Food dyes and additives are hidden dangers in everyday foods, posing serious health risks such as cancer and neurological issues. These artificial ingredients are especially harmful to children, affecting their behavior, focus, and overall well-being. A shift toward organic, homemade meals can lead to noticeable improvements in health and mood, highlighting the powerful connection between diet and wellness.

The differences in food safety regulations between the U.S. and Europe expose the need for greater awareness about harmful chemicals in our diet. Simple changes, like avoiding processed foods, can have profound effects on reversing conditions like Type 2 diabetes and mitigating long-term developmental harm caused by toxic substances.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:05 - Introduction to Food Dyes and Health Risks

02:22 - Impact on Children's Behavior

03:34 - U.S. vs. Europe Food Standards

04:39 - Profit-Driven Health Issues

05:47 - Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

07:02 - Cholesterol and Depression Medications

08:19 - Food Reformulations for Europe

10:32 - Challenges with Vaccine Research

12:38 - Long-Term Impact of Toxic Foods

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:05] All right. So I did a radio interview this morning on food dyes. I'm sure I'm gonna be doing lots more of those. The the research on those is kind of interesting because we see that there's a link between some of these dyes and cancer in laboratory animals where we've also seen neurologic deficits. So, for instance, they premiums haven't run the maize and then they feed them up. Haunch of food dyes again back in the maize and they can't run the maize nearly as well as they just did. Or they take an average of a whole bunch of rats running the maze and they give different rats the dyes and have them run the maze. And the times are different. So the problem is, is that a lot of these things are being tested in a in isolation. And what that means is that they're testing just that one dye to see if that one dye is problematic. And the thing is, they keep Cro-Magnon like we think it is. I mean, it's pretty close to. Yeah, there's there's cancer in these there's neurologic deficits. There's this, there's that. We definitely think that this is a problem. The thing about it is that none of those food dyes, none of those toxic chemicals, are you getting in isolation.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:22] So like I would on the radio this morning, the guy was like, well, just look at Heinz tomato ketchup. It has whatever the dye is, high fructose corn sirup and these other things. And that's what I'm talking about. You know, if you've got two different dyes and high fructose corn sirup and, you know, four other chemicals that, you know, that are non-natural chemicals to the body, and then that's just the one thing. And then you're going to have something else and something else. So like the cereal, there is nothing more commonly eaten that is more toxic than breakfast cereal from a food dye, high fructose corn sirup, high glycemic function, highly processed junk. I can't think of anything else that that we consume on a regular basis that people think is healthy. That is just absolutely garbage. You know, I tell the story all the time about how I have the patients come in and the kids have issues, and the school was yelling at them and telling the mom they need to medicate the kids.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:22] And we switched them from a cereal to like basically brownies and cookies and cakes that was made with organic, you know, crackle for the chocolate, almond flour, eggs, butter and a you know, depending on how we did it, either allulose, which is my favorite or monk fruit and the rest were tall and all of a sudden these kids didn't need their A.D.D., that the teachers were like, No, they're fine, they're good. In fact, the mom actually got a call from the school asking if they needed to update their medication list because they got so much better. These things do greatly affect our function. So, you know, and a lot of these like Kellogg's, these guys are starting to get the message. The parents and people are past that. They're feeding us all these things that are known problems. And again, they stack. So you didn't just give one known problem. You gave five known problems in this one food that you don't do for Europe. Yeah, because Europe said, hey, these are toxic. We don't want them. And the food companies making the Heinz, making the Nabisco and making all the stuff. Over there reformulated everything so that they don't have those chemicals in them.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:34] Well, they kept giving us the chemicals because, I mean, why not? You know, there's there's a good tie between the pharmaceutical group and the food chemical group as being very close to the, say, Monsanto's owned, I want to say is owned by Bayer. So, you know, if you're giving people things that are creating toxic issues, damaging their health, necessitating A.D.D. meds, depression meds, energy star, fat loss stuff, you know, and that's a great business model poison over here. And then given the solution over there, you know, that is a horrible from a human beings standpoint, but it's a great, great option. If you don't care about people, you just care about profit. You know, poison them with the thing over here. And then the symptoms that this poison creates, sell them the the cure or the or the treatment over here and you're good. Look at diabetes. We've known how to fix diabetes for a long time. Diabete Type two diabetes specifically is really easy to fix, but we don't fix it because it generates giant amounts of money, leads to secondary and tertiary quaternary other issues there then you can sell drugs for.