It's easier than what people realize. 25 years ago I went on a whole foods diet and within 3 months I was off of all my medications. All my food I eat is organic and nothing is processed. If I'm craving a burrito I make it from whole foods and haven't consumed any seed oils in many years. We never eat at restaurants
During my last check up, the MD was pretty surprised that nothing was wrong. She didn't really know what to say. I didn't understand her confusion until I heard that 6.8% are not pre-diabetic of worse. It's a bit shocking really.
@@diamond-anniefergus8916 there is one restaurant I eat at. My two daughters like Ruth Chris Steakhouse. Of course they do - lol. But I save and treat them and we go twice a year. The cost is expensive and everything is ala carte. But fortunately the cost is lower as one of my daughter’s who is not carnivore orders the chicken and one side. My other daughter likes steak so we split the 40 oz Tomahawk Ribeye. We all drink water. They like desert and order the cheesecake and spit It. They know it is expensive and do their part to keep the cost down. The last time was $225 plus $50 tip. (22%) we always go on a Sunday at 4pm when they open. Not crowded at all at that time.
A lot of low income people even if they even have shelter and are not homeless, have no ability to cook their own food. They may live in a room,no kitchen etc etc That's before you address affordability and food deserts and time.Children eat rubbish at schools and childcare There are no kitchens in schools anymore. The days when anyone other than the wealthy can eat well are almost gone.
Can’t eat healthy food like I did 40 yrs ago. Food labels lie, and government allows food companies to lie on products that often require a dietitian or scientist to know what’s in their food. As a child all foods were organic. In the 1960’s organic food was more affordable and processed food became popular for convenience poisoning Americans. When sellers market realized the public wanted to consume organic foods with zero to less sugar/salt they eliminated they make people pay more for less nutrition. Food pantries are filled with empty calories and carbohydrates , weight gaining and cancer feeding starches . Thus you have obese starving Americans who eventually cost the medical industry millions, a vicious cycle just for greed of monetary lust.
I am so excited to see this great discussion! I focused on American food issues and food policy when I was doing doctoral research. I read book after book and numerous academic articles that corroborate what you talk about here. I had a glimmer of hope when Michelle Obama attempted to elevate gardening by having a White House food garden, but I was disappointed that food policy was not tackled at that time. I felt it was a missed opportunity. (And, truthfully, Mrs. Obama may have made an attempt and simply could not overcome major obstacles.) Perhaps now is the time! Senator Booker and Dr. Hyman, as you so aptly articulate, if we want to fix "healthcare" in America, which is in reality sick care, then we must fix food policy FIRST! All my hopes!
I recall that positive move with Michelle Obama, but sadly I feel her venture for the country did not take off because "politics" got in the way, and she got caught up in it.
30 years ago my brother was an endocrinologist. 40% of his patients were diabetes. He couldn't get them to change their dietary habits, so he switched to being a GP, and found it to be fun to do medicine again.
PS: The Amish will slice, say a tomato. Throw the slices on top of dirt and place the bucket in a storm ceiler, closet... Something dark and cool. I threw the inside mushy center of a cantalope on top of dirt. Now I have say 30-50 plants. Once they sprout, keep them in the house and water frequently for a few days than put them outside in shade. Keep watering. Place them in the sun, than transplant them.
Shop the perimeter of the grocery store. Start cooking from scratch. Much cheaper and less chemicals. If our government would regulate the chemicals used on crops that would help everyone. To go a step further, grow a garden and learn to can your own food.
He was my college commencement speaker, and had made it a comical point how he is a vegan so he will make sure you know that, and honestly I think it was unsettling how forward veganism had become without public awareness about the supplementation requirements.
Powerful conversation about the broken food system. Senator Booker and Dr. Hyman highlight crucial issues. We need systemic change and individual action. Let's support policies that prioritize health, sustainability, and equity. This is a complex problem, but together, we can create a food system that nourishes both people and the planet.
