#179 Paul Saladino - The FDA Approved Poison You Eat Every Day
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Why did Paul Saladino move to Costa Rica?
Yeah, I live in Costa Rica.
How long have you been down there?
Four years almost.
Why did you move to Costa Rica?
For fun, for surfing.
That's it?
Yeah, that's it, and for nature.
Nice. Yeah, I lived in Colombia for five years, but I can't say, well, I did move down there for fun, but it got a little too fun, and I had to move back. But I spent some time in Costa Rica in my journeys down south, and man, what a beautiful place.
It's jungle, it's ocean. I mean, I was living in Austin, Texas before I moved to Costa Rica, and I had just started a company called Heart and Soil Supplements. They make organ capsules. And so I was trying to do podcasting and build a company, and I just felt like I wasn't having enough fun. I've learned over the years that I am the most creative and the most able to do good work in the world when I have something in my life that I can do every day or almost every day that just brings me pure joy. It's just play. There's nothing productive about it. It's frivolous. It's just I want to be playing in nature. And that joy that I get from playing in nature in Costa Rica and surfing, it fuels everything else I do.
Because every single day in Costa Rica... unless it's a hurricane or unless the waves are absolutely horrible. I'm out in the ocean at 6 a.m. for two, two and a half hours. No kidding. Yeah, so I'm getting sunlight, I'm grounding, I'm moving my body, and I come out of the ocean and I'm just happy. And I don't always get a great wave. I've only been surfing six, seven years, so I'm still a pretty mediocre surfer. But I'm just full of joy. And that allows me to do everything else. And it makes all the other stuff that I do in the day easier because I'm just happy.
Dude, you got to connect with Laird Hamilton.
I've connected with him. I had him on my podcast. I've never met him in person, but I know a bunch of his friends in Malibu. Yeah, hopefully I'll get to hang out with him soon.
He's awesome.
He's awesome.
Yeah, he was great. We did. And he's all about being healthy. It's everything. I think you guys would really hit it off.
Absolutely. We both think about food, and I'm the same as that. I think about food as the center of human health, one of the biggest metrics, one of the biggest levers we can pull, and Laird is the same way, and it's served him well. What is he, in his 60s?
Yeah.
Still surfing big waves? Yeah. That's longevity.
Yeah, that dude, he's something else.
Yeah, he's incredible.
Great person, great person. But why Costa Rica? I mean, out of all the places you could go on earth to embed yourself in nature, why Costa Rica?
The story is that I was in Africa. So I went from Austin, Texas. I went to Whitefish, Montana, did some snowboarding to take a break from Austin. I thought I need a break. I'm a little bit overwhelmed with all the business stuff and building the brand four years ago, four and a half years ago. I went to Whitefish and then I went to Africa with a friend of mine to spend time with this tribe in Tanzania called the Hadza. They're some of the last remaining hunter-gatherers on the planet. And I've spent like two weeks there with the Hadza, and we can talk about that, because it's really interesting the way that they live. On the way back from Africa, which is a gnarly journey and all these time zones, I stopped in D.C. to see my family, and Austin, Texas had a huge ice storm. And I thought, I don't want to go back to Austin. They had a huge ice storm. Everything's shut down. It's horrible.
And I'd been hearing about this place in Costa Rica called Santa Teresa, which is where I lived originally, but not where I live now. And I thought, well, I've heard that Santa Teresa is a good place to be a digital nomad. They have good meat, they have internet, and they have good waves, and it's warm water, and I want to get back to surfing. So I'm going to go to Santa Teresa.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Paul Saladino move to Costa Rica?
0:27–23:50
2
What is the significance of eating organ meats?
23:50–1:26:07
3
How does Paul Saladino source his food in Costa Rica?
1:26:07–1:39:43
4
What are the health issues related to modern diets?
1:39:43–2:14:09
5
How can nutrition reverse chronic illnesses?
2:14:09–2:22:00
6
What is Paul Saladino's daily routine?
2:22:00–3:14:31
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