The Food Is Health Revolution

It’s July 2nd. As of yesterday Seniors who have a Part D plan (prescription drug plan) who want to lose weight can choose from three GLP-1s for $50/month for the next 18 months (as long as they meet the BMI/health condition gates which we will dive into below and aren’t excluded for specified reasons). Yesterday I went on national news again to make sure the information provided was accurate. Bian...

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Thank you Chandermanik Thapar , Online Learning Collaborative , and many others for tuning in! Rip Esselstyn - former pro triathlete, Austin firefighter, the guy who got a station full of Texas meat-eaters to go plant strong and turned it into the Engine 2 Diet, a NYT bestseller, and a CPG brand that’s been on Whole Foods shelves since 2011. (And yes, I fangirled. I bought his Seven-Day Rescue boo...

Kelly Ryerson joined us live this week, and the timing couldn’t have been scripted better. The House had just voted 280-142 to strip a pesticide liability shield from the farm bill - with 73 Republicans breaking from leadership. That’s not a MAHA moment. That’s a population renegotiating a 60-year-old contract on how society handles the externalities of innovation. The contract was built for a wor...

By 2050, it should be hard to make a bad decision in the grocery store. That’s the goal. What happened in this room was a step toward making it real. This week at Food Health LIVE, our Innovation Lab brought together over 50 cross-sector industry leaders representing the full chain of soil to cell. Farmers, seed geneticists, food banks, clinicians, ingredients companies, advanced diagnostics, CPG...

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We are creating System C. Therefore, we are focused on the operating framework and inviting guests accordingly. We were joined by one of our favorite MDs - Adam Carewe MD . We talked about how AI is actively reshaping healthcare delivery not in theory, but right now, in clinical practice. Adam’s work at General Medicine is a live example: using AI to aggregate patient-provided data before visits,...

00:00 Introduction to Food is Health 01:13 Personal Health Journey and Technology Integration 07:53 Leveraging AI for Health Insights 14:32 The Role of AI in Empowering Individuals 20:18 Exploring VO2 Max and Human Performance 27:11 Shifting Perspectives on Health and Disease 33:44 First Principles in Health System Design 35:24 Innovative Biomarkers in Health Diagnostics 36:53 Market Readiness and...

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Join us for our Weekly Livestream Today April 2, 2026 | @1pm ET | Click Here to Join I was not planning to livestream on Monday. I was standing in a room at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in South Florida, amongst a small invite-only gathering centered around an announcement coming from HHS & CMS by the leaders making it themselves, in-person. The lead-up antics had me confused about the entire thin...

We’re going live ( here ) Tuesday, March 17th at 11:30am ET. I bumped into the FHIR Data guy on Substack after reading his version of a very similar thought experiment with Claude for healthcare last month. I invited him into the show and then we made sure to rendezvous during my breif time at HIMSS in Vegas last week. We managed to record a quick rif and photographic evidence of our meetup and it...

A few weeks ago on our weekly Food is Health Livestream, we sat down with Pryce Ancona, an industry leader in healthcare interoperability (and friend!) who has spent the last decade connecting the disconnected systems of American healthcare (or at least trying). What started as a conversation about frozen olive trees in Texas turned into an hour-and-a-half deep dive into how AI is about to fundame...

(Quick note for our livestreams: You can now watch all our videos on your actual TV now (like YouTube) via the new Substack TV app - you just have to add it to the apps on your TV via Google apps or Apple tv apps. I’ve had success on one of our 2 tvs. Once in the app, just search up The Food Is Health Revolution and voila. It’s a great alternate if you prefer the full video experience over reading...

This week’s Livestream - January 27th 11am ET ( Livestream Link ) Three weeks ago, I mentioned my buddy Pryce Ancona from HTD Health on our 2026 predictions episode—talking about how Gen Z is already using AI and wearables to take control of their own health. Two weeks later, I promptly forgot that I made that prediction and after the Anthropic Announcement about Claude for Healthcare, I tried it...

TOMORROW (1/23) AT 11AM ET WE WILL HOST OUR LIVESTREAM FOR THE WEEK - ( LINK ). IT WILL BE A PART II OF CLAUDE FOR HEALTHCARE (AND OTHER FOOD IS HEALTH RABBIT HOLES). Preamble This is a completely transparent recording and post. Some of our readers love it when we get real, others prefer to stick to our pieces about restructuring healthcare. If you prefer the latter, you should skip this one. Here...

We promised last week to dive deeper into the newly flipped and revised Food Pyramid including sharing insights. Wednesday we did it live here on Substack and over on LinkedIn. You can watch and/or listen to a recording of that here or find it where you go for your regular podcast and video content. For some, watching or listening just isn’t a format that works, so we have put together a bit of a...

First things first - quick reminder, we have a livestream scheduled today (January 14th @11am ET to dive into the flipped food pyramid) - here is link . Last week ChatGPT stole the show announcing ChatGPT Health - only to take the wind out of everyone’s sails by simply offering a wait list. But alas, it’s JPM Healthcare week in San Francisco, and as is typically the case, a big announcement was ti...

One of us had a wicked head cold last week and ended up getting nothing planned for the week done except becoming a professional ginger tumeric peeler and tea maker. Meanwhile the other of us made up for it by programming an entire app that will power the Crusonia venture we are launching. We decided Friday we would formally kick off the new year for the Substack with a live conversation that star...

A Future Cast Narrative: 2025-2040 Disclaimer: This is a “future cast,” a fictional exploration of one possible future based on current trends and emerging technologies. While the companies and technologies mentioned are real, the events described are speculative fiction intended to help visualize potential outcomes. Like any forward-looking statement, actual results may vary significantly. This i...