That's time intensive and not a sustainable approach. The system itself must be regulated to have higher standards for the consumers' protection, not the tax revenue protected under proxy as for the consumer
Didn't know how much I needed a Cory Booker/Mark Hyman bromance. Also, the senator's face when Dr. Hyman mentioned the NAACP gets funding from Coke and Pepsi! AMEN
Eat real food that doesn't need a nutrition label, whole real food not purchased in a big box type store, our great grandparents did not need it so we don't need it
I recently visited a new doctor in a very small town practice and I asked him what he thought about functional medicine. He said “it’s quackery. I’ve seen people go to the Cleveland clinic and come back with a bunch of vitamins and then just get worse.” I was totally dismayed and actually disgusted. How can I address this lack of information and ignorance??
When people catch on to a certain ingredient that they want to avoid, the food industry just gives it another name. It is a never ending battle to stay on top of things.
Flouride is also a driver of poor health amd mental health issues which needs to be addressed. The Flouride action network has been trying to get to court for years and the case date is continued again and again.
@ Fluoride is added to the tapwater in most municipalities in this country. Every product made with tapwater therefore contains added fluoride. Additionally it’s added to most toothpaste. It is proven to reduce IQ in children and overexposure causes fluorosis. It is also proven to affect the pineal gland and bone health. It’s been provrn in court to be negative to health when swallowed as any benefit to tooth enamel are purely topical.
Your work is super human!!! Dr. Hyman is saving us as a species, let's follow through with his incredible work and make whole food choices every single day!!!
Obviously, it's great to hear an elected official actually care about the food system and to do it publicly. What I need to know is what is Corey Booker going to do about it as a US Senator? Can we get other officials on board? Can we publicaly educate people? Can we educate school children or take the ultra processsed food out of schools? Something has to be done!
😅I thank God for doctor Mark Hyman and others who use Functional medicine by which they see food as medicine. Thank you dr. Hyman. God bless you richly.
It’s expensive to eat healthy. Our companies are very greedy!! It’s all about the almighty dollar. I try to do my best in eating healthy. I do enjoy going out to dinner once a month. It’s amazing how many people choose not to cook healthy or how to do it. It’s probably overwhelming for them. The American people also need to focus on exercising. I exercise 6 days a week since I have retired. When I was working, I went to the gym 2-3 times per week and walked on the weekend.
I'm proud of you for choosing to take good care of yourself!!! It is overwhelming for a lot of ppl, people who've never eaten healthy or had real food much. It's very very sad how normalized that's gotten. my family and I are starting to change our habits gradually but struggle cause we miss the bad stuff😭🤣 that poison is addictive, but humanity deserves the complete opposite experience of life!!! diet and exercise helps SOOOOO many areas of your life, but that fact is often ignored!
Give those subsidies to the people and let the producers of "anything" (even solar) compete for those dollars. That is how capitalism is suppose to work.
As an RN, age 79, been on real food since age 35; it’s all about U.S. greed. This applies to our broken medical system that is corporate owned, big Pharma, and Food companies! Either take responsibility for yourself or be a victim.
A good start would be to get the packaged junk food out of the school lunches. Schools just connect with local farmers for their lunches. Many parents would be willing to support this. Start the kids out with healthy habits and continue the trend at home. It is more work and a little more expensive but it’s worth it.
It ALL begins with freeing the food from corporate friendly food laws and captured food chains. You cannot buy food at the grocery store from your local farmer down the road. Stores cannot legally buy directly from a farm. Until there is an alternative or exemption for small farms to sell directly without putting food onto the chain of middlemen with corporate controlled usda processing. Return to state inspected plants that could be in local communities and let farmers use them to sell without middlemen to local stores, schools, and people. Also legalize unprocessed food, let people make their own choices.
Your grandparents likely got panthlets from the government about using ddt and arsenic on their home gardens in the 40’s . They also used lead paint and smoking was considered healthy even for pregnant mothers. There are old propaganda films you can find on UA-cam like “the green promise” and “the original victory garden” . They weren’t organic even back then.
I only eat whole foods, but when my granddaughter is over for dinner, she will not eat most of what i fix and request processed food because that is how the rest of her family eat. Ofcourse it upsets me but I do not want to alienate her.
