Pesticides in your pee

Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that makes its cookies with real cane sugar from the India tree and dunks them into a cold glass of raw goat milk. Gimme two min. Let's go!

• 🛑 Couple of sad recalls. In the past month, two popular products have been recalled by their manufacturers due to containing carcinogens. The first is a Banana Boat sunscreen spray (rule of thumb: avoid the sprays, opt for the lotions) and the second is Haagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream. Benzene and ethylene oxide, respectively, sound exactly like what they are: inorganic chemicals that have no place on your skin or inside your face. Of course, this news must be entertained in parallel with news last week that the White House's incoming food supply strategy which suggested that Lucky Charms are "healthier" than eggs cooked in butter. Lololololololol!

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. It is still astonishing to me how much crap still fills the shelves of our pharmacies and grocery stores. These are just the latest victims. More to come but not nearly enough fast enough. Do your own research (this is a good resource: EWG, aka the Environmental Working Group). It's 2022 and we are still swimming in squalor.

• 🧪 Pesticides in your pee. Get this: more than 80% of Americans, ages 6+, have detectable levels of the herbicide glyphosate in their urine. Glyphosate was identified as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. Plus, its presence is linked to fatty liver disease and kidney disease. It is found in air, rain, city water supplies, soil samples, breast milk, plant-protein supplements, and even vaccines, not to mention breakfast cereal and conventional honey. Eighty percent is a lot, gang. What to do about it? Choose organic or biodynamic foods (which are not sprayed with glyphosate); drink organic apple cider vinegar, take glycine and grass-fed collagen supplements, and eat garlic/cruciferous vegetables/organic bone broth. All of these are easily found on Amazon or most natural food stores. The stuff is toxic, like the teenage mutant ninja turtle ooze.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. In the fringe health world, herbicides/pesticides in the food supply and antibiotic resistance are well known, but not nearly mainstream. That is about to change. You heard it here. Drive a beater car, take the subway, rob a homeless person for clothing... but do not skimp on food.

• 🤡 Taste is truly king. Ok, so a candy company in Canada is offering some psycho $80k/year to eat candy all day as a taste-tester, direct SKU roadmap, and run board meetings. Like a sommelier but for Nerds and lollipops. It comes out to just over 100 pieces of candy per day.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. If this mf can last three months without getting diabetes and/or throwing an existential temper tantrum, peace be with him. I wonder what this says about the addictive drug industry that is candy... A company is willing to reshuffle resources to make their product - an indulgence with zero benefit whatsoever in a country that is 60% fat and 95% metabolically inflexible - even more addicting. Some a business perspective: smart (better than letting "the people" decide what's good and suffering a monthslong lag in feedback). From an American health perspective: clownworld.

• 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Facial. Total. Facial.

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Andrew🍎

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