Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Dhru Purohit" channel.

  1. I think this interview would have been better if the interviewer had interrupted less. Not only interrupting, he would cut the doctor short and speak at length. We are here for the interview not to listen to the interviewer speak. I've seen this tendency before but it was pronounced in this interview. Dhru is a good interviewer and an intelligent person. It would be better if he would resist the temptation to make himself the subject of the interview.
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  2. No, he is saying to stay away from sugar. Sugar in general is a processed food. It is a concentrated food. You should not be eating sugar. White sugar, liquid sugars, these things should be stayed away from. You can have a little bit every now and then but sugar should not be part of your daily diet.
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  3. Take what Jeff says with a grain of salt. He is absolutely right about seed and grain oils being unhealthy and pro-inflammatory. But, and this is the important caveat, he is here to sell his product. His company manufactures a replacement for those oils. They call it cultured oil and their claim is that it is much healthier. He is offering his laboratory manufactured replacement for pro-inflammatory hexane processed vegetable and seed oils but there is no need for a replacement oil. We should not be ingesting processed oils in the first place other than in extreme moderation. Use butter, ghee, avocado and olive oil in moderation if you can get good products and animal fat from pasture raised animals where possible. We don't need a replacement vegetable oil, what we need is to eat real food, not laboratory created pseudo products that are allegedly better for us. In 50 years we'll know whether his product is okay to eat or not but don't be the guinea pigs. It doesn't matter much if his product ends up being less harmful. It isn't going to be better or healthier than real food. Eat real food, use healthy sources of fat and leave the frankenfoods behind.
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  4. I felt the same way I'm watching this and he's saying repeatedly that nobody has to get this terrible condition but he doesn't say what to do to prevent it. A little bit frustrating, I agree.
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  5. ​ @Mamakiera That's just not accurate. Most vegetables contain anti-nutrients that interfere with our ability to absorb what we need from food. We did not evolve to eat them other than seasonally in small amounts. The fruit we have available to us now has been modified to have more fructose in it. We should not be eating it. It is picked green and shipped across the world. When you pick fruit green it has more oxalates and other anti-nutrients in it. We eat this genetically modified fruit, grown in soil that has been contaminated with pesticides and we eat it all year long. No, that's not what we should be eating. If you can get some organic seasonal fruit that has not been bred for excess fructose, then eat that. Seasonally only. If you have oysters for example you get a lot of zinc. If you have those same oysters with beans and corn you don't absorb any of the zinc. The anti-nutrients in those foods interfere with the absorption. All of the vitamins and nutrients in fruits and vegetables, they're there, but they aren't in bioavailable forms and we absorb it poorly. This is not the case for meat. I'm not saying that everyone has to be pure carnivore but your position that more is needed is inaccurate. I used to think the same way, I'm not faulting you, I don't think you are commenting in bad faith but unfortunately you don't have it entirely right.
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  6. Do you think you might be someone who would benefit from a completely different diet? A carnivore or keto or keto adjacent diet for example? It's really interesting how we can find on this channel and on similar channels diametrically opposed approaches. One approach says no eggs, no dairy, minimal meat eat lots of complex carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables. The other approach says these things are not ideal, we should instead eat grass-fed meat, pasture raised eggs, grass-fed dairy, butter, ghee and stay away from most vegetables and fruit. I think there are people who benefit from both approaches and those who benefit from one but not the other. I wish this channel or other similar channels would go into the question of which approach is best and how can we determine for ourselves which approach is best for us. I guess we experiment on ourselves, we try the first approach and if it doesn't work we try the second. Both agree that added sugars, processed vegetable seed oils and processed food in general are very bad. We all agree on that but beyond that is the correct approach to keep carbohydrates low and do a clean keto or clean keto adjacent diet or is it best to keep meat, eggs and dairy to a minimum and eat lots of vegetables. Dr Robert Lustig says feed the gut, protect the liver and you can do that with either approach. This matters a lot to me because I have sustained a tremendous amount of trauma and I want some of those years back, knowing which diet is correct is very important and like you, I don't know which approach is the right one. It's impossible to get this information from our mainstream medical providers because they are here to prescribe medications and most of them haven't learned anything about nutrition. People like Dr Ken Berry will tell you that there is one correct diet for humans and that diet is closer to carnivore for him. I don't think that's right for everyone. It would be ideal to find providers who can analyze an individual's unique system, their microbiome, their genetics, what they've gone through and based on that determine which diet is correct for that person.
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  7. Let's not focus on calories too much. Calorie counting has been the meat and potatoes of the diet industry in the US. It can be a helpful shorthand but ultimately not useful and potentially damaging when it becomes the sole focus. When you eat 120 calories of almonds for example, to quote Dr Lustig, how many of those calories do you actually get the benefit of? 90? The rest is fiber that your gut uses. We are not bomb calorimeters. Different foods are utilized differently by our bodies. We don't get the same calorie value from a food that a bomb calorimeter would. For that reason counting calories can be useful to get a very (very) rough estimate but it shouldn't be our sole focus. Instead We should eat real food until we are full and then stop. It is very difficult to overeat steak or salmon or eggs for example. But it is easy to overeat processed foods whether those processed foods are conventional or so-called healthy vegetarian or vegan processed foods. Don't eat potato chips but also don't eat cassava chips. Most processed foods are engineered to bypass the body's satiety mechanisms. They are made that way on purpose in order to sell more product. Andreas mentioned chicken breast. I wouldn't focus on chicken breast because it is low fat and not enjoyable to eat unless you combine it with other things. The food we eat should be delicious. You should enjoy it so that when you are eating the experience is a positive one rather than a chore. Steak is delicious but when you are full, you are full. If someone offers you more steak when you're full, you become nauseous. But if you are offered a cookie or a scoop of your favorite ice cream you have room because those foods bypass satiety. Intermittent fasting is important for almost everyone. The only people who shouldn't intermittent fast are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children and growing teens. Or someone with an eating disorder. The rest of us need intermittent fasting. It is what our bodies evolved to do. We aren't meant to eat every few hours, doing so damages our metabolism. I use an app that tracks when and what I eat every day. It gives me an approximate caloric value but the more important part is tracking carbs and intermittent fasting. I won't always use it but for the moment it is helpful and a way to keep myself motivated. Do whatever works for you. If counting calories works, do that. Always remember that whatever the calorie count is it won't be accurate. If it counts 120 calories for macadamia nuts you are actually getting about 90 of those calories (remember the rest goes to our gut, that's where the fiber goes). If it counts 20 calories for spinach you are getting almost nothing. But if it counts 200 calories for a donut, you are getting all of those and then some because of the insulin response. You can do clean keto, carnivore,s vegan or vegetarian with some work. Eat foods that don't come in packages with lists of ingredients. Everything we eat should be spoilable. It shouldn't be something that can sit on a shelf for months or years. Avoid processed foods and added sugars, there are 63 or 64 different types of added sugar in processed food at last count. Avoid pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils. Eat once or twice a day and then stop and let your body rest. You don't have to be in ketosis although you might want to be sometimes, the important thing is having the metabolical flexibility to use fat as an energy source. Read Dr Jason Fung's books. Read Dr Robert Lustig's books. Watch good videos. Eat good food. Take care of yourselves and be healthy.
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  8. ​ @jerryjames5701  The fact that someone wants to be able to check the relevant parts of a video when that video is 2 hours long does not equate to them wanting a pill and an easy solution. I have watched the entire video and a lot of it is repetition and not entirely necessary verbiage. Some people don't have 2 hours of their day to dedicate to watching a video. That doesn't mean that they don't prioritize their health. The fact that they're here in the first place suggest that they do. Be less snarky and unkind.
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  9. I think you mean the prior president? Trump right? Or are you confused?
