6 out of 10 Americans have a chronic disease. 75% of us are overweight. 42% are obese. 88% are metabolically unhealthy. Take that in for a minute; 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy—that means 88% are not, and these people are more at risk for COVID-19 and other chronic diseases.

Animal foods are best multivitamin we've ever encountered

Depression, it turns out, is an inflammatory disease ... It's like a sore throat, but it's in your brain. And your brain doesn't hurt, but it can be depressed or feel sad or be anxious or have OCD or ADD or whatever, and so it has different ways of expressing that inflammation.

When you really look at where humans get nutrients, and this is bioavailable micronutrients, and where humans would have gotten calories from evolutionarily, animals dwarf plants in every way.

When you look at the science of these foods—these ultra-processed pulverized foods that are high in starch and sugar—they're really designed to hijack our brain chemistry, our hormones, and our metabolism in a very specific way.

We have certain populations in this country that are so disproportionately affected by chronic disease and by poor health—African American communities, the Hispanic community, and Native American communities. And when you look at COVID-19, it is, far and away, hurting these populations more than anybody else. For example, in Louisiana and Chicago, African Americans are 30% of the population but 70% of the deaths. Native Americans are experiencing the same thing.

In Chicago, there's something called the Chicago loop. If you live outside the loop, your life expectancy is 16 years less. If you take a subway from Midtown Manhattan to the Bronx—which is a very poor African American community—your life expectancy goes down 6 months for every subway stop.

Food waste is a huge problem. 40% of our food is wasted, and it's one of the biggest drivers of climate change. It's a bigger contributor of methane than cows.

Every bite of food you take regulates your entire biology. It changes your gene expression, it changes your hormones, your brain chemistry, you immune system your microbiome, everything—literally with every bite.

Muscle is the currency of longevity. You lose muscle, you lose life.

When you think of the amount of glyphosate... If it was an ingredient on a Cheerios box, it would be higher in terms of its quantity that all the vitamins in there.

I think gluten and dairy are problematic because of how they're raised and grown. We're not eating the grains that our ancestors ate; we're not eating the dairy that our ancestors ate. It's very inflammatory and creates a lot of gut issues as well as health and disease problems.

Some research now indicates that the higher your total cholesterol, the longer you live

Paul Saladino eats 3-4 oz. of raw liver per day

Facebook, for example, last year, had 500 billion ads for junk food.

A robust variety of plant foods is associated with a healthier microbiome, and we have longer-term studies with these. We don't have longer-term studies with the carnivore diet.

We can't resurrect our communities unless we resurrect our health; and we can't resurrect our health unless we resurrect our food; and we can't resurrect our food until we fix the food system, and fix agriculture, and pull that thread that connects everything together.

The way we define disease is completely wrong. So, our normal conception of disease is completely flawed because it's not based on causes; it's based on symptoms. So, I think people just don't understand that, and so if you focus on causes, not symptoms, and treat that—the root cause, people get better.

There are a lot of unintended consequences that have led to our current food system that were born out of good intentions.