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Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body

2026-08-13 · 23 min · 29 entities

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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://sciencedirect.com/
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutriepigenomics
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8900696
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://statnews.com/2017/04/10/hippocrates-food-medicine
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://yourwatermatters.com/
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://psychologytoday.com/
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pollacklab.org/
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://drclarkstore.com/
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://westonaprice.org/

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  • mentioned sciencedirect.com concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://sciencedirect.com/
  • mentioned Nutriepigenomics concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutriepigenomics
  • references sciencedirect.com concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://sciencedirect.com/
  • references Nutriepigenomics concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutriepigenomics
  • mentioned Education concept
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    Feed category: Education
  • mentioned Health & Fitness concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Health & Fitness
  • mentioned Self-Improvement concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Self-Improvement
  • mentioned Alternative Health concept
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    Feed category: Alternative Health
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    Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body
  • discusses Education concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Education
  • discusses Health & Fitness concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Health & Fitness
  • discusses Self-Improvement concept
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    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Self-Improvement
  • discusses Alternative Health concept
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    Feed category: Alternative Health

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  • mentioned Articles website
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8900696
  • mentioned yourwatermatters.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://yourwatermatters.com/
  • mentioned psychologytoday.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://psychologytoday.com/
  • mentioned pollacklab.org website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pollacklab.org/
  • mentioned drclarkstore.com website
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://drclarkstore.com/
  • mentioned westonaprice.org website
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://westonaprice.org/
  • references Articles website
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    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8900696
  • references yourwatermatters.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://yourwatermatters.com/
  • references psychologytoday.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://psychologytoday.com/
  • references pollacklab.org website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://pollacklab.org/
  • references drclarkstore.com website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://drclarkstore.com/
  • references westonaprice.org website
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://westonaprice.org/

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  • mentioned Darin Olien person
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    Feed author/publisher: Darin Olien
  • hosted by Darin Olien person
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    Feed author/publisher: Darin Olien
  • mentioned Hippocrates Food Medicine person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://statnews.com/2017/04/10/hippocrates-food-medicine
  • references Hippocrates Food Medicine person
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    evidence rules-v5
    Link in episode "Food Is Information: What Every Bite Is Really Telling Your Body": https://statnews.com/2017/04/10/hippocrates-food-medicine
Episode description as stored
What if food is doing far more than providing calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat? What if every bite is actually delivering information to your genes, cells, microbiome, and biological systems? In this fascinating solo episode, Darin challenges the century-old idea of viewing food simply as fuel and explores what happens when we begin seeing food as biological information. From carrots resembling eyes and walnuts resembling brains to nutrigenomics, plant compounds, biophotons, structured water, living enzymes, and the microbiome, Darin dives into the hidden layers of food that never appear on a nutrition label. He explores established research alongside emerging and controversial areas of science, explaining why the freshness, color, diversity, and wholeness of what we eat may matter far beyond its calorie count. Darin also reveals why "eating the rainbow" is really about consuming a wider library of chemical information and why feeding your gut microbes may be just as important as feeding yourself. This episode will completely change the way you look at what's sitting on your plate. What You'll Learn Why Darin believes the calorie model leaves out some of food's most important biological effects How nutrients and plant compounds can influence gene expression through nutrigenomics and epigenetics Why Darin describes every meal as sending a "memo" to your DNA What biophotons are and the emerging research around light emitted by living cells and foods Why fresh, living foods may carry information that heavily processed foods have lost The theory of structured or "exclusion zone" water in living foods What happens to naturally occurring enzymes when foods are heated and processed Why the colors of fruits and vegetables correspond to different families of protective plant compounds How your food communicates with the trillions of microbes living inside your gut Why dietary diversity and fermented foods may help create a healthier, more resilient microbiome Chapters 00:00:00 – Welcome to SuperLife 00:00:32 – Sponsor: Bite 00:02:47 – The hidden clues sitting inside your food 00:03:22 – Carrots, tomatoes, and walnuts: coincidence or clues? 00:04:13 – Why we've been too busy counting calories 00:04:39 – Food is information 00:04:47 – Why the calorie model leaves out the bigger picture 00:05:14 – Your body isn't a furnace 00:05:48 – How food communicates with your cells 00:06:25 – Nutrigenomics: how food talks to your genes 00:06:53 – Every meal can influence gene expression 00:07:22 – What memo are you sending your DNA? 00:07:52 – The strange science of biophotons 00:09:03 – Why fresh food emits different light than processed food 00:09:37 – Where biophoton research stands scientifically 00:10:26 – Structured water and the fourth phase of water 00:12:00 – What processing may do to water inside food 00:12:37 – Sponsor: Manna Vitality 00:14:35 – The controversial theory of food enzymes 00:15:18 – What we know about enzymes in raw and sprouted foods 00:15:37 – The hidden information missing from nutrition labels 00:15:58 – Can the color of your food unlock your potential? 00:16:16 – Why "eat the rainbow" is chemistry, not mysticism 00:16:38 – Anthocyanins and the power of purple, red, and blue foods 00:17:27 – Color is the plant's natural label 00:18:20 – Every color sends your body a different message 00:18:50 – The problem with the modern "beige diet" 00:19:14 – You're feeding 38 trillion microbes, not just yourself 00:19:46 – How gut bacteria transform fiber into powerful compounds 00:20:25 – The extraordinary conversation between plants and your microbiome 00:21:05 – Why plant diversity matters for immunity, mood, and hormones 00:21:31 – The Stanford fermented food study 00:22:02 – What fermented foods did to microbiome diversity and inflammation 00:22:30 – Ultra-processed food, inflammation, and what's coming next 00:22:45 – Continue the full deep dive on Patreon 00:23:24 – Closing thoughts Thank You to Our Sponsors Bite Toot