99 Percent of Chemicals in Foods Are Self-Certified by Industry, NOT FDA
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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I’m embarrassed I didn’t know about this sooner. Here’s what you need to know about GRAS.
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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:12.2 | And there's something I recently learned that it's almost embarrassing to say that I |
| 0:25.9 | should have known this long ago. And it relates to gross, which stands for generally recognized |
| 0:32.4 | as safe. And this designation goes along with certain chemicals that are put out in our |
| 0:38.7 | environment and food, implying that it probably went through a lot of different safety studies, |
| 0:43.8 | right? And it's regulated by the FDA. But apparently what I just learned about this is that the |
| 0:48.9 | FDA allows companies to self-certify their poisons, I'm sorry, chemicals as being safe. And I |
| 0:57.9 | mean, think about this, we have like 10,000 chemicals in our food supply. And 99% of them have not |
| 1:06.2 | really been reviewed for safety. And so this leads me to a new definition that I'm going to share |
| 1:12.2 | with you. It's called a loophole. And relating to this topic, a loophole is something that a company can |
| 1:19.8 | use to avoid certain restrictions. And that's exactly what this gross is. It's a big fat loophole |
| 1:27.8 | that companies use to imply that their chemicals are safe, despite other testing done by other |
| 1:34.5 | facilities, which is quite fascinating because many chemicals that are allowed in the US are not |
| 1:39.9 | allowed in Europe. Yeah, and today I'm just going to talk about six of these poisons. I mean, |
| 1:43.7 | chemicals that are generally considered as safe. I like how they use the word generally, |
| 1:52.3 | so they don't have to be that specific about it. So the first one on the list is nitrates. |
| 1:56.4 | Okay, nitrates are those things that they use to preserve meat. It's in like bacon, process meats, |
| 2:04.1 | things like that, to keep that meat from turning gray. Okay, so it keeps it red. It increases |
| 2:11.2 | the shelf life, but it does increase the risk of cancer. It's also could be in your drinking water. |
| 2:17.2 | Now, here's the thing. And when you see on the label that the nitrates are coming from something |
| 2:21.7 | like celery juice, that's a completely different type of nitrate. I'm talking about like things |
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