The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073

**Mark Sherwood** (0:00)
Cancers will surpass heart disease as the number one killer. I believe in our lifetime, in the next decade, I predict. And it's inexcusable. And to think about a chemical like glyphosate being allowed in our food supply, all that stuff being in our supply is just completely absurd in my mind. What country creates profit from sickness any better than we do? That is cruel, that is mean, that is hateful. I've watched people die in front of me, and that's not something that you forget. You don't leave those images behind, they're still stuck in your brain. When you see that, it changes the way you think about things. You value life differently, your perspective changes.

**Sean Kelly** (0:44)
Okay, guys, Dr. Mark Sherwood here today in Las Vegas. Brought some water, it's hot out here, man.

**Mark Sherwood** (0:50)
It's hot, and I'm glad to be here.

**Sean Kelly** (0:51)
Yeah, thanks for coming, man. What's been new? I saw you at Asprey's event, it's been a couple months now.

**Mark Sherwood** (0:55)
Yeah, we've been trying to just travel around and do our best to share hope. We call ourselves hope dealers, but in our world today, there's a lot of sickness and suffering, and I wanna do my part, Sean, to at least alleviate what I can.

**Sean Kelly** (1:10)
Yeah, more people are sick now than aren't, I believe.

**Mark Sherwood** (1:12)
Yeah, we've got a world now where we have set the tone, set the bar for what not to do. I mean, you look at the history of our land, we have more sick people today right now than we've had in the history of the world.

**Sean Kelly** (1:23)
That's crazy.

**Mark Sherwood** (1:24)
And it should be like that, and a lot of it's been created by our own behaviors, habits, cultures, et cetera, and we certainly can do better.

**Sean Kelly** (1:31)
Yeah, it's crazy because we have access to the information, but people are still not, do you think it's a matter of people not taking action?

**Mark Sherwood** (1:39)
I think they're taking action, they're just taking the wrong action. We live in a world where we're one of two countries in the entire planet that actually let pharma advertise, us and New Zealand, and so that clouds our information, so we're always getting two sides. You go to the doctor, you're not getting the side of the coin that says you can eat salads, you can exercise, you can de-stress, you can listen to good podcasts as opposed to bad ones, listen to good things as opposed to drama and anxiety, you can get some sleep. They don't talk about that, they talk about where's your pharmacy so we can refill your medication. And that is a side of things that we don't want to take away, but certainly we want to give people a better choice. Like you go back to the time we had four years ago, you know what I'm talking about, and there was not a choice given.
And this land, this country, this wonderful United States of America has been on choice.

**Sean Kelly** (2:30)
Absolutely, I agree. It's almost like information overload, but people don't have the same critical thinking skills they did in previous generations.

**Mark Sherwood** (2:37)
That's right, and they're given one side of a coin.
And a lie can be told so many times, it becomes a truth. And so it's fascinating, the lies we have in medicine, cholesterol is bad, you're born with medication deficiencies. I mean, facetiously, but you get where I'm going with that.

**Sean Kelly** (2:53)
100%. Yeah, there's so many things I remember growing up that I was taught that are wrong, like the food pyramid. They said salt was bad for you, don't eat and drink certain things, and now it turns out they're good for you.

**Mark Sherwood** (3:04)
Yeah, you look at the food pyramid. I mean, when that came about, that was in my high school days. I'm dating myself here a little bit. But my high school days, we had the food pyramid at that time, but at the same time, you also saw the Vaccine Liability Act being transferred to the government at that point in time. And so that kind of collided together. So the food pyramid was something that blew my mind. It said that fat was bad, sugar is okay, and we're going to eat a lot of grains and breads. But at that time, you had one state out of our 50 that had an obesity rate, albeit tracked by BMI, Sean. One state was over 10%.
It took 11 years for every state to go above 10% in obesity rates. Now you've got many states that are above 50%, over 60%, and it's predicted by 2050 that 100% of our society will be overweight or obese. And that is completely unacceptable. And now finally, we're getting some flip around on that. I know the current HHS director, secretary, has done some good jobs at flipping that around. But my concern is that the next administration, whatever that would do, would flip it around the other way again.