Top 3 Best Fish vs. Worst Fish to Eat

Top 3 Best Fish vs. Worst Fish to Eat: Thomas DeLauer

https://youtu.be/stZzEfFCuBs

GOOD FISH: Wild salmon, sardines and muscles
BAD FISH: Shark, Tuna Tilapia

Healthiest and Worst Canned Fish - Buy THIS not THAT

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hey it's thomas delauer and i want to

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give you the three fish

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that you should avoid at all costs

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because right now there's a few fish

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that are out on the market

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that can definitely be holding you back

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keeping you from reaching your goals

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and keeping you from feeling your best

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now in addition to that i don't want to

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just have a negative video so i'm going

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to give you the three fish

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that i think you should eat the three

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fish that i think you are safe

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to consume a lot of to not only get your

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requirements of protein

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but to also be able to reduce your

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overall amounts of mercury and heavy

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metals within your bloodstream

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okay so when i determine what kind of

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fish that i eat

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i look at three different factors the

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first one i look at is contamination and

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i'm going to talk about that in some

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more detail here in just a second i want

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to make sure that you stick with me to

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the end of the video because i'm going

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to explain all the details

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as we go the second one that i generally

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focus on are the overall health benefits

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of the fish that you're actually eating

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so we look at the contamination levels

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for fish to avoid then we look at the

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actual health benefits for fish that we

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want to eat

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and then the third thing that i look at

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is the overall sustainability

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is it sustainably fished i mean that's a

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moral and ethical thing to be completely

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honest because if we overfish then we

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could be out of some of these good

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healthy fish

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in the next five or six years and it's

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really that imminent

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so let's talk about these factors okay

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the first one being contamination

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mainly i'm talking about mercury and

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lead okay you hear about this all the

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time

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hear about these heavy metals that are

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getting into our food supply getting

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into our fish supply

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well how exactly does it work okay so

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really since this big industrial

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revolution especially within the last 20

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30 years we've been having a lot of

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heavy metals

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getting into our water supply whether

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it's going to be the rivers lakes

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streams

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but most of all it's going into our

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ocean supply what happens is when we

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have heavy amounts of mercury within our

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system it causes some serious central

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nervous system issues

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okay i'm not just talking like little

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mild things actual mercury poisoning can

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make you feel like total garbage it can

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make so your muscles don't contract well

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if maybe you're wondering like you're

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feeling weak a lot weaker lately you're

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not able to get the pump you're not able

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to really feel like you're working out

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it could be something to do with mercury

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now additionally it takes like 12 to 18

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months for mercury to clear out of your

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system

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so even when you start a detox regimen

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to try to get the mercury out

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it's staying with you for quite a while

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and the people that are at the most risk

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with this are going to be pregnant women

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because obviously when mercury stays in

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the system for that long

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it can affect you throughout the entire

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gestation period and it can actually

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cause

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offspring to actually deal with the same

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kind of issues

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that the adult is dealing with when it

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comes to the central nervous system it

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can actually cause some issues from a

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developmental standpoint

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meaning it can affect how your brain

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actually develops

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and how you actually think later on down

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the line okay so the fish that generally

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have high amounts of mercury

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are usually the larger predatory fish

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simply because they have a longer life

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expectancy they're in the water for a

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long period of time

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they're absorbing a lot of these

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nutrients they're usually more dense

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we're talking about shark we're talking

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about tuna talking about swordfish where

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they actually absorb

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more of these heavy metals and hold on

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to them for a longer amount of time

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increasing the overall density of those

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metals within the actual flesh of the

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fish

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okay now the next thing we want to look

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at are industrial chemical toxins i'm

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talking about

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ddt i'm talking about diotoxins i'm

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talking about pcbs these are all

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byproducts of regular everyday factories

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and a lot of times again these leak into

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the streams these look into the rivers

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and they ultimately end up in the oceans

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well because they are heavier they are a

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higher density than water

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they end up floating down to the bottom

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the ones that these usually affect are

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going to be fish like eels

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like sea trout like sea bass the fish

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that are usually loitering around the

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bottom

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okay now these kinds of chemicals can

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literally take

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five to eight years to clear out of your

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body also

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causing huge central nervous system

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issues very similar to nerve gas it can

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actually do that on a very small scale

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so we want to be very cognizant of the

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kind of fish that we're taking in there

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okay then lastly of course we look at

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sustainability now the reason that i

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look at sustainability

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is because not just moral and ethical

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reasons and trying to save the planet

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it's beyond that

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you see when we overfish a lot of times

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what can end up happening

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is these overall species end up dying

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off and then if they don't die off all

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the way a lot of times there can be

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genetic mutations and they end up not

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becoming the same fish they were

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10 15 years ago and they may not be as

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good for us

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as they are now okay so let me give you

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the three fish

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that you absolutely should eat and i'm

