The medical system enforces this siloed view where diseases are all separate things

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Calley Means: "The medical system enforces this siloed view where diabetes, heart disease, depression, kidney disease, cancer, they're all separate things. If you have those conditions, you're seeing five separate doctors, they aren't speaking to each other. That's very profitable, very problematic.

So the solution is truly just having the clinical guidelines of how diseases are assessed and how they're intervened changed to following the science, which is these are metabolic conditions. 90% of the US medical budget is tied to managing preventable and reversible lifestyle conditions.

If we had people on Medicaid, instead of jamming with the statins, jamming them with Ozempic, jamming them with SSRIs, you know, lower income people were going bankrupt from Medicaid, $1.3 trillion, it's growing, it's a bigger part of the budget than the defense budget.

If we literally just ask, how do we have that money to spur thriving to incentivize exercise, to incentivize healthier food for these folks, we'd be a transformed country. It's literally that simple, but it takes that moral courage.

It takes Americans actually saying, no, I am going to go against the NIH. I am going to ask questions."

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