#71 FOOD LIES with Brian Sanders

Brian Sanders (0:00)

These are like modern diseases, right? I mean, these aren't the things that we should have gotten for all of history. I don't think that our ancestors were dying of these diseases.

We were told lies, really. I mean, when things didn't work out what they thought, it didn't fit this standard narrative they had, they would actually bury these studies. So it's like we can look at evolution, we can look at randomized controlled trials, we can look at epidemiology, we can look at biochemistry, anything.

And they all kind of align with this way of eating and it's this ancestral way of eating. Let's farm like we're supposed to. Let's farm and eat like we used to.

Siim Land (0:36)

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Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land and today our guest is Brian Sanders. Brian is a filmmaker and an entrepreneur who's involved with nutrition and maximizing human potential. His latest documentary, Food Lies, talks about the fallacies and misconceptions surrounding what's a healthy diet and what we should eat.

Brian, welcome to the show.

Brian Sanders (1:16)

Thanks for having me.

Siim Land (1:18)

Great to have you here as well. And as we're recording this podcast, the documentary isn't out yet, am I right?

Brian Sanders (1:26)

No, we're just finishing filming our interviews. Actually, I'm about to go on a film tour on Wednesday morning. So a day and a half here.

Siim Land (1:35)

That's cool. How long have you been doing it for this project?

Brian Sanders (1:39)

I started heavily researching a year ago, and I put together my first interview in December.

So I guess I've been filming off and on since December. So it's sort of a long process for these documentaries. You know, it's always hard to get, line up people, find when these experts are available, find out, you know, I've been to some conferences. So that's been good when they're all together. And, you know, when people are in town, stuff like that.

Siim Land (2:08)

Yeah, that's definitely a lot more difficult than to simply make some YouTube videos or put on a vlog on some sort of Facebook.

Brian Sanders (2:17)

Yeah, it's fun, though. It's a challenge and it's a lot different from any other kind of filmmaking too.

You know, like normal films, you have a big budget and then you line it all up and maybe you film the whole thing in a month or a couple of weeks even. But with a documentary, you end up doing it over the course of a year really. And you get footage where you can and you finally piece it together.

Siim Land (2:42)

Yeah, and also I would imagine like with a science-based documentary, then you would also have to do a lot of research yourself and actually look at what kind of ideas you're sharing in the film.

Brian Sanders (2:56)

Yeah, that's what I've been doing for the past year. So, I mean, there's always something to do every day. It's either I'm researching or I'm lining up interviews or I'm making content.

Siim Land (3:09)

So, what got you interested in doing this project? Why did you start it?

Brian Sanders (3:15)

Well, there's a couple of things.

I've always been interested in being healthy. My whole life I've been playing sports and being active and I didn't really know much about health. I thought you could just eat whatever, right? I think that some people just have sort of a natural metabolism. People call it, oh, you just have a fast metabolism. You can do whatever you want. Well, it's not always the case because I always was very conscious of what I ate, but I just didn't really know all about it. And then about four years ago, my dad died of cancer and my mom got Alzheimer's.

So I think these diseases, these are like modern diseases, right? I mean, these aren't the things that we should have gotten for all of history. I don't think that our ancestors were dying of these diseases.

And so through my research, I found that many people think that these are caused by diet, right? There's a big component of diet to them. And yes, there is a genetic component, right? We know that, we know, but I think we're going down the wrong route when we're looking only into the genetics of these diseases, like especially Alzheimer's and cancer, because everyone knows that heart disease and diabetes and obesity, that's caused by what you eat. That's kind of obvious, but there's a whole nother level, right? That basically all of these modern diseases can be traced to what we eat. So that's what I really got into over the past four years, and gradually got more and more into it, and then finally decided to make this film.