that healthy vegetable shortening? It was filled with trans fats, which are now recognized to be so harmful that they've been banned in the United States. Let's not repeat mistakes like this. Dr. Chris Palmer: So what's the problem? Number one, nutrition and mental health research are severely underfunded, with each of them getting less than 5% of the NIH budget. This is no accident. This is the concerted effort of lobbying by industry, food manufacturers, the healthcare industry, they do not want root causes discovered. We need to get back to funding research on the root causes of mental and metabolic disorders, including the effects of foods, chemicals, medications, environmental toxins, on the human brain and metabolism. Dr. Chris Palmer: The issue of micro plastics and nano plastics in the human body is actually, sadly, in its infancy. We have two publications out in the last couple of months demonstrating that micro plastics are, in fact, found in the human brain. And as Dr. Means said, and you recited, 0.5% of the body weight, or the brain's weight, appears to be composed of micro plastics. We need more research to better understand whether these micro plastics are, in fact, associated with harmful conditions, because microplastics are now ubiquitous. So some will argue, well, they're everywhere, and everybody's got them, and it's just a benign thing. Some will argue that the most compelling evidence against that is a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine a few months ago now, in which they were doing routine carotid endarterectomies, taking plaque out of people's carotid arteries. Just routinely doing that for clinical care, and then they analyzed those plaques for micro plastics. 58% of the people had detectable micro plastics in the plaques. So they compared this 58% group who had micro plastics to the ones who didn't, followed them for three years, just three years, and the ones who had micro plastics had four times the mortality. There is strong reason to believe, based on animal data and based on cell biology data, that microplastics are in fact, toxic to the human body, to mitochondrial function, to hormone dysregulation and all sorts of things. There are lots of reasons to believe that, but the scientists will say, we need more research. We need to better understand whether these micro plastics really are associated with higher rates of disease. I think people are terrified of the answer. People are terrified of the answer. And if you think about everything that you consume, and how much of it is not wrapped in plastic, all of those industries are going to oppose research. They are going to oppose research funding to figure this out ASAP, because that will be a monumental change to not just the food industry but our entire economy. Imagining just cleaning up the oceans and trying to get this plastic and then, more importantly, trying to figure out, how are we going to detox humans? How are we going to de-plasticize human beings? How are we going to get these things out? It is an enormous problem, but the reality is, putting our heads in the sand is not going to help. And I am really hopeful that by raising issues and letting people know about this health crisis, that maybe we will get answers quickly. Dr. Chris Palmer: Your question is, why are our health agencies not exploring these questions? It's because the health agencies are largely influenced by the industries they are supposed to be regulating and looking out for. The medical education community is largely controlled by pharmaceutical companies. One and a half billion dollars every year goes to support physician education. That's from pharmaceutical companies. One and a half billion from pharmaceutical companies. So physicians are getting educated with some influence, large influence, I would argue, by them, the health organizations. It's a political issue. The NIH, it's politics. Politicians are selecting people to be on the committees or people to oversee these organizations. Politicians rely on donations from companies and supporters to get re-elected, and the reality is this is not going to be easy to tackle. The challenge is that you'll get ethical politicians who say, I'm not going to take any of that money, and I'm going to try to do the right thing and right now, the way the system is set up, there's a good chance those politicians won't get re-elected, and instead, their opponents, who were more than happy to take millions of dollars in campaign contributions, will get re-elected, and then they will return the favor to their noble campaign donors. We are at a crossroads. We have to decide who are the constituents of the American government. Is it industry, or is it the American people? 2:09:35 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Calley Means the co-founder of Truemed, a company that enables tax free spending on food and exercise. He recently started an advocacy coalition with leading health and wellness companies called End Chronic Disease. Early in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies. He is now exposing practices they used to weaponize our institutions of trust, and he's doing a great job doing interviews with his sister, Casey. Calley Means: If you think about a medical miracle, it's almost certainly a solution that was invented before 1960 for an acute condition: emergency surgical procedures to ensure a complicated childbirth wasn't a death sentence, sanitation procedures, antibiotics that insured infection was an inconvenience, not deadly, eradicating polio, regular waste management procedures that helped control outbreaks like the bubonic plague, sewage systems that replaced the cesspools and opened drains, preventing human waste from contaminating the water. The US health system is a miracle in solving acute conditions that will kill us right away. But economically, acute conditions aren't great in our modern system, because the patient is quickly cured and is no longer a customer. Start in the 1960s the medical system took the trust engendered by these acute innovations like antibiotics, which were credited with winning World War Two, and they used that trust to ask patients not to question its authority on chronic diseases, which can last a lifetime and are more profitable. But the medicalization of chronic disease in the past 50 years has been an abject failure. Today, we're in a siloed system where there's a treatment for everything. And let's just look at the stats. Heart disease has gone up as more statins are prescribed. Type 2 diabetes has gone up as more Metformin is prescribed. ADHD has gone up as more Adderall is prescribed. Depression and suicide has gone up as more SSRIs are prescribed. Pain has gone up as more opioids are prescribed. Cancer has gone up as we've spent more on cancer. And now JP Morgan literally at the conference in San Francisco, recently, they put up a graph, and they showed us more Ozempic is projected to be prescribed over the next 10 years, obesity rates are going to go up as more is prescribed. Explain that to me. There was clapping. All the bankers were clapping like seals at this graphic. Our intervention based system is by design. In the early 1900s, John D. Rockefeller using that he could use byproducts from oil production to create pharmaceuticals, heavily funded medical schools throughout the United States to teach a curriculum based on the intervention-first model of Dr. William Stewart Halsted, the founding physician of Johns Hopkins, who created the residency-based model that viewed invasive surgical procedures and medication as the highest echelon of medicine. An employee of Rockefeller's was tasked to create the Flexner Report, which outlined a vision for medical education that prioritized interventions and stigmatized nutritional and holistic remedies. Congress affirmed the Flexner Report in 1910 to establish that any credentialed medical institution in the United States had to follow the Halsted-Rockefeller intervention based model that silos disease and downplay viewing the body as an interconnected system. It later came out that Dr. Halsted's cocaine and morphine addiction fueled his day long surgical residencies and most of the medical logic underlying the Flexner Report was wrong. But that hasn't prevented the report and the Halsted-Rockefeller engine based brand of medicine from being the foundational document that Congress uses to regulate medical education today. Calley Means: Our processed food industry was created by the cigarette industry. In the 1980s, after decades of inaction, the Surgeon General and the US government finally, finally said that smoking might be harmful, and smoking rates plummeted. We listened to doctors in this country. We listened to medical leadership, and as smoking rates plummeted, cigarette companies, with their big balance sheets, strategically bought up food companies, and by 1990 the two largest food companies in the world were Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, two cigarette companies. These cigarette companies moved two departments over from the cigarette department to the food department. They moved the scientists. Cigarette companies were the highest payers of scientists, one of the biggest employers of scientists to make the cigarettes addictive. They moved these addiction specialists, world leading addiction specialists, to the food department by the thousands. And those scientists weaponized our ultra processed food. That is the problem with ultra processed food. You have the best scientists in the world creating this food to be palatable and to be addictive. They then moved their lobbyists over. They used the same playbook, and their lobbyists co-opted the USDA and created the food pyramid. The Food Pyramid was a document created by the cigarette industry through complete corporate capture, and was an ultra processed food marketing document saying that we needed a bunch of carbs and sugar. And we listened to medical experts in this country, the American people, American parents. Many parents who had kids in the 90s thought it was a good thing to do to give their kids a bunch of ultra processed foods and carb consumption went up 20% in the American diet in the next 10 years. The Devil's bargain comes in in that this ultra processed food consumption has been one of the most profitable dynamics in American history for the health care industry. As we've all just been decimated with chronic conditions, the medical industry hasn't. Not only have they been silent on this issue, they've actually been complicit, working for the food industry. I helped funnel money from Coca Cola to the American Diabetes Association. Yeah. 2:31:40 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Next presenter will be Brigham Buhler. Brigham is the Founder and CEO of Ways2Well, a healthcare company that provides personalized preventive care through telemedicine, with a strong background in the pharmaceutical industry. Brigham is focused on making healthcare more accessible by harnessing the power of technology, delivering effective and tailored treatments. His vision for improving health outcomes has positioned him as a leader in modern patient centered healthcare solutions. Brigham Buhler: We hear people reference President Eisenhower's speech all the time about the military industrial complex, but rarely do we hear the second half of that speech. He also warned us about the rise of the scientific industrial complex. He warned us, if we allow the elite to control the scientific research, it could have dire consequences. 2:36:30 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): I'm going to call an audible here as moderator, I saw that hopefully the future chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Mike Crapo from Idaho, came into the room. I asked Mike to share his story. He used to wear larger suits, let's put it that way. But he went down the path of the ketogenic diet, I believe. But Mike, why don't you tell your story? And by the way, he's somebody you want to influence. Chairman of Senate Finance Committee makes an awful lot of decisions on Medicare, Medicaid, a lot of things we talked about with Ozempic, now the lobbying group try and make that available, and how harmful, I think, most people in this room think that might be so. Senator Crapo, if you could just kind of tell us your story in terms of your diet change and what results you had. Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID): Well, first of all, let me thank you. I didn't come here to say anything. I came here to listen, but I appreciate the opportunity to just have a second to tell you my personal story. I'll say before I do that, thank you for Ron Johnson. Senator Johnson is also a member of the Finance Committee, and it is my hope that we can get that committee, which I think has the most powerful jurisdiction, particularly over these areas, of any in the United States Congress, and so I'm hopeful we can get a focus on addressing the government's part of the role in this to get us back on a better track. 2:54:35 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Vani Hari, known as the Food Babe -- they wrote that for me, that wasn't me, that's my not my nickname -- is a food activist, author and speaker committed to improving food quality and safety. She has built a powerful platform through her blog advocating for transparency in food labeling and the removal of harmful chemicals from processed food. Her activism has spurred significant change in the food industry, encouraging consumers to make healthier, more informed choices, while prompting companies to adopt cleaner practices. Vani Hari: Our government is letting US food companies get away with serving American citizens harmful ingredients that are banned or heavily regulated in other countries. Even worse, American food companies are selling the same exact products overseas without these chemicals, but choose to continue serving us the most toxic version here. It's un-American. One set of ingredients there, and one set of ingredients here. Let me give you some examples. This is McDonald's french fries. I would like to argue that probably nobody in this room has not had a McDonald's french fry, by the way, nobody raised their hand during the staff meeting earlier today. In the US, there's 11 ingredients. In the UK, there's three, and salt is optional. An ingredient called dimethyl polysiloxane is an ingredient preserved with formaldehyde, a neurotoxin, in the US version. This is used as a foaming agent, so they don't have to replace the oil that often, making McDonald's more money here in the United States, but they don't do that across the pond. Here we go, this is Skittles. Notice the long list of ingredient differences, 10 artificial dyes in the US version and titanium dioxide. This ingredient is banned in Europe because it can cause DNA damage. Artificial dyes are made from petroleum, and products containing these dyes require a warning label in Europe that states it may cause adverse effects on activity and attention in children, and they have been linked to cancer and disruptions in the immune system. This on the screen back here, is Gatorade. In the US, they use red 40 and caramel color. In Germany, they don't, they use carrot and sweet potatoes to color their Gatorade. This is Doritos. The US version has three different three different artificial dyes and MSG, the UK version does not and let's look at cereal. General Mills is definitely playing some tricks on us. They launched a new version of Trix just recently in Australia. It has no dyes, they even advertise that, when the US version still does. This is why I became a food activist. My name is Vani Hari, and I only want one thing. I want Americans to be treated the same way as citizens in other countries by our own American companies. Vani Hari: We use over 10,000 food additives here in the United States and in Europe, there's only 400 approved. In 2013, I discovered that Kraft was producing their famous mac and cheese in other countries without artificial dyes. They used Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 here. I was so outraged by this unethical practice that I decided to do something about it. I launched a petition asking Kraft to remove artificial dyes from their products here in the United States, and after 400,000 signatures and a trip to their headquarters, Kraft finally announced they would make the change. I also discovered Subway was selling sandwiches with a chemical called azodicarbonamide in their bread in other countries. This is the same chemical they use in yoga mats and shoe rubber. You know, when you turn a yoga mat sideways and you see the evenly dispersed air bubbles? Well, they wanted to do the same thing in bread, so it would be the same exact product every time you went to a Subway. When the chemical is heated, studies show that it turns into a carcinogen. Not only is this ingredient banned in Europe and Australia, you get fined $450,000 if you get caught using it in Singapore. What's really interesting is when this chemical is heated, studies show that it turns into a carcinogen. Not only is this ingredient banned, but we were able to get Subway to remove azodicarbonamide from their bread in the United States after another successful petition. And as a bonus, there was a ripple effect in almost every bread manufacturer in America followed suit. For years, Starbucks didn't publish their ingredients for their coffee drinks. It was a mystery until I convinced a barista to show me the ingredients on the back of the bottles they were using to make menu items like their famous pumpkin spice lattes. I found out here in the United States, Starbucks was coloring their PSLs with caramel coloring level four, an ingredient made from ammonia and linked to cancer, but using beta carotene from carrots to color their drinks in the UK. After publishing an investigation and widespread media attention, Starbucks removed caramel coloring from all of their drinks in America and started publishing the ingredients for their entire menu. I want to make an important point here. Ordinary people who rallied for safer food shared this information and signed petitions. Were able to make these changes. We did this on our own. But isn't this something that the people in Washington, our elected politicians, should be doing? Vani Hari: Asking companies to remove artificial food dye would make an immediate impact. They don't need to reinvent the wheel. They already have the formulations. As I've shown you, consumption of artificial food dyes has increased by 500% in the last 50 years, and children are the biggest consumers. Yes, those children. Perfect timing. 43% of products marketed towards children in the grocery store contain artificial dyes. Food companies have found in focus groups, children will eat more of their product with an artificial dye because it's more attractive and appealing. And the worst part, American food companies know the harms of these additives because they were forced to remove them overseas due to stricter regulations and to avoid warning labels that would hurt sales. This is one of the most hypocritical policies of food companies, and somebody needs to hold them accountable. Vani Hari: When Michael Taylor was the Deputy Commissioner of the of the FDA, he said, he admitted on NPR, we don't have the resources, we don't have the capabilities to actually regulate food chemicals, because we don't have the staff. There's no one there. We are under this assumption, and I think a lot of Americans are under this assumption, that every single food additive ingredient that you buy at the grocery store has been approved by some regulatory body. It hasn't. It's been approved by the food companies themselves. There's 1000s of chemicals where the food company creates it, submits the safety data, and then the FDA rubber stamps it, because they don't have any other option. 3:09:15 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): So our next presenter is Jason Karp. Jason is the founder and CEO of HumanCo, a mission driven company that invests in and builds brands focused on healthier living and sustainability. In addition to HumanCo, Jason is the co-founder of Hu Kitchen, known for creating the number one premium organic chocolate in the US. My wife will appreciate that. Prior to HumanCo, Jason spent over 21 years in the hedge fund industry, where he was the founder and CEO of an investment fund that managed over $4 billion. Jason graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 3:11:10 Jason Karp: I've been a professional investor for 26 years, dealing with big food companies, seeing what happens in their boardrooms, and why we now have so much ultra processed food. Jason Karp: Having studied the evolution of corporations, I believe the root cause of how we got here is an unintended consequence of the unchecked and misguided industrialization of agriculture and food. I believe there are two key drivers behind how we got here. First, America has much looser regulatory approach to approving new ingredients and chemicals than comparable developed countries. Europe, for example, uses a guilty until proven innocent standard for the approval of new chemicals, which mandates that if an ingredient might pose a potential health risk, it should be restricted or banned for up to 10 years until it is proven safe. In complete contrast, our FDA uses an innocent until proven guilty approach for new chemicals or ingredients that's known as GRAS, or Generally Recognized as Safe. This recklessly allows new chemicals into our food system until they are proven harmful. Shockingly, US food companies can use their own independent experts to bring forth a new chemical without the approval of the FDA. It is a travesty that the majority of Americans don't even know they are constantly exposed to 1000s of untested ingredients that are actually banned or regulated in other countries. To put it bluntly, for the last 50 years, we have been running the largest uncontrolled science experiment ever done on humanity without their consent. Jason Karp: And the proof is in the pudding. Our health differences compared to those countries who use stricter standards are overwhelmingly conclusive. When looking at millions of people over decades, on average, Europeans live around five years longer, have less than half our obesity rates, have significantly lower chronic disease, have markedly better mental health, and they spend as little as 1/3 on health care per person as we do in this country. While lobbyists and big food companies may say we cannot trust the standards of these other countries because it over regulates, it stifles innovation, and it bans new chemicals prematurely, I would like to point out that we trust many of these other countries enough to have nuclear weapons. These other countries have demonstrated it is indeed possible to not only have thriving companies, but also prioritize the health of its citizens with a clear do no harm approach towards anything that humans put in or on our bodies. Jason Karp: The second driver, how we got here, is all about incentives. US industrial food companies have been myopically incentivized to reward profit growth, yet bear none of the social costs of poisoning our people and our land. Since the 1960s, America has seen the greatest technology and innovation boom in history. As big food created some of the largest companies in the world, so too did their desire for scaled efficiency. Companies had noble goals of making the food safer, more shelf stable, cheaper and more accessible. However, they also figured out how to encourage more consumption by making food more artificially appealing with brighter colors and engineered taste and texture. This is the genesis of ultra processed food. Because of these misguided regulatory standards, American companies have been highly skilled at maximizing profits without bearing the societal costs. They have replaced natural ingredients with chemicals. They have commodified animals into industrial widgets, and they treat our God given planet as an inexhaustible, abusable resource. Sick Americans are learning the hard way that food and agriculture should not be scaled in the same ways as iPhones. 3:16:50 Jason Karp: They use more chemicals in the US version, because it is more profitable and because we allow them to do so. Jason Karp: Artificial food dyes are cheaper and they are brighter. And the reason that I chose to use artificial food dyes in my public activist letter is because there's basically no counter argument. Many of the things discussed today, I think there is a nuanced debate, but with artificial food dyes, they have shown all over the world that they can use colorants that come from fruit. This is the Canadian version. This is the brightness of the Canadian version, just for visibility, and this is the brightness of artificial food dyes. So of course, Kellogg and other food companies will argue children prefer this over this, just as they would prefer cocaine over sugar. That doesn't make it okay. Calley Means: Senator, can I just say one thing? As Jason and Vani were talking, it brought me back to working for the food industry. We used to pay conservative lobbyists to go to every office and say that it was the "nanny state" to regulate food. And I think that's, as a conservative myself, something that's resonated. I just cannot stress enough that, as we're hopefully learned today, the food industry has rigged our systems beyond recognition. And addressing a rigged market is not an attack on the free market. Is a necessity for a free market to take this corruption out. So I just want to say that. 3:21:00 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Our next presenter is Jillian Michaels. Ms. Michaels is a globally recognized fitness expert, entrepreneur, and best selling author. With her no nonsense approach to health, she's inspired millions through her fitness programs, books and digital platforms, best known for her role on The Biggest Loser, Michaels promotes a balanced approach to fitness and nutrition and emphasizing long term health and self improvement. Jillian Michaels: The default human condition in the 21st century is obese by design. Specific, traceable forms of what's referred to as structural violence are created by the catastrophic quartet of big farming, big food, Big Pharma, and big insurance. They systematically corrupt every institution of trust, which has led to the global spread of obesity and disease. Dysfunctional and destructive agricultural legislation like the Farm Bill, which favors high yield, genetically engineered crops like corn and soy, leading to the proliferation of empty calories, saturated with all of these toxins that we've been talking about today for three hours, it seems like we can never say enough about it, and then this glut of cheap calories provides a boon to the food industry giants. They just turn it into a bounty of ultra processed, factory-assembled foods and beverages strategically engineered to undermine your society and foster your dependence, like nicotine and cocaine, so we literally cannot eat just one. And to ensure that you don't, added measures are taken to inundate our physical surroundings. We're literally flooded with food, and we are brainwashed by ubiquitous cues to eat, whether it's the Taco Bell advertisement on the side of a bus as you drive to work with a vending machine at your kids school, there is no place we spend time that's left untouched. They're omnipresent. They commandeer the narrative, with 30 billion worth of advertising dollars, commercials marketed to kids, with mega celebrities eating McDonald's and loving it, sponsored dietitians paid to promote junk food on social media, utilizing anti-diet body positivity messaging like, "derail the shame" in relation to fast food consumption, Time Magazine brazenly issuing a defense of ultra processed foods on their cover with the title, "What if altra processed foods aren't as bad as you think?" And when people like us try to sound the alarm, they ensure that we are swiftly labeled as anti-science, fat shamers, and even racists. They launch aggressive lobbying efforts to influence you. Our politicians to shape policy, secure federal grants, tax credits, subsidy dollars, which proliferates their product and heavily pads their bottom line. They have created a perfect storm in which pharmaceuticals that cost hundreds, if not 1000s per month, like Ozempic, that are linked to stomach paralysis, pancreatitis and thyroid cancer, can actually surge. This reinforces a growing dependence on medical interventions to manage weight in a society where systemic change in food production and consumption is desperately needed and also very possible. These monster corporations have mastered the art of distorting the research, influencing the policy, buying the narrative, engineering the environment, and manipulating consumer behavior. Jillian Michaels: While I have been fortunate enough to pull many back from the edge over the course of my 30 year career, I have lost just as many, if not more, than I have saved. I have watched them slip through my fingers, mothers that orphan their children, husbands that widow their wives. I have even watched parents forced to suffer the unthinkable loss of their adult children. There are not words to express the sadness I have felt and the fury knowing that they were literally sacrificed at the altar of unchecked corporate greed. Most Americans are simply too financially strained, psychologically drained and physically addicted to break free without a systemic intervention. Attempting to combat the status quo and the powers that be is beyond swimming upstream. It is like trying to push a rampaging river that's infested with piranhas. After years of trying to turn the tide, I submit that the powers that be are simply too powerful for us to take on alone. I implore the people here that shape the policy to take a stand. The buck must stop with you, while the American people tend to the business of raising children and participating in the workforce to ensure that the wheels of our country go around. They tapped you to stand watch. They tapped you to stand guard. We must hold these bad actors accountable. And I presume the testimonials you heard today moved you. Digest them, discuss them, and act upon them, because if this current trend is allowed to persist, the stakes will be untenable. We are in the middle of an extinction level event. The American people need help. They need heroes. And people of Washington, your constituents chose you to be their champion. Please be the change. Thank you. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): There was one particular piece of legislation or one thing that we could do here in Washington, what would it be? Jillian Michaels: Get rid of Citizens United and get the money out of politics. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Okay. 3:37:00 Calley Means: To the healthcare staffers slithering behind your bosses, working to impress your future bosses at the pharmaceutical companies, the hospitals, the insurance companies, many of them are in this building, and we are coming for you. 3:37:25 Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Next up is Ms. Courtney Swan. Ms. Swan is a nutritionist, real food activist, and founder of the popular platform, Realfoodology. She advocates for transparency in the food industry, promoting the importance of whole foods and clean eating. Courtney is passionate about educating the public on the benefits of a nutrient dense diet, and she encourages sustainable, chemical-free farming practices to ensure better health for people and the planet. Courtney Swan: Our current agriculture system's origin story involves large chemical companies -- not farmers, chemists. 85% of the food that you are consuming started from a patented seed sold by a chemical corporation that was responsible for creating agent orange in the Vietnam War. Why are chemical companies feeding America? Corn, soy and wheat are not only the most common allergens, but are among the most heavily pesticide sprayed crops today. In 1974 the US started spraying our crops with an herbicide called glyphosate, and in the early 1990s we began to see the release of genetically modified foods into our food supply. It all seems to begin with a chemical company by the name IG Farben, the later parent company of Bayer Farben, provided the chemicals used in Nazi nerve agents and gas chambers. Years later, a second chemical company, Monsanto, joined the war industry with a production of Agent Orange, a toxin used during the Vietnam War. When the wars ended, these companies needed a market for their chemicals, so they pivoted to killing bugs and pests on American farmlands. Monsanto began marketing glyphosate with a catchy name, Roundup. They claimed that these chemicals were harmless and that they safeguarded our crops from pests. So farmers started spraying these supposedly safe chemicals on our farmland. They solved the bug problem, but they also killed the crops. Monsanto offered a solution with the creation of genetically modified, otherwise known as GMO, crops that resisted the glyphosate in the roundup that they were spraying. These Roundup Ready crops allow farmers to spray entire fields of glyphosate to kill off pests without harming the plants, but our food is left covered in toxic chemical residue that doesn't wash, dry, or cook off. Not only is it sprayed to kill pests, but in the final stages of harvest, it is sprayed on the wheat to dry it out. Grains that go into bread and cereals that are in grocery stores and homes of Americans are heavily sprayed with these toxins. It's also being sprayed on oats, chickpeas, almonds, potatoes and more. You can assume that if it's not organic, it is likely contaminated with glyphosate. In America, organic food, by law, cannot contain GMOs and glyphosate, and they are more expensive compared to conventionally grown options, Americans are being forced to pay more for food that isn't poisoned. The Environmental Working Group reported a test of popular wheat-based products and found glyphosate contamination in 80 to 90% of the products on grocery store shelves. Popular foods like Cheerios, Goldfish, chickpea pasta, like Banza, Nature Valley bars, were found have concerning levels of glyphosate. If that is not alarming enough, glyphosate is produced by and distributed from China. In 2018, Bayer bought Monsanto. They currently have patented soybeans, corn, canola and sugar beets, and they are the largest distributor of GMO corn and soybean seeds. Americans deserve a straight answer. Why does an agrochemical company own where our food comes from? Currently, 85 to 100% of corn and soy crops in the US are genetically modified. 80% of GMOs are engineered to withstand glyphosate, and a staggering 280 million pounds of glyphosate are sprayed on American crops annually. We are eating this roundup ready corn, but unlike GMO crops, humans are not Roundup Ready. We are not resistant to these toxins, and it's causing neurological damage, endocrine disruption, it's harming our reproductive health and it's affecting fetal development. Glyphosate is classified as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. It is also suspected to contribute towards the rise in celiac disease and gluten sensitivities. They're finding glyphosate in human breast milk, placentas, our organs, and even sperm. It's also being found in our rain and our drinking water. Until January of 2022, many companies made efforts to obscure the presence of GMOs and pesticides in food products from American consumers. It was only then that legislation came into effect mandating that these companies disclose such ingredients with a straightforward label stating, made with bio engineered ingredients, but it's very small on the package. Meanwhile, glyphosate still isn't labeled on our food. Parents in America are unknowingly feeding their children these toxic foods. Dr. Don Huber, a glyphosate researcher, warns that glyphosate will make the outlawed 1970s insecticide DDT look harmless in comparison to glyphosate. Why is the US government subsidizing the most pesticide sprayed crops using taxpayer dollars? These are the exact foods that are driving the epidemic of chronic disease. These crops, heavily sprayed with glyphosate, are then processed into high fructose corn syrup and refined vegetable oils, which are key ingredients for the ultra processed foods that line our supermarket shelves and fill our children's lunches in schools across the nation. Children across America are consuming foods such as Goldfish and Cheerios that are loaded with glyphosate. These crops also feed our livestock, which then produce the eggs, dairy and meat products that we consume. They are in everything. Pick up almost any ultra processed food package on the shelf, and you will see the words, contains corn, wheat and soy on the ingredients panel. Meanwhile, Bayer is doing everything it can to keep consumers in the dark, while our government protects these corporate giants. They fund educational programs at major agricultural universities, they lobby in Washington, and they collaborate with lawmakers to protect their profits over public health. Two congressmen are working with Bayer right now on the Farm Bill to protect Bayer from any liability, despite already having to pay out billions to sick Americans who got cancer from their product. They know that their product is harming people. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): Couple questions. So you really have two issues raised here. Any concern about just GMO seeds and GMO crops, and then you have the contamination, Glycosate, originally is a pre-emergent, but now it's sprayed on the actual crops and getting in the food. Can you differentiate those two problems? I mean, what concerns are the GMO seeds? Maybe other doctors on t

