The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire

My First Million

Episode 601: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Calley Means ( https://x.com/calleymeans ) about the $50T drug that has Americans in a chokehold.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro

(1:54) The problem with Ozempic

(4:25) America is a dirty fish tank

(9:58) The Flexner Report

(12:06) 90% of doctors never study nutrition or fitness

(15:38) Cigarette companies invented processed food

(17:16) A case for Ozempic

(21:56) The macroeconomics of Ozempic

(26:37) Why you shouldn't trust Stanford or Harvard

(34:11) How one family got America hooked on drugs for life

(36:51) Nothing is more profitable than a child who gets sick early

(39:00) The 80/20 on nutrition and health

(42:32) How the death of a parent radicalized Calley

(46:46) Why Japanese children only have 3% obesity rate

(49:07) The difference between European and American candy

(52:33) HBS is a conformity factory

(55:50)"Psilocybin is the single most thing we should be doing"

(1:05:47) When the student is ready, the teacher appears

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• The Flexner Report - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178858/

• Good Energy - https://tinyurl.com/39jzb6zs

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• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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