Food Is Medicine: How Doctors Can Prescribe Food For Chronic Disease with Mark Walker

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Super Simple
Grassfed Protein, Sensate, and AquaTru. Our diets are the main
driver of the chronic disease epidemic we are experiencing today.
But food is also the most powerful medicine available to heal
chronic diseases. The food we eat literally serves as information,
instructions, or code that controls almost every function of the
body—including our hormones, appetite, brain chemistry, immune
system, gene expression, and even the microbiome.  Today on
The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Mark Walker about
incorporating food as medicine into the healthcare system, how we
can prescribe food as physicians, and what it will mean for our
nation's health and economy. Mark Walker is the Chairman and CEO of
Performance Kitchen, the leading Food Is Medicine company
revolutionizing the US Healthcare System. Performance Kitchen
specializes in the use of Medically Tailored Meals to treat chronic
diseases. Mark is one of the leading experts in the country on the
new industry of Food Is Medicine, which is the application of
healthy food paid for by the US Healthcare System. Mark is a CPA
and the founder of Dugout Ventures, an athlete-based investment
group with Hall of Fame baseball player partners like David Ortiz,
Nolan Ryan, and Barry Larkin. This episode is brought to you by
Rupa Health, Super Simple Grassfed Protein, Sensate, and AquaTru.
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are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple
Subscriber version): The current state of our “healthcare” system
(4:50 / 3:17)  The effectiveness of food as medicine (7:47 /
6:30) Incorporating food as medicine into our existing healthcare
system (9:21 / 7:48) How payers benefit from food as medicine
(13:16 / 12:00)  Medically tailored meals (14:59 / 13:42) The
economics of food as medicine (21:47 / 18:41)  Obstacles
around prescribing food as medicine (31:59 / 26:50) Accessing
medically tailored meal benefits (39:01 / 33:40) How Performance
Kitchen is interfacing in this space (42:40 / 39:05) Mark’s
personal story reversing prediabetes (47:08 / 43:33)  Learn
more at performancekitchen.com. Find the Meal Benefit Locator tool
here and download the Performance Kitchen Whitepaper here.