WHAT HEALTHY KIDS EAT THAT YOURS PROBABLY DON'T

The Question Parents Keep Asking

Dr Pompa 0:00

What do I feed my kids? What supplements should they be taking? What diet should they be on anyway? I don't know. I'm so confused. What do I do to help my kids be healthy again? Okay, that's a question that I'm asked all the time in many, many different conversations. And I believe moms are asking that question more than dads. Some dads are asking that question, but moms are really driving health care in this country right now because they see their children

Why Kids Are Struggling Now

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suffering. Chronic gut problems, chronic allergies, food allergies, no energy even to make it through a day. They feel like they have more energy than their kids sometimes. Kids dealing with problems that kids never were meant to deal with. I mean, we have one in five kids in this country obese. That's changed. What happened? We didn't have obese children in school when I was in school. One in literally 31 on the autism spectrum, one in five with learning disabilities. There's been a 67% increase in childhood cancer since 1970s. What is happening? Okay, so that is why parents are saying, what do I do for my children?

Five Deficiencies To Consider

Dr Pompa 1:12

What do I feed my kids? Let me help you. Okay, most parents are looking for the vitamin that's missing. Well, I'm gonna give you five vitamin potential deficiencies that I think you should consider, and you should consider giving your children. But I'm gonna say this the answer isn't in the deficiency as much as what kids are getting too much of. I'll get there in a minute. So I don't think it's as much of the lack, although I think kids today are in fact lacking certain vitamins like vitamin B12. Why? Because vitamin B12, it's yeah, we get it in certain foods like really good quality grass-fed meats, et cetera, that maybe kids aren't getting enough of. But it's also a deficiency because of a microbiome issue that we'd lack intrinsic factor. And we're not absorbing the B12 and actually being able to utilize it. So, yeah, that's a B vitamin that I think is worthy that parents could consider that their child may need more of because they're not getting uh really it um because of a bad microbiome. They're not getting the vitamin because of a bad microbiome. So um, which we're going to get to because why do so many kids have bad guts and microbiome? I'm gonna get there. Um, but I think that B12 can be added with some success. So therefore, B12, I would say consider. All right, another one is vitamin D. I think because kids are not outside and we are taught to just slather them with sunscreen, God forbid they get skin cancer. So kids are not in the sun like they used to be. They're not eating a lot of vitamin D rich foods like the old days. They're not drinking raw, real grass-fed milk. Dairy products are a great source of vitamin D when it's real dairy. I do agree conventional dairy is a toxic food, but real grass-fed dairy, especially raw, is loaded with good vitamin D, things like sardines, um, and there's other things, even like mushrooms. Okay, you're saying that to myself, my kids don't like any of those things. So get your kid in the sun. That would be what I would say. But there's something else in the foods that I just mentioned, and it's vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is very prevalent in grass-fed everything, but here's the problem. Kids today, they eat grass-fed nothing typically. They're not, you know, getting grass-fed butter, grass-fed dairy products. Uh, they're not eating a lot of grass-fed meat because in it, vitamin K2. Why is vitamin K2 important? Because you need it to bring in minerals into where they actually matter. For example, calcium in the muscles, calcium uh in our cells, where calcium can do all of its magic, calcium in our bones, vitamin K2 is how you deliver the calcium. Vitamin K2, very deficient, not just in kids, but adults. So again, um, you might have to make that up in a supplement. If you take vitamin D, always make sure it has K2. If you take K2, always make sure it has vitamin D. But I do believe that getting those vitamin K2 and vitamin D from the natural sources is the best. But if you're going to take it, make sure you see them together in the supplement because fat-soluble vitamins are better taken together. Why? Little fact here, you can create a functional deficiency when my dog wants attention all of a sudden here. Um, a functional deficiency means that they compete for the same receptor on the cell. So if you're taking a lot of vitamin D without K2, the vitamin D can block the K2 from getting to the receptor. And if you're already not getting enough of it, it'll block it even more. That's called a functional deficiency. And the flip is also true. If you're taking a lot of K2, you can block the vitamin D receptor with the K2. So always take them together as a balance. So, okay, we have vitamin B12, we have vitamin D, we have vitamin K. That's three, I promised you five. Iodine. Iodine, which is needed for kids' brain development in IQ. By the way, plenty of studies are showing that um IQ suffers when there's an um iodine deficiency. So it is linked to brain development and it can be linked to childhood IQ. And the reason why um iodine is very deficient is because it's not in the soil like it used to be. So therefore, it's not being carried in like it used to be in all a lot of the things that we're eating. Are your kids eating a lot of oysters? Yeah, things that may have higher levels, probably not. Um, so I think iodine is a deficiency that you know should be considered. Um, magnesium is another one for the same reason. Magnesium is another deficiency because of the soil depletion of magnesium. Here's why: because there is a pesticide like glyphosate. It's a uh a chemical that literally works like a chelator. It pulls out minerals out of the soil, even kills microorganisms that we need in the soil, but it pulls out the minerals, and that's how it kills plants. But the problem is, is it's pulling out a lot of the minerals we need. I would argue even zinc could be in here too, uh, but magnesium being even a bigger problem. So, okay, those are the five, what I would say are the big deficiencies that I think are important for children to have good health. And again, most of those you can get by just giving your kid really good organic, solid whole foods. So I do believe that is first and foremost. But um if your kids are like many, not getting good solid whole foods with the majority of their diet, then I would argue that supplementing um could be a