Joe Rogan. Calley Means & Casey Means, MD. The Rising Health Disaster. Joe Rogan Experience #2210 - Calley Means & Casey Means, MD Watch this interview at- https://youtu.be/G0lTyhvOeJs?si=UkYSpzVVYI2P4QUd PowerfulJRE 17.4M subscribers 855,276 views Oct 8, 2024 The Joe Rogan Experience Dr. Casey Means is the Co-Founder of Levels Health, which provides insights into metabolic health through real-time data. Calley Means is the Co-Founder of Truemed, which enables HSA spending on healthy food, supplements and exercise. They are the co-authors of "Good Energy." www.caseymeans.com www.calleymeans.com

Welcome to Episode 198 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week we cover the following topics: Callie Gullickson shared that she has moved to Florida but is still working for Peloton. Leanne Hainsby teased that she will be teaching Barre classes soon. New “Wind Down: Nightcap” Meditations briefly showed up on the schedule, with Jon Hosking teaching one. There is now a $9 fee for returning a Peloton apparel order online. Peloton is opening a new showroom in Nashville, TN – their first new showroom in years. You can now earn bonus points for doing a Peloton class at a Hyatt hotel. Peloton officially launched their TrueMed partnership, which lets people use FSA & HSA money to buy hardware. Camila Ramon has debuted as a strength instructor with her new 4-week “Dale Duro” strength program. Erik Jager is now a Tread coach and had his premiere run this week. Joslyn Thompson Rule has a new “Discover Strength” 6-week strength program. Denis Morton leads a new “Balancing Postures” program for Week 5 of Discover Yoga. A new artist series featuring Enrique Iglesias took place this week. A mini artist series featuring Charli xcx's BRAT album took place. Peloton's “This Week at Peloton” post highlights several classes for the week. Peloton created a special collection just for their Metal classes. Peloton has a new marketing campaign centered around football players TJ Watt & JJ Watt. Peloton highlighted Alex Karwoski and his path to the New York City marathon. Ash Pryor will be taking part in a virtual panel on Social Media Stress. There will be “Sisterhood Saturday” events taking place at showrooms across the US in partnership with GirlTrek. Peloton has released some holiday apparel, including some Peloton ornaments. Peloton fixed the October running challenge gold badge following our report on it. Christine D'Ercole earned two medals at the World Championships. Well & Good has an article highlighting some specific classes recommended by instructors. Congratulations to Jeffrey McEachern & Tunde Oyeneyin on their Chicago Marathon finishes. Jeffrey McEachern was on the NAMI podcast. Tunde Oyeneyin was featured in the “House Beautiful” website. Jenn Sherman was featured in Biz Journals. There is a “Sunny & Jenn” event outside of Chicago. Aditi Shah was featured in InStyle. Ally Love & Kristin McGee spoke at a conference this week. Robin Arzon was featured in AdWeek. Jess King was featured in Parents. Mariana Fernandez was featured in Yoga Journal. Cody Rigsby was on “AM Uncovered”. Jess Sims was on First For Women. Class Picks of the Week Enjoy the show? Become a Pelo Buddy TV Supporter!  Find details here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ You can find links to full articles on each of these topics from the episode page here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/pelo-buddy-tv-episode-198/ The show is also available via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeloBuddy This episode is hosted by Amanda Segal (#Seglo3) and John Prewtt (#Kenny_Bania).

