"Dangers of High Fructose Intake: It actually has a very bad effect on your liver, causes fatty liver, high triglycerides, inflammation, insulin resistance, and it's really driving so many diseases of aging, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, dementia, etcetera."

"FDA and Food Toxins: But in America the FDA is not very good at protecting us from harmful chemicals. For example, butylated hydroxy toluene is a known carcinogen and it's otherwise known as BHT. It's a common preservative and it's allowed in our food."

"Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners: They're a 1000 times sweeter than regular sugar and they'll trigger your brain to think sugars on the way. It's like Pavlov's bell, you know, it rings the bell, the dog salivates even if there's no food, because it gets conditioned. So the body's conditioned to respond and when you when you ring the bell of sugar on the tongue at that level, it sends a message to the brain and it starts producing secondary metabolic effects like increasing insulin, for example. We call it the cephalic phase insulin response, and that drives you to be hungrier, to eat more. So that's why we look at all the studies, people who drink artificial sweeteners are most are more likely to be overweight, more likely to have diabetes."

"Food Labeling Techniques: So what they've done is food companies have come up with 5 or 6 different kinds of sugars that they'll put in a particular food like a cereal or a cookie so they don't have to have the first ingredient be sugar. Because it's like it's barley malt and it's, you know, maltodextrin and it's, you know, all kinds of weird names that people use for sugar that that are actually just the same thing, that are made a little bit different, but then the food companies put them all in this food that makes it look like sugar is not the main ingredient. But like cereal is a great example. There might be 4 or 5 different kinds of sugar, corn syrup and cane sugar and you know whatever, high fructose corn syrup and like and and you and you get the cereal at 75% sugar."

"Food Industry Addiction Tactics: They design foods for the right mouthfeel, the right crunch, the right flavor, the right the right stimulation of the dopamine in the brain which is the addiction center. And so these foods are highly addictive and you crave them, you want more of them the more you eat."

"Surviving in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake: You can imagine. It was like 300,000 people dead, 300,000 people wounded, and we were in the epicenter of all that."

"Food and Health Connection: So you have the power to change how you feel by changing what you eat...it's shocking to me how few of those people have ever connected the dots between what they eat and how they feel...people just disconnected from their food and health connection, and and I think that's one of the most important things to recognize."

"The True Cost of Processed Food: It's the most ubiquitous product in America and it's in every processed food. We pay for it I think 4 times. 1st, we pay in terms of crop insurance and we sort of pay for farmers to to grow the food. 2nd, we pay for the environmental damage in society, loss of biodiversity, climate change, the destruction of fish populations, nitrogen fertilizer, all that. Then we then we we turn all that junk into processed food, the food companies do that, but then the government buys the processed food for the poor. There's 46,000,000 people on snap or food stamps and 75% of that is processed food and most has from corn. So we're we're literally doling out money to buy this junk and then we paid for it on the back end through Medicare Medicaid when people get diabetes and obesity and food related illnesses. So you know, yes, organic is more expensive now, but if we actually had an accounting and a reckoning of the true cost of food, it would be much cheaper."

"Revolutionizing School Lunches: 'It's really amazing when people look at these problems and think about solutions that there really are solutions out there.'"

"Understanding Food as Information: If you're eating regenerative meat, you're getting better profile of fatty acids and omega threes, you're getting more antioxidants, you're getting more minerals."