Mark Hyman argues the U.S. is failing at health and longevity compared to other cultures. Most diseases killing Americans are preventable. He contrasts current U.S. practices with healthier lifestyles observed elsewhere.
I want to be 120, maybe 150. We'll see how it goes. Wow. I want to go for a hike in mountains. I want to swim in a cool lake with my love. I want to go back to the cabin, make a beautiful dinner, have a glass of wine, make love, and just drift off into The Neverland. At 150? Yeah, why not 120? 150, actually, yes. Because you know, what we see as aging, this country is really abnormal. Aging, decrepitude, decline, frailty, disease, disability, loss of cognitive function, faculties. And those are abnormal things that happen. They don't have to happen. You know, I was in Sardinia and I met this guy Pietro, who was 95 years old, and he had literally just stopped being a shepherd, where he was hiking up and down the mountains five miles a day, herding a sheep for, I don't know, 80 years probably. And he was like straight up fit, strong bellowing voice, super strong handshake, eyes clear. I'm like, man, you know, it's possible to be very vibrant if we know how to take care of ourselves. And what we've done in our culture is activate all of our disease systems and degradation and dysfunction. But we now know that we have an innate healing system, and we can activate our healing system. When I was in medical school, I studied a book called the Pathologic Basis of Disease. We never had a book called the Scientific Basis of Wellness. Right, we took that class. But now we understand that the body has its innate mechanisms for repair and healing, rejuvenation, renewal that can be activated at any point in life. Okay, so what are the disease systems that most of us are turning on throughout the world? Well, so listen, we have an extraordinarily sick society. You know, America was 4% of the population of the world now, and it's 16% of the cases and deaths for Covid. Why? So four way America is 4% of the population in the world. Of the world. But we were 16% of the cases and deaths, four times what it should have been. And probably consider we have a great healthcare system. It should have been half of that, Right? Why is that, you think? Yeah. Well, it's not a question. There's a clear answer. It's because we are a very sick population. So we were pre inflamed. We are overweight as a society. 93.2% of us are metabolically unhealthy, meaning we have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, have had a heart attack or stroke, or are overweight. That means 6.8% of us are healthy. So when Covid hits that population, who is obese and pre inflamed, who is chronically ill, which is also a disease of inflammation, who is elderly, which is also a disease of inflammation, the COVID takes over and just kind of wipes these people out. And so we are suffering from diseases of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, all the things we see as people get older, and these are all entirely preventable.
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