Dr. Jeffrey Bland: What 300,000 Chemicals Are Doing to Your Body (And How to Fight Back)

BREAKDOWN

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

(00:00:00) Opening – Why functional medicine matters more than ever

(00:04:44) A legal war against toxic corporations & the real cost of chemical exposure

(00:06:09) What functional medicine actually means—explained by its founder

(00:08:00) The 4 core pillars of health: physical, metabolic, cognitive, and spiritual

(00:09:17) 300,000+ chemicals: how environmental signals hijack your genes

(00:10:34) Why chronic exposure to everyday toxins is worse than we think

(00:12:00) Neurotoxicology & immunotoxicology: the hidden fields shaping your future

(00:13:00) How low-level chemical exposure impacts mood, energy, and brain clarity

(00:14:56) Scaling solutions: where we start, and why Himalayan buckwheat matters

(00:17:23) New study: reversing immune aging by 47% in 90 days with food

(00:20:37) Why nature’s orchestration is more powerful than any isolated nutrient

(00:22:20) Bitter foods, GLP-1, and the natural way to stimulate weight loss

(00:27:23) Adaptogens explained: how plants adapt to stress—and help you do the same

(00:31:19) The danger of long-term GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic: what we don’t know yet

(00:34:07) Angry fat vs. friendly fat—how inflammation starts in your gut and spreads

(00:40:01) Santa Claus vs. Mars: the science of fat as a signaling organ

(00:41:18) The Pima vs. Tarahumara paradox: genetics, food, and diabetes

(00:44:32) The 70% processed food problem: how we’re feeding chronic disease

(00:46:14) Are we floating off the planet? A metaphor for today’s health crisis

(00:48:13) Changing the economic system through farming, soil health & food quality

(00:52:04) What ancient crops like Himalayan buckwheat can teach us about immunity

(00:56:00) Why paying farmers fairly can actually reverse public health decline

(01:00:01) Agrochemicals, glyphosate, and the broken agricultural model

(01:02:27) How do we scale food as medicine? Practical steps to reboot the system

(01:05:24) Why we must shift from quantity to quality in food and farming

(01:07:28) Are we growing potatoes from oil? Redefining sustainability

(01:10:01) What gives Dr. Bland hope—and how the next generation is already leading