What Does Policy Have To Do With Your Health?

Your new book that's coming out next year in February, Food Fix. It takes a big step back from just, you know, food for our own personal health, and you've gone and started talking about policy and the food system, and you've taken on these huge issues. So tell us about how you went from being a doctor healing people with food to going down that road.

Well, basically, I was like, I felt like I was mopping up the floor while the sink's overflowing. and never getting anywhere because people were in a toxic food environment. And I kept asking, well, if food is causing my patient to be sick, what's causing the food? And it's the food system, which is basically the biggest industry on the planet, because everybody eats, $15 trillion. It's big food, making processed food. It's big ag. It's the chemical companies, the seed companies, the fertilizer companies, all working together. And there's very few of them, about a couple of dozen, that are driving all this. And then I began to say, well, if we have that food system, then why do we have that food system? Well, it's the policies. So I kept asking why, which is what we do in functional medicine. And it's clear that our food policies and our ag policies are promoting the production, the marketing and distribution of all the wrong foods.