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This is off brand but whatever, I’ve been studying nutrition and biohacking extensively for the past three years and I find the general American centric arrogance ridiculous so here it goes. I see so many europoors slammers on my timeline saying shit like “oh I came to Europe guzzled wine and chowed on pizza like there’s no tomorrow and feel like a million bucks. I even lost weight” and wander what kind of sorcery is that. No shit. Here’s the thing. The EU has banned over 1,300 chemicals from food and cosmetics. Things like titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, BHA, azodicarbonamide. In the U.S.? They’re in your bread, cereal, chips, soda, candy, and even meat packaging. In the US there are over 3,000 substances classified as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe), many of which were self-approved by manufacturers with no independent oversight. So when your cousin Chad visits France, slams 4000 calories worth of baguettes and slabs of raw butter a hand thick, and magically drops five pounds, it’s not a miracle. He just wasn’t microdosing endocrine disruptors, preservatives, and synthetic emulsifiers designed to hack your satiety response. He wasn’t eating flame-retardant laced soft drinks and bread with a yoga mat’s worth of plasticity chemicals. It’s the only thing our fucking overregulation insanity works for. In the U.S. all you regulate in food is goddamn marketing. That’s why American “food” can legally be sold as “heart healthy” while being biochemically inflammatory and metabolically sabotaging. For the cheaper stuff, straight up neurotoxic. I shit you not, for a while I was dating this sweet girl in Chicago, her visiting mother once told me I should use margarine instead of ghee cause it was better for the heart. She was convinced. And too much honey, honey. Instead have some of this corn syrup. I remember a furious fight, I was young and impatient and stupid - I liked this woman mind you, she liked me, but the level of brainwashing I understood to be ingrained was mind boggling: even if you’re trying, your “wellness smoothies” are packed with emulsifiers and gums that are jacking your gut, and creating dysbiosis that will fuck you up for ages. Your “low-fat” yogurts are over 50% corn syrup. Some of your whole grain breads baked with ingredients used to make rubber soles. The good ones, the “bread at home” contains potassium bromate, a potent carcinogen. Every grain you eat is sprayed with pesticides that are pure fucking evil. There’s a good movie about this I really like, dark waters, give it a watch. Your soda contains BVO, a litteral flame retardant. Your chips contain BHA, banned in 160 countries. The morning cereal glows with artificial dyes outlawed in the EU since the ‘90s. And has so much sugar in all the worst forms possible it will have them spin like hamsters on crack. You wanna know why your kid has ADHD and your fucking doctor prescribed her fucking speed? Start looking into that instead of mindlessly regurgitating “it’s the jab”. You fed that shit to them every morning. And none of it comes with a warning. Just a smiling cartoon tiger. Quality of life matters. Most of you are teenagers or early twenties. Most of you are privileged. So all this doesn’t matter so much. Yet. But it will. Damage stacks up. They’ll get you nice and sick and depressed and compliant, the perfect layup to have you hooked up to the most preposterously drug riddled, profitable fueled “health system” in the world. But that’s a story for another day, and another rant.