This video is a recap of the speaker's trip to Washington D.C. for a Senate hearing on health and nutrition in America, called "A Second Opinion." The hearing focused on why Americans' health is so poor, what caused it, and how to fix it, with a strong emphasis on bipartisan discussion. Various experts, including RFK Jr., Dr. Casey Means, and Jordan Peterson's daughter, spoke about the impact of agriculture, food processing, and healthcare industries on national health, advocating for dietary changes, lifestyle improvements, and transparency in food labeling.
Key Takeaways
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The Senate hearing on health and nutrition in America, titled 'A Second Opinion,' aimed to address the decline of American health, its causes, and potential solutions.
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The discussion was notably bipartisan, highlighting that health and nutrition should not be politicized, and was supported by senators from both sides.
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Despite having the most expensive healthcare system, the United States ranks 69th in world health and last among six industrialized countries, indicating a significant problem.
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The panel of experts discussed how agriculture, food processing, and healthcare industries have contributed to the current state of national health over the last century.
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RFK Jr. presented evidence on the need for national changes to reverse the epidemic of chronic disease, aligning with a goal of 'Make America Healthy Again.'
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Dr. Casey Means, a former surgeon, left the traditional healthcare system to focus on tackling the root causes of sickness and helping people achieve metabolic wellness through diet.
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CI Means, a former consultant for big food and pharma, exposed how the 'sick care' system profits from managing disease rather than preventing it, with 95% of healthcare dollars spent after people get sick.
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The speaker shared a personal story of overcoming chronic illness through diet and lifestyle changes, emphasizing the importance of questioning conventional wisdom and taking control of one's own health.
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Activists like Alex Clark and Vani Hari (Food Babe) advocate for a healthier food system, cleaner food production, and transparency in food labeling, criticizing the allowance of harmful chemicals in American food that are banned elsewhere.
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The speakers agreed that big food, big pharma, and big business have influenced government policies, leading to the devitalization of food, exposure to poisons, and a weakened American population.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better whoa what a week okay well
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you know I went to Washington so today I
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want to give you a recap of my trip to
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Washington DC for the Senate hearing on
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health and nutrition in America called a
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second opinion oh my it was a really Rob
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bust bipartisan discussion of the state
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of health in America that focused on why
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the health of Americans is so bad what
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has caused it and finally the discussion
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on how can we fix it the fact that it
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was
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bipartisan is I think critically
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important now it is something that
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really should never be politicized Dr or
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not Dr but it was Senator Ron Johnson
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said
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that the greatest threat for our nation
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is that we are so horribly divided he
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quoted President Lincoln during the
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Civil War to say A house divided against
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itself cannot stand and he went on that
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you know we all agree on three major
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goals in life safety security
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opportunity to succeed and raising our
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children well we can all agree on that
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and it is the health of our children
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that's at stake so the entire event was
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elevated Beyond parties in fact senators
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from both sides of the aisle were coming
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in throughout the day to offer support
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many of them who had had health problems
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them themselves that reversed it so it
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you know it made me wonder why it's
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taken so long for this to be discussed
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because it is nothing new our health has
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been on the decline for decades and if
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you've listened to my shows for a while
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you know every January I give the Dismal
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state of health that Americans have on a
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global scale I think the last statistic
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I gave is that we rank 69th in World
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Health that and despite the fact that we
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have the most expensive Health Care
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system by far the United States ranks
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last even under the six industrialized
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countries I mean we're talking
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Australia Canada Germany the Netherlands
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New Zealand the entire United Kingdom we
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come in last that's not good enough for
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America you know so the hearing was put
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on by Senator Johnson from Wisconsin and
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he had a panel of experts that provided
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foundational historical understanding of
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the changes that have occurred over the
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last century agriculture food processing
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and the healthcare Industries industries
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that means a lot there so that impact
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the current state of National Health all
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of these entities and
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more must make fundamental changes to
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reverse the epidemic of this chronic
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disease so Senator Johnson starts out by
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saying that the purpose of the event was
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to ask questions that haven't been
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allowed to be asked imagine that you
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can't be allowed to ask questions you
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know there's really been no forum for
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the topic health and nutrition in
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America you think could be fundamental
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so he says it's he has really taken on
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the health of Americans digging into the
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problem what's causing it and especially
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how can we fix it so heading up the
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panel was RFK Jr as you know Robert F
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Kennedy Jr son of Attorney General Bobby
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Kennedy and neph of pres President John
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F Kennedy has thrown his support behind
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president Trump with the understanding
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that making America healthy again had to
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be a a top priority so instead of the
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Maga it's Maha make America healthy
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again you know he wants to lead the
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national changes that are needed to
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reverse our epidemic of chronic disease
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his discussion was
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incredible evidence undeniable it's all
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chapter and verse so much research you
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really need to follow him on social
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media to get a full understanding of
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what he stands for the logic behind it
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all of the research behind it and the
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implications that our country really
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does lie in the balance and how things
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must change and fast so other panelists
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including Ed Dr Casey
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means love her medical doctor top of her
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class at Stanford president of her class
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at Stanford a surgeon she co-authored
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the Fantastic highly recommended book
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good energy she wrote it along with her
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brother CI means who also was on the
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panel but while training as a surgeon
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she saw how broken and exploitive the
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Health Care system was and bravely left
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it to focus on getting people out of the
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operating room she has dedicated her
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life to tackling root cause you hear me
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talk about that all the time root cause
