PAUL SALADINO: Snake Plant, Aloe Vera, Boston Fern, Spider Plants, English Ivy, and other plants act as Natural Air Filters . . .

Snake plant = natural air filter… pic.twitter.com/mEDlOGu5oX

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) April 10, 2025

PAUL SALADINO: methane from cows is part of the natural carbon cycle that after 12 years breaks down into natural CO2 and water. Grass absorbs the CO2 by photosynthesis and the cycle starts again

He’s right. Cows are part of environmental sustainability. The methane from cows is part of the natural carbon cycle that after 12 years breaks down into natural CO2 and water. Grass absorbs the CO2 by photosynthesis and the cycle starts again. 🐄 @CultivateElevat pic.twitter.com/5oUSd6lwsN

— “Sudden And Unexpected” (@toobaffled) March 20, 2025

PAUL SALADINO: Caffeine is sort of borrowing tomorrow's happiness today

Caffeine is borrowing tomorrow’s happiness today… pic.twitter.com/4UigX67Dsf

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) February 3, 2025

Yeah, that morning cup of coffee . . . for biological functions is not good.  

"Darkness my old friend."  Ah, not really your friend.  

But who will listen?  When it comes to coffee, I can't even listen to my own advice.  

from the interview above,

Caffeine is sort of borrowing tomorrow's happiness today.  You're saying I'm tired and I'm going to use this chemical crutch to feel less tired.  And you know that later in the day when the caffeine wears off and your adenosine receptors are flooded with adenosines, you're going to feel more tired because it's a methyl-xanthine.  Caffeine also causes loss of electrolytes in your body, so minerals like sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.  

Like all plant-based foods, they can and do have medicinal properties.  But plant-based foods should not be your daily bread.  You need meat, fat, and salt.  But here are a few benefits of methylxanthines.  Drugs.com explains,

The methylxanthines, theophylline, and dyphylline are used in the treatment of airways obstruction caused by conditions such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, or emphysema. Caffeine (present in coffee) and theobromine (present in chocolate) are also methylxanthines. 

The interview transcript continues,

So caffeine does have negative, sort of diuretic effects.

Do you drink coffee?

I do not drink coffee.

When was the last time you had coffee?

19 years ago.  Yeah, when I was in physician assistant school before medical school.

PAUL SALDINO: plant defense chemicals cause problems for some people. Oxalates in spinach certainly contribute to kidney stones

Should you eat vegetables? pic.twitter.com/u4jkhYMvbF

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) December 28, 2024

Kale is b*******.  Let me explain it to you.  These are plant leaves. They're vegetables.  Vegetables are the leaves, the stems, the roots, and the seeds of plants.  These parts of plants contain defense chemicals.  This is not opinion; this is scientific fact.  But here's the deal: these plant defense chemicals cause problems for some people.  Oxalates in spinach certainly contribute to kidney stones in a lot of people with calcium oxalate kidney stones.  Chard also has a ton of oxalates.  If you're not getting enough iodine in your diet, the isothiocyanates, which are iodine-blocking at the level of the thyroid in this kale, could potentially lead to thyroid problems.  In my case, cutting out vegetables was a key component of figuring out what was triggering my eczema.  So, if you're thriving, don't change anything about your diet.  But if you're not, it's time to question your nutritional assumptions.  Vegetables are much better than junk food, but they're not benign for everyone.  

PAUL SALADINO: A recent study, published by Consumer Reports, found that many brands of cinnamon were not even safe to eat at all

Avoid these cinnamon powders… pic.twitter.com/klDQFeAzn4

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) November 16, 2024

Whole Foods 365 Organic cinnamon is the best brand, and by "best," he means low in, or zero, lead. 

365 by Whole Foods Market, Organic Ground Cinnamon, 1.9 Ounce https://t.co/QjLgWkXUAQ via @amazon

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) November 16, 2024

"The 12 Cinnamon Powders You Should Never Use: Consumer Reports Found High Lead Levels in a third of the Cinnamon Powders and Spice Mixtures We Tested.  Here are the Ones that Pose the Most and Least Risk," Lisa L. Gill, Consumer Reports, September 12, 2024.

Lead is a heavy metal that is linked to all sorts of massive problems in humans--heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney issues.  In kids, behavioral issues, neurodevelopmental problems, decreased IQ, learning difficulties, all kinds of issues.  You do not want to be consuming lead.  Most of us know this, but cinnamon is very often contaminated with lead.  

So what's the solution?  In the caption of this video, I'll put a number of cinnamons that came up very low for lead.  These would be the safest ones to consume.  Saladino writes, 

This content isn’t meant to scare you. In fact, it’s meant to inform you so that you can make the best choices for your health…

Here are the safest brands: Sadaf, Loisa, Morton & Bassett San Francisco, and 365 Whole Foods Market.

