Carter Williams
@jcarterwil.bsky.social
Harnessing Force of Creative Destruction, iSelectfund, MIT Sloan, e/acc, Phantom Works, F/A-18 E/F, 3x Exits, #FoodisHealth, NetCentric Innovation
Why are we paying to manage diseases we could prevent?
We wasted 30 years arguing who pays for healthcare
The "healthcare" we're buying is junk. It's designed to manage chronic diseases we create with bad food. ACA subsidies? Just funding the epidemic.
foodishealth.substack.com/p/aca-subsid...
We wasted 30 years arguing who pays for healthcare
The "healthcare" we're buying is junk. It's designed to manage chronic diseases we create with bad food. ACA subsidies? Just funding the epidemic.
foodishealth.substack.com/p/aca-subsid...
ACA Subsidies Helped Fund A Chronic Disease Epidemic
And How System C Healthcare Can Solve It
foodishealth.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Why are we paying to manage diseases we could prevent?
We wasted 30 years arguing who pays for healthcare
The "healthcare" we're buying is junk. It's designed to manage chronic diseases we create with bad food. ACA subsidies? Just funding the epidemic.
foodishealth.substack.com/p/aca-subsid...
We wasted 30 years arguing who pays for healthcare
The "healthcare" we're buying is junk. It's designed to manage chronic diseases we create with bad food. ACA subsidies? Just funding the epidemic.
foodishealth.substack.com/p/aca-subsid...
Retatrutide: the next-gen glp-1 that beats tirzepatide, just hit the peptide grey market.
$23/month.
no fda approval.
same molecule as the brand stuff.
big pharma built walls.
internet tore them down.
napster for ozempic is here.
$23/month.
no fda approval.
same molecule as the brand stuff.
big pharma built walls.
internet tore them down.
napster for ozempic is here.
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Retatrutide: the next-gen glp-1 that beats tirzepatide, just hit the peptide grey market.
$23/month.
no fda approval.
same molecule as the brand stuff.
big pharma built walls.
internet tore them down.
napster for ozempic is here.
$23/month.
no fda approval.
same molecule as the brand stuff.
big pharma built walls.
internet tore them down.
napster for ozempic is here.
Chronic disease won’t be solved in D.C. It’ll be solved in kitchens, labs, and farms—by innovators, not lobbyists. buff.ly/neTl7Gr
Inside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against Maha
A Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Chronic disease won’t be solved in D.C. It’ll be solved in kitchens, labs, and farms—by innovators, not lobbyists. buff.ly/neTl7Gr
Sooner or later, you have to fix food.
Fixing food means affordable nutrition - whole food and processed.
Affordable nutrition means innovations for nutrient density, bioactive, agriculture, food production, etc. All deep tech. buff.ly/hkuqqs6
Fixing food means affordable nutrition - whole food and processed.
Affordable nutrition means innovations for nutrient density, bioactive, agriculture, food production, etc. All deep tech. buff.ly/hkuqqs6
October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sooner or later, you have to fix food.
Fixing food means affordable nutrition - whole food and processed.
Affordable nutrition means innovations for nutrient density, bioactive, agriculture, food production, etc. All deep tech. buff.ly/hkuqqs6
Fixing food means affordable nutrition - whole food and processed.
Affordable nutrition means innovations for nutrient density, bioactive, agriculture, food production, etc. All deep tech. buff.ly/hkuqqs6
Who will be the company that ends chronic disease?
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Who will be the company that ends chronic disease?
Nutrition is finally measurable. We invested in Edacious because verified nutrient data unlocks demand, pushes reformulation, and rewards value‑added agriculture. This is how food shifts from ultraprocessed default to food‑is‑health. www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...
Farming for function: Edacious and ROA put nutrition under the microscope
Edacious and the Regenerative Organic Alliance are partnering to quantify the nutritional impact of regenerative organic farming, creating a data-driven roadmap that links growing practices to human…
www.foodnavigator-usa.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Nutrition is finally measurable. We invested in Edacious because verified nutrient data unlocks demand, pushes reformulation, and rewards value‑added agriculture. This is how food shifts from ultraprocessed default to food‑is‑health. www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2025...
