I want to give you my two cents on RFK Jr's new potential role in being the HHS secretary the target is to clean up the corruption number two get back to science-based evidence and number three end chronic disease which is a pretty big goal and I'm sure you're seeing this all of the news all of the push back that he's getting you have the big food companies big chemical companies big Pharma they really don't like him very much and I just want to make a comment on this one little thing that is quite interesting it was said as a counter AR argument there is no clear evidence yet that disease is caused by processed food do you know how ridiculous that sounds this this it's not linked to chronic disease what does cause disease and their response is we don't know we need to do more research as big food big Pharma big chemicals get super wealthy right what is the product of health care it's a healthy body if we take the US population and compare it to the world we're at the very bottom when it comes to health yet we spend the most for healthcare over $4.1 trillion every single year you can say RFK junior is a quack antivaxer he's going to take science Into the Dark Ages you can pretty much just ignore that there is many things that need to be changed I want to give my two cents on what I think would make a huge difference all right number one institutional foods and what they do is they make prepackaged food that is given to patient in nursing homes prisons the school systems hospitals this is the absolute lowest quality food on the planet and even going into the hospital I had two surgeries and I had to be in the hospital for a couple days I mean I just told them I wanted some protein and they're like yeah we don't have much protein it's like well I can give you a protein bar I interviewed a gentleman he actually owns and runs several very unique assisted living homes you would want to send your parents or your grandparents there if they needed that type of service because they do things completely different and I asked him what is the barriers of putting your system in nursing homes and he said there's just too much red tape it's highly regulated as far as what they eat and if you want to change a diet you have to get the doctor to write a prescription typically institutional foods have desserts they have a lot of starches it's highly processed is overcooked the number one thing I would do is I would change the institutional Foods because that's going to change the health of these people in the nursing homes the Assisted Living all these people would quickly improve of their health just by removing the refined sugars the refined starches and the refined oils the seed oils the next thing I would do and this is really really big a lot of the food that we consume in the grocery store is subsidized in other words the taxpayers are paying for it upfront or paying certain large Farms to grow certain things corn soy wheat sugar rice the amount that some of these companies are paid is up there around 600 billion the largest subsidy is with corn you can buy a cubic ton of corn for about $198 and we're talking about not sweet corn we're talking about Dent corn which is not even edible we also use it in the feed lots to fatten cattle we started this whole subsidy thing right after the Depression to kind of help the farmer but somehow it stayed in law so now the small farmer has a heck of a time making a profit they're lucky if they get 1 to 3% profit and have to work really hard at creating healthier food and they don't get subsidies I think one really good idea if we could just switch what is subsidize and invest in the small farmer pay these small farmers to grow grass-fed grassfish animals I mean that would be incredible because right now the incentive is to grow the raw material for junk food you pay for it at the store and then you pay for it when you go to the hospital I wanted to take a pause to ask you for a little favor with this new Administration there's some new opportunities for healthare practitioners to be leaders in the health reform and I would love for you to vote for me as one of the leaders and I am super aware of the broken system that we need to fix here's what you do click the link which is down below you'll have to create your own account to vote you want to click sign up and as soon as you have activated your account go to the America's Health option click on the Hot Tab find my name Dr Eric Berg and click to vote and even leave a comment down below thank you in advance and let's go back to the video the next thing I would definitely want to change is this s called gross generally recognize as safe you would think that would be a third- party independent study to show that that ingredient was safe and the answer is no this is a loophole that manufacturers use to self-certify their own products it's a bit of a conflict of interest I can do my own studies to tell you that my ingredients are safe a lot of things that are banned now were generally recognize as safe like lead DDT Mercury stuff that they made your feelings with most of these junk food ingredients are grass the other thing I would do is I would change how they're fortifying our food instead of fortifying with synthetic folic acid which actually creates a big problem for about 30 to 40% of the population because they have a genetic issue dealing with folic acid I would change that to folate the type of iron they put in fortified food is disgusting it creates so many problems our body does not have a good mechanism to get rid of iron and all this iron accumulates in our body too much iron can actually cause dysfunctional iron that leads to anemia the next thing 40 billion a year of your taxes are paid to medical research for new drugs the universities are allowed to get in patents on those drugs and then they're allowed to give exclusive rights to drug companies and then the drug companies and the universities negotiate for a royalty between 1% and 10% of the net profits and this license agreement is very confidential and certain researchers within the universities also get a cut of that money that brings up the next point the FDA has a revolving door with big Pharma they should make it a law that if you work for the FDA or any type of regulatory business you can never go work for a drug company or a chemical company or a big food company nine out of the 20 members that set up the dietary guidelines had conflict of Interest there's a great website on this is called us right to know through the Freedom of Information Act that got 880,000 Pages between Coca-Cola and the dietician organizations and what they found out is there's a really cozy relationship between the two between 30 to $50 million given to the dietitians from big food the junk food industry sponsors dietitians education their conventions they pay their speakers the next thing that I would want changed is this thing called the round rule if a certain ingredient is less than5 G it can be rounded down to zero the same thing with carbohydrates also sodium if you have less than 5 milligram of sodium you can round it down to zero out of all the ingredients that I would hyperfocus on there are three ingredients that make up 99% of all junk food refined sugar refined starches and refined oils as in seed oils I would put huge warning labels on infant formula pet food which is also filled with junk food and I would force those companies to upgrade the quality of those ingredients the worst time to give someone junk food is when they're a baby because you're setting up that person's life for all sorts of deficiencies and health problems and lastly I want to talk about a very important change Sun phobia parallel with that rdas for vitamin D are just ridiculous 600 I use might be okay to prevent bone problems Poss subbly but not to feed the other systems of the body the immune system the muscles the organs they misinterpreted the results of a whole bunch of studies and then they used the 600 IUS when in fact it should have been over 8,000 IUS every single day a vitamin D deficiency puts someone at a very severe risk of virtually every disease pick a disease and I'll show you research on it cancer auto immune issues your ability to sleep is dependent on vitamin D if every person in the US took just 8,000 I use every single day a vitamin D3 disease rates would go way down and it would not be that expensive that's my two cents please tell me what you think should be done about this country to make a difference for healthcare