Sep 27, 2026 · 28 min · 10 segments
Pharmacist Barry Newman talks with Paul Fulford, healthy living export, about the recent social media craze known as cyclospora skinny, where people are deliberately eating unwashed fruits and…
Paul FulfordGuest
Barry NewmanHost
So since it originated this year, the outbreak in Mexico, did it enter the United States through Texas?
I mean, look, there's multiple states and entry points that border Mexico, you know, so it depends on where those farms are.
I mean, like when you look at where Taylor's Taylor Farms is connected to, there's a whole lot of other brands like organic brands that are labeled for like a store brand.
So like when you look at Taylor, like they have a Taylor Farms brand, but Taylor Farms is also the sourcer for like 12 other like organic lettuce brand providers.
Where it's like the same thing, but just label it as somebody else's because they're sourcing it.
In the United States, we monitor through the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration.
they have they have organizations and they're doing things to try to get their government in situation
the biggest thing that we can do i mean we're like it's it's not so much i don't think our issue like again i think this can be some like times look very as like a diversion tactic to at times where it's like look The biggest problem is what we've been talking about forever, which is the 50 year chemistry experiments we've been doing on ourselves with the food the last 50 years.
So like if they can make some stink about over this kind of thing, this cyclospora, you know, it takes the real, you know, gun or the laser sight off of what the real issue is, which is food supply as a whole.
Paul, to the best of your knowledge, who came up with this trend known as cyclospora scimini? Where did the idea come from?
Just like anything on, you know, on TikTok, you know, it's one of those things that sometimes if it once it has a little glimmer of truth, like it will take off and it goes viral.
favorite movies is double wear doubles wears prada and like emily blunt in the first one she basically says when she's trying to get ready for this big like fashion week paris fashion week that she's one stomach flew away from her goal weight right so yeah
that's what i always think of when i think of this right is like look it's it it Could it work? Sure.
So since it originated this year, the outbreak in Mexico, did it enter the United States through Texas?
I mean, look, there's multiple states and entry points that border Mexico, you know, so it depends on where those farms are.
I mean, like when you look at where Taylor's Taylor Farms is connected to, there's a whole lot of other brands like organic brands that are labeled for like a store brand.
So like when you look at Taylor, like they have a Taylor Farms brand, but Taylor Farms is also the sourcer for like 12 other like organic lettuce brand providers.
Where it's like the same thing, but just label it as somebody else's because they're sourcing it.
In the United States, we monitor through the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration.
they have they have organizations and they're doing things to try to get their government in situation
the biggest thing that we can do i mean we're like it's it's not so much i don't think our issue like again i think this can be some like times look very as like a diversion tactic to at times where it's like look The biggest problem is what we've been talking about forever, which is the 50 year chemistry experiments we've been doing on ourselves with the food the last 50 years.
So like if they can make some stink about over this kind of thing, this cyclospora, you know, it takes the real, you know, gun or the laser sight off of what the real issue is, which is food supply as a whole.
Paul, to the best of your knowledge, who came up with this trend known as cyclospora scimini? Where did the idea come from?
Just like anything on, you know, on TikTok, you know, it's one of those things that sometimes if it once it has a little glimmer of truth, like it will take off and it goes viral.
favorite movies is double wear doubles wears prada and like emily blunt in the first one she basically says when she's trying to get ready for this big like fashion week paris fashion week that she's one stomach flew away from her goal weight right so yeah
that's what i always think of when i think of this right is like look it's it it Could it work? Sure.
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