Ultra-Processed Food And Hidden Chemicals

Dr Pompa 7:17

benefit. All right, but here's what are I think the big issue is. If we look at every one of the conditions that I mentioned already in the escalation of chronic disease in children, not just cancer rising almost 70% uh in the last 50 to 60 years, but every condition, every chronic disease in an adult has risen in children because of why and what? Chemicals. I already tipped my hand here. Chemicals that we read in ultra-processed food, right? So a processed food, white bread, white rice, I grew up on that. So did you, right? But we didn't have all these conditions. So is it just the processed food, or is it all the chemicals that we see in the food? That's an ultra-processed food. It's the chemicals. And again, that's just what you're seeing on the label. If you can't read it, don't eat it, or definitely don't give it to your kids. But it's the chemicals that you're not seeing on the label that pose the greatest problem. A lot of the pesticides, the one I already mentioned, glyphosate, that in studies is shown to open up the uh the gut barrier and allow undigested proteins like gluten to cross right across the gut into the bloodstream, making antibodies. Wait a minute. They say that this gluten problem started literally almost to the day, 2006. What happened in 2006 that all of a sudden gluten problems became prevalent? Was it the hybridization in the uh GMO of wheat? No, but that made it worse because we even made a wheat that we could spray more of this chemical on. See, that's the chemical. Um that is the problem. The chemical is the problem. 85% of the chemical glyphosate has been utilized after 2006 in the history of that chemical. 85% of it has been used after 2006. Born was a gluten problem. It opens up the blood uh gut barrier and allows gluten and other proteins to cross over and we make antibodies, it drives inflammation and it's driving problems. So is it the gluten? No, this is a chemical problem, and we need to be eating all organic. Why do you think people go to Italy in these other countries where glyphosate is banned? And they say, I felt so much better. My kids were better. No glyphosate. They outlawed it. Oh, not here because Bayer bought the company called Monsanto that manufactures it. They are right here in the U.S. So I don't know if we're gonna see the banning of that chemical anytime soon. They were just in front of the Supreme Court last week. I don't know when this is going to air, looking for a liability shield like vaccine companies did in 1986. They're looking for the same shield saying we can't be sued for the injury. Why? Because billions of dollars are being awarded for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. And when these conditions start stacking up, meaning autoimmune conditions, excuse me, and all the other conditions that we already know that this chemical is linked to in some ways, they better go after a liability shield so they can't be sued. But guess what? We won because they said no, they're not giving them a liability shield for now. So this is good news and a victory for our children, no doubt. That same chemical has also been shown to open up the blood brain barrier. This is a 2012 study uh out of MIT that showed that it opens up the protective blood brain barrier. It allows chemicals like aluminum and mercury that we're all exposed to to cross deeper into the brain. Ah, you think that's affecting our children? Oh, and then we're putting some of these chemicals and vaccines and other products that our kids are using. Oh, and the gluten-free product, uh the gluten-free craze because of the gut problem and the chemical problem, a lot of the products that are used in gluten-free products contain heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, and lead. Are you kidding me? Uh yeah. So the problem is that we have to get to the real problem. But I want you to hear that the reason why kids aren't thriving, the raise, the this massive rise in chronic disease is these the chemical problem. I do believe that you should be eating and feeding your children 100%

