Food Is Medicine: How Doctors Can Prescribe Food For Chronic Disease with Mark Walker

Aug 30, 2023

In this engaging conversation, Mark Walker, Chairman and CEO of Performance Kitchen, discusses the revolutionary concept of food as medicine. He highlights how our diets drive chronic diseases and the potential of medically tailored meals to transform healthcare. Walker emphasizes the urgent need to educate healthcare providers on prescribing food to enhance patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The dialogue also addresses the role of innovative partnerships in promoting nutrition's vital role in disease management and preventive care.

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Sick Care System

The U.S. healthcare system is a sick care system, excelling at treating problems but not preventing them.
Its focus is on managing illness rather than promoting wellness.

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Food as Medicine

Food is a powerful medicine, often more effective than drugs for chronic diseases.
It can reverse conditions like type 2 diabetes, unlike medications that merely manage them.

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Medically Tailored Meals

Medically tailored meals are pre-made meals designed by dietitians and doctors to treat chronic illnesses.
They are like having a personal chef, but affordable and accessible to those who need them most.

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This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Super Simple Grassfed Protein, Sensate, and AquaTru.

Our diets are the main driver of the chronic disease epidemic we are experiencing today. But food is also the most powerful medicine available to heal chronic diseases. The food we eat literally serves as information, instructions, or code that controls almost every function of the body—including our hormones, appetite, brain chemistry, immune system, gene expression, and even the microbiome.

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Mark Walker about incorporating food as medicine into the healthcare system, how we can prescribe food as physicians, and what it will mean for our nation's health and economy.

Mark Walker is the Chairman and CEO of Performance Kitchen, the leading Food Is Medicine® company revolutionizing the US Healthcare System. Performance Kitchen specializes in the use of Medically Tailored Meals to treat chronic diseases. Mark is one of the leading experts in the country on the new industry of Food Is Medicine, which is the application of healthy food paid for by the US Healthcare System. Mark is a CPA and the founder of Dugout Ventures, an athlete-based investment group with Hall of Fame baseball player partners like David Ortiz, Nolan Ryan, and Barry Larkin.

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

The current state of our “healthcare” system (4:50 / 3:17)
The effectiveness of food as medicine (7:47 / 6:30)
Incorporating food as medicine into our existing healthcare system (9:21 / 7:48)
How payers benefit from food as medicine (13:16 / 12:00)
Medically tailored meals (14:59 / 13:42)
The economics of food as medicine (21:47 / 18:41)
Obstacles around prescribing food as medicine (31:59 / 26:50)
Accessing medically tailored meal benefits (39:01 / 33:40)
How Performance Kitchen is interfacing in this space (42:40 / 39:05)
Mark’s personal story reversing prediabetes (47:08 / 43:33)

Learn more at performancekitchen.com. Find the Meal Benefit Locator tool here and download the Performance Kitchen Whitepaper here.