I am so glad you made the choice to save your life and I am so grateful for this wonderful man saving me too. I had horrible migraines, depression, acne, bacterial infections, candida, and more and it's all going away. It's only been a month and I feel way better already. I was only 26 and have a horrible response to sat fat. Cutting it out has been revolutionary for me. WFPB no oil for my health and vegan for the sweet moo moo's and baa baa's and cluck cluck's!
What is your opinion of Ivor Cummins aka the Fat Empero, David Feldman (cholesterol code), and Dr William Davis. Apparently, despite what we physicians have been taught, LDL is quite a poor marker for CVD risk. Better marker is HDL/triglycerides which I believe should be less than 2. When elevated, is a sign of insulin resistance which is definitely a/the driver for almost all CVD. Hide or report this LikeShow more reactions · Reply · 18h
Yes, LDL by itself is a silly metric. Dave Feldman proved live that he can show impressive LDL with an incredibly poor diet in a week! Reducing insulin is a key factor in great health. This obsession with LDL is just a way for people to push their beliefs onto you. Your body creates and regulates cholesterol. Eating more foods with cholesterol will make your liver create less - and vice versa.
@@paulg687 Actually, experimental research clearly demonstrates elevated LDL is the central causal factor in LDL because if you keep your LDL in the normal range for a lifetime (35-70), then unless you have a rare genetic disorder, no plaque forms. No elevated LDL=no plaque= no heart attacks. "Dave Feldman proved live that he can show impressive LDL with an incredibly poor diet in a week!" That doesn't prove or disprove anything--LDL isn't the ONLY factor in human health. William Davis' book was incredibly weak and flawed on the research and Ivor Cummings dupes people by showing studies where people have LDL under 100 or 130 or even 140 and pretends that is normal or "low" LDL. Then he says--"See, people still have heart disease with normal LDL," except that ISN'T normal or low LDL, it is elevated LDL. Normal LDL is 35-70, and when people's LDL stays down there, arterial plaque doesn't form.
I am so disappointed in the scientific community as a whole, the more research I do. It should be a punishable offence to publish biased studies in journals that receive funding from/are done by affected industries. Because of all the confusion and uncertainity the disingenous findings cause, the health of the world (people, animals and environment) have been compromised and even those with the best of intentions have no idea whether they are impoving or worsening any given situation. It is so sad. The best people can do is to compare these research papers themsleves and come to their own conclusions, but not everyone has the time or the knowledge to interpret the data, and it is in no way a foolproof method either. We just trust either one scientist/doctor or another. And to be honest, my vote is with the person guaranteed to have the most empathy and compassion in their hearts, therefore the least likely to decieve or push an agenda for personal gain - I will go with the vegan community.
@@BondiAV Why are we surprised? We're not really. It's how our own brains work. Why did people choose to believe those patently false studies? For the same reason more and more people will continue smoking pot event as more and more studies reveal it's health dangers. Because smoking grass and tobacco gives them pleasure.
Vegans are ideologically dogmatic too. They will also skew the results in their favour. You are basing your diet on a conclusions arrived at using erroneous assumptions. Around the world the longest lived and healthiest people are not vegetarians they are omnivores, be it Greek islanders, Sardinians, Japanese or Hong Kongers.
when I was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I really disappointed my doctor by refusing to take medications. As I reviewed what the meds were actually doing for people, it sounded to me that meds were making people more and more insulin resistant. A nurse who was coaching me about diabetes, told me I would need to be on metformin, and a year or so later, I would need more metformin, eventually I would need insulin injections. I rejected that. I at first tried Keto that seemed to help but I never felt healthy. Now I am on plant-based way of eating and feel great. I had never heard of type 2, 1.5 with an autoimmune element. I need to learn more about that, as I also have another autoimmune condition.
Great, first using alimentation as a correction is always the best. It seems to be greatly underestimated. Insuilin against type2 diabetes is contraproductive!!
