#39 Fatal Conveniences™: Microwaves: Zapping Away Nutrients
The Darin Olien Show- 1,041 views
- 19 Nov 2020
I haven’t used a microwave in over 35 years. So I was shocked to hear that a friend was still using one frequently. You guys, microwaves are bad news. Sure, they heat up your leftovers in seconds, but what else are they doing to your food? Welcome to Fatal Conveniences™ This is a bite-sized segment that parallels The Darin Olien Show. In these segments, we get into society's Fatal Conveniences™. I define these as the things we may be doing because the world we live in makes us believe we have to. These things save us time and trick us into thinking they're actually good for us. But it's those same things that are breaking down our health and the health of the environment around us. I've spent most of my adult life obsessively researching these "conveniences." On every show, I pick one topic, and we dive into it. My goal is to make you more aware of these traps so that you can push back on them. Remember, it starts with you and the choices you make. So, if you're willing to look at your world from a different perspective and make little tweaks that amount to big changes, then this segment is for you. Before you put those leftovers in the microwave, read this first. Microwaves first hit the scene in the 1940s, when convenient food was starting to become all the rage. Invented by Percy Spencer, these contraptions were marketed as a way to prepare food quickly. By the late 1970s, almost every American household had one. We all grew up with one, maybe you still even use one. But I’m telling you now, throw out your microwave! Don’t even donate it, I don’t want anyone cooking their food this way. Just take a sledgehammer to the damn thing. Why am I so convinced microwaves are bad news? Because they change food at a molecular level. The way they work is by agitating the water molecules in food. The water molecules are ripped and torn apart, completely changing the structure of the food you’re heating. This depletes nutrients and leaves you with a nuked mess of empty calories. If that isn’t enough to convince you to toss your microwave, check out the studies I’ve linked below. Please guys, just heat your food on the stove. It’s not that hard. I’ve been doing it that way my entire adult life. A few extra minutes is worth it to make sure you’re getting all the vitamins and nutrients your food has to offer. Information in this Segment: The invention and evolution of the modern microwave How microwaves work The study that shows broccoli losing 97% of its antioxidants after being microwaved Why you should lightly steam veggies instead Why you should NEVER microwave breastmilk The negative health effects of microwaved food Links & Resources: Microwave Cooking and Nutrition Microwave Ovens and Radiation Is There Any Evidence that Microwaving Food Alters its Composition? The Effects of Microwaves on Food Netflix’ Down To Earth’ Official Trailer Download Darin’s amazing new lifestyle app and get 3 days free at 121Tribe.com Barukas Nuts 15% discount with code “DARIN” Want more great info on how to detoxify your life? Sign up for my Fatal Conveniences™ emails To register for We Are Podcast, go to WeArePodcast.com/darin. For 20% off your ticket, use code DARIN. The Darin Olien Show is produced by the team at Must Amplify. If you’re looking to give a voice to your brand, and make sure that it’s heard by the right people, head to www.mustamplify.com/darin to see what Amplify can do for you.
It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience. This is a bite sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them. I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in makes us believe we have to tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food. I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even killing us.
So let's dive in. Welcome to the show, everyone. Another installment, another episode, another deep dive on a fatal convenience. This one was inspired by a friend.
You know who you are, that I was astonished that she still used a microwave.
I was like, what? People still use microwaves. That information is not out there that this is a dangerous device. So after the shock, I simply was like, oh, my God, I have to do a fatal convenience on this.
Because, listen, I grew up with microwaves, middle America.
They were amazing. We would throw eggs at them and blow them up as kids.
My brother and I, they were crazy and convenient and we would put anything in there, for God's sakes. And even college, I was putting plastic containers and making pizzas and popcorn and all of the stuff that was the greatest thing ever for a dorm room. Oh, man, that's another one we come up with this brilliant idea that we think is good and we don't pull the covers back enough, we don't do our research and we come out with this thing.
Well, a little history on the microwave. This was developed by Percy Spencer. He was developing radars in the 1940s and discovered that microwaves that were hitting him just, by the way, of his research and inventions, that it melted his candy bar and it wasn't from a heat. And so fast forward seven years.
He had the first radar range that was the first kind of name radar range in nineteen forty seven being used at a Boston restaurant. It weighed about seven hundred pounds and cost nearly five thousand dollars in nineteen forty seven. People were excited about cooking food with radar, so the name was eventually changed to microwave oven. First popular microwave for the home use was introduced then in nineteen sixty seven as more women obviously were entering the workforce and everyone need to save time.
And then again, this whole industrial revolution sped us up and we had to produce and limited time. So therefore this was a perfect storm. To introduce something that was quicker than an oven or a range or stovetop really was aid and helping the young women free up more time so that they could actually start having careers. Now, that's a celebration right on. So that's cool. And it really exploded in North America. So what is a microwave? Microwave ovens, our kitchen appliances, devices that cook and reheat food by emitting microwaves.
So these microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation that are on a low energy end of the energy spectrum.