Enjoyed this video chat so much… I’m an health and wellness ambassador/advocate… I’m obsessed I was very sick, over 100kg, high inflammation, high cortisol, blood test were always abnormal and so on…. When I started my holistic health journey and now after 5 years, most of my illness and health has disappeared, medications have been stopped. I dropped weight straight away , inflammation dropped, cortisol levels dropped. Thyroid levels balanced etc, my skin became vibrant and glowy… all my life i struggled and and went to every health professional and every dietician in my state and nothing worked, until I healed from past trauma too and ate just real whole foods … of if I knew it was that simple 20 years ago, my life and health would’ve been so different… but so grateful I have been given this opportunity and so grateful that you Dr Mike and senator are taking this serious 🙏🏽🙏🏽🩵🩵
I always liked Cory Booker for the good things he has accomplished, however I feel he is oblivious to how severe our broken food system really is. I hope he continues to work with Dr. Hyman and helps to push through all the corruption in our food industry - we need an army to do this!
And dental insurance companies are stuck in 1972! We complain about our health care system, why not our dental care!! Dental health is DIRECTLY connected to the rest of our body but dental isn't considered essential.
The problem is our time who has time to even fix a salad, the cost of living is so high we need to work long hard hours just to drive to McDonald’s and other ff places on the way home to get dinner
How is it , that Medicare doesn’t approve CGM for diabetics, they only approve when you’re in INSULIN. I’m trying not to be in insulin , I was px CGM. I wonder who makes this rule, ?
Adding a nutrition course to a doctors residency is progress, but I believe moral compass courses & oaths and actually forcing them to understand Hippocrates and the true oath is what was supposed to happen from the get go. It's an insult that the medical community call him thier father when he will say they don't know them just like Jesus says of many who claim they know Jesus Christ. And strict policing of these moral obligations should be standardized
why does he want to go down the road and get a salad? a salad is processed food. Why not go home and make a salad out of the whole foods yourself? the problem is that people don't want to prepare their own foods. people are too lazy to learn. to learn what to eat, how to grow food, how to prepare food and what foods to eat. Stop wanting and start learning how to create. anyone can grow and process their own food...
You keep wondering why people question your political bias yet you keep associating with whom? Also, you think a vegan can teach nutrition? Get out of here.
Not sure I follow. Dr. Hyman is not a vegan. Also, the issue is bi-partisan and a better outcome for all Americans. If there is a leading Republican willing to stand up to big Ag and Pharma, then please let us know so we can encourage them to get the attention and support that is needed.
@@christaherron5759 I can't even try to respond to your "against big pharma" statement. Did Booker not take the v ccine about 4 years back? He's very much pro big pharma.
It's easier than what people realize. 25 years ago I went on a whole foods diet and within 3 months I was off of all my medications. All my food I eat is organic and nothing is processed. If I'm craving a burrito I make it from whole foods and haven't consumed any seed oils in many years. We never eat at restaurants
During my last check up, the MD was pretty surprised that nothing was wrong. She didn't really know what to say. I didn't understand her confusion until I heard that 6.8% are not pre-diabetic of worse. It's a bit shocking really.
@@joesmith942 Wonderful 😃💖
@@diamond-anniefergus8916 there is one restaurant I eat at. My two daughters like Ruth Chris Steakhouse. Of course they do - lol. But I save and treat them and we go twice a year. The cost is expensive and everything is ala carte. But fortunately the cost is lower as one of my daughter’s who is not carnivore orders the chicken and one side. My other daughter likes steak so we split the 40 oz Tomahawk Ribeye. We all drink water. They like desert and order the cheesecake and spit It. They know it is expensive and do their part to keep the cost down. The last time was $225 plus $50 tip. (22%) we always go on a Sunday at 4pm when they open. Not crowded at all at that time.
I'm with you on that. Since doing that, my autoimmune symptoms went into remission.
A lot of low income people even if they even have shelter and are not homeless, have no ability to cook their own food. They may live in a room,no kitchen etc etc
That's before you address affordability and food deserts and time.Children eat rubbish at schools and childcare
There are no kitchens in schools anymore.
The days when anyone other than the wealthy can eat well are almost gone.
Can’t eat healthy food like I did 40 yrs ago. Food labels lie, and government allows food companies to lie on products that often require a dietitian or scientist to know what’s in their food.
