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so first of all how important is organic
so um first of all you'd be surprised I
was just in the Asian market the other
day an Asian Park and that's not too far
from where I live and I was actually
able to find organic foods there um and
so many foods you could just ask the
grocer and they'll be able to tell you
so don't just take what's in front of
you ask those questions if it's
important for you to ask now you asked a
exciting question to me because it's an
area of my research how important is
organic first of all let me just be
really clear I had had for years been a
skeptic of organic foods okay I'm not
anymore but the reason I was a skeptic
is because I I kind of felt like it
rubbed me the wrong way why should I pay
more money to buy a food that's grown
without chemicals in a more natural form
uh so that I could actually have the
privilege of avoiding pesticides like it
just kind of rubbed me the wrong way
that that it would be marketing
something that was more natural and had
less chemicals I had to pay more money
to actually get the more natural stuff
right well there's another reason that
research now has shown very definitively
the advantage of organic foods and I
want everyone to really hear this
because it's important this is this is
science not marketing all right turns
out that uh a study was done and
published in a journal Nature by a group
an agricultural group Horticultural
group in England and they were looking
at
strawberries now strawberries as we all
know have a very thin
skin you can't SK you can't peel a
strawberry very
easily and so a strawberry that's grown
conventionally with
pesticides those pesticides are going to
be stuck on that skin and because the
thin is skin the thin the skin is very
thin the pesticides will tend to
penetrate inside that flesh right nobody
wants to eat a pesticide a chemical lead
and strawberry right
okay what the what the researchers did
is they wanted to compare not the level
of pesticides between conventional
versus organic strawberries they wanted
to look at something that I care about
which is the bioactives the good stuff
in strawberries what is among many good
stuff in Strawberry there's something
called elic acid elic acid is what makes
a strawberry tart like strawberries are
sweet and a little tart elic acid and
acid makes it a little tart and it turns
out allergic acid is so powerful it
actually can cut off the blood supply to
cancers you can eat strawberri statue
starve cancers it also is really a
powerful antioxidant it stimulates your
stem cells to repair your organs also
feeds your gut microbiome and it also is
helpful for lowering inflammation as
well right this is a really really
awesome natural chemical in Mother
Nature's Farm a c not with a p not with
a pH but with an F that's found in a
strawberry now here's what a surprises
when you compare the conventionally
grown strawberry treated with pesticides
looks pretty because bugs aren't eating
it okay there's no bugs or
insects swarming around a pesticide
treated strawberry and you compare it to
an organic strawberry okay where bugs
are have actually been nibbling at it if
you compare the electric acid there's a
lot more three times more electric acid
in The Organic Grown strawberry there's
three times more the good stuff compared
to the organic now why is that this is
what's really amazing turns out that
electric acid like many of these
bioactives are Mother Nature's um
natural insecticides and pesticides and
so what happens is that in a organically
grown plant you actually have these
little bugs that are nibbling on the
leaves and the stems of the strawberry
chewing at it and this whole strawberry
plant reacts to that nibbling by
creating more of a natural pesticide
natural insecticide called elic acid
loads up the fruit with it to protect
the fruit because that's actually what's
going to be responsible for the
reproductive health so that strawberry
plant can live to grow another day right
um and so organic has more of the
natural bioactive whereas the pesticide
treated or conventionally grown it keeps
away the bugs bugs aren't nibbling plant
looks a little better all right but
actually it doesn't need to produce as
much of the ELC acid this has been shown
not only for strawberries but peaches
even coffee beans you know organic
coffee you know fair trade organic
actually has a lot more of another
biochemical called a bioactive called
chlorogenic acid chloric genenic accd is
incredibly powerful for streamlining
your metabolism and actually improving
your blood flow uh as well and here's
another example with coffee where the
organic version is better for you and
we've actually measured it we found
three times more of the good stuff and
there's an explanation little natural
bugs and pests actually nibbling at the
leaves and stems of our plants actually
prompt them to actually secrete more of
the good stuff now I'm actually willing
to pay more to get more good stuff I
don't want to be paying more to get bad
to get less bad stuff I look at it now
it has completely changed my mind about
organic foods and so now when I have a
chance I will actually look for the
organic I love that and I love the
explanation that makes a lot of sense
and it's kind of riffing off what you
just said there we have this mentality
up till this point of paying for volume
and calories but what this does is flips
that on its head and even though we're
paying more for organic we can look at
it like we're paying more but we're
getting more nutrition so there's the
value there absolutely that's exactly
what I was trying to say I think it's
important we come at this from another
perspective as well so we know that the
nutrients are up and this is something
not a lot of people are talking about so
I'm glad you went into detail there but
let's talk about it and this ties into
something you brought up a couple times
the microbiome so what happens with that
strawberry example when it is sprayed
with pesticides which is there to you
know keep pests away and then it goes
into our digestive system and we have
