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so i have a question for you

would you ever

consume

salmon that is gray the answer is no

right well what if i were to give you

gray salmon that has used food dye to

make it look pink would you consume it

well chances are you are if you’re

consuming farm-raised salmon in a recent

video i talked about the healthiest food

that you could possibly eat is salmon

but i really made a big distinction

between wild caught and farm raised now

just because they’re similar doesn’t

mean they’re the same but today i want

to focus just on one

big difference it’s the coloring now the

way that they make

farm raised salmon pink is they use

something called a synthetic

astaxanthin that is a pigment compound

which also appears in nature

and in nature

natural astaxanthin has

huge profound health benefits but the

synthetic version there’s never been any

credible safety studies to show that

it’s safe for humans now the reason i’m

bringing that up is because there has

been a lot of research on synthetic

antioxidants and the dangers that it can

actually increase your risk of

cancer

so since this is also a synthetic

antioxidant you should just realize that

there is no safety studies and the

problem with the situation is if someone

does find

a problem with this uh in some study

it’s going to take probably 20 years

before it’s taken off the market so

certain companies have synthesized

this compound

out of petrochemicals and they even sell

different shades of pink okay so they

have this color wheel very similar to

you going

to the paint store and trying to find

the right paint we have these different

colors on this chart it’s called a samol

fan and you can pick and choose the

color pigment that you want

people will definitely spend more money

on salmon if it’s a dark colored pink

and also they do this with egg yolks to

make it look really um like a golden

yellow orange that’s also produced by

these synthetic they’re called

carotenoids also chicken is also dyed

because if you don’t have it the nice

pink

flesh color

people might not eat it so this is just

another reason

to get wild caught salmon pasture-raised

organic eggs and to buy organic chicken

that is not colored not to mention

flavored yes they also flavor chicken

because it’s so bland but the next time

you’re in the grocery store look at the

back of the label when you buy chicken

it’ll say chicken with

natural flavorings okay they actually

put chicken flavoring to make the

chicken taste more like chicken now i’m

doing a really big deep dive on

antioxidants

phytonutrients and doing testing with

plants and how you would spike certain

phytonutrients or pigments in plants and

you can do it with certain nutrients in

the soil you can do it with different

types of light so it’s a fascinating

subject because there are a lot of

health benefits from some of these

pigments so i just want to run down the

list of all the great benefits of a

natural astaxanthin first of all it’s 50

times stronger in its ability to counter

oxidation it’s 20 times stronger in

handling free radicals and what i’m

comparing is the synthetic aversion and

like i said before it has profound

benefits on humans

for your eye for your brain

for your heart for your immune system it

gives you uv protection with your skin

it even has anti-inflammatory properties

so it can do a lot so the salmon get

astaxanthin from krill

and shrimp okay

and the krill and shrimp get it from

microalgae and so microalgae are just

loaded with this pigment now just as

aside now what’s fascinating about

this compound and microalgae is that

when algae is stressed whether it’s heat

or cold

or a lack of food they eat up a lot of

this astaxanthin it’s called bile

accumulation but in a hyper mode then

they can actually live to up to 40 years

in extreme environments and i’m talking

about extreme cold extreme heats in

environments where there’s no food or

water it’s a fascinating protective

survival mechanism so there are profound

benefits from humans from consuming this

compound but of course when you get it

from farm-raised fish it’s not going to

be the same that chemistry is completely

different and one last point about

astaxanthin in nature it always comes

as a complex at least five other

carotenoids but when you synthesize it

in a lab it only comes

in one

form so other than the obvious reasons

not to consume farm-raised fish like

they’re fed gmo soy and corn this

synthetic version of astoxanthin

could potentially be a problem if anyone

decides to do the safety studies now i

think the next most important video to

watch would be

what i think is the healthiest food to

eat which is wow caught salmon check it

out i put it right here

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