Assertion Not checkable as stated
Karp: I fully reversed degenerative blindness in two months via lifestyle changes
“After about two months of this my vision started coming back, and nobody believed it, and thankfully, there was an empirical test that the ophthalmologist can do, That basically can show the progression of your blindness. It's not like, do you see, do you not …”
Assertion Partly supported
Karp: Totino's Pizza Rolls contain over 70 ingredients and banned chemicals
“Totino's has an ingredient label that's over 70 seven zero ingredients long. It doesn't even use real cheese. It actually says on the label imitation cheese. It has at least a dozen chemicals that are banned in other countries that are in the ingredient label.”
Opinion
Karp: Anyone paying for streaming or Starbucks can afford healthy food
“It's a myth that only people with money can afford healthy food and the reason it's a myth is because we've looked at the data, and it's a choice. So what I mean by that is anyone who has a smartphone, right, and you have to separate people who are below the p…”
Insight
Karp: Extreme expected value calculations ruin relationships and personal well-being
“If you take that class to an extreme, or that view of, like, everything's an option you start viewing everything in life with a cost-benefit analysis, including people, including pleasure, including you know, things that are less tangible but are the essence o…”
Assertion Contradicted
Karp: Over 90% of non-organic US wheat contains traces of glyphosate
“I don't remember the exact number, but it's in the high nineties percent. Might be 99%, might be 97%. Of the US wheat crop that's not organic has traces of glyphosate, which is Monsanto's herbicide also called Roundup.”
Assertion Partly supported
Karp: European wheat has lower gluten and is less inflammatory than US wheat
“So in Europe, the glyphosate's banned, and the gluten levels are much lower, and the strains of wheat that they typically use
Are typically a lot less inflammatory than the ones that they use over here.”
Assertion Supported
Karp: Daily Harvest's foodborne illness outbreak caused organ removals in consumers
“Daily Harvest had a foodborne illness issue where a bunch of people had to have their organs removed.”
Assertion Contradicted
Karp: Indigenous populations living ancestrally have zero modern lifestyle diseases
“And thankfully, there's a lot of populations out there that are still indigenous people, and they live the way that we lived 10,000 years ago, or even a thousand years ago. And they have none. And by the way, many of these indigenous peoples are in every conti…”
Assertion Contradicted
Karp: Ancient wheat contains magnitudes less gluten than modern wheat
“And the gluten level in fossilized wheat and the gluten level in some of these ancient grains, versions of wheat is, is magnitudes less than the amount of gluten that we're consuming today.”
Insight
Karp: Long feedback loops hide the link between diet and metabolic disease
“When you are eating something that's inflammatory, that's not acute poison, but it's a slow poison where over 20 years you will develop metabolic disease. It's too long. It's just like the people that produce too much carbon emissions or, you know, use coal or…”
Insight
Karp: Fanatical dietary restrictions harm mental health and degrade physical health
“When you get that fanatical, it starts to take a real toll on your mental health. Which then affects your physical health.”
Assertion Supported
Karp: 70% of Americans are overweight or obese and over 90% metabolically unhealthy
“70% of Americans are either overweight or obese. Over 90% are metabolically unhealthy.”
Insight
Karp: Concentrated foods like coffee and chocolate should always be organic
“The second rule is anything you concentrate on, juices, chocolate, coffee, right? Coffee's a concentrate, right? They grind up all the beans, they make a concentrated version, and then water goes through the concentrate, right? Think of what chocolate is. Choc…”
Insight
Karp: Cleaning up comfort foods changes dietary habits better than pushing salads
“If I can change people's behavior with the foods that they love, And provide a better option for them, then I can provide kind of a gateway for them to start experimenting with other healthy things, right? You're not getting people who eat McDonald's three day…”
Insight
Karp: Corporate food acquirers systematically cheapen ingredients to boost profit margins
“When you buy a food company, which a lot of companies do, they want to increase the shelf life, they want to cheapen the ingredients, which improves their profit margins, and they want to do things that are consistent with improving the bottom line.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Karp: Doctors said degenerative eye disease would blind him by age 30
“The eye disease, I was told, was incurable, and then I had to put my name on a cordial transplant list which had a huge waiting list, And they said I would probably be blind by the age of 30. Fully blind.”
Insight
Karp: Restaurants are usually poor businesses to invest in
“Restaurants are not good businesses most of the time, like no chance.”
Assertion Supported
Karp: Totino's generates close to $800M in annual revenue
“And this business, from our last check, does close to eight hundred million dollars a year in revenue.”
Disclosure
Karp: Hu Kitchen operated without outside capital for its first several years
“This was a family business. We had no outside investors for the first many, many years.”
