Dr. Josh Axe

And he eats things that are kosher, but he doesn't care if they're organic, doesn't care if they are ultra-processed.

I mean, none of that matters.

yeah so so and let me say this the one thing that i think they're totally correct in is this from an animal standpoint i think that biblical kosher slaughter methods do matter to the health of the animal yeah you know i i think that matters a lot you know there i i think that there's evidence on the way you slaughter the animal and the amount of stress hormones that are released that are then going to go into the meat tissue i mean i think that's a real problem

But I would say it's different, again, in the light of the New Testament there as well, in terms of, like, as a Christian, for me, and in authoring the BiblioDiet, I don't believe that eating pork and shellfish is a sin in the same way that it was during the Old Testament period.

I do believe, though, that God—

didn't just say, just for the heck of it, don't eat pork and shellfish.

And modern science proves this today.

I mean, when you look at pork, it is the greatest carrier of parasites of all animals.

I mean, so more people get parasitic infections, I think, from eating pork than probably any other food.

People are like, well, what if it's really, really well cooked?

Like, I had a cousin who killed a wild boar

froze the meat, made it into sausage, cooked it really well, and ended up getting like a terrible parasite infection from that meat.

And I know this with a lot of people.

So the reality is, is that pork is the dirtiest land animal.

I mean, listen, they eat, it's documented, like they eat their own crap.

Their scavengers don't eat anything.

Their digestive systems, they have a monochamber similar to humans.

And they store toxins, their bodies, versus cows.

I mean, they take some 24 hours to digest.

They have a mono chamber digestive system.