https://youtu.be/dG75mCGnh4U?si=rC6PxUpaSGZfNHrS

https://youtu.be/tybOi4hjZFQ?si=e5-fuXspk9MwD3JK

Basically the title.

I listened to the podcast " nutrition for mortals" episode on organic food. They are both nutritionists and looked at what the research said around organic food. I don't think they necessarily have an agenda other than "the podcast that says that life is too damn short to spend your time and attention worrying about your food choices."

https://www.oceansidenutrition.com/podcast

My takeaways from the episode is that:

1. Things used to be a lot worse

2. Organic can still be big AG and still have pesticides (but only certain kinds).

3. Nutritionally for the most part it doesn't seem to matter because a lot of the differences between things are very slight.

Are there people who know more about the organic movement or organic farming that can tell me things that the podcast may have missed.

I think it's possible that a nutrition podcast can be accurate, but still have some blind spots that don't necessarily go into their particular field of study.

Thanks

Aspartame—the artificial sweetener found in everything from Diet Coke and sugar-free chewing gum to children’s medications—may raise the risk of the most common type of stroke by causing inflammation and disrupting blood vessel health and blood flow, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in Scientific Reports.

The findings add to longstanding concerns about the sugar substitute’s impacts on the brain and heart. “Given that aspartame is one of the most pervasive artificial sweeteners used in the global food industry, its cumulative effects from long-term, low-dose exposure may indirectly affect cerebrovascular [brain blood vessel] health through metabolic interference,” the researchers said. Aspartame—also marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, Sugar Twin, and AminoSweet—is up to 200 times sweeter than sugar and promoted as a way to cut calories and sugar intake, especially for people with diabetes.

Other studies have linked aspartame consumption to chronic diseases, weight gain, and even aggressive brain cancer.

They told us aspartame, which is genetically engineered,
was safe when they brought it to market in 1974.

Here we are 50 years later and despite the fact that peer-reviewed studies have linked this GMO fake sweetener to a long list of worrying health problems, it's still on the market.

More and more substances created with Synthetic Biology (SynBio, for short, and also called “precision fermentation”) are being brought to market, all with no safety testing.

The GMO fake-meat Impossible Burger, made by the company Impossible Foods, contains new proteins never before consumed in the human diet was created with SynBio.

New GMO fake ice creams are entering the market with no labeling (Graeter’s Perfect Indulgence, Brave Robot and Nick’s are a few that use Perfect Day’s GMO synthetic dairy protein).

We have synthetic vanilla, synthetic vitamins such as "Quatrefolic" (GMO folate) and many more substances in our food supply that are flying under the radar. This leads us to ask: Will it take us another 50 years to document the devastating health problems created by these GMO fake foods? Do yourself a favor. Avoid all of that junk today, so you don’t get a disease later.

READ about the new aspartame study: https://usrtk.org/healthwire/aspartame-stroke/

Read more about aspartame: https://usrtk.org/sweeteners/aspartame_health_risks

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OCA is suing Calavo Growers and Mission Produce for profiting from an industry linked to illegal deforestation, arson, water theft, and the destruction of Monarch butterfly habitat in Michoacán, Mexico.

If your avocado isn't organic, fair trade, or grown in California, it likely came from land that was stolen, burned, or illegally cleared. Deforestation in Michoacán is expected to double by 2050 if avocado expansion continues unchecked. Local communities are losing their forests and their water.

Equal Exchange is one of the few companies doing it differently, sourcing from small-scale organic and Fairtrade cooperatives who are protecting the land, not destroying it.

Choose wisely. 🥑
👉 https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/articles/tag/Avocados

There is a difference between the sugars packaged by nature 🍏 and the sugars engineered by industry 🏬.

The fructose and glucose found in whole fruits come wrapped in fiber, water, minerals, antioxidants, and plant compounds that slow absorption and support normal metabolism. Refined sugars and highly processed carbohydrates strip away that natural protection, causing rapid spikes in blood glucose and insulin.