Why Silicon Valley should fund cowboys
245 million acres of US public land could sequester more carbon than all of California's emissions while producing the world's highest quality beef. The tech exists. The economics work. #RegenerativeAg #systemsthinking
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245 million acres of US public land could sequester more carbon than all of California's emissions while producing the world's highest quality beef. The tech exists. The economics work. #RegenerativeAg #systemsthinking
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FutureCast: How America's Public Lands Became the World's Proving Ground for Healthy Beef
There's more money in healing land than destroying it
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August 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Why Silicon Valley should fund cowboys
245 million acres of US public land could sequester more carbon than all of California's emissions while producing the world's highest quality beef. The tech exists. The economics work. #RegenerativeAg #systemsthinking
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
245 million acres of US public land could sequester more carbon than all of California's emissions while producing the world's highest quality beef. The tech exists. The economics work. #RegenerativeAg #systemsthinking
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
RFK Jr.'s Vision: Every American with a Wearable in 4 Years – A Healthcare Revolution?
foodishealth.substack.com/p/imagine-ev...
foodishealth.substack.com/p/imagine-ev...
RFK Jrs Vision of Every American With A Wearble w/in 4 Years
A summary of the June 24th Energy and Commerce Subcomittee on Health Hearing
foodishealth.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
RFK Jr.'s Vision: Every American with a Wearable in 4 Years – A Healthcare Revolution?
foodishealth.substack.com/p/imagine-ev...
foodishealth.substack.com/p/imagine-ev...
🌏 Ellen’s exploring health in China, from seniors practicing Tai Chi to herbal medicine at hotels. China faces big chronic disease challenges:
- 233M adults with diabetes
- 300M with hypertension
- Obesity quadrupled since '90s
Lessons for the U.S.? 🌱
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- 233M adults with diabetes
- 300M with hypertension
- Obesity quadrupled since '90s
Lessons for the U.S.? 🌱
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
🌏Data for the Weekend: Chronic Disease Insights from China
Ellen is in China, so who is health there?
open.substack.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🌏 Ellen’s exploring health in China, from seniors practicing Tai Chi to herbal medicine at hotels. China faces big chronic disease challenges:
- 233M adults with diabetes
- 300M with hypertension
- Obesity quadrupled since '90s
Lessons for the U.S.? 🌱
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
- 233M adults with diabetes
- 300M with hypertension
- Obesity quadrupled since '90s
Lessons for the U.S.? 🌱
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
🌿 GLP-1 treatments alone aren't enough. True health starts with food choices. Discover how integrating nutrition and healthcare can reshape our future. Check our latest insights.
#FoodIsHealth #Nutrition
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#FoodIsHealth #Nutrition
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June 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🌿 GLP-1 treatments alone aren't enough. True health starts with food choices. Discover how integrating nutrition and healthcare can reshape our future. Check our latest insights.
#FoodIsHealth #Nutrition
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
#FoodIsHealth #Nutrition
open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
🚨 Healthcare’s Achilles’ heel: Profiting from chronic disease.
💡 The solution? System C: Personalized, preventive, and built for wellness—not sickness.
The future belongs to those who embrace health, not just manage illness. buff.ly/0TzMhi5
#HealthcareInnovation #PreventiveCare #SystemC
💡 The solution? System C: Personalized, preventive, and built for wellness—not sickness.
The future belongs to those who embrace health, not just manage illness. buff.ly/0TzMhi5
#HealthcareInnovation #PreventiveCare #SystemC
June 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🚨 Healthcare’s Achilles’ heel: Profiting from chronic disease.
💡 The solution? System C: Personalized, preventive, and built for wellness—not sickness.
The future belongs to those who embrace health, not just manage illness. buff.ly/0TzMhi5
#HealthcareInnovation #PreventiveCare #SystemC
💡 The solution? System C: Personalized, preventive, and built for wellness—not sickness.
The future belongs to those who embrace health, not just manage illness. buff.ly/0TzMhi5
#HealthcareInnovation #PreventiveCare #SystemC
Health insurance started as factory‑injury coverage.
100 yrs later it’s a sickness subscription that soaks up 18% of GDP—and rising.