I want to say Dr Barnard ROCKS!!! I can’t think of any other physician that has done more for veganism and plant based nutrition than him! He inspires me BIG TIME. I was proud to support him and PCRM 2 years in a row at AMA getting important resolutions passed. I am a plant based cardiologist and have been obsessed with evidence based nutrition, lifestyle medicine and veganism for 3+ years now (just had my veganniversary). Dr Barnard you was one of the most influential doctors in my decision. We should support Dr Barnard and PCRM. GO PLANTS! Trying to spread the word myself as well via TH-cam and other places. Let’s be the change!
A cardiologist should know that eating meat has nothing to do with heart disease. The cause is the over-consumption of processed sugar and carbohydrates combined with the consumption of the wrong type of fats (mostly vegetable oils.)
Banished From The Dwarf Planet Then why do the ACC/AHA guidelines for prevention of heart disease (written by dozens of the top cardiologists) recommend plant based diets or provegetarian Mediterranean diets? See here: www.onlinejacc.org/content/accj/early/2019/03/07/j.jacc.2019.03.010.full.pdf
@@DrStevenLome That's the billion-dollar question. You've been in practice for a while, but not as long as I have (I took the liberty of browsing your doximity profile) and you should know very well that eating meat has positively no effect on cardiovascular health. You're an interventional cardiologist, so do you really want clear out your cath lab? I'll be honest with you, I'm becoming more and more suspicious of all you "top cardiologists" telling people to eat these pro-inflammatory foods.
Dr Steven>> From your link: "All adults should consume a healthy diet that emphasizes the intake of vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains, lean vegetable or animal protein, and fish and minimizes the intake of trans fats, processed meats, refined carbohydrates, and sweetened beverages. For adults with overweight and obesity, counseling and caloric restriction are recommended for achieving and maintaining weight loss." That seems to back up MY claim in my previous post. Nowhere does it say to eliminate animal food, rather to limit processed carbs and trans fats, just like I said.
I don’t know about all y’all, but I functioned my best when I dropped sugar’s and flour’s, in all of their forms. I found energy, I woke up ready to work, I was excited, and I rarely had those low days. Problem is sugar’s and Flour’s are in EVERYTHING. And they have many names.
I’m still all over the place whether or not to be concerned with LDL versus cholesterol. On the one hand there are studies that show it’s not the cholesterol per se that is bad, but the oxidized/glycated LDL which may not directly correlated with the total cholesterol. And also say that high LDL-cholesterol is not necessarily a bad thing as long as HDL, Triglycerides and HbA1c are all within normal limits because it means LDL levels indicate a healthy movement of triglycerides needed for cellular processes… versus this one from Doc Barnard where it lumps all the cholesterol into a bad thing overall…. also about that statin thing, which makes me adamant at taking it to “cure” my high LDL-cholesterol because I have very good numbers for HDL, triglycerides and HbA1c…. 🥴
Just do not bother with blood cholesterol figures. The true is that nobody knows their significance anyway. They make money out of jiggling with the figures, nothing more. In 99% out of the presentations the metabolic paths are ignored, or wrongly considered.
@@primopierre That is a healthy value. In the scale I used: 5.7% - 6.4% = pre-diabetes, above 6.4% = diabetes. The values may slightly differ with the laboratory and the interpretation - with the physician. To make sure it is ok, you may go for an HOMA-IR. I think you know, but just for my piece of mind: the laboratory tests are not the Holy Cow of the medical science. Hb1C changes only after at least 3 months, so checking and 5-6 months is enough. To be noted that the contribution of the diet in 30 days prior to test contributes 90% to the test results, while the remaining 2 months - only by 10%. I assume you are not on diabetes medication. If you are, there is a totally different discussion and please disregard what I said.
Thank you Dr Barnard for your responsible professionalism. And for being humble and kind enough to teach us the truth for free. By learning the truth about how food effects our bodies I've made dietary changes, become more healthy, energetic, got my serum cholesterol down to the healthy range, my blood pressure stays around 110/70, my joints are pain-free and inflammation-free, my back is pain-free, and I feel and look younger than most people who are ten+ years younger than me.
Give it time. Most people do not see immediate effects of animal fat until later. Your blood pressure is your pressure is a snapshot of your blood pressure and health at a given point.
The stuff to avoid isn't just vegetable oils like canola and soy and corn, it's also ALL refined foods. All junk foods. All foods that contain sugar. Cholesterol is like little sticks of dynamite in your system and sugar is the box of matches. Keep them both DOWN if you want to avoid disease and live long.
