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Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Calley Means to discuss his viral Tweet stating that he “saw inside the room” of Coca-Cola’s tactics to ensure sugar-sweetened beverage taxes failed and that soda was permitted in government-funded nutrition programs. Calley and Dhru talk about why diet and nutrition guidelines are a bipartisan issue that deserves equal attention from the left and the right.

Calley Means is the founder of TrueMed, a company that enables Americans to buy exercise equipment and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars. He is also the coauthor (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food as medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing the practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School.

In this episode, Dhru and Calley dive into:

-Calley Mean’s viral tweet about the soda industry’s hidden agenda (2:35)

-The biggest lie we’re taught is that health and nutrition need to be complicated (14:40)

-How processed food and nutrition play into mental illness (19:23)

-Calley’s message for policy change is non-tribal and bipartisan (30:03)

-Controversies around Ozempic, the “miracle weight-loss drug” (35:30)

-How we’ve lost our way when it comes to diet and health care (45:00)

-Doctors aren’t incentivized to help people get healthy (50:11)

-Calley’s mom’s abrupt cancer diagnosis and how it changed his views on diet, nutrition, and cancer treatment in medicine (58:30)

-The tipping point that inspired Calley to pursue a career that educates and empowers people to make good health choices (1:10:38)

-How Calley plans to incentivize health and his company, True Medicine (1:17:24)

Also mentioned in this episode:

-https://www.truemedicine.care

-Sign up for Calley’s daily newsletter here.

For more on Calley Means, follow him on Instagram @calleymeans and Twitter @calleymeans.

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