Jason Karp, founder of HumanCo, discusses how agricultural crossbreeding has significantly increased the gluten content of modern wheat compared to ancient grains.
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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 …”
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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…”
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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.”
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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.”