Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "#1 Longevity Expert: Surprising Daily Habits That Shorten Your Life | Dr. Peter Attia" video.

  1. 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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