Dr. Mark Hyman argues that 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy, creating chronic inflammation that makes COVID worse. He says the focus on vaccines and masks missed the real driver: poor diet and processed foods. Vitamin D, zinc, and better nutrition could have changed outcomes.
Bulletproof radio. A state of high performance. Is Covid so prevalent in America? It's not just we eat a lot.
Of omega 6 plant based fats and a lot of sugar and a lot of crap. That's my assumption. Do you agree or is there something else going on?
Yeah. Yes, I agree. I think, I think what's happened is people don't understand is that America is one of the unhealthiest nations in the world and Covid kills you by inflammation. And we are all pre inflamed. 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. That means they have some form of prediabetes, insulin resistance, poor health from their metabolism. When you have that, that's an inflammatory state. That's nine out of ten Americans. Even people who are just a little overweight, a little bit of belly fat seem to have higher risk of severe illness and death from COVID So it's not like you have to be £300. You could be just a little over or even not even overweight, but just more belly fat. And I think we're in a situation where we haven't even talked about that in America. We're talking about vaccines and masking and social distancing. I'm like, wait a minute. There's a lot we can do aside from nutraceutical interventions which like vitamin D and zinc and vitamin C and quercetin and green tea and NAC and a lot of things can really help. But the food is such a big, big, big, big thing. And I think that we just kind of are missing the boat here. And if I were president, I would say, listen, America, get off your crappy diet. You're all getting the quarantine 15 or the COVID 19 pounds. Freshman 15. This is not the time to comfort, eat, to drink, to not take care of your health because you're just a sitting duck. When Covid lands on a pre inflamed person, it actually causes a super fire called the cytokine storm, which is what kills us.
So are you saying that throughout all of human history, diseases take out the weak first?
Yes.
It's such a radical thought. I mean, no one's ever thought of that before. But yeah, we've done things to ourselves to make ourselves weak. And our ideology says that we haven't, but our biology says that we have to use some of the words you've been using.
