Aug. 29, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| There's been a significant recall of some cinnamon snacks in the United States. | |
| The FDA forced this recall after it was discovered that this one company, I believe it's called El Chilar, it was found that their cinnamon products were very heavily contaminated with lead. | |
| And we've covered this at naturalnews.com, by the way, if you want to check it out. | |
| We've got several things to talk about here. | |
| We've got the heavy metals problem in the food supply, we've got food safety issues, FDA regulatory issues, and then also the healing properties of cinnamon, by the way, because I recently completed a Bible sermon on cinnamon, which is mentioned in Proverbs as well as Revelation. | |
| Yeah, so we're going to talk about that. | |
| Cinnamon is an amazing biblical spice. | |
| It has extraordinary health properties. | |
| Cinnamon is really healthy to eat in proper quantities, in proper moderation, and so on. | |
| And cinnamon oil, which is made from the extraction of the volatile oils from the leaves of the cinnamon tree, or at least that's one of the places where oil is derived, That oil is really, really powerful. | |
| It's antibacterial, but it's also harsh. | |
| If you put pure oil on your skin, man, it will turn your skin cherry red, which also means it's boosting circulation. | |
| But it's an irritant, obviously, and it kind of, sort of, you could say it burns your skin, not in a fire kind of way, but in a chemical way because it's such a harsh chemical. | |
| And that chemical, by the way, the constituent of cinnamon, the best known constituent, although there are many diverse molecules, it's called benzaldehyde. | |
| And that's what's responsible for cinnamon's unique taste and unique properties and so on. | |
| But back to the heavy metals problem. | |
| So this is a very common problem in spices and certain types of foods. | |
| Now, cinnamon, you might say, well, is it a spice or is it a food? | |
| Well, it depends on how you use it. | |
| If you use it as a spice, then it's a spice. | |
| If you eat it as a food or an ingredient in food, then it's a food. | |
| And that's the way the FDA looks at it, too. | |
| It's kind of based on your intent to use. | |
| That's what determines the category of it. | |
| For example, if I take powdered cinnamon and I put it in a capsule, now I've transformed it into a supplement. | |
| Now it's not a food, it's a supplement according to the FDA and a whole different set of rules apply. | |
| But one of the rules that the FDA has on the books and that they sometimes enforce is this heavy metals rule. | |
| Now, foods that are known to be contaminated with heavy metals, and that includes turmeric and probably ginger, but also cinnamon, moringa, for example. | |
| There are many specific foods or superfoods, supplements and spices, many different spices that are known to be heavily contaminated with lead. | |
| Well, the FDA under its food safety regulations says that high-risk items have to be tested by the manufacturer. | |
| So if you're the manufacturer of a cinnamon snack or cinnamon food item or, as we've seen before, cinnamon applesauce, then you're responsible for the testing of the cinnamon to make sure it's not contaminated with lead. | |
| Now, The FDA doesn't tell you, this is what's crazy about it, they don't tell you how much lead is acceptable in cinnamon. | |
| They have an overall rule of 10 parts per million as a total count of heavy metals, which typically includes the four best-known toxic elements, which is lead, arsenic, mercury, and cadmium. | |
| And if those four together are over 10 ppm, which is huge, Then, you know, the FDA is going to have a problem with, you know, your food item. | |
| Now, to have lead over even one part per million, in my scientific view as a published food scientist, you know, I don't want to see even over one ppm. | |
| And our rating system at LowHeavyMetalsVerified.com, it shows A grade as being below 0.25 parts per million. | |
| And over 1 ppm, I won't sell that. | |
| And between 0.25 and 1 are different grades, like B, C, D, and F. And that's how we grade foods. | |
| The FDA has a different system. | |
| They allow up to 10 ppm, but they don't tell you what they want you to actually see. | |
| It's weird. | |
| There are no strong rules by the FDA as there are in the EU or in Canada or even in Japan. | |
| There are much more strict rules everywhere else in the world. | |
