Paul Saladino
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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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So for instance, on those meat sticks I handed you, the first ingredient is grass-fed beef. After that is organs, which is heart and liver. After that is vinegar and then salt and then a collagen casing. That's it. So your great-grandmother would know what all of those things are. She might not know what collagen is, but collagen is from the intestines of an animal, which she would recognize.
And so the jerky that we make is grass-fed beef, vinegar, and salt. And there are foods that are in packages in a grocery store where your grandmother would recognize the ingredients. We can talk about bread a little bit. The grains that we're using now are different than they used to be, and I don't eat bread for a variety of reasons.
But if you want to do bread, with this rule, you could eat a bread that was just flour, water, salt. That's what should be in bread, right? But you go to McDonald's, and the bun of a Big Mac has, I think it's about 55 ingredients, right? in the bun. And this is where it creeps in. You think that's just bread, right? My grandmother would, that's bread.
No, no, your grandmother wouldn't recognize azodicarbonamide and dimethylpolysiloxane and the four different seed oils, including hydrogenated soybean oil, which are in the bun at McDonald's. So single ingredient foods or simple ingredient foods is the way to start when you're making food choices.
Yeah, so every one of those is a little bit—I'll talk about each of them individually. Let's start with fish. So you point this out correctly. When you go, and I've done a lot of videos on this, when you go to Costco or wherever you buy fish, there is no such thing as wild Atlantic salmon. All Atlantic salmon is farm raised.
And they'll say Atlantic salmon and then it'll say small letters farm raised. Most of us have heard that farm-raised fish is much worse than wild-caught fish because it has PCBs, which are polychlorinated biphenyls, and they're feeding these fish fish food. They're feeding them basically the equivalent of a Big Mac is what they're feeding the fish in the tank that are farm-raised, right?
And there are parallels across all the species. I have a dog, and I feed my dog raw meat, raw organs, and bone. I always get a little sad when I see people feeding their dogs kibble. And again, this is no judgment if people feed their dogs kibble. I understand that there are financial limitations and not everyone is going to feed their dog just raw animal foods.
But there are better and worse types of kibbles. The majority of kibble for dogs is full of seed oils and really badly processed grains full of pesticides. Well, essentially what they're feeding, the lowest quality kibble that you're feeding to a dog is what they're feeding to fish. So you're feeding your fish kibble in a farm-raised salmon operation, and the fish are just less healthy.
They accumulate pesticides, pharmaceuticals, contaminants, microplastics, and PCBs. And so farm-raised fish is not something that humans should be eating. Most people don't know this, but every time I talk about it, it gets a lot of engagement. Farm-raised salmon has coloring added, and sometimes they use beta-carotene, which is a natural coloring, but those farm-raised salmon are not getting
the nutrients necessary to make things like astaxanthin, which gives fish its normal pink color in the wild because they're not eating algae. They have to give the fish extra color. So farm-raised salmon would be the color of tilapia or sea bass. It would be white if you didn't feed it more coloring. And so don't eat farm-raised fish.
But even when it comes to wild fish, you have to realize that large wild fish shark, some of the big tunas, swordfish, are very highly contaminated with heavy metals, such that in medicine, if a woman is pregnant, we say, don't eat that in your pregnancy.
The biggest ones, swordfish, shark, and some of the big tunas. Even mahi, pretty high. The bigger the fish... the higher it is up the food chain, and the more it accumulates heavy metals. The smaller fish have less heavy metals, but they still have significant amounts. There are documented cases of mercury poisoning from eating sushi. And, you know, sushi could be a mix of salmon plus tuna.
But if you ate tuna every day, you would unequivocally see the levels of heavy metals, mostly mercury, but also cadmium, arsenic, and lead in your body go up just geometrically. So this is the problem. And some tuna is better than other tunas, but tuna is such a big fish that it just has a lot of heavy metals. And this probably wasn't an issue for fish 200 to 300 years ago.
We have this industrial cycle where we put these pollutants into the air and then they go into the ocean and they bioaccumulate in the food chain. And we've done this to the ocean. We've created this problem of pollution in the ocean with fish. Even wild caught fish has a significant amount of microplastics. Microplastics are things, there's little tiny, tiny fragments of plastic
that hold onto because they're plastic, they kind of magnetize, quote unquote, they get stuck to other chemicals, whether it's organic chemicals, other pesticides. So microplastics themselves are these microscopic or nano type size plastics.
And we think about this in terms of like plastic water bottles, but plastic cutting boards, our biggest exposures are probably those, but fish is quite high in microplastics. And you know they've done studies now showing that there are microplastics in all of us. There are microplastics in human testicles, in human brains. There is an appreciable amount of microplastic in all of our brains.
It's not even micrograms. I think the actual number is milligram. I'd have to look at the number. It might be half a milligram of microplastic in all of our brains. And this is just from things that we're eating. in our bodies, bringing into our bodies. So fish have microplastics, even wild caught. They have heavy metals. They have forever chemicals, which are called PFAs.
We've been hearing a lot about these. And so I would not recommend that people make the majority of their protein from fish. We'll get to it in this interview because we'll talk about why red meat has become so vilified. I think that well-raised red meat is my preference for protein source for humans, but that's the one that gets the most hate, right?
Because it has more saturated fat, and we'll talk about why that is. But a lot of people trying to be healthy don't eat red meat, and they eat fish, thinking that fish is healthier, but you are accumulating heavy metals, microplastics, forever chemicals, et cetera, when you are eating fish every day. So you must check that.
And there are many of high profile cases of people getting heavy metal toxicity from pescetarian diets. Tony Robbins is a good example of this. So that's the sort of dismal outlook on fish. Pork and chicken are grouped together. These are monogastric animals. So in contrast to ruminant animals, so elk, bison, deer, antelope, cows, those are ruminants. Pigs and chicken are monogastric animals.
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