Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Unfortunately, our food system is not working @StrongSistas #FoodSystems #ChronicIllness #Healing

1 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue arguing that the modern food system is failing human health—falling hormone health and fertility, rising obesity, chronic disease, and shorter lifespans—and that food should be considered medicine. The speaker emphasizes that consumers can influence the food system through purchasing choices.

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Our food composition, our, our food system, what we're eating, it's not working. Our hormones are tanking. Our fertility is tanking. Obesity and, like, being overweight is the norm. Chronic disease is on the rise. We are dying younger. Right? It's not working. And food is medicine. The food that we eat every single day is one of the biggest levers in determining our health outcome. So the food system and all the changes that we've made, we're now seeing the consequences of it today. A lot of them have been with us since the beginning, and they're like, we're literally. This is the thing that I'm trying to tell your audience and others is as a consumer, people feel like they don't really, like, have a role in these things. No, you absolutely do. Who you choose to buy your food from. You're literally changing the food system with us.