Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "Dr Rangan Chatterjee" channel.

But how is it difficult to simply not eat? You can prepare food for your family and not eat. Yes, life is messy but it doesn't require eating every hour. It's easier to eat when other people do but we don't have to. If we want to be around for our families, if we want to be healthy, we have to teach them good habits and those habits involve not eating as much. There's some validity to what you say, but it can be used as an excuse and we have to guard against doing that.
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Why do you start eating so early in the day? He has some additional videos explaining that eating that early is usually not necessary or desirable. We are our least hungriest in the morning. You may have a specific reason for it, everyone is different but it stood out to me so I thought I would ask.
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@Siegfried5846 He is overweight therefore the knowledge he is trying to share is inaccurate? Do you see how that doesn't scan? Why is he overweight? Because he probably eats too much. He has never claimed to be a paragon of perfect diet. He has never claimed that his diet is perfect. And being overweight isn't on its own an indication of ill health. There are metabolically healthy overweight people and millions of thin people who are metabolically unhealthy. That doesn't mean that anyone is advocating for people to be overweight but the fact that he could drop 30 lb doesn't equate to him being metabolically unhealthy. He is a human being subject to the same stressors and temptations as everyone else. He lives in a processed food environment. When you are working hard and busy and stressed it is easy to reach for the wrong food. That doesn't mean that that food isn't bad, it doesn't mean that food isn't poisonous. It is. He is equally able to make the wrong choices as everyone else. And we don't know that he does make the wrong choices. He probably does sometimes, everyone does. It could be that he is eating too much of the right foods and for that reason has gained some weight. I saw a talk where he made clear that he isn't a paragon of perfect nutrition. That doesn't detract from his information being accurate. We can know a thing and not practice it perfectly. The point of his many books, videos, research and talks is to educate people. To try to persuade the government to address the problem of processed food and make real food more available. Poor people in food deserts don't have options. Elderly people in care facilities don't have options. Children who are fed by their parents, who live with their parents and eat what their parents buy, don't have options. Changing the food environment will result in less sickness and greater health for all of us. Your comment boils down to "He's overweight therefore everything he says is meaningless." I'm trying to maintain courtesy because I want you to be healthy. Do yourself a favor, read his books, watch his videos, learn. Edited for clarity.
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This is good advice to a point. Beyond that it becomes victim blaming. If you aren't manifesting the things you want in your life, it must be your fault for not having the correct subconscious and conscious mindset. This kind of interview is a necessary balance to the way we think today but it is possible to take it too far as indeed this interview does. You cannot alter everything in your life through your mindset. There are realities of life that cannot be altered simply by thinking "correctly." This brings to mind a book called The secret that was very popular a while back. A lot of mystical right thinking that has been used to blame people for the problems in their lives. You have cancer, it must be because you're not manifesting health in your life! No, let's not go this route. By all means reprogramming ourselves to get rid of bad habits and to bring positivity into our lives is good. But some realities are not susceptible to positive thinking and pretending that they are is an excuse to not make greater societal change.
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@danyalraza9707 I'm sorry, that doesn't make sense. Of course you're going to be fasting while sleeping, how would you not be fasting while you are sleeping? In order to get 16 to 18 hours of fasting most people find that not eating earlier in the day makes sense because when you wake up your body is not primed to be hungry, you have been using stored glycogen and fat overnight. You may notice that if you're hungry when you go to sleep at night you are not hungry when you wake up first thing in the morning. This is because the hunger hormone, ghrelin is low in the morning. There will be exceptions, but generally this is what most people do because it makes sense physiologically. What did you mean when you said fasting while sleeping, was it a typo, what is the research you were referring to?
