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EconTalk · September 16, 2024 · 65m
What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong
Marty Makary on systemic failures in modern medicine. Overtreatment, unnecessary procedures, and the influence of pharmaceutical marketing create a medical system that sometimes harms more than it helps.
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Makary: most chronic diseases are better treated with lifestyle changes (exercise, diet, sleep) than with pharmaceuticals. But the medical system is structured to prescribe drugs rather than prescribe exercise.
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Makary: emerging microbiome research suggests that gut health influences everything from immune function to mental health. Modern medicine largely ignores this because pharmaceutical treatments for the gut are less profitable than for symptoms.
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