The SHOCKING TRUTH About Organic Food & If It's HEALTHIER | Dr. William Li

Dr William Li is a medical doctor and the author of the international bestseller, Eat to Beat Disease: The Body's Five Defense Systems and the Foods That Could Save Your Life. He works in a field of research called Food as Medicine and having been involved with the development of many different drugs over the past few decades, he is passionate about using scientific rigor to analyse the specific benefits of food.

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[daveinglis]

An under appreciated aspect of Organic farming is the idea that plant and animal health are correlated with soil health (Ie absence of symptoms does not equal health, inner vitality does); this was Sir Albert Howard’s (originator of ‘the method’) main thesis. This video points out the benefits to us of eating foods with activated natural defenses, a positive trait of organic foods, but imo the problem with non organic is not the pesticides directly but the fact that the pesticides allow a grower to get away with growing food in an ‘unhealthy’ soil. From this point of view, modern Organics that substitutes ‘acceptable’ organically derived substances for the synthetic versions is only very slightly better than non organic products. Ie they are still letting the grower get away with growing in a suboptimal soil. Produce grown in poor soil is poor produce.
The best, though approximate, guide to the presence of vitality is still taste.
While nibbling of crops might confer some beneficial effects on the consumer of such products in the form of elevated levels of particular substances of interest, that is far less important than consuming food grown in a healthy soil. Such plants and animals do not attract pathogens; pathogens that preferentially remove weak plants and animals, and proliferate in their presence (there are limits to this). We do not want to be consuming weak and susceptible products. Those desirable substances may also by elevated in unnibbled products grown in a living health soil. Determining if that is the case would require more detailed study.
For many organic growers, and I am an Organic producer of 40 years (though I no longer use that label), saying ‘damaged product is good for you’ is often ‘arguing for your weakness’.

[Brian-rsug]

Right On
Dropped seven prescription drugs by cutting out processed foods and processed sugar. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia eleven years ago and given no hope for recovery. I have been off the medication for about eight years and lost 40 pounds. This is not easy to do, but once you adjust to your new eating habits. (This will be a PROCESS) It will become much easier to maintain. Your friends and family will try to distract you from your new lifestyle, it many cases it will convict them of their poor eating habits. You are going to have to learn to be strong and fight off the temptation to fit in.

[limitisillusion]

If you like fruits and veggies, I have one recommendation. DIVERSIFY! Don't eat 6 apples or 6 bananas. Eat 1 apple, 1 banana, some pineapple, various berries etc. Your gut microbiome wants the diversity. You will also be more likely to hit your needed micronutrient goals that way. Don't eat only spinach or romaine, buy that spinach mix and throw tomatoes, peppers and whatever else on it. I usually buy my favorites and then cycle in whatever else is on sale.

[MerrilyMerrilyMerrily]

I felt similarly about organic fruit and vegetables, aside from them being virtually unaffordable. I ate an apple a day (non-organic) for over twenty years, I loved them and they worked, (I was sharing a house with a GP (lol)), then one day I had absolutely no appetite for them and I've barely eaten an apple since. I still can't afford organic fruit and veg. In 2008 I was diagnosed with Graves Disease (from which I fully recovered after about 9 months on neomercazole). At the time I was living in a rural area in Australia in a house surrounded by paddocks that were routinely sprayed with glyphosphate for weeds. I woke up one morning knowing I had to move.

[davidhughes]

You don’t necessarily buy organic because it’s better for you. You do so to encourage farmers not to use chemicals that are dangerous for workers.

[ThatBritishHomestead]

The cost of organic food is more, thats why we grow so much of our own veggies! makes much more sense to me! we are trying to grow more and more of our own things therefore they will be cheap and organic.

[gigilaroux]

I have been organic and low chemical intake for 20 yrs and I think that is what has contributed to my endometriosis really going dormant.

[christineheminger]

Our produce is usually too green. I realize that’s to help more of it survive shipping, but it never loses that green taste and it doesn’t develop the nutrients it would have if it had stayed attached to the plant until ripe

[sandraelder]

What if the organic foods are old, dried out, or unripe and the non-organic foods are fresh? That’s sometimes the case at my grocery.

[shevy]

That's very interesting...glad to hear this because I have been eating organic fruits and vegetables for years

[deniswang]

Of course, organic soils are not depleted of their microbiome due to harmful chemicals, so plant root physiology is more active and effective due to mutual symbioses with soil microbes.

[elainec]

You just have to make sure it’s legit organic but it doesn’t necessarily equate to non toxic bc it doesn’t take into account heavy metals, whatever forever chemicals are in the rain and radioactive nucleotides from water used to irrigate in certain countries.

[hannabeckstead]

Love your podcast very informative and I’m trying to eat healthy to cure my breast cancer now ❤

[alexi]

Love Dr Li, I had the same problem up to 10 years ago. Organic food was so expensive, but I eventually dropped the standard and switched to organic. But still eat regular bananas because it has a thick skin

[CurlyEm]

Here is my question how can a Organic farm surrounded by farms that use pesticides and chemicals be labeled organic? What about Chem... trails? Would the wind not carry those chemicals to the organic farms. I’m not sure about anything anymore especially if science is involved.

[sarahchristiansen]

Dried fruits bring you way more fructose (around 80%!!!) as a fruit juice which is another source of high concentrated fruit sugar! Yes it brings you some lot fibers (around 7%) but you can have fibers in other plants without the sugar/insulin spike...Also drieng processes make the fruits loose nutrients, so why don´t have a bit higher volume of fresh, nutrient-densed vegetables etc. instead of a sugar bomb? greetings from Germany

[edensmith]

Thank you both, doctors, for your time and for sharing with us this informative video

[lcharles]

Interesting that pesticides reduce the good chemicals in our food. Yet another reason to encourage regenerative farming. Also, the 60 second rinse will waste water, which is a problem in most countries at this time.

[Donn]

Re: Strawberries, I read a book about how they are produced and the MASSIVE and I mean MASSIVE amounts of pesticides injected 5 feet into the ground...so they are hopefully one of the most extremely noxious examples of pesticide use, but who knows?

[Preciousaccordingto]

I grow true organic, chicken fertilizer, rain and stream water only!