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  10. I love Dr Seyfried but I disagree that a quarter pounder or a Domino's Pizza tastes good. I wouldn't tremble when eating a quarter pounder because I wouldn't eat it. I know that the meat comes from cows raised in concentrated animal feeding operations. I know that the bread is sickly sweet. I know that the vegetables are not organic. And I know that it isn't delicious. I love sweets. I love gelato and I love to bake and make delicious food. But 99% of what I eat is whole foods. If I really want some sweets I will have some but I will make it myself and I will fast for longer the next day. I don't get the idea that fast food is good. It doesn't taste good to me, it tastes artificial and wrong. I love bread but if I'm going to have some bread I want to have some crusty sourdough baked in a real bakery not adulterated with sugar or corn syrup. When we eat real food most of the time we really do lose the attraction to most processed foods. That doesn't mean we lose the attraction to sugar, we don't. As he said we have evolved to seek it out but fast food is not food and I don't want to eat it. When I pass by a McDonald's or other fast food restaurant I don't feel a sense of longing. When I pass by a bakery I do but I can control it. If I want pizza I'm going to make the pizza dough myself and make an amazing pizza. It won't be healthy but it won't be as bad as a Domino's pizza might be. And I won't eat it more than once in a few months.
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  11.  @sylviaemberton6489  Dr Lustig talks about that too. Sugar is a food in its natural form, sugar cane. You can chew on a piece of sugar cane for an hour and extract a minimal amount of sugar. The way we process it and concentrate it turns it into a toxin. I think you would really enjoy Dr Lustig's talks on sugar and fructose in general. You are probably already aware of them but if not do a search on YouTube for sugar, the bitter truth and Dr Robert Lustig He's also written a couple of very good books.
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  12. Citing the American Heart Association does not inspire confidence. The American Heart Association was behind the move to hydrogenated fats and omega-6 fats. In 1948 Proctor and Gamble sponsored the “Walking Man” radio contest with the American Heart Association as beneficiary allowing them to go national with a $1.75 million dollar windfall. The American Heart Association then went on to endorse Crisco and the rest is history. Getting enough Omega 3 fats is not difficult. Wild caught salmon is a great source and one of the most nutritious foods you can eat. Mackerel, sardines, pasture raised eggs, walnuts and failing all of that you can take a tablespoon of cod liver oil every couple of days (or a couple of teaspoons on a daily basis. You can take a tablespoon everyday but you don't want to get too much vitamin A) Put the open bottle in the fridge! Use it within a couple of months. Don't get it go rancid. And cut down on the omega-6. Do not use what the industry refers to as "vegetable oil." Avoid it like the plague it is. If the oil in your pantry came from something that isn't naturally oily, don't use it. If it required hexane to remove, don't use it. I don't use coconut oil because I don't like the flavor, but I do use olive oil. Butter. Duck fat that I have in the fridge from the last time I rendered some. Ghee. Avocado oil in a pinch. There are so many ways to cook salmon. I know it's expensive, but it's an investment in your health. Find ways to cook wild caught salmon and eat it a few times a week. Spend more on pasture raised eggs. Get some high quality cod liver oil if you aren't going to eat salmon several times a week. Try to get a good amount of omega-3s on a daily basis. If an authority has ties to industry, if they are supported in whole or in part by those industries, view their advice with skepticism.
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  13. A ketogenic or carnivore diet. Ketones can cross the blood brain barrier in an insulin resistant brain. There has been success bringing people back and improving their cognitive function on a ketogenic diet, for some it has to be strict carnivore. If you use these as search terms you'll find lots of information on YouTube and articles, books written on the topic.
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  14.  @emh8861  That's not accurate. I understand that's what you have been taught but it's important to be open to information that contradicts what we believe. The fruits and vegetables that we have access to today are not what our ancestors ate. A banana today has three to four times more fructose in it than a naturally occurring banana did even 100 to 150 years ago. Fruit is now bred for sweetness, it is bred to increase the amount of fructose in it. Only the liver can break down fructose. We evolved to eat fruit seasonally in small amounts. Now we eat this extra sweet fruit 12 months out of the year. That is a problem. It's also important to recognize that when we pick fruit green there is more oxalates and anti-nutrients in that fruit. Our ancestors did not pick green fruit and ship it across the globe. When they came across ripe fruit, they ate it seasonally. We eat fruit that is picked green, shipped across the globe, bred for excess sweetness, everyday of the year. Do you see how this is different? The same is true for vegetables. Vegetables can be an adjunct to meals they should not be the actual meal itself. We cannot break down fiber. People with bowel and stomach issues benefit from an absence of fiber. It's also important to recognize that the cellular path that uptakes vitamin C competes with glucose. That means if you are eating carbohydrates you need more vitamin C, if you're not eating carbohydrates you get sufficient vitamin C from the animal foods in your diet, specifically meat. I recognize that you have been taught as I was based on what was commonly understood to be truth. Unfortunately much of it is not. It is outside the scope of this comment for me to go into the reasons for the inaccurate dietary information if you are interested I can point you in the direction of some good resources. All of us react in some way to fruits and vegetables. Some of us can eat them in moderation if we eat them carefully and seasonally. Others cannot. We vary but it's important to be aware of the differences between the fruits and vegetables our ancestors ate and what is available to us now. If someone is willing to take the time as I just did to explain, it would be useful for you to take the time to consider it.
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  15. It doesn't and it shouldn't and don't buy the product. Jeff is right that pro-inflammatory omega-6 heavy oils should be avoided. The solution to that is not to sell a laboratory created oil, the solution is to eat real food and avoid vegetable oils.
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  16. @Eric I think you should post your comment on its own rather than as a reply to someone else's comment so that more people will see it. You made some very good points and as many people as possible should read what you wrote. It also matters where the saturated fat comes from. Does it come from grass-fed beef or does it come from a cow that was raised in a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). Grass-fed beef and the fat that comes from it are anti-inflammatory. But animals raised in CAFOs are fed a species inappropriate diet, they are crowded together, they get sick as a result of their diet and stress, they are then fed antibiotics to combat these illnesses. The meat from these animals is not anti-inflammatory. It's better than eating processed carbohydrates but it is not ideal. It's important to eat healthy food. Grass-fed beef and pasture raised eggs. I've lived in other countries and nowhere other than in the US do people expect healthy food to be cheap. The only people that benefit from treating animals as horrifically as we do are the corporations. The animals suffer and we suffer too. Support farms that raise healthy animals. Eat real food but eat real food that is ethically and sustainably raised. If that means spending more money, so be it. I would rather eat less than eat food that comes from animals that were treated horribly and in turn create food that is not healthy for us.
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  17.  @glenmorse9533  Respectfully, Glen, you are in the wrong and have not thought this through. I know people aren't often persuaded when they are told bluntly that they are wrong but I think in this situation it is necessary. Your basis for trusting him is the fact that he looks healthy and has succeeded in a business endeavor? Please reconsider. If that's all it takes for you to ingest an unproven substance, the fact that the person standing to benefit financially tells you that it's okay and they look healthy, that does not bode well. Jeff is in his 30s, if he eats a moderately decent diet, exercises and gets good sleep of course he'll look healthy. Jeff saw an opportunity in the marketplace. I'll concede that he is genuinely concerned about processed vegetable and seed oils but his answer was not to use his influence and business to encourage people to eat real food. His solution was to manufacture another frankenfood, another ultra processed product and offer it in the stead of existing processed products. Why are you okay with that? Of course, we live in a capitalistic society with hardly any checks and balances, people like him want to make a lot of money in order to gain tremendous influence and power. All of that mitigates against trust not for trust. The CEO of a corporation that manufactures a product is not a trustworthy source of information. He wants you to buy his product. He wants your money for his product. The fact that he is charming and healthy in appearance and affect should not influence your decision. It is proven that real food is healthy for us to eat. Not animals that are raised in CAFOs, not eggs from chickens living in crowded factory farms, but food from animals that are raised in natural conditions. Pasture raised eggs, dairy from grass-fed cows, and meat from grass-fed animals. On the topic of Omega-3 versus Omega-6, meat from pasture raised animals is much higher in Omega-3. When they are grain-fed the meat has no Omega-3 and instead has Omega-6. Why would I purchase and ingest a laboratory created oil when I can eat real food? Avocados are a source of healthy fat, you don't have to use avocado oil you can eat an avocado. Wild caught salmon. Animal fats from animals that are raised in a healthy and sustainable manner. Seasonal fruits and vegetables for those who enjoy them. I'm not going to enter the discussion on carnivore because that's a separate topic and I don't have a lot to contribute other than carnivore works for some people and eating seasonal fruits and vegetables works well for others. I've spent more time than I probably should have responding, I hope you are able to take it to heart and reconsider your position.
