Why Your "Healthy" Foods Are Making You Sick Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan cuts through nutrition confusion and exposes the uncomfortable truth: ultra processed foods now make up more than 60% of the American diet, and they're engineered to manipulate your body and brain. Most foods you think are healthy, like plant-based burgers with 21 synthetic ingredients and diet sodas that trick your metabolism, are actually sabotaging your health and creating cravings that trap you in a cycle of poor eating. Your gut microbiome holds the key to everything from your weight to your mental health, and it's starving without the 30 different plants per week it needs to thrive. By understanding how food companies exploit your evolutionary instincts for sweetness and fat, you can reclaim control and use Pollan's seven-word mantra to make choices that honor both pleasure and nutrition. The transformation begins when you stop lying to your body about what you're eating and start thinking of food as medicine rather than entertainment. Michael’s books: This Is Your Mind on Plants How to Change Your Mind Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation Food Rules: An Eater's Manual In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto The Omnivore's Dilemma The Botany of Desire In this episode you will: Identify the hidden ingredients in "healthy" foods that are actually toxic to your body Learn why diet sodas sabotage weight loss faster than regular soda Discover the 10 trillion organisms in your gut that control your mood and metabolism Master Michael Pollan's seven-word mantra for eating real food Understand how to retrain your appetite signals to stop overeating at every meal For more information go to For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960 Follow The Daily Motivation for essential highlights from The School of Greatness More SOG episodes we think you’ll love: Dr. David Perlmutter Glucose Goddess Dr. Jessica Knurick Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy ! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on Spotify Text Lewis AI YouTube Instagram Website Tiktok Facebook X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Why Your "Healthy" Foods Are Making You Sick Michael Pollan is an episode from The School of Greatness by Lewis Howes.

This episode is 01:42:56 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

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