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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mom's a nurse but i never grew up with that much access to something that was close to nature and fun and so i just kept extending the trip and eight weeks eight days became eight weeks and then six months and then i bought a house and then i sold it and then i moved to another spot in costa rica and it just it's just gone from there and i've never really wanted to leave because it's been such a good quality of life for me
It's a really nice balance for me. Before the show, we were talking about the jungle and infrared light, and I'm sure we'll talk about that on the podcast, but yeah, it feels very disconnected. I mean, where I live is, I've got a house in the jungle overlooking the ocean, and it's just... All I see is green. Outside my door is just green leaves reflecting infrared light, and it's warm.
When I got there, I felt very wealthy in terms of sunlight, and that felt really good. I mean, we know sunlight is good for humans. We have ultraviolet, which makes vitamin D and other things in the human body, but you have a full spectrum of light. And being near the equator, it makes so much sense. The temperature in Costa Rica is...
It's pretty much between 76 and 84 degrees Fahrenheit year-round. It's so easy to be a human there. I rarely wear a shirt. I almost never wear shoes. I never close the windows in my house. I sleep with all my windows open, and so I'm connected to the outdoors so much more. I don't have to use air conditioning. I don't have recycled air. The water from my house comes from a stream.
on the mountain. So there's no fluoride, there's no chlorine, there's no pesticides, there's no pharmaceuticals in my water. And it's just, it's clean air, clean water. There's no cell service at my house. So I have a wifi router at my house and I turn the wifi off and I use ethernet cables. So I'm sure we'll talk about
rf emf wi-fi type stuff in the podcast too hopefully and so i have zero rf emf at my house and i can just live in that environment and sort of do the experiment do i feel differently because growing up i lived in the suburbs and there was a time when i was around 22 that i through hiked the pacific crest trail so i walked from mexico to canada and that's on a wilderness trail that's continuous
Every night for three and a half months, I slept on the ground on a sleeping mat, but I was out in nature. It was one of the most joyous, simple times in my life. But I think that there's something about being in nature that's good for humans. And that changed me. And I feel like I'm closer to that when I'm in Costa Rica.
I'm just closer to nature and closer to that sort of memory of just being in the natural world. And it's just, it's meant everything for me over the last few years. I went down during COVID. So there was a lot of political stuff happening too. Oh yeah. Yeah.
You know, it was a little bit. Every time I went back to the States, I had to do a COVID test. And in a lot of the grocery stores, when I first got down there, you had to wear a mask. So they were enforcing some things. Costa Rica kind of just follows. They don't really question much. But it was much more free, I think, than the States was.
Because they did close the beaches, apparently, in Costa Rica. I was living in San Diego before I was in Austin, and that was when COVID first started, and they closed the beaches.
It was crazy. When I was living in San Diego, I was surfing, but I also had a foil board. Do you know what a foil board is? Is that the thing Laird made? That's what Laird made, right? So it's a board with a mast and then a wing below it. And I had an electric foil board. And I would go to this inlet, the Hedionda Reservoir in San Diego, and I would go on my foil board.
It's an electric foil board. You don't need anyone to pull you, and you can kind of essentially fly around. The board is out of the water. And during COVID, they closed it. You couldn't even go in the water. And I thought, forget this. I just went in by myself. And I'm foiling around the reservoir by myself. I'm thousands of feet from any human.
And a policeman saw it or someone called it in from the neighborhood. And I saw there were flashing lights at the entrance where I would get out. And I thought, oh, that guy's going to give me a ticket. And I think it was like a thousand dollar ticket for breaking the quarantine or breaking these rules and COVID. And so I just waited him out. I just stayed in it.
I didn't have anything else to do that afternoon, thankfully. I waited him out. I just sat on my foil board in the middle of the reservoir. It's like a brackish saltwater, freshwater reservoir. I just sat there. And then... He waited for four or five hours. Eventually, I went to this little inlet and kind of snuck around. And there was a house full of people.
And I said, hey, can I bring my foil board up? And I went and walked over. And he was sitting right by my truck. The people in the neighborhood must have said, that's his truck. And the cop was sitting there. And then eventually, he left.
Yes. But this policeman, who I respect, right? Thank you for your service. Like, literally during COVID, the best use of his time was trying to give me a ticket for foiling by myself in the middle of a reservoir, and he waited for four to five hours for this.
Yeah, it's very American-friendly. In Costa Rica, you can own property. I believe... In Mexico, you have like a 99-year lease, but in Costa Rica, you own the property outright. So I bought a house in Costa Rica, and they may have changed the laws, but I think you only have to spend $150,000 or $200,000 on a property in Costa Rica to qualify for citizenship track. No kidding.
Yeah, I'm a temporary resident right now. In a year and a half, I'll become a permanent resident, and then you can become a citizen maybe five years after that. I forget the exact date. progression. You can get a pathway to citizenship in Costa Rica just by buying a moderate property there.
It's pretty good. I have some good friends. One of the things you often do in Costa Rica is you get a caretaker, like a a gardener who looks at your house most days because people will squat in your house if you're not there. So I have a caretaker who takes care of the foliage at my house and cleans and like helps me with errands when I'm not there.
And he's Nicaraguan and we speak exclusively in Spanish. So it's good to practice. Yeah.
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