#267 Live Q&A with Siim Land

Siim Land (0:01)

Hello, hello, how is everyone doing? Welcome to another live Q&A session. We're going to do a bit of questions and answers, any different kinds of problems and things you want to get answers to. I just came back from actually doing cardio. So doing some Sunday cardio and also came from a sauna, so my face is a bit sweaty or kind of a blushing up from the sauna. So yeah, happy to see you guys here. Let me know in the comments where you're watching this from and you can also start asking some questions. But first, I'll also let you know that I released some merch for the Stronger by Stress basically. I'll drag myself out of the picture. And yeah, it's the Stronger by Stress logo or the slogan from the book on the shirts, which is pretty damn awesome. It looks awesome. It looks good. And yeah, different kinds of tank tops, hoodies, stickers, bags, yoga mats, and this baby onesie. So if you have a baby and you want them to have a good influence on becoming self empowered, then yeah, check out the Stronger by Stress baby onesie. And there's a different second design as well with the kind of Vitruvian man on there. So you can check it out. The link is in the description. It's basically siimland.com forward slash merch, where you can get it. But with that being said, let's get into the questions and I'll just start. I'll try to answer as many as I can and we'll go for maybe like an hour or something like that. Hi from Upstate NU. That's awesome. I don't know what that stands for, but good to have you here. All right, question. Are dried fruits like apricots and prunes high in fluoride?

Well, I don't think so. Well, like at least not like significant amounts. Like the amount of fluoride in foods is very low. So it's, yeah, hard to get like excess fluoride if you're eating only whole foods. Yeah, the main source of fluoride in the Western diet is tap water and or toothpaste or something. But the amount of like tooth, the amount of fluoride you get from toothpaste is very small. So fluoride itself is like an essential mineral. Like your body needs it, it prevents against the cavities and stuff like that. But in excess, it certainly has like a negative effect on especially like children are very vulnerable to that, can lower their IQ and things like that. But you do need like some fluoride in your daily intake. And the RDA for fluoride is approximately like 0.3 milligrams or something, if I'm not mistaken. And the S or maybe even like higher, 0.5 or 0.6, something like that. And if you like brush your teeth, then you absorb only like 0.1 milligrams from that, unless you're like swallowing the toothpaste. So yeah, even like using a regular toothpaste that has fluoride in it is fine if you don't eat any fluoride besides that. And if you're drinking unflourinated water, if you're drinking fluorinated water and there's like, you drink it a lot, so to say, like your main source of water is tap water, then you maybe get the other cases of fluoride. But if you're like a clean guy or like a clean paleo dude that avoids tap water and stuff like that, then you may actually be not getting enough fluoride and you may actually get like cavities and stuff like that. So yeah, it's kind of a controversial topic, especially in the like alternative health field that, you know, fluoride E is actually like essential mineral, but yeah, most people are still getting too much of it because they're drinking tap water. Me, myself, I don't drink, like my water doesn't have fluoride and I don't eat like any significant fluoride foods either. But I do use like regular toothpaste in a sense that has fluoride in it and I'm not like worried about it because the amount is again, I'm not swallowing the toothpaste, so I'm not eating it. And yeah, I may only get like 0.1 milligrams, which is well below the RDA. But your question, like does it have a fluoride, Bio and Ecolabel? Well, I don't think so. Like it does have a boron. Dried fruits have a lot of boron. So the especially the prunes, dried prunes have a huge amount of boron, which is great. You want to get some boron and that's good for like bones and testosterone levels, stuff like that. And the same applies to raisins.

How do you mitigate refeeding syndrome symptoms from fasting 20 to 22 hours every day? Yeah, well, refeeding syndrome is not like what it sounds like. It sounds like it's like binge eating, which it isn't. Refeeding syndrome is actually this phenomenon where you can go hypogasemic, you can go very low in blood, the sodium levels and stuff like that. And usually it happens after fasting because when you break the fast, then the insulin that you spike may deplete your bloodstream from essential minerals like, you know, sodium and potassium, stuff like that, and shuttle them into the cells, which then leaves your bloodstream low in those minerals and then you can, you know, potentially die even. Usually it happens only like in these extended fasts. It's not going to happen like in 22 to 22 hours. But you can also mitigate that by having some sodium and like sodium during the fast, just in salt water, mineral water, and break the fast with low glycemic foods that aren't going to spike the insulin.