| And so what happens is that when food producers in India or China or even Mexico or other countries, when they have really contaminated foods that have a lot of heavy metals in them, they don't ship those to the EU. | |
| They ship them to the USA. | |
| They sell them in the USA to manufacturers because they know that now the USA is the toxic dumping ground of heavy metals. | |
| And unless you have crazy levels of lead in your food, the FDA is not going to say a thing. | |
| Well, apparently this company had crazy levels. | |
| So the FDA found out and forced them to issue a recall. | |
| And that's what's underway now. | |
| Massive recall, you know, Not an easy thing to go through. | |
| Now, right offhand, this underscores the importance of testing for heavy metals. | |
| As you know, our online store, HealthRangerStore.com, we test everything for heavy metals, and we've done so for years. | |
| We test all the foods, all the supplements, even the personal care products, everything you can think of that we sell that's edible, let's say. | |
| We test it for heavy metals. | |
| We even test first aid gel and so on. | |
| So we go above and beyond any kind of minimum requirements. | |
| And we have been doing this for many years. | |
| And our limits are very, very strict. | |
| And again, you can see those limits at lowheavymetalsverified.com. | |
| Now, we did have an interesting issue with the FDA on one of their recent visits, because, you know, they're always visiting and inspecting and, you know, auditing and whatever. | |
| Like, surprise! We're the FDA. It's like, we want to go through your production facility. | |
| Well, okie doke. | |
| Come on, have the full tour. | |
| Here you go. And so one of the things that they asked us in a recent visit was, they were actually kind of critical. | |
| They're like, why are you testing everything for lead? | |
| And we said, well, we believe in testing everything for lead. | |
| And they're like, well, you shouldn't really do that. | |
| You should only test high-risk items for lead, but you shouldn't test everything. | |
| You have to have a customized lead testing plan. | |
| And my team was like, well, our lead testing plan is to test everything for lead. | |
| That's our lead testing plan. | |
| They're like, ah, it doesn't fly. | |
| So The FDA, if you test everything for lead, they don't like it. | |
| No, I'm serious. I'm not exaggerating. | |
| They say you have to have an individualized plan of which high-risk items you're testing for lead, and the others we don't care about. | |
| Really? So we came up with an individual plan for all the high-risk items, but we still test everything on top of that. | |
| We gave the FDA what they wanted, high-risk plan, and then we test for everything on top of that. | |
| So above and beyond, that's what we do. | |
| But you might be shocked to find out how few manufacturers in the food and supplements industry actually do any testing. | |
| And perhaps this has improved over time, but my memory of the way things operate by and large in the food industry is that everybody that makes something, they just trust the certificates of their supplier. | |
| And the supplier, which might be from China or India or somewhere, just says, oh yeah, we tested everything. | |
| And it's all good. Trust us. | |
| It's all good. You don't have to, you know, you don't have to test. | |
| Not that they say that, but that's kind of the implication. | |
| It's like, we test it, it's all good, and here it is. | |
| It's less than 10 ppm. | |
| That's usually what they say. | |
| Or they say, not detected. | |
| And then you're like, well, what's the sensitivity of your instrument? | |
| You didn't detect it. And that doesn't mean it's not there. | |
| It just means your instrument didn't detect it. | |
| So, like, what's your instrument capable of detecting? | |
| You know, there's a question for you. | |
| And sometimes the instrument doesn't even work. | |
| So it's like, not detected means, ah, the instrument's not working. | |
| It's like covering your eyes and saying, I didn't see anything. | |
| See no evil, right? | |
| But it's crazy. So a lot of manufacturers, they trust their certificates from the suppliers. | |
| And the suppliers, they're not in the business of not selling contaminated products. | |
| They're in the business of selling everything they have, contaminated or otherwise. | |
| If they've got it, they want to move it. | |
| So they want to find somebody who will buy it. | |
| And often, you know, there's some sucker out there who won't do any testing. | |
| And usually located in the United States where food safety is not that... | |
| You know, big of a deal. I mean, in terms of heavy metals. | |
| And so it'll end up in the U.S. food supply. | |
| And then the FDA comes along and does like a sample inspection or they go into stores. | |
| They went into the dollar type stores a few months ago looking for lead, buying cinnamon products. | |
| I mean, the FDA has figured out that if they just run around buying cinnamon products, they'll find lead. | |
| Same thing if they run around buying turmeric, they'll find lead, man. | |
| In fact, if the FDA wanted me to tell them, I can tell them where all the lead's found. | |
| Maybe they already know, but it's pretty easy. | |
| I can walk into a grocery store. | |
| I can just walk around the store and buy the products that have lead. | |
| I can buy the products that have glyphosate. | |
| I can tell you what's got the highest pesticides, you know, because we do all this testing. | |
| So we have, you know, I'm guessing at this point, tens of thousands of test results over the years of all the testing we've done. | |
| So we see the patterns. | |
| Anyway, the FDA, in my opinion, you could argue there is some good to the fact that they're spot-checking the food supply for heavy metals. | |
| But also, they do a lot of harm at the same time, especially with small businesses and small manufacturers kind of interfering with businesses that are acting in good faith. | |
| Like the example I just gave you, like, we test everything for lead. | |
| Well, FDA is not happy with that. | |
| They don't want you to test everything for lead. | |
| It's like, why? | |
| What's that? Why can't we test everything? | |
| Or we test everything for glyphosate. | |
| The FDA doesn't really care about glyphosate. | |
| Have you ever heard of them recalling any food because of high levels of glyphosate in it? | |
| I haven't. Maybe that's happened, but I'm just not aware of it. | |
| But I've never seen anything like that. | |
| And I think they should be testing for glyphosate and organophosphates, you know, toxic herbicides and pesticides, even on non-GMO crops. | |
| Because they spray glyphosate as a desiccant, a drying agent, on many crops that are not Roundup ready, let's say. | |
| They're not GMO crops. | |
| So where's the FDA testing on that? | |
| Appears to be non-existent. | |
| Maybe they say, well, that's the USDA's problem. | |
| And the USDA is like, ah, we work for big ag. | |
| We don't care. Well, all the farmers in Iowa are dying from cancer, from exposure to pesticides and herbicides, right? | |
| And everybody's like, why are they dying of cancer? | |
| Because they're spraying cancer chemicals all over everything. | |
| Gee, I wonder... | |
| But the FDA is like, if we don't see anything, cover their eyes. | |
| You know, we didn't hear anything. | |
| It's all good. Let's go buy more cinnamon products. | |
| Anyway, I have to satirize some of this in order to deal with it because it's so insane. | |
| But let's talk about the healing benefits of cinnamon. | |
| Now, cinnamon is an amazing, it's just an amazing substance. | |
| And like I mentioned earlier, I have a Bible sermon on cinnamon and how it's mentioned in the Bible in many different places in many different contexts. | |
| Now, I am in the process of teaching 100 Bible sermons on nutrition foods and superfoods in the Bible. | |
| And we've covered wormwood herb, we've covered black cumin seed, we've covered apricot pits. | |
| Huh? Pretty cool stuff. | |
| We've even covered pomegranate and turmeric, which you may not think is mentioned in the Bible, but it is, according to Bible scholars. | |
| And you'll have to hear my sermon to get the full download on that. | |
| But you have to go back to the Arabic pronunciation of turmeric, which is in one form called curcum, which is similar to curcumin. | |
| So there's a little bit of sort of There's an eschatological linguistic archaeology investigation going on in order to find out that turmeric is in the Bible. | |
| Anyway, cinnamon's in the Bible, and cinnamon was highly prized as a very valuable spice from the East, mostly from regions like India. | |
| And so when cinnamon came to the Middle East, or ancient Israel, And that whole region, you know, it was very prized by the kings and the princes and all the royalty who were there. | |
