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SOLUTIONS TALK #6: Reasons You Should Switch to an All-Organic Diet Now
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Introduction to Christian Jardinov and Organic Lifestyle
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Today, I'm going to talk to you about why it's so important for you to switch to an all organic diet for you and your family, and not just why it's important for your long-term health,
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but also the wider implications of why it's important. So why you will be making the world a better place, believe it or not, by switching to an all organic diet as soon as possible, as much as you can. My name is Christian Jardinov. I'm the author of the book Autism Wellbeing Plan, How to Get Your Child Healthy.
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I would ask you to please check the episode description for the link to the Amazon link of the book. Please share this book with a family that you know with an autistic child.
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I believe this is one of the best resources out there that can help parents truly help their children improve their health. Please check it out if you know a family shared with them.
Health Benefits and Consultations
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And the other thing I just wanted to mention before we get on with the episode is I also offer health consultations. I'm a certified functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, among other things.
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If you or a loved one has had a chronic health complaint for a while now and you've not been able to find any sort of resolution through traditional channels, please check out the link down below. Get in contact with me and let's discuss it. There's a lot that can be done. It's all about re-educating ourselves about how these complaints
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manifest how they come to be and what can be done to address them. So if you or anyone you know needs help in this regard, please get in contact with me. There will be more information on the website. So that's all the housekeeping.
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out of the way.
Impact of Organic Diet on Environment
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So let's I just want to start with let's just briefly briefly discuss the less sort of evident or obvious fact that if you switch to an all organic diet, why is that not just good for you and you know, your health and your family's health, but it's better for the the world, let's say you're actually truly
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helping the world in by switching to an all organic diet. Let me just refund this for a while, you know, I don't have a ton of
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resources prepared to get really in depth in it. I've done plenty of research on it, but I'll just give you some high level stuff and we'll get into the health side of things because I think a lot of people don't realize that they're literally eating poison by consuming most foods nowadays. You are consuming pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides and other chemicals that are
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Some of them are literal poisons designed to literally kill living organisms. And then we'll also get into the other stuff that is in conventional food. But I think the most important couple of points regarding the bigger scheme of things is if you switch to an all organic
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diet. If you support only producers, farmers and manufacturers that invest their energy and resources into
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certified organic foods, right? Using the certified or the organic sort of methodologies, right? You were voting with your wallet. You were supporting the organizations, the companies and the farmers that are, you know, they are, in many cases,
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trying to do things the way they should be done. A simple example, if you buy conventional wheat products, bread, whatever, that most of those nowadays are manufactured using copious amounts of the herbicide glyphosate, as you may already know, and a ton of other stuff, a ton of other chemicals and
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crap. So if you vote that way with your wallet, those manufacturers or those producers get your cash. They have more cash to buy, more glyphosate, more GMO crops, more chemicals, fungicides, herbicides, in order to scale their production. And what is happening? More people
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They will produce. Their costs may go down because of economies of scale. They will produce more.
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that they can then undercut other producers. So their products with all the poisons and crap and chemicals in them and GMOs will be more accessible because they'll have more money for marketing. The product may be cheaper and you know, just very basic economics comes into play, right? On the other hand, if you support the smaller organic producers,
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You are now, in this example, you were buying wheat that was grown without, first of all, it being genetically modified to begin with, without
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herbicides like glyphosate, these chemical-based pesticides and all sorts of artificial fertilizers, some of which are really kind of, they really can contaminate the water and the soil.
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you are supporting much more natural, much more friendly to the environment farming practices. So that's a very, very simple example, right? That you would think
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You'd think it's crazy, but just imagine, let's say 150% of us switched to all organic and we only supported those. Think about how much less of these toxic chemicals will be sprayed in the environment. And when they get sprayed, they don't just sit there. There's what is known as agricultural runoff. We have the wind, water,
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just moving these chemicals around. The problem with a lot of artificial fertilizers is that they get stuck in the soil, then a bunch of rain can cause runoff and it can contaminate rivers, it can contaminate
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It can get into the sea, it can be harmful to sea life. There's just such a horrendous chain reaction. Whereas a lot of organic farmers, they recycle a lot of the waste that horse poop, cow poop,
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all of the kind of trimmings and clippings of plants. A lot of that stuff is just composted down and it's recycled in a much closer to the way nature intended way, right? So there's so many, there's so many implications. There's so many implications for the environment, for just the fact that, you know, a lot of these
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chemicals, glyphosate, and I keep saying glyphosate because everybody knows it, but there's all these horrible, horrible pesticides that some of them have been implicated in Alzheimer's, autism, ton of conditions and issues and diseases.