October 15, 2024 ~ Today, protestors will visit Kellogg's in Battle Creek with a petition over food dyes in cereals. Vani Hari, food activist, Jason Karp, founder and CEO of HumanCo and Calley Means, co-founder of Truemed and co-author of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, join Kevin to tell us about the protest.

TrueMed co-founder, Calley Means, chronicles his journey from big pharma insider to one of today's prominent voices in medical health freedom. Hear his unique take on how government corruption has paved the way for dangerous chemicals to be used in the food industry, and how becoming an independent thinker has been a spiritual journey for him.

Dr. Casey Means is the Co-Founder of Levels Health, which provides insights into metabolic health through real-time data. Calley Means is the Co-Founder of Truemed, which enables HSA spending on healthy food, supplements and exercise. They are the co-authors of "Good Energy." www.caseymeans.com www.calleymeans.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Justin Mares is the Co-founder and CEO of Truemed, a payment tool that allows health and wellness brands and providers to harness consumer tax-free funds. He is also the Founder of Kettle & Fire, the Co-founder of Surely and Perfect Keto, and an investor at Long Journey Ventures. Justin strives to make health accessible and sustainable and create a food system that heals rather than harms. In this episode… Nearly 90% of the US population is at risk of chronic disease. While health accounts like HSAs and FSAs give consumers access to tax-free healthcare, they can only use them to cover qualified medical expenses. DTC wellness brands can offer the option to pay for products with these funds. How can these brands optimize this payment method to drive conversions and growth? Health and wellness serial entrepreneur Justin Mares capitalized on a market need for affordable chronic disease prevention. Health, wellness, and supplement brands can integrate one-click HSA and FSA payment options into their Shopify sites. Consumer drop-off rates between add-to-cart and check-out are 30-50%, so when provided with alternative payment methods, consumers can save 30-40% a year on wellness products, increasing brands' AOV, LTV, and conversion rates. Consumers can even make interest-free monthly payments on more expensive products. Join William Harris in today's episode of the Up Arrow Podcast as he interviews Justin Mares, the Co-founder and CEO of Truemed, about his tax-free solution for consumers with chronic illness. Justin also talks about his experience bootstrapping a brand, including transitioning from DTC to retail, his methods for scaling and gaining brand awareness, and how he became a serial entrepreneur in the health and wellness space.

What if the very foods we consume daily are designed to keep us hooked and sick? In this episode, Calley Means and Gary Brecka expose the shocking truth behind the food and healthcare industries, revealing how big corporations have manipulated what we eat for profit. Once dominated by cigarette companies, the food industry has used the same strategies that made cigarettes addictive to engineer ultra-processed foods that hijack our biology. Get Calley Means's book, “Good Energy” here!: https://theultimatehuman.com/book-recs Truemed enables HSA/FSA spending on exercise, supplements, saunas and cold plunges. Learn where you can steer your tax free medical dollars: https://bit.ly/4ekjF7z Sign up for Daily email on insights from building Truemed here: https://bit.ly/3zcLMq7  For more information on Calley Means visit: https://bit.ly/3Tm0rGz  Follow Calley Means on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3AU7akp Follow Calley Means on X.com: https://bit.ly/47AZ4d3  Follow Calley Means on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3ZoRXlw  Follow Calley Means on Facebook: https://bit.ly/4dWvFvV   Follow Calley Means on TikTok: https://bit.ly/4glKeL9 00:00 ​Intro of Show and Guest 08:37 ​Genesis of the Tobacco Industry 10:52 ​Sugar Causing Obesity 14:52 ​Ultra-Processed Foods Hijacking Evolutionary Biology 20:40 ​Epiphany of Calley and Casey Means 31:31 ​Pharmaceutical Treadmill 40:45 ​The Interconnectedness of Body and Mental Health 44:00 ​Debatable Medical System Standards 47:15 ​Lies About Our Food and Nutrition 53:25 ​Rigged US Pharmaceutical Industry 58:58 ​Channeling Our Voice towards Politics 01:09:53 ​Nutrient Deficiency and Biomarkers 01:15:20 ​Healthy Lifestyle Choices 01:22:14 ​Healthcare System Funded by Taxpayers 01:24:57 ​Benefit Flexibility 01:34:20 ​Connect with Calley Means 01:35:35 ​Final Question: “What does it mean to you to be an Ultimate Human?” Get weekly tips from Gary Brecka on how to optimize your health and lifestyle routines: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Order The 1 Genetic Test That Will Give You Results For Life Here: https://bit.ly/3L5k8hl Get The Supplements That Gary Recommends Here: https://bit.ly/4cMDGm7 Sign up for 10X Health Affiliate Program: https://bit.ly/3ROGPd6 PLUNGE - Use code “Ultimate” for $150 off your order of the best cold plunge & sauna in the US: https://bit.ly/3yYE3vl EIGHT SLEEP - Use code “GARY” to get $350 off Pod 4 Ultra: https://bit.ly/3WkLd6E ECHO GO PLUS HYDROGEN WATER BOTTLE: https://bit.ly/3xG0Pb8 BODY HEALTH - Use code “ULTIMATE20” for 20% OFF YOUR ORDER: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV Discover top-rated products and exclusive deals. Shop now and elevate your everyday essentials with just a click!: https://theultimatehuman.com/amazon-recs Watch “The Ultimate Human Podcast with Gary Brecka” every Tuesday and Thursday at 9AM ET on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 Follow The Ultimate Human on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3VP9JuR Follow The Ultimate Human on TikTok: https://bit.ly/3XIusTX Follow The Ultimate Human on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Y5pPDJ Follow Gary Brecka on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs Follow Gary Brecka on TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8fo Follow Gary Brecka on Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The Content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calley Means is the cofounder of TrueMed, a company that helps businesses qualify products and services like supplements and ice baths for HSA and FSA money. Casey Means is the founder of Levels, a continuous glucose monitor subscription service aimed at the biohacking community. The brother and sister recently appeared on Tucker Carlson's podcast to rage against seed oils, as well as the food and pharma industries' focus on profits over people. Derek dug into their business models, finding them guilty of the same "crimes" they accuse others of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to make America healthy again! Co-Founder of TrueMed and New York Times Best Selling Co-Author of Good Energy, Calley Means joins Sean and Rachel to share how he's calling out big government institutions who he believes are leading the charge in poisoning the food industry and the environment. Food quality is an issue that has and will continue to have generational impact on kitchen tables around the country. Calley also notes how former President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are bonding over fixing this deficit in the American food industry.   Later,  Sean and Rachel highlight essential memories that are created through gathering around the kitchen table to share a meal. Follow Sean & Rachel on X: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When you get sick, who makes money? This week on Health Coach Talk, co-founder of TrueMed Calley Means joins Dr. Sandi to discuss the role Big Pharma and the ultra-processed food industry play in the ongoing health crisis. Calley explains the systemic issues that are keeping us sick and explores how these industries profit from our suffering. As the founder of Truemed, Calley is spearheading efforts to challenge the traditional sick-care model. Co-author of the upcoming book "Good Energy" with his sister Dr. Casey Means, he explores how cellular dysfunction driven by poor dietary choices fuels chronic health issues and offers actionable solutions. With a background in public policy and investment in groundbreaking health companies, Calley is dedicated to tackling the adverse effects of Big Pharma and processed foods. His mission is clear: shift healthcare incentives towards what truly promotes wellness. Show notes: https://functionalmedicinecoaching.org/podcast/calley-means-095/

#729: Today we're sitting down with Calley Means, a former lobbyist turned advocate and NY Times best selling author. Calley is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise. We discuss his evolution of careers from a food and pharma consultant, to now exposing practices those companies use to weaponize the public's trust surrounding nutrition. We also discuss how you need to be your own advocate and do your own in depth research to guard your personal health and the health of your loved ones.    To connect with Calley Means click HERE   To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE To Watch the Show click HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential Head to the HIM & HER Show ShopMy page HERE to find all of Michael and Lauryn's favorite products mentioned on their latest episodes.   This episode is brought to you by Lipton Green tea is a great ally for wellness and a simple way to up your everyday healthy habits. Try new Lipton Green Tea!   This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics The Branch Basics Premium Starter Kit will provide you with everything you need to replace all of your toxic cleaning products in your home. It's really a no-brainer. Go to branchbasics.com and use code SKINNY for 15% off their starter kit and free shipping.   This episode is brought to you by Betterhelp BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone, and even live chat-only therapy sessions. So you don't have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to. It's much more affordable than in-person therapy & you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/skinny.   This episode is brought to you by Vegamour Give your hair the power of the little pink bottle. Visit vegamour.com/SKINNY and use code SKINNY at checkout to receive 20% off your first order.   This episode is brought to you by Ritual Start a daily ritual that you can feel good about. Visit ritual.com/SKINNY to receive 25% off your first month of Ritual.     Produced by Dear Media

Call 1(800)245-6000 or visit https://taxnetworkusa.com/brand and find your path to financial peace of mind. ⏰ BE HERE AT 12PM ET / 5PM BST ⏰ Steve Bannon begins his jail sentence, Biden faces ousting from the Democrats, and Trump attempts to delay his hush money sentencing. I also chat with Calley Means about who will take on Big Food and Big Pharma given the decline of our health, we delve into the rise in cancer rates, the truth behind Ozempic, and why genuinely healthy foods are being demonized. Enjoy the show and make sure to subscribe! Calley is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise. He is also the co-author with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, which debuted at #1 on the NYTimes and Amazon lists in May. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He recently started an advocacy coalition with leading health and wellness companies called End Chronic Disease to lobby for change Order ‘Good Energy' - https://a.co/d/09cUflMh Trumed - https://www.truemed.com/shop/fitness Check out social medias and more - https://linktr.ee/RussellBrand

In part 2 Justin Mares and I discuss the broken food and health systems in the US and the need to prioritize human flourishing. We get into the weaponization of our instincts by companies that produce addictive food, the importance of fixing our environment and food system, and the role of human health in the built environment. Justin shares his experience in the health industry and highlights the misalignment of incentives in the food and healthcare industries.  We touch on the lack of trust in traditional institutions and the challenges of following dietary guidelines. Justin talks about nutrient density in crops, the depletion of nutrients in soil, the impact of food processing on nutrient density, and the potential consequences for human health. We also delve into the challenges of scaling sustainable farming practices and the role of government and corporations in addressing health and environmental issues. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the need for individual and community action to create positive change. Takeaways The food and health systems in the US are profoundly broken and need to be fixed to promote human flourishing. Companies are weaponizing our instincts to create addictive and profitable food products. Fixing the environment, food system, and built environment is crucial for improving human health. There is a lack of trust in traditional institutions and their ability to provide accurate health advice. The misalignment of incentives in the food and healthcare industries hinders progress in promoting human health. Nutrient density in crops is influenced by the nutrients in the soil, and over time, the depletion of nutrients in the soil has led to less nutrient-dense crops. Food processing can further reduce nutrient density, and the consumption of processed foods may lead to nutrient deficiencies and cravings for specific nutrients. Scaling sustainable farming practices, such as regenerative agriculture, can help improve soil health and nutrient density in crops. Government regulations and policies play a role in shaping the food system, but individual and community action is also necessary to create positive change. Addressing health and environmental issues requires a holistic approach that considers the interconnectedness of various factors, including food production, human health, and environmental sustainability. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Acknowledgment 00:57 Weaponizing Instincts: The Addictive Food Industry 06:22 Misaligned Incentives in the Food and Healthcare Industries 08:16 The Broken Healthcare Industry 19:19 The Debate on Veganism and Vegetarianism 25:12 Sponsor Acknowledgment and Nutrient Deficiencies in Food 26:41 The Impact of Soil Depletion on Nutrient Density in Crops 29:07 The Nutrient Decay Curve and the Role of Food Processing 34:29 Challenges and Potential of Scaling Sustainable Farming Practices 36:25 Government and Corporate Responsibility in Addressing Health and Environmental Issues 43:00 The Need for Individual and Community Action CONNECT WITH JUSTIN Justin's Substack: ⁠The Next | Justin Mares | Substack⁠ Twitter: ⁠Justin Mares (@jwmares) / X⁠ Kettle and Fire: ⁠https://www.kettleandfire.com/⁠ Surely Non-Alcoholic Wines: ⁠https://www.drinksurely.com/⁠ Perfect Keto: ⁠https://perfectketo.com/⁠ Truemed: https://www.truemed.com/ RECS Book Rec: ⁠Formerly Known as Food⁠ Book Rec: ⁠The End of Craving⁠ Book Rec: ⁠Gangs of America⁠ CONNECT WITH BUILDING CULTURE ⁠https://www.buildingculture.com/⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/buildingculture/⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/build_culture⁠ ⁠https://www.facebook.com/BuildCulture/⁠ CONNECT WITH AUSTIN TUNNELL ⁠https://www.instagram.com/austintunnell/⁠ ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-tunnell-2a41894a/⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/AustinTunnell⁠ ⁠https://playbook.buildingculture.com/

Curious how health-focused products carve out success in today's bustling retail scene? Join me in this episode as I sit down with Justin Mares, founder of Kettle & Fire and Perfect Keto, venture partner at Long Journey Ventures, and CEO at Truemed. Justin shares his journey through evolving marketing strategies and investment insights that aim to reshape America's eating habits. Tune in as Justin delves into the importance of strategic branding and packaging design in influencing consumer buying behaviors, especially in the health sector. He'll also discuss the evolution of his marketing tactics over the years, the significant role of his newsletter in building customer relationships, and his proactive views on investing in health and wellness startups. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/4cqhdLv Interested in our Private Community for 7-Figure Store Owners?  Learn more here.   Want to hear about new episodes and eCommerce news round-ups?  Subscribe via email.

