What I'm Wanting You To Know

Last week doctors, podcasters, health influencers and even a few government officials gathered together in Washington DC for the American Health Crisis Roundtable.

This 3+ hour discussion sparked so many reposts and discussions around becoming informed and aware that our health outcomes require us to stop allowing the current medical model to dictate how we deal with our health and become responsible consumers in this most important area of life - our health!

Topics Discussed.

Skyrocketing rates of disease in children & adults.
Toxic ultraprocessed food system.
Lack of regulation of harmful ingredients that are banned in other countries.
A broken USDA food pyramid that supports industry over consumers.
Pesticide exposure.
Food subsidizing by US government that's making us sicker, fatter and tied to medications.
Little nutrition education in medical schools
Corruption and influence of big pharma and big ag over our nation's health guidelines.

"You would think our healthcare system and government agencies would be clamoring to fix metabolic health and reduce American suffering and costs. But they are not. They are deafeningly silent about metabolic dysfunction and its known causes." -Dr. Casey Means

Questions I'm asking.

Why is the FDA funded by the pharmaceutical industry? This is a huge conflict of interest, right?
Why are we constantly exposed to thousands of untested ingredients in our food?
Why don't doctors learn about nutrition in medical school?
Why does our government allow manufacturers to produce products that are banned in other countries?
Who is actually the gate-keeper of our health and welfare with foods?

Metabolic dysfunction is largely NOT a genetic issue. It's caused by the toxic American ultra-processed industrial food system, toxic American chemicals, toxic excess of American medications, and toxic sedentary indoor lifestyles.

Buyer Beware.

Unfortunately, doctors learn in medical school that the human body is made up of many separate parts that can be addressed with drugs, surgeries and of course the correct codes for billing.

The pharmaceutical industry is the largest funder of news, medical research, medical schools, civil rights groups and politicians themselves. They spend 5 times more on political donations, public affaris and lobbying, than the oil industry spends.

Why should the USDA officials who make nutrition guidelines for our children take money from food companies?

Why is the FDA funded by the pharmaceutical industry?

Why is big pharma lobbying to pay billions of dollars out of pocket to fund their own regulatory agency?

Why does SNAP [supplemental nutrition assistance program that provides assistance for low and no-income people to support adequate nutrition and health] allow for 10% of their designated dollars toward sugary drinks and 70% toward ultra-processed foods?

Why are we actually underwriting the poisoning of the lower income population for Medicaid?

"It's a sucidal public policy that low income people depend on." -Calley Means

Isn't it troubling that we don't see any major news networks like CNN, NBC, Today Show, etc., producing a segment on the exploding rates of chronic conditions?

I haven't seen any healthcare author interviewed that questions medical orthodoxy, because it's a major conflict of interest - not for the American public, but for whom is actually paying their bill.

Should we have an institution that profits from Americans being sick and left without information that could actually support healing over profit?

Food and exercise and basic metabolic habits are clinically the most effective reversal and treatment for the chronic conditions that are plaguing our healthcare system.

Whack-a-Mole.

When our current system is not talking about root causes of the chronic disease epidemic and instead playing whack-a-mole on the backend, we will continue to become a nation of sicker and overmedicated people.

School lunch programs, obesity complications, diabetes treatment have a common theme -producing and feeding nutritionally bereft food-like substances as nourishment instead of actually offering real food that would improve quality of life to all.

Let's begin the dialogue around offering actual real food, teaching how to prepare food, limiting toxic exposures - let's talk about Food as Medicine.

Spiraling drug costs can be addressed when our nation stops taking drugs to treat chronic conditions that actual food and lifestyle interventions can address better.

Can we agree that right now Americans are sicker than ever and much of this is due to the alarming amount of harmful chemicals allowed in our food?

Consumption of artificial food dyes has increase by 500% in the last 50 years and our children are the biggest consumers.

Can we finally demand that companies remove artificial dyes that they already have removed in other countries?

They already know that these additives cause harm because they were forced to remove them overseas due to the stricter regulations and to avoid warning labels that would hurt sales.

This needs to stop and the FDA is not holding up their responsibilty.

It's called the food and drug administration, yet where are the gatekeepers?

Shifting Sand.

The food pyramid informed us that fat was bad - which was not true. They urged us to make complex carbohydrates like pasta, bread and processed breakfast foods the foundation of our diet, which started us on the road toward diabesity.

This definitely profitted big ag and big food, yet we became the first generation subjected to massive amounts of sugar, inflammatory and fattening foods which were deliberately engineered to be addictive to keep us coming back for more and more.

Food companies hire scientists from the cigarette companies to produce products that will realize a greater market share for greater profits. These experts are allowed to shape and create policy that affects us every day.

We have industrialized our food at the expense of our health, prioritizing profits over people to the point that our bodies can no longer cope with this chemical assault.

It's beyond time to stop subsidizing the foods that make us sicker and prioritize people.

"If the grocery store has a health food section, what does that make the rest of the store?"

Please Consider My Thoughts.

This is definitely a departure from my usual posts, yet I believe the converation around our health outcomes hinge on these very issues.

We all have areas of our health that we'd like to see improvement, whether it's our climbing weight, fatigue, foggy brain, low mood, poor digestion, disrupted sleep and so many more chronic issues.

I know that improvement takes a dedicated effort to go against the tide and begin to take back our health.

The Sick to Sicker Cycle.

We've been programmed to head to the doctor for every ill, to then be given a pill. This pill may manage the symptom, or actually cause other issues - which requires another pill.

What would your life look like if...

You took responsibiity for the state of your current health?
You got regular blood work and actually learned what your numbers meant?
You began to read food labels before you buy?
You let go of the old outdated mantra that was force-fed us throughout the decades and became open to new discoveries around sleep, breathing, light enviornment, movement and stress?

My Passion.

I love helping people discover ways to incorporate life-giving strategies that will improve health outcomes.

It's my hope that my thoughts & opinions will spark your interest to learn more and become your own health advocate.

I'd love to help you too.

Thanks for reading,

Jan