Courtney Swan
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1,290 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4 Feb
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Exactly. If there was a weird swap and all of a sudden the Democrats are the one that are that are fighting for Maha. Great. Then I guess I'm a Democrat. Like I have no alliance to any political party. I just have alliance to my core beliefs and what I think are most important. That's it.
And I just don't like that we have turned this now because now what you're seeing, like, for example, when we saw in that Senate hearing today, Bobby is sitting there in front of them going, can we please, can we please put our side, our political agendas here? This is about our children. This is about the future of this country. This is about addressing the chronic diseases.
This is not about if you're left or you're right, because look, I'm sorry, if you're going to, if you get cancer, it doesn't matter if you're Democrat or Republican. So how can we not all come together on this and all decide? Cause we're,
We could be so much stronger and smarter and figure out things so much faster if we just stopped infighting about the political, well, you believe in this and we believe in that. It's like, okay, well, can we at least agree on this one thing and address that?
A second opinion on nutrition. It was a round table hosted by Senator Ron Johnson. Got it.
Publicly or do you mean like in circles?
I mean, that was a really surreal experience. It felt like everything I had been working hard for the last like 14 years was finally starting to get recognized. And, you know, let me say to the first seven years, I think I was doing real foodology. I didn't I wasn't making a dime. This was not it was in fact, it's I laugh about it now because it was never my intention to ever become a career.
Like I just was passionate about it. And then all of a sudden was like, oh, I'm putting a lot of time and effort into this. Like, how can I actually make this a job? So it was surreal because it felt like all of the work that I've been doing for the last 14 years was finally starting to get recognition. And it's not about me. It's just the message was getting recognition.
And actually, people were paying attention to it. It was so validating to hear our U.S. senator sit there on a public stage and say, why are we not asking these questions? Why are we not addressing this? Why? Why does Japan have a 3% obesity rate? And then we have a 74% obesity rate in American adults and then 50% in our children. So it was, it was a surreal.
And then I got out of it and yeah, I mean the videos went viral, which was amazing because I want people to understand what's happening with Monsanto and glyphosate. My phone was getting blown up. It was funny. I've had so many friends because, you know, I've been doing this for so long that, like I said, this wasn't even always my career. I just was in my circles.
I was kind of known as the like a little bit like crazy about nutrition kind of thing. Like people would always make fun of me for it where they just be like, oh, my God, Courtney's crazy. drinking your almond milk and like, you know, buying organic food and lecturing us about all of it or whatever.
And I was getting a lot of texts from people being like, wow, you have like stuck with this for a really long time and you're finally getting your message out there. And it's really cool to see. So it was, it was awesome.
Yeah, it's awesome. We have a, we have a group chat going where we, we keep each other up to date on, on everything, which is really fun and cool. And we all kind of motivate each other and it's awesome. Yeah. So Will was a friend of mine. Max was a friend of mine. I met some amazing people. Um, I had the pleasure of meeting, uh, Michaela Peterson and Jordan Peterson, which was surreal.
I think Jordan is amazing. Um, and I love what Michaela is doing. Um, yeah, it was, it's cool. Cause then now it feels like, it's so funny because I feel like this work I've been doing alone for so long, like I've known people in the space, right? Like I've had a lot of friends in the space just from living in LA and doing podcasts and stuff like that.
But it, it largely felt like I was doing this kind of alone for a long time, just because a lot of the work we do is like, you know, videos and trying to get the word out and educating people in the, or my podcast is largely alone.
So it's cool to feel like you have this kind of tight knit group now that we're all, we all have the same goals in mind and we're all helping each other and propping each other up. And it's, Cool. It's fun.
That one's really funny. And it's interesting because we've gotten a little bit of pushback on that even too. And I'll explain all the ins and outs of that. Red 3 was just the lowest hanging fruit. It's been banned.
It was Red 3. Okay, got it. Red 3. So there's been a lot of pushback from people saying, well, Red 40 is so much worse. It's so much more ubiquitous. It's in many more foods. Yes, all of that is true. Red three was just a very easy, low hanging fruit. They could immediately be like, OK, we know this. We've already banned this.
They banned this 30 years ago in cosmetics because there's a link to cancer. Why it ever ended up in our food, I don't know. But this is a perfect example of the competence, if you want to say, of what's happening with our food policies right now. And so and I think it largely was passed through because Bernie Sanders had a Senate hearing with the FDA, and they sat down in front of him.
I mean, he was grilling them. It was honestly amazing to watch.
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