Why Chronic Disease Skipped Your Great Grandparents but Not You | Dr. Ben Edwards

Dr. Ben Edwards had a nurse practitioner with celiac disease who ate a breakfast burrito, a hamburger and a cookie in front of him in one afternoon, and was fine. Ben was the only doctor in Garza County, Texas at the time, seeing forty to fifty patients a day, and he says he was taking nobody off their medication, only adding more.

I asked him why he thinks chronic disease was so rare a hundred years ago, what a 1910 report did to American medical training, and the four things he rebuilds in a household before anything else. Ben practised conventional family medicine for seven years before one patient's recovery changed how he works.

Chapters:

00:00 Country Doctors Knew Whole Families

04:31 Forty Patients a Day, Nobody Getting Well

07:15 The Patient Who Changed How He Practises

10:41 Freedom Meats (Sponsor)

11:15 Processed Food Kills the Microbiome

14:56 What Med School Leaves Out

17:51 Rockefeller, Carnegie and the Flexner Report

20:35 Chronic Disease Starts, Drugs Chase Symptoms

23:44 Four Pillars: Nutrition, Hydration, Movement, Peace