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You know him well from Fox News, an author of a brand new book that's out tomorrow called Blind Spots. Well, medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health. And Dr. McCary, you were one of the people bringing up during the pandemic, you say, not so fast. The whole time you were just saying over and over again, I'm not sure about that.
Let's know. There's no definitive thing coming out of the CDC that you really was describing to. You got blowback pushback because you do not give into conventional thought.
You think independently. Yeah, we got a little sneak peek into how our old guard medical establishment works during covid. And it wasn't just they got this one thing wrong with covid. It's they got the food pyramid wrong and peanut allergy prevention wrong and food wrong and so many things wrong. So, yeah, the conventional thinking was there was not really going to be a bad pandemic. They were not sounding the alarm. I went against that.
And then once they came out with all their dogma about cloth masks on two year old toddlers and five vaccine doses for every 12 year old healthy girl in America, ignoring natural immunity, saying the schools have to be shut down, it didn't come from the lab. All of that was wrong. And you don't hear a single apology.
None at all. What about the six feet? This is the most egregious. It was they said, well, we say six feet apart. Then when they finally said drill down and say, well, who said that? And it dated back to the pandemic 100 years ago.
And there was no science behind that. And that's what kept the schools closed. Right. Because you couldn't have desk in the school of 25 kids in a class six feet apart.
Yeah. Cut the capacity of schools down in half. A study out of Brown University just came out. IQs have gone down 12 points. So we're dealing with significant consequences.
And all you were asking is think about that. There's a consequence to leaving kids at home protected. And the consequence is learning.
No one ever cared about the learning. Yeah. We said, look at the data. The data are clear from Europe early in the first summer of the pandemic that they were open, free and clear with no downsides.
So you were you right. Blind spots, not just about the pandemic. Maybe it launched the idea, but to take on conventional thought, because you believe that just because it's coming from the federal government, from our so-called scientists, medical professionals, it doesn't mean it's right.
Why isn't it right if they're the smartest and the best and they have our own interest in heart? If you look at the history of modern medicine over the last 50 years, that is the track record of our American health care system. We have failed. Obesity now affects half of kids or they're significantly overweight. Autism goes up 14 percent every year for the last 23 years.
Cancer rates in my field of pancreatic cancer have doubled in 20 years. The age of puberty is going down. Sperm counts going down. Fertility is going down. Who is stopping to say what is going on?
Who's asking the big questions? Everybody's busy getting rich. And the health care system has done a terrible thing to doctors. They've said, put your head down.
Focus on billing and coding and short visits. We don't spend time with people. We don't talk about root causes. And we measure doctors by their throughput. Well, guess what? We have the sickest population in the history of the world, the most overmedicated population in this world, the most disabled population. America today. The United States today has the sickest, most medicated population in the history of the world. And it's the most expensive health care system. We need somebody to say, stop.
What are we doing? What are the root causes? Can we talk about food as medicine and the poison food supply and pesticides having hormonal effects and the impact of seed oils? Can we treat more diabetes with cooking classes instead of just throwing insulin at people? Can we talk about school lunch programs not putting every kid on Ozempic? Kids on Ozempic? Yeah.
You think that's happening right now? The American Academy of Pediatrics is pushing to move the age from 12 down to six to start kids on Ozempic. And they just give lip service to lifestyle changes, behavioral changes. What six-year-old is obese? We have obese six-year-olds now because we've poisoned their food supply. Now, medicine tends to, and historically I get into the book in Blind Spots, we blame patients. We have this paternalism. Oh, everything is because of tobacco and obesity, tobacco and obesity. Well, smoking rates have gone way down now. And obesity is a symptom of another problem. Maybe they're not lazy or disobedient children in the United States. Maybe we have poisoned their food supply. Is it intentional? Because maybe like if you look at the Casey Means and her brother write this book in his bestseller, your book is already number two on Amazon. You can't even get it yet. Second to their book, yeah.
That's amazing. So what they're doing is they believe that there's a plot and plan. If you keep these kids sick, they're going to need more medicine. Everyone benefits, big pharma benefits. It seems like to me, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, you don't even think it's necessarily intentional. It's maximizing profit.
No one can stop the bus. No one is taking a step back and said, this is not working, but this is necessarily somebody pulling the strings on this master plan to destroy America or destroy our health. We've let big ag, big food, big pharma run entirely unchecked. They have total capture of our regulatory agencies, capture of academics. I mean, when I was at the Harvard School of Public Health, the head of nutrition was all he was all sponsored by all these food companies. And guess what? He never talked about added sugar.
And he wrote the textbook. And so we have a corrupted academia and we have captured regulatory agencies and nobody has been paying attention to the fact that they have been poisoning our food supply. We have like a thousand ingredients banned in Europe that are in our food supply. An average kid today, if you draw the blood out of their umbilical cord at birth, they have 200 plus forever molecules. These are chemicals that don't appear in nature. They are now everywhere in the environment. Are they put in food in order to make the food last longer, be able to travel greater distances and to preserve? So if I could leave something in my closet longer, I might buy it if there's no expiration date on it. Yeah, that's been the argument.
That's right. And it does do some of that. So the food supply in the last 50 years in the United States has been based on food security. It's been based on addressing hunger. So what we've done is we've watered it down, chopped it up, added chemicals to the point where now it's poison. And somebody has to ask, why is autoimmune disease, why are they going up at a crazy rate now?
One in five women will have an autoimmune disease. When you see these trajectories parallel the modern process, you've got to ask why. But isn't there money to be made by asking why?
So I'm fine. If you want to be like biotech, I think it's the perfect mix of marketing and medicine. Excuse me, profit and medicine. Because I want someone to cure cancer. And if you cure cancer, I want you to be rich. And I want there to be money in it. So I want the best scientists doing it. So I like the concept of biotech.
So why isn't there a concept to stop this trajectory? So we're starting to see that. And I'm optimistic where we're going. But we have to educate the public to create consumer demand for health. I think it's happening. I think so. I mean, that's why we're going to the public.
Casey Means, Kelly Means, myself, Peter Attia, so many of us. Doctors now are saying the medical establishment has been lying to people. They're stuck in their old ways.
They're dinosaurs. Look at what they've been doing at the NIH for the last 10 years. Funding bat coronavirus research in Wuhan. No, we need to fund food as medicine and pesticide exposure and these big questions. And that's why we're going directly to the public in our books to say we've got to educate people about health. So I want you to hear, and by the way, this is what Dr. Casey Means said about RFK. Because he has a similar mission, without the credentials, but a great mind. And he wants to, if Trump wins, he's going to be in there.
So I asked her about that. What RFK really understands is the nexus of pharma, ultra-processed food, industrial agriculture and government, which is keeping Americans sick and which we need to unpack this nexus in order to make Americans healthy. He's hitting all the key points, the conflicts of interest in our government agencies, the lack of regulation around the toxins in our food, our water, our air, our homes. He really does understand the many factors that are keeping Americans sick.
Is he on the same path? That's what's resonating, isn't it? Yeah, that's what is connecting with people because they are watching these chronic diseases go up and watching nothing is being done about it. Our hospitals get bigger. We create tens of thousands of millionaires in health care every year. And no one is saying, well, who's working on these big problems? Who is asking the big questions?
So let me ask you, too. For example, we always hear about peanut allergies. You can't bring peanuts into school or the kids shouldn't be exposed for three years. And my daughter's a teacher now and they say that. The same thing with allergy. I never heard that. Every once in a while a kid would have an allergy, but we hear it now.
What's going on? So the modern-day peanut allergy epidemic, which is real, was a... Which you cover in your book. Which I cover in my book and where it comes from, it was ignited by the medical establishment. Dogma 24 years ago from the American Academy of Pediatrics that kids should avoid peanut butter in the first few years of life.
Well, they got something tragically wrong. They forgot about immune tolerance or the dirt theory. If you're exposed to something early, your immune system learns about it and you don't develop an allergy. And if you abstain from it in the first few years of life, you're sensitized to it. So we have the worst peanut allergy epidemic in the world.
It doesn't exist in Africa or in parts of Europe. And it comes from this dogma of the medical establishment getting it wrong. Do the study. If you're going to put something out there with such absolutism, do the study first.
So give me another example where the establishment's got it wrong and they can't stop. For example, penicillin or a type of antibiotic. Yeah, so antibiotics, there's a dogma that, oh, they won't hurt you. You know, it may not help you, but it won't hurt you.
Go ahead and take it. Antibiotics, especially in the first few years of life in a child's life, alter the microbiome, the gut lining of bacteria that are involved in digestion and absorption and training the immune system. And some of those bacteria make serotonin involved in mood.
And so we have this dogma that there's no downsize to it. Well, 60% of antibiotics given are unnecessary. And what's happening is it's changing the microbiome. And a study out of Mayo Clinic just found that when kids take an antibiotic in the first couple years of life, they have higher rates of obesity.
