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šŸ½ļø Inside the Food Fight: How Big Food, Bad Science & Broken Policy Are Destroying Our Health

Updated: May 15

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We are amidst a metabolic health crisis—one that’s hijacking our biology, disrupting our cells, and making us overweight, depressed, infertile, and chronically ill. šŸ’”šŸ§ 



šŸ”„ What’s Really to Blame?


Our broken food system—and the politics that protect it—lie at the root of this silent epidemic. For decades, we’ve been steered toward profits over people:


  • šŸ„– Processed grains

  • šŸ­ Refined sugars

  • 🌻 Seed oils

  • 🄤 Sugar-sweetened beverages


The result?


A perfect storm of inflammation, insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. This isn’t accidental—it’s incentivized.


🧬 The Next Generation at Risk


Perhaps the most heartbreaking outcome of this crisis is its impact on our children.


šŸ‘¶ Nearly 25% of kids meet the criteria for pre-diabetes.

āš ļø 40% are clinically obese.


This is the price of letting Big Food and Big Soda write the rules.


šŸŽ§ Tune into the full podcast for a crash course on reclaiming your metabolic health, one truth at a time.

šŸŽ™ļø On the Dhru Purohit Podcast: A Truth Bomb with Calley Means


On a powerful new episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, health advocate and whistleblower Calley MeansĀ shares the inside story of how soda giants like Coca-Cola manipulated government policy to keep sugary drinks in federally funded nutrition programs. šŸ„¤šŸ’ø


🚨 His now-viral tweet exposed how he ā€œsaw inside the roomā€Ā where corporate power stopped sugar taxes and rigged the system from the top down.


🧠 What You’ll Learn:


  • 🧵 Calley's viral tweet and the soda industry’s hidden agenda

  • šŸ’” The biggest lie: ā€œHealth is complicatedā€

  • 🧠 The link between ultra-processed foods and mental illness

  • šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Why our food system crisis is beyond political lines

  • šŸ¤ A non-tribal, bipartisanĀ call for policy change

  • šŸ’‰ The controversy around Ozempic, the so-called miracle drug

  • šŸ½ļø Why doctors aren't incentivizedĀ to help you get healthy

  • 🧬 How Calley’s mother’s sudden cancer diagnosis changed his view on modern medicine

  • šŸ”„ The moment Calley chose to reclaim our health narrative

  • šŸ›’ How his company, TrueMed, plans to let Americans buy real food and fitness with FSA/HSA dollars

  • šŸ“Ø How to follow Calley and subscribe to his eye-opening newsletter



FSA (Flexible Spending Account)Ā and HSA (Health Savings Account)Ā are special savings accounts in the U.S. that let you set aside pre-tax money to pay for qualified medical expenses. Here's a quick breakdown:


šŸ„ FSA (Flexible Spending Account):

  • Offered by employers

  • Use-it-or-lose-it (funds often expire at year-end)

  • Covers medical, dental, vision, and sometimes dependent care expenses

  • Doesn’t require a high-deductible health plan (HDHP)


šŸ’³ HSA (Health Savings Account):

  • Only available with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP)

  • Funds roll overĀ year to year

  • Can be investedĀ and grow tax-free

  • Covers a wide range of medical expenses


āœ… Both accounts:

  • Use pre-tax dollars, saving you money

  • Help pay for things like prescriptions, doctor visits, and now—through programs like TrueMed—healthy food, fitness equipment, and lifestyle toolsĀ when prescribed by a healthcare provider for chronic conditions



šŸ’„ Meet Calley Means


šŸŽ“ A graduate of StanfordĀ and Harvard Business School, Calley once worked as a consultant for Big Food and Pharma. Now, he’s blowing the whistle on the systems that weaponize our trust in science and medicine.


He’s the founder of TrueMed, a company redefining how we use health savings to actually stay healthy. And along with his sister, Dr. Casey Means, he’s coauthoring a groundbreaking new book on Food as Medicine.



✊ The Takeaway


We don’t need more medication—we need liberationĀ from a rigged system. Education, empowerment, and access to real foodĀ can turn this crisis around. šŸŽšŸ’Ŗ


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