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  18.  @sailorman8668  Sugar is more of a problem than other carbohydrates. First, only the liver can process fructose, every other cell in the body can use glucose. Simple table sugar is 50% fructose. Much of the sugar added to processed food is fructose. There are at last count 65 different names for added sugar in processed food, many of them derived from fructose. This is a tremendous problem and a primary cause behind the epidemic of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) in children and adults. Dr Robert Lustig has written about this at length. If you are not someone who enjoys books, he has lots of videos on the topic as well. It isn't simply sugar, it is which sugar and what the body does with it. Of course it would be better to get rid of all of it but one form of it is acutely toxic and crucial to address. When approaching people who are new to a topic it is often better to start with one change versus telling them that they have to overhaul their entire diet. A demand for a huge change is likely to be rejected. I wonder what is behind your attitude. Why would you take the approach that the person you're responding to doesn't understand and only you are there to enlighten them? What is behind the overt condescension verging on outright rudeness? I generally don't take the time to respond to people with your approach but in the interests of clarification and for anyone else reading these comments I will this time. To begin with, my comment wasn't addressing the entire issue, I was responding to something Dhru said. He restated Dr Seyfried's position inaccurately. That is why I did not go into the entire issue with all of its confounding factors. I'll do a little of that now. Most Americans are not metabolically healthy. In the 70s people were eating processed food but they were still eating three meals a day, not eating from the time they woke up until bedtime. Dr Jason Fung discusses this in numerous videos and books. You can eat some processed food as long as you aren't eating it around the clock. It's better to avoid it entirely but in the 70s people ate it and were still generally healthy. Can you eat some pasta? Yes, if you're metabolically healthy you can have some pasta with your salmon or steak or whatever healthy protein you happen to be eating. Healthy fats, including saturated fats are important too. Sugar is okay in moderation depending on the rest of your diet. You can have a slice of cake at a celebration as long as you don't have it at every meal. Americans eat dessert routinely for breakfast. Cereals with sugar in them, Pop-Tarts, pastries, all of the processed breakfast foods, many of them aimed at children, all of these are in effect dessert. The same is true for simple carbohydrates. You can have a sandwich as long as you aren't eating Pop-Tarts or cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, low fat muffins mid-morning since you are hungry again (the low fat craze is a factor in all of this) sugar sweetened coffee and sodas throughout the day and then processed food at dinner time. It is the entirety of the issue. Pivoting a moment to low fat, Ancel Keys has a lot to answer for. When President Eisenhower had his heart attack in 1955, Ancel Keys was in part tasked with determining what was behind the problem with the American diet. A lot has been written about the Seven Countries study. To summarize, it was a lot of cherry picked data that confused mild correlation with causation and ignored the many countries that did not fit his hypothesis. The result of the study was our food pyramid with its emphasis on carbohydrates. Keys believed that dietary fat, particularly saturated fat, was responsible for heart disease. He was wrong. His contemporary, Professor John Yudkin, author of Pure White and Deadly did his best to be heard and provided evidence that sugar was the primary culprit. He had written several books on low carb as a means of losing weight and was extremely well respected for a time. He criticized Ancel Keys' study because he knew Keys was wrong and that the recommendations he was implementing were going to do great harm. Unfortunately Ansel Keys had a lot more power and the result of the conflict was Professor Yudkin being relegated to what Dr Lustig has termed the dust bin of history. I'm glad that Professor Yudkin's reputation is being restored, particularly in light of current research. The food pyramid, based on bad research as it was, demonized dietary fat and replaced it with carbohydrates. When you process food and take the fat out you have to put something in and that something is invariably a form of sugar. The result of all of this was a food pyramid that rejected healthy dietary fat and promoted carbohydrates. Processed food was becoming more common and the companies making these foods endeavored to provide people with what they wanted, and what they wanted was low fat. That meant higher sugar. All of this became a perfect storm and led to the mess we have now. People grew up being told to eat every few hours, that this was necessary "for their metabolism." They ate processed foods but they ate low fat! They thought low fat was good but when you eat low fat and high sugar you are effectively on an insulin roller coaster (leading to metabolic disease and eventually diabetes) where you are hungry all the time and eat every few hours. They would eat a low fat muffin or some cookies mid-morning. Then lunch with more of the same, then an afternoon snack, then dinner then a night time snack. All of it low in saturated fat and high in processed carbohydrates and pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils. We got rid of trans fats but pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils are almost as bad in the amounts they are eaten. And the fact that they are unstable and prone to oxidization is an additional problem. Eating this way has resulted in an epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, and there is increasing evidence that it is also responsible for the increase in Alzheimer's disease. So much so that Alzheimer's is now referred to as type 3 diabetes. What you seem to be confused about to borrow some of your attitude, is that there have been societies where people have eaten tremendous amounts of carbohydrates and been very healthy. It isn't the simple fact of the carbohydrate, it has to do more with the entire food environment. When you eat, how much you eat, whether the food is processed or not. A person who eats a lot of processed food with its load of fructose, glucose and pro-inflammatory seed oils is not going to be someone who can healthily eat a bowl of rice or cereal because their carbohydrate load is already too high. They are already metabolically sick. I ended up spending more time on this than I had planned to. I also edited out a lot of the irritation I felt at your condescension. If that was your goal, to provoke, you succeeded but I'm not sure why you would want to do that. What do you gain from it? Perhaps next time you might consider that the person you are responding to does indeed know what they are talking about and instead of sneering you might ask a question to clarify.
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  19. Yes and no. He's right on the money with regard to the dangers of highly processed grain and seed oils but he is not on the money with regard to his solution, a laboratory created product called cultured oil that he is here to sell. It's interesting that you would say right on the money because that's the point. He is here to make money. Don't buy his product, don't use his oil, don't use vegetable seed or grain oils particularly highly processed ones. Instead eat real food. Butter, ghee, avocado and olive oil in moderation assuming you have access to products that are not adulterated and animal fats from animals that are pasture raised. There is no need for a new franken food, he's here to make money.
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  20. Three small bites! Imagine that. Only three small bites and after fasting for 24 hours you are full and stuffed. Please stop. No one is full when they are very hungry from three small bites of anything. No matter how dense or satiating a food is three small bites is not going to do it. I understand this is exaggeration and hyperbole but it's also silly.
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  21. It doesn't matter that he looks healthy, that's a terrible reason to trust someone or to consider purchasing a product. He's right that highly processed vegetable and seed oils are very unhealthy for a variety of reasons. His solution though? His solution is to manufacture another franken food, he calls it cultured oil and he claims that it is much healthier than any other processed vegetable oil that comes in a bottle! Maybe but why would anyone replace real food with another laboratory manufactured pseudo food? Eat real food. Don't eat foods that are manufactured in laboratories. There are great sources of fat there that have been proven healthy such as butter, ghee, olive oil and avocado oil in moderation assuming you have access to an unadulterated source, animal fats from animals that are pasture raised. Eat those sources of fat and leave the bottled oils behind including this newest entry that Jeff is hoping to become very rich from selling.