all our good bugs there hopefully a lot
of good bugs how does our body react
with with those
chemicals yeah it's a great question so
let me kind of back up and what we're
talking about here is bacteria
microbiome is really an ecosystem
bacteria about 39 trillion bacteria that
lives in our gut actually lives all over
our body in every orifice you know your
ears your no your nostrils your mouth
your anus I mean every place there's an
opening there's bacteria but here's a
crazy thing inside our body we're packed
with bacteria at the lower end of our
gut okay it's in an area the most the
the home the Great Barrier Reef of these
natural bacteria in our body is in a
part of the colon called the seeum CE c
m and if you're you know if you're in
the medical field you'll know exactly
what I'm talking about but it's you know
it's it's a part of the organ system
that a lot of people aren't familiar
with that term because you know I used
to wonder like okay so where does a
microbiome where did all these bacteria
live called the seeum all right so uh
when I went to medical school I was you
know very quickly in the first week of
school taught bacteria are bad and
you're going to learn and memorize all
the bacteria that are bad and then
you're going to actually take
pharmacology and we're going to teach
you about all the drugs antibiotics that
can be used to kill the bad bacteria
right and and you know of course even in
kindergarten we're always turned wash
your hands get rid of the bacteria you
know uh take a shower all these kinds of
messages about bacteria that have made
us as a modern
society um shun uh maybe even be a
little repelled by this idea of bacteria
Well turns out that that's it's true
there are some Bia that are really bad
bad actors and they cause all kinds of
problems but by and large most of the
bacteria that we will encounter in our
lives are inside our body not outside
our body and most of the bacteria are
good not bad and that's what we call our
gut microbiome our gut microbiome
actually is an ecosystem of 39 trillion
bacteria most of it living inside our
gut and what they do inside our gut is
they
um they
eat the food that our body doesn't
digest let me explain so you take a bite
of uh of uh an apple all right and our
human bodies are going to absorb the
natural fructose the sugars in in the
Apple we're going to get the vitamins
we're actually going to get some of the
other nutrients that are going to be
absorbed into our body but there's a lot
of fiber that's going to be left over
right you know the the the skin that you
eat if it's an organic apple um the
fiber uh from there's a lot of fiber in
apple or pear and then that fiber
trickles down your 40 feet of intestines
all the way to the seeum and the
bacteria there you're feeding your
bacteria this leftover stuff whatever we
don't absorb goes to the bacteria I'm
going to come back to that point because
you're asking why are the chemicals not
so good for us it's because our bacteria
get fed but if it's normal healthy food
normal healthy fiber our bacteria eats
those that fiber and and in payback for
feeding them they the love that they our
bacteria show for us is they produce
metabolites that are anti-inflammatory
these are called short chain fatty acids
or
scaas um and they lower inflammation
they promote healing they uh streamline
our blood lipids they make our insulin
sensitivity better which is an important
part of our metabolism so the fuel is
actually more rapidly absorbed into our
bloodstream nobody wants to have lots of
gluc glucose lots of blood sugar at high
levels all day long and not good for our
bodies okay it's like being stuck in a
bathtub too long or swimming pool too
long in how your fingers wrinkle that's
not what you want so you want your our
blood sugar to be readily absorbed into
our cells okay those are these are just
partially what we know our gut bacteria
does for us so we got to feed them well
feeding them like three times a day is
kind of like having a pet our bacteria
our microbiome is like a pet if you have
a dog a cat a parakeet a goldfish you
know most of us are responsible pet
owners so we make sure that we feed them
our kibble or the flakes every single
day or the seats right now we most of us
will choose what kind of food we're
actually feeding our pet you don't want
to feed your dog crap right you want to
choose carefully you want to take care
of your animal well that's basically
what eating whole uh uh Foods uh that
are uh as good as possible high quality
Whole Foods that's what we're our gut
microbiome all right um and that and
they pay us back by giving us Health
through these short chain fatty acids
okay let's go back to your question what
about foods that are leaded with
synthetic chemicals artificial
preservatives um artificial sweeteners
by the way it's another big offender all
right what happens is that we're feeding
or we're eating it oh there's no
calories in an artificial sweetener uh
uh oh this cheap shelf stable stuff with
artificial flavor tastes really great
goes down to gullet um we absorb
relatively little because it doesn't
have as many nutrients as the normal
Whole Food the rest of it where does it
go we don't just poop it out we're
feeding our gut bacteria that 39
trillion uh uh population and we're
feeding them crap we're feeding them
chemicals we're feeding them things that
they shouldn't be eating okay imagine if
you fed your pet dog okay really
terrible quality food chemical food all
the time I don't think your dog's going
to last that long okay all all the
problems that your vet tells you that
the dogs you know can have if you feed
them poor quality food that's what we're
doing to our gut with all these
artificial synthetic things and so
that's the reason why we need to take
good care you know like this whole idea
of um the pregnant mom saying I I have
to watch what I eat because I'm eating
for two well guess what each of us we're
eating for 39 trillion in fact we are
feeding our gut microbiome and we have
that responsibility if we treat our gut
microbiome well they will treat our
health well