Ep. 102: How Western Culture & Mainstream Medicine Keep Us Sick

21 Sep 2023 Ep. 102: How Western Culture & Mainstream Medicine Keep Us Sick

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Why culture matters and how we can effectively navigate it
The impact of the diet culture and the “eat less exercise more” paradigm
How Western culture blames the individual for their poor health and the toll that this takes
The problems with excess work, time indoors, and sedentarism
How the modern medical system takes away your capacity to improve your health
Why the alternative health sphere can be just as problematic as mainstream medicine

0:00 – why we’re discussing culture and our concerns with the culture in the US and the relationship between culture and health

6:05 – frames through which we can view culture and the importance of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

13:00 – how western culture degrades health: diet culture and the food industry

27:43 – how western culture degrades health: excess work, time indoors, and sedentarism

34:30 – how easily we can become numb to the effects of our culture or environment

38:07 – the broken modern medical system and the problems with the allopathic, symptom management model

48:21 – problems with the alternative health sphere