Do Doctors need better nutritional training? | Eric Edmeades

I was 21 years old and I was sick. I mean, really sick. Like, I mean, I'm not talking facing death sick. I'm talking that I'd been. I couldn't breathe through my own sinuses. I had. I had, you know, gut pains that were so bad that I couldn't think. I had horrible cystic acne that was painful to smile. And it was my life. I always had that tissue. I was that kid that always had the tissue in their pocket. You know the one, you know, I was that kid. And I went to doctors. Did doctors want to help me? They didn't go spend six, eight years in medical school because they didn't want to help people. But were they empowered at medical school to help me? No. No, they weren't. But I didn't know that. Hell, my dad was a famous orthopedic surgeon. My uncle was a well recognized orthopedic surgeon. We had doctors all over the family. And so I trusted doctors. And I visited them for year upon year upon year. And you know what? They gave me pills, inhalants, injections, and then finally surgery. Yeah, you know what it seems like God or evolution, whatever your belief, Accidentally put tonsils in my throat. Total accident. Got to take those babies out. That's what they said to me. Luckily for me, some friends of mine sat me down and said, eric, I think you need to consider some changes to your diet just for a month. And so I did. And over the next, I'm telling you, two weeks, my body started to change. Two weeks later, no acne, no allergies. I had dropped 35 pounds off my body. I was completely transformed. And then I became deeply curious. I mean, deeply curious. How is it. How is it that I could spend year upon year upon year visiting doctors and get no result and that I could just simply change what I put in my body and I could get all the results? And so I asked a doctor one day. I did. I asked a doctor. I've now asked hundreds of doctors in countries all around the world the same question. But I asked a doctor one day, how long did you go to medical school? Can you imagine being a doctor? And a kid says, how long did you go to medical school? Six years. And how much time did you send studying, food? Not very much. How much specifically? Well, none. I'm in an event in Germany about a year ago. There's about a thousand and a half people in the room, and there's a doctor sitting just about here. And in the middle of my talk, I go to doctors in the house, he raised his hand, he's here. I get a microphone to him. And in front of a thousand people in Germany, where I've never asked this question before, I asked him, how long did you go to medical school? He was a general practitioner six years. I asked him again, how long did you study food? Microphone in his hand, cameras around thousand and a half people watching? He says, none. And for many of the people in the room, the penny drops. They suddenly realized what the significance of that question was. And I'll put it to you another way, in case you're still wondering what the significance is. How many of you would be happy to take your car to a mechanic who had never studied fuel? It's funny, right? Had never studied oil, had never studied antifreeze. Would you take your car to that mechanic? Then I suggest you rethink your relationship with your doctor. And then one day I'm on a plane and I'm on my way to Africa doing a wildlife photography thing. And I'm reading this article. And in the article they talk about elephants being captured and put in zoos and circuses, which I'm no fan of. So I was curious because the article was the history of it. And it said that 100 years ago, when they took these elephants and they put them in the zoos and circuses, they would make a lot of money because they would attract the audience, right? But the elephants would only live for six or seven or eight years, maybe 10. But nobody knew that that was a problem. I mean, they made their money back in that 10 years. And that was the main concern for them until they found out that elephants in the wild could live 70 years. And suddenly they became deeply concerned about their investment. I'm sure some of them were concerned about the elephant, but I'm thinking it was mostly a profit and loss question. And once they had that profit and loss question, they were forced to do the very simplest thing. They were forced to evaluate elephants in the wild. Sure, they could have conducted a multi generational macronutrition and micronutritional study on elephants to try to figure what's wrong, but. Or they could just go and look at the ones that are getting the result and duplicate that. Does this make sense? And so that's what they did. And they found out that elephants in the wild eat 200 kg, 500 pounds of fresh grass and bark and fruit when it's in season. And they drink 70 liters. I don't know how many gallons that is. It's a lot every single day. And when they duplicated that for the elephants in captivity. Look at that, 70 or 80 years, I became fascinated because as I was reading this article, they were making a massive grammatical mistake in the article. They kept referring to the elephant's wild diet and the elephant's captive diet. Let me just back up for a minute. The elephant was on a captive diet, which was on the zoo, and when it