📝 Episode Summary
Mark explains why the pursuit of happiness might make you miserable.
🎯 Top Takeaways
- Fix the soil, fix the plant: address root causes rather than masking symptoms
- Ultra-processed food is the biggest driver of chronic disease—real food is the best medicine
- Your gut is your second brain: gut health directly impacts mood, energy, and cognition
- Eat real food, mostly plants, not too much—simple rules for complex biology
- Functional medicine asks 'why' you're sick, not just 'what' disease you have