Justin Mares is the founder of Kettle and Fire, Perfect Keto, and Surely Non-Alcoholic Wines, and is working on his fourth company: Truemed.  I am super impressed with what Justin has accomplished, and am a big fan of Kettle and Fire.  My wife and I drink their bone broth regularly.  What I am most inspired by is that Justin isn't in business just to be in business.  He is in business to solve problems that make peoples' lives better, specifically around their physical and mental health and wellbeing.  As the sickest generation of Americans in history–and it's not even close–he is on a mission to rescue the food system and transform the industry into something that serves people first, not profits.  Health is foundational to human flourishing – even before shelter.   We discuss how Justin started Kettle and Fire by testing the idea with a landing page and no actual product to gauge demand.  We discuss the importance of a healthy food system, and the failures of regulatory bodies like the FDA. Justin emphasizes the need for companies to prioritize consumer health and wellness. Our conversation explores the impact of food regulations and the state of health in the US.  Justin highlights the differences between the US and the EU in terms of food regulations, with the US allowing thousands of chemicals in food that are banned in Europe. We also discuss the high rates of chronic diseases and obesity in the US, and the connection between physical and mental health.  TAKEAWAYS The most profitable food products are often the worst for people, highlighting the brokenness of the food system. Starting a company that prioritizes consumer health and wellness is important but challenging. Bone broth is a nutrient-dense food that can improve gut, skin, and joint health. The FDA and other regulatory bodies have failed to protect consumers, leading to high rates of chronic disease. The food system needs to be reformed to prioritize healthier and more sustainable options. The US allows thousands of chemicals in food that are banned in Europe, leading to worse health outcomes for Americans. The US has high rates of chronic diseases and obesity, with 60% of Americans living with at least one chronic disease and 80% being overweight. There is a strong connection between physical and mental health, and addressing physical health through food interventions can improve mental health. Food regulations and the food system play a significant role in the overall health of the population. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Acknowledgment 01:09 Guest Introduction: Justin Mares 03:25 Starting Kettle and Fire: Testing the Idea 08:16 The Benefits of Bone Broth 11:35 Creating Healthier Food Products 19:11 The Failures of Regulatory Bodies 23:33 Differences in Food Regulations: US vs. EU 30:42 High Rates of Chronic Diseases and Obesity in the US 41:42 The Connection Between Physical and Mental Health 46:24 The Impact of Food Regulations on Health CONNECT WITH JUSTIN Justin's Substack: The Next | Justin Mares | Substack Twitter: Justin Mares (@jwmares) / X Kettle and Fire: https://www.kettleandfire.com/ Surely Non-Alcoholic Wines: https://www.drinksurely.com/ Perfect Keto: https://perfectketo.com/ Truemed: https://www.truemed.com/ RECS Book Rec: Formerly Known as Food Book Rec: The End of Craving Book Rec: Gangs of America CONNECT WITH BUILDING CULTURE https://www.buildingculture.com/ https://www.instagram.com/buildingculture/ https://twitter.com/build_culture https://www.facebook.com/BuildCulture/ CONNECT WITH AUSTIN TUNNELL https://www.instagram.com/austintunnell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-tunnell-2a41894a/ https://twitter.com/AustinTunnell https://playbook.buildingculture.com/

Key takeaways you'll learn in this episode: Why you should avoid the BIG 3; corn, soy, & wheat. How to Avoid “forever chemicals” and “microplastics.” Check out Everything happening with Kettle & Fire: https://www.kettleandfire.com/ See if Truemed can help you put your pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars to work: https://www.truemed.com/ Get weekly tips from Gary Brecka on how to optimize your health and lifestyle routines - go to https://www.theultimatehuman.com/ For more info on Gary, please click here: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/thegarybrecka Order The 1 Genetic Test That Will Give You Results For Life Here: ⁠⁠⁠https://10xhealthnetwork.com/pages/genetic-testing?utm_source=gbrecka⁠⁠ Get The Supplements That Gary Recommends Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://10xhealthnetwork.com/pages/supplements?utm_source=gbrecka Sign up for 10X Health Affiliate Program https://10xhealthsystem.com/GBaffiliate ECHO GO PLUS HYDROGEN WATER BOTTLE http://echowater.com BODY HEALTH - USE CODE ULTIMATE10 for 10% OFF YOUR ORDER https://bodyhealth.com/ultimate Have you ever wondered what's really in the food you eat every day? In this eye-opening episode of The Ultimate Human, Gary Brecka dives into the hidden dangers of the food industry with insights from Justin Mares of Kettle and Fire. They uncover shocking statistics about The BIG 3 ingredients that you need to avoid; corn, soy, and wheat. You'll learn about the harmful effects of PFAs and microplastics, why avoiding plastic packaging is crucial for your health, and how our government is subsidizing poor farming practices. Most importantly, you'll learn what you can do about it when you buy local, nutrient-dense whole foods to enhance your well-being! 00:00 - Who is Justin Mares, the founder of Kettle & Fire? 01:30 - Why you should avoid the BIG 3; corn, soy, & wheat. 03:30 - What are “forever chemicals” and “microplastics?” 05:30 - Do soda cans have microplastics? 06:00 - Why you should buy from local farmers. Follow Justin Mares on X: @jwmares https://x.com/jwmares?lang=en Connect with Kettle & Fire on Instagram: @kettleandfire https://www.instagram.com/kettleandfire/ Gary Brecka: @garybrecka The Ultimate Human: @ultimatehumanpod Subscribe on YouTube: @ultimatehumanpodcast The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Key takeaways you'll learn in this episode: What shortcuts are companies taking that are hurting the United States food system? How food studies are funded and where numbers are being manipulated. Check out Everything happening with Kettle & Fire: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/shop/garybrecka/list/19RWEFULAF1SL?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_aipsfshop_aipsfgarybrecka_H6P14QW099RETVXPSP83⁠ See if Truemed can help you put your pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars to work: ⁠https://www.truemed.com/⁠ Get weekly tips from Gary Brecka on how to optimize your health and lifestyle routines - go to ⁠https://www.theultimatehuman.com/⁠ For more info on Gary, please click here: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/thegarybrecka⁠ Order The 1 Genetic Test That Will Give You Results For Life Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://10xhealthnetwork.com/pages/genetic-testing?utm_source=gbrecka⁠⁠⁠ Get The Supplements That Gary Recommends Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://10xhealthnetwork.com/pages/supplements?utm_source=gbrecka⁠ Sign up for 10X Health Affiliate Program ⁠https://10xhealthsystem.com/GBaffiliate⁠ ECHO GO PLUS HYDROGEN WATER BOTTLE ⁠http://echowater.com⁠ BODY HEALTH - USE CODE ULTIMATE10 for 10% OFF YOUR ORDER ⁠https://bodyhealth.com/ultimate⁠ Are you frustrated by the lack of nutrition in our food system? Gary Brecka is sitting down with Justin Mares, an entrepreneur and the founder of Kettle & Fire, America's leading bone broth brand, and the co-founder and CEO of Truemed. They're discussing how decades of compromises and shortcuts by food companies have led to a broken system that actively harms our health. We dive deep into the benefits of bone broth, the challenges of scaling a health-focused business, and the innovative solutions Truemed is bringing to the healthcare system! 00:00 - Who is Justin Mares? 03:00 - How did he start “Kettle and Fire” bone broth? 09:00 - What are the benefits of bone broth and how is their process unique? 13:00 - Why are New Zealand cattle healthier than the United States? 16:00 - What shortcuts are companies taking that are hurting our food system? 18:15 - Where does Kettle & Fire source their ingredients from? 26:00 - Crazy statistics about deficiencies in food leading to deficiencies in the body, leading to disease. 31:30 - Why did he co-found “Truemed” and how are they improving the healthcare system? 38:00 - What is the process for Turemed to put their pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars to work? 43:15 - How food studies are funded and where numbers are being manipulated with bias. 48:00 - What environmental toxins stay in our food and impact our hormones? 51:50 - Why Europe has made 150 pesticides illegal that the United States allows on our food. 59:00 - How we change our food system change. 01:02:00 - How the government subsidizes poor farming practices. Follow Justin Mares on X: ⁠@jwmares⁠ ⁠https://x.com/jwmares?lang=en⁠ Connect with Kettle & Fire on Instagram: ⁠@kettleandfire⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kettleandfire/⁠ Check out Justin Mares' Book: ⁠Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth⁠ Subscribe to his newsletter, The Next: ⁠https://justinmares.substack.com/⁠ Gary Brecka: ⁠@garybrecka⁠ The Ultimate Human: ⁠@ultimatehumanpod⁠ Subscribe on YouTube: ⁠@ultimatehumanpodcast⁠ The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

• NEW: Pain relief with chili pepper power... without the burning! https://capsadyn.com/drew • Calley Means, a former consultant to big pharma and big food corporations, exposes the “Devil's Bargain” between the food industry and healthcare system that subsidizes unhealthy, sugary foods (using your tax dollars) and later profits from treating the illnesses they created. “…with food companies, an explicit goal was to get kids addicted to ultra-processed food early. There is nothing more profitable in this country than a child who is addicted and sick…” says Calley Means. “We as a country spend over $100 billion per year of government money paying for sugary food to give to kids…No other country has their low-income nutrition program subsidize food that's going to make people sick…that's going to cost our healthcare system trillions of dollars downstream…We are funding our destruction with a broken food system and then we have a medical system that's complicit, basically profiting from this.” Order “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health” by Calley Means and Dr. Casey Means at https://amzn.to/3x3oj9U Calley Means is the co-founder of Truemed and the co-author of “Good Energy” which recently became a #1 New York Times bestseller. Calley is a former consultant for food and pharma companies, and now uses his experience to expose the practices and tactics of major food corporations. Find more at https://calleymeans.com and follow him at https://x.com/calleymeans Chef Andrew Gruel appeared as a judge on Food Network's “Food Truck Face Off”, as a host of FYI's “Say It to My Face!” and is the founder of American Gravy Restaurant Group. After the COVID-19 pandemic forced many restaurants to shut down, Gruel started a fund in December 2020 to raise money for out-of-work restaurant industry employees, raising over $230,000 in the first three weeks. Follow Chef Gruel at https://x.com/ChefGruel 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 Find out more about the brands that make this show possible and get special discounts on Dr. Drew's favorite products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors  • CAPSADYN - Get pain relief with the power of capsaicin from chili peppers – without the burning! Capsadyn's proprietary formulation for joint & muscle pain contains no NSAIDs, opioids, anesthetics, or steroids. Try it for 15% off at https://capsadyn.com/drew • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • TRU NIAGEN - For almost a decade, Dr. Drew has been taking a healthy-aging supplement called Tru Niagen, which uses a patented form of Nicotinamide Riboside to boost NAD levels. Use code DREW for 20% off at https://drdrew.com/truniagen • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Get an extra discount with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew • COZY EARTH - Susan and Drew love Cozy Earth's sheets & clothing made with super-soft viscose from bamboo! Use code DREW to save up to 30% at https://drdrew.com/cozy • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 Portions of this program may examine countervailing views on important medical issues. Always consult your physician before making any decisions about your health. 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the United States, our healthcare system is based on treatment, not prevention. And a large reason why is because the pharmaceutical companies have created incentives that profit off sickness, disease, and comorbidities. But what if our healthcare industry could promote true health? Today you're going to learn about the steps that are necessary for real change in the US healthcare system. Our guest today is Calley Means. Calley is a former consultant for food and pharmaceutical companies, the co-founder of TrueMed, and the co-author of the #1 bestselling book, Good Energy. Calley is passionate about changing our healthcare system, and today he's sharing his incredible viewpoints on what we can do as a country to incite real change.  In this episode, you're going to learn about how the American healthcare system works, including how government programs are hurting people (especially children!), how doctors are trained to focus on short-term solutions, and the major problems with the pharmaceutical industry. Plus, Calley is getting specific and sharing real world policies we can implement to transform the health of our country. This is a powerful conversation and Calley's passion is contagious. Enjoy! In this episode you'll discover: What percentage of Americans have optimal cardiometabolic health. Why a siloed healthcare system is ineffective. The sad truth about the health of children and teens in the US. How all chronic diseases are connected to metabolic health. The most profitable innovation in American capitalism. Why the pandemic was a missed opportunity for better metabolic health. The critical role of empowerment in healthcare. How the US measures up against other countries in terms of health outcomes.  What role economic incentives play in our healthcare system.  The convoluted relationship between pharmaceutical companies and food research. Why chronic diseases are a powerful profit-maximizing engine.  The sad truth about diabetes in children and young adults. What percentage of tv news spending comes from the pharmaceutical industry. The major problems with the SNAP program, and how we can repair it.  What the USDA should do with sugar guidelines.  Why focusing on specific issues can affect widespread change.  How to use pretax dollars on real healthcare and root-cause solutions. The link between insulin resistance and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Why optimism is a key ingredient to changing our health.  Items mentioned in this episode include:  Ketone.com/model - Save 30% on your first subscription order of Ketone-IQ! Organifi.com/Model - Use the coupon code MODEL for 20% off + free shipping! Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means & Calley Means - Order your copy today!  TrueMed - Use pretax dollars on healthy interventions  Connect with Calley Means Website / X / Instagram  Join TMHS Facebook community - Model Nation  Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes:  Apple Podcasts Spotify Soundcloud Pandora YouTube  This episode of The Model Health Show is brought to you by Ketone-IQ and Organifi.  Ketone-IQ is my favorite high-performance energy in a bottle. Save 30% on your first subscription at ketone.com/model. Organifi makes nutrition easy and delicious for everyone. Take 20% off your order with the code MODEL at organifi.com/model. 

