Episode 41: Food: What the Heck Should We Eat with Expert Dr. Mark Hyman

In my conversation with Mark Hyman on his new NYT best seller,
Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?, we discuss the myriad challenges
consumers face in figuring out the correct diet, but also, what WE
as clinicians caring for patients – what do we prescribe? What do
the data show? Are grains really verboten? Is dairy completely
off-the-plate? What about meat? And fats/cholesterol and the APOE4
patient? Mark enlightens me to the new “regenerative agriculture”
movement; going far beyond organic, regenerative agriculture
regenerates the environment while providing good, clean food.
Amazing, right? He also addresses the common price complaint. What
is the cost of eating clean vs eating conventional? We also go
behind the scenes to address the insidious agribusiness at the
heart of US policy, and chat about Steven Savage’s recent take-down
of Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen Clean Fifteen lists.
This was such a fun convo for me, and as always, Mark is doing
great detective work getting to the heart of concerns around diet
and the ecology of eating. Take a listen, I bet you’ll be as
intrigued as I was.