Must Listen if You Drink Wine + Conscious Consumption & Longevity With Todd White

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)