The Dark Secrets of the Wine Industry, with Todd White

<h2>Functional Medicine Providers: What You Will Learn:</h2> <ul> <li>How Dry Farm Wines is changing the game with keto-friendly products</li> <li>What “natural wines” means to consumers, and why most wines are actually unnatural</li> <li>The dark secrets of the wine industry that most consumers don’t know about</li> <li>Why <strong>functional medicine providers</strong> should educate their patients about natural wines</li> <li>How Dry Farm is addressing the biotoxin component of wine</li> <li>How Todd’s ketogenic lifestyle has impacted him</li> <li>The key business lessons and rules that have brought Todd success throughout his career</li> </ul> <h2>The Natural Wine Movement</h2> <p>Todd White is the founder of Dry Farm Wines, a producer of wines that are friendly to low carb, Paleo, ketogenic, and low sugar diets. He is also a writer, speaker, and leader in the organic/Natural Wine movement. Like functional medicine providers, Todd is dedicated to educating and helping people make better choices about food, nutrition, and how they think about consuming alcohol. In this episode of The FM Shift, Todd exposes the alcohol business and draws parallels to the farming practices behind so many chronic illnesses today. He also shares some of the key business lessons and rules that functional medicine providers can use to achieve greater success with their practices.</p> <h2>Challenging the Industry</h2> <p>Dry Farm Wines considers itself a health food company that just happens to sell wine. They are the largest importer, buyer, and reseller of natural/organic wines in the world. But natural wines is a term that often confuses consumers. In fact, most wines are actually unnatural because the same thing that happened to our food supply happened in the wine industry. There was a massive corporate consolidation, culminating in the top 3 winemakers producing more than 52% of all the wines consumed in the U.S. This transformation did not lead to the manufacturing of better, healthier wine, but rather faster and cheaper wine