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  22.  @bugsy1254  I agree, I'm not sure where people are disagreeing on this topic though. When we stop eating processed foods when we stop eating every few hours, when we eat meat and avoid carbohydrates, the visceral fat disappears quickly. Some movement is also good.
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  23.  @maryhumphreys2931  probably the carnivore people generally speaking. Plants contain anti-nutrients, eating some plant foods in moderation is probably fine for most people but most modern fruit has been bred for excess sweetness, for more fructose in the fruit. We evolved to eat fruit seasonally and now we eat it 12 months of the year.
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  24.  @glenmorse9533  Thank you for the lovely response. I did put time into it because I don't want anyone to eat a laboratory processed oil over healthy real food. I'm also a sugar addict in the sense that I love ice cream. I bake too, I usually don't eat what I bake but I still love making delicious things for people to eat in moderation. I believe that Jeff is trying to do something good when he warns against the dangers of pro-inflammatory vegetable and seed oils. But I'm not convinced that his laboratory created alternative is a lot better. It might be better than processed pro-inflammatory oils but better yet avoid all of them. He stands to make a lot of money from people adopting his alternative. I hope it ends up being healthier but I would rather he put his time into educating people and promoting real food. How is carnivore working out for you? I was thinking about going in that direction based on everything I've been reading.
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  25. The problem with a lot of modern fruits though is that they have been bred to increase sugar. The fruits that we eat now are not the original fruits that nature created. Not addressing that is a problem. I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't eat any fruit but it's important to acknowledge how we have selectively bred fruit to increase the sugar content not the factors in it that are healthy for us.
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  26. Is there any protein in the potato salad? Do you eat any protein with it? That's part of it. If all you're eating for lunch is potato salad then it is not ideal because you're getting a lot of carbohydrate. If you are otherwise metabolically healthy, and you know you are metabolically healthy for a certainty, eating potatoes occasionally is fine as long as you eat them with some fat and protein to slow down the insulin spike. That is a very general answer, everyone differs and a lot of it depends on how often you eat, how many meals a day you eat, whether you do intermittent fasting, whether you eat protein with your potato salad, how often you eat potato salad and a host of other things. Generally having some potato salad occasionally will be fine if you are metabolically healthy.
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  27. According to the carnivore people fiber is not only not necessary but actively damaging. The anti-nutrients in vegetables create a burden in our systems. Why does this doctor think that we should eat lots of colorful fruits and vegetables?
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  28.  @barbarafairbanks4578  I'm sorry this information is not entirely accurate. There is no benefit to eating early in the day. Naturally we have no desire to eat in the morning as our ghrelin is at its lowest then. You can eat a protein forward meal at 1:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. There does not seem to be anything suggesting that it is necessary to eat heavily early in the day. If your body is not hungry it is telling you to not eat. Forcing yourself to eat a protein heavy breakfast when your body isn't interested in food is wrong.
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  29. The excess fat is what keeps you healthy. If you're eating lots of lean protein and not getting sufficient amounts of animal fat that's the problem. Fat doesn't make us fat, carbohydrates do. My A1C was 4.4. I don't go out of my way to eat lots of fat but I do eat it on the steak, I use butter with my eggs, full fat cheese, occasionally some full fat yogurt obviously without any sugar added.
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  30. There are other videos that provide that information but if you want a summary I can give you one. Avoid UPF. UPF stands for ultra processed food. If it comes in a plastic wrapper and has a paragraph of ingredients, if it's in the center aisles in the supermarket it is probably not food. Ultra processed food is not food. Eat real food. Grass-fed meat, eggs from pasture raised chickens. Wild caught fish. Organic fruits and vegetables. You don't need a lot of fruit in your diet. A little bit is fine. Dairy if you are not intolerant to it but always from grass-fed cows if possible. The reason we want grass-fed dairy and grass-fed meat is because they have omega-3 whereas meat raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where they are fed grain and not able to graze is pro-inflammatory. A couple of eggs in the morning with butter made into an omelette with some vegetables or cheese. Half an avocado with lemon juice squeezed on it and salt is delicious. That's a good sustaining meal. For dinner 4 to 6 oz of grass-fed beef, pasture raised chicken, fish, any meat that is raised healthily. Some vegetables, a little bit of carbohydrate if and only if you are metabolically healthy. If you've been eating processed food, fast food prepackaged food stay away from grains for a while. Intermittent fasting is good for most of us. A pregnant woman or nursing mother or a younger person still growing do not have to do intermittent fasting but the rest of us benefit from it. Letting our insulin levels drop is healthy because it allows our body to burn stored body fat. There's so much more information but I'm trying to offer you a summary so you can decide what you need to learn more about. The most important thing is to eat real food and avoid packaged foods, processed foods, fast food and foods with pro-inflammatory oils in them. Eat healthy fats. Healthy fats are animal fats that come from grass fed animals, olive oil, butter from grass-fed cows. Do not eat canola oil, or any of the other ultra processed oils. They are not stable and they are pro-inflammatory. Some good resources are Dr Jason Fung, Dr Robert Lustig and Sten Ekberg is also useful. They are all here on YouTube. The first two are medical doctors and Sten Ekberg is a chiropractor. Dr Fung and Dr Lustig both have written books. I would start with Dr Robert Lustig's video on sugar, if you look for it here on YouTube search for Sugar the Bitter Truth. It's a good introduction to why sugar is so dangerous and inflammatory. It's an older video but the best possible introduction. Read labels. Read labels. Read labels. If you see items in the list of ingredients of any food that you don't recognize as food, don't eat it. Familiarize yourself with the over many different names for added sugar. If a food has added sugar in it, generally avoid it. There are some exceptions but it's a good general rule. The reason they don't just list foods to avoid eating is because people learn better when they understand the reason for something. If you genuinely understand why something is damaging or dangerous you are much more likely to avoid it. You don't get that by just being told don't eat this, do eat that. It's worth putting the time in to learn and understand. This is the most important thing you can do for your health. Take the time to read and research and learn. If you have any specific questions I would be happy to answer them.
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  31.  @solomonsalsberg5961  Hi Solomon, what kind of cuisine do you cook? I was interested in becoming a chef but I went to law school for various reasons but primarily to protect people. I love cooking and baking though and learning how to do that healthily. I think the key is to not use pro-inflammatory oils at all and to try to avoid cooking in such a way that they become overheated when they are used. Ghee is an option. It's a wonderful cooking fat that many Americans are not familiar with but I have learned to appreciate. We can make our own ghee at home, it isn't difficult starting with a quality butter..For low heat cooking butter is terrific. Avocado oil has a high smoke point. When we start using peanut oil or canola oil we get into the realm of ultra processed that are ideally to be avoided. There are good animal fats that can be purchased here from grass fed animals. And there are some high quality cold pressed oils. I don't use the same oil more than once. But I don't run a restaurant and I don't deep fry anything. I think people are interested and would be even more interested if they knew how dangerous pro-inflammatory oils are. Unfortunately in this country people expect cheap food and they want it available fast. There is a problem with education and the corporate interests that benefit tremendously from selling these foods aren't interested in people knowing how bad they are. Please don't say blah blah no one cares. I don't think it's a lack of caring so much as a lack of knowledge. Those who have that knowledge have a responsibility to share it and that includes you too! Particularly as a chef.
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  32.  @scowi3  That's why I stay away from processed food in general. 99% of the things in my grocery cart are what most people would regard as ingredients. Other than some beef jerky because every now and then when I'm running around and I haven't eaten for 20 hours I might want a quick bite, everything is real food. No added sugars no added additives, no preservatives no binders no emulsifiers none of that. You make a good point!
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  33. @Senior Scientist  Hey, you're very welcome. I spent a few minutes on that reply, I was hoping to provide some beneficial information. Dr Jason Fung is a good resource, he's written several books and has a channel also. Similarly, Dr Robert Lustig offers good information without condescending to his audience. I would also recommend Sten Ekberg's channel. It depends on your understanding of the topic. Sten presents things in a way that I sometimes find a little clickbait-y but he cares very much and 95% of what he says is accurate. I've referred people to his channel and they have derived significant benefit from it. There is so much we can do that will affect our health positively. It doesn't guarantee that we won't get a terrible disease but it significantly lessens the chances and increases the likelihood of surviving it. Enjoy your grapes in moderation and take good care of yourself!
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  34. I don't think fast food tastes good though. I don't treble when I eat a quarter pounder because I wouldn't eat a quarter pounder. That stuff is not food. Bread doesn't taste good when it's sweet. I love good ice cream and sweets. I choose not to eat them almost all the time but I love them. Fast food though? Has no appeal for me because it doesn't taste good. It tastes like processed junk to me. I used to like it but it's been a long time since I've considered McDonald's to be food.
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  35.  @barbarafairbanks4578  information can be interpreted to support various propositions that are in the larger picture inaccurate. Don't eat a calorically restricted meal. When you eat, eat to satiety. Our desire to eat is at its lowest in the early morning. The hunger hormone, ghrelin is at its lowest at that time. Our bodies do not intend us to force food down our throats because a study was misinterpreted. One piece of information in a vacuum proves nothing. If this works for you, I wish you the very best with it but I have zero desire to sit down to eggs at 10:00 a.m. to do so would be to court nausea. Our bodies are intelligent, the problem with obesity and insulin resistance stems from eating too frequently, too much and unhealthy food. Resolving those issues is of primary importance. Let's not make a different mistake and tell people that they need to force themselves to eat a heavy meal which is somehow also calorically restricted?? right as they wake up. And yes, we should eat when we are hungry. The idea that you should force yourself to eat when you aren't hungry is ridiculous on its face. That is the problem here, people eat when they aren't hungry because they were told that the clock is magical and that they have to eat X number of times a day for their metabolism. That is just not accurate. Humans evolved eating once a day or once every few days. There is nothing magical about eating three or four or seven times a day or at a specific hour. Eat when you are hungry, eat when your body asks you for food. Not when you're bored, not when you're depressed, not when someone makes something delicious that appeals to you and not based on the clock. If you are hungry at 10:00 a.m. then of course eat at 10:00 a.m. If you are hungry at 3:00 p.m. eat at 3:00 p.m. It will be different for people in different stages of their life. A pregnant or breastfeeding woman might very well be hungry at 8:00 a.m. and at 11:00 a.m. and at 2:00 p.m. and at 4:00 p.m. and again at 7:00 and again at 9:00 because she is feeding a child. A growing teenager will need more nutrition than an adult in their 40s or 50s. And it might be different from one day to the next where someone is hungry earlier in the day on one day and not the next. But absolutely do not force food down your throat because a study that doesn't take all factors into consideration says that this is what you should do. Trust your body.
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  36. Why is my comment being removed again and again?
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  37.  @stephaniew4168  May I ask why you are eating rice and potatoes? Is it that you enjoy them? And the chocolate of course? I enjoy some chocolate every once in a while. I do have a drink once or twice a week but I practice strict intermittent fasting. Each day 16 hours no eating other than my late morning coffee with a little heavy cream. I eat one meal a day, sometimes an additional meal depending on if I'm hungry. I eat when I'm hungry, if I'm not hungry I do not eat. I get lots of healthy fats and protein. I don't eat fruit or vegetables other than rarely when they are seasonal, organic and not bred for additional sweetness. I think the key really is intermittent fasting. Letting your insulin drop so that your body can access storage fat, getting enough sleep is also important. Perhaps you might try a 30-day carnivore challenge with intermittent fasting? See if that drops it down lower, I am fairly certain it will.
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  38. That's not even true. Get rid of sugar and all processed food, all processed carbohydrates, most of the vegetables that have anti-nutrients and oxalates in them. Eat a primarily carnivore diet, fat as a macronutrient should comprise 60% at least of your intake in a given day. Your energy won't go down, it will go way up. Meat from grass-fed cows. Butter from grass-fed cows. Eggs from pasture-raised chickens. Eat once or at most twice a day until you are full and satisfied and then stop. If a person eats a lot of processed food they might need a week to transition to eating healthily but once there the energy increase is phenomenal. Look up Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr Paul Mason, Dr Georgia Ede.
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  39. The term "wellness product" makes me cringe. The term wellness in general is awful. Let's just call it what it is, health. As soon as we start talking about wellness we conjure up a slew of grifters starting with people like Gwyneth Paltrow (Goop) through many YouTube wellness personalities who will all happily sell you their overpriced garbage while trying to persuade you that it will make you healthy. Some of these people have been interviewed by this channel. You don't need special products to be healthy. You need to eat real food. Eat real food, not packaged processed junk regardless of what the label says. Get good sleep. Do something with your life that makes you feel like you are accomplishing something worth doing, if you can't do it for your work do it in your spare time. Feeling that we are helping others and doing something useful is important for mental and emotional well-being. It could be raising a family, it could be helping people in your community, do something that helps others. Get good sleep. This can't be emphasized enough. Sleep is incredibly important. Even if it doesn't seem useful, try to start meditating or adopt some kind of mindfulness practice. It can begin with laying in bed at night and breathing. It doesn't have to be complicated, it doesn't have to involve a yoga mat in someone's studio. So much of what we think we need is marketing. A health labeled product is almost by definition an oxymoron. If it's a labeled product rather than a whole food it isn't healthy. Eat real food, do something meaningful, get good sleep, some sort of mindfulness practice and show up every day. Learn things, try to practice kindness even when you don't feel kind as I frequently do not. Show up for people.
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  40.  @wilsont1010  there's no way I'm going to ingest canola oil. I don't care about the OSI index because I don't fry. If I need a cooking fat I will use ghee or butter or an animal fat. I do have avocado oil in the house and I use it sparingly and very rarely. We don't need pro-inflammatory omega-6 heavy oils in our diet regardless of what the index says. The index measures oxidative stability it doesn't address the issue of health, of whether the oil is good to eat. Canola oil is not good to eat.
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  41. @wilsont1010 If you are looking to troll this is not the place. People generally are looking for accurate information here. Canola oil has one of the lowest OSI. That doesn't mean it's healthy for several reasons that have already been discussed. In the prior comment, you said "Guess which oil has the lowest OSI index?" That was your question. I answered canola oil. You then turned around and said "no one is talking about canola oil." You were talking about canola oil. It was your question. Please don't do that, it's a waste of my time and of yours too. If you're going to ask a question expect an answer. When you get that answer it's not valid to pretend that you hadn't asked the question in the prior comment. I also don't understand the point in asking questions as though there was some mystery as to the answers. There is no one healthiest oil. We aren't playing Jeopardy. If you feel you have an answer to a question, offer it. Otherwise I'm going to assume that you don't know the answer. With regard to your question, there is no healthiest oil. It depends on what you're doing with that oil. If you're using it on a salad you want cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. If you are the very rare person who doesn't get sufficient omega-6 in their diet then it would be a different oil. If you are someone who, like most Americans, gets too much omega-6 there is no healthiest oil because they all have more omega-6 than omega-3. For that reason you would prefer a grass-fed animal fat, grass-fed butter or ghee. It goes without saying that the ghee should be made from grass-fed butter. I don't understand the combative approach. We are all here to get and share information. It isn't a competition, it isn't a game of Jeopardy neither is it the Socratic method for teaching a class of law students. Offering questions without answers and then sitting back and pretending that you didn't ask the question or asking questions that don't have good answers is not a good use of anyone's time. There is no one healthiest oil. There are better options depending on the use case. The fact that canola oil has a high oil stability index doesn't mean that it's a good oil to eat because it is very high in omega-6 and most canola oil on the market is ultra processed.
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  42. You know some of the things you were saying made sense up until the fatherless homes. You gave it away there. That's unfortunate. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things is not the same, remember that? Fatherless homes have nothing to do with the other issues you were citing. It outed you as an angry guy who blames women things that aren't their fault. If you're going to cite fatherless homes why not cite all the abuse done by men? It sounds like you've gone down some scary rabbit holes, I hope you find your way out.
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  43. Yes, they count as carbohydrates. There are three macronutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrates. Grapes are predominantly carbohydrates. That doesn't mean they are bad carbohydrates, they're certainly better than processed white bread for example but of course they are carbohydrates. The downside to grapes is the amount of fructose you are ingesting. It really depends on your health. If you are metabolically healthy you can have a few handfuls of grapes throughout the day. A serving of these grapes contains 14g of carbohydrates, primarily fructose. A serving is defined as 80g or about 2.8 oz. If you have a kitchen scale you can see approximately how much that is. It's not a lot. Fructose can only be broken down by the liver. Before the advent of processed food people with liver issues were generally alcoholics because alcohol can also only be broken down by the liver. Alcohol and fructose. Alcoholic fatty liver disease and lately non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the general population due to processed foods and increasing amounts of fructose. It's impossible to know if you are burdening your liver too much without knowing the rest of your diet and your general health status. For you to say that you don't care about getting cancer and that you're going to eat your grapes regardless is a little silly. Whether someone can eat grapes every day depends on the individual, their specific health status and the rest of their diet. You can be thin on the outside and still suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. If the rest of your diet contains a lot of healthy fats and protein, if this is the only place you are getting a lot of carbohydrates and fructose you should be fine. Intermittent fasting can also play a part. Do you eat every few hours or do you take a break and let your insulin levels drop naturally? Do you give your body a break for 16 to 18 hours a day? When we do that we let our bodies catch up. When we eat every few hours our bodies never get a break. For a healthy person who is eating a good diet, practicing some degree of intermittent fasting, eating enough healthy fats and protein, a couple of handfuls a day of grapes won't be an issue. If you're eating a pound or two of grapes every day and the rest of your diet isn't good, then it is probably something to reevaluate.
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  44.  @seniorscientist590  if you are indeed a senior scientist you will find the things I recommended interesting. I am a senior attorney, like you I don't post my real name. Privacy is important, especially online. I followed the conventional medical advice to eat lots of small meals, lots of carbohydrates and I ended up very overweight and unhealthy. I found Dr Jason Fung's first book, read it and that started me down the path to learning as much as I could. I had to undergo some surgeries and was unable to walk for a time. Now I am much healthier than I was 20 years ago in my 20s. I bike every day, I work out, and most of the time I don't crave sweets. When I do, when I really want something, I'll have it but it will be a rare occurrence. If you're working out and eating grapes instead of processed food you're already ahead of the game.
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  45. ​ @edsuttmann7889 Where did they say that they can't?
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  46.  @anneluck2626  do you eat enough fat? Or do you eat more protein and less healthy fats? We should be eating a lot of healthy animal fats, at least some from grass-fed meat. My A1C dropped to 4.4, it was much higher, so much so that they were talking about prescribing metformin for me. I eat meat, some small amount of vegetables but not every day, a good amount of butter from grass-fed cows. Some days I am 99% carnivore other days at 92 to 93% carnivore but I don't eat fruits that have been modified to increase the fructose in them, bananas for example. I eat once or twice a day, I have coffee in the morning, late morning with heavy cream. Every now and then I'll have something that I know is not ideal but then I go right back to it the next day.
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  47. It's not difficult to shrink your belly. Intermittent fasting, eating what we have evolved to eat. Meat ideally from grass-fed animals. Enough fat in our diet. Fat does not make us fat, it never did. Carbohydrates make us fat. Grain and seed oils are inflammatory. We should eat once or twice a day at most until we are full and then stop until the next day. Be careful of fruits and vegetables. The fruit we eat today bears no resemblance to what our ancestors ate. We eat it every day, they ate it only seasonally. We eat fruits that have been bred for extra sweetness, for more fructose, they ate fruit as it existed then without the extra fructose. We ship fruit across the globe and we eat it with pesticides and other chemicals. They ate a small amount of fruit, organic and seasonal only. The same is true with vegetables. Unfortunately we have to educate ourselves. It is necessary to point out that there are vested interests in us continuing to buy processed foods. It's capitalism, not paranoia. Companies want to continue to make money. It's as simple as that. You can get rid of belly fat permanently. It requires a commitment to educating ourselves and then adhering to what we have learned.
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  48.  @gabymalembe  It really is contingent on eating the right food. We have to get our body's set point lower and we do that with fasting and avoiding carbohydrates. Dr Jason Fung has a lot of good information on how to do this effectively. You can find his articles on Medium, he has written several books that were instrumental in me losing almost 160 lb and keeping it off for 9 years now. He has videos here on YouTube, a series of six based on his first book, The Obesity Code. I can't recommend him highly enough. His books were instrumental in me changing my life and health. I hope you take the time to read them, in particular the first book and his articles. And then share them with anyone who needs them. He isn't selling any products, he's not in this to make money, he's helped millions.
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  49.  @campbellpaul  Thank you for the courteous response, I really appreciate it. I'm going to copy a response I made to someone else, they were saying that they trust him and are going to purchase his product because he is healthy looking and credible. This is what I said (with some edits) Respectfully, you are in the wrong and have not thought this through. I know people aren't often persuaded when they are told bluntly that they are wrong but I think in this situation it is necessary. Your basis for trusting him is the fact that he looks healthy and has succeeded in a business endeavor?Please reconsider. If that's all it takes for you to ingest an unproven substance, the fact that the person standing to benefit financially tells you that it's okay and they look healthy, that does not bode well. Jeff is in his 30s, if he eats a moderately decent diet, exercises and gets good sleep of course he'll look healthy. He saw an opportunity in the marketplace. I'll concede that he is genuinely concerned about processed vegetable and seed oils but his answer was not to use his influence and business to encourage people to eat real food. His solution was to manufacture another frankenfood, another ultra processed product and offer it in the stead of existing processed products. Why are you okay with that? Of course, we live in a capitalistic society with hardly any checks and balances, people like him want to make a lot of money in order to gain tremendous influence and power. All of that mitigates against trust not for trust. The CEO of a corporation that manufactures a product is not a trustworthy source of information. He wants you to buy his product. He wants your money for his product. The fact that he is charming and healthy in appearance and affect should not influence your decision. It is proven that real food is healthy for us to eat. Not animals that are raised in CAFOs, not eggs from chickens living in crowded factory farms, but food from animals that are raised in natural conditions. Pasture raised eggs, dairy from grass-fed cows, and meat from grass-fed animals. On the topic of Omega-3 versus omega-6, meat from pasture raised animals is much higher in Omega-3. When they are grain-fed the meat has no omega-3 and instead has omega-6. Why would I purchase and ingest a laboratory created oil when I can eat real food? Avocados are a source of healthy fat, you don't have to use avocado oil you can eat an avocado. Wild caught salmon. Animal fats from animals that are raised in a healthy and sustainable manner. Seasonal fruits and vegetables for those who enjoy them. I'm not going to enter the discussion on carnivore because that's a separate topic and I don't have a lot to contribute other than carnivore works for some people and eating seasonal fruits and vegetables works well for others. I've spent more time than I probably should have responding, I hope you are able to take it to heart and reconsider your position. --- I really did spend too much time! But I feel a sense of responsibility. If we can persuade one person to avoid something dangerous, maybe we helped save a life, maybe we influenced someone in a way that benefits them.
