Assertion Partly supported
Saladino: Tufts Food Compass ranked Cheerios and Froot Loops above ground beef
“Darius Mazzafarian, the same guy who gifted us with the food compass guidelines that told us that Froot Loops and Cheerios were healthier than ground beef and eggs.”
Assertion Contradicted
Saladino: Consumed animal organs biologically target and support corresponding human organs
“What you see is there's a lot of evidence that Oregon's Do support the corresponding organ in humans, which really breaks the mind of a traditionally trained doctor like myself. So when you give we can take an embryo, for instance, and you put a little bit of …”
Opinion
Saladino: Processed foods are killing consumers like cigarettes did
“You mean the thing that we don't quite know is killing us, but is actually killing us? Yeah, absolutely.”
Assertion Partly supported
Saladino: Plastic bottles leach cadmium, lead, and antimony into cooking oil
“So then you take all of that and you package it into a plastic bottle, which leaches cadmium, lead, and antimony into the oil, and it sits on the shelf of a grocery store”
Assertion Contradicted
Saladino: No randomized controlled trials on seed oils in 50 to 70 years
“Most of them were done, in fact, all of them were done really between the late 19 fifties and the early 19 seventies. So they're all 50 to 70 years old. We haven't had a randomized controlled trial with seed oils in 50 to 70 years.”
Opinion
Saladino: Excessive Botox May Impair Mothers' Bonding with Infants
“There is a hypothesis that women with too much Botox could potentially impair pair bonding with their children. Because the infant is not seeing the woman's face move.”
Assertion Contradicted
Saladino: Bad breath is caused by gut dysbiosis, not lack of toothpaste
“And if you have bad breath, it's not that you're not brushing your teeth with toothpaste, it's that you have dysbiosis in your gut, right? So it all comes back to quality of food.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: US permits up to 10,000 food chemicals compared to 500 in Europe
“In Europe, there are maybe four to 500 of these chemicals. In the United States, there are five to 10,000.”
Insight
Saladino: Cooking Does Not Neutralize All Plant Defense Chemicals
“There actually are defense chemicals in vegetables, and some of these can be detoxified when we cook them or when we ferment them, but not all of them, and a lot of people with autoimmune conditions do feel better when they eliminate some or all vegetables.”
Opinion
Saladino: Caloric increase does not explain doubling of chronic illnesses
“I think that if you look at data, we are not really eating more calories. If, and if we're eating more calories, it's small, and it doesn't account for the increase in In all of these chronic illnesses that are just really doubling over the span of 20 or 30 ye…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: High-erucic rapeseed oil is banned due to cardiomyopathy links
“If you just take rapeseed oil, there is a large amount of this monounsaturated fat called erucic acid in rapeseed oil, and that is linked to cardiomyopathy, heart issues in animal studies, and so it's actually banned. You cannot sell rapeseed oil.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Proton pump inhibitors increase pneumonia risk and cause nutrient malabsorption
“You give someone a proton pump inhibitor because they have gastroesophageal reflux, right?
Well, then you have an increased rate of pneumonia because of side effects.
Then you have malabsorption of multiple nutrients, including B-twelve and other things that a…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Touching thermal receipts absorbs endocrine disruptors through skin
“There's solid evidence that touching these receipts can lead to absorption of endocrine disrupting chemicals through your skin.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Sweating in synthetic athleisure increases chemical absorption through skin
“Whether it's a sports bra or leggings, when you sweat in these, you can, it increases the absorption of chemicals in these pieces of clothing significantly.”
Assertion Partly supported
Saladino: Mouthwash kills bacteria needed for nitric oxide, reducing muscle hypertrophy
“Mouthwash, it kills all of the flora in your mouth, which are essential for the production of nitric oxide. There are studies in people who are working out in the gym that when they use to, when they use mouthwash, it actually attenuates how much muscle they c…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Women on birth control select mates with similar MHC genetics
“Somebody funded a study where women on birth control were given sweaty t-shirts from men, and they knew sort of the immunologic signature of the men in the t-shirts, and women on the birth control selected different mates in terms of compatibility with their g…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Dancers off birth control earn peak tips during ovulation
“And when the strippers off birth control are performing, they earn the most tips right around their ovulation. They have a huge peak in the month when they ovulate. And the rest of the month is like less tips, right? Women on birth control earned the same amou…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Saladino: KFC and In-N-Out change fryer oil once a week
“I went to a KFC and an In-N-Out recently to do content, and I asked them, how often do you change the fryer oil? Which is peanut and soybean oil. They say once a week.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: McDonald's french fries contain silly putty additive dimethylpolysiloxane
“Dimethyl polysiloxane, which is an ingredient in silly putty, which is in McDonald's french fries.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Studies link raw milk consumption to lower allergy and asthma rates in kids
“There are specific studies looking at lower rates of asthma, eczema, and allergies, the things I suffered from, but didn't drink raw milk growing up, in kids who drink raw milk, whether they grow up on a farm or off a farm.”
Insight
Saladino: A Meat and Fruit Baseline Helps Resolve Health Issues
“If you have health issues, think simple. Start maybe with meat and fruit, and then see if the health issues get better over time, and then add things back gradually. And that's just, I think, a good starting point for people as a framework, as a blueprint.”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: US chronic health metrics worsen despite healthier self-reported habits
“We are being counseled by our government to eat healthy, and more people will respond to surveys saying they're eating healthy, more people will respond to surveys saying they're exercising, less people are smoking, but everything is going in the wrong directi…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Feeding ward studies show ultra-processed diets increase consumption
“Kevin Hall did a study, and there was recently a researcher in Japan that did kind of the same thing. They can put humans in a feeding ward where they control all of their intakes, and they present people with very similar sets of meals. One of them is ultra-p…”
Assertion Supported
Saladino: Eliminating conventional cosmetics cuts paraben levels 50% within days
“Women who make an intentional change to remove those things, we see noticeable, marked, statistically significant decreases in levels of these compounds in their body within a few days. Wow. It's, and we're talking like, the levels can go down by 50%.”