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of why Americans are so sick and how we
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need to get them metabolically well
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fundamental principles that she states
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are number one the food we eat
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determines the structure of our very
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cells it's what makes it up number two
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the food rebuilds the body hopefully you
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get all the necessary nutrients in your
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food number three food is needed so that
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your cells can communicate and function
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correctly number four this is a big one
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Cravings come from confused cells for
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instance excess sugar causes the glucose
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spikes that cause addiction and intense
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cravings see that one every day number
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five eat processed food unprocessed food
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unprocessed food number six mindfully
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choose and eat food I love their book
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well written has a lot of the same
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research that I have in mind you know
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we're coming from the context of
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rebuilding health and that is straight
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diet and lifestyle so simple not easy
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but simple and basic then c means her
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brother Harvard Business School earlier
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in here his career he was a consultant
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for big food and big Pharma companies
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helping them to make lots of money
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through political influence so he knows
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what he's talking about big
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whistleblower exposing the practices
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that have paved the way to destroy our
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health right now he says we have a sick
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care system where
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95% of Health Care dollars are spent on
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managing disease after people get sick
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that's a big problem when the largest
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and fastest growing industry in the
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country is incentivized for us to be
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sick so his mission is to steer more
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healthc care dollars to
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incentivize habits to get at the root of
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disease healthy food
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exercise sleep St Stress Management this
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is where the rubber hits the road and
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we've got to change this current
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trajectory I love it that's exactly what
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my six steps in my program in my book
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outline the truth is what it is needed
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to build health so true you know I
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spoke to a 39-year-old woman this week
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39 years old it means she's like 5 years
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younger than my oldest son very obese
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very ill I think she'd even had knee
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Replacements she was brought into the
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shop she was using a walker and she
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wanted to see if I could help her I said
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tell me what's going on well she showed
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me a list of meds four pages long and
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she wanted me to give her something for
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anxiety what a tragedy she was just
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looking for another magic pill I asked
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her what she ate she looked at me like I
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was crazy she saw absolutely no
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connection between what she ate and how
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sick she was basic diet and lifestyle is
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just too simple it's the foundation of
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health so how are we going to reverse
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this people don't see the connection
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it's it's a monster that has gotten us
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to the 75% of our population being
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overweight or obese 40% of our kids and
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the American Pediatric Association want
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to start giving overweight kids the OIC
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shot at $1,500 a month and have Medicaid
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P for pay for it I think it's Insanity
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who is running the show follow the money
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noo nisk big Pharma nothing more
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profitable than a sick kid and that is
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the underlying truth that Monday covered
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that there's a lot of money to be made
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at the expense of our health all the
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stakeholders profit from us being
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sick another speaker was Canadian Dr
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Jordan Peterson renowned
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psychologist best-selling author and
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popular podcaster with a super large
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audience and he tackles everything from
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politics to psychology then his daughter
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Michaela Michaela Peterson
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Fuller podcaster lifestyle and diet
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blogger so she endorses a therapeutic
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and plantree
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ketogenic diet now not plant Rich
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plant-free ketogenic diet and that has
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been what she has used to treat her
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autoimmunity and she also does a lot of
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research on psychiatric disorders but
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she herself over overcame rheumatoid
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arthritis with the carnivore diet total
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reversal in a very short period of time
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there's a lot of different ways people
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approach this but it kind of reminded me
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of my own story you know I was probably
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the first wave of kids affected by poor
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diet and lifestyle my parents raised
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during the Depression a lot of hard work
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a lot of work on the farm they moved to
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town when they got married and they
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embraced all the new thought around the
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scientific we're going to the Moon Moon
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age okay breastfeeding oh that's
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primitive vegetables oh you don't have
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to work hard anymore buy canned ones
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mostly cream corn and potatoes mind you
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and don't have to you know make your own
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bread get Wonder white bread give the
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kids peanut butter give them cereal for
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breakfast and you know Candy that's okay
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boy was I sick mysterious infections
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that required antibiotics for like 10
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years I ended up digestive problems
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weight problems precocious puberty acne
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mood problems fatigue and by the time I
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was 17 I had five organs
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removed not long after I faced a
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hysterctomy I didn't I figured I
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couldn't do any worse and after I cried
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and prayed and listened I changed
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everything what I thought what I ate how
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I moved when I went back to the surgeon
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for 6 weeks later and everything was
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normal did he ask what did you do no but
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I tell you we must question every
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and do everything we can for our own
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health nobody's going to do it for us
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repair and restoration can happen
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quickly but not if we keep doing what
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we've always been doing you know my
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story wasn't so common 50 years ago kids
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weren't so sick but now most kids have a