Join us as Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed, shares his transformative journey from high-profile pharmaceutical consultant to major disruptor in the healthcare industry. Along the way, Calley explains how storytelling, tackling big challenges, and leading with passion have been pivotal in building a brand that grabs attention, drives systemic change, and fosters community.      Calley and Scott delve into a critical analysis of the pharmaceutical sector, with strategic insights on preventive healthcare and the paradigm shift from treatment to holistic wellness. Calley also shares personal anecdotes about the trials and triumphs encountered while building Truemed and spearheading a movement toward a healthier society. Discover more about his journey and insights in the new book he's co-authored with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, available on Amazon here.  02:00 - Who is Calley? (Ambassadors at dinner. Dog Letters. Sarah Palin)  14:20 - The World of Consulting (Food + Pharma. Opioid crisis. Regulatory capture)  22:50 - The Art of Storytelling (Great communicators. The zeitgeist)  29:10 - The Truth About Business School (Who goes to Harvard? Calculated risk)  37:20 - Launching a Start-Up (Seinfeld's advice. Finding your market. Anamolie)  47:20 - PR for Start-Ups (What's the story? Putting it all on the line. Fear of failure)  55:00 - Major Life Changes (COVID. Death. Upending the medical industry)  01:00:20 - Taking on the Healthcare Industry (Good Energy. Leading with your passion)  01:08:20 - How to Hire for a Start-Up (Truemed. Specialists. WHO method)  01:17:50 - Creating an Online Community (Going content crazy. Picking a platform)  01:23:20 - Building a Beloved Brand (Pick a fight. Mission-driven. Hire the right people)  01:28:20 - Building an Audience (Tucker, Russell Brand, Huberman. Framing)  01:34:20 - Ruffling Feathers (IRS. Status quo. Partners and platforms)  01:38:20 - The Secrets to Good Health (Myths. Movement. Final advice) 

This episode is brought to you by Maui Nui, Cozy Earth, and BON CHARGE.  More than sixty percent of individuals are facing chronic conditions. Our modern world has led to a society that is getting sicker and facing more chronic diseases despite advances in technology and healthcare. Metabolic dysfunction is at the root of these conditions, and the pharmaceutical industry seems to benefit from this continued chaos. Today, on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru, Dr. Casey Means, and Calley Means discuss the crisis our society is facing. They share staggering statistics about our health and give a state of the union on healthcare, lobbyists, research, and pharmaceutical companies. They also share their experience within the industry, leading them to advocate for greater access to information and agency over our health. Learn the basic biomarkers we should all assess and simple ways to improve our mitochondrial and metabolic health, reducing our chances of developing a chronic disease.  Casey Means, MD, is a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world's metabolic health crisis. Her book on metabolic health, Good Energy, comes out in May 2024. She trained in Head and Neck Surgery before leaving traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick.  Calley Means founded TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the co-author of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.    In this episode, Dhru, Dr. Means, and Calley dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): A State of the Union on our health (00:00:10/ 00:00:10) Chronic disease amounting to recurring revenue (10:30 / 6:30) The Big Lie: Beyond our control (17:30 / 13:10) Agency over your health (22:00 / 18:00) Mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction at the root of chronic disease (38:00 / 33:00) COVID as a metabolic disease (49:00 / 44:00) Dr. Means' journey from traditional medicine to functional medicine (56:00 / 51:00) Trifecta of Bad Energy (1:03:30 / 58:30) Five core biomarkers (1:08:00 / 1:03:00) Ozempic and pharmaceuticals fail to address the root cause (1:18:00 / 1:13:00) Ultra-processed foods and addiction (1:24:00 / 1:19:00) What peer-reviewed actually means (1:27:30 / 1:22:30)  The story behind their family's journey (1:38:30 / 1:33:40) Overeating ultra-processed foods and lack of micronutrients (1:48:00 / 1:42:50) Final Thoughts (2:02:00 / 1:57:00) Also mentioned in this episode: Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health For more on Dr. Casey Means, follow her on Instagram, Twitter, or her website.  For more on Calley Means, follow him on Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Right now, Maui Nui Venison is offering my community 20% off your first purchase. Just go to mauinuivenison.com/DHRU or enter the code DHRU at check out to get 20% off and up your high-quality protein today. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code DHRUP. Right now, BON CHARGE is offering my community 15% off; just go to boncharge.com/DHRU and use coupon code DHRU to save 15%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 584:  Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about using the massive upside of investing in your P&L, the ballsy-ness of Nick Huber and how to turn your annual income intro your monthly income.  Want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5 — Show Notes: (0:00) Shepherd gets acquired for $50M (5:44) Invest in your P&L (7:57) The ballsiness of Nick Huber (13:42) The evolution of celebrity partnerships (17:04) A large, trusted audience (20:30) 2. Product-audience fit (21:42) 3. That Viral Touch (22:12) Creators who are the best at this (29:29) $280 millions dollar tumblers (31:10) Giving as you go: Do it early, make it uncomfortable (37:11) The curse of familiar riches (39:57) How to 10x your annual income (48:32) For the same inputs, can you get more outputs (50:08) Acting As If — Links: • Shepherd - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • The Sweaty Startup - https://sweatystartup.com/ • Dr DisRespect - https://www.youtube.com/user/drdisrespect • Truemed - https://www.truemed.com/ • SimpleModern - https://www.simplemodern.com/ • Empower - https://www.empower.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it's called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Calley Means is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise. We are working to enable tax-free spending for Athletic Greens, Daily Harvest, CrossFit, 24 Hour Fitness, Momentous and many other health and wellness companies. He is also the co-author with his sister of of Good Energy, which is coming out next year and available for pre-order Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. In the past year, he's met with 50 members of Congress and Presidential candidates advocating policies to combat the corruption of the pharma and food industries Graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School.

Join us for a deep dive on Health Savings Accounts! In this episode, we unpack the various regulation around HSAs and discuss strategies for using them within your financial plan.Truemed: company focused on enabling users to leverage HSA funds for wellness purchases.Contact: Ben@abundancewm.comWebsite: Abundance Wealth ManagementShow music: Can We Go by The Violet NinesDISCLAIMERThe discussions contained in and referred to in this podcast are provided for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. The information, statements, comments, views, and opinions expressed or provided are not necessarily those of Abundance Wealth Management LLC and may not be current. Abundance Wealth Management LLC does not make any representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information, statements, comments, views, or opinions contained in this podcast, and any liability therefore (including in respect of direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever) is expressly disclaimed. Abundance Wealth Management LLC does not undertake any obligation whatsoever to provide any form of update, amendment, change or correction to any of the information, statements, comments, views, or opinions set forth in this podcast.You should not make any decision, financial, investment, trading or otherwise, based on any of the information presented in this podcast without undertaking independent due diligence and consultation with a professional wealth management advisor. You understand that you are using all information available on or through this podcast at your own risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I am delighted to have the honor of connecting with Calley Means today. Calley is the Founder of Truemed, a company that facilitates tax-free spending on food and exercise. He also co-authored a book with his sister, Casey Means, called Good Energy, to be released later this year.  Calley graduated from Stanford and Harvard Business School. He was a consultant for food and pharmaceutical firms and now exposes their tactics to weaponize our trusted institutions. In our conversation today, Calley and I examine the impact of drug utilization, including GLP 1s, on obese children and discuss the relevance of his background in food and pharmaceuticals and the problem of treating obesity as a disease. We dive into the role of food stamps and subsidies and look at ways we can help improve food quality in the United States and reduce the influence of the pharmaceutical industry, also addressing conflicts of interest between the NIH and universities, the effects of reduced subsidies and processed food consumption on families, and dopamine regulation.  This conversation has been long-awaited, and as a dedicated fan of Calley's work, I am thrilled to share it with you. IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Calley highlights the conflicts of interest in obesity research and the ineffectiveness of the US healthcare system in addressing chronic obesity in children. How the pharmaceutical industry prioritizes profit over health Why the American health crisis is not only a medical problem but also a moral issue The influence of processed food companies on nutritional research The crucial need to address the root causes of chronic diseases How the influence of pharmaceutical lobbyists corrupts Congress The growing distrust in American institutions  How nutrition research funding impacts US food guidelines The challenges of raising children when processed foods get weaponized to hook people Calley discusses his upcoming book, Good Energy, and explains how his company, Truemed, helps patients unlock tax-free spending on metabolically healthy items. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Check out Cynthia's website Submit your questions to support@cynthiathurlow.com Connect with Calley Means On his website Truemed website Instagram Twitter

Modern medicine offers a pill for every ill. But as the sickest, fattest, unhealthiest modern population, it's clear that our healthcare system isn't actually making our citizens healthier. On today's show, you're going to learn about the root cause of all of our major killers: mitochondrial health.  Our guests today are Dr. Casey Means and Calley Means. Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician and the co-founder of Levels. Her brother, Calley Means, is the co-founder of TrueMed. Together, their mission is to help folks understand the root of all disease, which is how efficiently our cells create and utilize energy. Their new book, Good Energy, unpacks the connection between mitochondrial health, metabolism, and optimal health outcomes.  In this interview, you're going to hear powerful insights on what factors influence mitochondrial health, the corruption in our food and pharmaceutical industries, and so much more. You're going to learn how to take control of your metabolic health, including specific dietary guidelines that can apply to any diet or lifestyle. At its core, this interview is about your ability to affect change, and I hope that message of personal empowerment resonates with you. Enjoy!   In this episode you'll discover: The family story that inspired Casey & Calley to write Good Energy. How metabolic health influences every chronic illness. What percentage of Americans have prediabetes. Why we need personal empowerment and systemic change to improve our health. How the healthcare industry makes money from chronic disease management. The connection between mitochondria and metabolism. How mitochondrial dysfunction leads to chronic disease.  Two things you can do to improve your metabolic health.  The serious problem with the mantra “trust the science.” How chronic overnutrition impacts mitochondrial health. What percentage of Americans are confused about nutrition. How processed food is confusing our bodies. Five key components of a healthy, balanced meal.  The top three foods you should reduce in your diet. How to give your body the nutrients it needs to create its own GLP-1. The adverse effects excess sugar has on your mitochondria.  Five biomarkers of metabolic syndrome.  Why ultra-processed food consumption is the root of our health problems. The #1 question all physicians and patients should ask about prescription drugs. What your body's symptoms mean.  The link between Ozempic and gut health.  Why connection is a requisite for health.  Items mentioned in this episode include:  Beekeepersnaturals.com/model -  Save 20% on raw honey & other natural remedies! DrinkLMNT.com/model -  Get a FREE sample pack with any order!  Get Financially Fit, Upgrade Your Identity, & Maxout – Episode 282 - Hear my interview with Ed Mylett Instantly Transform Your Mindset & Utilize the Power of One More – Episode 587 - Hear my interview with Ed Mylett  Strengthen Your Psychology, Transform Your Confidence, & Become The One – Episode 652 - Hear my interview with Ed Mylett  Good Energy by Casey & Calley Means - PRE-ORDER your copy today! Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia - Read the bestselling book on longevity Truemed - Learn more about making true medicine more affordable Connect with Dr. Casey Means Website / Twitter / Instagram  Connect with Calley Means Twitter / Instagram Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes:  Apple Podcasts Spotify Soundcloud Google Podcasts Pandora YouTube  Join TMHS Facebook community - Model Nation  This episode of The Model Health Show is brought to you by Beekeeper's Naturals and LMNT. Reinvent your medicine cabinet for with clean, effective products powered by the beehive & backed by science. Claim your 20% discount at beekeepersnaturals.com/model. Head to DrinkLMNT.com/model to claim a FREE sample pack of electrolytes with any purchase.

Welcome to Episode 170 of Pelo Buddy TV, an unofficial Peloton podcast & Peloton news show. This week we cover the following topics: Peloton is testing pace target classes for Tread The Peloton App can now connect to third party rowers (like Concept 2) A new partnership with TrueMed might make it easier to use HSA/FSA money Camila Ramon is now teaching Dance Cardio classes You can now use the “Just Work Out” feature with no internet connection The Peloton Guide can now see pre-show again, and has a new “History” feature There is a bug where some members aren't receiving high fives There was a bug (now fixed) related to using Apple Watches as a heart rate monitor Some owners of the original Peloton Bike are having issues with their metrics. A new “Treasure Hunt” has members follow clues to find old classes in the library. April's artist series will include Jose Gonzalez, Aerosmith, and Fred Again. An artist series with Cardi B took place this week. An artist series with Troye Sivan took place last week. Peloton has some new guided audio / narrated scenic classes. There are some new classes to celebrate Def Jam Recordings 40th anniversary. Assal Arian & Nico Sarani are teaching the first German foam rolling classes. Last week Peloton had several special St. Patrick's Day classes. Jess Sims taught a run with NBA player Mikal Bridges at the studio. Becs Gentry taught a 75 minute run this week. Mariana Fernandez has a 90 minute run coming up in May. Sam Yo will host a meet & greet in Sydney, Australia. Andy Speer will have a paid meet & greet at the Tampa Bay Rays baseball stadium. The Peloton Guide was on sale for $95 during Amazon's spring sales. Peloton is offering a trade-in program in Australia for third party equipment. Peloton is also partnering with AIA Insurance in Australia, giving a 25% discount on Bikes. For both of the past two weeks, Peloton purged a single day of classes each week. Peloton equipment will be available online and at Powerhouse Fitness locations across the UK. You can now get PSNY and PSL apparel online. A spring apparel sale saw discounts of 40% on many items in the Peloton Apparel store. Happy Birthday to Jeffrey McEachern & Becs Gentry. Jermaine Johnson is having a baby. Tunde Oyeneyin was on Season 2 of Life & Beth. Jon Hosking is modeling again. Hannah Frankson is running the London Marathon. Several coaches ran races last weekend. Marcel Dinkins was the MC of the Shamrock Marathon. Emma Lovewell is filming something with Joanna Gaines. Leanne Hainsby was on the Give Me Strength podcast. Leanne Hainsby was interviewed in Women's Health Magazine. Ally Love was on Walmart CEO's podcast. Chris shares the community's class picks of the week. Enjoy the show? Become a Pelo Buddy TV Supporter!  Find details here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/membership-account/membership-levels/ You can find links to full articles on each of these topics from the episode page here: https://www.pelobuddy.com/pelo-buddy-tv-episode-168/ The show is also available via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PeloBuddy This episode is hosted by Chris Lewis (#PeloBuddy).