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the less money we put into those people's pockets, those companies, the better, basically, right? It's truly the last 50 to 70 years of this sort of population increase and the use of these large scale agricultural practices that has allowed the population explosion to occur, literally,
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that has made these companies so rich and so powerful and that they're able to circumvent all sorts of regulations and bribe and lobby for their poisons to continue to be allowed to be on the market even though there's evidence
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already that many of these things are poisonous right so there's so many implications by making such a simple little choice right seemingly simple choice right so that's that's that sort of thing you know there's
Problems with Conventional Farming Practices
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There's way deeper rabbit holes you can get into this research. If you're interested, if you look into regenerative agriculture, Polyphase Farms and Joe Salatin and what he talks about, there's a lot of learning that you can do related to how this type of regenerative agriculture and
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I know all the related practices how they can actually improve the world you know for example using livestock and. You should never separate the big the other big problem with conventional agriculture.
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these huge fields with a monocrop, say corn or wheat or whatever, which is extremely unnatural. In nature it's all together and there's animals, the cows and whatever other animals, you know, they're going around, they're pooping.
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the animals are dying, decaying, their organic matter decays and becomes food for the diverse microbial life and the diverse plant life. So what you have with these monocrops is it causes devastation to habitats, it causes
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Once you stop farming the land, you could potentially have destroyed the soil.
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There's just so many negative things that you can educate yourself on and why this is important. Why supporting these smaller scale, more natural farming practice type businesses is the way to go if we want to really improve the state of the world. So without turning into a massive rant, I just want to go over
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the base case of why organic foods is why especially listen especially if you have any sort of health condition or if your health is not optimal and you are not eating only organic food and like pristinely purified water I'm telling you like you
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you really, really need to rethink what you're doing. If you want to get better, of course, if you don't care that your health is, if you're fine with having low energy or whatever other chronic gut problems or whatever else you have, if you're okay with that and you don't want to do anything about it, it doesn't matter then. But if you want, this sort of segment on my podcast is about
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solutions, right? If you want some type of solution, this is the way to go. And let me first of all, let me just list off some of the things that you will be avoiding by switching to organic food. So we've already mentioned. Sorry, I just need to get my notes here in order a little bit.
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Okay, so we already talked about herbicides and pesticides. So now organic agriculture still uses
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some types, they still spray, they still use some type of pesticides, but these are usually plant-derived, for the most part. They still use fertilizer. There are potential issues with the sources of organic inputs.
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because there's a concept that to be certified organic is one thing, but the fertilizers and inputs that are approved for organic production
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they can come from non-organic sources. So it's not as simple as just look for the certified organic or USDA organic labels and you're good to go. You still have to like, ideally, as you get better at this, seek out manufacturers because you can still get crappy organic food, you know what I mean? This was too much sugar or sunflower oil. It might be, might be organic sources of it, but you know,
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Crap food is crap food, junk food is still junk food even though it's organic, though better than the traditional or conventional stuff. By switching to organic, you greatly reduce exposure to glyphosate, various organophosphate, organochlorine type pesticides, fungicides of various kinds.
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A lot of, to be approved for the certified organic sort of certification, a lot of additives
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are not allowed, right? So food, artificial food coloring. So in organic foods they use like, for example, for like yellowy color, they might use turmeric or beet for red-ish colors. You know, you won't get any MSG, monosodium glutamate. You won't get high fructose corn syrup. You won't get many
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nasty emulsifiers. A lot of these emulsifiers, just to give you some frequently used ones, would be things like mono and diglycerides, sodium aluminum phosphates, steroid, lactylates, polyglycerol esters, polyglycerol poly, resinioleoate, sorbitan esters, sucrose esters, polysorbate. So these
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Are not approved for emulsifiers for organic certified organic foods you may.