By the way, farmers have noticed that for a long time. You give antibiotics to animals, they're fatter. Learning disabilities, asthma, celiac, attention deficit disorder. So the microbiome is the central organ of health. Gut health is central to all health, and it's been in one of the blind spots of medicine. Isn't it rare for a kid before three years old not to get an antibiotic? Yeah, 90% are, and most of it's unnecessary, little sniffles.
The parents are demanding it sometimes. People need to know, sometimes antibiotics save lives, but they are messing with gut health. Dr. Marty Makarius here, his book is out tomorrow, but you can go and download it or order it now, Blind Spots, when medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health. So the other thing that just sticks out with me, you just mentioned before we started, you talk about being a bureaucracy and the CDC being separate, but I remember vaguely right before the election in 2020, it seemed Operation Turbo. Warp Speed.
Warp Speed, Turbo, what am I thinking? Operation Warp Speed yielded a result before the election. They had a vaccine, but they did not announce it until after the election. That could have been a boon to the former president. I think it changed the election.
I think it was election interference to hold the results until about six days after the election. Did it blow your mind? It blew my mind. I'll tell you why it blew my mind, because I'm a researcher. So when I saw the accrual and the intermittent analyses of that study, you saw it's headed towards this announcement of efficacy and you saw the data points and then this massive gap and then this result where it was overwhelmingly efficacious in that trial for the strain at the time. So it blew my mind that they changed the election most likely by holding those results. Is the perfect example of this, Anthony Fauci, a likable person who seems to have your best interest in part, but if he really did, he wouldn't be saying the things he was saying? Well, there's a lot of Anthony Fauci's in the United States government and our health agencies. They're sort of the epitome of a bloated administrative state where they do whatever they want and they can even influence an election sometimes.
So it's frustrating. I mean, they're still defending the wet market theory that the virus came and not even the Chinese believe that anymore, by the way. And if they ever did, if they ever did. The Wuhan lab leak was the greatest industrial disaster in the history of the world.
28 million people may have died from it. And they have put their heads in the sand saying that we don't think it came from the lab. Here's a bunch of scientists that we fund who we coerced to write a puff article that says it won't.
And we're going to hold up their paper as evidence that we don't think it did come from the lab. They did that. But do you think we could change things? Dr. Casey and Callie think we could change things.
I do. I think we need fresh leadership. I think the public wants humility. A study just came out in one of our big medical journals, JAMA, showing that trust in doctors and hospitals in America has gone from 70 percent to 40 percent in the last four years. That's the biggest decline of trust in any profession in American history. We need fresh leaders, apologies, humilities, fresh starts, and finally talk about our poison food supply.
I want to hear one more from Dr. Casey Means because she talked about these Frankenstein foods. In the 1980s, we saw a skyrocketing of the ubiquity of ultra-processed food, and this coincides when Americans and especially children started getting very, very sick. So same playbook applied to a different industry, transferring the scientific knowledge of addiction from one to another as one fell out of favor. And now we're seeing what the repercussions of that are with 75 percent of American adults over the age of 55 having a chronic illness tied to food.
So you can't argue with those stats. We can't keep playing whack-a-mole. That's what we're doing in healthcare.
We're just looking at the end stages of all these problems that are manufactured. We take bread, and it's not bread. It's wheat stripped of its fiber so it's no longer healthy, chopped up so it acts like sugar, and we get all these kids on a sugar high every day in our school lunch programs, and then we say, oh, they're bad kids because they overeat, they're obese. They're not bad kids. Their food supply has been poisoned. And just because kids are overweight doesn't mean they're lazy. If they're eating things that are almost not digestible or they become instantly fat, they might be active as any generation.
We don't know. And the one thing that stuck with me, I don't know if this applies, when you remember watching the history of baseball, it goes back 100 years, and you notice how ripped these guys are. They had no idea about the physical fitness like we do. And I'm looking at these baseball players in 1940 and 1930, and they're ripped. And a lot has to do, it has to be with their eating. African Americans used to be healthier than white Americans just two living generations ago in the 1940s and 50s, and we've poisoned the food supply arguing that way we can make it affordable. Keep it cheap.
Keep it cheap. And guess what? We've ushered in all these giant epidemics. So we've got to take a hard look at this. Right.
And you do in blind spots. When medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health, Dr. Martin Mccary, congratulations on the book, and I know it's going to do great. It's already doing great. Thanks. Great to see you, Brad. Thanks.