Second to radio waves. So largely not that destructive. Right. So the waves are generated by something called a magnetron, and that's in every microwave. This magnetron produces electromagnetic field with a microwave frequency of approximately two thousand four hundred and fifty megahertz, which is equivalent to two point four gigahertz microwaves produced within the microwave oven.
Cause dielectric heating. They bounce around inside the oven and are absorbed by whatever is placed in the oven. So here's the thing. In order for this to work, the only thing that is creating the friction is the water. So in order for something to be heated in the microwave, water must be present within the substance. On some level, even though you can put several things in there, you don't think have water in it. But mostly there is a presence of water and everything, certainly a few percent to a very high percent.
So heating will not occur and it will remain cool if there's absolutely no water present and the water molecules are already a vibratory molecule, they're already vibrating. And so what happens is this magnetron puts out this microwave frequency and it now listen very closely.
It rips and tears apart and agitates the hell out of the water molecules. So put that together for a second pause. And I have everything I'm saying. We spend a lot of time. You've heard me talk about water, water structure, the importance of living water, how to clean water, all of that stuff. But yet now the microwave is absolutely doing the opposite on a molecular level. It's causing friction by ripping apart and tearing apart and disassociating the structure of water.
This is what creates the heat almost from the inside out on food.
Wow. So if we are mostly water. Then just being around microwave's is not a good idea, even though off omitting that comes by way of using this magnetron in your microwave is not good for the human body, nor is it good for ripping apart and changing the molecular structure. Listen, changing the molecular structure of the food. Now, all of this other research that I looked into extensively, you can look at macro micronutrients and on one hand, some of it there look at yeah, there's no difference.
But you're not looking at the right structures. You're not looking deep enough. When you look deep enough, we're ripping apart and changing the molecular structure of proteins of water, the organizational principle of RNA and DNA that put together amino acids, etc.. So this that's the danger. Now you're taking in a food, a beverage that's been changed on a molecular level. It's been ripped apart and torn apart. OK, so that's where it really gets interesting.
So Peter MacIntire, physics professor at Texas A&M University, adds that food is placed in a microwave. The electromagnetic fields from the oven induce electric currents within the water, in the food, because all food like ourselves is mostly water. What Peter doesn't get into is the changing in the molecular structure. All of the work by Dr. Gerald Pawlick, Dr. Emoto, several other doctors I started I've been starting to work with from the research and the water conferences that I've gone to clinical peer reviewed research around water structure, about creating living water, about vegetating water through Fibonacci curves, through mathematics is solid, amazing science and the dead water coming out of taps is dead.
Water doesn't have the energy. What? This is a whole nother level. You're ripping apart the molecular structure of the water. So obviously microwaves super convenient. You throw it in there really fast, you don't see the difference. You get your whatever your beverage or food heated.
But what you've done is molecularly changed the food and that is where the harm comes in.
So here is what happens. So with this intense electro magnetic field and listen, this is an experiment yet again. We know that MS. We know that 5G, we know all this stuff is changing things on a molecular level that's oscillating and influencing frequencies. It's changing frequencies and RNA and DNA signalling from all of these electromagnetic fields that were smart meters, Wi-Fi routers, 5G signalling, all of that stuff is affecting our biology. And yet, since 1967, we've been consuming food that's ripped apart the molecular structure of water.
So also on a more of a macro level, there was a study found that Brockley, when microwaved, which has a little bit of obviously the water in it, loses up to ninety seven percent of the beneficial antioxidants. So let's look at this again. Is it a good idea to put Whole Foods into a microwave? No, you're losing up ninety seven percent of this case, broccoli, broccoli's antioxidants.
Now, the study also goes on to say, when you steamed broccoli, steamed, not overly cooked, it made the green turn yellow and brown. You've just steamed it. You've only still heated up to be the same temperature. You've only lost 11 percent of the antioxidants. Of course, processing on any level, it's going to change some structures. But you've lost phenolic compounds, glucose scintillate, which is a massive anti aging compound and broccoli. This study was published in November of 2003 in the Journal of Science and Food and Agriculture.
And then, of course, vitamin C, which is also heat sensitive. In some cases they did vitamin C and asparagus spears and the nutrients were lost in the nineteen ninety nine Scandinavian study. One study also found that 60 seconds of microwave garlic depleted the food as it as it's L.A., which is in the active compound. It's like the main active compound in garlic, which is a massive anti cancer fighting compound that only 60 seconds. We've depleted huge amounts of that and in six minutes of microwave heating turned 30 to 40 percent of the B 12 and milk into A.
Ed form can't be used any longer by the biological system, and that was a study, a Japanese study in Australia. They also did a study where microwave's a higher degree of protein unfolding. Now it's ripping apart and altering the amino acids and protein so therefore can't be used. Now you're ingesting that stuff and it's a toxic compound, essentially. Nineteen ninety two study found that breast milk.
Listen, people, gosh, women, please do not put your precious vital breast milk and feed your children after you've put it in the microwave, please.
