Fascinating Podcast

This is one of Joe Rogan's recent podcasts. Joe is a unique individual. He is a stand up comedian, actor, UFC commentator, and martial artist. He has a wide array of different guests on his podcast. This particular guest is a health detective named Chris Kresser. He specializes is investigative, functional medicine. He speaks about chronic disease and related topics. It's a really good one. I think this podcast would benefit everyone.

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Great interview. Thanks for posting. We talk about a lot of this info on the forum - especially the structure of "health care" in the country now.

Joe's had some good "truth tellers" on his show. He's pretty mainstream so it's great that he's making the effort to find information through all the noise.

It's a L-O-N-G discussion but it gets even better toward the end.

Anecdotally, I can corroborate the studies that show that MOST of the info MDs learn about modern healthcare (dis-ease, illness, sx, tx and PHARMACEUTICALS) is from the expertly trained (not highly educated...) easy-on-the-eyes, VERY well-paid pharmaceutical representatives. I had 4 friends enter the business fresh out of college making $50k with a "marketing degree" from a state school. And this was 25 yrs ago.

"If healthcare spending continues to increase at its current pace... by 2040 - it's estimated that 100% of the federal budget will be needed for medicaid and medicare expenses. This is why the Dept. of Defense has named chronic disease as an existential, military threat to the survival of our nation."

"1 in 2 Americans has chronic disease; 1 in 4 has multiple chronic diseases; double the kids have chronic disease in the past 25 yrs"

"Today's kids are the first generation who is expected to live a shorter lifespan than us."

Talking about binging on bad foods, rarely on good foods - generally true but I have binged on baby carrots multiple times. Not a good idea.

"Our GI is a tunnel - everything in it is literally 'outside the body' like a tunnel under a river, yet all this microbiome traffic traveling through the tunnel controls everything we do."

I LOVE how Chris framed the science of leaky gut - he talks about the GI's decision-making ability to appropriately decide what "gets into" the body and what doesn't - via absorption through the mucosal barrier of the GI is actually THE barrier for the body like skin. That's how critical GI health is to just about everything involved in our overall health. The tunnel through the river makes this a perfect analogy. And he talks about the impacts on GI health for people today and how many variables determine whether or not a person reacts to gluten or something else ----the mucosal barrier is our border patrol.

One thing I wish they had covered was the direct consequence of gut imbalance and yeast/fungal overgrowth and craving sugar...

Cooled potato and resistant starch - fascinating!

And the stem cell and myelin sheath regeneration with the Dr Walter Longo's fasting mimicking diet (4-5 day reduced calorie diet w/ specific macronutrient ratios). Studies showing regeneration an autophogy (cellular recycling) in RA sufferers with fasting.

They talk about "off-label" use of pharmaceuticals (FDA-approved drugs used for purposes that haven't been approved by FDA). They talk about Abilify, which is THE best-seilling drug in the US ($7BILLION/yr) used (off-label) as an anti-psychotic to augment anti-depression drugs, and how 2/3 of the commercial about the product is medical warnings--one of the first mentioned is suicidal ideation!

And the model of creating a disease (by a hired marketing company) in order to fit the need for a pharmacological product... they did this for "erectile dysfunction". In a way, it was also done for fibromyalgia - the drug followed but those sx were NOT recognized or accepted as real until BigPharma had developed a drug for it.

Merck CEO, "The real money in drugs is in selling them to healthy people." (paraphrased)

Dental probiotics! These are good too.

"baby salad" LOL

-p

Listening to this right now. I can't do too much today but listening to this makes me feel like I'm doing something useful! Great recommendation thank you!

Very cool podcast! I'm about halfway through it