Organic Choices Clean 15 Tips

Dr Pompa 11:56

all organic. If you're going to make an exception, make it from what is called the clean 15. Google it. Avoid the dirty dozen for your children. Uh, watch my Instagram where I'm constantly giving exchanges and ideas to exchange the products um that your kids are enjoying now, that there's a healthier product you can exchange it for and make make those changes. But I want to task you out for a couple other big things.

Water Plastics PFAS And Fragrance

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Number one, you should absolutely not be giving your kids tap water. You should have a reverse osmosis filter in the house. I don't believe you should be giving your kids plastic water bottles to drink out of. Avoid plastic like crazy. Don't wrap fatty, hot food in plastic or fatty, hot, um, acid-y foods in plastic in general. Do not let it touch plastic because the chemicals in plastic leach out. And yes, they cause hormone disruption in our children. Avoid a lot of these what we call forever chemicals. Now we're seeing PFA-free products, things like that, because those absolutely are also very, very hormone-disrupting to our children. So avoid the products like that. Please don't be cooking in Teflon and um coated pans. Avoid clothing that are water resistant, water repellent, because those contain a lot of these PFAs. Contact lens fluid or the contact lenses themselves oftentimes contain PFAs. So you can now find even contact lenses that are PFA free. So plastics, PFAs, here's a big one. Defragrance everything in your house. Please do not put plugins in ever. But what are you washing your clothes in? Laundry detergents, fabric softeners. They contain fragrances and other dangerous chemicals. And the reason why these are so dangerous is because they're on your kid's skin constantly and they sleep in the sheets that have been washed with these chemicals, and it's absorbed right through the skin into the bloodstream. It's called transdermal. And most of these chemicals go transdermal, meaning they go right into the fatty tissue. That's what they do. And they're into your kid's blood disrupting hormones, and they're sleeping in the sheets, washed in those chemicals, and they're wearing the clothes all day long. So buy free and clear products, seventh generation, e-cover. There's so many brands out there now. Um, you can even buy ozone systems, it will save you tons of money for very inexpensive now, $300, and it uses ozone. You connect it to your washing machine. You don't ever have to use detergent again. But defragrance if you, you know, in the meantime, defragrance everything in your life. Personal care products, hair shampoos, lotions, no fragrance unless it's from an essential oil. Because why? Fragrances are protected by intellectual property laws. That means they don't have to tell you the toxic ingredients and hormone and cancer-causing chemicals that are in the product. They don't have to disclose it. They're protected by IP, intellectual property laws. So therefore, they're the most toxic things on the planet. Avoid fragrance like the plague. It has the chemicals that have been banned for years that they're still allowed to put in those fragrances. So God forbid, don't spray it on your neck. Okay, I went beyond children now, hopefully, you know, because it's absorbed right into your lymphatic system, right into your thyroid. So please, no perfumes, use essential oils. Men, no colognes, please. Fragrance is bad. So I'm just tipping off some of the big um, you know, big sources of these types of chemicals. You don't have to get overwhelmed with it. If you just deal with the big ones that I just said, you're going to change the health of your family. Again, it's not the deficiency, it's the overload of the chemicals that's driving all of the chronic disease, even weight loss resistant. So it's not as simple as, you know, your kids are on screens all day and they're not moving enough. That's why they're fat and obese. No, it's not that simple. It's the chemicals. Chemicals disrupt hormones, and hormones is why we have a fat country. Why do you think when you go to Italy, you don't see fat kids, you don't see fat parents? Okay, you can tell the Americans from the other ones because unfortunately, they're the fat ones. Why? It's not the food. They eat arguably 20% more carbs in their diet than us Americans. Well, it's the chemicals because all of these chemicals that I'm talking about, most of them have been outlawed in Europe. Okay, all the dyes, yeah. Where are those? Okay, avoid dyes in food as well. But the fact is, is that glyphosate, that chemical, has been outlawed in many others. And they're not perfect by any means, but it's much less. And again, it's chemicals that's driving weight loss resistance and the weight gain and obesity that we're seeing. It's not just food, it's the chemicals in food that is really the problem. Okay, so parents, I do want to challenge

