Wine Myths, Dark & Dirty Secrets of the Wine Industry, Wine Biohacks & More!
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 30 April 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
A few months ago, I released the article "Dark & Dirty Secrets Of The Wine Industry, Four Ways To Make Wine Healthier, and What Kind Of Wine Fit People Should Drink."
In it, I detailed the serious issues with arsenic, overpricing, lack of sustainability, high levels of sulfites, amines and ochratoxins, boatloads of sugars, high pH levels (that increase the possibility of contamination by unwanted organisms), a less than stellar taste, plastic polyethylenes and many other problems plaguing the modern wine industry - and causing many people (including my wife) to get headaches or poor sleep from a nightly glass of wine.
At the end of that post, I highlight that I now drink a new kind of healthy wine called "FitVineWine", and in today's podcast, I interview Mark Warren, co-founder of FitVineWine, a national level black belt competitor in TaeKwonDo, a Crossfitter and of course, as a wine enthusiast and father of two boys, a man after my own heart.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-Why there are shocking levels of additives and other fillers in most modern wines...
-How most wineries add sugar and grape concentrate to wines to adjust the pH (and why pH is so important)...
-Why many wines are filtered through wheat and contain gluten...
-Whether you need to be concerned about mold in wine...
-How you can concentrate the amount of antioxidants like resveratrol, polyphenols and proanthocyanidins in grapes...
-What it means for a wine to be "biodynamic" or "organically" farmed...
-Why many wines are over-irrigated and why wineries should use less water, not more...
-Why wine grapes should be grown at higher, cooler elevations...
-Why people really aren't allergic to sulfites in wine, and why it's something else altogether...
-How FitVineWine compares to other popular "healthy" or "Paleo" wines out there...
-And much more!
Resources from this episode: -FitVineWine.com (use 10% discount code BEN10) “California Winemakers Sued Over High Levels of Arsenic in Wines” “Bad News for Those of You Who, Like Us, Drank Cheap Wine Each and Every Night of Your 20s” Do you have questions, comments or feedback for me or my guest Mark on anything we discuss in this episode? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply...and click here to get a bottle of red or a bottle of white at FitVineWine.com with 10% discount code BEN10 (assuming you’re 21 years of age or older).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, this is Ben Greenfield. I have been in California for the past week and I've actually been a very good boy |
| 0:09.1 | I've been being very careful here in California because of what we're going to talk about on today's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | And that would be California's juice of choice. That's right wine. I know there's been a lot of wine podcasts kind of floating around out there lately |
| 0:25.9 | Like healthy wine podcasts. I guarantee the wine discussion that we have today is not the same old same old version of some of those podcasts that you may have already heard |
| 0:37.6 | But before we jump in let's talk about something that is completely unrelated to wine kind of mushrooms |
| 0:45.5 | That's right many of you know that I tend to OD on mushrooms just slightly I eat mushrooms every day |
| 0:53.7 | Not the magic stuff. I save that for the very very special occasions |
| 0:58.1 | But I'm talking about wild crafted mushrooms. I get this stuff |
| 1:03.4 | That is a mushroom extract mushroom elixir this company called four-sigmatic makes a bunch of different mushroom elixirs |
| 1:12.0 | And mushrooms have specific chemical properties to them that things like say grapes used in wine don't have that |
| 1:19.2 | Other super foods like goji berries and Brazil nuts and stuff like that don't have take for example the four-sigmatic |
| 1:26.3 | Viking blend this is four different wild crafted |
| 1:31.5 | Super foods it's made from a bunch of different Arctic herbs and it combines greens |
| 1:36.4 | berries tree bark and root all in one blend. It's got stuff like |
| 1:41.3 | Nettle |
| 1:42.3 | Rhodiola pine bark and amla and it's made by this same company that does all of these |
| 1:49.2 | Houghton mushroom extracts like chaga and cordisps and even one of my favorites that I travel with |
| 1:55.3 | Mushroom coffee now you get a |
| 1:57.6 | Bat discount on all this stuff if you get a four-sigmatic.com slash greenfield |
| 2:03.2 | I realize it's kind of long so I'll spell it out for you F.O.U.R |
| 2:06.9 | That's four |
| 2:08.9 | Sigmatic just like it sounds s i g m a t i c dot com slash greenfield and the coupon code is |
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