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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1KHO 803: Slow Poison Dressed Up as Convenience | Dr. Sina McCullough, Hands Off My Food

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Sina McCullough for one of the most eye-opening conversations we’ve had on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. Sina shares how a devastating health collapse led her from a PhD in nutrition to questioning everything she thought she knew about the American food system. Together they unpack why ultra-processed food is so cheap, how the farm bill reshaped the modern grocery store, and what’s really happening with gene-edited foods, pharmaceutical crops, CRISPR technology, and the hidden chemicals most families never even realize they’re consuming. But this episode is not rooted in fear. It’s about remembering that our daily choices still matter, that real food can help the body heal, and that ordinary people have more power than they’ve been led to believe. This conversation will make you look at your pantry, your plate, and your family’s future differently. Sign up for the Two Days of Truth here Check out Dr. Sina McCullough’s new book: Hands Off My FoodCheck out the Beyond Labels podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Summer gets busy fast. One minute you're easing into warmer weather and the next you're juggling sports schedules, swim days, camping trips, road trips, late nights around the fire and trying to keep the house from completely falling apart in the middle of all of it.

0:13.2

And if you're a cat family too, there's still the everyday stuff waiting for you at home, including the litter box.

0:18.6

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0:21.5

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0:26.6

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0:31.3

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0:35.7

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0:54.3

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0:58.5

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1:04.1

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1:10.4

Welcome to the 1,000 hours outside podcast. My name is Gin Ertum, the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, and I am thrilled to have Dr. Cina McCullough back. She is a co-host of this phenomenal podcast called Beyond Labels with Joel Salatin. They have this book that we've talked to about before called Beyond Labels, which is a phenomenal book. And then,

1:28.7

Sina, you just came out with a new book called Hands Off My Food, How to Defend Your Food,

1:33.4

Health and Freedom. I learned so much from it. Welcome back. Oh, thanks for having me. I love

1:39.2

being here. Yes. Okay. So we're going to briefly talk about your backstory because we talked

1:43.9

about that in the other episode.

1:45.1

People can go back and listen. But your backstory is you got a PhD in nutrition, a PhD from University of California at Davis.

1:52.6

So you're this expert in food, but you became debilitatingly sick. And if you read your story in this book or you talk about it in Beyond Labels, this is just

2:02.0

something that like escalated and escalated.

2:04.3

Like you know, you're trying to, you have a tumor on your eye.

2:08.2

You know, you can hardly eat any types of foods.

2:10.4

The list keeps getting shorter and shorter and basically you think I'm perishing.

2:15.1

Yeah.

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