Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

So like a plant-based milk, plant-based yogurt, like these are places where you're going to find these. And ice cream in general, in general, regardless dairy, non-dairy, whatever. The issue is that they are disruptive to the microbiome.

So like a plant-based milk, plant-based yogurt, like these are places where you're going to find these. And ice cream in general, in general, regardless dairy, non-dairy, whatever. The issue is that they are disruptive to the microbiome.

So like a plant-based milk, plant-based yogurt, like these are places where you're going to find these. And ice cream in general, in general, regardless dairy, non-dairy, whatever. The issue is that they are disruptive to the microbiome.

And this signal emerged initially in animal model studies where we would see basically rats developing colitis, like ulcerative colitis because of exposure to these compounds. And it evolved to where they started to ask the question, like among humans, what happens? And actually there was a study done in France where they put people on a low emulsifier diet compared to a high emulsifier diet.

And this signal emerged initially in animal model studies where we would see basically rats developing colitis, like ulcerative colitis because of exposure to these compounds. And it evolved to where they started to ask the question, like among humans, what happens? And actually there was a study done in France where they put people on a low emulsifier diet compared to a high emulsifier diet.

And this signal emerged initially in animal model studies where we would see basically rats developing colitis, like ulcerative colitis because of exposure to these compounds. And it evolved to where they started to ask the question, like among humans, what happens? And actually there was a study done in France where they put people on a low emulsifier diet compared to a high emulsifier diet.

And they saw very rapidly significant disruption of the gut microbiome in the course of just days in people who were consuming the high emulsifier diet. And to contextualize this, I just want to be totally clear. This is not an argument that the way to fix our food system is to remove emulsifiers. That is not the only solution.

And they saw very rapidly significant disruption of the gut microbiome in the course of just days in people who were consuming the high emulsifier diet. And to contextualize this, I just want to be totally clear. This is not an argument that the way to fix our food system is to remove emulsifiers. That is not the only solution.

And they saw very rapidly significant disruption of the gut microbiome in the course of just days in people who were consuming the high emulsifier diet. And to contextualize this, I just want to be totally clear. This is not an argument that the way to fix our food system is to remove emulsifiers. That is not the only solution.

This is a broad issue where there are 10,000 additives in our food system. emulsifiers we have started to identify as potentially problematic, let me know when they pull these things out of the food supply because they have not. Let me know when that happens. I don't see it happening anytime soon, but maybe with RFK, maybe it will.

This is a broad issue where there are 10,000 additives in our food system. emulsifiers we have started to identify as potentially problematic, let me know when they pull these things out of the food supply because they have not. Let me know when that happens. I don't see it happening anytime soon, but maybe with RFK, maybe it will.

This is a broad issue where there are 10,000 additives in our food system. emulsifiers we have started to identify as potentially problematic, let me know when they pull these things out of the food supply because they have not. Let me know when that happens. I don't see it happening anytime soon, but maybe with RFK, maybe it will.

But this is not like you can take the emulsifiers out of the ultra processed food. It's still an ultra processed food. We still have other issues.

But this is not like you can take the emulsifiers out of the ultra processed food. It's still an ultra processed food. We still have other issues.

But this is not like you can take the emulsifiers out of the ultra processed food. It's still an ultra processed food. We still have other issues.

Polysorbate 80, carboxymethycellulose.

Polysorbate 80, carboxymethycellulose.

Polysorbate 80, carboxymethycellulose.

Yeah. Well, and also when you compound that with other things in your diet, right? So like this is not happening in isolation. This is not in a vacuum. This is concurrent with other things that are going to exist. The more that we lean into ultra processed foods, the more that we expose ourself to these risks.

Yeah. Well, and also when you compound that with other things in your diet, right? So like this is not happening in isolation. This is not in a vacuum. This is concurrent with other things that are going to exist. The more that we lean into ultra processed foods, the more that we expose ourself to these risks.