Mark Sherwood
Functional medicine and longevity doctor, co-founder of the Functional Medical Institute in Tulsa, former police officer and professional baseball player
Mark Sherwood (Functional medicine and longevity doctor, co-founder of the Functional Medical Institute in Tulsa, former police officer and professional baseball player) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Functional medicine, Police officer health and life expectancy, Glyphosate.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Functional medicine
Sherwood advises young people interested in healing to consider naturopathy or chiropractic for a broader perspective than conventional medicine.
“So I like people going into maybe naturopathy, maybe even chiropractic. Do that angle because you have the opportunity to have both sides of the coin”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 27:28
Sherwood says his wife was pushed out of a clinical practice because too many patients got well, which led to founding the Functional Medical Institute.
“she got into medicine and she was kicked out. because too many people got too well”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 26:51
Sherwood recounts that treating asymptomatic patients who tested positive for parasites made them worse, and they improved when treatment stopped.
“I've had people that tested positive for certain parasites, and they didn't have any symptoms. And I made the mistake of trying to treat them”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 18:08
Police officer health and life expectancy
Sherwood says a recent check showed officer life expectancy remains 66 and that first responders lack needed support.
“I checked recently, and guess what? It's still 66 years of age”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 30:52
Sherwood cites an old FBI study finding police officers with 20 years of service live on average to 66, a figure he says local data confirmed.
“But it said the average police officer, 20 years of service, lives to 66 years of age”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 31:14
Glyphosate
- Prediction · due Dec 2036
Sherwood predicts cancer will surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death within the next decade.
“Cancers will surpass heart disease as the number one killer, I believe, in our lifetime. In the next decade, I predict”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 5:45
Sherwood claims glyphosate is estrogenic and carcinogenic and contributes to reduced testosterone in men.
“Because glyphosate is a known estrogenic and carcinogenic compound. meaning it will drive estrogen”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 5:06
Food pyramid
Sherwood credits the current HHS secretary with improving dietary guidance but worries a future administration will reverse it.
“But my concern is that the next administration, whatever that would do, would flip it around the other way again”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 4:34
Sherwood criticizes the food pyramid for teaching that fat was bad while sugar and grains were acceptable.
“It said that fat was bad, sugar is okay, and we're going to eat a lot of grains and breads”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 3:58
Pharmaceutical advertising
Sherwood says the U.S. is one of only two countries, with New Zealand, that allow pharmaceutical advertising, which he says clouds public information.
“We live in a world where we're one of two countries in the entire planet that actually let pharma advertise us in New Zealand”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 2:15
Sherwood argues that people are not failing to act on their health but are taking the wrong action.
“they're taking action. They're just taking the wrong action”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 2:12
Artificial intelligence
Sherwood says AI saves his clinic time but its outputs must be verified because its data comes from humans.
“Because what goes into the AI mechanism that it scrapes and gets the data is put in there by human hand”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 25:24
Other remarks
Sherwood argues most mental health problems stem from unresolved childhood trauma and failed pharmaceutical attempts to balance neurotransmitters.
“I think most mental health is probably dealt with childhood trauma events, inability to deal with them, pharmaceutical drugs that have tried to balance out neurotransmitters and failed”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 16:05
Aging
Sherwood identifies inflammation as the main driver of aging, most often visible in the musculoskeletal system, gut, and brain.
“I think it's the inflammation that's driving the aging process”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 12:52
Biological age testing
Sherwood says his clinic uses the GlycanAge test and has seen patients in their 60s with immune ages in their 20s.
“My wife and I test the biological immune age of people using a test called glycan age”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 12:00
Peptide therapy
Sherwood argues peptides are natural molecules and that requiring FDA approval is the wrong model because the FDA is oriented around sickness.
“And people want those things to be quote-unquote approved by the FDA. But that's a wrong model. The FDA is bent on a sick model”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 10:54
Agricultural and food subsidies
Sherwood recommends avoiding government-subsidized foods as a rule of thumb for health.
“if the government subsidizes it regarding food, don't eat it and you'll probably be healthy”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 7:01
Predictions
1 pending
- Prediction · due Dec 2036
Sherwood predicts cancer will surpass heart disease as the leading cause of death within the next decade.
“Cancers will surpass heart disease as the number one killer, I believe, in our lifetime. In the next decade, I predict”
Digital Social Hour: The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073 (Jul 18, 2026) · Listen from 5:45 · Glyphosate
Appearances
The Sick Truth About Modern Health... | Mark Sherwood | DSH #2073Digital Social Hour · Jul 18, 2026 · 48 min
Sean Kelly talks with longevity doctor Mark Sherwood about chronic illness, food policy, glyphosate, peptides, biological aging, AI in clinics, police officer health, and his baseball dream.
Often appears with
- Sean Kelly · 1 shared episode