One of the best cinnamons is the Whole Foods Organic Cinnamon 365 brand

"Study: Lead Exposure Can be Deadly for Adults," Sonya Lunder, EWG, March 15, 2018. 

PAUL SALADINO: A recent study showed that cashiers have high levels of these endocrine-disrupting compounds in their bodies

Are you still touching receipts?

A recent study showed that cashiers have high levels of these endocrine disrupting compounds in their bodies (PMID: 26309242) pic.twitter.com/YoMSc1tnHx

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 28, 2024

This is why you don't ever want to touch the receipts on thermal paper.  These thermal paper receipts contain contain BPA and BPS. 

"Harmful BPA Replacements Contaminate Store Receipts," Samara Geller, (EWG), Thomas Galligan, Ph.D. (EWG),  December 9, 2020.   

These are endocrine-disruptive chemicals that can actually be absorbed through your skin.  So just touching one at a grocery store every once in a while isn't the end of the world, but I would like to avoid as many endocrine disruptors in my life, thank you, as I can.  So, I either don't get the receipt, or I'm just going to use my handy-dandy wool shirt here to put the receipt in the trash and not touch it.  So if you are touching a lot of receipts in your daily life, don't touch the thermal paper receipts, and you will decrease your exposure to BPA and BPS and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can be messing up your hormones.  

Don't touch them.

FANTA ORANGE CONTAINS BROMINATED VEGETABLE OILS? VEGETABLE OILS IN YOUR SODAS?

This is unbelievable…. pic.twitter.com/efseVSaYvK

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 25, 2024

Why is vegetable oil in a citrus drink?  It's there as an emulsifier to prevent the citrus flavor from separating from the rest of the drink.  But the problem here is that brominated vegetable oil contains bromine.  The reason it's illegal in Europe and Japan is that bromine can accumulate in fatty tissues of your body, causing thyroid issues as bromine will compete with iodine for your thyroid tissue to make thyroid hormones.  And it can potentially cause cognitive issues in your brain by accumulating in your body.  But the solution is . . . 

PAUL SALADINO: The secret benefits of Grass-Fed BEEF TALLOW

The secret benefits of Grass-Fed BEEF TALLOW pic.twitter.com/bOEaoxpjsO

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 18, 2024

PAUL SALADINO: How to cook the perfect steak. Use a meat thermometer

How to cook the perfect steak 🥩 pic.twitter.com/NObXpEAJSv

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 18, 2024

PAUL SALADINO: What’s really in the food at Chick-fil-A?

What’s really in the food at Chick-fil-A? pic.twitter.com/3lOBLYkfMa

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 8, 2024

I stopped eating at Chick-fil-A 4 years ago.  And given their ingredients list and how bad they are for you, it's pretty clear the fact that they're closed on Sundays to commemorate God's rest on the 7th day is a marketing gimmick to help you honor a company that serves frankenfood every other day of the week. 

That's a gimmick born of childhood discipline.  We say our prayers before a meal, before bed, at church, and in confession.  These food corporations, bought out a few decades ago by the tobacco industry, know how to manipulate shoppers into buyers.  I was one.  Chick-fil-A's Christian associations sold me or at least intrigued me.  And when I first tried their chicken sandwich, I was sold.  

I stopped eating at Panda Express 3 years ago after ordering a chicken and beef dish cooked in soybean oil that just had my stomach doing very tight somersaults.  I phoned it in.  I asked, "What do you cook your food in?"  The Panda Express didn't know and had to check.  At least she was cooperative and wanted to know herself, which was helpful to me.  The answer came back, "Soybean oil."  Ah, another dastardly seed oil.  These seed oils are everywhere and cause horrible inflammation in the gut, kidneys, lungs, liver, et al. 

I stopped eating at Chipotle 10 years ago.  I ate there a total of three times and each time I got sick.  I had a chicken burrito with beans and sour cream and just destroyed my stomach.

I stopped eating at McDonald's 10 years ago.  The last food item I ordered there was a Double Cheeseburger, but the meat was so soggy, like it wasn't even meat.  It was manly seed oils made with something unrecognizable.  And the flavor, too, frightened me.  I couldn't eat the burger, a food that I had cherished since a kid when they cooked their fries in beef tallow and cooked their 100% beef in beef tallow.   I can't even drink their coffee anymore, it's so bad.  And the fact that there are so many microplastics in the cup lining.  So even if the coffee is any good, or if the coffee is harmless, you're still getting sick from the microplastics in the container.  It's a no-win situation.

Getting a breakfast at any local diner outside of a chain, like Denny's or something, is also fraught with explosive landmines, again because of the seed oils.  There are accumulative effects from these seed oils.  But their food is either cooked it in soybean oil, canola oil, corn oil, or safflower oil, and they think that they're doing this to render their recipes healthy.  It makes them poison. 

