Matthew Lysiak is an investigative journalist and author of Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed our Health and how bitcoin fixes It. He explores how fiat money corrupted not only the economy but also the modern food system — creating a cascade of incentives that have harmed public health, nutrition, and autonomy, follow Matthew on Twitter
We talk about the collapse of real food, the centralization of health narratives, the weaponization of science, and why metabolic freedom is at the core of human freedom. Topics are outlined in the timestamps below.
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Timestamps
00:00 – Intro
01:56 – How Saifedean Ammous inspired the project
03:52 – Why 1971 was the turning point for food and money
05:49 – Processed food, fiat currency, and systemic incentives
07:45 – Dietary shifts and personal metabolic experimentation
09:42 – Raw milk, sugar addiction, and mental clarity
11:38 – Why the health crisis is downstream of fiat economics
13:34 – Nutrition science as government narrative
15:31 – The demonization of meat and ancestral nutrition
17:27 – Economic instability and engineered food dependence
19:23 – Metrics, manipulation, and the CPI/nutrition parallel
21:20 – Loma Linda, Adventists, and institutional food myths
23:16 – Observational studies vs scientific causality
25:12 – The illusion of abundance in a fiat world
27:08 – Food policy and elite control mechanisms
29:04 – School lunches, childhood addiction, and learning failure
31:01 – Homeschooling, autonomy, and breaking out
32:57 – Raising free children in a captured society
34:54 – Trust collapse and skepticism as survival
36:10 – Final reflections and what comes next
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