My father died after 8 years in a nursing/hospital setting. He had a stroke and had suffered greatly afterwards. I have seen many people suffer and continue a horrible diet even after a heart attack. Who wants their end of life to be filled with pain, unable to move and bed ridden until death. While I am an oval vegetarian, I do not eat a lot of them and will probably give them later. I am also disabled and can tell you about suffering from pain. I do not need to add to my suffering. I broke my back and have rods, plates and screw. Pain is daily, statins made the pain worst, so going vegetarian was the right call for me. My actual lifestyle is Whole Food, Plant-Base. While it won’t stop the pain in the back, it has changed my life. 8 months and still going strong. Food is Medicine.
My non-scientific guess is that the culprit is processed foods. Food from white flour, combined with overconsumption of added sugar. Every measure; plant-based diet, intermittent fasting, Paleo diet, etc.; are beneficial simply because they reduce our consumption of white flour-based foods and added sugar.
@@adiposerex5150 almost all diseases in modern times are linked with unmanaged glucose level in blood. Please show me any research which shows low carb and high fat cause diabetes. (and please don't show me a research which mix high fat with high carb and calls it high fat diet)
@@realimagevanity2289 eating whole food complex carbohydrates are not unhealthy. Our ancestors ate lots of tubers, whole food complex carbohydrates to fuel themselves. I cannot eat low carb, it makes me very unwell. I am happy to cut out refined/processed junk food carbs, anything made out of flour from my diet such as bread, bagels, muffins, pasta ect. But I feel much better/healthier when I eat whole food complex carbs like potato, sweet potato and rice with lots of vegies or salad.
@@realimagevanity2289 yes I am doing my best to eat low fat. No dairy and I am learning you can cook without oils. I am eating flax and chia seeds for my omega 3.
There is a good reason for you ldl going high. You should search for the research done by Dave Feldman. He explains this and more. In short, a key diet will pull vldl from your liver. These stay around for a few days. So the previous 3 days can affect the level. Also you fast for a blood test, which pulls out vldls which will raise the ldl. Measuring and using ldl in this way is flawed. th-cam.com/video/JkZvFjW82Mk/w-d-xo.html
@@paulg687 thanks a lot dear friend 🙏. We do fasting blood test for lipid profile and sugar tests. I watched the video you suggested. He ate high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrates. It reduced his carotid artery’s thickness and lowered blood pressure. I hope this keto diet will also help me to cure my BP and my heart ( palpitations)and kidney (eGFR 79)ailments. Once again thanks a lot for your kindness. May god bless you
@@govindang9303 you’re welcome. Just so you know, from what I’ve researched wrt heart palpitations: there are a few common issues that can cause afib. One is electrolyte depletion in magnesium and/or potassium. You can easily try supplementation to see if it fixes the issue. You have to be careful not to overdo potassium supplementation. Start very low and research before you try. A lot of afib issues can actually be caused with back problems. The nerves for the heart come out of the spine (around just below the shoulder blades). If these nerves get pinched they can cause palpitations. If you have back issues around this area, you may want to try to correct that with exercises and stretches. There’s videos based in the McKinskey method you can see to show how to do this. Chiropractors may be able to help, but by doing these McKinskey exercises you can do them each day or as needed. Additionally, with a low carb diet, you may experience a lot of weight loss. This may also improve the situation because you’re applying less pressure on the nerves. Hope that helps.
@@paulg687 thank you, I will try these. My bp shoots up with tight feeling at heart, when try to drink water to keep 1.5 litres daily intake. I think it is because of low GFR of 79. I am restless.
Me too. You can find any opinion that'll satisfy your own confirmation bias. This video could more accurately have been called _''Adding_ to the cholesterol confusion...''
I think he just jumped to the conclusion at the very beginning that cholesterol is bad for you and need to reduce. But in the meantime he also said our body makes cholesterol. Study also shows Statin drug reducing cholesterol doesn't affect heart disease.
Like my doc says , any diet that totally eliminates any food group or promotes only one food group exclusively without exemption is probably wrong or at least unsustainable. Works for me.