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@gaurav2k Please just stop that's not what anyone is saying. Fruit comes packaged together with the naturally occurring fiber that slows down the absorption of the fructose. You can have fruit in moderation. Seasonal fruit in moderation is fine if you are metabolically healthy. The issue is when you take six or seven apples and you make apple juice. You can't eat that many apples because of the fiber, but you can drink an amount of fructose that is significantly larger when you juice them. That's why apple juice is not good but eating an apple is okay. Fruits have been altered, changed to increase the amount of sugar in them. Try to get natural fruits, organic fruit that is not bred for extra sweetness. When you have some fruit have it with a healthy source of dietary fat and protein to slow the absorption of the fructose down further. Ice cream and cake are not naturally occurring they are concentrated. You can have a little ice cream or cake occasionally as a treat the problem is that people in the United States and in the UK eat what is essentially dessert at every meal and for every snack. You can have a little bit of processed sugar as long as you're eating real food, unprocessed food 95% of the time. If you have any questions I'll be happy to try to answer them.
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No, he's right. Don't encourage people to drink pounds and pounds of fruit in smoothies. The burden of fructose is too high. You can eat an apple but you can drink five or six apples. Dr Lustig is absolutely right. And I agree, he is a genius and deserves the Nobel prize.
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Is there a reason you don't eat meat or eggs? Or do you and did not list them? I eat pasture raised eggs from chickens that have the freedom to forage and spend time in the sun. I don't eat a lot of meat but I will eat it once or twice a week, 3 to 4 oz portion, grass-fed free range. I don't eat meat that comes from concentrated animal feeding operations. I won't eat it because the animals suffer horribly and I don't want my money to support that. The fact that it is unhealthy is also important, both matter. Treating animals well, letting them eat a natural diet and giving them room to graze and be in the sun results in a better life for them and healthier food for us. Do you eat any dairy? Unsweetened full fat yogurt from grass-fed cows, for example? It's expensive so I don't have it every day. I spend more on healthy food but I eat less and less frequently. I still love to cook and bake but I bake much less frequently. I have a sweet tooth that I indulge occasionally but when I do, I make sure that when I'm eating is as healthy as it can be. Congratulations on doing the right things for yourself. I hope your example inspires others in your family and friends.
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The problem with this approach is that it can be used to invalidate patients and essentially tell them that it is all in their mind. You were abused as a child? You were tired and stressed? Well, that debilitating pain that you suffer from, that's coming from your mind. It's real, sure but it's really just in your head and you have to figure it out. That can be tremendously invalidating. Every time medicine makes progress and discovers a new approach that approach becomes the hammer and the problem becomes the nail, in other words that approach becomes the only approach instead of becoming one of a number approaches. This doctor operates under the assumption that chronic pain is in your mind. For some people it may be and for that reason this approach is a good one but if you apply it as the one tool to solve all chronic pain problems you're going to continue to do more harm than good. All you had to do, all you needed was to have compassion for yourself when you were in your twenties and it's amazing! The pain disappeared! Yes, that is amazing. It isn't entirely believable. For some that might be the case but applying this to every case of chronic pain does patients a disservice. Some elements of this approach are probably applicable in most cases but treating it as the one and only way to solve this problem, that in itself is a problem. It should be part of a suite of approaches tailored to the specific patient.
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@normaodenthal8009 I completely agree with you. I could not agree more. I've said the same things as you have said many times to other people. I spend more money on eggs, $8 for a dozen to get eggs from pasture raised, free to roam chickens. I don't buy food with additives, I don't buy food with added sugar and that means my groceries are more expensive, but what I buy is good healthy food. Animals have to be treated with respect and we don't. We need to do so much better.
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And avocado, lots of healthy fats like avocado everyday. The eggs should be pasture raised if possible, they're much healthier that way. Also wild caught salmon. If you eat nuts don't get them pre-roasted because they often use toxic seed oils, canola oil, etc. Roast them yourself or make sure the oils used are good ones. Congratulations on losing weight and getting healthier. It sounds like you're doing a great job!
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@grandpa1011 This is the reverse of good accurate information. If you want to lose weight you stay away from carbohydrates. You stay away from potatoes and bread and grains. You do eat healthy animal products. You eat animal products from sustainably healthily raised animals. You eat eggs from pasture raised hens. You eat full fat dairy not low fat dairy from cows that are pasture raised. You eat meat from grass-fed cows. Please educate yourself before giving advice to others. You don't want to risk giving bad advice to someone who might listen.