| They loved cinnamon and they used to take ground up cinnamon and they would sprinkle it in their beds. | |
| As a kind of perfume, this is mentioned in Proverbs, by the way, they would also use myrrh resin plus cinnamon as a really nice kind of bed spice. | |
| And you're thinking like, what? Why would you put it in your bed? | |
| Well, because they didn't have great hygiene. | |
| I mean, they didn't have running water back then. | |
| They didn't have plumbing. They didn't have functioning sewer systems and so on. | |
| So they didn't have deodorants, what have you, and shampoo, most of which is toxic today. | |
| Anyway... So they wouldn't shower that often, and they might have bed bugs, you know, who knows what. | |
| And so they would sprinkle these antibacterial, anti-pest substances in their beds, and they would sleep in a little bit of cinnamon dust. | |
| Seriously. And then on top of that, cinnamon was so prized that in the book of Revelation, when, I forgot what chapter it is, maybe it's chapter 8, But when John is talking about the visions that God gave him, of God taking away all of the assets from humanity as the human leaders and the kings, as they turned against God. | |
| And you know, we're talking about the destruction of Babylon. | |
| And God promised to take away everything of value from humanity because humanity was living in sin. | |
| And those things included all your cattle, all your homes, all your land, and your cinnamon. | |
| It was like, we're going to take your gold and silver. | |
| It's all going to disappear. All your food crops, your animals. | |
| This is God, right? He's like, you're going to be punished, and we're going to take your cinnamon. | |
| That's how valuable cinnamon was. | |
| It's mentioned in the Bible as something that God would take away from you if you sinned. | |
| That's not where the name comes from, like sin of men, sin of men, get it? | |
| But no, that's not where the name comes from. | |
| It kind of fits. | |
| If men sin, the sin of men, you lose your cinnamon, according to the book of Revelation. | |
| Isn't that wild? This is why I love teaching nutrition in the Bible, because there are so many amazing things that I've never heard before. | |
| Like, no one ever taught me these things. | |
| And as I'm reading Scripture and teaching Scripture, I'm coming upon these really amazing things. | |
| Oh, and by the way, we're launching a website with all the sermons and also an email list. | |
| This is launching in the next couple of days, and it's called abundance.church. | |
| Because my efforts are more and more focused on teaching the scripture from a nutrition and even a quote food science point of view. | |
| I guess you could call it food faith point of view at this point. | |
| But that's going to be at abundance.church if you want to go there. | |
| It might not work right now today, but check it tomorrow or check it next week and it'll be up and online. | |
| We're going to post all the 100 sermons there. | |
| Anyway, the bottom line is, cinnamon is a very valuable spice in terms of its healing properties, its natural properties, used in the Bible in various ways. | |
| And one of the most important uses of cinnamon oil in the Bible is it's used as part of the mixture of anointing oils. | |
| And anointing oils were used quite liberally in the Bible. | |
| Sometimes they would pour them over a person's head. | |
| My cup runneth over with oils, it turns out. | |
| They would slather these oils on people. | |
| It wasn't just, here's a little drop of oil on your forehead. | |
| You are hereby anointed. | |
| No, it was like slather up with all these oils because they have these amazing fragrances, natural, essential fragrances in them. | |
| And they have properties. | |
| They have properties for supporting skin and supporting health and they have natural properties that would be very useful in the old world where maybe people didn't shower that often, things like that. | |
| There's a lot to learn from the Bible about essential oils and foods and superfoods and all these amazing healing molecules, as I call them, that God put on this earth through Mother Nature to help us stay healthy, awake, and alive. | |
| So check it out at abundance.church when that site goes live. | |
| And in the meantime, you can find my sermons and interviews at brighteon.com or my articles at naturalnews.com. | |
| Thank you for listening. God bless you all. | |
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