was in nature, it was on what? The elephant diet? Not the wild elephant diet, the elephant diet. And the grammarian in me wanted to take out a red pen and circle every instance of this wild diet rubbish in the thing. Like, that's not. It's the elephant diet. And as I want to do this, I start thinking to myself, oh, elephants have a diet. So does every other organism on Earth. Every organism on Earth has a diet. An oak tree has a diet. A cheetah has a diet. Its diet is 2.5 kg of fresh meat every day. It won't eat. It won't eat existing meat. It has to kill it itself. A hyena doesn't have that issue. Right? They have different diets. The leaf cutter ant has a diet. What does it eat? You might think so, but they don't. They go out and they collect leaves and they bring them back and they compost them and grow fungus because they're fungivores and if you try to make them eat leaves, they would die. Diet is specific. And humans have one. Humans have one. And I know that some of you are going to go, yeah, but what about the blood type diet? And what about the genome testing diet? Okay, raise your hand if you need vitamin C. That should be everybody. Okay, and then how about omega fats? Who needs those? Oh, everybody again. And how about this? Anybody need calcium? Anybody up for. Okay, hang on a minute. What about the blood type diet? What about the genome diet? And what I want to suggest to you is that every Homo sapien on Earth needs the same stuff. We have some different production capacity. Some of you are gluten intolerant, some of you have issues with lactose. And I get that. But what I would suggest to you is that that so many of us have an issue with lactose is a clue. And that if you are not sensitive to lactose, I feel bad for you because it means the alarm's been turned off. You don't have the pain, so you just keep having it. And then that will give you, according to Harvard nurses school, a 30% uplift in your opportunity to develop ovarian or prostate canc milk. It does a Body good. It does not. That's why you will never see those ads again. You look, you will not in Britain, Canada or America ever see an advertisement from the dairy industry ever again telling you that milk is good for you. Diet is specific, guys. But what we have to do is get to behavior. And that's what truly gave birth to WildFit. And I got to tell you something. That whole conversation, Vishen and Alan Watts and inspiration and Emily Fletcher, like I want you to hear something. When I created WildFit, I knew that what I wanted to do was have a massive impact. Like we need to turn around the lives and the health of billions of people on this planet for the planet. It has to be done. We're arguing about Obamacare, Trumpcare, national health care in all your different countries. Stop it. Who here would be happy to buy car insurance from a company that charges the same amount to you as to a 16 year old child with five accidents under their belt? Who wants that insurance? I'm sorry, you want insurance based on your risk factors. I'm not interested in universal health care. I'm interested in universal self care. You know how the diet industry works. You write a diet book, 10,000 people buy it, five people get really good results. You get their before and after pictures, you sell more books. What if instead that every 100 people that does it, 90 of them get really good results? What would happen then? Big change. And I want to tell you why we're able to create that. And that is that lasting transformation is not about giving people a bunch of restrictive rules. It's not about telling people you can and can't do this. It's about changing their psychology. When we created WildFit, it was really simple. I knew I could coach people one on one. But what I knew I had to do is I had to put them together. And so we created community. And that really gel people together. And it's one of the big reasons we've been so successful. So I wanted you to think about that. When you're creating transformation for people, you want to make sure you're changing the way they think. You want to make sure they're community. But here's the big one. You need to treat them like the whole frog in the hot water thing. How many of you that have done Wildfit showed up on week one and thought that I was actually crazy? How many people, how many of you realize that it's not crazy at all, it's just crazy enough to be making a dent in the universe. That's what week one is all about. It's about easing in and learning some things. Because if we want to get different results, we're going to have to do different things. And that's exactly what that's all about. Your health is far more determined by you getting enough of what your body needs than by removing stuff. If we tell dung beetles, dung beetles stop eating poop, that's gross, they will get sick. They need what they need and you need what you need. Does this make sense to you? And so all I'm going to say to you, even for those of you who haven't even begun yet, the Wildfit quest, what I want to suggest to you is just do this before you eat the other garbage. Get all the stuff you need in first. That is the primary thing you need to be doing to turn things around. And with that, you can begin to change the industry. Sam.