As a child all foods were organic. In the 1960’s organic food was more affordable and processed food became popular for convenience poisoning Americans. When sellers market realized the public wanted to consume organic foods with zero to less sugar/salt they eliminated they make people pay more for less nutrition.
Food pantries are filled with empty calories and carbohydrates , weight gaining and cancer feeding starches . Thus you have obese starving Americans who eventually cost the medical industry millions, a vicious cycle just for greed of monetary lust.
I live in Ecuador and fresh veg is available in every neighborhood and meat is grass fed
The poor rich paradox
Regenerative Farming is one huge solution to many problems. Soil is king 👑
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Biggest little farm was a great doc.
We need to save what’s left of our soil!! It’s so incredibly depleted of its essential nutrients!! The clock is ticking…
@@jngfitness2001 Compost, compost, compost!!!
Americans are being channeled through the phood to pharma pipeline. It impresses me that Sen. Booker is focused on this.
Quite surprised myself!! Let’s hope his drive for change is genuine… 🙏🏽
What has he done about it?
School lunchs need to be looked at too! And because of that nursing homes also.
Yes. And hospitals, and every other similar organization. They are all driven by BIG Food/Ag.
I am so excited to see this great discussion! I focused on American food issues and food policy when I was doing doctoral research. I read book after book and numerous academic articles that corroborate what you talk about here. I had a glimmer of hope when Michelle Obama attempted to elevate gardening by having a White House food garden, but I was disappointed that food policy was not tackled at that time. I felt it was a missed opportunity. (And, truthfully, Mrs. Obama may have made an attempt and simply could not overcome major obstacles.) Perhaps now is the time! Senator Booker and Dr. Hyman, as you so aptly articulate, if we want to fix "healthcare" in America, which is in reality sick care, then we must fix food policy FIRST! All my hopes!
I recall that positive move with Michelle Obama, but sadly I feel her venture for the country did not take off because "politics" got in the way, and she got caught up in it.
Definitely! As politicians always do. @@bchristine58
Make American food great again
30 years ago my brother was an endocrinologist. 40% of his patients were diabetes. He couldn't get them to change their dietary habits, so he switched to being a GP, and found it to be fun to do medicine again.
Nice interview. Please do something about bad food subsidies! It should be criminal
PS: The Amish will slice, say a tomato. Throw the slices on top of dirt and place the bucket in a storm ceiler, closet... Something dark and cool. I threw the inside mushy center of a cantalope on top of dirt. Now I have say 30-50 plants. Once they sprout, keep them in the house and water frequently for a few days than put them outside in shade. Keep watering. Place them in the sun, than transplant them.
Shop the perimeter of the grocery store. Start cooking from scratch. Much cheaper and less chemicals. If our government would regulate the chemicals used on crops that would help everyone. To go a step further, grow a garden and learn to can your own food.
He was my college commencement speaker, and had made it a comical point how he is a vegan so he will make sure you know that, and honestly I think it was unsettling how forward veganism had become without public awareness about the supplementation requirements.
Powerful conversation about the broken food system. Senator Booker and Dr. Hyman highlight crucial issues. We need systemic change and individual action. Let's support policies that prioritize health, sustainability, and equity. This is a complex problem, but together, we can create a food system that nourishes both people and the planet.
I LOVE these 2 together!
Me too
Please help us get hydroponics and organic gardens in schools and incorporate them into classes!
That's time intensive and not a sustainable approach. The system itself must be regulated to have higher standards for the consumers' protection, not the tax revenue protected under proxy as for the consumer
If we do not fix the food system we will not financially and will collapse economically as a country. We cannot sustain this expense.
Didn't know how much I needed a Cory Booker/Mark Hyman bromance. Also, the senator's face when Dr. Hyman mentioned the NAACP gets funding from Coke and Pepsi! AMEN
This information can help. I pray our country begins to focus on healing and growth. As we move forward. 🙏
Eat real food that doesn't need a nutrition label, whole real food not purchased in a big box type store, our great grandparents did not need it so we don't need it
Thank you guys for sharing! These videos are what keeps me focus every day.
