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→ Timeline| Go to timeline.com/healthyself to take the Longevity Quiz and get your free Mitopure gummies. That’s timeline.com/healthyself. → Parasym | Head to https://nuropod.com/DRG for 5% off. Every order comes with a 100-day risk-free trial. → AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee. Episode Description: There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma and almost nobody is naming it directly. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese because of what the food industry has done to our food supply. And the solution the medical industry is now selling is a drug that suppresses the appetite for the food that is still being made and sold and eaten. The wound is being bandaged. The source of the wound is untouched. Dr. Josh Levitt is a naturopathic physician with 25 years of clinical experience, the co-founder of UpWellness, and one of the most grounded integrative voices in medicine. This conversation covers the big food and big pharma racket, the Nova food classification system, what real food actually looks like, the emotional roots of physical disease, and why dogma on both sides of medicine is killing people. Dr. Josh Levitt's health takes — in order: Take 1: "There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma" Dr. Levitt lays out the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern medicine. The drugs that suppress appetite are genuinely effective, and they are also a band-aid placed over a wound created by the same economic system that has no incentive to heal it. Take 2: "Balance is a fallacy" Health is not a static destination. Dr. Levitt uses his background as a surfer to explain why people who are good at balance are actually good at the active management of imbalance, and why that reframe changes everything about how you approach the ups and downs of your own health. Take 3: "I have seen people die on the hill of dogma" This is the take most people on both sides of medicine do not want to hear. Dr. Levitt makes the case that extreme conviction in either direction, whether it is that all natural medicine is quackery or that all conventional medicine is poison, has genuinely cost people their lives. Take 4: "I wish people didn't need the supplements I make" Dr. Levitt closes with the most honest take of the episode. He explains why supplements are a tool that help people earn back a sliver of faith in their body's ability to heal, and why the real goal is a world where most of what he sells becomes unnecessary. We have all the technology. We should be crushing it. We are not. Find Dr. Josh Levitt: Website: https://www.upwellness.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/reels/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:23 - GLP-1s Are a Band-Aid for a Problem That Started in Our Food Supply 2:25 - The Core Problem With American Food (And Why "Natural" Labels Are Part of It) 3:49 - The Foundational Approach He Uses With Every Patient — No Diet Required 6:38 - Rapid Weight Loss Is a Good Thing — But Nobody Is Warning You About This 7:50 - Where Those Lost Pounds Actually Go (The Answer Will Change How You Think About Your Liver) 8:29 - Brain Fog, Fatigue and Skin Issues During Weight Loss? Here's Why 9:15 - Is Stored Fat Also a Storehouse for Emotional Toxins? 11:12 - Dr. G's Patient Who Couldn't Lose Weight — Until She Did This 14:00 - What Conventional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Both Get Dangerously Wrong 18:00 - The Crisis of Faith: How Chronic Illness Makes People Stop Believing in Their Own Bodies 22:49 - You Can Lose Faith in Your Body Through Supplement Addiction Too 23:54 - What Happens Inside a Person Who Feels Betrayed by Their Own Body 24:43 - Can the Body Recover From Any Disease? A 25-Year Naturopathic Doctor Answers 25:35 - Why "Holistic" Means More Than Mind-Body — It Means You Are Connected to Everything 26:51 - The Little Win That Starts the Cascade Back to Healing 30:11 - The Body Is Talking to Us All the Time — Are You Listening? 31:35 - What He Would Say to Someone With Cancer Who Has Lost All Faith 33:34 - We Have the Best Medical Tools in History — So Why Are We Failing?34:54 - About UpWellness and Where to Find Dr. Josh Levitt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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→ Timeline| Go to timeline.com/healthyself to take the Longevity Quiz and get your free Mitopure gummies. That’s timeline.com/healthyself.

→ Parasym | Head to https://nuropod.com/DRG for 5% off. Every order comes with a 100-day risk-free trial.

→ AirDoctor |Head to https://AirDoctorPro.com and use promo code DRG and get up to $300 off ANY of their select AirDoctor models, plus you will get a 3-year warranty, absolutely FREE! All AirDoctor air purifiers come with a 30-day money back guarantee.


Episode Description:

There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma and almost nobody is naming it directly. Seventy percent of Americans are overweight or obese because of what the food industry has done to our food supply. And the solution the medical industry is now selling is a drug that suppresses the appetite for the food that is still being made and sold and eaten. The wound is being bandaged. The source of the wound is untouched.

Dr. Josh Levitt is a naturopathic physician with 25 years of clinical experience, the co-founder of UpWellness, and one of the most grounded integrative voices in medicine. This conversation covers the big food and big pharma racket, the Nova food classification system, what real food actually looks like, the emotional roots of physical disease, and why dogma on both sides of medicine is killing people.


Dr. Josh Levitt's health takes — in order:

Take 1: "There is a racket going on between big food and big pharma" Dr. Levitt lays out the cognitive dissonance at the heart of modern medicine. The drugs that suppress appetite are genuinely effective, and they are also a band-aid placed over a wound created by the same economic system that has no incentive to heal it.

Take 2: "Balance is a fallacy" Health is not a static destination. Dr. Levitt uses his background as a surfer to explain why people who are good at balance are actually good at the active management of imbalance, and why that reframe changes everything about how you approach the ups and downs of your own health.

Take 3: "I have seen people die on the hill of dogma" This is the take most people on both sides of medicine do not want to hear. Dr. Levitt makes the case that extreme conviction in either direction, whether it is that all natural medicine is quackery or that all conventional medicine is poison, has genuinely cost people their lives.

Take 4: "I wish people didn't need the supplements I make" Dr. Levitt closes with the most honest take of the episode. He explains why supplements are a tool that help people earn back a sliver of faith in their body's ability to heal, and why the real goal is a world where most of what he sells becomes unnecessary.

We have all the technology. We should be crushing it. We are not.


Find Dr. Josh Levitt:

Website: https://www.upwellness.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoshlevitt/reels/

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:23 - GLP-1s Are a Band-Aid for a Problem That Started in Our Food Supply

2:25 - The Core Problem With American Food (And Why "Natural" Labels Are Part of It)

3:49 - The Foundational Approach He Uses With Every Patient — No Diet Required

6:38 - Rapid Weight Loss Is a Good Thing — But Nobody Is Warning You About This

7:50 - Where Those Lost Pounds Actually Go (The Answer Will Change How You Think About Your Liver)

8:29 - Brain Fog, Fatigue and Skin Issues During Weight Loss? Here's Why

9:15 - Is Stored Fat Also a Storehouse for Emotional Toxins?

11:12 - Dr. G's Patient Who Couldn't Lose Weight — Until She Did This

14:00 - What Conventional Medicine and Alternative Medicine Both Get Dangerously Wrong

18:00 - The Crisis of Faith: How Chronic Illness Makes People Stop Believing in Their Own Bodies

22:49 - You Can Lose Faith in Your Body Through Supplement Addiction Too

23:54 - What Happens Inside a Person Who Feels Betrayed by Their Own Body

24:43 - Can the Body Recover From Any Disease? A 25-Year Naturopathic Doctor Answers

25:35 - Why "Holistic" Means More Than Mind-Body — It Means You Are Connected to Everything

26:51 - The Little Win That Starts the Cascade Back to Healing

30:11 - The Body Is Talking to Us All the Time — Are You Listening?

31:35 - What He Would Say to Someone With Cancer Who Has Lost All Faith

33:34 - We Have the Best Medical Tools in History — So Why Are We Failing?34:54 - About UpWellness and Where to Find Dr. Josh Levitt


Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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