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chronic health problem we've had a lot
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of decades to keep building this ill
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health I was the first wave there have
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been a lot of them sense so it is I just
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think evil and robbing people of life so
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then you had Little Miss Alex Clark
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she's a pretty dramatic food activist
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you know she received a standing ovation
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she wants a healthier food system and a
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divorce from the old way you know she
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she was pretty clever but Clark's
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mission is to inspire positive change
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both in personal health choices and the
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industry standards driving the movement
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towards cleaner more
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responsible health food production then
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we've got good old vonie Hari famously
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known as the food babe as a food
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activist author and speaker committed to
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food quality and safety she wants
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transparency on food labeling she wants
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the removal of harmful chemicals you
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know we love the food babe she's like a
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thorn in the side to the American food
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industry that they allow chemicals and
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dyes and preservatives in American food
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that's banned elsewhere companies make
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better products Kelloggs makes better
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products McDonald's makes better
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products for Europe and Canada but they
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give us the cheaper poor qualities
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because it's not required by law to do
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better ah red d n yellow D five they
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don't do that they use beets and
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watermelon to get the coloring okay so
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next Jillian
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Michaels Fitness expert entrepreneur and
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best-selling author she's got a noons
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approve approach to health you know I
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remember doing one of her tough yoga
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programs and and I was kind of looking
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for like something soft and a little bit
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of Stress Management but in in her
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recording she says it's tough get used
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to it you know really No Nonsense she
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was was the coach on The Biggest Loser
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if you remember big on
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self-empowerment and personal
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control honestly we need both those
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things to be encouraged then you've got
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Max luga leading health and wellness
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Advocate filmmaker New York Times
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bestseller in the book genius foods
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which is a great title because he works
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on the link between Diet lifestyle brain
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health and Improvement in cognitive
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function man after my own
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heart Dr Chris pmer medical doctor
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Harvard trained psychiatrist researcher
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and he's the author of brain energy you
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know as you see a lot of this brain
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stuff going on um you know the brain
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uses a lot of calories a lot of energy
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so when you've got metabolic problems
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you got brain fog you got cognitive
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issues so a lot of these people are
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focused on that so his brain energy
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groundbreaking connection between
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metabolic health and mental illness so
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he has uses diet and metabolic
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interventions to treat psychiatric
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conditions and shown great Improvement
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in mental health
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outcomes Brigham buer Brigham buer was
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there because he is using a lot of
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technology and wanting to harness that
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to help huge groups of people people
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then you have Courtney Swain she's the
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founder of real
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foodology another one wanting
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transparency in the food industry
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chemical-free farming
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sustainable everything about farming
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better for the planet Jason karp you
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know he was there speaking built his
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whole career on the fact he had
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recovered his own health after a
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devastating diagnosis he's got a food
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company uh Grace price this incredible
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18-year-old so-called citizen scientist
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and health activist activist uh she's
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known for her documentary cancer a
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foodborn illness challenged the commonly
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held belief that cancer is a genetic
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disease her main focus of her work is
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advocating for health of her generation
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through exposing the
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corruption big food big Pharma
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conglomerates
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then you had Dr Marty mackery he's a
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surgeon Public Health researcher at
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John's Hopkins you know he writes for
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the Washington Post and all sorts of
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things so he's he's been an outspoken
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opponent of
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broad vaccine mandates and other covid
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restrictions at school it's kind of an
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interesting conversation but you can see
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big food big Pharma big business was
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really held to the fire our government
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has been been influenced to allow so
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much to take place in our devitalization
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of food in advertising and allowing for
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so much exposure to poisons and the
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weakening of the American people so much
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so that we don't think we're capable to
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change you know I see it everywhere you
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know they spoke about one major aspect
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of this that really wasn't touched and
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that's the American mindset you know
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we've really got to take our power back
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and be willing to make some
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uncomfortable changes uncomfortable in
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the short term but filled with reward of
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decades more vitality and health free of
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disease free of
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drugs thanks for listening to another
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edition of today's nutrition I hope you
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learn something that will help you or
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someone you love if you want to listen
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to the whole 4-Hour meeting there's a
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link on my Facebook page but you can
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also listen to my other shows on my
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website Deb for.com on YouTube or any
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place you listen to podcast if you'd
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like to work with me I'd love to work
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with you to help you reverse your health
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or weight problems naturally have a
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great day hope to see you soon
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The hearing was put on by Sen. Johnson from Wisconsin and a panel of experts provided a foundational and historical understanding of the changes that have occurred over the last century within agriculture, food processing, and healthcare industries which impact the current state of national health. All of these entities and more must make fundamental changes to reverse the epidemic of chronic disease.