Screens And Kids’ Brain Addiction

Dr Pompa 17:08

you there. And for parents with young, young children, I do believe screens are an issue. Uh, I don't know if you know what cocoa melon is, but literally the childhood entertainment game, or I don't know what to call it, show is designed with the same science, brain science that Vegas uses to keep people addicted to pulling the lever. Well, take cocoa melon away from your child. And there's other games that are following the same pattern, by the way, but take it away and you're gonna watch just like a drug addict if you take the drug away. See, because the addiction is the problem. And when you take it away, the brain melts, the adult melts with the drug, the child melts with the show being taken away. So, parents, I do think that we need to be very, very um privy to what our kids are, in fact, watching. So I just couldn't do this topic of kids' health without a mention of that. But I think when we look at the amount of kids with gut issues, and that leads to brain issues, and that leads to um hyper immunity and other problems that we're seeing in children, again, what we've never seen

Gut Health The Upstream Fix

Dr Pompa 18:16

before. It's not about another probiotic. I prefer this source of probiotic if you're going to do a probiotic, and it's a natural source in form of a yogurt called coconut cult. Uh look, their best one is their plain one, but they do have flavored ones that your kids will absolutely love. But literally 400 billion uh bacteria, how do they do that? How do they get such high levels of all of these strains of bacteria? Uh, they get that by doing it in glass. Literally, it's fermented in glass. Even if you ferment it in stainless steel, God forbid you don't ever want to use plastic, which most companies do. Um, but to get those numbers, it has to be glass. Stainless steel even knocks down the uh the numbers. But so it's that's a really good source. But again, I think if you really want to fix a child's gut, you have to eliminate these toxins coming in. And that is absolutely the first and foremost uh thing you have to do. And here's the analogy: if you have a factory up the river dumping toxins into the river, you're gonna kill the fish and the algae and the plants downstream. Even if you keep replacing them with good plants, bacteria, yeah, you get the point. It's gonna keep dying. So you can put all the coconut called in you want, um, but you have to get rid of the toxins upstream. And parents, that's what we have to do with the diet, getting rid of the ultra-processed foods. We have to do that with the water uh that we're using, you know, not drinking tap water, filter it with an RO system, uh, avoiding what all the fragrances we're washing our clothes in, getting rid of the plastics, the forever chemicals, nonstick, all of it, get rid of it all. Those are the things that decimate the good bacteria in the gut, cause the dysbiosis, affects the immune system, affects the brain health. So we need to work upstream ultimately if we're gonna change our kids' health today. If we're gonna beat this the statistics, the numbers of chronic illness and not have our children fall into these percentages that we are hearing more and more about, then we better control what's coming in. And also, I think it's prudent to make up the five deficiencies. Um, but listen, if you're moving to whole foods and healthy foods, chances are your kids won't have those deficiencies anyway. So you're gonna save more money. I just saved you more money. All right, that's the the answer to what do I do to get my kids healthy?

Recap And Share The Message

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I gave you the diet, I gave you what the uh the upstream solution, really. And I even told you what vitamins I think are worth taking so you're not wasting your money because there's a lot of gimmicks out there. So there you have it. Share the episode. People need to know. Moms, yeah, you're the one driving health in this country. So you're the ones that are going to share the show with your friends. Everyone needs to hear the message. It's a simple one.