Episode Highlights With Todd

• The problems with most wines today
• Why most wines are not natural and the unsavory things added to most wines today
• What we don’t know about wine may be hurting us
• Alcohol is objectively toxic and why Todd, as the wine guy, explains this in depth and why it can be best not to drink it at all
• Todd’s own rules around drinking to minimize negative effects and why he chooses it for joy and not for health reasons
• Why they started adding toxins and additives to wine
• Wine has been made for 9,000 years and all wine was natural, but this changed in the 1920s
• Only 4% of US wines are organic but it’s worse than that
• Grapes are #6 on the dirty dozen so organic wine is important
• Beyond organic… the nasty stuff added to most wines (even some organic ones)
• The massive consolidation of the wine industry that led to 3 companies controlling over 50% of wine
• There are 76 additives approved for use in wine
• Why Todd believes wine labels should have a contents (ingredients) label and nutritional info
• The only two ingredients found in a natural wine: grapes and native natural yeast
• Other ingredients in conventional wines: sugars, dyes, animal products, 12 additives classified as health hazards, 8 derived from black mold, and two classified by NIH as acute toxins meaning too much in a 24 hour period can be fatal
• How big wine companies respond to claims about natural wines (and how they responded to a lawsuit showing arsenic in wine at 5x the amount allowed in water)
• The reason Prop 65 in California can actually let companies get away with additives in wine based on disclosure
• What is natural wine and the standards it adheres to
• Why wild native yeast is important and what makes it so different
• How conventional wines often contain GMO yeast
• Why they only accept 21% of the wines they test (and they only choose organic wines to start with)

Resources We Mention

• Dry Farm Wines
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel