Paul Saladino

Okay. So then we have glucose. Again, glucose is a monosaccharide. Sugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide. It's fructose and glucose. Citric acid is a preservative. Natural flavors, we don't even know what that is, Pat. Natural flavors can be a lot of things. This is part of the problem with the FDA. This is... an illustration of how the Food and Drug Administration is captured.

Okay. So then we have glucose. Again, glucose is a monosaccharide. Sugar, sucrose, is a disaccharide. It's fructose and glucose. Citric acid is a preservative. Natural flavors, we don't even know what that is, Pat. Natural flavors can be a lot of things. This is part of the problem with the FDA. This is... an illustration of how the Food and Drug Administration is captured.

In the United States, you have over 10,000 ingredients in our food supply that have come into the food supply through the generally recognized as safe designation, the GRAS designation. And the companies that put these compounds into our food do not have to really do the proper safety trials. They can kind of grandfather them in.

In the United States, you have over 10,000 ingredients in our food supply that have come into the food supply through the generally recognized as safe designation, the GRAS designation. And the companies that put these compounds into our food do not have to really do the proper safety trials. They can kind of grandfather them in.

And the FDA now allows those companies to say, yeah, we tested it, it's safe, when there really haven't been any safety trials. So we don't even know I don't even know what natural flavors is. Your grandmother doesn't know what that is.

And the FDA now allows those companies to say, yeah, we tested it, it's safe, when there really haven't been any safety trials. So we don't even know I don't even know what natural flavors is. Your grandmother doesn't know what that is.

You have no idea what that is.

You have no idea what that is.

And when we're talking about this verbiage, seed oils have really been rebranded as vegetable oils, which is something we'll get to, right? So there's a euphemism there also. They're not a vegetable oil. They're a seed oil. But vegetable oils sounds healthy. Next, we're going on and we have taurine. So taurine is great. Taurine is a compound that occurs exclusively in animal foods.

And when we're talking about this verbiage, seed oils have really been rebranded as vegetable oils, which is something we'll get to, right? So there's a euphemism there also. They're not a vegetable oil. They're a seed oil. But vegetable oils sounds healthy. Next, we're going on and we have taurine. So taurine is great. Taurine is a compound that occurs exclusively in animal foods.

It's a type of amino acid that has been associated with longevity across species. So taurine is probably great for humans, but guess what?

It's a type of amino acid that has been associated with longevity across species. So taurine is probably great for humans, but guess what?

taurine is in meat taurine is in your steak and your hamburger and your chicken and you get taurine in animal foods there are no plant foods with taurine so that's a foreshadowing of the distinction between plant and animal foods for later in the podcast so there's nothing wrong with taurine sodium citrate is another type of preservative uh color added again we have no idea what that is what kind of coloring how it affects our mitochondria how it affects the gut that to me doesn't sound like a good thing period color artificial colors we know the food dyes are problematic yeah

taurine is in meat taurine is in your steak and your hamburger and your chicken and you get taurine in animal foods there are no plant foods with taurine so that's a foreshadowing of the distinction between plant and animal foods for later in the podcast so there's nothing wrong with taurine sodium citrate is another type of preservative uh color added again we have no idea what that is what kind of coloring how it affects our mitochondria how it affects the gut that to me doesn't sound like a good thing period color artificial colors we know the food dyes are problematic yeah

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I think that there's evidence that the ginseng may have some benefits in humans. I think Panax ginseng extract is one of the more benign things on this label so far. L-carnitine is, again, another type of amino acid that occurs naturally in foods. You can see the Latin root there, the carnal, the C-A-R-N. Carnitine and carnosine are naturally occurring in meat, and they're beneficial for humans.

I think that there's evidence that the ginseng may have some benefits in humans. I think Panax ginseng extract is one of the more benign things on this label so far. L-carnitine is, again, another type of amino acid that occurs naturally in foods. You can see the Latin root there, the carnal, the C-A-R-N. Carnitine and carnosine are naturally occurring in meat, and they're beneficial for humans.

They're antioxidants. I would rather that someone just eat a steak, preferably grass-fed, grass-finished, to get carnitine, but it's not the worst thing. Yeah, then you have caffeine, and caffeine is an interesting one. So caffeine belongs to a series of compounds known as methylxanthines. Theobromine in chocolate is another type of methylxanthine, and these compounds make us...

They're antioxidants. I would rather that someone just eat a steak, preferably grass-fed, grass-finished, to get carnitine, but it's not the worst thing. Yeah, then you have caffeine, and caffeine is an interesting one. So caffeine belongs to a series of compounds known as methylxanthines. Theobromine in chocolate is another type of methylxanthine, and these compounds make us...