Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Let's see. I don't drink these, so I have to look at every ingredient list. I'm sorry, guys. I mean, we can pull this up. It's actually pretty similar to what we've seen on these other ones. These forms of vitamins, some of which are okay, some of which are not great for humans. The vitamin water actually uses fruit and vegetable juices for color. So they're doing a little bit better here.
But again, it's not great. They say reverse osmosis water is the first ingredient. Great, they're giving us clean water. The second ingredient is crystalline fructose. So they have to make it sweet and they're using a pure fructose in this vitamin water. And the problem with this, so fructose and glucose are two monosaccharides. Fructose and glucose together are a disaccharide we know as sucrose.
Pure fructose does not occur anywhere in nature. You cannot get pure fructose in nature. Fructose always occurs with glucose. fruit is connected with this sort of fructose name, right? So fructose occurs in fruit. A strawberry has fructose. Honey contains fructose. Anything that has sucrose contains fructose.
So when they're making a pure fructose in this drink, you're creating something that humans have never seen. And we know very clearly from animal models that when you feed animals pure fructose, it causes dysbiosis in the gut. It causes overgrowth of the wrong type of bacteria in the gut.
Because in your gut, in your intestines, you need glucose and fructose together for these to be absorbed properly. This is what we've always done as humans. We never... There's no fructose tree, right? You can't just go out and consume pure fructose.
But in so many studies with fructose, they will give animals or humans pure fructose, and that gets malabsorbed, meaning more of it stays in the gut, and then you get this problem again, which is dysbiosis. So, so many things that we are eating are assailing our gut microbiome and changing the balance there.
I think the food dyes are a good place to start. And I think that, you know, again, right at this moment, we're really hitting the intersection of health policy and business. And that's a tough one because I don't really think anything here on the table is healthy. So if you're doing these things, you are certainly negatively impacting your body. Now, What's the relative effect of that?
Could you drink this twice a week and be okay? Probably, but it's cumulative, right? So if you're drinking vitamin water, you're probably also drinking a Monster a few times a week, and then you're probably eating Chips Ahoy once or twice. I'm not passing judgment. I'm just trying to paint a picture.
You might be eating Pringles two or three times a week, and you're maybe cooking with seed oils or going to Chick-fil-A, which cooks in seed oils. You might be getting takeout one day a week from a Chinese restaurant. that cooks in soybean oil. So you see this is all cumulative. So any one of these things, could you eat two Oreos a week and probably not impact your quality of life? Yeah.
But at some point, it's all cumulative. And all of these things contain ingredients, especially the seed oils, which accumulate in our bodies. Some of these things contain ingredients that transiently affect our gut flora. But at some level, if you're consistently eating ultra-processed food with ingredients that
your lineage would not recognize from two or three generations ago, great grandmothers, you're essentially tonically, consistently affecting your physiology negatively.
So the interesting answer to this question is it's holistic, right? You kind of have to back up. And I can try and brainstorm in the moment and tell you what I would do if I needed more energy. But it's also, you said you come back from lunch and you're crashing. So I'm going to ask you, what did you eat for breakfast and what did you eat for lunch?
Because sometimes it's what you want to do for energy and sometimes it's things you should not be doing earlier in the day that are affecting your energy negatively. So the first thing I would say is how well did you sleep the night before, right? How much blue light did you have on your phone? How much TV did you watch? How long were you scrolling?
How much did you completely disrupt your circadian rhythm before you went to sleep? How dark is your bedroom? Is it really dark? Or is it a lot of lights in which are changing your sleep quality? Because if you have a bad night of sleep, and again, you start to see that this really is all connected. Everything is connected here. It's hard to say this one thing is the answer.
But if you had a bad night of sleep, you're really not going to feel great. You're not going to be as intelligent, as clear thinking as you possibly could be. So from the get-go, you are going to wake up cranky, foggy in your brain. You're going to crave junk foods. And if that's what's in your house, you're going to eat some Oreos. You're going to eat some Chips Ahoy.
You're going to drink a Monster or a Celsius before you go to work. And you've essentially already set yourself up for a 2 p.m. crash. There's really nothing you could do to avoid that. And then you're on this hamster wheel. You're on this vicious cycle. You cannot avoid that 2 p.m. crash. So you have to do things as well as you can throughout the day.
And I'm not trying to paint a picture that's impossible for people to do. I just want people to understand that it's connected with everything you do.
Okay, yes. And then I'll answer your question about a natural form of energy. Yes, please. So I think liquid calories and soda, that's a great place to start. You've seen it work. Stop drinking soda, number one, right? But that means diet soda too. So stop drinking any type of soda.
No soda. No diet soda, no regular soda. And I think in connection with that, why not get rid of the energy drinks, right? So no soda, no energy drinks. What you are drinking is water, spring water, carbonated water, Pellegrino, or a fresh-pressed juice. And I think it's fine to drink an orange juice if it's fresh-pressed. You want a good quality orange juice.
Yeah, you want it to be as good as possible. There was recently some stuff that came out, and again, I'm not trying to make this impossible for people. Some stuff came out about some of these packaged orange juices with high levels of PFAs, which are forever chemicals in the juice. So yeah, you want to get a juicer. You want to make your own juice.
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