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I'm pretty sure one of the few that can be used is like lecithin, like sunflower lecithin, but it still has to be from organic sources. I actually take lecithin as a supplement, so it's actually got benefits as opposed to all these other emulsifiers, which they actually cause intestinal permeability. Now, my previous episode on the podcast,
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from like three or four days ago, I talk about how autoimmunity develops and intestinal permeability or leaky gut is one of the sort of things that can create ripe conditions for that to occur. So these emulsifiers, they actually contribute to intestinal permeability, aka leaky gut. So you'll be avoiding this garbage, right? You will be
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avoiding it, you know. Anyway, I'm sorry, I really should get to the point.
Healthier Animal Products and Diet Concerns
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So yeah, so, organically grown food, pastured meats and stuff like that, they also, in the case of animal foods, they also don't use hormones and
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antibiotics and just like all sorts of other chemicals to keep those animals healthy. The animals are much, much healthier, right? So they eat foods that are much closer to their regular diet, for example.
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chickens will be truly free range, you know, it won't be like in factory confined operations. So they will be healthier. So the healthier meat is healthier for you. That's why a lot of there's been a lot of like BS going around that meat is bad for you. It's actually not not meat that's bad for you, right?
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meat from sick animals is bad for you. So in the States, especially with all these, just the practices there, as you're probably aware, you know, confined factory or these cows that are just had a lot eating GMO grain that's already been sprayed with glyphosate to begin with, but eating grains
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just to produce milk and just eating these unnatural GMO grains that are unnatural to their diet. This causes so many things. So the animal is sicker, the nutrient profile changes, so there's in the milk and the meat and everything else, there will be more inflammatory compounds. For example, pasture raised
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beef will have a much higher omega 3 fatty acid profile whereas if the
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animals eat a lot of grains like soy, which is very high in omega-6 fatty acids, then the meat will have more omega-6 fatty acids, right? And omega-6 fatty acids are way too common in most people's regular diets. So we have a much higher ratio of
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Omega-6 to Omega-3 is in our diets nowadays, right? Which is very inflammatory. And a lot of inflammation, chronic low-grade inflammation, hard to notice, but it does you damage and over months, years, decades, it causes, it contributes to a lot of horrendous health problems, right? Okay. So here, this is from my book, Autism Wellbeing Plan.
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I just make a little three point case for an all organic diet. Here's three simple points. If you grasp them, if you fully intellectually understand them, right?
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It should be all you need to decide to make the full switch to all organic food for you and your family. So point number one, herbicides and pesticides are harmful to humans. There are links with autism, neurodevelopmental problems, cancer, and other disorders.
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Number two, conventionally produced industrial food is heavily sprayed with herbicides and pesticides. Heavily sprayed. Okay. And number three, therefore organic food is the only safe choice given the evidence we're presented. So there's not enough research has been done on the herbicides and pesticides, right? Because obviously,
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A lot of the research out there getting done is sponsored by Big Pharma and companies that have a lot of resources, but also products that are less than savory, let's say.
Organic vs. Conventional: Debunking Myths
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So they're going to skew the research and publish research that supports their stuff. So their bottom line is harmed. But if we
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do a simple logical sort of deduction or a process of logic, let's say. I'm not really good at this philosophy stuff. You have herbicides and pesticides. We have enough research, I should have said as well. We have enough research to show that herbicides and pesticides are harmful to humans. I mean, they're harmful to bacteria, insects, other plants,
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bugs, you know, some pesticides are like for rats and mice. They kill, they kill creatures great and small than microscopic, small and small and microscopic, let's say, not great and small. From let's say the size of a rat to the size of bacteria. So
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How is it not that people are like, wait, this poisons other organisms? How are people not getting it that it's poisoning me? You know what I mean? I know, I know. You have to be presented with... I have to say, I only...
