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Get my Free Newslet­ter and Down­load­able Cheat­sheets (eat­ing out, trav­el, etc): https://​www.​thomasdelauer.​com/​life-optimization-tactics/​ Fol­low More of My Daily Life on In­sta­gram: http://​www.​Instagram.​com/​ThomasDeLauer Spe­cial Thanks to my team and Nicholas Nor­witz - Ox­ford PhD Re­searcher and Har­vard Med Stu­dent - for work­ing dili­gent­ly on re­search as well! It's im­por­tant that I am hon­est and to say that this video does have a spon­sor­ship from Thrive Mar­ket, sup­port­ing them is a good way to sup­port my chan­nel! What is Or­gan­ic Any­way? Or­gan­ic fruits and veg­eta­bles are grown with­out syn­thet­ic pes­ti­cides or GMOs; how­ev­er, the use of cer­tain or­gan­ic pes­ti­cides is per­mit­ted. Or­gan­ic live­stock are raised with­out an­tibi­otics or growth hor­mones and given ac­cess open spaces where they can graze and feed nat­u­ral­ly dur­ing most of the year; how­ev­er, or­gan­ic live­stock may also be con­fined dur­ing parts of the year and, im­por­tant­ly, can be grain-fed. Fi­nal­ly, it’s im­por­tant to note that or­gan­ic pack­aged foods are per­mit­ted to con­tain 5% non-or­gan­ic in­gre­di­ents and food sus­pi­cious­ly la­beled as “made with or­gan­ic in­gre­di­ents” can con­tain even more non-or­gan­ic in­gre­di­ents. In brief, or­gan­ic may be health­i­er, but it’s still a good idea to wash your or­gan­ic pro­duce, buy pas­tured eggs and grass-fed meat, and un­der­stand that or­gan­ic pro­cessed food can con­tain non-or­gan­ic in­gre­di­ents. The En­vi­ron­men­tal Work­ing Group’s re­sources are the go-to for this topic. They are a re­li­able source of in­for­ma­tion. Web­site here: https://​www.​ewg.​org/​foodnews/​summary.​php.​ There is lit­tle to be added to their con­tent as, for the most part, this is sim­ply a mat­ter of how our agri­cul­tur­al sys­tem rais­es dif­fer­ent foods. To Buy Or­gan­ic Meat! The com­bi­na­tion of “grass-fed grass-fin­ished” and “raised with­out any an­tibi­otics ever” la­bels is just as good, if not bet­ter. This en­sures a good Omega-3/Omega-6 ratio and that you won’t screw up your mi­cro­biome or con­tribute to the su­per­bug an­tibi­ot­ic re­sis­tance epi­dem­ic. Straw­ber­ries are known to be heav­i­ly treat­ed with, and soak up, pes­ti­cides. Spinach. Look care­ful­ly at a spinach leaf. No­tice how it’s spongy? Spinach’s spongy leaves soak up pes­ti­cides. “Spinach and kale sam­ples had, on av­er­age, 1.1 to 1.8 times as much pes­ti­cide residue by weight than any other crop.” Kale. “More than 92 per­cent of kale sam­ples had two or more pes­ti­cide residues de­tect­ed, and a sin­gle sam­ple could con­tain up to 18 dif­fer­ent residues. The most fre­quent­ly de­tect­ed pes­ti­cide, found on near­ly 60 per­cent of kale sam­ples, was Dac­thal, or DCPA – clas­si­fied by the En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agen­cy since 1995 as a pos­si­ble human car­cino­gen, and pro­hib­it­ed for use in Eu­rope since 2009.” Pep­pers. Toma­to. Cel­ery. Not to Buy Or­gan­ic (“More than 70 per­cent of Clean Fif­teen fruit and veg­etable sam­ples had no pes­ti­cide residues.”) Av­o­ca­do! As a rule of thumb, any­thing with a tough outer skin that you don’t eat you don’t have to buy or­gan­ic. This in­cludes keto’s gold­en child, the av­o­ca­do! “Less than 1 per­cent of sam­ples showed any de­tectable pes­ti­cides.” Any­thing else with a tough outer skin that you don’t eat, in­clud­ing… onions, Kiwi (su­per-rich in Vi­ta­min C) Guava (rich­est source of Vi­ta­min C) Mel­ons (sugar bomb) Pineap­ple (sugar bomb) Mango (sugar bomb) Pa­paya (sugar bomb) As­para­gus. Cleared by the en­vi­ron­men­tal work­ing group for hav­ing low-pes­ti­cide residue. Broc­coli. “” Cauliflow­er. “” Egg­plant. “” Mush­rooms. “” “In 2012, the Amer­i­can Acade­my of Pe­di­atrics is­sued an im­por­tant re­port that said chil­dren have “unique sus­cep­ti­bil­i­ties to [pes­ti­cide residues’] po­ten­tial tox­i­c­i­ty.” The or­ga­ni­za­tion cited re­search that linked pes­ti­cide ex­po­sures in early life to pe­di­atric can­cers, de­creased cog­ni­tive func­tion and be­hav­ioral prob­lems.” Good News… Change is Fast! En­vi­ron­men­tal Re­search, 2019. https://​www.​sciencedirect.​com/​science/​article/​pii/​S0013935119300246 “The most re­cent of sev­er­al stud­ies eval­u­at­ing the im­pact of an or­gan­ic diet found that after only six days of eat­ing or­gan­ic food, adults and chil­dren had on av­er­age a 60 per­cent re­duc­tion in the lev­els of syn­thet­ic pes­ti­cides mea­sured in their urine, com­pared to when they were eat­ing a con­ven­tion­al diet.” Nicholas Nor­witz - Ox­ford PhD Re­searcher and Har­vard Med Stu­dent: https://​www.​dpag.​ox.​ac.​uk/​team/​nicholas-norwitz