Welcome to the latest episode of L.I.F.T.S, this is part one of two podcasts live from the Connected Health and Fitness Summit in Los Angeles, interviewing some high caliber guests to debate the interesting topics, trends and conversations hitting the fitness industry headlines.  In this episode, hosts Matthew Januszek, Co-Founder of Escape Fitness and Mo Iqbal, Founder & CEO of Sweatworks, are joined by Evelyn Webster, CEO of  SoulCycle, Calley Means, Co-Founder of TrueMed, Dean Kelly, CEO of Gainful, Mark Watterson, CEO of iFIT and Emma Forrest, Consumer Portfolio Director at Kisaco Research. In this episode, topics discussed include:         Why SoulCycle stepped back from ties with social issues.         The ‘sick care' system;  incentivizing sickness to subsidize recurring revenue.         The healthcare budget scandal as large outlay goes to pharmaceutical products.         The rise of chronic health care conditions and the metabolic health crisis.         The triangle mix of content, hardware and software. ====================================================== Subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it's published: https://www.youtube.com/user/EscapeFitness Shop gym equipment: https://escapefitness.com/shop View our full catalog:  https://escapefitness.com/support/catalog https://escapefitness.com/support/catalogue  ====================================================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Escapefitness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/escapefitness Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/escapefitness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/escapefitness/

Today we're dropping the debut episode of Request for Startups which featuresJustin Mares: Founder of Truemed,Kettle & Fire, Surely, and a partner at True Journey VenturesSean Linehan: CEO of Exec.com, previously VP Product at FlexportHost: Erik TorenbergThe conversation maps startup ideas and concepts, including dating apps based on spending patterns, a matching platform for singles, an exclusive dating app with angel investments, Google Maps for market ontologies, a personal trainer for life, Wikipedia by experts, and a vision of WeWork for productivity. What will you build?Upcoming guests on this season of Request for Startups include Aashay Sanghvi, Talia Goldberg, Imran Khan, Qiao Wang, Nick DeWilde, Greg Isenberg, Gagan Biyani, and more.SUBSCRIBE & FORWARD TO FOUNDERS & ANYONE NAVIGATING THE IDEA MAZE.Video episodes on Substack: https://requestforstartups.substack.com/p/receipt-based-dating-reference-checksApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/request-for-startups-with-erik-torenberg/id1728659822Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/739L1LR32QI2XyoZlRh5nvOvercast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1728659822--Timestamps(00:00) Intro(00:45) Justin's Incubation Processes(04:00) Dating App Based on Spending Patterns(06:40) Yenta(08:22) Exclusive Dating App with Angel Investments(13:16) Google Maps for Market Ontologies(19:07) Personal Trainer for Life(20:57) Wikipedia by Experts(27:01) WeWork for Productivity This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mediaempires.substack.com

View the Show Notes For This EpisodeGet Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. HymanSign Up for Dr. Hyman's Weekly Longevity JournalGet Ad-free Episodes & Dr. Hyman+ Audio ExclusivesCalley Means is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables tax-free spending on food and exercise. He is also the co-author with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, which is coming out later this year and is now available for pre-order.Earlier in his career, Calley was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. In the past year, he's met with 50 members of Congress and presidential candidates advocating policies to combat the corruption of the pharma and food industries. He is a Graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Fatty15, Thrive Market, and Happy Egg.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.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.Head over to thrivemarket.com/Hyman today to receive 30% off your first order and a free gift up to $60.Shopping for better eggs shouldn't be confusing. Look for the yellow carton at your local grocery store or visit happyegg.com/farmacy to find Happy Egg near you.In this episode we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):How the pharmaceutical industry is the largest funder of government, think tank organizations, academic research, and media outlets (7:44 / 5:59)Why America is getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, and more infertile (11:19 / 9:34)Corruption in industry and government that's harming our health (20:02 / 18:18)Ozempic as a treatment for obesity in kids (29:00 / 25:10)How obesity is harming our national security (35:03 / 31:13)Taking control of your own health (39:20 / 35:29)Banning food and pharmaceutical ads on television (44:25 / 40:34)Is Ozempic bad for mental health? (56:10 / 52:19)How government subsidizes and recommends ultra-processed food (58:25 / 54:34)The thing that can counteract the influence of money (1:15:08 / 1:11:17)Get a copy of Good Energy. Learn about Calley's work at Trumed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“In the last two years, 50,000 peer reviewed nutrition studies were published. The point is to have 50,000 studies to confuse people. When you see a nutrition research study, it is almost certainly a marketing document for ultra processed food.” –Calley MeansWant to learn how “Big Food” bribes officials to shape health policies, creates misleading advertising to promote processed foods, and employs tactics just as the tobacco industry did to ensure future generations are kept addicted to sugar and in a prediabetic state?Calley Means is a former consultant for the Coca-Cola Company, where he played a significant role in influencing food policies and tax legislations in favour of sugary drinks.Today he is determined to undo the evils he was once paid to promote. Calley's book, Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health, co-authored with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, is due for release in May 2024. Calley is also the founder of TrueMed, a company that emphasises the importance of food and lifestyle habits in healthcare.In this episode, Calley offers a unique insider's perspective, revealing the depth of corruption in nutrition research and industry practices. He exposes the alarming impacts of processed foods and sugar on public health and societal well-being, and unveils how corporate interests are intertwined with our food choices, impacting the way we eat, live, and feed our children.Highlights(2:36) Calley's background as a Coca Cola consultant (5:09) Why Calley did a 180º on the food industry (14:03)Why sugar is a drug (21:24) The political power of the food industry(34:51) The connection between diet and mental health(51:23) Calley's take home messageLearn MoreVisit www.calleymeans.comDon't miss Calley Means as a featured speaker at the 2024 Health Optimisation Summit. Buy your ticket here.Thank You to Filter Optix for Sponsoring this Episode! Filter Optix is the maker of premium blue light glasses. Go to filteroptix.com/timbiohacker and get a 15% discount.The Health Optimisation Podcast is an OG Podcasts production.DisclaimerThe information contained in this podcast is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Information found or received through the podcast should not be used in place of a consultation or advice from a qualified healthcare provider. Opinions of guests are their own and this podcast does not endorse or accept responsibility for statements made by guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you take a look at grocery store aisles across America, it's likely the majority of the food you'll pass is loaded with chemical ingredients you can't even pronounce. Yet, the majority of Americans have let that become the norm, without wondering how eating this food and feeding it to their children is contributing to the growing amount of sickness and disease we see in our country. The good news is, people like author and TrueMed co-founder Calley Means are calling out the food industry. Calley joins Sean and Rachel this week to discuss the ways the food industry and government seem to promote an unhealthy diet, and how it's impacting our kids, farmers, and those who live in poverty.   Later Calley discusses how he breaks down this broken system in his new book, 'Good Energy,' that's set to hit shelves in May of 2024. Follow Sean & Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Calley Means is an advocate/whistleblower about the corruption of the food and pharma industries and the need to change incentives. He is the Co-Founder of TrueMed - a company that enables Americans to purchase healthy food and exercise tax-free. He is also the co-author of Good Energy, a book on the metabolic health crisis to be published by Penguin RandomHouse next year. Prior, Calley worked for The White House, The Heritage Foundation, and John McCain's 2018 Presidential campaign. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. Find Calley: http://truemed.com/  Twitter and IG: calleymeans   Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer and introduction. 02:04 Healthcare industry partners with food companies, profits. 06:12 Processed food industry funds biased nutrition research. 08:26 USDA, FDA influenced by processed food, opioids. 12:12 Ultra processed food companies spend more on research. 16:18 Doctors' culpability in promoting unhealthy food.  20:06 Liquid sugar: diabetes explosion, American Diabetes needs action. 23:18 Bottoms up revolution: sustainable change, critical thinking, optimistic. 25:35 Americans not getting lazier, despite claims made. 28:49 Paid arguments. 32:39 Ozempic and new powerful GLP-1 agonists gaining popularity. 34:57 Only 20% of 21-year-olds eligible for military.  40:14 Trust science?  44:41 France prioritizes healthy, non-toxic food for children. 48:01 Pharma dominates TV news ads, influencing content. 49:10 Jillian Michaels criticized for anti-Science claims. See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet for a free 30 day trial: https://carnivore.diet/join/ Carnivore Shirts: https://merch.carnivore.diet Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://carnivore.diet/subscribe/ . ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

This week on Eyes Wide Open, we're speaking with Calley Means, a former consultant in the food and pharmaceutical industries turned activist and advocate against them. Calley works to subvert big industry's poisoning of our food system and the corruption in regulating agencies enable this to happen. Calley is also the founder of a company called TrueMed, which is an organization that issues food and health-promoting services as prescriptions that allow you to utilize your HSA funds within your healthcare program (something that may be beneficial to you as we come up to the end of the year).   I make a lot of my own personal products because the chemicals used in mass-production can actually be detrimental to our overall health and wellness, both in physical and mental aspects. As a result, Calley's platform and mission really resonated with me.   Today, we're going to talk about Calley's journey from a young kid in DC wanting to be in politics, his time consulting in food and pharma, to how he ended up now advocating against these industries. I hope that when you finish this episode you can look at the food and health industries with your eyes wide open. Find Calley here:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calleymeans/    TruMed Website: https://www.truemed.com/   Calley's Website: https://calleymeans.com/  Find Nick Thompson here:   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nthompson513/    Website: https://www.engagewithnick.com/    UCAN Foundation: https://www.ucanfoundation.org/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EngageWithNick  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickthompson13/

In this episode, Lisa talks with TrueMed founder and author Calley Means. While every institution in healthcare (hospitals, pharma, insurance, med school) depends on more sick patients for growth. Calley's working to change these incentives. Calley and Lisa talk about the obesity crisis in America, why millennials are getting sick more often, and much more! This is an episode you need to hear...your health depends on it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.  Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Lisa talks with TrueMed founder and author Calley Means. While every institution in healthcare (hospitals, pharma, insurance, med school) depends on more sick patients for growth. Calley's working to change these incentives. Calley and Lisa talk about the obesity crisis in America, why millennials are getting sick more often, and much more! This is an episode you need to hear...your health depends on it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/bygaDBR3qS4 Calley Means (IG: @calleymeans) is the founder of TrueMed, a company that issues prescriptions for food and exercise, enabling tax-free spending on items promoting health. He is also the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food-as-medicine. Calley started his career as a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now an advocate for changes to these industries. In this episode, we discuss: Fixing our health crisis starts with a mindset shift Chronic disease is profitable How you can help create change Front groups are the biggest funders of nutrition research Professors are being paid to play Doctors can't go against bad guidelines The broken medical system and doctor debt How pharmaceutical companies control the media The Harvard doctor bribed by Ozempic The corrupt history of healthcare in America The healthcare system is the #1 money generator in the US We need to stop subsidizing processed foods Calley's pivot from big industry to starting TrueMed Stop feeding your kids poison Practical steps to regain your metabolic health Have the courage to push back Show sponsor: BiOptimizers

Justin Mares is the founder of multiple health companies including Kettle and Fire, Perfect Keto, and TrueMed as well as a friend for many years.We chat about how his networking helped made him 8 figures, why he thinks the FDA has killed more Americans and any other governmental agency, and catch up on our beliefs about god, happiness, and life.Thanks for listening!Follow Justin:https://justinmares.substack.com/If You'd Like To Help Support The Podcast:http://www.patreon.com/charismaoncommandIf you enjoy the podcast please SUBSCRIBE and Click the Notification bell

I mention it in the episode, but it bears repeating. Calley is a warrior for the truth and it was an honor to have him on and learn a ton. We get into his background as a Stanford grad, political player in DC, and his multiple startups in the health and wellness world. He drops bomb after bomb and has a beautiful rant in the middle on the medical industry and how it's not lost it's way, but designed to be broken to anyone actually trying to be healthy. He's currently writing a book with his sister in the wake of losing their mother to the medical industry in '21. Please be sure to share this one with the homies.   ORGANIFI GIVEAWAY Keep those reviews coming in! Please drop a dope review and include your IG/Twitter handle and we'll get together for some Organifi even faster moving forward.   Connect with Calley: Website: CalleyMeans.com - TrueMed.com  Instagram: @calleymeans    Sponsors: PaleoValley Some of the best and highest quality goodies I personally get into are available at paleovalley.com, punch in code “KYLE” at checkout and get 15% off everything! Neurohacker Collective Run these guys' Qualia Senolytic, a two day per month cleans to flush out all your “zombie” cells. Head to neurohacker.com/kkp for 50% OFF and use “KKP” at checkout for an additional 15% off your first order!  Hostage Tape Nasal breathing is some of the lowest hanging fruit for your health. Head to hostagetape.com/KKP for your third month worth of tape free!   Bioptimizers To get the 'Sleep Breakthrough‘ deal exclusively for fans of the podcast, click the link below and use code word “KINGSBU10” for an additional 10% off. sleepbreakthrough.com/kingsbu  To Work With Kyle Kingsbury Podcast   Connect with Kyle: Fit For Service Academy App: Fit For Service App  Instagram: @livingwiththekingsburys - @gardenersofeden.earth  Odysee: odysee.com/@KyleKingsburypod  Youtube: Kyle Kingbury Podcast  Kyles website: www.kingsbu.com - Gardeners of Eden site  Like and subscribe to the podcast anywhere you can find podcasts. Leave a 5-star review and let me know what resonates or doesn't.

Justin Mares is an entrepreneur. He started two consumer brands that each have done $100mm+ in sales in less than 5 years (Kettle & Fire and Perfect Keto). He also started Surely Wines which has done millions in sales. He's now working on TrueMed, which allows health and wellness brands to tap into the $140B in consumer HSA/FSA accounts He is one of the most interesting people I've studied. 0:00 What Are You A Top 1% Consumer Of? 3:10 Why Is USA Sick & Unhealthy? (Justin's Current Obsession) 9:19 What Can You Do About It? 11:42 Spotting Trends 16:36 Making Connections With Interesting People 19:30 How Do You Take Depressed People & Make Them Happy 23:15 Is The World Getting Better Or Worse? 29:00 Justin's Current Project (TrueMed) 33:00 Finding Your Passion 35:31 Building A World-Class Network 40:52 Who Are The People Building The Future? 46:02 Justin's Calm Nature 49:10 What Makes For A Great Leader? 51:02 Building Neighborhood 54:30 How Do You Find A Partner? 58:55 Challenge Resources Mentioned * Mac Miller Tiny Desk Concert – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrR_gm6RqCo * Founders Podcast – https://www.founderspodcast.com * Justin Mares on Invest Like The Best – https://open.spotify.com/episode/4v7Snd5199djam0DjHThq7?si=590ef11ffc6d46cd * Recession Proof Graduate by Charlie Hoehn – https://www.amazon.com/Recession-Proof-Graduate-Want-Doing/dp/0990354814 * Bryan Johnson – https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson * Mark Hyman – https://twitter.com/drmarkhyman * Mike Johnson – https://twitter.com/johnsonmxe Justin Mares * Substack: https://justinmares.substack.com * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jwmares My Links

This episode is brought to you by AG1, Pendulum, BiOptimizers, and Super Simple Grassfed Protein. If we were to identify one big lever to pull to improve global health, create economic abundance, restore environmental health, and reverse climate change, it would be transforming our entire food system. The policies and industry interests that drive our current system must change to fix our broken food system from field to fork and beyond.In today's episode, I talk with Calley Means, Robby Sansom, Taylor Collins, and Dhru Purohit about industry funding that influences the results of food studies, marketing, and government policy.Calley Means is the cofounder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise equipment and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the coauthor (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food as medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies; he is now exposing the practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust.Robby Sansom is cofounder and CEO at Force of Nature, a regeneratively sourced meat company based in Austin, TX. Force of Nature works in partnership with land stewards, ranchers, and farmers committed to creating a positive return on the planet. Robby is also a land steward at ROAM Ranch, where he owns regeneratively managed bison.Taylor Collins is the Chief Bison Wrangler and a cofounder at Force of Nature. In 2017, Taylor and his family purchased ROAM Ranch, a 900-acre multispecies regenerative ecosystem. Within five years of management, the ranch has seen dramatic improvements in soil carbon, water infiltration, plant diversity, and soil health.Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top 50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.This episode is brought to you by AG1, Pendulum, BiOptimizers, and Super Simple Grassfed Protein. Right now, AG1 is offering 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting drinkAG1.com/HYMAN.Pendulum is offering my listeners 20% off their first month of an Akkermansia subscription with code HYMAN at Pendulumlife.com.This month only you can get a FREE bottle of BiOptimizers' full-spectrum magnesium supplement at magbreakthrough.com/hymanfree using coupon code hyman10.Get 10% off Super Simple Grassfed Protein with the code protein10 at drhyman.com/protein.Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:Calley MeansRobby Sansom and Taylor CollinsDhru Purohit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Lisa talks with TrueMed founder and author Calley Means. While every institution in healthcare (hospitals, pharma, insurance, med school) depends on more sick patients for growth. Calley's working to change these incentives. Calley and Lisa talk about the obesity crisis in America, why millennials are getting sick more often, and much more! This is an episode you need to hear...your health depends on it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.  Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Lisa talks with TrueMed founder and author Calley Means. While every institution in healthcare (hospitals, pharma, insurance, med school) depends on more sick patients for growth. Calley's working to change these incentives. Calley and Lisa talk about the obesity crisis in America, why millennials are getting sick more often, and much more! This is an episode you need to hear...your health depends on it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are very excited to share today's amazing guest, Calley Means, the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book, Good Energy, which discusses how preventable cellular dysfunction (caused primarily by food) is at the root of nearly every chronic condition that plagues American life - and how to fix it. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and he is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. In this episode you will learn: About the conflict of interest between big food/pharma and those making nutritional guidelines and policy decisions. How big pharma is making millions off of sickcare. How his new business True Medicine is aimed at helping Americans save money while adopting a healthier lifestyle. What to do in order to keep Americans healthier. Calley's thoughts on sugar guidelines and some proposed changes. How to become more empowered to advocate for your own personal healthcare. This is such an enlightening conversation that you won't want to miss!  Helpful links and resources: https://calleymeans.com/ LInked IN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calley-means-a29b5512/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/calleymeans/ --------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to our amazing Sponsor, Good Health Saunas.  Good Health Saunas is proud to provide top-of-the-line infrared saunas that deliver the most impactful results for overall health and wellness. For more information and for your special discount please visit, Www.goodhealthsaunas.com and mention The Art of Living Well Podcast. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to our amazing sponsor, Organifi.  Organifi is a line of organic superfood blends that offer plant-based nutrition with high quality ingredients and less than 3g of sugar. As a listener of The Art of Living Well Podcast you get 20% off ALL Organifi products. To take advantage of your Organifi discount, use the link below and the code LIVINGWELL at checkout for 20% off your order.  Order Organifi products now! ----------------------------------------------------------- Invigorating Lakeside Community Yoga with Andrea of Breathe and Be yoga Sunday morning Aug. 27th on Lake Minnetonka (Deephaven) Sign-up here ----------------------------------------------------------- Ask us a question/make a recommentation We'd love to hear from you! Click here to share your feedback and suggestions. ----------------------------------------------------------- Sign-up for your 15 minute Health Transformation Audit - Click here. ----------------------------------------------------------- Need more protein in your day? Check out these amazing, high quality products from Kion, especially their essential amino acids, which we both use daily.   Use code 'ARTOFLIVING' for a discount off your purchase. ----------------------------------------------------------- Missed our last group 7 Day Functional Liver Detox? We now have a program where you can do it on your own schedule but still receive all the wonderful support and recipes of the full program.  Register here! ----------------------------------------------------------- Let us help you get to the root cause of your unwanted symptoms. Schedule a 15 minute consultation to discuss at-home functional medicine lab testing here. ----------------------------------------------------------- How can you support our podcast? Apple users, please subscribe and review our show on Apple Podcasts,we make sure to read them all. Android users, please be sure to subscribe to our show on Google Podcasts so that you don't miss any of the action. Tell a friend about The Art of Living Well Podcast® and our community programs. Share your favorite episode on social media and don't forget to tag us @theartofliving_well. Subscribe to our Youtube chanel Shop our Favorite Products: https://www.theartoflivingwell.us/products Connect with us on social media: IG: @theartofliving_well FB: theartoflivingwell Get on our list so you don't miss out on announcements, programs and events. You can download our guests' favorite reads here. Learn more about your hosts: Marnie Dachis Marmet Stephanie May Potter  

Former Coca-Cola executive and Co-Founder of TrueMed Calley Means joins to discuss how food companies use corporate lobbying to keep healthy items from reaching the mouths of Americans.   Later, Calley talks about the goals of TrueMed, and how every American can retake their health with diet and exercise. Follow Sean and Rachel on Twitter: @SeanDuffyWI & @RCamposDuffy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest this week is Justin Mares. Justin is the founder of TrueMed and has previously founded three different health food brands that collectively do $100M+ in annual revenue.  Every time I speak with him, he makes me reflect on my own health and the state of our health more broadly. This conversation is no different. As Justin puts it, we're in a health crisis that could ultimately bankrupt our country. We talk about the inputs, incentives, and potential solutions related to that crisis, and then move into his experiences building and investing in consumer brands. We finish with a fascinating discussion on why it's more common to see repeat founders these days. Please enjoy my great conversation with Justin Mares. Founders Podcast Founders Episode 136 - Estee Lauder Founders Episode 288 - Ralph Lauren For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.  ----- This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus is the modern research platform for leading investors. Stretch your research budget with flexible expert calls you can trust. At a fraction of the cost of traditional expert networks, Tegus customers pay only what an expert charges – with zero markups and no confusing call credits – netting an average 70% savings. Don't want to conduct a full hour call? Tegus offers the ability to schedule 30-minutes, an offer you won't find anywhere else. And they don't stop there. With white-glove custom sourcing for every project and robust compliance measures, including a dedicated 50+ analyst team that vets every call transcript, Tegus ensures your privacy and protection. As the industry innovator for qualitative insights, Tegus helps you find the right experts you need at a quality and speed that can't be matched. For a limited time, as a listener, you can trial Tegus for free by visiting tegus.co/patrick. ----- Invest Like the Best is a property of Colossus, LLC. For more episodes of Invest Like the Best, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.  Past guests include Tobi Lutke, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, John Collison, Kat Cole, Marc Andreessen, Matthew Ball, Bill Gurley, Anu Hariharan, Ben Thompson, and many more. Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus Show Notes (00:03:06) - (First question) - Framing the overall problem of the US health system (00:04:12) - What it would take for America's health crisis to affect global competitiveness (00:11:05) - Important changes that have contributed to the decline of health in the US  (00:14:53) - Other system settings and incentives have contributed to America's health crisis (00:16:51) - Thoughts on Ozempic and attempts to engineer solutions for chronic disease (00:20:07) - Mental health decline, infertility, and other problems tied to the health crisis  (00:24:33) - When he first discovered this problem and became passionate about it (00:26:56) - The difficulties of building a health-centric bone broth company  (00:31:49) - Why no one has a built supply chain sourcing service to create scale economies (00:34:44) - Other companies he's built and other things he's doing to fight the problem  (00:40:15) - Going to market to simplify the HSA consumer experience  (00:43:04) - The world of water, environmental toxins and forever chemicals writ large (00:47:17) - The difficulty in avoiding forever chemicals in our everyday lives  (00:51:51) - How he searches for and decides on new businesses to start or invest in    (00:56:52) - The growing popularity and promise of psychedelic therapy  (00:58:48) - Personality traits of people who feel most at home in Edge City (01:01:36) - Strategies on sourcing and connecting with ambitious and talented people (01:06:56) - Childhood nutrition and the impact of their diets and health on society  (01:11:26) - Capital formation and creating new businesses in a systematic way (01:19:57) - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him 

“Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influence the nutritional quality of food and whether the “right foods” pack the nutrients they once had.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we're discussing What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé. Exploring the concept of "food chain reactions," the book unveils the hidden connections between our food choices and their environmental, social, and health impacts. Do you really know what you're eating? We cover a wide range of topics including: The revival of physical bookstores fueled by social media How the health of our soil essentially corresponds to our health Why nutritional diversity is so important The relationship between our diets and overall well-being What are our food cravings telling us? And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Great Book Series (1:04)  Barnes and Noble open 30 new stores (2:55) Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail (19:17) Mother Tongue Cooking Club (33:04) Force of Nature (57:55) Pluck (58:19) TrueMed (59:57) Rooted (1:09:26) Dutch Meadows Farm Books Mentioned: What Your Food Ate The Three-Body Problem (5:00) (Nat's Book Notes) Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (14:59) People Mentioned: Anthony Gustin (15:40) Wendell Berry (15:48) Ben Greenfield (26:57) Justin Mares (28:21) Miles Snyder (33:01) Calley Means (1:01:34) Gabe Brown (1:04:24) Show Topics: (1:35) The revival of Barnes and Noble along with the influence that 'Booktok' has had on physical book stores. (5:11) How different content performs on Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube. Each platform serves a different purpose whether it's for entertainment or educational.  (12:16) Today, we're discussing What Your Food Ate by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé! Our food is a lot less nutritionally dense than we realize because of way that the food we eat is grown. (14:55) The co-authors' first book talks about the importance of caring for the soil, as that's the base for everything we grow. The same food can have such different nutritional values depending on how it was grown or raised. (20:08) Why nutritional diversity is important and how eating as nutrient dense foods as possible is really important too. When it comes to food, it's best to aim for quality over quantity.  (26:13) When we take a look at the foods we're eating, it makes sense that we may need supplements to give us our essential nutrients that may be otherwise lacking in our diet.  (28:01) What does Europe do differently than the US in terms of growing their food? We also talk about glyphosate levels in the things that we eat. (33:35) We give a brief overview of how the government has subsidized farmers in the US, which plays a role in our food supply and what we eat.  (38:44) Do our food cravings hint to us what we are deficient in? There have been studies done in infants where they chose foods that were beneficial to them when they were sick.  (40:33) It's shown that diet makes a difference in your overall health. Examples: The British WW2 diet and how a study in Japan showed that diet made a difference in mortality rate for those with lung cancer.  (44:45) How we source our food plays a role in our overall health. The nutritional density of the same food can vary just based on how it was raised. (50:39) We share some of our current eating habits from kimchi to sauerkraut, and what we will be having less of. (53:20) So, what solutions do we have and are we trending in the right direction when it comes to the food industry? (59:29) Regenerative farming - can this be seen on a larger scale? Neil talks about the mission of TrueMed. (1:06:28) Nutrients in animals have changed over time due to their diet and breeding, and it has an effect on the nutrients we receive from them, too. (1:10:53) That concludes this episode! Catch us next time where we will be discussing The River of Doubt. As episode 100 approaches us, we're excited to hear your suggestions on what we should do for that episode! If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. 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If you're following government guidelines for food and health, watch this episode very carefully, as the industry and policy lies being exposed are triggering. Calley Means has been advising politicians and prominent food and pharma companies and has founded his own company, TrueMed, to expose and change the food industries causing harm that the healthcare industry is profiting heavily. Calley shares from experience working with big food industries and losing his mother to a succession of foodborne illnesses that have everything to do with food that's leading to cancer, Alzheimers, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune conditions,and depression. Thoughts that exposes areas you can start rethinking and changing right away: $10 billion dollars is transferred in a year from the government to soda companies through food-stamps, part of a nutrition program designed to to help low income families. Lower income men die 11 years younger than higher income men, largely because of diet Healthcare, big pharma, food companies, and public policy makers make the solution for metabolic health sound extremely complicated, but it's really not complicated,it's just not beneficial for them. You and everyone around you is being sickened by preventable metabolic dysfunction. Now is the time to get educated and manage your risk and the risks to your family and the environment we live in. This may be the best place to start your research to take action on not being poisoned and blinded by the food and healthcare industry lies. Consuming ultra-processed foods, seed oils, copious amounts of sugar and highly processed grains is not in your best interest.  Referenced in this episode 60 Minutes with Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford: https://youtu.be/uaYLApCdKBo  Calley Means Quotes: “Cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune conditions, these are all going up and they are all foodborne illnesses, and the fact that there is not clear communication about that from our medical leaders and public policy leaders, I think is the biggest scandal in America and the most dangerous scandal.” “Today when you hear about the opioid crisis, 80-90% of people that overdose and die from illicit opioids, that started with a prescription pad.” “Prediabetes is violence occurring to their cells, a child born today has a 45% rate of obesity or being overweight, [...] 40% of 18 year olds right now qualify as having a mental illness.” “We need to stop recommending poison and stop subsidizing poison and the free market will figure it out.” “95% of the experts on the USDA nutrition guidelines committee receive personal payments from food and or pharma companies.” Follow Calley Means:  Website: https://www.truemed.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calleymeans/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/calleymeans  Get ready to unlock your true potential and enjoy an unparalleled listening experience with our Impact Theory subscription service at https://impacttheorynetwork.supercast.com/ Sponsors: This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/impacttheory and get on your way to being your best self. Go to hostinger.com/impact and use code IMPACT to get 10% OFF your new website! Get 20% OFF with our code IMPACT at calderalab.com/IMPACT. Unlock your youthful glow and be ready for summer with Caldera Lab! Visit http://www.houseofmacadmais.com/impact and use code impact for 20% off all purchases, and for a limited time a complimentary bottle of cold-pressed Extra Virgin macadamia oil! Head over to http://www.mindpumpimpact.com to find the 5 most impactful Mind Pump fitness episodes that will transform your body and your life. Get started today with Disney's Hulu Ad Manager at www.huluadmanager.com/stream. Visit nutrisense.io/tom and use code TOM to save $30 and get one month of free dietitian support.  For more information on how NewtonX can help answer your next critical business question, visit newtonx.com/impact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

According to a recent government-funded food pyramid study from Tufts School of Nutrition, Lucky Charms are healthier to eat than steak. So how did such an obviously ridiculous claim pass multiple levels of review at a widely respected research institution? Calley Means joins us to expose the decades-long influence that processed food and pharmaceutical companies have held over America's research institutions, how it's led to skyrocketing rates of obesity and other chronic health conditions, and simple reforms to programs like SNAP that could make America healthy again. Calley Means is a food-as-medicine advocate and the co-founder of TrueMed. He was previously a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. Follow Calley on Twitter at @calleymeans.

Calley Means Intro Hey everyone Clarissa Kennedy here. On todays episode of the Food Junkies Podcast we are bringing you the incredible Calley Means. We asked him here to discuss his viral Tweet stating that he “saw inside the room” of Coca-Cola's tactics to ensure sugar-sweetened beverage taxes failed and that soda was permitted in government-funded nutrition programs. Calley is a whistleblower who is exposing the Dirty Tactics that Coca-Cola Used to Rig the System and Keep Vulnerable Populations Unhealthy.   Calley Means is also the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise equipment and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the coauthor (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food as medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing the practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School.  In this episode we dive into: -Calley's personal story about why he decided to pursue a career that educates and empowers people to make good health choices  -Calley Mean's viral tweet about the soda industry's hidden agenda  -How processed food and nutrition play into mental illness  -Controversies around Ozempic, the “miracle weight-loss drug”  -How we've lost our way when it comes to diet and health care  -Doctors aren't incentivized to help people get healthy, they get burnt out  -How Calley plans to incentivize health and his company, True Medicine  Follow Calley here: Newsletter: https://calleymeans.com/daily-newsletter/ Website: https://calleymeans.com Instargram: 2calleymeans Twitter: @calleymeans  

This weeks episode has me fired up!  I sit down with the founder of TrueMed which is a payment integration that enables customers to use pre-tax HSA and FSA funds to purchase health promoting products or services from their favorite merchants. Calley Means is my guest today and I cannot wait for you to hear this.  Please share this with your friends and family, because this is something we all need to hear. Topics Covered: Coca Cola and SNAP (food stamps) American Diabetes Association and how they take money from soda companies  Sugar and obesity and how we have been brainwashed How humans make their pets unhealthy Tufts Food Compass Gas stoves  The strategy of distraction and how big food weaponizes the debate to consume the general public  Food, Pharma and how they are major funders of entertainment programming  Importance of looking at who funds a study Weaponization of food studies and how it is hurting us and our children  Healthcare and why it's the fastest growing industry  The incentives of the healthcare system How to take back our power   Declining of life expectancy  Ozempic injections Will Ozempic be recalled? Ozempic and possible muscle loss/erosion  Flexner Report Government subsidies  Letter of medical necessity and how you can be prescribed food and exercise for preventative care  What can we do!? Check Out Calley: Instagram TrueMed Sponsored By: Healthyr www.behealthyr.com Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 15% off Organifi www.organifi.com/realfoodology Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 20% Off LMNT Get 8 FREE packs with any order at drinkLMNT.com/realfoodology Check Out Courtney: Courtney's Instagram: @realfoodology www.realfoodology.com My Immune Supplement by 2x4 Air Dr Air Purifier AquaTru Water Filter EWG Tap Water Database Further Listening: Why We Should Care About Organic with Max Goldberg

Today, I'm joined by Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed, a payment solution helping consumers spend pre-tax HSA/FSA dollars on a healthy lifestyle. TrueMed is striving to align economic incentives and healthy living. By helping consumers utilize funds from their HSAs/FSAs accounts, Calley and team are making it easier and more affordable for them to buy healthy food, supplements, fitness equipment, and wellness products with their money, before taxes. In this episode, we discuss how healthy habits act as medicine and how Big Food and Big Pharma have compromised our healthcare system. In this episode, you'll learn: • How Calley's sister's experience as a surgeon inspired him to start TrueMed • Calley's top-down and bottoms-up approach to change • TrueMed's roadmap for preventative healthcare Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider/ - The Fitt Insider podcast is brought to you by Jack Taylor, our exclusive PR partner. More than just PR, they're creative storytellers and brand builders who actually understand the health and wellness industry. Learn more and get in touch at JackTaylorPR.com Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:35) Calley's background and founding TruMed (07:24) Incentive alignment in our society (15:45) How HSAs and FSAs work (19:53) TrueMed's business philosophy (22:52) History of big pharma and the healthcare industry (29:13) Present state of our medical system (36:07) Digital health companies (41:19) Future roadmap (44:24) Conclusion

This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, BiOptimizers, and BON CHARGE.We live in a world that claims to be based on science, goodwill, and policies intended to help people. But in reality, these things are often heavily influenced and manipulated by industry, particularly Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, which have corrupted many institutions, politicians, professional associations, research institutions, and medical schools. And it has, unfortunately, led to mass confusion and illness in the public. Today on The Doctor's Farmacy, I sit down with Calley Means to talk about how Big Food and Big Pharma are rigging the system and profiting off of our ill health.Calley is the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food-as-medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth, InsideTracker, BiOptimizers, and BON CHARGE.Cozy Earth makes the most comfortable, temperature-regulating, and nontoxic sheets on the market. Right now, get 40% off your Cozy Earth sheets. Just head over to cozyearth.com and use code MARK40.InsideTracker is a personalized health and wellness platform like no other. Right now they're offering my community 20% off at insidetracker.com/drhyman.Magnesium Breakthrough really stands out from the other magnesium supplements out there. BiOptimizers is offering my community 10% off plus special gift with purchase, so just head over to magbreakthrough.com/hyman with code hyman10.BON CHARGE is a holistic wellness brand with a HUGE range of evidence-based products to optimize your life. Right now, my community can go to boncharge.com/HYMAN and use coupon code HYMAN to save 20%.Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):How big industry drives corruption (6:08 / 4:35) Calley's early career experience and how he came to understand the system is rigged (9:06 / 7:24) How Big Food rigs systems of trust (14:02 / 10:50) The weaponization of nutrition research (17:11 / 14:07) Outside funding of medical associations (25:51 / 20:10) Our healthcare system incentivizes sickness (34:34 / 30:00) The recent news about Ozempic, which is being touted as a miracle obesity drug, perfectly encapsulates the rigged system (38:57 / 33:22) Is obesity genetic? (49:55 / 43:50) How we can fix the system (57:58 / 52:55) Food as medicine (1:16:03 / 1:11) Follow Calley on Twitter @calleymeans and on Instagram @calleymeans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Justin Mares is an entrepreneur behind better-for-you CPG brands like Kettle & Fire, Perfect Keto, & Surely and co-founder in TrueMed, a payment integration that allows health-promoting merchants to accept pre-tax HSA and FSA funds. In this episode, we'll talk about designing decentralized, local economies around food, uncover some of the perverse incentives of Big Food lobbying that impacts our health, and look at the potential for personalized nutrition and wearables to improve preventative healthcare.

Entrepreneur and soon-to-be author Calley Means' recent Twitter post exposed the racist agenda of Coca-Cola and racked up a whopping 12 million views,  13,000 retweets, and close to 60,000 likes in just one month.   And that's just one tiny piece of Calley's incredible journey to exposing the problems of our current healthcare and food system.   But instead of just complaining and highlighting the issues, Calley's actively working on a solution through his latest company, TrueMed, which aims to use food and exercise as medicine instead of relying on pharmaceuticals that actually make things worse.   When you tune into this episode, you'll learn more about his latest company, along with Calley's first-hand experience seeing big pharma and food companies funneling money to professors, universities, and research studies on nutrition to skew the data in their favor. You'll also hear about how companies like Coca-Cola continue to target low-income families through food stamp programs and how they lobby to avoid having a sugar tax placed on their products.   Calley also discusses how our current system has been making people with chronic diseases worse off instead of better, why weight loss drugs are not the answer, especially for obese kids, and what can be done to turn things around.   Calley also shares his personal experience and how he found himself in this space, what he believes the root causes of chronic diseases are based on science and research, and more about his company TrueMed.   Here's a look at what Calley and Dr. Anthony Gustin discuss in this episode: Calley's backstory and why he started caring about health and fixing the healthcare system How it's become normalized for people to be chronically sick and taking a handful of prescriptions each day, and what that stems from How the food system is designed to be efficient at making food cheap and addicting Calley's Twitter post that went viral and shed light on how food companies are funding research on nutrition and skewing the results in their favor The two biggest lobbying spenders and why this is a massive problem for our healthcare system How our chronic disease management process is actually causing diseases to go up and get worse instead of making things better What can be done to fix our healthcare system? Will our healthcare system eventually work itself out? What can be done to address rising mental health issues? How the scientific community has let Americans down and what can be done about it Calley shares his thoughts on treating obese kids with prescription drugs and shots The problem with weight loss drugs and why this is a huge issue The root causes of chronic diseases and how it's preventable Calley's latest business, TrueMed, and the problems it's actively working to solve   Mentioned in this episode: Calley Mean's website Calley Mean's Twitter and Instagram Calley's website for TrueMed Justin Mares' Twitter and weekly newsletter Levels Health Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More by Dr. Christopher M. Palmer

Each year the US healthcare system spends billions of dollars on pharmaceuticals and innovations, yet our citizens continue to get sicker and sicker. And while many providers truly want to help folks, their education primarily teaches them to write prescriptions for symptoms—not address the root causes of ailments. Meanwhile, our government works hand in hand with food companies to market and promote the very foods that exacerbate inflammatory and chronic illnesses. While the idea of corrupt, powerful entities and a broken healthcare system might seem overpowering, we have a lot of power as citizens to begin changing the paradigm of what health means. Today's guest, Calley Means, is here to talk about exactly what we can do to begin healing our broken systems. As a former consultant for food and pharmaceutical companies, Calley has a unique and well-informed viewpoint on this matter. He is the co-founder of TrueMed, a company that is revolutionizing the way patients use pre-tax funds for health expenses. In this interview, you're going to hear enlightening conversations on the US food system and pharmaceutical industry. Calley is sharing the behind-the-scenes playbook of the tactics processed food companies use to gain public trust. We're going to talk about how government programs promote disease and disproportionately affect children and minority groups. We're also going to discuss how we can create a revolution and lead the charge toward true health for future generations. Enjoy! In this episode you'll discover: The problem with how our medical system treats patients. Calley's experience as a consultant for food and pharmaceutical companies. The percentage of food stamp funding goes toward sugary drinks and processed foods. How structural racism in government-funded programs affects kids. The suspicious connection between soda companies and civil rights groups. Tactics that processed food companies use to get nutritionist endorsements. Which entity funded the study that created the food pyramid. The connection between university research and food companies. Why doctors have minimal training in nutrition. The power of root-cause-based treatment. An important distinction between life expectancy and quality of life. How to begin changing an unsustainable system. A conversation on freedom of choice. Why we need to fix food subsidies to improve our society's health. What inflammation is, and why it matters. The power of tapping into your body's innate intelligence. How to use HSA & FSA accounts to promote health and prevent disease. Items mentioned in this episode include: PiqueLife.com/model -- Get 15% off any subscription + a free starter kit! Organifi.com/Model -- Use the coupon code MODEL for 20% off! Connect with Calley Means Website / Twitter / Instagram Join TMHS Facebook community - Model Nation  Be sure you are subscribed to this podcast to automatically receive your episodes:  Apple Podcasts Stitcher Spotify Soundcloud Download Transcript  

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker, Joovv, and Beekeeper's Naturals.Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Calley Means to discuss his viral Tweet stating that he “saw inside the room” of Coca-Cola's tactics to ensure sugar-sweetened beverage taxes failed and that soda was permitted in government-funded nutrition programs. Calley and Dhru talk about why diet and nutrition guidelines are a bipartisan issue that deserves equal attention from the left and the right. Calley Means is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise equipment and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the coauthor (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food as medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing the practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. In this episode, Dhru and Calley dive into:-Calley Mean's viral tweet about the soda industry's hidden agenda (2:35)-The biggest lie we're taught is that health and nutrition need to be complicated (14:40)-How processed food and nutrition play into mental illness (19:23)-Calley's message for policy change is non-tribal and bipartisan (30:03)-Controversies around Ozempic, the “miracle weight-loss drug” (35:30)-How we've lost our way when it comes to diet and health care (45:00)-Doctors aren't incentivized to help people get healthy (50:11)-Calley's mom's abrupt cancer diagnosis and how it changed his views on diet, nutrition, and cancer treatment in medicine (58:30)-The tipping point that inspired Calley to pursue a career that educates and empowers people to make good health choices (1:10:38)-How Calley plans to incentivize health and his company, True Medicine (1:17:24)Also mentioned in this episode:-https://www.truemedicine.care-Sign up for Calley's daily newsletter here. For more on Calley Means, follow him on Instagram @calleymeans and Twitter @calleymeans. InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they're offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to https://www.insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.Enhance your health with red and infrared LED light therapy with Joovv. Right now, Joovv is offering an exclusive offer on your first order. Head over to https://www.Joovv.com/dhru and apply my code DHRU.Right now, Beekeeper's Naturals is giving my community an exclusive offer. Just go to https://www.beekeepersnaturals.com/dhru and enter code “DHRU25” to get 25% off your first order. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Callery Means, founder of TrueMed, to talk about his early days in politics (4:20), how the food industry avoided sugar taxes (7:45), the links between industry and institutions of trust (12:00), the “food compass” and why it says Lucky Charms is better than chicken breast (18:00), why we consume 100 times more sugar than we used to (23:45), what TrueMed is (29:45), how he aims to rebalance incentives in the healthcare industry (35:10), food as medicine (39:00), and trying to spark a movement (43:00). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed, used to be in the same room as Coca Cola's big wigs and lobbyists. In this room, he realized the impact big companies had on our health, and how they manage to keep it hidden. He spilled the beans to @glennbeck in a serious manner and explained how three different approaches are used to fool the public: bribery, false studies and partnerships with large organizations. Sadly, this has taken a toll on people all over the world, especially our children. Glenn Beck Clip Sourced From Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02A6youKsDk&t=101s --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/motivatedendeavors/message

Glenn and Stu break down the story of Brian Walshe, who was previously convicted of art fraud and now is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Ana Walshe. The Biden administration is considering enacting a nationwide ban on gas stoves, but Glenn and Stu are skeptical due to the Left's failing track record. Glenn lays out the next step following the Great Reset, which is the Great Narrative. Glenn gives a history lesson on Thomas Paine and the government failure behind the Korean War Wall of Remembrance. Calley Means, co-founder of TrueMed and Coke whistleblower, joins to expose big food and beverage companies for manipulating health studies. Board of regents member for the New College of Florida Christopher Rufo discusses the lies being reported about him and explains how Florida is taking back higher education in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices