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if you want to start a business with a
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freeze dryer what types of things can
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you freeze dry how do you know what to
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freeze dry and how do you know if it's
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going to work today you're going to get
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those questions answered through an
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interview that I had with one of the
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freeze drying experts in an industry and
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yes there are experts in freeze drying
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his name is Gene Ligman gan is widely
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known as a freeze drying expert helping
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freeze drying businesses know exactly
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what they should freeze dry how they
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should go about setting up their
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facility because it's not just about the
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freeze jar it's about creating a recipe
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it's about creating a facility that can
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really harness the power of the freeze
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drying process and eventually actually
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make you money and so this particular
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snippet of my full interview with Gan is
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going to talk about what applications
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are there in freeze drying where you can
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start a business what types of things
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has you seen work well what types of
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things are happening right now that are
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very unique what types of things do you
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need to think about if you're going to
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look at applications like powderizing
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something creating supplements
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pharmaceuticals cosmetics all of this is
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going to be discussed in this interview
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this is an education type of video so
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it's not going to have any type of music
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sound effects any type of B-roll that
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keep you engaged this is more for you to
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better understand what freeze drying is
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if you're interested in doing that from
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someone who actually knows what they're
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talking about so let's get to the
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interview with Gan and learn about the
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applications in freeze drying now you've
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seen a lot of different things freeze
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dry what are the most common
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applications in freeze drying to that
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people are selling product with right
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now pet treats is probably the number
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one freeze-dried product seller the
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quantity of freeze drying that's going
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on in America is probably at least 60%
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pet treats the second one is fruits um
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probably fruits and that's because you
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know if you eat that cereal and it's got
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that little chunk of dried fruit in
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there that's freeze-dried fruit mhm
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every chunk of fruit that's in the
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breakfast cereal on the on the shelf is
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all freeze-dried so there's a lot of
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that if you're eating soups like an
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instant soup that's got some kind of
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protein in it or even some of the the
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soup itself is is probably
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there's so freeze-dried food for human
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consumption is probably the next is is
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by and far the the largest sector i
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would say probably you built you break
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that into two chunks one is fruits and
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vegetables and the other one's proteins
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and I think it's probably fairly even i
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think maybe fruits and vegetables a
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little bit bigger than proteins so when
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I be buy my beef bullion or chicken
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bullion cubes is that a is are those
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cubes freeze dried no they're probably
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spray dried what does that mean spray
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dried is where you uh you create a
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liquid slurry and you get a really high
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temperature and you spray it into a a
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chamber that's got hot air blowing
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around and it by the time it gets from
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the nozzle to the bottom of the chamber
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it's been dried oh but because you're
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creating such small particles so if you
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don't have a temperature limit and
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bullion doesn't because you're going to
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put in boiling water anyway then you're
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probably going to spray dry it mhm now
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going back to the pets freeze-dried pets
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food right now you said pet treats but
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also is is food being freeze-dried for I
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mean I would assume like the treat is
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for you know Yeah like very quick
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consumption for the dog or the cat
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whatever but what about freeze drying
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actual food yeah so there's a movement
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that started a number of years ago about
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free feeding your dogs raw meat because
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dogs evolved to eat raw meat and there's
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a certain kind of nutrient content
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that's in raw meat that changes when you
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cook it and that changes the nutrient
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content for the for the pet and there's
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plenty of anecdotal evidence i don't
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know if it's done i don't think there's
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any clinical trials but there's lots and
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lots of people who have seen pets like
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miraculously recover from diseases and
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whatnot when they started feeding them
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raw food there's plenty of information
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online you can find well there's two
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ways to get raw raw food for your dog
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and if you have a bunch of dogs um it
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becomes a real problem one is frozen
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right so you go you buy frozen meat and
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you thaw it out and give it to your dog
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so this has the burden of you're
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shipping heavy stuff you're shipping it
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frozen so it has to be done in a refer
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and then you have to buy it frozen you
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have to get it back to your place while
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it's still frozen and you have to put it
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in a freezer and store it still frozen
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and then when you want to feed it to
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your dog you have to spend the time
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thawing it out and not cook it because
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that would destroy the entire pro
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purpose of buying it raw in the first
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place right so an alternative is you
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freeze dry it while it's raw and then
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all you have to do to re to feed it to
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your pet is either feed it to him dry
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because a dog is going to eat a
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freeze-dried cube of beef just the same
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as if it's reconstituted or you can
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throw it in a um a little bit of hot
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water for a minute or however long it
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takes for to for it to reconstitute and
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by the way high quality freeze-dried
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meat should reconstitute fairly quickly
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like in a minute whereas meat that's
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been subjected to higher temperatures
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maybe during the freeze-drying process
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and rendered some fats out might take a
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lot longer or might not ever fully
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reconstitute for a dog it might still be
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chewy but now because it's freeze-dried
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you don't have to ship the weight you
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don't have to do it in a reefer you
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don't have to go to the store and buy it
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frozen and then get it back to your
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house and store it in the freezer until
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it's frozen you don't have to thaw it
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out all you have to do is throw it in
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some water or just toss a chunk to your
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dog who's going to like inhale it anyway
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yeah now what other animal food animals
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and food is being freeze- dried besides
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like cat and dog mostly it's proteins so
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it's for cats and dogs and iguanas and
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whatnot right um pets that are going to
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be eating proteins now a lot of these
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companies they'll make a they'll grind
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up a a their own um actual ingredient
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recipe whether put some liver they'll
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put some fish to add the omega-3s
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they'll put vegetables in to add
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nutrients of various types they'll grind
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it all up into a mash and then they'll
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extrude it in pellets or patties and
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freeze dry it that way like Stella and
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Chewies for example is a company that
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does it that way many of them do so
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they're actually creating a balanced
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diet in a patty for your pet um and it
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could be for whatever animal they'll
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they'll there are different recipes for
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different animals so what are the
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applications with no food for freeze
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drying so anytime you want to powder a
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an organic product by organic I mean
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something that that you would harvest
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and um and grind into some kind of
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powder and when it's growing it's going
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to be wet now you can either let it dry
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in the sun before you grind it you can
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do spray drying you can do a number of
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different types of drying but every one
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of those processes has their pluses and
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minuses spray drying is fast but it's in
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hot air and it oxidizes and it changes
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and it cooks and everything else like
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that um so but uh like cosmetics
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anything that needs to be a a powdered
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ingredient um this is actually a quickly
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growing market like aloe vera powdered
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aloe vera um neutrauticals is another
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one where people want to retain
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the live cultures in something like a
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yogurt or some kind of specifically
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um neutrutical recipe they want to keep
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those cultures alive you can't cook it
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right so you you're very limited in how
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you can dry it so drying it under vacuum
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means that you're drying it while it's
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really cold and then you retain those
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things the strangest things that I've
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heard of freeze drying are whole pets
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right where people want they they're
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just they they love this pet they want
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to like put it in a case and like look
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at it for a long time it's like a
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different form of taxiderermy i don't
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know I wouldn't do that to my pet but
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people will do that so whole pet that's
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that's something um now speaking of
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taxiderermy I mean humans die as well so
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if you were going to freeze dry a body
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part what would you freeze dry well I
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have heard of placentas being
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freeze-dried so that people can cuz some
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women uh want to consume their placenta
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to get that nutrient content back into
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their body culturalware awareness in
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certain cultures this is a thing so well
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how do you preserve a
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placenta long enough to consume it over
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time one way is to freeze dry it because
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the the nutrient content will be
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retained there's a guy in Idaho who uh
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is freeze drying a certain product that
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he's going to be bringing to market it's
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grown in certain areas of the of the
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world and he wanted to test to see what
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the nutrient content uh retention is
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because he's tried all different methods
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of drying air drying spray drying
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grinding sunlight all all of it and and
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there's all a a serious degradation of
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the nutrient content and he just got his
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results back from he had it sent to the
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University of Utah for um nutrient
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content analysis and it he said it was
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outstanding as in greater than 90 98%
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nutrient content retention wow so that's
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one of the reasons why you would want to
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spray or freeze dry as opposed to spray
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dry or air dry something that's going to
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go into a neutrautical because the whole
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point is to consume that nutrient
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content or for like a placenta placenta
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is kind of a strange yeah I've heard
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people freeze drying plasma yeah that
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makes sense uh freeze drying is widely
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used in the medical industries so
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medical freezering which is is called by
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a different name it's called
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liophilization has been used for many
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decades in fact the probably the number
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one user of freeze dryers in the world
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is medical applications almost every
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um many many medicines are are
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freeze-dried at some point and also uh
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the the detectors so when we were all at
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home doing our our our home tests for
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COVID all those little sensor strips
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that are in those uh testing kits those
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are all freeze-dried at one point why is
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that i don't know um it has something to
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do with preserving the
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chemical the integrity of the chemicals
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involved um but they didn't share the
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information as to why they're freeze
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drying it but just that they are so
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there's there's company in in Utah that
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has many many freeze dryers that that's
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all they do is just these detector
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sensing strips and that's all
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because the chemicals that are on that
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strip that then would give you a blue or
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double blue line uh it needs to those
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chemicals need to be preserved otherwise
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they would like react they would react
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and expire yeah yeah so there's this
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rule of thumb in in chemistry that if
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you raise the temperature of your
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chemical reaction by 10Β° C the reaction
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rate will double so if you go from 0
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degrees to 10Β° you've doubled your
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reaction rate if you go from 10Β° to 20Β°
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you've doubled it again so uh when if
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you're drying it at say uh 100Β° C you
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can have a very very fast reaction rate
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and that can destroy lots of things so
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the lower temperature you do it at and
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minus40 degrees C is pretty low you can
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actually preserve things you can stop
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the chemical reactions from happening
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yeah I mean not stop but you can slow
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them down to the point where it's
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negligible this is just a small snippet
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of my full-on conversation with Gan it's
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over an hour long so I broke it up into
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different parts so if you want to check
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out more parts and different topics to
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learn more about freeze drying check out
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the video description below i've got
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links to those different sections now
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videos are all well and good but if you
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want to be more connected in person with
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people who are in the freezering space
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right now as entrepreneurs and business
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owners but also people like Gan who are
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experts who want to help you you can
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attend the freezedried summit in 2025 in
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Boisee Idaho this is an event that I'm
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personally hosting through this channel
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i've connected all different types of
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entrepreneurs and suppliers who can help
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equip you to start a freeze drying
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business but also to grow your existing
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one through different methods and
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equipment that could really help advance
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your freeze-drying business so if you're
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interested go to freeze-driedsummit.com
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the link below is in the video
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description and if you're watching this
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after 2025 still go to freeze-dried
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summit because that is going to show you
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other freeze drying events that will
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happen in the future all right the
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thumbnails coming up next all feature
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things related to Jean and our interview
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so check those out i'll see you there
