Leadership and Loyalty – Eziah Syed: Solutions for a Sick Healthcare System

We all have the essential information required to go from sick to healthy.

So why are we so sick? To start, we trust doctors with our lives and those we love and care about. Yet, medical workers are vastly overworked and often must improve in certain care areas.

For instance, many trust doctors to guide them in nutrition, not realizing that most practicing physicians lack nutrition training. Many doctors complete around 2-4 hours, averaging only 19 hours over four years. In fact, a study published in the journal Academic Medicine found that in the 2008-2009 academic year, just 27% of 105 medical schools met the minimum requirement of 25 hours of teaching on nutrition. However, there is minimal political will to change this dysfunctional system, let alone have the FDA recognize food as medicine. What will happen when this dysfunctional system collapses due to the dichotomy of its lack in most areas and bloating in others?

We will dive into the potential personal and technological solutions facing our aging population in the next two episodes…

Our guest for the next two episodes is Eziah Syed. Eziah is the Co-founder and CEO of Mend Labs, a nutra-pharma and digital wellness company based in New York City. Eziah has spent decades in strategy and innovation for companies such as Deloitte and Citibank and has been at the helm of several tech startups and scaleups.

Website: https://mend.me

Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eziah

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mendnutrition

Part 1) The Failing Trillion-Dollar Health Care System

The Poet’s Voice in Health Care
When Your Family Gets Sick
How Personal Crisis Brings Awareness
$1 Trillion a Year on a Health Care System that is Failing
By the end of 2023, U.S. diabetics/pre-diabetics will account for 50% of the population
Where have all the doctors gone
Why are there not enough Nurses
How You and I can “MEND” our Health.

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