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  50.  @barbarafairbanks4578  anyone who peppers their comments with as many emojis as you have can't be taken seriously. Bud? Grow up please Barbara. You have sat here in this comment section telling people that they have to eat before 10:00 in the morning because otherwise bad things will happen to them when that is patently untrue. As I have said a couple of times, if that works for you, if eating a large meal of protein before 10:00 a.m. works for you then go right ahead and do it but please don't advise others to follow. Anyone can cite studies. The same thing is true with statistics, you have to be very careful to ensure that information that appears persuasive is applicable. If you aren't hungry in the morning, don't force yourself to eat. No one should feel that they have to force themselves to eat a large protein meal before 10:00 a.m. That was the main point you were making, you were telling people that if they didn't eat a large protein forward meal before 10:00 a.m. that they could sustain muscle loss. That just isn't true. It isn't supported by the evidence. You said a couple of times that I was telling people what to do. Not at all, I explicitly stated that people should do what works best for them. If you are hungry at 10:00 a.m., eat at 10:00 a.m. I am not being prescriptive, you are. Between the emojis and condescension there isn't much of substance in your argument. You were looking to be rude and misinterpret what I was saying and you did exactly that. I'm not sure what you gained from it.
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  51.  @barbarafairbanks4578  anyone who feels the need to be as rude as you are doesn't have the right to respond to anyone.
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  52.  @stephaniew4168  I understand what you're saying. But if you are insulin resistant as you appear to be then perhaps it would be useful for you to stop eating rice and potatoes for a while. It could be good for you to give your system a break from those foods. Intermittent fasting is also very helpful in getting our A1C down. As I noted before, mine was high and then I started intermittent fasting, got rid of the carbohydrates and it is 4.4 now. Try eating once or twice a day, no snacks, give your body a chance to reset. You might try a strict carnivore diet. Dr Anthony Chaffee is a good resource for that and there are others. It's not only what you eat, it is the frequency of eating, it can be stress, lack of sleep, all of these things are factors. If you address them all you'll probably get it under control.
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  53.  @lilydauber3147  please don't offer inaccurate advice. Saturated fat has never been the problem, that has been debunked repeatedly. At the time that hypothesis was put forward by Ancel Keys in the 1940s and 1950s it was debunked. He was being paid by the sugar companies. His seven countries study was actually a 22 countries study. The other countries contradicted his hypothesis so he ignored them, he also ignored smoking and eating sugars and processed oils. The other countries disproved his hypothesis and instead proved that saturated fat was never the problem, that sugar and processed carbohydrates were the issue but that wasn't what he was being paid to promote. I assume this is something you're not aware of but it is dangerous to offer advice without being very sure that your advice is accurate. We need saturated fat in our diet, stay away from oxidized grain and seed oils. Any oil that is liquid at room temperature in a bottle in the supermarket is potentially a risk. Even olive oil unless you are very sure that it is genuinely cold pressed and hasn't been sitting there for months. Don't use olive oil with heat, the other processed oils should be stayed away from. Saturated fat is one of the healthiest things we can eat. It is stable, it doesn't oxidize and it is what we evolved to eat as humans. That flies in the face of what we've been taught but it is accurate. Please, for your own benefit, do your due diligence. Resist the impulse to assume that someone telling you something contrary to what you believe is wrong.
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  54. Saturated fat is fine as long as it comes from grass-fed animals. He did not differentiate between pro-inflammatory saturated fat and anti-inflammatory saturated fat. That is an important distinction to make.
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  55.  @anniematthew2608  I don't think anyone still owns a radio.
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  56.  @anniematthew2608  also what is the issue here? Why do you feel a need to defend the channel for not posting chapters and breaking it down to make it more accessible? Do you genuinely believe that it would not be helpful to offer chapters? Is it really your position that if someone wants information they have to get it in the most roundabout way possible? Your approach is not logical. It's useful to do things right. Posting chapters and breaking it down so that people can more easily access the information is a win-win. The channel gets more viewers and people are more easily able to access important information. Many of us work, have kids, have leisure activities, cook, clean, there isn't always time to sit for two to three hours in order to parse through information nor is there always time to listen to a radio or podcast for multiple hours. No one is asking for a several hour long video to be broken down into bullet points. There is a happy medium between that and a lengthy freeform interview where the information could be better organized. Again, it would benefit the channel also.
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  57. Someone wrote a comment criticizing Dr Fung for his appearance. He felt that Dr Fung looked like he had gained a few pounds. I wrote a response but when I tried to post it, the comment had been deleted. I hope it was deleted by the person who wrote it after they considered and realized it was an unfair statement rather than someone reporting it. The comment was wrong and unfair but the way to address something like that is to respond to it. Here is my response to that comment. Why would you attack on a personal level like that? Dr Fung has repeatedly stated that there is a time to feast and a time to fast. He has spoken about how eating this way allows for flexibility. I remember in one of his videos he talked about going on a cruise with his family. He said he ate the cruise food, had a great time and gained a few pounds. When he came back he fasted more and lost it. Feast and famine. He has never advocated for strict keto or for eating the same way all the time. The point of what he says is to be able to live a normal life. If you are at your parents house and they make conventional food, you can eat the food. If you go out to dinner or to a celebration, you can have a piece of the birthday cake. If you're on vacation, you don't count calories, you enjoy the vacation, you eat with your family and you have fun. That is the time for feasting. When you come back, then you fast. Is it your position that he shouldn't make videos if he has put on 5 lb? Is he only allowed to be seen in public after losing them? Why do you feel that it's appropriate to hold him to a higher standard than anyone else? Dr Fung is a supremely decent person who has put his career at risk time and time again to provide information to the public. He doesn't charge for access to his videos. You can read his books in the library. Everything he offers, he offers for free. Let's reiterate that because it's an important point. Everything Dr Fung offers, he offers freely in the spirit of helping people. Most of the other doctors and those calling themselves doctors on YouTube (an assortment of various PhDs and chiropractors) hawk some product, subscription or supplement. Dr Fung does none of that. Dr Fung has saved the lives of tens of thousands of people and transformed hundreds of thousands, If not millions of lives. At some point in the not distant future everything he is teaching will become standard. Often it is one of his videos that causes someone to start down the path of taking better care of themselves. I've shared his videos with dozens of people. When you start to learn about this, you want to learn more and there is always more to learn.
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  58. Please stop. Take the BS somewhere else. The mind is the ultimate healer? So you think you can eat McDonald's food three meals a day and if you have your mind in the right place you won't become diabetic? Wrong. The mind is important but the choices we make on a daily basis are extremely important and they trump the mind. I don't know who you've been listening to but please find better resources for your own health and well-being. More to the point, don't peddle rubbish to vulnerable people.
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  59.  @bridaw8557  I said the same thing you did but less courteously because I was annoyed. You're right, it is indeed more nuanced than that.
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  60.  @greco37  It is difficult to credit your question as being in good faith. My challenges with processed food? What does that mean? I don't have any challenges with regard to it because I stay away from it. Are you genuinely saying that you don't understand what the problems are with processed food? That you don't know that processed food is behind the epidemic of obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer and Alzheimer's? Processed food isn't food. Food supports health. Processed food doesn't. It supports disease. For many people in the US processed food comprises 70 to 80% of what they eat. Processed food is full of sugar, 64 different types at last count. It has pro-inflammatory oils and lacks real nutrition. Processed food is intended to bypass the body's satiety mechanisms in order to sell more. It causes an overwhelming insulin response which when repeated daily results in metabolic disease and eventually diabetes. This is the barest summary because I am not sure I understand your question. I don't eat processed food because I value my health. Does the mind matter? Of course it does. But can you fix the mind and eat a fast food or processed food diet and be healthy? No, you can't. Suggesting otherwise is dangerously irresponsible and delusional. I'm sorry to be that blunt but if you are not aware of the dangers of processed food you should educate yourself. I would start with Dr Robert Lustig and Dr Jason Fung both of whom have several good books and numerous videos.
