Ep. 102: How Western Culture&Mainstream Medicine Keep Us Sick - a podcast by Jay Feldman Wellness

from 2023-09-21T09:08:39

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In this episode we discuss:

  • 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 


 


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Timestamps:


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  

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