Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
A new food additive called Tara flour, added to a beef substitute product, hospitalised over 400 people across the US — many with liver failure — before the FDA began investigating.
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In the episode's intellectual core, Dr. Palmer confronts a deeply embedded assumption in his own field: that diet has no meaningful role in serious mental illness. He argues that decades of neuroscience and cell biology research have been quietly converging on metabolic dysfunction as a shared mechanism across mental health conditions — from ADHD to bipolar disorder to schizophrenia — and that this link mirrors the metabolic fingerprint of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. People with metabolic disorders are disproportionately likely to have mental health conditions, and vice versa. Palmer's key provocation is deceptively simple: the food we eat becomes the neurotransmitters in our brains and influences every cell's function. [1] — Dr. Chris Palmer "Decades of converging neuroscience evidence point to metabolic dysfunction — not just genes or trauma — as a root driver of conditions from…" 04:40 Ignoring nutrition in psychiatry, he says, leaves clinicians perpetually chasing symptoms rather than treating causes.
About 10,000 chemicals are in the US food supply, and manufacturers can add new ones simply by declaring them 'Generally Recognized as Safe' — no independent testing required. A single additive called Tara flour hospitalised over 400 Americans with liver failure before anyone asked what it was.
In the US, manufacturers can declare new food additives 'Generally Recognized as Safe' (GRAS) without any mandatory rigorous independent testing — an honor system with life-threatening consequences.
About 10,000 chemicals are in the US food supply, many of which have not been rigorously tested for safety, let alone for their impact on human metabolism or brain function.
Mental health challenges are nearly universal — BetterHelp's own research found the majority of Americans experiencing symptoms right now.
When applying for Medicaid to cover nursing home costs, there is a 5-year look-back period that can disqualify applicants who gave away or spent down assets.
A broken pipe filled the Bad Friends studio with what the hosts identified as hydrogen sulfide — microscopic fecal aeroparticles — that the crew denied smelling.
Fei-Fei Li's father's liver surgery performed by a da Vinci robot resulted in 10 times less blood loss than a typical open liver surgery, thanks to laparoscopic precision.
Approximately 115 million adults in the US currently have prediabetes, most of whom are unaware, according to the Lingo sponsor segment.
Drug overdose deaths in the US fell from 110,000 to 80,000 in 2024, and then to roughly 70,000 — the largest single-year drop the CDC has ever recorded.
Men's overdose death rate fell 27% in a single year, outpacing the 23% drop for women.
The steepest decline in overdose deaths was among 15–24-year-olds, whose rate fell 37%.
Fei-Fei Li observed that on a given hospital shift, nurses walk miles just to fetch medicine and supplies, illustrating a clear use case for assistive robotics in healthcare.
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