You are what you absorb

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I’m Brandon Wilson. I am constantly working toward improving my mind, body, and spirit using various ancient techniques and cutting-edge biohacking tools and devices. I want to be healthy, but not at the expense of being happy. This simple idea is what it means to be wellthy.

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This weekend, I stopped by the Health & Freedom Summit in Scottsdale, AZ. I met fantastic new people and chatted with familiar folks like Dr. Robert Scott Bell. I also had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Patrick Porter, the inventor of BrainTap. He’s adding some significant innovations to the BrainTap platform in the near future.

BW, Dr. Patrick Porter, and Club Member Dr. Scott Sherner

Usually, I give you a scattershot summary of events like these. This time, I want to focus on one topic that was a central theme at the conference.

I saw a presentation by Tas Ferreira, a functional medicine doctor and geneticist, who reversed several chronic diseases through diet and environmental changes. Tas suggested replacing the phrase “you are what you eat” with “you are what you absorb.”

Of course, the food you eat is one of the most significant factors affecting health. If you’ve ever gotten sick after a meal, you probably avoid that meal in the future. With outright food poisoning, your body sends an immediate signal, but what if the poison is more subtle? What kind of poisons? Pesticides like glyphosate, heavy metals, and various chemical additives.

California recently passed a bill banning four food additives linked to disease: brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, and red dye 3. The US is playing catch-up because these additives were already banned in the European Union, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan.

You might think that if these additives are so harmful, why hasn’t the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) banned them? Guess what? The FDA banned red dye 3 in cosmetics in 1990 due to a causal link to cancer in lab mice. So there’s no red dye 3 in lipstick, but it’s still in your candy corn and many other food products. What sense does that make?