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Do you eat 100% organic?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Is cost your only factor? How much does being sick cost?\u00a0 Include co-pays, deductibles, lost productivity, time off work, and reduced quality of life (which is tough to quantify).\u00a0 I just had a patient tell me his dialysis, resulting from type 2 diabetes, costs $50,000 per year.\u00a0 Do you know there are over 80,000 chemicals being used regularly in the US?\u00a0 Do you know that over 10,000+ of those are allowed in and on our food?\u00a0 The majority of these chemicals are not studied as much as you would like to think for their impact on our environment and our health.\u00a0 Many fall under what is called “Generally Recognized As Safe” or GRAS.\u00a0 Additionally, for what little research and investigation has been done, most is done on one chemical at a time.\u00a0 While the average American is exposed to 100+ different chemicals from personal care products, like deodorant or hair spray, takes multiple medications, and eats foods containing food coloring, preservatives, herbicides, pesticides, and more every day!\u00a0 With the nearly endless possible combinations of different chemicals, and each person having a different ability to process or detoxify these chemicals out, it is impossible to fully study the effects these chemicals could have in combination on our health and the environment.\u00a0 We are the experiment.\u00a0 What to do about all this?\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently there has been a growing trend of people becoming vegan\nand vegetarians for this very reason. \nThere has been a growing number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and\nmenu items, and vegan and vegetarian documentaries advocating animal rights, shaming\nanimal cruelty, discussing green house gases, health, pollutants, shaming\nfactory farming, etc.  One thing I have\nnoticed as I watch these documentaries and eat at these restaurants, as they\nadvocate a plant based diet, is the lack of information being provided in\nregards to the quality of veggies available and what chemicals are being\nsprayed, GMOs, poor soil quality, decreasing top soil nutrient density,\ndecreasing top soil micro biome (or soil based organisms), and resulting lower\nnutrient density fruits and veggies; resulting in most Americans being nutrient\ndeficient in many essential nutrients, the most common I personally see are\nmagnesium, omega 3 fats, and Vitamin D deficiencies.  Vitamin deficiency can also lead to many\nknown diseases like: Rickets from a vitamin D deficiency, Pellagra from vitamin\nB3 deficiency, Beri Beri from vitamin B1 deficiency, Goiter from an iodine\ndeficiency, Iron or B12 deficiency anemia, Scurvy from a vitamin C deficiency,\njust to name a few.  But, from an\nalternative holistic medicine point of view, or now people are using the term\nFunctional Medicine, there are many signs and symptoms of nutrient deficiency prior\nto the moment of full blown disease and resulting lab work or test findings;\noften referred to as “sub-clinical”. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, back to chemicals.\u00a0 In this blog I want to just address one chemical.\u00a0 One chemical out of the over 10,000+ allowed in and on our food.\u00a0 For the time being lets call this chemical “chemical X”.\u00a0 Chemical X is in roughly 750 products and is recognized as the most used chemical on farms, and I would argue it is very likely everyone has used a product that contains this chemical; chemical X is mostly aimed at weed control1<\/sup>.\u00a0 Being that chemical X is so prevalent, I would like to make an argument that the more non-organic plant based foods, or goods, you eat the more of chemical X you will be consuming.\u00a0 Making a fair argument that if a vegan or vegetarian were to be eating non-organic they will be greatly exposed to larger quantities of this toxin and more likely to have a negative health impact due to chemical X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we know about chemical X and your health:<\/p>\n\n\n\n