Food Justice: Why Our Bodies And Our Society Are Inflamed with Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

Food Justice: Why Our Bodies And Our Society Are Inflamed | This
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Pique Tea A large part of my work in Functional Medicine is
addressing inflammation. I talk a lot about how the food we eat,
and our current food system as a whole, promotes inflammation and
leads to chronic disease. But it’s not just our bodies that are
inflamed, it’s also our societies and our planet. Covid has only
made racial disparities even more apparent, while the disasters
that result from climate change continue to climb in frequency and
severity as well. It’s all connected. I can’t tell you how excited
I was to host Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel on this episode of The
Doctor’s Farmacy, to dig into decolonizing the food system to
address the inflammatory state of our world and our bodies. 
Dr. Rupa Marya is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco where she practices and
teaches Internal Medicine. Her research examines the health impacts
of social systems, from agriculture to policing. She is a
co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, a collective of health
workers committed to addressing disease through structural change.
Raj Patel is a Research Professor at the University of Texas at
Austin’s Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, a professor in
the University’s department of nutrition, and a Research Associate
at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and
Starved, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing,
co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A James
Beard Leadership Award winner, he is the co-director of the
award-winning documentary about climate change and the food system,
The Ants & The Grasshopper. He serves on the International
Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, and has advised
governments on causes and solutions to crises of sustainability
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free bamboo whisk while supplies last!   Here are more of the
details from our interview:  The root causes of the rise of
inflammatory disease around the world (12:21) How external stress
creates disease and illness within our body (20:10) Monopolies and
corporate dominance in the food industry (27:17) The anatomy of
injustice (39:15) How has our food system been colonized, and what
does a colonized food system look like? (42:38) Why singing is
medicine (45:36) The populations with the most biodiverse gut
microbiomes (48:05) The link between chronic disease and our
political and economic structures (54:51) Going beyond food
security to food sovereignty and nutritional security (1:06:42) Our
food system and climate change (1:20:25) Learn more about Dr. Rupa
Marya at https://rupamarya.org/ on Facebook @aprilfishes, Instagram
@aprilfishes, and on Twitter @drrupamarya. Learn more about Raj
Patel at https://rajpatel.org/ and on Facebook @RajPatel and on
Twitter @_rajpatel. Get a copy of Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the
Anatomy of Injustice at
https://www.amazon.com/Inflamed-Deep-Medicine-Anatomy-Injustice/dp/0374602514/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=inflamed&qid=1627477973&sr=8-6