Fructose is a very toxic compound when it's free and unattached to fruit, and it's in everything. It's in bread. It's in salad dressing. It's in tomato sauce for your pizza.

If you care about health, these are the foods that I think it's okay to say you should never eat. Now we gotta be careful with the word should because you never wanna judge upon people, but you're giving strong recommendations. So let's jump right in and talk about which one of these foods.

Well, the things that I'm talking about, Drew, are not my opinion. These are scientifically proven to cause disease and death. So there there's no doubt in my mind that these should never cross anyone's lips, and they should be banned. In fact, one of them was recently, by the FDA, was considered something not safe to eat anymore, and yet it's been the food supply for a 100 years. Actually, maybe yeah. A little 101 years since 1911. So when Crisco was developed, and that is trans fat or hydrogenated fat. That should never pass your lips.

That's highly proven to cause heart attacks, many other health issues, diabetes, inflammation, and it's toxic. And it's made from vegetable oil that's converted to a solid fat like margarine or shortening through a process called hydrogenation where they put an extra hydrogen atoms. You should never eat that. So if you look at the words on the ingredient list, you have to not look at the nutrition facts label only. You have to look at the ingredient list. The ingredient list will tell you everything that's in there. And and by the way, the ingredient list in America sucks because in Europe, they put what percentage of things are and so you know exactly how much of which thing you're getting, and I'll get into that in a minute. So never eat anything that says hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated, soybean oil, any kind of fat like that.

And just one little note, we'll expand on it later on. It was banned, but through a little bit of a tricky loophole, you can still find it in certain products.

Well, they gave the food companies a long runway to actually gets get rid of it from the food, but it's all over the supermarket. Even though in 2015, it was ruled not safe to eat. There's something called GRAS or g r a s or generally recognized as safe. So it's the even the FDA finally and by the way, it was only after 50 years of data proving that it wasn't safe that finally a guy who's been working on us for 50 years, he was in his nineties, a doctor, a scientist, sued the FDA. And that is that's why they finally had to succumb to getting up because the food companies didn't want it. They had to swap out all kinds of ingredients in their products. Every single processed food had this in it for decades decades. The second is just about as bad and maybe maybe worse and that's high fructose corn syrup.

Now why is that worse than just sugar? Well, high fructose corn syrup has a number of qualities. 1, it is not like regular sugar which is 50 50 glucose and fructose. It's sometimes 55% fructose even up to 75% fructose. And fructose and we've had podcasts about this. You've had, doctor Richard Johnson on your podcast about this. Fructose is a very toxic compound when it's free and unattached to fruit. Right? Fructose comes in fruit, but if it's just free in the product you're eating, which is in sodas and all kinds of sugary drinks and and it's in everything. It's in bread, it's in salad dressing, it's in tomato sauce for your pizza.

I mean, it's it's terrible. It actually has a very bad effect on your liver, causes fatty liver, high triglycerides, inflammation, insulin resistance, and it it's it's it's really driving so many diseases of aging, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, dementia, etcetera. So you don't wanna eat that. The other reason it's bad is because it seems to take a lot of energy to absorb across the gut. And so glucose gets in and sort of naturally gets in. Fructose requires energy and so if you're having a lot of fructose, free fructose, basically depletes the energy in the gut which is required to keep you from having a leaky gut. So your cells in your intestinal lining are stuck together like Legos, but if those Lego junctions come apart, those tight junctions come apart, you get what we call a leaky gut. And leaky gut leads to a whole host of downstream consequences that drive inflammation, because basically protein and from food and particles that shouldn't be getting in and foreign proteins from that and also poop and bacterial toxins get absorbed and your body's like, ah, the immune system starts reacting and you start getting autoimmune disease and allergies and heart disease and cancer and everything.

It's bad. So you really want to stay away from high fructose corn syrup. The other thing that's interesting is when they process it, they often use something called chlor alkali. And I'll tell you a funny story because this this scientist I knew wanted to study high fructose corn syrup And so she asked the makers of high fructose corn syrup, Cargill and and other big food companies, to get a supply so she could test it. They wouldn't give it to her. But then she kind of changed her name and she pretended to be someone who was making a new soft drink or a new beverage. So I'm using this. I needed to to to make my new beverage.