EP 94 — Kris Buchanan: From Olympic Athlete to Serious Illness to Whole Food Restaurant
Spirit Gym with Paul Chek
Paul Chek
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🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 151 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Organic's just a starting point. Okay, so at least you're starting there, but then you have to know your brand because there's there's just organic ingredients in bulk out of China, right? |
| 0:12.6 | Can you really trust that? |
| 0:14.3 | There's a lot of stuff out of Mexico. |
| 0:15.9 | Now, all the people, the companies that certify organic are not the government. |
| 0:20.1 | They're private companies like QAI and Oregon Tilf and they follow the NOP, the National Organic Program. |
| 0:28.6 | And those standards are set by the government and of course the government as you've touched on is lobby by corporations |
| 0:35.3 | so the standards are getting less and less right and bastardized and we can't trust them as much. |
| 0:40.9 | So there's new certifications coming out. What we're doing currently is |
| 0:45.5 | looking for as much biodynamic and regenerative agriculture that we can find. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek. find. Chris is a member of the CIF Hall of Fame and was part of the USA Field Hockey team that |
| 1:06.3 | competed in the 1996 Olympics. |
| 1:09.8 | But high intensity exercise plus processed food plus sugar created a dangerous |
| 1:14.8 | combination for her immune system and she experienced a severe wake-up call in |
| 1:19.3 | 2007 when she was diagnosed with Celiac Disease and Hashimoto's. |
| 1:25.0 | Going back to school to study holistic nutrition, |
| 1:28.0 | Chris is now the founder of Good Onya, |
| 1:30.0 | an organic restaurant in Antonidas, California, and the creator of Good Ony a Hydrate, Electrolyte, and Mineral Drink Mix. |
| 1:38.0 | Have you ever wondered what Olympic athletes are taught to eat by the nutritionists that educate them for Olympic committees and what the cost of educating athletes that way is? |
| 1:51.0 | Or why we allow big corporations selling junk food like Coke and McDonald's to sponsor the Olympics? |
| 1:58.0 | What you are about to learn may both surprise you and help you realize the kind of corporate |
| 2:02.4 | manipulation that makes it in the Olympics and |
| 2:04.8 | our governments and points to many of the problems the pandemic is bringing light to today. |
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