Thank you to Wejolyn.   

Here is the proof that seed oils are harmful to humans… pic.twitter.com/lmApWY6fjY

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 20, 2024

Where does this idea come about that seed oils and Omega 6s are harmful? 

This is Walter Willett.  He's an MD from Harvard, and I will answer this question.  I think it starts to come from the multiple

Sydney Diet Heart Study, 1966-1973.  

Minnesota Coronary Experiment, 1968-1973 showed that seed oils lead to increased death to people over the age of 65 despite the lowering of LDL.  

Trials like the "Rose Corn Oil Experiment," reviewed in the "Corn Oil in Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease," 1965, June, showed that replacing saturated fats with corn oil leads to increased rates of cardiovascular disease.

The patients receiving the key treatment (corn oil) fared worse than those in the other two groups: two years from the start of treatment, infarction or death had occurred in one-quarter more of the corn oil than in the control group.

And though there are randomized controlled trials in humans that show that seed oils a negligible effect in human health, these trials almost all have major issues with the way they were conducted that leads to pretty fatal flaws in the study design, and I think that they are not a very valid indicators of whether seed oils are healthy for humans. 

Let's go on and see what Walter Willett has to say next.

I know dozens of studies that show that Omega 6 fatty acids are not pro-inflammatory.  There are a number of the studies that actually say they are anti-inflammatory.

There is very clear evidence that seed oils are pro-inflammatory in humans.  If you look at markers like hetes and hodes which are called oxlams, those are very clearly increased when you eat more seed oils and decreased when you eat less of these.  There are also multiple control trials in humans showing that seed oils increase oxidized LDL, LPa, and LP-PLA2, that's lipoprotein phospholipase A2, that also has been shown to decrease the testosterone in males in the setting of a low-fat diet.  And when the levels of linoleic acid are looked at in the colostrum of mothers who have recently given birth, the more linoleic acid, the more of this Omega-6 fatty acid found in the colostrum of mothers, the worse the outcomes of their children at 2 and 3 years in terms of motor and cognitive outcomes.  There's a lot of evidence that seed oils are harmful that he just seems to be ignoring here.  

 

PAUL SALADINO: McDonald’s salt contains 3 ingredients!? 😳

McDonald’s salt contains 3 ingredients!? 😳 pic.twitter.com/fqvPucqmvm

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 17, 2024

The salt on McDonald's French Fries has three ingredients:  1) Salt, or sodium chloride, 2) Sugar in the form of Dextrose, and 3) Silico Aluminate, an aluminum salt (Aluminum in your French Fries?  Okay, that's war) that's been linked to all sorts of neurological harms in humans, including neurodegenerative issues, dementia, like Alzheimer's Disease.  That's what's in your salted McDonald's.  Not just sodium chloride, salt, sugar, and aluminum salts?  Tread intelligently.

It might actually be worse than just the three ingredients.

PAUL SALADINO: Seed oils accumulate in some membranes, and we can't get rid of it. Probably causes increased permeability of membranes, it accumulates in mitochondrial membranes

Costco Animal-Based Grocery Haul pic.twitter.com/fRyY6bgL20

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 6, 2024

My problem with most pork is that it's fed grains, corn, and soy and that corn and soy are very high in linoleic acid and pigs and chickens can't get rid of that linoleic acid, which means the fat of pigs and the fat of chickens fed corn and soy ends up much higher in linoleic acid than the corresponding fat of a wild pig or a wild chicken.  And wild chickens and wild pigs, the amount of linoleic acid is around 5% or 6%, but in domesticated chickens and pigs, you're looking at 15% or 16% linoleic acid.  And excess linoleic acid is the polyunsaturated fatty acid found in seed oils that I'm very worried about for a variety of reasons.  

Learn more about seed oils from Saladino through the podcasts he's done with Georgy Dinkov, Tucker Goodrich, and Jeff Nobbs.  Lots of reasons why seed oils and linoleic acid in seed oils harm humans.  It accumulates in some membranes, and we can't get rid of it.  Probably causes increased permeability of membranes, it accumulates in mitochondrial membranes in the cardiolipin, causing problems with the electron transport chain.  Leads to increased oxidation of LDL, increased oxidized LDL, and has been shown in randomized controlled studies, like the Minnesota Coronary, which is a long study with over 9,000 participants to be linked directly in that randomized controlled trial to higher rates of coronary heart disease, which makes sense when you realize that linoleic acid gets into the LDL particles and causes increased oxidation, etc. 

Will never forget the first time I ate food that included Canola oil.  My heart flipped inside my chest.  Shocked the hell out of me. 

Thanks to Joshua Booth for the above chart.  

