Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 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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probably the hot dog over there, or it's better than eating the Slurpee at 7-Eleven. And a lot of gas stations have fruit. It's not organic fruit, but they do have fruit. They have cheese. They have more of these single-ingredient, simple foods. So you just do the best you can with what you're given. And even a safe way, now, I've done content at Walmart.
You can go to any Walmart in the country now, I can't say any in the country because I haven't been to every one of them, but I've been to Walmarts in Texas, Walmarts in California, Walmarts in Virginia, Walmarts in Florida. They all have grass-fed beef now. You don't have to spend money on grass-fed beef, but every Walmart has... Beef, single ingredient beef.
And every Walmart that I've ever been to has fruit and vegetables. And again, it doesn't have to be organic if you can't find it, but doing that, that's the hugest step function for humans.
I feel like I may have, but we don't have those in Texas or other places I've been. Maybe there's one across from where I'm staying in Miami.
I don't mind Sprouts. Sprouts. I don't mind Sprouts. Sprouts isn't bougie. It's not fancy, but... I often go to Sprouts. I can get grass-fed meat that looks good. Sometimes the grass-fed meat at Whole Foods looks better than Sprouts. And I can get organic produce at Sprouts, and they have good honey. When I go to the grocery store, I buy grass-fed meat.
I usually have to bring organs with me, either in capsule form. None of these grocery stores have liver, although actually Sprouts does sell liver sometimes. I'll buy meat. I'll buy a cheese, like a raw cheese. I'll buy fruit. I'll buy honey. I'll buy squash. That's what I get at the grocery store. And I can get that. I can get pretty good at sprouts.
I mean, I went to Sprouts last night when I got into Nashville.
Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Are you a hunter? I do. I hunt with a bow and I've hunted with a rifle once. Just once?
It's not legal to hunt in Costa Rica. Yeah. But I have so many howler monkeys by my house that every morning and every night, I'll send you a video the next, I'm going back to Costa Rica next week. You hear this. It's like that. And there's sounds like a lion. It sounds like a dog and a lion mix. That's every morning and every night. It's just, it makes me so happy. I have a video on my phone.
I'll show you. There's these jungle sounds, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
It's amazing.
There are metrics that rank our health, and I think that we spend the most, if not top three in the world on healthcare. I think in 2024 or 2023, it was $4.3 trillion was the number that we spent on healthcare. But our healthcare outcomes, I think we're like 65th or something in the world, give or take. So there's a huge discordance.
And I would say the diabetes number is much higher than that even, I would say.
Yeah, that's formally diagnosed diabetes, but there are other studies that have been done looking at this continuum. And this is what Western medicine really misses when we're talking to patients and when we are taught as doctors to think about this. Diabetes is a continuum.
And the reason this is so important to talk about is because metabolic dysfunction, also known as insulin resistance, is that continuum. And that pathology underlies, I would say, 90 plus percent of chronic illness. And this is not hyperbole. The majority of chronic illness that we suffer from as Americans today is based in insulin resistance, also known as metabolic dysfunction.
And 90% of our healthcare costs are related to chronic illness, something that is preventable and reversible with the quality of our diet and how we live. This is what the Hadza don't have. This is what Native Americans did not have historically. So I'll tell you the story. This is pretty interesting. I went to medical school in Tucson, Arizona at the University of Arizona.
The Pima Indians are around Tucson, Arizona. So I went and visited Pima Indian reservations when I was in medical school. The Pima Indians are some of the sickest people in the world today. The rates of obesity and diabetes are over 80 to 90%. 80 to 90%. Wow. Like, what? Okay. And so... 200 years ago, rates of obesity and diabetes were less than 1% in the Pima Indian tribe.
This tribe of Native Americans has genetics that are uniquely susceptible to the environment that they find themselves in now. Ultra processed foods, we can talk about certain things. But 200 years ago, there are pictures online of Pima Indians from 1860, right? They're fit. They have six, they look like healthy, they're healthy humans.
but they have a uniquely susceptible genetic makeup to becoming insulin resistant. And so what happened when the Pima Indians had this explosion of chronic illness after we gave them supermarkets full of Cheetos and Fritos and Takis and alcohol is the NIH sent researchers to draw their blood to see what kind of genetics they have that make them susceptible to this chronic illness.
We never thought, oh, maybe we just poisoned them, right? the cause of their illness is black and white. It's absolutely black and white. And yet not once in medical school did this come up. Never once was I taught to think about this or challenged to think about this from a professor saying, what do you think about the Pima Indians? How do we help them?
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