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@Siegfried5846 I responded to your comment. I hope it is helpful. I've spent years on this. Like many others I was overweight. I am no longer overweight. My A1C was high, now it is 4.4 which is fantastic. I was told that I would probably end up diabetic and now I won't. I lost weight and got healthy. There is no processed food in my house. I won't say that I never eat sugar because like Dr Lustig I'm a human being and subject to the same stressors and weaknesses as everyone else. I love sourdough bread. I love gelato. I love chocolate. But I do my best to ensure that these things are rare treats. In the US, people eat processed cereal with sugar for breakfast. They have Pop-Tarts, they eat things that come out of cartons in the freezer. They have muffins and cookies for a mid-morning snack. Then they have lunch that is more of the same. Then a snack in the afternoon and something processed for dinner and an after dinner snack. Our rate of death from covid compared to countries where people eat real food is astronomically high. The problem with processed food is that it doesn't have fiber which is necessary to feed the gut and it does have tremendous amounts of added sugar and pro-inflammatory omega-6 oils. The vast majority of Americans have underlying inflammation. That inflammation is a factor in all chronic disease. I can't summarize it all in one comment. We don't learn unless we do the work for ourselves. Please take the time to do the work, take the time to educate yourself. It's easy to sneer at someone and say "they're overweight so the information they're sharing has to be wrong" but the person you hurt most with that approach is yourself. Yourself and anyone you end up feeding. He isn't perfect. He probably eats too much sugar, he has said many times in the past that he loves dessert but dessert is okay if it is dessert and not what we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's also important to point out that being overweight isn't the problem. There are metabolically healthy overweight people. And there are metabolically unhealthy thin people. The medical concept of TOFI, thin on the outside, fat on the inside exists for a reason. Subcutaneous fat is not damaging. It isn't pretty but it is protective for longevity within reason. It is the visceral fat that is the problem along with fatty liver whether that fatty liver is a result of alcohol or NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) something that didn't exist until recently. Take the time and learn. There are few things more important than this information. Knowing how to eat to avoid chronic disease, to be healthy, emotionally, psychologically and physically is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and for your family and friends. Once you have learned, try to help someone who responds the way you responded to me, show them patience and help them learn in turn.
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I agree, I found that to be odd too. Statins have side effects. It is much better to deal with cholesterol by changing our diet and lifestyle. There's also the question of the need for statins at all, cholesterol is not the enemy, good dietary fats are not the enemy either. They never were, it was always sugar. I'm glad you were able to address the issue with diet. I could not agree more that it absolutely is a slippery slope. Worse, it's a slippery slope that primarily benefits pharmaceutical companies. We have powerful life-saving drugs but the focus of medicine has shifted almost entirely to prescribing medications. You see doctors prescribing Ozempic rather than helping people with diet. And those who do talk about diet generally have it wrong telling their patients to avoid fat and eat carbohydrates. The other factor is time, doctors in the United States are overburdened and overwhelmed, they have too many patients and lack time to work with them. It is much faster to prescribe a drug than to work with the patient and teach them how to address the underlying issues. Unfortunately that means many don't get the information they need. Good doctors, and there are many of them, recognize this problem and it contributes to their frustration and dissatisfaction. Returning to the issue of sugar and fat, Dr Robert Lustig talks about evidence proving the sugar industry paid to have responsibility for heart disease placed at the feet of fat. He discusses in a number of lectures and provides detail in his latest book, Metabolical. Dr Jason Fung is another great resource. He has a channel but I would read his books. Do you do intermittent fasting? I've found it to be very helpful. I'm a woman too, you might find it said that it doesn't work as well for women or that it is more complicated for us. That's not true. There are additional factors but those are primarily when pregnant or breastfeeding. If those are not currently factors and if there is no eating disorder, intermittent fasting works very well. There are many benefits to intermittent fasting. It lets insulin levels drop. When we eat every few hours we keep our insulin levels high, particularly when we eat carbohydrates and to a lesser extent protein. Intermittent fasting lets insulin levels drop naturally. There are other benefits to longer fasts, autophagy among them. These are things our doctors should be teaching us but don't or can't. This isn't taught in school either. And because there is no way for the pharmaceutical industry to make money out of fasting or eating real food it isn't in their best interests to disseminate this information. The end results is that some get this information if they are lucky enough to find it and others who need it do not.
