Joe Rogan Experience - #1569: John Mackey

In this episode:

Joe sits down with Whole Foods Founder and CEO, John Mackey to discuss Mackey’s new book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. Joe becomes quite argumentative while discussing the whole foods plant-based diet and its ability to reverse heart disease.

More from John Mackey:

• John Mackey Wiki & Bio

• Website - consciouscapitalism.org

• Article - The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare

John Mackey books:

• Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

• Conscious Capitalism Field Guide: Tools for Transforming Your Organization

• Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business

• Passion and Purpose: John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, on the Power of Conscious Capitalism®

• The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity

• The Whole Foods Cookbook: 120 Delicious and Healthy Plant-Centered Recipes

Show Notes: Capitalism, octopuses, and heart disease

Topics and references:

• Autocracy

• Stubbs BBQ

• Vulcan Gas Company

• Soviet Union economic problems of socialism

• Super PACS and lobbyists

• Elon Musk says entrepreneurs should work at least 80 hours a week

• FTC court and rulemaking authority

• Modernist worldview

• Progressivism worldview

• H-E-B grocery chain

• 1918-19 influenza pandemic

• 1918 Pandemic mask mandates

• Photos of people wearing masks in 1918

• Measles rates rising due to anti-vaxxers

• Cody Garbrandt UFC fighter lingering effects from Covid

• 10 million viruses in a surface drop of seawater

• Protein gluconeogenesis

• Octonation Instagram

• My Octopus Teacher documentary (Netflix)

• Video - Octopus kills shark at aquarium

• Pyjama sharks

• Female octopus strangles mate, then eats him

• How male octopuses avoid benign eaten by females

• Video - octopuses mate with a special “sex arm”

• Cuttlefish disguise themselves as female

• Pigs are an invasive species

• Podcast - Medical myth: Taxing adrenal glands (Chris Kresser)

• Blue zones

• Healthy user bias

• Video - chimps eating monkeys

• Theory - Did Cooked Tubers Spur the Evolution of Big Brains?

• History of chiropractic

• Big Pharma bribing doctors

• Hiking the Appalachian Trail

• Exposing your palette to a food will change preferences

• Obesity in the United States

• Uncle Eddie’s Vegan Cookies

• Microbiome impacts how you digest things

• Coros Apex smart watch

• Whoop strap

• Supplement for drinking - Glutathione

• Ray Kurzweil- life extension

Articles and studies:

• Article - Countries that have tried socialism

• Article - How Sweden Overcame Socialism

• Article - Why intellectuals hate capitalism

• Article - California to ban all gas-powered vehicles by 2035

• Story - Whole Foods merger with Amazon

• Article - The Texas wild pig problem

• Study - Health benefits of moderate coffee consumption

• Study - A plant-based diet and coronary artery disease: a mandate for effective therapy

• Study - Cardiovascular disease in the Masai

• Study - Inuit and heart disease

• Study - Unprocessed Red and Processed Meats and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease and Type 2 Diabetes – An Updated Review of the Evidence

• Article - 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat

• Study - Current Trends in Consumption of Animal Products

• Article - Liam Hemsworth quits vegan diet for health reasons

• Study - Revolutionary CRISPR-based genome editing system treatment destroys cancer cells

People mentioned:

• Philosopher - Karl Marx

• Comedian - Sam Kinison

• Politician - Sydney Powell

• Activist - Tristan Harris & The Social Dilemma

• Doctor - Paul Saladino, MD & Carnivore MD

• Doctor - Dean Ornish, MD

Books and shows:

• Book - Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now

• Series - Apex Predator

• Book - Spin by Robert Charles Wilson