I recently visited a new doctor in a very small town practice and I asked him what he thought about functional medicine. He said “it’s quackery. I’ve seen people go to the Cleveland clinic and come back with a bunch of vitamins and then just get worse.” I was totally dismayed and actually disgusted. How can I address this lack of information and ignorance??
michelle obama was criticized for promoting whole foods and exercise.
Yes, she got caught up in the "politics" of it all, sadly.
look at the abuse Bloomberg took over sugar reducing and giant sodas
That is no excuse for not pushing her agenda.
google obama and monsanto
@@savorymavenspill the beans 🫘 concisely
When people catch on to a certain ingredient that they want to avoid, the food industry just gives it another name.
It is a never ending battle to stay on top of things.
Flouride is also a driver of poor health amd mental health issues which needs to be addressed. The Flouride action network has been trying to get to court for years and the case date is continued again and again.
How and where is fluoride exposure 🤔 getting to Americans
@ Fluoride is added to the tapwater in most municipalities in this country. Every product made with tapwater therefore contains added fluoride. Additionally it’s added to most toothpaste. It is proven to reduce IQ in children and overexposure causes fluorosis. It is also proven to affect the pineal gland and bone health. It’s been provrn in court to be negative to health when swallowed as any benefit to tooth enamel are purely topical.
Your work is super human!!! Dr. Hyman is saving us as a species, let's follow through with his incredible work and make whole food choices every single day!!!
Excellent podcast!
I’ve never supported a Democrat before, but now I’d support Cory if he’s carrying this ball.
Obviously, it's great to hear an elected official actually care about the food system and to do it publicly. What I need to know is what is Corey Booker going to do about it as a US Senator? Can we get other officials on board? Can we publicaly educate people? Can we educate school children or take the ultra processsed food out of schools? Something has to be done!
Keep Preaching!!!! ❤RFK Jr. wants to helps our country with these issues! Kennedy24🇺🇸
RFK Jr is this country's only hope for real reform. It's just NOT going to happen with the two major parties ...
I'm glad RFK, Jr. wants to help change our food system, and I hope he does whether he is elected President or not.
Eat less meals, Eat real food not in boxes or bags and non GMos, eat real ingredients.
😅I thank God for doctor Mark Hyman and others who use Functional medicine by which they see food as medicine.
Thank you dr. Hyman. God bless you richly.
Ok we know all this now. Let's stop the talk and change it.
Very true to fix the food system.
It’s expensive to eat healthy. Our companies are very greedy!! It’s all about the almighty dollar. I try to do my best in eating healthy. I do enjoy going out to dinner once a month. It’s amazing how many people choose not to cook healthy or how to do it. It’s probably overwhelming for them.
The American people also need to focus on exercising. I exercise 6 days a week since I have retired. When I was working, I went to the gym 2-3 times per week and walked on the weekend.
I'm proud of you for choosing to take good care of yourself!!! It is overwhelming for a lot of ppl, people who've never eaten healthy or had real food much. It's very very sad how normalized that's gotten. my family and I are starting to change our habits gradually but struggle cause we miss the bad stuff😭🤣 that poison is addictive, but humanity deserves the complete opposite experience of life!!! diet and exercise helps SOOOOO many areas of your life, but that fact is often ignored!
Give those subsidies to the people and let the producers of "anything" (even solar) compete for those dollars. That is how capitalism is suppose to work.
As an RN, age 79, been on real food since age 35; it’s all about U.S. greed. This applies to our broken medical system that is corporate owned, big Pharma, and Food companies! Either take responsibility for yourself or be a victim.
I never appreciated Sen Cory Booker until now.
😂
A good start would be to get the packaged junk food out of the school lunches. Schools just connect with local farmers for their lunches. Many parents would be willing to support this. Start the kids out with healthy habits and continue the trend at home. It is more work and a little more expensive but it’s worth it.
This Man should be president
It ALL begins with freeing the food from corporate friendly food laws and captured food chains. You cannot buy food at the grocery store from your local farmer down the road. Stores cannot legally buy directly from a farm. Until there is an alternative or exemption for small farms to sell directly without putting food onto the chain of middlemen with corporate controlled usda processing. Return to state inspected plants that could be in local communities and let farmers use them to sell without middlemen to local stores, schools, and people. Also legalize unprocessed food, let people make their own choices.