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understood this stuff, you know, several years ago. Before that, I was completely unaware. And here, this is why I'm doing this. And I hope that you can share this. And as you learn, you share with other people, don't just keep the information to yourself. I think that's a waste. That's a shame to not help other people because it's okay if you're ignorant of something and, you know, you keep doing it because you're unaware that it's harming you and the environment.
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But once you know, once you know, you know, at that point, there's no excuse, right? So I'm not judging anyone that that continues to eat, you know, this food and buy it. But once you have been educated, you know, there at this point, there is no excuse. And honestly, we can talk about the financial aspect later.
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Even if the financial thing is stopping a person from doing it, you know, like, so what's more important, you know, a few extra bucks saved or like not eating and drinking poison on a daily basis three times a day. You know what I mean? It's like, it almost,
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It's kind of unfortunate that we have to pay extra money to not be poisoned in this world that we live in. But I can only present you with a solution here. The rest is like it's just the way things are right now. And the solution again is you stop eating the poison and you support
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companies and organizations and producers and farmers that are making quality food that isn't poisoned. So it's a double-pronged solution. So you're helping yourself, you're helping improve the food industry, and you're supporting the right people in it, and you're supporting more regenerative practices and less of these sort of
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environmentally devastating farming practices. So this is it, like I say in my book on autism, once you know, you can't unknow this. And look, it might not convince you because you haven't read all the stuff I've read, but it should at least, if you don't, and you shouldn't trust me only,
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get some books on the topic, read some articles, watch some videos, read some research papers. There's plenty I cited in my book. Educate yourself and convince yourself of the veracity of these statements. But yeah, once you know, you can't unknow it. So at this point, for me, it's very, very difficult.
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to buy non-organic food. Yes, we go to restaurants once in a while and you just have to make better choices when you're at the restaurant and stuff like that. You can go for, if they have Irish beef or if they have wild caught fish, sardines, there's always going to be something that is less sort of
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less bad than like just buying like the cheapest chicken that they could get, let's say in a restaurant that is lived in God awful conditions all its life and you know, it's probably sick all its life and propped up by drugs and antibiotics and stuff, you know. So, so that that's really it. Herbicides and pesticides are harmful to humans. There's links to autism, neurodevelopmental problems, cancer and other disorders.
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Alzheimer's as well. Conventionally produced industrial food is heavily sprayed with herbicides and pesticides, heavily, heavily, heavily, heavily, like a lot of, so wheat is when they chop down the wheat or whatever.
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they spray it down with glyphosate and that desiccates it so it doesn't sprout and it doesn't spoil while it's still drying out there in the field. So it's not just, you know what I mean, it's not just sprayed while there's so many chemicals used along the way and a lot of these
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grains and stuff, they get moldy. You know, there's lots of molds that can attack them while they're in the fields. So they use a lot of these very nasty fungicides, which, you know, it's bad enough to have mold that's toxic enough, as I'm sure many of you listening will know, but then to stick these toxic substances. And you know, again, you have no idea
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like you might be super lucky and like the food you buy or the produce you buy the animals that you know the animal products that you eat they might be from like
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someone that maybe they just can't afford these extra chemicals and stuff. So they have to be a bit more natural in their practices. But if it's like from a big chain or some other mass produced stuff, these companies have extremely, they're very corporate and they're very methodical in their bottom line.
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you know they have a every acre they have a certain yield they have to get every season so they're very specific you have to spray this much artificial fertilizer this much per you know per acre in glyphosate in order to get xyz yield so if they
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They have to apply all these nasty things because they have to protect the crop because that's the revenue. They're not just going to invest all of this and not use it. They need to ensure that the crop will come to fruition so it can be sold, so they can make back the money and then some profit on top.
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It's like Russian roulette but five out of six chambers have bullets instead of one out of six when you buy non-organic conventional.