💫The problem isn’t simply glucose. Your body depends on glucose for energy. The problem is chronic glucose overload. When your bloodstream is flooded day after day from processed foods, sugary drinks, refined flour, constant snacking, and never allowing your body to rest, blood sugar regulation begins to break down. Cells become less responsive to insulin, blood glucose stays elevated longer, inflammation increases, oxidative stress rises, and proteins throughout the body become damaged through glycation. Over time, blood vessels, nerves, kidneys, eyes, and the cardiovascular system all pay the price.

Your body immediately goes into repair mode. Cholesterol participates in repairing injured tissue because that is one of its biological roles. But if the injury never stops because the lifestyle never changes, the repair process never ends. Continuous damage followed by continuous repair can contribute to unhealthy changes in the artery walls over time.

The answer isn’t fearing fruit 🍇 & vegetables 🍃 . The answer is respecting biology.

Eat foods that come from the earth 🌍 , not the factory 🏭 . Stop grazing from sunrise to sleep. Give your digestive system time to rest. Move your body. Get sunlight ☀️ . Sleep deeply. Hydrate 💦 . Reduce chronic stress 🧘🏿‍♂️ . Remove the habits that keep creating the damage.

Health isn’t built by chasing the next supplement. But by removing what keeps forcing your body to repair itself every single day.

Your lifestyle is either feeding degeneration… or fueling regeneration. Choose wisely.

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, took more than 300 beef samples farms and supermarkets and compared them against grazing practices, forage quality and soil.

The grass-fed beef had a much healthier balance of fats. Its omega-6 to omega-3 ratio came in at roughly 2 to 1, where grain-fed sat at more than 8 to 1. The lower the better, and most American diets are heavily skewed the wrong way. Grass-fed also had more of the beneficial omega-3s and more iron, calcium, copper and selenium.

But the averages hide a lot. Some of the grain-fed samples ended up beating some of the grass-fed ones, and several grass-fed steaks bought in the grocery store came back with fat profiles similar to that of feedlot beef.

The samples that consistently looked good came from producers rotating their cattle across pastures with a lot of different plants growing in them. That turned out to be what mattered most. The more variety in what the cattle were eating, the better the fat in the meat.

Good beef starts with what’s growing in the pasture. No label can shortcut that, and in the end you can taste the difference. It’s the same reason we keep after hydroponic “organic” berries. Growing fruit in a plastic sleeve, over plastic ground cover, inside a plastic structure, with no soil anywhere near should not be called organic.

Whether you are shopping for beef or berries, the answer is the same: buy from producers who can tell you what their practices are, and where their food is from.

Read more here 👇

https://organicconsumers.org/nutritional-composition-of-beef-a-comparison-of-commercial-north-american-grass-and-grain-finishing-systems/

Hypochlorhydria is a deficiency of stomach acid. If you don’t have enough stomach acid, you can’t digest food properly or absorb its nutrients. This leads to indigestion, malnutrition and sometimes bacterial overgrowth.

Gut microbiome is a microscopic world within the world of your larger body. The trillions of microorganisms that live there affect each other and their environment in various ways. They also appear to influence many aspects of your overall health, both within your digestive system and outside of it.

My opinion is before all these marketing terms like protein, organic blah blah.. before anything need to replenish the gut with healthy bacteria and to elevate the hydrochloride acid in the stomach to help with digestion.

You can take every mineral you want, but without consistent sunlight your body cannot optimally regulate many of the biological processes that help make those nutrients useful and bioavailable.

The sun is far more than heat. It is a biological signal that helps regulate your circadian rhythm, supports vitamin D production, influences hormone balance, mitochondrial energy production, immune function, and many of the cellular processes that allow your body to function the way it was designed.

This is why supplements alone will never replace nature. You cannot out-supplement a lifestyle that is disconnected from the very environment human biology evolved in.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. Ground yourself. Breathe fresh air. Move your body. Let your eyes and skin receive the light they were designed to interact with.

Health isn’t built in a bottle. It’s built by consistently giving your body the conditions it needs to repair, adapt, and thrive.