We forgot that we are what we eat.
But here's my concern...my grandparents raised most of their foods, w/out environmental toxins, yet they still died of cancers...
Your grandparents likely got panthlets from the government about using ddt and arsenic on their home gardens in the 40’s . They also used lead paint and smoking was considered healthy even for pregnant mothers. There are old propaganda films you can find on UA-cam like “the green promise” and “the original victory garden” . They weren’t organic even back then.
Every parent does not want what’s best. They only have the time for what’s convenient
I only eat whole foods, but when my granddaughter is over for dinner, she will not eat most of what i fix and request processed food because that is how the rest of her family eat. Ofcourse it upsets me but I do not want to alienate her.
Enjoyed this video chat so much… I’m an health and wellness ambassador/advocate… I’m obsessed
I was very sick, over 100kg, high inflammation, high cortisol, blood test were always abnormal and so on…. When I started my holistic health journey and now after 5 years, most of my illness and health has disappeared, medications have been stopped. I dropped weight straight away , inflammation dropped, cortisol levels dropped. Thyroid levels balanced etc, my skin became vibrant and glowy… all my life i struggled and and went to every health professional and every dietician in my state and nothing worked, until I healed from past trauma too and ate just real whole foods … of if I knew it was that simple 20 years ago, my life and health would’ve been so different… but so grateful I have been given this opportunity and so grateful that you Dr Mike and senator are taking this serious 🙏🏽🙏🏽🩵🩵
I always liked Cory Booker for the good things he has accomplished, however I feel he is oblivious to how severe our broken food system really is. I hope he continues to work with Dr. Hyman and helps to push through all the corruption in our food industry - we need an army to do this!
And dental insurance companies are stuck in 1972! We complain about our health care system, why not our dental care!! Dental health is DIRECTLY connected to the rest of our body but dental isn't considered essential.
Love you both!! Harris 2024!! 💙
The problem is our time who has time to even fix a salad, the cost of living is so high we need to work long hard hours just to drive to McDonald’s and other ff places on the way home to get dinner
The American diet is killing me. I do as much Whole Plant Based Food as I can. The process of how we cook is also no good.
How is it , that Medicare doesn’t approve CGM for diabetics, they only approve when you’re in INSULIN. I’m trying not to be in insulin , I was px CGM. I wonder who makes this rule, ?
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Adding a nutrition course to a doctors residency is progress, but I believe moral compass courses & oaths and actually forcing them to understand Hippocrates and the true oath is what was supposed to happen from the get go. It's an insult that the medical community call him thier father when he will say they don't know them just like Jesus says of many who claim they know Jesus Christ. And strict policing of these moral obligations should be standardized
My doctor asks me about Nutrition.
Hard to find real food that is affordable. Love the comment “charge $100.00 for a Coke and .10 for an apple.
I saw the wormy cheese thing on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerm. 😮
Cory Booker for President! Love this man!
awesome....if Cory werent AA I would suggest him for VP..
Excuses! Excuses!
why does he want to go down the road and get a salad? a salad is processed food. Why not go home and make a salad out of the whole foods yourself? the problem is that people don't want to prepare their own foods. people are too lazy to learn. to learn what to eat, how to grow food, how to prepare food and what foods to eat. Stop wanting and start learning how to create. anyone can grow and process their own food...
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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You keep wondering why people question your political bias yet you keep associating with whom? Also, you think a vegan can teach nutrition? Get out of here.
Not sure I follow. Dr. Hyman is not a vegan. Also, the issue is bi-partisan and a better outcome for all Americans. If there is a leading Republican willing to stand up to big Ag and Pharma, then please let us know so we can encourage them to get the attention and support that is needed.
@@christaherron5759 I can't even try to respond to your "against big pharma" statement. Did Booker not take the v ccine about 4 years back? He's very much pro big pharma.
Don't remember Dr Hyman ever discouraged eating meat
@@christaherron5759 You have to be hearing it now unless you are only listening to MSM... Trump, Musk, Kennedy 2024
Sorry but Cory Booker has zero credibility with me! 🥸
Go on troll 🤓
@@aprilhudec9463 She's right!