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You know what I mean? Like, okay, here, so that's, so just to summarize, you reduce herbicides and pesticides, you avoid genetically modified foods such as soy, corn, canola, sugar beets and others. You avoid hormones, antibiotics, better nutrient profiles in the animals. I was actually listening to Joe Salatin,
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the farmer guy was talking about the polyphase farm guy. He was talking about they tested their eggs from his farm in the US and the folate
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number was like a hundred times or whatever it was some crazy number higher than the folate of like conventionally you know produced eggs right another important reason to get off of conventional agriculture is you're actually going to reduce your exposure to heavy metals not just so not just chemicals but also toxic heavy metals because
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For example, mercury and arsenic are very effective antimicrobial and antifungal agents, so they're often added to
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products used in conventional agriculture to slow down the growth of fungi and bacteria. For example, mercury is added to the feed used in fish farming, and sometimes it's added to seeds to preserve them. It can be used in fungicides and stuff like that, right?
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So you're reducing toxic exposure in a multitude of ways. But here's one more thing I'll add. Just check how long I've been talking. God, I always say it's gonna be like a 20 minute episode and then I find myself
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blabbering on. I hope you're getting value out of this. I sincerely do because there's a lot of stuff. There's a lot of education that must happen for positive changes to happen in the world. We cannot
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You cannot summarize everything in like a TikTok video nowadays. This is what really like people are getting away from and we have to push back and continue this kind of longer form content and continue educating folks. And I hope over time, my
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explanation and presentation style gets better. So there's less sort of, it's more really to the point of valuable discussion as opposed to rambling on like I'm rambling on right now talking about how I'm rambling on. Sorry. All right. So here's, let me give you a quote.
Scientific Insights on Organic Benefits
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from a, hold on a second, okay, this is again from in my book on autism. So this is a quote that is coming from an extensive meta-analysis paper. So it's a paper that I'm quoting, a research paper.
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So this was an extensive meta-analysis based on 343 peer-reviewed publications that showed meaningful differences in the composition of organic and non-organic foods. So that's 343 peer-reviewed publications that this meta-analysis
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And here's a couple of quotes that I cite from the paper in my book. So, in conclusion, organic crops on average have higher concentrations of antioxidants, lower concentrations of cadmium, and a lower incidence of pesticide residues than the non-organic comparators across regions and production seasons.
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So, okay, cadmium being a toxic heavy metal and we already discussed that and the lower incidence of pesticide residues, we also discussed that. But having higher concentration of antioxidants is actually interesting. Here's another quote from the same paper.
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Based on the differences reported, results indicate that a switch from conventional to organic crop consumption would result in a 20 to 40 and for some compounds more than 60% increase in crop-based antioxidant slash polyphenolic intake levels without a simultaneous increase in energy, which would be in line with the dietary recommendations.
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so basically you gain 20 to 40 or up to 60% more antioxidants from the food and you know antioxidants is a broad term but um it's it's it's just to simply simply kind of talk about it it's basically when you
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A lot of these antioxidants, they're protective compounds that the plants express to protect themselves from bugs, the sun, Paris, pests, stuff like that.
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So, if you apply pesticides to protect the plant, it doesn't feel the need to create these compounds, right? And I'm not saying necessarily that, you know, antioxidants or the endo-be-all
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that you must have like the more antioxidants you have the better but uh having antioxidants in your diet there has been plenty of benefits shown right and uh what they basically do is they kind of they
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they're somewhat toxic to us to the body the antioxidants so what they cause through this what is known as hormesis which is basically a stress that it's like it doesn't what doesn't kill me makes me stronger so it's like a stress on the body where it up regulates our own
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endogenous antioxidant production and defense mechanisms so they can stimulate the production of internal
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antioxidants like glutathione for example so having more antioxidants and nutrients obviously in the food is a good thing right so that's another little thing i just wanted to to mention there now 37 minutes in i'm gonna just for another five to seven eight minutes i'm just gonna briefly
Practical Tips for Transitioning to Organic
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talk to you a little bit about some strategies when transitioning to an, if you're not already on an organic diet or you haven't begun the process and you can't just do it all of a sudden, most people just can't or won't. Here's some strategies, right? I just discussed some of them. So if you eat eggs, just make that switch as one of the first things.
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get organic pasture eggs. You're just really gonna up the nutritional quality of your food right there.
