Mark Hyman Ridiculously Hyping Apeel

Mark Hyman, MD, known as the “father of functional medicine,” was out there FIRST promoting the dreadfully unsafe product in Dec, 2020 that 70% of Americans got injected into themselves.

But, it gets worse. He recently accepted money from Apeel Sciences as his sponsor, pitching their product. He interviewed the founder of that company, and someone really needs to address the red herrings and downright embarrassing arguments the two of them made as they defended this product sprayed on our food against our will, which we cannot remove.

Let me share a few of their arguments, with brief rebuttals:

Hyman first says that his audience is expressing their outrage, that he would promote this product sprayed on our fruits and vegetables, saying that people think there’s glyphosate in it. He laughs at and gaslights his audience throughout the interview. He says no one should attack the product without facts, and so I bring you some facts.

One is that people educated about this product are not complaining that it contains glyphosate. If Apeel were actually made of just food, as the founder of the company claims it is, maybe we’d be concerned about glyphosate. I personally have made four previous videos about Apeel, and I’ve never claimed there’s glyphosate in it. And I’ve seen dozens of other influencers speaking up, and I’ve never heard THEM claim there’s glyphosate in it, either.

I wonder if these guys think we’re kind of dumb, and unaware of 80,000 OTHER toxic chemicals used in our food, air, products, and water? They never touch any issue besides glyphosate. Hyman asks the Apeel founder how his product is made, and the guy never answered that, and Hyman didn’t follow up to push to actually get an answer.

What we’re ACTUALLY concerned about is that the synthetic fatty coating, we cannot wash off our produce, we cannot peel it off, as the founder keeps saying it is “a peel,” he even says “exactly like the peel on a lemon.” The important topic they don’t touch is that it’s made with several petrochemical solvents containing heavy metals and many other toxins.

Ironically, the Apeel Sciences founder says that we should be looking for solutions outside the petrochemical health solutions; I guess he’s referring to drugs—and yet, his manufacturing process for this miracle “peel” on food, uses petrochemical solvents and other toxic chemicals.

He claims that his product is “food protecting food.” The problem is, it’s NOT a food, and it’s also NOT the peel made in nature on the outside of a lemon, like he says it is. It’s a synthetic product, again, with a variety of toxic chemicals and metals in it.

If James wants to eat his product and call it food, that’s fine. In fact, I would like to fly in and film him eating this “food” that he says he’s putting on the outside of food, to make it not spoil, like food does—but I would buy their product and eat it, exactly under no circumstances. Because again: it isn’t food. Nor is it what’s on the exterior of a lemon. At all.

Both Mark Hyman and this young guy named James laugh throughout the video about what great marketing for their product, they’re getting, out of people complaining about it and investigating it.

The Apeel founder argues that the strawberry, which lasts only a few days, should take a page from the lemon, which lasts months, because it has “a peel.” (Get it?)

He then goes on to argue that the toxic synthetic coating we can’t get rid of and have to eat, is being used on avocados and limes. To state the obvious: didn’t God and Nature already give avocados and limes an actual peel? So we need two peels, then?

Hyman and James argue that they’re solving world hunger because Apeel preserves food for up to an additional week. Hyman calls James “heroic,” and yet, Apeel Sciences is a for-profit company, not a humanitarian organization, and the VP of Produce at Costco told me they’ve quit carrying produce coated with Apeel because it makes it more expensive.

The chemical industry, and specifically Monsanto, got public buy-in on the most ubiquitous harmful food chemical arguing that glyphosate would increase crop yield and feed the world. It didn’t, though. It killed weeds, and it killed people. There are thousands of people with active lawsuits open regarding their illnesses caused by glyphosate. Monsanto also put a lot of small farmers out of business. And they did NOT feed the world.

Hyman tries to downplay his link to Apeel by saying he took money from them only once or twice, and he throws in that he promotes regenerative farming. While I hope it’s true that he’s doing something positive for regenerative farming, does he really think we should accept that even our organic farms’ produce should then be sprayed with a preservative coating containing heavy metals and toxins and synthetic fat that we can’t remove?

The crux of their arguments, to the extent they even mounted any, were an exercise in the logical fallacy of “red herrings.” That is, to talk about glyphosate, which isn’t in the product much, to deflect from all the actual toxins that ARE in the product.

I don’t follow Hyman or read his books. Since one of his books several years ago literally stated that there is no reason human beings should ever eat a carbohydrate, I canceled an interview with him on my show I had set up for that day.

I think that’s dangerous advice, since carbohydrate-rich whole foods are not only the main fuel source of healthy human beings all over the world, throughout history, but also, those foods contain almost all our fiber, which is the biggest deficiency in the American diet. So even though I like to have people on my show with varying viewpoints on my show, I consider promoting carbophobia to be irresponsible and misleading, and I didn’t want my show to lead to more heart disease, cancer, and auto-immune disease.

And that was before he was the first public figure claiming to be pro-functional medicine, to push the toxic injections. If I were forgiving these two extremely disturbing pieces of bad advice out there, the advice against eating all carbohydrates, and the advice to take those injections--his recent paid promoting of Apeel sprayed on our produce, is what we baseball fans call “the third strike.”

I hope you all continue to think for yourself, seek the truth, and make good choices for your health. If you prefer to see this article in video form, here it is: 

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