Casey Means, MD
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It is the synergistic combination of all the toxins that are now in our environment that are leading to all these pleiotropic health issues. That's very hard to study. So we have to get our heads out of our ass and use our common sense and realize what's going on and not wait 10 years with these, you know, NIH-funded studies that are going to be corrupted. And, you know, I think...
That's just one thing about the food chemicals. I just wanted to add to your point, Cal, some other dates. You look at the processed food emergence. Processed food really didn't start taking off until these mergers. There was a little bit of a start of it. Ultra-processed foods did not exist before World War II.
And we needed to have shelf-stable food for soldiers and things like that that we could ship, and so there were maybe some good intentions there. But then there was an opportunity there that got seen. And we can also weaponize the feminist movement against, oh, being in the kitchen, you're a slave. Your value is outside the home. You need to climb the corporate ladder.
Here, have this convenience food that we basically made for soldiers, and we're going to tell you that this is actually your liberation. So, of course, we got people not cooking. Families aren't eating together anymore. Like, you know, kids are eating 67% of children's calories now are ultra-processed foods. These means foods that come from a factory made by food scientists.
Not just processed, ultra-processed, the highest form of processing, 67% of calories. Then you go to the 1970s, and we have the advent of high-fructose corn syrup, which, as Callie talks about, this preceded some of the mergers. But high-fructose corn syrup is a weapon of mass destruction that basically food scientists used in understanding about hibernating animals, like bears.
who, fructose is one of the only types of calories where instead of making you feel satiated, it makes you more hungry. And this is evolutionarily, and we knew this. In the fall, when animals are preparing for hibernation and they start eating fructose-rich berries, they need to put on a ton of fat for winter.
And so there's a feed-forward mechanism with fructose where it actually gets the bears to be hungry and even violent. to out-compete other animals to get as many berries as possible in a short period of time, to lay 3D print fat for winter.
So you have the scientists understanding this and say, hey, we can make liquid fructose a thousand times more potent than the fructose you'd find in berries, same molecule but in higher concentration, and we can add it to everything. We can add it to salad dressing. We're going to add it to ketchup. We're going to add it to children's school lunches. We're going to add it, obviously, to sodas.
And we're going to make people insatiable. We're going to make their bodies and their brains think that they're preparing for winter that's never coming. And there has been research that shows that high fructose corn syrup is associated with violence, ADHD in kids, all of these different things.
Just last thing I'll mention, flash forward 1986, I think another very important date, which is the date when the litigation went through that said we couldn't sue vaccine manufacturers.
And the Vaccine Safety Act, that's a very important date in the whole history because it is one of the first times where we were able to pass legislation through Congress that said that pharmaceutical companies could not be sued for wrongdoing. And that still is present today. They basically put together a little
Paltry little fund that people could apply to get, you know, no fault reimbursements for for for vaccine harm. But you cannot sue the company. So you start to get companies being legally immune from wrongdoing, which has then accelerated. And they're now starting to try and push things like that for pesticides as well.
So that's just some of the history of like why we're why we are where we are today. It's not rocket science. This has all been very institutionalized and structured. And it's the last 50 years. Like we can undo all of this with leadership. And so that's just a little bit of the picture of how we are where we are today.
Yeah.
No, it's really interesting. There's two amazing books on this. Richard Johnson from University of Colorado wrote Nature Wants Us to be Fat, and then David Perlmutter wrote Drop Acid. Both books are about a molecule called uric acid, which is unique to fructose metabolism.
So when fructose is metabolized in the body, not like glucose, it creates uric acid, which creates oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the brain and the body. That if you have mitochondrial dysfunction, you're not going to be able to process sugars to energy. You know, mitochondria powerhouse the cell.
So you break the mitochondria with the excess fructose overloading the mitochondria with uric acid. And then what happens? You can't turn sugars to energy. So what do you do? You turn sugars to fat. So you start 3D printing fat because you break the mitochondria with excess fructose overloading.
And on top of that, the mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress when happening in the brain is what may inspire the violence and the ADHD and all that stuff to make the bears manic so they get as much berries as possible. This is what's happening in every kid in every classroom in America now. And so that's kind of some of the biology very simply about what's happening with fructose.
Well, it's... generally is going to have sucrose, which is going to have some amount of glucose and fructose. But this is the thing about fruit, is that we have 40 trillion cells, and we have the ability to clear uric acid, and we have the ability to process fructose in a physiologic amount.
We're never going to have the uric acid increasing and overloading the mitochondria if we're eating an apple. It's when you're eating 20, 30 times the fructose that an apple has, and you're literally pouring it down. That all of a sudden, imagine, you get this huge rise in uric acid in the body and other things that are happening. And that's when it overwhelms.
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