We dug into the inflection points (Ford Hospital ➜ WWII tax break ➜ HMOs ➜ ACA) and mapped how to reboot a true “System C.”
Read the playbook 👇 buff.ly/jSuLKDN
100 yrs later it’s a sickness subscription that soaks up 18% of GDP—and rising.
We dug into the inflection points (Ford Hospital ➜ WWII tax break ➜ HMOs ➜ ACA) and mapped how to reboot a true “System C.”
Read the playbook 👇 buff.ly/jSuLKDN
April 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Health insurance started as factory‑injury coverage.
100 yrs later it’s a sickness subscription that soaks up 18% of GDP—and rising.
We dug into the inflection points (Ford Hospital ➜ WWII tax break ➜ HMOs ➜ ACA) and mapped how to reboot a true “System C.”
Read the playbook 👇 buff.ly/jSuLKDN
100 yrs later it’s a sickness subscription that soaks up 18% of GDP—and rising.
We dug into the inflection points (Ford Hospital ➜ WWII tax break ➜ HMOs ➜ ACA) and mapped how to reboot a true “System C.”
Read the playbook 👇 buff.ly/jSuLKDN
Mouse utopia 👉 society’s warning.
Calhoun’s Universe 25 showed that abundance without purpose ended in extinction.
Our food system is on the same track—ultra‑processed plenty, collapsing health.
We lay out the parallels & a roadmap to flip the script in today’s Food is Health 🎙️👇 buff.ly/0m1Rn4q
Calhoun’s Universe 25 showed that abundance without purpose ended in extinction.
Our food system is on the same track—ultra‑processed plenty, collapsing health.
We lay out the parallels & a roadmap to flip the script in today’s Food is Health 🎙️👇 buff.ly/0m1Rn4q
April 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Mouse utopia 👉 society’s warning.
Calhoun’s Universe 25 showed that abundance without purpose ended in extinction.
Our food system is on the same track—ultra‑processed plenty, collapsing health.
We lay out the parallels & a roadmap to flip the script in today’s Food is Health 🎙️👇 buff.ly/0m1Rn4q
Calhoun’s Universe 25 showed that abundance without purpose ended in extinction.
Our food system is on the same track—ultra‑processed plenty, collapsing health.
We lay out the parallels & a roadmap to flip the script in today’s Food is Health 🎙️👇 buff.ly/0m1Rn4q
We got access to RFK Jr.’s draft plan to reshape HHS. It focuses more on food and makes drastic changes to many traditional programs. Take a look…. foodishealth.substack.com/p/hhs-reimag...
HHS Reimagined: RFK Jr.’s Bold Plan to Fix Food and End Chronic Disease
The controversy continues...
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April 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We got access to RFK Jr.’s draft plan to reshape HHS. It focuses more on food and makes drastic changes to many traditional programs. Take a look…. foodishealth.substack.com/p/hhs-reimag...
Despite spending more than $42B each year at NIH, chronic disease continues to grow. How do we now focus on research that ends Chronic Disease? foodishealth.substack.com/p/nih-nutrit...
Have NIH Priorities Led to Sickcare aka Healthcare?
Investment Priorities and Outcomes
foodishealth.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Despite spending more than $42B each year at NIH, chronic disease continues to grow. How do we now focus on research that ends Chronic Disease? foodishealth.substack.com/p/nih-nutrit...
“The one thing we shouldn’t do is nothing.” – Michael Mudd, Kraft, 1999
Food giants had their wake-up call decades ago. They hit snooze. Now a $4T health crisis demands they finally wake up or risk irrelevance.
Is Big Food the Next Kodak?
Food giants had their wake-up call decades ago. They hit snooze. Now a $4T health crisis demands they finally wake up or risk irrelevance.
Is Big Food the Next Kodak?
Part I - The Addictive Junk Food Empire
Even 25 Years Ago We Knew Food Was a Problem
foodishealth.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“The one thing we shouldn’t do is nothing.” – Michael Mudd, Kraft, 1999
Food giants had their wake-up call decades ago. They hit snooze. Now a $4T health crisis demands they finally wake up or risk irrelevance.
Is Big Food the Next Kodak?
