Diet Matters: Geo-arbitraging Food & Eating

I had a concierge full body health check in Taiwan recently and thankfully almost all measures were good. Actually surprisingly good. Yes, I exercise, biohack and do keep myself in good shape. 

But I think a big part of it was due to the work I’ve done with my dietician. I’ve been able to fine tune much of my diet around foods that I’ve better suited to processing and learning about foods that just don’t agree with me. 

My other hypothesis of this is that I spend almost 50 percent of my time traveling outside of the USA and have been doing this for over 20 years. Hence I’m eating less of the garbage processed foods we have here in America. 

Meat has tremendous amounts of steroids, vegetables have weird chemical fertilizers and most of the food we eat in America is processed and full of sugars and chemicals. I learned the average American body takes 18 days to decompose because of all the processed chemicals in the body. 

This is also why 40% of Americans are obese. Dangerously so. This is why healthcare is a disaster. It’s not just lack of exercise but the awful food we put in our bodies. That old saying “you are what you eat” is more than true. 

Yes, you can get great high quality and natural organic fruits and vegetables, natural grass fed animal meats in America. But like everything in America, you have to pay for it. That is why I am glad I spend only part of my time here. 

Food is so much cleaner and better quality  in most of Europe, Canada, Latin America and Asia and it’s more than affordable. We have all heard the stories of friends gorging themselves during vacations there and still losing weight. Something unheard of in America. 

Good Health is wealth. Good health is key to a happy and productive life. And a big contributor to health is your diet. So watch what you eat.