Sean Wittenberg
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Elle Russ chats with Sean Wittenberg - the Cofounder and President of Safe Catch based in Sausalito, CA. With a deeply held belief that the health of our environment, our food and our society are all profoundly connected, Sean has spent the past 15 years focused on developing technologies and products that help people live healthier, happier lives while improving the wellbeing of our planet. In this episode, Sean educates the audience on the safety and environmental concerns surrounding fishing and consuming fish.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh |
| 0:07.0 | content to help you live awesome. Enjoy the show. Engage with us online at marksdailyapple.com and on social |
| 0:13.8 | media and send your questions to info at primalblueprint.com. |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcastcom. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Today we have Sean Wittenberg, founder and president of SafeCatch Tuna, our favorite at Primal Blueprint. |
| 0:30.8 | And we're going to get into the topic of mercury and ocean preservation. |
| 0:35.5 | And this is a topic near and dear to my heart because I had very high mercury levels. |
| 0:40.7 | And it is extremely damaging to all parts of the system. |
| 0:44.2 | And so, Sean, your passion for being in this space for 15 years and jumping in on this |
| 0:50.0 | kind of problem that we have with fish sourcing, fish quality. And it started really with your |
| 0:57.5 | mom being diagnosed, right? So I'd love, you know, welcome the show and I'd love you to get into, |
| 1:02.9 | where did you start here? Well, first, L, thanks so much for having me and letting Safe Catch |
| 1:07.9 | on your, on your podcast here. What happened was i was at uc davis |
| 1:14.4 | and i was studying there and um to just really wrap it up quick my my mom got mercury poisoning |
| 1:21.6 | or excuse me elevated mercury levels is the the correct way to say it from eating too much albacour tuna she was on a |
| 1:30.9 | diet a diet program based on points and one she didn't like any of the food in the diet and one of |
| 1:38.8 | the diet items that she did like was the albuquer tuna she was having it several times per week |
| 1:43.8 | and all of a sudden, |
| 1:45.7 | she started to get some symptoms, which you may relate to. I don't know. But what happened, |
| 1:50.3 | she started to get these numbness in her fingers and her extremities. Then she started to, you know, |
| 1:56.6 | have some short-term memory issues and she would get tired for no reason, but she also couldn't |
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