Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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The Shawn Ryan Show · #179 Paul Saladino - The FDA Approved Poison You Eat Every Day · 5 Mar 2025
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Go to a friend's house for dinner. I'll have dinner with friends, have them over to my house with friends. I'll surf with friends. We watch sunsets together a lot. It's uniquely Costa Rican things, yeah. Go on the beach together, take my dog for a walk on the beach and see friends, yeah. Put a slack line up.
I just built a really cool pool at my house, and I was able to put an ozone generator on the pool so there's no chlorine in the pool. Nice. And I built a platform on the roof of my house. It's 21 feet from the roof to the pool. So the pool is 12 feet deep. Nice. I have people over and we hang out at the pool and listen to the howler monkeys.
You know, humans tend to accumulate a voltage, and when we touch the Earth, the voltage goes away. This is the movement, the actual movement of electrons can go between the human body and the Earth. And I was super skeptical, but there's actually published literature about grounding decreasing inflammatory markers, grounding changing the charge on the outside of your red blood cells,
Yeah, so it just kind of feels good.
No, no, I'm just walking barefoot on the earth. And that sounds more hippie than it needs to be. I mean, you can ground, most of the time you can ground on cement. You can just walk barefoot. You can walk out your house and just, I mean, I even do it here. I did it this morning at my Airbnb in Nashville.
I just go out outside of the Airbnb barefoot and try and walk on the ground a little bit in the morning. And in Costa Rica, it's much easier for me, right? Because I'm barefoot all the time and you don't even have to wear shoes to go into a grocery store in Costa Rica. But grounding is an interesting thing. It's something that humans have always done.
We've always kind of been touching the earth, but we're more separated from it now. And there seems to be benefits. I don't think it needs to be something that people obsess over, but just go take, you know, I think even in the winter, it's okay to take your shoes off and just go stand in the grass for a couple minutes. It's good to be outside in general.
And this is something we were talking about with the jungle. So I've been thinking a lot about light recently. So I think a lot about food and nutrients, but I also think a lot, I've been thinking a lot about light and light is in a lot of ways a nutrient. And so in order to be in the podcast studio and to get the lights to look good, we're using artificial lights.
This is obviously not outdoors in the sun, So the light, the spectrum of wavelengths of light that we're getting in here is not what we would get outside. There's no infrared light indoors. And there's also no ultraviolet indoors, which is something we can talk about as well. And this light that we're using indoors is enriched in blue, which is around 400 nanometers, 410, something like that.
So it's an artificial type light indoors. And so I'm not sure that it's good for humans to spend all of our time in fake, or I should say, sort of partially limited indoor lighting, right? And this, again, I'm not trying to make it impossible for anyone to live their life. What I am trying to highlight is the idea that it's very valuable to be outside for even part of the day.
So we were talking on the break of the podcast for a minute, and I said to one of the guys, like, let's just go step outside for a minute. It just feels good to be outdoors for me in the sunlight. And it's winter in Nashville, so there's no ultraviolet right now because the sun isn't very high. but there's infrared and there's a full spectrum of wavelengths that are visible.
And so that's interesting because the infrared light specifically is valuable for humans at the level of the mitochondria. And I didn't know this till recently, but there's actual data and published studies to show that infrared wavelengths, whether it's 800 nanometers on up, it's a very large amount of infrared in the spectrum, they allow our mitochondria in the whole body to produce melatonin.
And that melatonin gets used as a systemic antioxidant in our body. We traditionally think about melatonin in the brain and the pineal gland through the eyes and the suprachiasmatic nucleus as part of the brain that in conjunction with the paraventricular nucleus and the superior cervical ganglion are connected with our circadian rhythm.
This is why you hear people say, don't look at blue lights, don't have your phone on at night because essentially, partially my body thinks it's the middle of the day here under these blue lights, which is okay for the most part, because it is still the middle of the day, right? It's not nine o'clock at night.
But the concern when we're under these blue lights, which are both flickering, the sun doesn't flicker, and they're enriched in these blue wavelengths more than the outdoor lighting would be, is that it's going to confuse the entrainment of my circadian rhythm between the eyes and the brain, and that's going to affect melatonin production.
And this normal cycling of rhythm in the human body is essential, it's connected with so many hormonal processes and DNA repair and important things that are happening in our brain and all of the organs of our body. So our clock mechanism in our body is essential that that is protected if we truly want to be healthy.
What you eat is important, but also the light you take in can affect your body's inner working. So it's definitely more multifactorial than just food, as I mentioned earlier in the podcast. When I'm thinking about grounding, I'm also thinking, oh, I get to be outdoors, and I want more infrared light because I want the exposure to that. I want my body to be exposed to that.
Infrared can go through clothes, so you don't need to be naked or anything, and I'm not butthole sunning in Costa Rica. You don't have to do any of that. But there's evidence that also getting some ultraviolet light increases testosterone in males. So getting ultraviolet light on your skin is probably essential and is something that humans have always done.
The other interesting thing about full spectrum natural light is that the infrared wavelengths balance out the ultraviolet wavelengths. And so the potentially damaging effects of the ultraviolet wavelengths are in some ways countered by the infrared wavelengths. So if tanning beds are bad for us, it may be because they don't have enough infrared to go with the ultraviolet.
And so ultraviolet is good. If you get too much ultraviolet, you can get burned, which is bad. And I think that for a lot of people, our propensity to get burned is higher because we're eating too many seed oils, which are high in this linoleic acid. And we know that linoleic acid accumulates in all the membranes of our body, including our epidermis and dermis in our skin.
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