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going to tell you

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two of them are total surprises the

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first fish i want to talk about is going

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to be wild caught salmon

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something i'm always touting no surprise

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there you probably were expecting me to

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say this

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super high in those omega-3 fatty acids

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that you need to reduce inflammation

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super high in selenium super high in b12

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but additionally it's very very low in

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the heavy metals

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it's a softer tissue fish so it doesn't

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absorb a lot of those heavy metals

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now the thing is you want to make sure

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that it is wild caught

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now a lot of times we come into an issue

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because it's not always in season when

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it's not in season

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we're usually getting it frozen well i

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will tell you if you get wild caught

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salmon that's frozen it is perfectly 100

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fine okay a lot of times they're flash

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frozen a lot of times they're frozen

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shortly after being caught

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they actually preserve a lot of the

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nutrients so you're totally okay there

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the second fish on my list gonna be

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sardines

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okay definitely not one that you were

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expecting those funny little fish that

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are in the can that actually taste

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pretty darn good when you get past the

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fact that they're coming out of a can

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okay sardines extremely extremely low in

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heavy metals

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extremely extremely high in omega-3s

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that you need

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but also very high in selenium which is

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super good for your thyroid

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but also even better they are very high

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in copper and if you've seen my video

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talking about collagen

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you know that copper is needed to

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synthesize collagen and actually utilize

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it within the body so you've got joint

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issues

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you've got gut issues you're trying to

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heal that sardines might be one of the

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tricks

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for you and don't quibble over the fact

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that they're still in a can

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right now a lot of the canned goods are

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starting to get rid of the bpas

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starting to be a lot more conscious of

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the things that we're putting in the

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cans

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and especially when we look at canned

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foods that are suspended in oil

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a lot less of a chance of the toxins

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coming in from the metal

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getting into the food now the next one

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i'm talking about

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isn't even a fish at all i'm talking

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about mussels

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talking about simple little clam-like

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things that you see all over the place

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that are kind of orangey looking or kind

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of weird

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okay if you're someone that's trying to

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get a good amount of protein

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muscles are going to be one of the best

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choices that you can get they are one of

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the most potent

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gram for gram foods to actually get

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protein out of

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and in addition to that super high in

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omega-3s

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super super high in selenium and

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honestly one of the best sources of

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overall trace minerals

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you can possibly get now for the scary

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part what the heck do you want to avoid

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i've given you the three fish you need

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to eat but now i want to give you

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the scary ones okay first one shark

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super predatory fish

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big fish that's swimming around eating

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other predatory fish that already have

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high amounts of mercury in them

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okay so you've got a shark swimming

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around that's eating tuna that's already

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high in mercury

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boom it's just compounding the fact the

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other thing to consider is with sharks

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their gestation period is very

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very long now what happens with this is

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it means that they're not sustainably

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fished

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if someone catches a shark the

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likelihood of it being pregnant is

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actually quite high given the length of

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turn

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so this means that we have a much higher

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chance of wiping out species of shark

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okay now we think about it we got okay

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sharks are big mean and scary what do we

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care if we wipe them out

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well at the end of the day that throws

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off the entire

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sea food chain which throws off all the

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healthy fish that we want to eat

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so i would honestly recommend just

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staying away from shark in the first

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place

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okay the next one we want to look at is

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going to be tuna

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now i'm not opposed to all tuna but most

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tuna

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is very very dense very dense meat now

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if you're going to choose a form of tuna

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the best one that you can choose is

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going to be a u.s yellow fin okay it's

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the healthiest kind

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it's also in an area of the world that

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usually doesn't have as much in the way

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of the heavy metals

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okay so yellow fit is good to go now if

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you're looking at canned tuna

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stay away from the albacore that density

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in the albacore makes it so it's super

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high in those heavy metals

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if you go with the regular chunk like

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tuna you literally have about

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one third the amount of heavy metals

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that you would get from the albacore

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okay the last fish that i want you to

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stay away from is tilapia and i've done

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the video on tilapia so i'm not going to

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go into exquisite detail about tilapia

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but here's the thing tilapia is all

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farmed it's not wild okay

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so all the farm tilapia is coming from

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other countries that don't pay attention

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to quality standards

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tilapia can literally live off of feces

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remind me later to show you a link about

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this whole self-sustained ecosystem

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where there were literally chickens that

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were defecating into a pool of water

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that tilapia could eat and survive off

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of and then they would continue to feed

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the tilapia to the chicken

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the chicken would consume the tilapia

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and then again defecate where the

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tilapia would continue to eat it

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and it was just a self-contained

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ecosystem it shows you that tilapia can

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live off of just about anything

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very low nutrient density so you want to

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avoid that tilapia at all costs

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so there you have it the three fish that

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i think you should pay attention to the

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most right now

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and the three fish that you should

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absolutely x off of that grocery list

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