Was on statin for only 2 months and then spent the next 18 months trying to overcome arrhythmia (14000 pvcs per day). It's been a year since the pvcs have stopped. Cholesterol is quite high as per my lipid panel report last week, but not taking statin. Instead cutting out eggs, processed fats, etc. while also on 18:6 intermittent fasting.
If I drink more than one cup of coffee per day, I start to have pvcs. If my BMI is high so is cholesterol, if normal my cholesterol is normal. I have tried to take statins three times but always had to stop because of muscle pain. I am old with no artery blockages, but doctors still think I need statins. Just a statistic of one but thought this might help.
Nice and full of humor presentation. However, I was hoping to hear something about the various types of cholesterol subgroups, e.g. VLDL. There is a lot of recent research explaining the subgroups, focus mostly on LDL, which reveal a new picture for those worried about cholesterol. Instead of treating only HDL and LDL as big blocks and using the old total cholesterol formula which dates back many years.
Agree. Watching hours of presentations of how something is linked to something else and what the statistical correlations were computed is wasting time. This is no science but pseudoscience. Biochemistry is a difficult science and that is why most physicians simply do not know. It is so easy to dump some figures in a computer program and graph the outputs! Add a tie and a screen and voila! You have "science". I forgot to mention the money :-)
You want someone to tell you that high total cholesterol is good. It’s not good. It’s not that complicated. It’s just that Keto diet doctors are trying to explain away keto dieter’s total high cholesterol numbers, trying to say higher numbers are good.
@@mariaespiritu9512 That might be an oversimplification of the matter as most recent research is starting to reveal. If lipids are sitting idle in a tube, true that they could end up sticking. But when those same lipids are being actively pushed forwards by various transporters, the picture is different.
Great info. Bottom line imho-If you will just look around at the public walking in plain view the obesity in front of you will tell you something is wrong.
It's the overconsumption of food stuff. And very likely the overconsumption of all the wrong foods. I do not understand the citizens of this world who pay for food to create illness in their own bodies. STOP EATING CRAP PEOPLE!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900715000775 Just common sense. It's not the cholesterol, read this article, see how Americans followed the guidelines and get obese
Marja Stuyt They ate a shit ton of cheese and didn’t exercise. They over ate bad carbs, and underate fiber. They ate too few fruits and vegetables, and ate too many donuts. Your anti-carbohydrate crusade is bullshit and you are misleading people on here.
Just because cholesterol is found at the scene of the crime doesn't necessarily mean it is culpable. That would be like saying that firemen cause fires because every time you see a fire you see firemen.
The better analogy would be smoke. They are finding smoke at the scene. You may wish to dig deeper and look at the radioisotope tracking that has been done on cholesterol and other lipids and their eventual path into cells, tissues, and plaques. It is quite fascinating.
@@DrReginaldFinleySr No. The body is smart; it does not try to kill itself. The liver produces cholesterol in order to move us into the direction of ease - away from a diseased state - in an effort to keep us alive.
@@DrReginaldFinleySrYou are welcome to teach whatever you believe. Others teach differently. Highly acclaimed medical professionals have written books to debunk the high cholesterol myth.
I wish someone would explain why they think your case should be ignored. Not how we mortgage our children’s future, but what happened that was different than described. All those studies showed that eating cholesterol raises cholesterol. Was the flaw that pastured meat and eggs were not used? I’m trying to find the fundamental flaw in those old studies he referenced. I eat very little meat. Lots of veggies. LDL is above 70. I DO have a sugar addiction though.
Birtee I believe the fundamental flaw is context. Meat, as in feed lot conventional burgers with fries, beer, and onion rings is a far cry from my pasture raised beef and eggs eaten with lots of vegetables and no processed foods. The studies don’t take into account food quality. People don’t talk about this very much. Quality is very important.
@@Jeffopar The problem is the beer and onion rings, not whether the meat is lot or pasture raised. Still, I wish agriculture would eliminate the vast acreage for corn and wheat and start growing alfalfa and timothy for the livestock.
with all due respects , please throw some light on people having high cholesterol and blocked arteries despite having spent all their lives on plant based diets. Please take this seriously , as i am coming from India where millions of people die from such diseases despite an overarching culture of vegetarianism. Please help us understand this phenomenon better .
Plant based diets are different from being vegan although studies show that it’s not what they’re eating that’s killing them in India. Just because your eating a plant based diet doesn’t mean your off the hook. You have to eat the necessary foods and possibly it’s something in the Indian culture food that’s the problem (that’s just my theory)
@@MrPotatoPants326 The indian diet is overloaded with inflammatory cooking oils. Cholesterol is not the only cause of CAD, and in fact it's just a small causal factor. When you damage your arteries, cholesterol adds to the mix, creating the plaques. The rupture of these plaques is the most common cause of heart attack and stroke. Cholesterol is also made in your body. When you eat oils and other inflammatory foods, your cholesterol raises even without dietary cholesterol. This is because cholesterol helps with the healing of your arteries when they are damaged, but it also hardens them, increasing blood pressure. The problem with animal products is not limitted to cholesterol, however. They also are high in saturated fat, as Neal Barnard explained. They contain heme iron and other inflammatory nutrients, and they are much more polluted than plants due to bioaccumulation. In short, most of the meat we eat causes both the inflammatory response and the cholesterol raise.
Excess sugar (glucose) relatively to fat and protein is the problem. Excess glucose is the basis of all modern diseases, especially coronary artery disease. Vegan diet unfortunately implies de facto excess sugar (to get enough calories). See Ketogenic diet for optimal health. The more fat (but not inflammatory grain oil fat) the better. Note that you can do keto with a vegan diet if you are a religious person but it is not easy. Last but not least don't believe nutrition associative studies about cholesterol. Read the study and check whether the diet of tested people was including more than 5% of calories as carbohydrates . If so those people were in fact on a high sugar diet hence the artery and other diseases. We cannot look at egg consumption in isolation. If you eat sugar and eggs or anything else, sugar prevails. Sugar is the key variable. Reliable studies should test people on ketogenic diet versus people on high sugar diet (5% of calories as glucose and above).
Refined carbs bad , grains dubious ... mix either with saturated fat bad , mix either with modern seed oils disastrous . We as humans evolved eating fatty Grass fed meat and vegetables .
I find that I do best when I don't combine fat and carbs. This way, my digestion is happy. I put olive oil on my non starchy veggies. But I eat beans or oats without fat. I feel best eating that way. 🙂
I am on a relaxed carnivore diet, I have a low carb so I can include dairy, the most digestible food on the face of the planet and an 8 ounce glass of vitamin C juice. The rest is grass fed grass finished red meats bison and beef and pasture raised eggs and pork Wild caught fish. I have contact dermatitis, the carnivore diet put me in remission after 30 days! Cholesterol has been proven to have no link to heart disease, but doctors insist on peddling medication for it.
@@Spyrit2011 I'm on a similar diet, but I don't have juice, that's too much sugar. I do believe in milk though and grass fed animal meat. I eat low carb veggies and low sugar fruits (berries) I also supplement with Spirulina and Chlorella. I'm in perfect health at 67.
@@LisaMurphy I drink juice from red pears, they are low on the glycemic level , 84% water, anti-inflammatory, and packed with nutrients that compliment the carnivore diet. Absorbic acid plays a role in aiding iron absorption into the blood cells as well as boosting the immune system, which these days is pretty important. I am doing carnivore for it's anti-inflammatory properties and fat adaption.
@@Spyrit2011 there isn’t enough land to feed our population animal based foods even IF they were healthy. But they aren’t the most healthy anyway. Plant foods is the most environment, animal and health friendly way to eat as a whole.
@@jbarber1016, we don't eat as a whole, we eat as individuals, what works for some may not work for all. While eating vegetables may be okay for some, eating meat is necessary for many. Those of us who are eating meat as a means of controlling our inflammation, don't really have a choice in the matter, for us, vegetation of some types cause inflammation and extreme pain. I have Psoriatic arthritis, it is an autoimmune disease, I have found out that eggs and milk products cause me pain, the same goes for garlic and onions, I can eat a meat based diet, and test other foods while I am on it to see what causes a flare up and what doesn't. