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The Doctor's Farmacy #848 · January 31, 2024 · 58m
Calley Means: The Obesity Crisis, Ozempic, ADHD, and Food Industry Lies
Calley Means, former food industry consultant turned health reform advocate, discusses how the processed food and pharmaceutical industries create and profit from chronic disease. Covers Ozempic, ADHD overdiagnosis, and the metabolic health crisis.
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Means argues that ultra-processed foods damage the gut microbiome, which disrupts the gut-brain axis, contributing to both metabolic diseases (diabetes, obesity) and mental health disorders (depression, anxiety, ADHD).
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The food and pharma industries create a feedback loop: processed food causes disease, then pharmaceuticals treat the symptoms without addressing the cause
Means exposes the business model: food companies engineer addictive products that cause metabolic disease, then pharmaceutical companies develop expensive drugs to manage the symptoms. Neither industry has an incentive to solve the underlying problem.Was this useful?