Robert Kiyosaki is an advocate for changing the incentives of the healthcare system, and he s a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School. In this episode, he talks about why obesity is one of the most important issues facing the country right now, and how we can fix it. Robert is also a good friend of mine, and I think it s really important for people to hear what he s been saying for years about the need to change the incentives that drive our health care system. I m really proud to have him on the show to talk about his fight, and it s great to be able to bring him on to speak to so many people in the fight to make sure that everyone has access to quality, affordable, and accessible health care. I think you ll agree that he s got a lot to say about the current state of our healthcare system and we should all pay attention to it, because it s not good enough, and we need to fix it, and that s what we ve got to do, not only in the short term, but in the long term, to improve our health and our overall well-being. Thank you for listening, and for supporting the show. - Robert and I hope you enjoy the show, and don t forget to share it with your friends, family, and family and friends! Tweet me if you liked it! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - Why obesity is a problem, not a crisis 3:30 - Is there a cure for obesity? 4: Why obesity a problem? 5:00 6: How much more important than diabetes? 7:15 - What can we fix it? 8: What are we fixable? 9:40 - What is the best way to fix obesity? 10:00 | How should we incentivize metabolic health? 11:10 - Should we fix our food system? 12:30 13:10 14:40 15:15 16:40 | What s the role of the pharmaceutical industry? 17:15 | Why do we fix metabolic health in the 21st century? 14:30 | What is a chronic disease system? 15:20 | How do we have to fix metabolic habits? 15 - What are you going to fix this problem? 16:10 | How can we stop obesity and diabetes and heart disease in the first place?
00:00:56.000The average teen is overweight or obese.
00:00:59.000And the reason Novo Nordics has become the most valuable company in Europe, surpassing Louis Vuitton, is entirely based on expectations of profits in the United States because they're expecting Medicare and Medicaid and taxpayer money to fund it.
00:01:12.000This will be $15,000 per patient per year.
00:01:16.000And as we know, once it's approved for Medicare and Medicaid, they can't regulate, although the IRS is trying to regulate how many doctors can write food prescriptions, they're not allowed to regulate how many doctors can write prescriptions that then get taxpayer money from a rigged system.
00:01:29.000So it's going to be open season with the American Academy of Pediatrics saying that 50% of 12 year olds should get this immediately injected for life.
00:01:36.000The problem here, aside from it being an absolutely disastrous drug that I think is going to be recalled and causing stomach paralysis, causing suicidal ideation, where 30% of people have such side effects they have to go off of it, even if they're getting insurance payments for Taking that aside, even though it was a perfect drug, the fundamental question we have to ask is, is $15,000 per obese American, should that money be going to a Band-Aid lifetime injection?
00:02:05.000What else could we do with that money to fix the root cause?
00:02:11.000The more stans we prescribe, the more heart disease goes up.
00:02:14.000The more SSRIs we prescribe, the more suicide and depression goes up.
00:02:17.000The more metforma we prescribe, the more diabetes goes up.
00:02:20.000There literally, to my account, hasn't been a chronic disease treatment in American history that's lowered rates of the chronic disease it's trying to treat.
00:02:26.000In JP Morgan's own estimates of Ozempic, they think as Ozempic prescriptions go up, obesity in America will go up, right?
00:02:34.000And this is the most consequential, biggest market, most expensive drug potentially in American history.
00:02:39.000If there's not a time to say, let's stop, let's ask how diabetes, heart disease, depression, kidney disease, COVID, how are they connected?
00:02:50.000They're connected by metabolic health.
00:02:59.000But instead, the IRS is saying, go for Ozempic, not for food.
00:03:03.000And all of the arms of our medical system, from the media to the researchers to the regulators, they're all paid by pharma, and they're all singing one tune, that obesity is an Ozempic deficiency, that as Harvard researchers who are paid off are saying it's genetic, it's not tied to food, it's not tied to exercise.
00:03:26.000For our budget and for our human capital.
00:03:28.000And if there's not a moment where we say enough, enough with the chronic disease treadmill, then I worry.
00:03:34.000I think there's an optimistic message here, which these things are, we can change these things quickly.
00:03:39.000We can change these things very quickly, but we've got to understand what's happening.
00:03:44.000You have an army I know rising up and I am optimistic.
00:03:47.000Yeah, and I can promise you that there will be an executive order from me within the first two weeks of my presidency that declares a state of emergency and changes all this, the entire paradigm of this pharmaceutical model.
00:04:02.000So I want to thank you, and I'm going to be insulting you a lot during that period to figure out exactly what we need to do to dismantle the systems and to make Americans healthy again.