"How Could The Experts Have Gotten It So Wrong?" - Dr. Marty Makary On The Top Blind Spots in Big Medicine Making Us Sick

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Lifeforce, and Lumebox. We are spending more on healthcare than ever before, yet our population is sicker than ever. The healthcare system is flawed, and the focus on true health seems misplaced within the traditional system. What’s at the root of this broken system and the advice being given to the public? Today’s guest is here to share his expertise on the healthcare system and highlight its Blind Spots. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Marty Makary to discuss how decisions in healthcare are often made by a small, centralized group based on dogma rather than actual scientific evidence. Dr. Makary explains how this groupthink mentality has led to a reluctance to consider alternative opinions and a fear among physicians of being labeled if they criticize these decisions. He provides examples of how such decisions have resulted in poor outcomes and eroded public trust. Dr. Makary emphasizes that humility and a willingness to learn beyond what was taught in medical school are crucial for focusing on science and providing the best guidance for patients. Dr. Marty Makary is a renowned surgeon, professor, and author recognized for his contributions to public health, healthcare innovation, and patient safety. He serves as a professor of Surgery and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University, where he has led initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. He is known for his research and advocacy on issues such as medical transparency, over-treatment, and the use of video technology to improve patient care. His newest book, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health, is set to release September 17th. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Makary dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): The hijacking of our entire approach to healthcare and the consequences (00:00:20 / 00:00:20) Groupthink and fear of criticizing ideas (05:23 / 05:23) Lessons from peanut allergies (13:59 / 10:53) The motivation behind these grand opinions (20:16 / 17:10) The value of diverse opinions (26:56 / (20:50 ) The history behind the low-fat trend and cholesterol research (39:06 / 33:00) The importance of asking questions and true humility (46:06 / 41:00) Topics Dr. Makary is paying attention to (50:56 / (45:50) How do we change the process? (1:02:31 / 57:25 ) Dr. Makary’s journey (1:08:26 / 1:03:20) Top things people can do to invest in their health (01:17:06 / 01:12:00) Questions about vaccines (01:20:36 / 01:15:30) NIH funding (01:31:56 / 01:26:50 ) Changing minds/questioning decisions (01:40:08 / 01:35:02) Also mentioned in this episode: Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health To learn more about Dr. Makary, follow him on X/Twitter, Instagram, or his Website. This episode is brought to you by Momentous, Lifeforce, and Lumebox. Optimize your energy and mental clarity with the purest form of creatine made by and used by the best. Go to livemomentous.com and enter promo code DHRU to get 20% off any order. Right now, you can save $250 on your first diagnostic and get personalized suggestions. Optimize your longevity and track your progress; go to mylifeforce.com/dhru! Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-approved portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Marty, welcome to the podcast.
0:02.0	Such an honor to have you here.
0:04.2	You know, you're here today to sound the alarm
0:07.5	on something super important and a little bit controversial.
0:11.0	And that's the idea that today in this day and age of health care,
0:16.3	especially in America with all our advances, there's actually a group of largely elite quote-unquote experts that have completely
0:26.8	hijacked our entire approach to health care and it's us as lay people who are paying the price. We're spending more
0:35.2	money on health care than ever, but largely the population is sicker than ever and
0:41.2	that's a big problem. So I want to ask you who are these individuals and what are the consequences of their actions?
0:48.0	Well, great to be with you, Drew. Yeah, it's a small group of people and increasingly our authority in medicine is centralized. Now, I love being a doc. I love it. I love the bedside care. I love bringing all the scientific might to the bedside to help people.
1:04.0	But right now we're living in an era when a small group of people are making decisions and health recommendations for the broader community
1:12.0	that is often based on
1:14.4	dogma it's not based on the best scientific evidence they control the
1:19.9	research dollars they control the journals they are now policing what doctors say, and so we're
1:26.2	living in a new era of a more centralized authority in medicine, which if you look at their
1:31.8	track record, if you look at the track record of this priesthood
1:35.0	it's not very good getting so many giant health recommendations wrong and not
1:41.0	only that is just stagnant like what are we doing in the world of Alzheimer's and
1:46.4	mental health and food as medicine? We're not making progress because we don't have good studies,
1:52.1	because the NIH is controlling these research dollars.
1:54.8	The universities are saying, don't think broadly, don't be a Ben Franklin thinking scientist,
1:59.8	focus on one tiny little area and work on an incremental discovery, don't work on big ideas.
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