Food giants had their wake-up call decades ago. They hit snooze. Now a $4T health crisis demands they finally wake up or risk irrelevance.
Is Big Food the Next Kodak?
If you feel confused about what Trump is doing, the reforms needed in the US economy, and our global standing, I recommend reading this book to understand the unique strenth the US holds leading into the next 50 years. buff.ly/IejE5V4
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If you feel confused about what Trump is doing, the reforms needed in the US economy, and our global standing, I recommend reading this book to understand the unique strenth the US holds leading into the next 50 years. buff.ly/IejE5V4
With $14B per year in marketing is it a surprise Ultra Processed Food dominates our diet? Agtech will make a lot of money if it helps real food take market share from UPF and Healthcare cost. buff.ly/elE0UDh
April 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
With $14B per year in marketing is it a surprise Ultra Processed Food dominates our diet? Agtech will make a lot of money if it helps real food take market share from UPF and Healthcare cost. buff.ly/elE0UDh
If grocery can detect nutritional variation they will demand and pay for better from the supply chain.
Pioneering Study Reveals How Production Practices Shape the Nutrient Density of Beef
/PRNewswire/ -- What makes one cut of beef more nutritious than another? A new landmark study may finally offer some insights. In a first-of-its-kind...
www.prnewswire.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If grocery can detect nutritional variation they will demand and pay for better from the supply chain.
Facts About HHS (and Why RFK Jr.’s Transformation Could Be Big) open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
📈Data for The Weekend: Health and Human Services
Facts About HHS (and Why RFK Jr.’s Transformation Could Be Big)
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March 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Facts About HHS (and Why RFK Jr.’s Transformation Could Be Big) open.substack.com/pub/foodishe...
If you look at US government R&D, Food is barely visible. USDA is the thin gray line at the bottom. HIH in orange, dwarfing DoD.
March 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
If you look at US government R&D, Food is barely visible. USDA is the thin gray line at the bottom. HIH in orange, dwarfing DoD.
America didn’t just feed the world, it used food to shape it. From Cold War diplomacy to GMOs and biofuels, US agriculture has quietly been one of the most powerful tools in our foreign policy playbook.
🍞Read the deep dive on 80 years of Food Power: buff.ly/V1brt6h
#FoodIsPower #Geopolitics #AgTech
🍞Read the deep dive on 80 years of Food Power: buff.ly/V1brt6h
#FoodIsPower #Geopolitics #AgTech
March 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
America didn’t just feed the world, it used food to shape it. From Cold War diplomacy to GMOs and biofuels, US agriculture has quietly been one of the most powerful tools in our foreign policy playbook.
🍞Read the deep dive on 80 years of Food Power: buff.ly/V1brt6h
#FoodIsPower #Geopolitics #AgTech
🍞Read the deep dive on 80 years of Food Power: buff.ly/V1brt6h
#FoodIsPower #Geopolitics #AgTech
If it’s this hard for me to eat well, with knowledge, money, and time, what chance does anyone else have? The real problem isn’t willpower. It’s the system. buff.ly/kOLjC3V
March 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If it’s this hard for me to eat well, with knowledge, money, and time, what chance does anyone else have? The real problem isn’t willpower. It’s the system. buff.ly/kOLjC3V
Hot off the presses: HHS unveils a bold, multi-part transformation to #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain. Workforce cuts, streamlined functions, and a renewed focus on customer experience are set to reshape healthcare. buff.ly/LJvBRdF
March 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Hot off the presses: HHS unveils a bold, multi-part transformation to #MakeAmericaHealthyAgain. Workforce cuts, streamlined functions, and a renewed focus on customer experience are set to reshape healthcare. buff.ly/LJvBRdF
A new study, “The No-Hunger Games,” reveals that users are spending less on groceries, cutting back on processed foods, and embracing healthier options. These shifts are not only saving money but also nudging the food industry toward better food. foodishealth.substack.com/p/the-glp-1-...
March 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A new study, “The No-Hunger Games,” reveals that users are spending less on groceries, cutting back on processed foods, and embracing healthier options. These shifts are not only saving money but also nudging the food industry toward better food. foodishealth.substack.com/p/the-glp-1-...