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:39] And the foods that these people eat are driving it and the link is not theoretical. It is direct and obvious and we know what's causing it because that's how you fix it. But we won't do anything about it because that's how we make money. And there's no real there's no argument around that. We've known for a long time how to fix it, and we're just making it worse because it drives profits. So, you know, that's why you have to be very weary of the medical industry, not the doctors. You guys go see the doctors, you guys go see, you're doing the best jobs they can. The problem is that the NIH, the CDC, the W.H.O. are all funded directly by pharmaceutical function. And so they're going to give bad information to all the doctors to maintain the system. That's what's going on. You know, the fact they keep teaching calories instead of teaching the macro functionality of what these hormones do is the probably the number one way that we maintain diabetes. If you knew that your carbohydrates were affecting your insulin levels and insulin levels over time, or how we get diabetes, which is very obvious in the research and very obviously from a from a physiological factor.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:47] And you go, hey, if you quit doing X, you won't have diabetes anymore. If you substitute X for Y, you won't have diabetes anymore. That would be very, very easy. It's what I do. And we wouldn't we would have a much, much, much smaller amount of diabetes. However, that's not what we choose to do. So you have to sit the back and go, y you know, it's an obvious thing. You know, everybody's heard of someone, you know, fixing their type two diabetes with diet. You think, Wow, don't you think someone should research that? We did. We've known for 40, 50 years. The problem is that doesn't make any money. It's like SSRI and statin drugs. We've known SSRI. The monoamine theory was trash for a long time. We've also known that psychedelics, psilocybin, ayahuasca, MDMA to a degree will radically help fix these things because it lifts all the neurotransmitters at once, lets everything kind of reset the default function and kind of comes back to normal. Ketamine is a great function on this as well. We've known this for a long time, but accessories make a lot of money. We've done the cholesterol had no bearing on cardiovascular health whatsoever. The research was very poorly done and obviously biased. However, you know, statin drugs make a bunch money, so we're going to keep pushing certain drugs, even though we know that it has no bearing on stuff.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:02] So, you know, we're in a really interesting time when the food diet thing kind of brings up to the front of it, you know, the the function of they're just it's not about health. They don't care about your health and they kind of want you sick because they've already made all these foods. They've already they've already, you know, reformulated everything, you know, for Europe. They've already been making these things for a while. So they don't have any, you know, well, what happens if this if the chip doesn't really chip up or this all that's that's been dealt with for a long time and they just don't do it here because, you know, it drives profit for the other side of their business. So, you know, a lot of this stuff as it starts coming out the next couple weeks and months is going to be very, very interesting. I think a lot of these guys are jumping out ahead of time like the guys, the Kellogg's deal, you know, the boycott around Kellogg's and the protests around Kellogg's, you know, I think is driving a lot of this stuff to the forefront even before RFK comes in. And one of the questions they ask on the radio in Orlando was, you know, what's left for RFK to deal with if they fix all the food, food, diet stuff? Well, there's still a ton of stuff in our food that needs to be pulled out. And there's the, you know. That will help tremendously.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:19] But there's a bunch of medications, like I mentioned, that need to be. The research seems to be driven back up. And then like, look, you know, this stuff doesn't do anything. This is this is harmful for people. And you guys have known it for a long time. So we need to change it. You know, our next big argument with vaccines is that the childhood vaccines that we're using have never actually been tested against placebo, which would make sense because I've looked for that research for a long time because all the medical pediatricians, all the medical doctors that I've ever, you know, argued this case has always said that the research has been done. And, you know, they've read the research and, you know, placebo backed. And, you know, it's one of those things where, like there's zero there's zero harm ever anywhere, you know, with vaccines, which is absurd. You're telling me that we made thousands of different chemicals combinations and that every single human being alive is not harmed in any way but made better by these things and, you know, entirely better. You know, people can eat peanuts, people can eat gluten. People, you know, you drink too much water, you die.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:23] However, these manmade vaccines are completely perfect in every way. They don't hurt anybody. They just make you healthy. That, on its face, is like mutant. I don't know. I don't trust your industry and I don't trust that that that comment especially. Well, the vaccines are based on lies. You know, they come out and they're like, if you get hep B, they will die. That's that's a flat out lie. You know, 3 in 1000 people who get it who get. Who get who get measles die and they die from dehydration and pneumonia. They don't die from measles. So get water in them. And 60 something percent of those guys survive. So that's a lie. They told us all that if our kids got chickenpox, they would be sterile and they couldn't have children. And they told that to a roomful of men born in the 80s who every single one of us got chicken pox. And we're in the room because our wives are pregnant. So, I mean, were like, my gosh, I got to get that one. I'm like, Do you not see the lie? It's right in front of you. Like, it's so, you know, there's a lot of these things that are going to come out still. But, you know, when we start looking at our food dyes, we do need to get these chemicals out, especially since we can so easily replace them.