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One thing I'd say is never buy organic salmon. Never buy any farmed fish, even if it's organic. Switch to wild cod fish, like small fish ideally. Canned or fresh sardines, things like that, mackerel.
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If you're looking for kind of cheaper products to start with, organically raised ground beef is usually cheaper. Chicken parts like next liver hearts, chicken wings, these are usually cheaper, chicken pieces. They're usually cheaper than chicken breasts, things like that. So chicken wings, thighs, that's a good kind of start. Also,
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Very often I see in bigger stores here that sell organic meat that people don't buy it as much here in Portugal. So it approaches the sell by date and they have to reduce the price. So very often you just see like three or four discounted and just grab them, stick them in the freezer and use them as you need them.
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So when it comes to the plant food aspect, so there's a website called ewg.org.
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the environmental working group. So every year they publish a list of, one is called, there are two lists, one is called the clean 15 and one is called the dirty dozen. So basically if you go into your search engine, hopefully not Google, doc.go, not sure, that's pre-search, let's say, go into pre-search.
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A new pre-search for EWG's Dirty Dozen and EWG's Clean15 and in fact let me do that right now.
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E W G clean 15. Okay. So the clean 15 for 2022. And here we go. E W G dirt, dirty dozen. Okay. 2022. Maybe they haven't published them for this year. All right. So the dirty dozen, as the name suggests is the, the ones that are the most sprayed.
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These are the nasty ones that you want to stay away from as much as possible. These are the ones that you want to start buying organic immediately, ideally immediately. If you can't find them organic, I would skip them until you find some other solution. Let me list off the dirty dozen for you here. Number one, strawberries.
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Number two, spinach. Three, kale, collard and mustard greens. Number four, nectarines. Five, apples. Six, grapes. Seven, bell and hot peppers. Shit. Eight, cherries. Nine, peaches. 10, pears. 11, celery and 12, tomatoes.
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Okay, and here's a note. A small amount of sweet corn, papaya and summer squash sold in the US is produced from genetically modified seeds.
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buy organic varieties of these crops if you want to avoid genetically modified produce. Do you notice something crazy? Some of the most common foods, some of our favorite foods are the most sprayed with pesticides. So look at the fruits.
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strawberries, nectarines, apples, grapes, cherries, peaches, pears, and tomatoes, which is technically a fruit. Well, bell and hot pepper is technically a fruit.
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Uh, so that's it. You know what I mean? Like, uh, apples, who doesn't eat apples, you know, grapes, peaches, stay away from these seriously. Like, trust me, like it's, it's not worth it. It's not worth it. I know it's, it's probably painful to realize for me. It was painful to realize, but, um, that's, that's what you're dealing with.
00:42:25
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get this list please and memorize it memorize the foods that you eat on it and only buy them organic now the clean 15 basically these are the the ones that are not so bad in terms of
00:42:48
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pesticide spraying. Avocados, sweet corn, pineapple, onions, papaya, sweet peas, asparagus, honeydew melon, kiwi,
00:43:02
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cabbage, mushrooms, cantaloupe, melon, mangoes, watermelon, sweet potatoes. All right. So where are we at? Wait, I didn't see potatoes on both lists. That's like a staple here.
00:43:20
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Yeah. So potatoes is, it used to be on one of, one of the earlier lists. Yeah. It used to, uh, in from my book, I have the foods from 2019 potatoes was on the dirty dozen lists. So interesting. So, so let me just, cause I have a visual here of the actual vegetables and fruits. If you look at the pictures of the,
00:43:51
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The Dirty Dozen. You see like strawberries, spinach. So these are like leaves or thin skinned like grapes, nectarines, strawberries. They're thin skinned like tomatoes, kind of fruits, cherries. They're thin skinned. So very easy for insects to get through at months. So you have to spray the shit out of them.