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No, not necessarily. It depends how bad their type 2 diabetes is. Some can get by with metformin alone and others have to inject insulin. It is on an individual basis. When we give a type 2 diabetic insulin it doesn't solve the underlying problem of diet. It is prescribing a drug for a metabolic, dietary issue. Their need for insulin will continue to increase as they get worse and they will get worse over time. Type 2 diabetes has been defined as a progressive illness, only recently is it being redefined on the basis of the work people like Dr Fung have done. As a type 2 diabetic takes insulin and continues to eat carbohydrates and sugar will continue to get sicker and they will need more insulin and more insulin and eventually they will be injecting it several times a day. Because insulin forces more glucose into the cells without resolving the underlying issue they will continue to be inflamed and sick, this will result in renal failure, amputations, blindness for some. It is an awful disease that is easily resolvable by stopping carbohydrates. Type 1 diabetes is something completely different.
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Yes, he is very wrong about clean keto. It's unfortunate because people will watch this and many will be misled. I wish he had done more to prepare for this discussion. He could have talked about how clean keto is healthy and the differences between eating that way and eating dirty keto unhealthily. I think he has a responsibility to come into an interview like this informed and the fact that he did not is very disappointing.
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@leonardodavinci7425 Modern fruit bears no resemblance to the fruit we ate thousands of years ago. Modern fruit is grown to be as sweet as possible. It is intentionally grown to please modern palettes. Modern palettes look for more sweetness, the amount of fructose is increased. Fructose as you may know is utilized solely by the liver. Only our livers can use and burn fructose. If you are a metabolically healthy person which the vast majority of people in the United States are not, you can afford to eat a banana or two. Eating lots of fruit is not wise for most of us. Eating too much fructose results in fatty liver and insulin resistance. This isn't quackery it's science. I disagree with a lot of what he says but he is correct that eating lots of very sweet fruit can be a burden to your system. There is a lot more I could explain but someone who approaches a discussion with the word quackery might not be open to information that contradicts what he believes to be true. If this is not the case, let me know and I will provide more detail.
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@m-hadji I am a big believer in Dr Fung and intermittent fasting also. Unfortunately there is so much inaccurate information out there promoted by companies that benefit from their products continuing to be sold. We don't teach nutrition or cooking in school. Most of the people I know online have fast food delivered at least once a day. They don't know the first thing about cooking or eating healthily. Everything they eat comes out of a package.
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@candicemay You learn to cook for yourself. It's not difficult, it does require the willingness to learn and to care. You already have those because you're watching these videos. Intermittent fasting and eating real food are the answers. The fact that processed food and sugar are everywhere doesn't mean that we have to eat it. The fact that poison is all around you doesn't mean you have to engage with it. We have the ability to make better choices. Once you know, once you really know how bad these things are for you you won't want them anymore, at least not as much. I've lost 130 lb over the past few years. I'm keeping it off. I'm not hungry, I don't feel deprived and I'm healthier than I have ever been. I usually eat two meals a day, sometimes one. I'll make an omelette or scramble some eggs for my first meal which is in the late morning or early afternoon, I'll put cheese and vegetables in it and eat that with half an avocado with lemon juice and salt. Avocado is delicious with lemon juice and salt and very satiating. I do have coffee mid morning with about an ounce of heavy cream. No sugar. Really good coffee does not need sugar. I would have laughed if someone had told me this 10 years ago but it's true. If I don't have time to make that first meal I'll take some macadamia nuts with me or beef jerky without sugar, it exists you have to find it, there are a couple of good brands. Kalahari Biltong is one of those, it comes in 2 oz packages I get the original flavor. Zero carbohydrate. Epic also makes jerky that is low carbohydrate, they have a salt and pepper venison and a wagyu steak in addition to a salmon jerky that I haven't tried. The wagyu has four grams of carbohydrate but it tastes better it's a good option for occasional use. The Kalahari is my daily go to for a no carbohydrate portable food. For dinner I'll have grass-fed beef or wild caught fish or pasture raised chicken with oven roasted