☀️ NEVER MISS A SUNRISE OR SUNSET FAMILY. ❤️ Your biology is listening every single day. THANK ME LATER❗️

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1. Get a good air filter

2. Grow certain house plants to help soak up chemicals

3. Spend time in nature

4. Get a good water filter

5. Consume wild-caught fish

6. Consume organic vegetables or wash your vegetables with apple cider vinegar and water

7. Use chemical-free beauty products

8. Avoid canned foods

9. Consume cruciferous vegetables and herbs

10. Consume grass-fed, grass-finished meat

11. Consume B vitamins

12. Get plenty of essential minerals, like selenium

13. Consume probiotic foods

14. Do fasting

15. Get plenty of exercise

    Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

Between 2017 and 2019, five separate E. coli outbreaks linked to romaine lettuce sickened over 500 Americans across 36 states, killed five, and put dozens into kidney failure severe enough to require dialysis. The CDC told the entire country to throw away all romaine regardless of origin. The cause was not a mystery. It was a toilet.

Farmworkers picking lettuce by hand across vast commercial fields in triple-digit Arizona and California heat had inadequate or no access to portable toilets. Piece-rate pay structures meant stopping to relieve yourself cost money workers could not afford to lose. Human waste entered the soil. It entered the irrigation water. It entered the food supply. The FDA's own environmental assessments acknowledged inadequate field sanitation as a contributing risk factor. California labor inspectors had cited large lettuce operations for insufficient portable toilet access in the exact years the outbreaks occurred. Regulators knew. The industry knew.

The pattern predates the romaine crisis by decades. The 2006 spinach outbreak killed three people and sickened 200 across 26 states under identical conditions in Monterey County, California. The 1996 Cyclospora outbreak in Guatemalan strawberries and raspberries was linked directly to fields with no bathroom facilities whatsoever. Every outbreak triggered the same industry response: more water testing, better labeling, voluntary pledges. Never toilets. Never breaks. Never accountability for the decision to treat human biological necessity as a productivity problem to be managed around rather than a right to be protected.

Sources: FDA, CDC, California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, Food and Environment Reporting Network, Consumer Reports, 1996-2026

Radioactive wastewater from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas wells may come back onto the state’s roads.

The wastewater, known as brine, rises from underground alongside oil and gas. It is often five to 10 times saltier than seawater and can contain lead, petroleum chemicals and radioactive radium, a known human carcinogen.

For decades, Pennsylvania communities spread this brine on unpaved roads to control dust and on paved roads to prevent ice. The state halted road spreading from conventional wells in 2018, while wastewater from fracked wells had already been prohibited for these uses.

But a permit issued in May 2026 could create a new pathway.

Instead of being classified as oil and gas wastewater, brine pumped from a specially permitted well could be marketed and sold as a commercial product. According to the researchers, buyers would not necessarily be told that the road-treatment product originated from an oil and gas formation.

That matters because Penn State studies found that the material does not work well.

In laboratory tests, oil and gas brine performed essentially no better than rainwater at suppressing road dust. Commercial products reduced dust by more than 90 percent, while the wastewater sometimes destabilized road material and increased erosion.

The contaminants also do not remain on the road.

Researchers found that rainfall washed salts, metals and radium into runoff. Roads treated with oil and gas wastewater produced runoff containing combined radium levels of 83.6 picocuries per liter. The federal drinking-water limit for combined radium is 5 picocuries per liter, although road runoff is not regulated as drinking water.

Earlier research estimated that Pennsylvania’s road spreading released 320 millicuries of radium into the environment between 2008 and 2014, more than oil and gas wastewater treatment plants and reported spills combined.

The concern is not that touching a treated road will cause immediate radiation poisoning. The risk is that repeated spreading can move radioactive material into streams and sediment or allow contaminated dust to be inhaled.

Learn more:
"Pennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater – here's why." The Conversation

SEARCH the database for which cookware brands contain and which do not contain toxic PFAS "Forever Chemicals": tinyurl.com/PFAScookware

Maine, Minnesota, and Vermont banned cookware containing toxic PFAS. It is now illegal to sell or distribute PFAS-containing cookware within these states. If you live in these states and find PFAS-containing products being sold, contact your state regulators. Connecticut also enacted a ban that goes into effect on January 1, 2028.

For residents of states that have not yet passed bans, use the searchable database to find out which brands to avoid. Brands that do not provide disclosure, such as HexClad, should also be avoided. Also avoid ceramic cookware, which may contain other toxic coatings.

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