I have just received this follow up to the Broken Brain videos. We had all guessed this and it includes thyroid illness from all the posts on this forum.........
Money is corrupting science, our government’s food policies, and the media...
I created the Broken Brain docuseries to show the world that that it is possible to recover from brain disorders. It all starts with recognizing that our body is an elegantly designed and connected system, not just a bunch of individual parts that have nothing to do with each other.
This means that everything you do to your body, you do to your brain.
With the input of these amazing experts I interviewed, I wanted to provide a different approach to treating brain disorders. Conventional medicine has its place in treatment, but what does it take to truly fix our brains? How can we get to the root cause of dis-ease? Also, how can we get started on this journey toward better brain health?
You might remember from the docuseries that optimizing nutrition is the first step toward an UltraMind. Food has the power to transform your health. That’s why so many experts throughout this series talked about the profound effects of what we eat.
In the docuseries, my friend Dr. Rupy Aujla said it best: “Food is literally the most important health intervention that anyone can make.”
Eating the right food is also the single biggest thing you can do to prevent heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, autoimmune disease, allergies, digestive problems, AND it can make you feel better RIGHT NOW.
At the same time, some readers and patients have told me eating healthy can feel confusing. If you’re confused by what to eat, you’re not alone. The most common question I get from patients and just about EVERYBODY is WHAT SHOULD I EAT?
So why are we all so confused?
It’s not your fault. In fact, it is by DESIGN—the food industry, our government, and the media are all sending us conflicting messages. And all the contradictory science doesn’t help either!
Here’s the bottom line: Money is corrupting science, our government’s food policies, and the media.
Where’s the money coming from?
There is a multi-trillion dollar global food industry that is growing, processing, manufacturing, marketing, and serving food like substances that are making us sick and fat. They are cheap to make and rake in big profits for ”Big Food”.
They put private profit over public good, harming us all. They privatize profits and socialize costs. We taxpayers are footing the bill for the growing of processed foods (through agricultural subsidies for the raw materials of processed food—namely wheat, corn, and soy), and for providing the poor quality processed food and soda to the poor (through our food stamps program).
Then, we also pay for the costs of obesity and chronic disease caused by that food through Medicaid and Medicare. Not to mention the costs of soil degradation, depletion of our water supplies, climate change, and the widespread damage to humans and ecosystems from pesticides.
The good news is that the truth about nutrition, the basic guiding principles of how and what to eat to promote health, weight loss, and longevity—AND to prevent, treat and reverse most chronic disease—is pretty simple.
I have read thousands of papers on nutrition and tried and recommended various ways of eating with tens of thousands of patients over 20 years. And I’ve seen the effects of food on weight, health, diabetes, gut issues, autoimmune disease, and lots more.
All of these findings have been put together in my new book, Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? In this book I answer the question that everyone has: What should we eat to stay fit and healthy? Like you, I want to live long, feel great, and avoid disease, and I don’t want to eat anything that will threaten that goal.
Everyone I interviewed in the Broken Brain docuseries agreed that we should be eating real, whole, local (when possible), fresh, unadulterated, unprocessed, chemical-free food.
Food continues that conversation. My new book gets into the nitty-gritty of what it really means to eat this way. I want you to wake up every morning feeling good, enjoying life, and ready to give your highest gifts to the world.
Food is the foundation of feeling good.
Take, for example, fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi that Vicki Kobliner, MS, RDN talked about in this docuseries. You’ve heard about the gut-brain connection: Cultivating a healthy gut also creates a healthy brain, and researchers in one study found eating regularly fermented foods can provide cognitive and neuroprotective benefits.
In my new book, I discuss fermented foods among several chapters about what to eat. These are the types of foods that keep you feeling vibrant, free of disease, and mentally sharp.
I think you’ll find Food is not so much about what you can’t eat as it is about what you can—delicious, whole foods full of flavor, texture, and culinary surprises.
Literally, Food has the power to transform lives and our planet, one forkful at a time. If you have ever woken up wondering the heck you should eat, this book is for you. Check out the trailer and pre-order here: foodthebook.com
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD
P.S. Have you been tricked by the food industry? Check out my video "4 Big Food Lies" here!
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