green beans or any other oven roasted vegetable. Oven roasting results in browning and crispiness and makes the vegetable taste better. I also saute spinach in the pan that I cooked the steak in, the fond from the steak makes any vegetable you cook in that pan delicious. If I know I'm making steak I'll be sure to have a pile of greens waiting to cook in that pan. Spinach, any kind of green, baby bok choy, whatever you like. I also buy olives stuffed with garlic they are delicious and having a few of those with your meal is filling and gives you an additional source of healthy fat. I'll eat some cheese if I'm hungry and a kiwi or blueberries at the end of the meal occasionally. You won't be hungry because after all of this you will have eaten a plate of food of good food that will leave you full for hours. The key is to not to starve yourself. When we eat, we eat until we are comfortably full. Not stuffed but not hungry. Healthy food is more expensive but if you are only eating once or twice a day and not buying junk, not eating takeout or fast food most of us can afford to spend a few more dollars on better quality food. It's a process, over time you learn to cook. You find good resources. It isn't something that happens overnight. You will figure out right away what things you like. It doesn't take a lot of knowledge to make scrambled eggs or an omelette, to cut an avocado and squeeze some fresh lemon juice on it and add some salt. Making steak in a pan takes a little bit of practice but it's not difficult you very quickly learn how you like it. Medium well, medium rare, you learn. If you don't already know you'll learn how to cook a whole chicken and put the bones in the ziploc bag in the freezer to make stock out of. Not everyone does this but homemade stock is phenomenal for cooking. Getting used to not eating prepared foods might take a few weeks but it's worth the effort. If you have any questions please let me know and I'll try to answer them.
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@kathleenking47 what I meant was that we eat processed foods that aren't intended to be dessert but they are de facto desserts because of the amount of sugar in them. When someone feeds their child cereal in the morning they don't intend to be giving them dessert for breakfast but they are. The overwhelming majority of cereals are in fact dessert because of the sugar. The same is true for most yogurt. Almost all the food in a supermarket has been adulterated with sugar. It's okay to have dessert very occasionally if we are metabolically healthy but most Americans are not. Avoid eating processed food at all that way you won't be inadvertently eating dessert when you think you're eating a meal.
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Agreed except for that whole anti-vax thing that Sten does. Unfortunately it casts a shadow on all of his information. One bad position hurts your credibility.
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No, companies are not doing their job. Attorney here, under our current law a company has one responsibility, one job, to make money for its shareholders. It does not have a fiduciary responsibility to the people it sells its products to. That is something we have to address with better laws. Companies should have a responsibility to the people who buy their products. Companies should have a responsibility to sell products that are not damaging. This should not be up for debate. The idea that the company is doing its job by selling Coca-Cola is ridiculous. There is nothing useful or healthy or beneficial about Coca-Cola. Excusing the company by saying that they're doing their job by marketing is patently false and damaging. The interviewer said that he appreciated the nuanced answer of looking at it from both sides. That is exactly the problem. There are issues where both sides are not valid. That's like saying, well on one side of the argument we have the idea that people should be free and on the other side we have the idea that slavery is useful and beneficial. Let's look at both sides. No, let's not because both sides are not valid. This both sides-ism is something has to stop because it creates false validity for things that are not valid at all.
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I was curious how much YouTube premium costs so I looked it up, it's $12 a month but you can get a prepaid annual subscription. I can't imagine watching videos with advertisements. I don't have a subscription, it's included with my Android phone. It's a really good deal, unless you love iOS phones maybe look into it. The Pixel 6 is a terrific phone.
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People had asthma back in the old days. You're making some valid points but by exaggerating them you are detracting from your argument. It wasn't all good in the old days just as it isn't all bad now.
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@lesabooth5243 It's hard to get away from it but it's possible. We just have to buy real food and not buy prepared things. That's what I do. My grocery cart is full of ingredients versus prepared foods.
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