Nineteen ninety two study found that breast milk lost lysozyme activity lost antibody activity became more of a suitable environment for potential pathogenic bacteria after being microwaved. You're changing the beautiful, powerful molecular structure of your breast milk and then feeding that disassociated, dis harmonized food to children. Even our friend Dr. Andrew Weil said that there may be dangers associated with microwave food. There is a question as to whether microwave alters protein chemistry in ways that might be harmful. That's a very politically correct thing to say, Dr.
Weil, but at least he's starting to point to it. From my point of view, it's showing a lot of danger and a lot of different ways for a long period of time. Another study found that breast milk found the vitamin content becomes depleted by microwaving. Certain amino acids are converted into other substances that are biologically inactive. Some altered amino acids are poison to the nervous system and kidneys. Numerous authors mentioned in the study also said and validated the study that was given.
So we are seeing clear evidence that radiating your food is not a good idea. Please, we need to stop this insanity, Conn's Hertzel, a Swiss food scientist, initiated first tests on a microwave, food and microwave cooking to determine how microwaves affect human physiology and the blood. After studying these effects, Hertzel concluded that microwave food leads to food degeneration. These degenerative changes in nutrients caused changes in blood, which could cause further health problems. Of course, it's going to cause further health problems.
So the sum of the health issues that have been popping up around some of these studies as it relates to biology and that shows that elevated cholesterol levels, elevated cholesterol levels could be a form and reacting to inflammation, if these nonbiological altered molecules are entering the body, the body wants to protect its other tissues by sending cholesterol. So that might be the reason for the elevated cholesterol levels and then a plummet and leukocytes or i.e. white blood cells, same thing.
Foreign system. Now, that's not biologically assimilative suggests that the white blood cells go up upon microwave food and beverages being consumed because your body is attacking that which it can no longer recognize. And then also showing that there's decreasing red blood cells as well. So now all of a sudden, you're decreasing red blood cells ability your body's ability to increase oxygen, which also increases your inability to fight everything. That consequence also decreases hemoglobin levels, which also indicate anemia.
Another study found that microwave frequency radiation affects the heart as non thermal levels, levels that are well below federal safety guidelines to examine these effects. The study used a two point four gigahertz frequency, which is the same as the microwave, as well as the same frequency of guess what, Wi-Fi routers.
So all of that shows that as a disharmony to the magnetic field of your heart. So if you don't think you have frequency, look into biology of belief. Dr. Bruce Lipton and several others talking about and measuring the electromagnetic fields of the heart, the body, the brain, central nervous system, etc.. There's also evidence that these same frequencies can cause elevated blood sugar levels in certain people. So these same frequencies that are emitting from our microwaves and our Wi-Fi routers have been shown as a type three potential diabetic.
Right. So generated by dirty electricity. That is crazy. So there are so many studies. I've put several studies in the show notes. Here's what we do. Take the convenience out of the issue. Spend a couple more minutes heating your food up your breast, milk your beverages and use a conventional on the countertop stove. It literally takes a couple more minutes to heat up almost anything. Use a stove top for beverages. Hell, just friction of a good blender can heat up things.
So this is what I want you to do, kill your microwave first, unplug it, then maybe take a sledgehammer to it, get rid of it, throw it away. Don't have it in your house. Don't have a plugged in, never put any beverage, never drink any beverage, never put any food, never eat any food. Don't use your microwave, use a conventional or convection oven or stovetop. Seriously, I have not used a microwave for the last 35 or 40 years and it's really not that inconvenient.
OK, everyone, very simple. Get rid of your microwave. Don't use it. Just a habit. Get rid of it, get it out of your house and just get a conventional oven and you're not going to be destroying food from the inside out on a molecular level. You won't be ripping water apart and then consuming this biologically in assimilative food and you can be healthier for it. This is my plea to you. Take this on, eliminate this from your world and you will be healthier and happier for it as well as your children.
OK, I love you all. I care about you. That's why I'm. Passionate every week about this incredible stuff, so please go to Feto convenience dotcom, sign up for my newsletter. This will pop right up to you and we will continue on and leave comments, social media, whatever. Tell me what you're seeing out there is fatal conveniences because we as people need to stand up powerfully and vote with our dollars, vote with our voices and say no more to the industry causing us harm.
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The sensation of that first time we saw it working under a microscope, the first time we saw gut cells know how to build a three dimensional structure in a petri dish, you know, like like kidney cells to know how to build Three-Dimensional Structures in a petri dish, let alone in the human body.
You're watching it in real time. And it's in and it's it only takes seconds, you know, which is such a cool story to, you know, here we've for decades been destroying biology. And then you can watch it lays itself all back together in a matter of three to four minutes. It's just brain numbing, the complexity of of coordination that's needed to do something that we would call healing. And so I wish everybody who is listening right now could understand.
The sheer complexity of of biologic systems and its intelligence and then have goose bumps to think that we could create with that, we could be a creative force on this planet for life.
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