there's a lot of conversation out there and there's a lot of noise sometimes
and you know it's my goal to always cut through the noise and make things as simple as possible so
what's going on everybody schuyler diehm here men's fitness coach and in this video
i really wanted to dive into the difference between organic and conventional or non-organic
i think there's a lot of conversation out there and there's a lot of noise sometimes and you know
it's my goal to always cut through the noise and make things as simple as possible so if you don't
know who i am my name is schuyler diehm i'm a men's fitness coach and we specialize in helping
men lose fat quickly and effectively using fasting mindfulness and fitness and so one of my major
focuses when it comes to mindfulness when it comes to awareness is understanding how certain foods
you put in your body impact you how understanding how you know it's not about fads it's not about
following things that people say you should do but really understanding like okay if i put this in my
mouth how is it going to impact me and so when we talk about organic when we talk about conventional
really what we're talking about is how a food is grown and how it's processed you know you can
have organic crops such as vegetables like peppers cucumbers squash everything like that you can have
organic meats organic chicken organic beef organic pork and then you can also have organic box goods
right just foods which are basically a mixture of organic ingredients and so really what i would
love to do is just go through a couple different things of how these foods compare and then
ultimately at the end of this video tie it all up so you have a good understanding of when should i
eat organic when is it okay to eat conventional so as we think about how this world has evolved
as we think about all the different ways that food is produced we have to understand that food is not
really food anymore most conventional foods have some sort of man-made aspect to it whether it's
ingredients created in the lab pesticides sprayed on real food or even just crops that have been
modified to be something that they originally wore and so when we talk about organic we usually
mean closest to its most natural form and when we talk about conventional we usually mean something
that doesn't really have many boundaries right something that could have pesticide sprayed on
it could have ingredients that are made in the lab and so if you know me you know one of my
philosophies is eat food closest to its natural form as possible the more humans seem to interact
with things the more that they tend to interact with our body in a negative way and so that's
the first thing right like if you're going for something and you want to eat healthy if you don't
know anything about the food organic is probably a good bet because organic means is probably closer
to its natural form than conventional food another thing when it comes to organic first conventional
is pesticide use now with organic you're using natural forms of pest control right a pesticide
is something to keep away pests and so we're using insects we're using birds we're using
pest traps we're using many natural things that don't really interact with the food itself whereas
with pesticides you're using some sort of man-made spray that's usually packed with chemicals
and you're spraying it all over the food so same thing goes for herbicides herbs is usually when
it's coming to specific foliage and so with organic you're rotating crops you are pulling
out weeds by hand you're using certain mulches and again it's more of a natural route of production
whereas with conventionally grown crops and foods and ingredients it's usually using an herbicide
which is basically a specific type of pesticide now when we get into the talk of genetically
modified foods this is where the previous two really come into play so with organic you know
that something is not genetically modified organic means there's been no genetic modification there's
been no playing around with changing the genes anything like that whereas conventional genetic
modification may be included you know you can have something that's not organic but not gmo
you should have something that says like gmo certified on there or non-gmo certified but
if it doesn't say that potentially odds are it has been genetically modified now where we run
into issues with this especially with conventional food is that if something is genetically modified
it can be modified to be resistant to pesticides and herbicides meaning that the amount that you
would spray on a food that would normally kill it you can now spray a ton more and it's not
going to die and so what ends up happening with these conventional crops is that pesticides that
really aren't safe for our body they kill our gut bacteria they mess with our hormones they mess
with our digestion our metabolism is that they're overly sprayed on these crops and because of it
we're getting a lot more pesticides than we should be in our body another differentiator with organic
and conventional is just use of soil so organic uses you know completely natural means so manure
compost other natural forms of soil whereas conventional could use things such as synthetic
fertilizer so again more man-made now as far as certification so this is a really interesting
point so something can be organic but not labeled as organic because to have that label that little
green and white label that says organic they actually have to go through a process they
have to pay and they have to have tests done to basically get that certification for organic and
so there's the test and there's the fee whereas conventional there's really no regulation right
because they don't have to claim that they're organic there's not going to be a price tag
there there's not going to be any tests they have to run any salary or anything that they would pay
for that which brings me to my next point which is price obviously right if you've gone to the
grocery store you probably know this organic food is usually more expensive conventional is going
to be less expensive and there's a good reason for that right if we're using more natural means
there's more of a financial risk and also just a higher financial requirement to create those
things whereas you could create a cheap pesticide and you could just spray it over your food
now you have to monitor you have to make sure certain ingredients aren't getting in certain bugs
and everything else aren't getting into your crops and then of course with the organic you have to
pay for that certification which is just another thing on top of that price tag and so the final
thing to mention is that if a food is organic it doesn't necessarily mean there are zero pesticides
it doesn't necessarily mean it's 100 organic if something is certified organic all the requirement
is is that 95 or more of the ingredients in that food are organic so let's say you have a protein
bar and you know 80 of that protein bar is oats that are organic and then you know 15 of that
protein bar or let's say 16 of that protein bar is chocolate that's organic and then you
have that four percent that are other ingredients that aren't necessarily organic that thing could
still be labeled as organic so organic doesn't necessarily mean that everything in that food is
organic basically just means you're going to have to read the label to see what is and what isn't
so those are my differentiators right it's pretty straightforward it's pretty simple to understand
organic is going to be much more natural much more earth made whereas conventional and non-organic is
going to be more from the position of man-made man intervened and you know us kind of digging
our hands into things that potentially they shouldn't be so how do you use this information
right how do you take what you've learned and go out because i'm not a firm believer i don't think
you should eat everything 100 organic i really think that's you know number one it's going to
hurt your bank account all the time but number two if you're going out somewhere you're just
going to be overly anal and not able to enjoy some of the food that's there and so what i would say
is if you are cooking go organic about 80 to 90 of the time and if you can really prioritize
the fruits and vegetables that don't have any sort of skin as organic there's a list
out there called the dirty dozen and they're updating it every year and it's basically the 12
dirtiest fruits and vegetables out there meaning the fruits and vegetables that test highest when
it comes to pesticides and all these are the ones without skins right you know bananas avocados all
those if you spray pesticides on them they have that outer layer that's soaking up a little bit
and not letting all of it get through to the fruit or veggie whereas with something like grapes or
berries strawberries or kale or spinach those are things where they don't have any skin so if they
get sprayed it's immediately absorbed by the fruit which is then consumed by us and then of
course if you're looking at ingredients where it comes to snacks i always just go organic i think
that's one of the best options but again 90 of the time don't be overly anal about this don't
be something where it's you won't even touch anything if it's not organic be a human being
but find ways find strategies to consume more ingredients and then one final thing i would
say is if you're not fasting already start fasting one of the benefits of fasting which is basically
taking some time not to eat is your body gets to push out all the toxins that build up in
your body you know the pesticides the toxins from cleaning products all these things that we consume
our body then has a chance to push it out why i'm such a big proponent of it it's incredible
for weight loss it's incredible for health and energy the more i learn about it the more i'm
just blown away by just how incredible it is so if you're interested in learning more about that you
don't know anything you can go in the description of this video we put together a free guide that's
going to walk you through step by step how we use fasting and also just why we use it and why it's
so effective as well as how we use mindfulness awareness and fitness to get really incredible
weight loss results so with that being said make sure to leave me a comment below what's the ratio
right now of what you're consuming like what percentage would be organic and what percentage
would be conventional let me know in the comments but besides that reach out if you have any other
questions subscribe to the channel and of course with that being said make sure to eat smart
move more sleep deep and be grateful for this moment i'll see in the next video