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:32] The formulations that are already been made for Italy and for Europe, we can just roll in here and we're fine. The hesitancy and the reluctance to change. I think it's very questionable. Why? Why is it like we were pissed? We wanted you guys to change, but you're not gonna. Why? Where's the billions in, you know, new research you got to do? You don't have to do any research. You know, what's the. You know, our new packaging? You got to print new packages. Well, guess what? We'll just print them because you have to print em in anyway. Just, you know, next time you guys cycle through. Just change the formulations and print them that, like, you don't have any. There's no financial hang ups in this stuff. You might have to go through and clean your machines. You know, there's a possibility you might have to get different machines. And there's a cost there. That's a very small cost to start. You know, if you're like, well, we have to get, you know, different chemicals in and this and that. All right, fine. You know, you guys are already buying. I'm so buying an economy of scale. So instead of just buying enough for Europe, you're buying enough for the U.S. and for Europe. Your prices on those things should come down because that's how our economy of scale works.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:35] So, you know, at the end of the day, I see very little reason why where the hesitation is there to switch over anyway. You know, people like, well, it's going to taste different. Doesn't matter. Yeah, it might. Tastes a little bit different. However, I've eaten the food in Europe and I've eaten the food here and I can't tell the difference. And, you know, I'm not small. Yeah. So perhaps we'll be able to taste all of the difference. But the biggest thing is, is that we're getting, you know, per meal, you'll get 10 or 12 neurotoxins, you know, things that affect the brain in a negative way. Things that affect the gut in a negative way. Things that drastically alter your health in a negative way out. So there you go. You know, I think that we're going to start to say, as all this research comes out, as RFK stuff comes out, we start looking at the research, we start changing some of these things. I think we're going to start to see is we're gonna start to see allergies start coming down, asthma start coming down, skin issues start coming down and ADHD stuff start calming down, sleep, get better. You know, I think we're going to start to see a lot of these things because, you know, this is what I see with my families.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:38] When we bring people in and we change their diet, we change their exercise routine, know we see massive changes in these kiddos and these are things that are lifelong. People don't understand that, you know, if your kid has is being has toxic food when they're eight, ten, 12, 14, they're not just going to be like, now I'm magically better when I'm 25 or 30 because I, you know, I have to take the time to learn to eat, learn to cook, learn, you know, learn the get the chemicals out. And then if you're developmental years, your, your brain is all had, you know, high toxic load, you're not going to be where you want to be when you're 30 because the development function was retarded, which. Sorry. The word retarded means to withhold or hold back. So it's been your your development was reduced. If we're going with words, if people have less triggers with. And so, you know, that's what we're starting to see is you know long term function of some of these kiddos without all the inflammatory issues that they're getting in from the vaccines and from all the foods and from our chemicals, you know, we're going to be healthier long term. So, you know, that's what's coming.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:43] So hopefully we can get more of that moved. And I and I'm sure there's going to be a bunch of, you know, anger and vitriol about having to do it. And they're going to come out all these foods taste different and stuff. But, you know, at the end of the day, it's, you know, the chemicals you put in your body every single day dictate your health more than anything else that goes on. So the foods you're eating or the foods you're not eating, the chemicals you're getting in versus not getting can dictate entirely your health, how your brain works, how your adrenals work, how your energy levels work, how your skin looks, all of it. You know, it's not one of those things. It's like, well, you know, die something big of a deal. The reason why medical doctors don't think diets I'm not too big of a deal is because they get zero education on it. Zero which is which is very horrible because your body, your physiology, the way you were designed to function is based off of this chemicals you're getting in hold your nutrients, your nutrition is based off your nutrients. How much methylated B's, how many you know, CoQ10, how much you know, clean proteins and clean fats and that type of thing. Are you getting that your body's used to seeing and using to function? That is entirely what your health is.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:14:49] So the idea that, you know, we should go with all these manmade chemicals and just, you know, eat whatever you want to and then just rely on the drugs to fix everybody is, you know, the method that was been set up and forced upon us by the food and drug companies, you know, from the FDA. But it's not really the place that we should be looking for, what we should be looking for. Okay. I don't trust the government anymore, which I mean, after all this. A, you did. How do you trust the NIH or the FDA? So that's kind of where it's at. So if you guys have any other questions, drop in the comments of questions at Chalmers Morningstar.com and hopefully we'll start to see some of these things get cleaned up so we can be healthier. If you guys need help with you or with your family or your health, give us a call. Your Chalmers wellness.com. And we can get you guys and towards one second as well and we'll get you guys going. You guys had any questions is up. Have a nice day. Thanks for your time.

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