We have well over 60% of the adult population now overweight or obese.

I would take it further and say that 88% of Americans have abnormal metabolic health markers.

You spend $4.3 trillion on health care, highest health expenditure in the Western world,

with the worst health outcomes. So why is that?

Dr. Assamalatra is a world-renowned cardiologist

and a best-selling author of several books. We sat down together to discuss his new film, First

Do No Farm, which examines many factors contributing to the West's chronic disease epidemic.

There is a false perception out there that medicine is an exact science,

like, say, physics or chemistry, when in fact it is a social science, the science of human beings.

It's constantly evolving. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yankee Kelleck.

Dr. Sima Hatra, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. Yeah and it's great to be here. America is my second home.

So you've been a medical doctor for over 20 years, a cardiologist for over 10 years,

and you've only recently found a treatment for heart disease?

It's been a long journey and process and a deep dive into understanding

what is at the root of heart disease, what is a greater truth, and how can we manage it, prevent it, and

even reverse it, Jan? It's taken me time because the current paradigm in that understanding

of heart disease is flawed, and getting And trying to overcome that or to change people's minds

or to change the medical approach to heart disease,

it's not something that happens overnight.

Well, so let's talk a little bit about how people view medicine today frankly I mean that's that this is

something that really comes out in the film I mean there's to tell me about where

people might be going wrong in this area yeah I think to understand the

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