#5 - Matthew Lysiak: fiat food, inflation and bitcoin

Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed our Health and how bitcoin fixes It. He explores how fiat money corrupted not only the economy but also the modern food system — creating a cascade of incentives that have harmed public health, nutrition, and autonomy, follow Matthew on Twitter

We talk about the collapse of real food, the centralization of health narratives, the weaponization of science, and why metabolic freedom is at the core of human freedom. Topics are outlined in the timestamps below.

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Timestamps

00:00 – Intro

01:56 – How Saifedean Ammous inspired the project

03:52 – Why 1971 was the turning point for food and money

05:49 – Processed food, fiat currency, and systemic incentives

07:45 – Dietary shifts and personal metabolic experimentation

09:42 – Raw milk, sugar addiction, and mental clarity

11:38 – Why the health crisis is downstream of fiat economics

13:34 – Nutrition science as government narrative

15:31 – The demonization of meat and ancestral nutrition

17:27 – Economic instability and engineered food dependence

19:23 – Metrics, manipulation, and the CPI/nutrition parallel

21:20 – Loma Linda, Adventists, and institutional food myths

23:16 – Observational studies vs scientific causality

25:12 – The illusion of abundance in a fiat world

27:08 – Food policy and elite control mechanisms

29:04 – School lunches, childhood addiction, and learning failure

31:01 – Homeschooling, autonomy, and breaking out

32:57 – Raising free children in a captured society

34:54 – Trust collapse and skepticism as survival

36:10 – Final reflections and what comes next

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