The Magic Pill
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2017
- 91 min
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[classical score playing]
[Pete Evans speaks]
[jazz music playing]
When you look at every
other species on our planet...
they all control
their weight automatically.
The only exception was us...
and any animal unfortunate
enough to be fed by us.
I just couldn't understand
why we were the exception.
Why did we require willpower,
and everything else
did it on autopilot?
So I applied
the only relevant skill I had,
which was looking at evidence,
very little evidence
for the standard eating advice
we are normally given,
and there was
which had been largely ignored.
In fact, what we have
is dangerously wrong.
Who can tell me how
Yolngu people die today?
[people chattering]
[woman]
Heart disease.
[Tim Trudgen]
So, heart disease, yeah.
-[woman 2] Liver disease.
-[Tim] Liver disease.
-[woman 3] Asthma.
-Asthma. Yeah.
-Diabetes.
-[Tim] Diabetes.
-Yes!
-How many of you
have diabetes?
A lot!
[Tim]
Probably half
the people here have diabetes.
Yeah?
[Tim]
Diabetes, heart disease,
high blood pressure,
kidney disease--
all what we call
chronic diseases.
When did those diseases start?
1970s... late '70s, '80s...
So before that,
people were dying from...?
-[woman] Hepatitis.
-[Tim] Hepatitis.
-[woman 2] Pneumonia.
-Pneumonia.
-[woman 3] TB.
-TB.
They're all
the infectious diseases.
[Tim]
These are the ones
that came with the Europeans.
-[chattering]
-[Tim] Bacteria.
Infectious diseases.
-Yes, yes.
-[Tim] If we go back further...
How about the time
before the Europeans came?
[speaking Yolngu Matha]
Fighting...
[Tim]
People died from fighting.
Accidents...
Sharks... Crocodiles...
-[Tim] What's the main one?
-Old age.
-Old age.
-Old age.
[speaking Yolngu Matha]
[jazz music playing]
[Michelle]
I had this label
that I'm a fat girl.
I am overweight.
I have asthma.
I've always had asthma.
I have a rescue inhaler,
and then I have
a maintenance inhaler.
My rescue inhaler is becoming,
like a regular inhaler.
where I use it
-[Amy] Okay.
-[Michelle] And I've just
gotten used to it now.
And I've been in the hospital
where it got really bad.
When people talk
about wellness and health,
and "Are you well?
How do you feel?"
"I'm great!"
My vision is getting
worse and worse, very rapidly.
I had three fibroids,
and one was really big.
Upper respiratory infection.
They put me
on broad-spectrum antibiotics,
mega doses of prednisone,
azithromycin.
And so, I have
this standing prescription.
I'll just take it myself.
I was also diagnosed with ADD.
I don't know if that came up
anywhere on there.
-This is really important,
so we missed the ADD.
-Yeah.
-[laughter]
-I'm like, "Oh,
and incidentally..."
-[Robert]
"Oh, and by the way..."
[jazz music playing]
[Michelle]
I remember when I was little,
my mom taught me
to write a letter
"Dear Cathy,
how are you?
I am fine."
Like, those were
the three things
I learned first.
"How are you? I am fine."
but I'm not fine!
This is levothyroxine.
I take one a day for my thyroid.
This is atorvastatin.
It's for my high cholesterol.
This is fenofibric,
tizanidine, duloxetine--
I take that for anxiety.
Hydrocodone,
cyclobenzaprine,
gabapentin tablets--
That's supposed to make
in a different way.
This is also for my thyroid.
This is for my neck pain.
These are muscle relaxers.
And that's my medication,
which I think is more
than enough.
My mom struggled
She created me
to be an emotional eater.
Somebody was picking
on me at school.
"Come on,
let's go get an ice cream."
Something happened
good in school,
"Oh, let's go out
and celebrate.
We'll go to Mickey D's,"
you know.
And I ended up doing
the same thing with my kids
and my grandkids.
My mom finally developed
the Alzheimer's
and the dementia,
and I saw
the progression
of the disease
from start to finish.
And you know,
and I can't think of words,
and I start thinking,
"Oh, my God."
[crying]
You know?
"I'm-- I'm the same way.
I've gotten to be
the same way."
You know?
[screams]
[shouts]
[Debbie]
This is a vicious cycle
that needs to be stopped.
Kim, my daughter,
she has arthritis.
She has lymphodema.
She has hypothyroid.
Her daughter,
Kaylee, is nine.
She has celiac's disease.
Barry's children
are five and four,
Barry and Lauren,
my son and daughter-in-law,
they have a daughter,
Abigail, who's five.
[female nurse]
Abigail? You want
to come back with me?
Okay, sweetheart.
Just step right up here.
[Debbie]
She has autism.
She's nonverbal.
She has epilepsy.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
-No, no.
-[Abigail moans]
[Debbie]
She has digestive problems.
[female doctor]
Any trouble urinating?
Any trouble
with bowel movements?
-She has constipation.
-Constipation.
She's on the MiraLAX daily
for that?
-Yeah. Yeah.
-[woman] Okay.
[Barry] The hardest part--
it's just having a child
that can't speak.
I know my wife feels
the same way.
That's-- To me, that's like
the most painful part.
-Abigail.
-Abs.
-Look. Look over here.
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