PAUL SALADINO: Raw milk is illegal in so many U.S. states, but things like alcohol, processed foods, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal

And things like alcohol, processed foods, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal… pic.twitter.com/R8vZiftqa6

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 4, 2024

PAUL SALADINO: What’s Inside Your Chipotle Burrito?

What’s Inside Your Chipotle Burrito? pic.twitter.com/sy0k4h7Onj

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) September 3, 2024

I've eaten at three different Chipotle Burrito stores and got sick each time, and haven't been back since.  That was 8 years ago.  Maybe what he explains in this video is exactly why I got sick.  

A brief history,

Chipotle was one of the first chains of fast casual dining establishments.  ^[10] Founded by Steve Ells on July 13, 1993, Chipotle had 16 restaurants (all in Colorado) when McDonald's Corporation became a major investor in 1998. By the time McDonald's fully divested itself from Chipotle in 2006, the chain had grown to over 500 locations.^[11] With more than 2,000 locations, Chipotle had a net income of US$475.6 million and a staff of more than 45,000 employees in 2015.^[12] 

In May 2018, Chipotle announced the relocation of their corporate headquarters to Newport Beach, California, in Southern California, leaving Denver after 25 years.

Animal-Based Grocery Haul at Target. I like how he worked through each food choice

Animal-Based Grocery Haul at Target pic.twitter.com/PYpLIORkQB

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) August 30, 2024

He explained how movie theater popcorn uses lots of seed oils.  Yuck. 

Lineage Provisions is his company. 

NOT TIDE, BUT WHITE VINEGAR?

This is my favorite laundry hack 🧺 pic.twitter.com/DHrYrOFWHI

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) June 27, 2024

PAUL SALADINO: Vitamin K2 is predominantly found in animal foods. Cheese is one of the best sources. And the two cheeses that have the most vitamin K2 are Emmentaler and Jarlsberg

Cheese is a longevity food 🧀 pic.twitter.com/cq0FpmQood

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) June 16, 2024

The Rotterdam Study is a prospective cohort study ongoing since 1990 in the city of Rotterdam in The Netherlands that examined markers of aging as the population began to age.  It targeted cardiovascular, endocrine, hepatic, neurological, ophthalmic, psychiatric, dermatological, otolaryngological, locomotor, and respiratory diseases. 

What the Rotterdam Study found was an inverse association between dairy intake and hypertension, meaning that the more cheese, butter, and milk products that you consumed, your risk of hypertension was lowered.  Not bad.  

See the Results for yourself:

Risk of hypertension after 2 y of follow-up (664 incident cases) was inversely associated with dairy product intake.  After adjustment for confounders, HRs (95% CIs) were 1.00, 0.82 (0.67, 1.02), 0.67 (0.54, 0.84), and 0.76 (0.61, 0.95) in consecutive quartiles of total dairy product intake (P for trend = 0.008). Corresponding HRs for low-fat dairy products were 1.00, 0.75 (0.60, 0.92), 0.77 (0.63, 0.96), and 0.69 (0.56, 0.86) (P for trend = 0.003). Analysis of specific types of dairy products showed an inverse association with milk and milk products (P for trend = 0.07) and no association with high-fat dairy or cheese (P > 0.6). After 6 y of follow-up (984 incident cases), the associations with hypertension were attenuated to risk reductions of ≈20% for both total and low-fat dairy products between the extreme quartiles of intake (P for trend = 0.07 and 0.09, respectively). 

And the conclusion is pretty clear:

Conclusion: Intake of low-fat dairy products may contribute to the prevention of hypertension at an older age.

Jarlsberg Cheese (1 lb) https://t.co/Sp26W8ZcJE via @amazon

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) June 16, 2024

 

PAUL SALDINO: Animal-based sunscreen made with Beeswax, Tallow, Coconut oil, and zinc

Animal-based sunscreen recipe ☀️ pic.twitter.com/fPfJTaWXZ5

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) June 14, 2024

PAUL SALADINO: In 2018 I began a carnivore diet (meat, organs, salt, eggs) curious if this would help my long-standing autoimmune issues - eczema and asthma.

Here is why I quit the carnivore diet…

In 2018 I began a carnivore diet (meat, organs, salt, eggs) curious if this would help my long-standing autoimmune issues - eczema and asthma.

Eating only these foods did indeed lead to a complete resolution of my symptoms but after 1.5… pic.twitter.com/GOslaULgAg

— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) June 7, 2024

Eating a carnivore diet led to a full resolution of my autoimmune condition, eczema, itchy rashes and asthma that I had for my whole life.  But after a year and a half, I quit the carnivore diet and I will explain why and talk about the pros and the cons of carnivore.  

From the outset, a carnivore diet eating only animal foods--meat, fish, chicken, eggs, animal fat, organs, salt, plus minus coffee some people is an incredibly powerful way of eating it's an Elimination Diet and it's helped so many people including myself