00:44:17
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to you know prevent these organisms from or these tests from wanting to eat them whereas if you look at the clean 15 you're talking onions thick protective sort of
00:44:34
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outer layer sweet corn as well pineapple peas sweet peas they're like in a pod you know papaya thick again avocado is quite thick of a skin honeydew melon kiwi you know got the hairs on it's pretty nasty
00:44:53
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cantaloupe, cabbage, I'm not sure why but whatever, mangoes, quite thick skin, watermelon thick skin and sweet potatoes, you know, they're root crops. So you can kind of, you know, understand where they're going for, what they're going for in terms of spraying and which crops are more resistant to pests by virtue of having more protection, right? So interesting to think about that.
00:45:25
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That is it, I believe, for today.
Financial Considerations and Priorities
00:45:30
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I hope that this has at least convinced some of you listening. I hope others that are not convinced will do more research. Please share this with someone you know, if you're already on the organic food buzz.
00:45:49
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By the way, just to add, in terms of costs, I look at non-organic produce prices just out of curiosity. And I noticed, for example, a week or two ago, I noticed potatoes, non-organic, a euro 50 here where I live, and they're like 2 euro 20 organic. So the difference
00:46:14
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is okay. In terms of percentages, it's not miniscule, but it's not like double the price.
00:46:25
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Very often I've seen this, it's like a 25-30% price difference. Even with berries, sometimes. It just depends, of course, on availability and season. That's the other thing. Eating organic food somewhat forces you to eat more seasonally, which is actually more natural, so you're living closer to nature.
00:46:53
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so it sucks honestly we haven't had berries raspberries and blueberries since the summer or kind of late summer which kind of sucks you can still find a lot of these things in in the store strawberries and stuff but like what was number one on the list strawberries like jesus christ you know it's just
00:47:25
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I would rather sacrifice eating berries for a few more months until the season starts than knowingly poison myself and my wife and my child. Seriously, this is literal, like there's literal poison on them in order for them to look that good.
00:47:45
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It is literal poison, literal to prevent pests, bugs and whatnot, and funguses and whatever, to not devour and enjoy those delicious fruits. That's the bottom line.
00:48:05
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It is not fun to find out, it's not easy. But again, we have to do what's right. Not what's necessarily what's comfortable, what's easy or what's cheap, you know? Because again, if you're talking about saving 30% on food or whatever,
00:48:29
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At what cost? At what cost? At neurodegenerative disease when you're 60? It's like a false economy.
00:48:44
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You know, if you're depleting your endogenous and antioxidants on a daily basis because of all these extra poisons you're taking in, toxic substances, your body's using up all of your reserves just to kind of neutralize those. So yeah, you will age faster.
00:49:06
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you have cognitive decline faster. Every single process in your body will, over time, diminish in efficiency and effectiveness. Because you're taking in poison, you know what I mean? It's like, when you grasp this, and I know it's, you have to do a bit of research, you have to really educate yourself a little bit more to fully understand it, but once you grasp it, once that kind of, it clicks, you're like, flip, you know, I'd rather,
00:49:34
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not by myself a pair of jeans this week and eat some good chicken then you know look good for my Instagram photo or whatever
00:49:52
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or a new cap or God knows what. You know what I mean? That's literally how I think. I've had, when I was broken, I've had financial periods of financial difficulty. We continued eating organic food and even taking some supplements, quality supplements. And you know, those are baseline things. And a lot of other, there's a lot of other sacrifices I would make before I, you know, food is literally has to be the last thing.
00:50:22
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Your food and your water that's your that's your bedrock, you know and a lot of people that are taking I know folks that are taking these expensive supplements like Maybe like a six-month supply would be like 200 bucks or you know, like a month's a bottle like 60 bucks
00:50:40
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you know and you taking this supplement and they don't even take like a basic be vitamin or they're not they're eating you know this pesticide glyphosate laden garbage.
00:50:54
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every day, you know, conventionally produced poison and you're taking like a 60 euro supplement, you're putting the cart way, way, way, way ahead of the horse there.
Conclusion and Call to Action
00:51:08
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It's the food and the water that you got to start with.
00:51:11
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Okay, Christian Jornoff signing off. Thanks for tuning in. Hope you found it useful. Please share. Please check out my book on autism and share if you can spread the word. This is important that we share this information with other families. Thanks again for tuning in and I'll see you on the next episode.