Hey, how are you?<br>>> How you doing?<br>>> Thanks. It's<br>>> a big order, right?<br>>> I'm about to order the most popular<br>items at McDonald's to show you what's<br>exactly in them and what these weird<br>ingredients will do to your body. Why?<br>Because we're living through a fast food<br>epidemic.<br>>> Obesity among children doubled over the<br>past two decades. The regular hamburger<br>and the cheeseburger, those are all<br>between 40 and 50% bad.<br>>> How is it that some chemicals that are<br>in our foods have long been banned<br>elsewhere?<br>>> Outbreak of E. coli tied to McDonald's.<br>Ultrarocessed foods now make up 73% of<br>the US food supply.<br>>> Millions of people eat this stuff for<br>breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Without<br>realizing that, in my opinion, these<br>companies are shortening your lifespans<br>and wrecking your health.<br>We're about to go through the drive-thru<br>and order McDonald's. What's on your<br>mind?<br>>> Complicated emotions. I It takes me back<br>to earlier times in my life. I feel like<br>I've played this so many times. I can I<br>can smell it before we do it. I know<br>what it looks like, what it smells like,<br>what it tastes like, feels like. I know<br>the bag. Like I know the experience so<br>thoroughly. I can map out the entire<br>thing. I've done it so many times.<br>>> Wow. Okay, let's do it.<br>>> Really? Let's do it.<br>>> There's definitely a subconscious<br>version of me that's like, we're getting<br>McDonald's. I'm excited.<br>>> We're going to start with the most<br>ordered item on the menu, which is the<br>large fry. Let's first assess for smell.<br>I mean, this takes me back to my<br>childhood. This is such a distinct<br>smell. This really is appealing. I<br>understand why people eat this.<br>Everybody wants to know why McDonald's<br>French fries taste so damn good. It's<br>It's a simple answer. McDonald's world<br>famous fries are made with premium<br>potatoes with zero gram of trans fat per<br>label serving. These epic fries are<br>crispy and golden on the outside and<br>fluffy on the inside. But man,<br>whoever that copyriter is, they need a<br>raise. First, let's tackle the trans fat<br>claim. So, that does not mean it's<br>without trans fat. It means the FDA says<br>that you can be under.5 g and list zero.<br>So just note that sometimes labeling is<br>leads you to inaccurate conclusions.<br>Secondly, these are fried in a number of<br>refined seed oils. This is a problem<br>because these refined seed oils are<br>unsaturated fatty acids which oxidize<br>very quickly which form aldahhides and<br>these are cancerous toxins. These damage<br>proteins, cell membranes and DNA which<br>can lead to heart disease, liver<br>disease, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.<br>Next, we have AES, which are toxins that<br>form when the starch is exposed to high<br>temperatures. The AES you find in fries<br>at McDonald's is 20 times higher than<br>you'd have in a baked potato that you<br>make at home. These compounds contribute<br>to oxidative stress and inflammation<br>throughout the body, which has been<br>linked to insulin resistance, vascular<br>damage, and accelerated aging. But<br>Brian, chill out. It's just fries and<br>potatoes. Just live a little, man. But<br>you know what? I just don't think it's<br>worth it. Way too much junk and toxins.<br>I wouldn't do it. All right, next up,<br>let's reach into the magic bag and see<br>what we have. We've got a Big Mac.<br>Everybody loves Big Macs.<br>>> McDonald's Big Mac. It's more than just<br>another hamburger.<br>>> All right, first impressions. I mean,<br>they really did a good job. And this is<br>a golden bun. Looks like it's just like<br>baked to perfection. You've got a<br>pickles. The cheese is kind of pouring<br>out in places. The cream is there. I<br>have to give it to them. It is a really<br>compelling design. The box is nice. It's<br>in paper. You're thinking, "I'm doing a<br>good thing." Good job, McDonald's. You<br>really made this thing appealing.<br>Thanks.<br>All right. If we dig into the Big Mac,<br>one factoid, which is interesting, is<br>people have had these out for a decade<br>and they just don't die.<br>>> There it is. My gosh,<br>it hasn't changed.<br>>> Did McDonald's build Don't die?<br>Okay, so this guy's got 580 calories, 45<br>carbs. He's got 11 grams of saturated<br>fat. That's half of your daily value.<br>Fiber is only 3 g. Not great. Sodium.<br>Wow. 1,60 mg of sodium, almost half of<br>your daily value. 85 mg of cholesterol,<br>25 g of protein. All right, so pretty<br>good protein content. Now, there's a<br>twist here with the Big Mac is you see<br>this, you imagine eating it and imagine<br>yourself being satiated. Actually, it's<br>going to leave you more hungry. Why?<br>There's a bunch of added sugars and<br>ultrarocessed carbohydrates, making you<br>even more hungry. The 9 g of added sugar<br>is almost as much as a glazed doughnut.<br>That will give you an extreme insulin<br>and sugar spike, and then 90 minutes<br>later, your mood is going to plunge and<br>make you feel hangry. Okay, so what<br>about the patty? It's 100% beef. Why not<br>do that? When McDonald's says 100% beef,<br>it's not so simple. But first of all,<br>beef that comes from industrial lot fed<br>cattle have different fat profiles.<br>There's less omega-3 and more omega6.<br>The meats are also cooked in oils that<br>are bad for you. Now, you may be<br>thinking the pickles are great, but the<br>emulsifying agents they use in the<br>pickles actually disrupt the microbiome,<br>which can trigger chronic inflammation<br>and metabolic disease. In my personal<br>opinion, end to end, this thing is just<br>a a death machine. So, I wouldn't do it.<br>All right, next up, let's go into the<br>lucky bag. What do we have here?<br>We've got the hot cakes breakfast. This<br>is the most caloric dense option on the<br>McDonald's menu. Check out this 1,340<br>calories.<br>Honestly, surreal<br>people eat this. This is not Oh, man. I<br>just feel so bad for the body when this<br>goes in. This uh can't be doing good<br>things inside. 41 g of added sugar. It's<br>going to spike blood glucose. It's going<br>to increase fat storage. And the kicker,<br>it's going to make you hungry again. But<br>it's interesting how much cover<br>McDonald's gets. It's probably because<br>everybody shares this addiction.<br>Everybody. And so everyone like you<br>can't speak out against your abuser<br>because you're stuck.<br>>> All right. Next up is the 20 piece<br>chicken McNugget set. Not four, not six,<br>20<br>What is this? What does 20 even look<br>like? Man, that is a lot of chicken<br>nuggets. I've been out of the the fast<br>food game for quite some time now. And<br>with a little objectivity, I'm coming<br>back and seeing this. This is justing<br>nuts that they sell this. This doesn't<br>even look like meat. The weird<br>ingredient here is sodium aluminum<br>phosphate. This is McNugget batter.<br>There are concerns that these aluminum<br>salts contribute to dementia risk. A<br>French study found that.1 mg of aluminum<br>in water was associated with a risk of<br>cognitive decline, dementia, and<br>Alzheimer's. One 20 McNugget box can<br>expose you to up to 2.8<br>mg of aluminum. That's 28 times more<br>than in the French study. The frying oil<br>they use for these chicken McNuggets is<br>called TBHQ,<br>which means they use this to stabilize<br>the oil so they can continually use it<br>again and again. Scientists have studied<br>TBHQ on rodents and they have shown it<br>can have the following effects. Some of<br>the animals cells died or stopped<br>working properly. Their DNA showed signs<br>of damage. It helped cells grow into<br>tumors more easily. I don't know about<br>you guys, that's a hard pass for me.<br>Let's see. This is what happens, right?<br>The the whole car is is<br>>> Yeah, it's that<br>>> it's that smell. Everybody knows this<br>smell. All right, next up is the caramel<br>frappe. And spoiler alert, this is the<br>worst. There's 70 g of added sugar.<br>That's like a crumble cookie as a drink.<br>There's few things you could do as bad<br>as jamming 70 g of sugar into your body,<br>especially in drinks where absorption is<br>very fast. A Swedish study showed that<br>even a 5% increase in added sugars was<br>correlated with a 23%<br>increase in all cause mortality. The<br>caramel coloring has 4mei. Let's put<br>that big word on the screen here. This<br>is a manufacturing byproduct that<br>produced lung tumors in mice and it's<br>listed under California's Prop 65 as a<br>potential carcinogen. After the baseball<br>game, everybody gets together. If you go<br>to Mickey D's, you get one of these<br>guys.<br>They know how to hook us. You got to<br>give it to them. Like, those are clever<br>mother. All right, let's go into the<br>happy bag and see what we pull out. It's<br>the McGriddle.<br>I'm scared.<br>Oh man, this is disgusting.<br>This is so Oh, man. Even touching it is<br>so disgusting.<br>This just smells like sugar. It smells<br>like pancakes with maple syrup. What is<br>this? What is this monstrosity?<br>Pull it apart.<br>I mean, I want to look at this under a<br>microscope. We will find upon inspection<br>this is not really food. They've been<br>pranking us. This bacon and sausage are<br>among the very worst things you can<br>consume. Numerous studies have shown the<br>increase of all cause mortality with<br>processed meats. These processed meats<br>also have nitrites which are a known<br>carcinogen. The cheese, which like I<br>guess this is going for cheese, has<br>additional cancer-causing toxins. And<br>just as I thought I could smell it, it<br>has 13 g of added sugar. Why is there 13<br>g of added sugar in a breakfast<br>sandwich? I understand. I understand<br>it's easy and convenient and that it has<br>all the characteristics that make you<br>feel better because life is hard and<br>brutal and mean and this is like the the<br>moment of joy and reprieve you have from<br>life's awfulness<br>and then it just you over. McDonald is a<br>villain. They're not a happy place.<br>They're not a good player in society.<br>And even if they say we're just giving<br>people what they want, that uh don't<br>don't do that. If if people want to do<br>uh bad things, don't enable it. Like<br>that's not a good argument. All right,<br>let's go to the bag and see what comes<br>out next. Going in. What is it coming<br>out? The egg McMuffin.