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  61. Please stay away from these drugs. You don't want to be locked into taking a drug for the rest of your life to solve a problem that is dietary. Find Dr Robert Lustig and people like him who give good advice. Ozempic isn't an easy shortcut, it is a hugely profitable drug that will change your metabolism in ways that can't yet be anticipated. There is no easy shortcut to fix our health issues. We have to learn to eat real food, we have to get away from the hugely profitable processed food that is sold to us. We have to be willing to do the work. Taking a drug that will damage your metabolism and force you to take it in perpetuity is not doing the work. I've lost about 130 lb. My A1C is 4.4. I usually eat two meals a day sometimes I only eat one. Today I just broke my daily fast, I had heavy cream in my coffee and I made an omelette with grass-fed cheese, grass-fed butter, a few small cherry tomatoes, a handful of spinach and with it I ate half a small avocado. Total about 950 calories for the meal. I'll eat later again if I'm hungry and if I'm not I won't. All the food I buy is real food. I don't buy things that come in boxes or packages, I don't buy things with preservatives or added sugars. It doesn't take more than 5 minutes to make a delicious healthy omelette. Grass-fed butter, pasture raised eggs, good quality organic vegetables are more expensive but if you aren't drinking soda and if you aren't spending money on junk food, if you are eating one or two meals a day at least some of these things are probably affordable. I recognize that it is a privilege to be able to eat healthy food, we have to make that privilege readily available for everyone. There are extremely powerful corporate interests that want us to continue to buy their products. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves and to learn how to take care of our health
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  62.  @ExtraordinaryLiving  Thank you for this. I'm sorry I didn't respond before I didn't see it.
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  63. This is good information in part but you've removed my comment several times without cause. I'm going to report this and we'll see what happens.
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  64. Why is that entertaining for you? Gay people exist, are they not allowed to have spouses also?
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  65. Please reconsider using his product. Don't be the guinea pig for something that is not proven safe and healthy. Make mayonnaise out of olive oil and pasture raised egg yolks. A little bit of olive oil if you can get good quality olive oil that isn't adulterated is better than using something that was created in a laboratory. Olives are real food. If you take them and smash them you get oil. Cultured oil, the product that Jeff is seeking to become very rich from selling, is not a natural food it is a processed food. He's right about the dangers of processed seed, grain and vegetable oils. They are generally extracted with hexane, they are pro-inflammatory and they become rancid very quickly. There are many good reasons to stay away from those oils. There is not however a good reason to manufacture a replacement in a laboratory. There are real food good quality alternatives. Please don't enrich someone at risk to yourself. In 50 years or so if it's proven that this substance is generally safe, maybe but even then I would prefer real food.
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  66. Please try to avoid proselytizing. I am glad that fasting with prayer is helpful for you but that is something personal to you. For the rest of us, fasting is great. If prayer helps you, terrific. If affirmations help, also good. Whatever you happen to believe in, whatever works for you, do it. Be a good human and fast!
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  67. ​ @albacan  Well said, thank you. I don't think they want to hear it though. It is the nature of religion unfortunately to proselytize. I wish that wasn't the case and I wish they would stop but they won't.
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  68. ​ @danacaro-herman3530  Religion is the cause of so much strife, war, suffering and death. Each religion believes itself to be the correct one. Each teaches its adherents to go forth and proselytize. To force their version of the truth on others frequently at gunpoint. No, it is absolutely believers that are the problem. Religion is behind so much tragedy. You believe that your god is the correct god and someone else's god is a lie. You go forth and try to force people to change their beliefs because God told you to. Meanwhile their version of God tells them to do the same thing to you. Religion, faith, spirituality should be something private and personal between the individual and whatever version of God they believe in. It should not be in the public domain and it should not be used as an excuse to hurt other people. Non-believers by definition don't try to force their beliefs unto others. That is something believers do.
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  69. ​ @rosegardenrosaries  such a tragedy when someone spams emojis rather than using their words.
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  70.  @DIFA300  Yes, I am uncomfortable with those beliefs being pushed in the public domain. Religion has been the cause of so much war strife and unnecessary suffering. You are entitled to your beliefs. You are also entitled to keep them to yourself. This is where the conversation ends.
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  71. I lost a lot of weight following Dr Jason Fung. I started eating real food, I had already been eating a reasonably healthy diet but I put real attention into it. Then I got stuck at about 208 lb. A few months ago I had a rough period of time and badly needed a win. I went back to Dr Fung's books and I found other resources such as Dr Jamnadas (Dr Mark Hyman, Dr Robert Lustig and Sten Ekberg to list a few) and I did OMAD (one meal a day) keto. I only ate real food, once a day to reasonable satiety. I've lost an additional 20+ pounds so far and people who haven't seen me in a while talk about how I am glowing with health and how I seem happier. Objectively I feel better, I'm still struggling with some issues stemming from a very abusive childhood but I feel better and I am much healthier. My A1C is 4.4 as of my last doctor's appointment a month ago. Eating real food makes such a tremendous difference to our health. It's astonishing how far we've gotten away from that and how dire the consequences have been. I saw my dermatologist yesterday and she asked if I had been doing this entirely on my own and I said yes and she said not even a little Ozempic? I said no I don't want to take a drug to do something I can naturally accomplish by eating right and she was very impressed. She said she had not seen anyone who was doing what I did without the help of drugs. That is a depressing thought, that we can't do these things on our own without pharmaceutical assistance that comes at its own price, not just the financial either.
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  72. What part of it?
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  73. There are societies where people eat a primarily carbohydrate diet. Carbohydrates aren't the enemy, processed carbohydrates, processed food, added sugars and pro-inflammatory seed oils are. I maintain a largely ketogenic diet because that works for me and I have to address years of eating too many carbs. But when we say that carbs are the enemy, carbs are bad, protein and fat are good that makes a great narrative but it isn't entirely accurate. Gary would strengthen his position if he were to acknowledge this.
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  74. Food does not need a delivery system. If you do intermittent fasting and eat two meals a day, the first one might be eggs. You could make a frittata and have six meals for the next week. Eggs, heavy cream, cheese, cherry tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, bacon whatever you like goes into the frittata. It doesn't need bread you would just eat it on a plate with some sour cream or hot sauce and perhaps half an avocado on the side. You would make the frittata in the oven then cut it into six servings, assuming you used 12 eggs, refrigerate and warm up each slice as you needed it. I like to put it in the toaster oven crisp it up slightly on top. For dinner you might have 4 to 6 oz of grass-fed beef or wild caught fish or chicken, green beans or some other vegetable. I love balsamic green beans roasted in the oven until just slightly crisp. Let me know if you want the recipe, it's very straightforward and I'm happy to share it. I might have half an avocado with that, I put lemon juice on it and salt. If I make steak I saute a pile of spinach and cherry tomatoes in the pan afterwards, I wouldn't leave all the fat in the pan but enough to season the spinach and tomatoes. It's delicious. You can have some stuffed olives with your steak and green beans or creamy goat cheese if you enjoy that. Maybe a kiwi for dessert if you want dessert or half a cup of blueberries. When we eat one main meal a day we can eat till we are full without worrying about calories. I guess the point I'm making is that no delivery system is required. You don't need pasta to put your meat on or bread to make sandwiches. Don't get me wrong, I love bread. I love good crusty sourdough bread most of all but I eat it exceedingly rarely. Like you I've lost a lot of weight and I am keeping it off. If I really really want something and I know that if I don't have a little I'll break and eat a lot of it, I'll have a little and then fast for longer the next day. Eating this way requires some time and effort but it is very doable as you already know. Oven roasted chickpeas are a delicious way to incorporate a healthier starch. I love to cook and bake but I know that being healthy is better than even the most delicious bread tastes. I've also found Dr Jason Fung's work to be really helpful and useful. His first book, The Obesity Code was life changing for me. And of course stay away from pro-inflammatory Omega 6 processed vegetable and seed oils.
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