<br>What do we got here? Okay.<br>All right. I mean, the texture is<br>better. This guy, the McGriddle, that's<br>just brutal. This guy, I mean, holding<br>up nicely after a couple hours. Okay.<br>Let's take a look. All right. So, the<br>McMuffin is a less harmful version of<br>the McGriddle, but it's still bad for<br>you. It's got heated processed meats<br>like the McGriddle, which as we know<br>increases cancer risk. All right, wrap<br>there. Let's go into the grab bag. What<br>do we have coming up next?<br>The double quarter pounder with cheese.<br>M.<br>This is a tasty burger.<br>>> All right, let's see. Let's see how it<br>shows. Beautiful,<br>>> beautiful, beautiful.<br>>> I mean, that is a beautiful,<br>again, a brown top bun. The meat is<br>thick. It's got a little char to it like<br>you would uh see in a backyard backyard<br>barbecue.<br>The ketchup, the onions, the cheese.<br>That's a well-designed product. Might<br>kill you, but pretty well designed. So<br>essentially this is a bigger, more<br>harmful version of the Big Mac. It has<br>more saturated fat, more trans fat, and<br>has 740 calories. It does, however, have<br>48 g of protein. How clean that protein<br>is, I don't know. I wouldn't be seeking<br>it out. And again, you're not going to<br>be satiated if you pair this with a<br>sugary Coke or a caramel frappe. All<br>right, next up is the McFlurry with<br>Oreos. So, what do we have to say about<br>this guy? First of all, this has an<br>insane amount of calories and sugar. 410<br>calories and 48 g of sugar. Now, when it<br>comes to added sugar, there really is no<br>good amount. You should be as close to<br>zero as possible. It's just pure<br>wreckage for your metabolism, your<br>liver, your pancreas, and blood vessels.<br>And it just accelerates aging over your<br>entire body. Compared to glucose,<br>fructose is 8 to 10 times faster at<br>producing those terrible AES, the major<br>driver of aging across your body. Let's<br>go to the last item. What do we have?<br>It's the healthy item, which is the<br>snack wrap.<br>>> I love it.<br>>> The snack wraps are back. It's official.<br>We have been waiting forever.<br>>> Double checked for accuracy. What does<br>that even mean? Why does this guy get a<br>sticker? No one else does. Was my other<br>Was my food not double checked for<br>accuracy? Why do I get a sticker on<br>this?<br>Okay. Very expected. Tortilla. What's<br>inside? I'm still thinking this is this<br>is Taco Bell. What is this? Okay, it's<br>chicken. It's fried chicken. Okay, fried<br>chicken, some sauce, some cheese, and<br>lettuce. All right, so I guess to begin,<br>it's a smaller portion. It's 390<br>calories versus like the 780 for this<br>guy. It still smuggles 6 g of saturated<br>fat. The big issue here is it's<br>jam-packed with 900 mg of sodium. Why?<br>You're licking from a salt stick. Now,<br>the breading in this chicken has that<br>same sodium aluminum agent which is in<br>the<br>what do you call these guys again?<br>Chicken McNuggets, which can lead to<br>cognitive decline and dementia. The team<br>is inviting me to take a bite of this<br>and I have to say honestly, they told me<br>we're going to McDonald's and I had fear<br>in my heart. We started driving there<br>and I started replaying in my mind all<br>of the smells, textures, feelings,<br>memories of life and I thought, "Huh?"<br>And then it got into the car and I was<br>like, "This is kind of interesting." I<br>maybe feel a little bit. I got it on the<br>table and I thought, "Honestly." But now<br>that I've actually touched it, I've<br>talked about the ingredients. I know the<br>science behind it. Honestly, I just feel<br>repulsed by it. And I I get it. I like<br>when you don't understand these things.<br>like I didn't understand it and you<br>realize you think like I'm just going to<br>do it one time. Not a big deal. It's got<br>some good vegetables in there. Pickles,<br>lettuce, maybe the meat's okay. Guys,<br>honestly, this is like this I've really<br>changed my opinion. Like I didn't want<br>to eat it before, but I really changed<br>my opinion after doing this. This is<br>just like evil I honestly can't<br>believe that a company does this. It's<br>justing awful. And especially to our<br>kids. They market this, then they put a<br>pretty face. They dress this clown up,<br>show it's like fun and dandy, but<br>they're like causing legit.<br>It's just awful. Like these guys just<br>like should be put out of business. I am<br>the voice of courage and strength. When<br>you are faced with a decision on whether<br>or not you're going to eat it, I believe<br>in you. You are better than this. You<br>will rise up and choose a better option<br>for your life. Now, if McDonald's is not<br>your jam and you want me to roast<br>another fast food place, leave it in the<br>comments below.<br>Caught.<br>>> Are we caught?<br>>> Yep. Caught.<br>>> Man, I'm dying to eat this this guy. I<br>have this up. I'm doing this. I'm doing<br>this. You guys, thanks for getting me<br>the food.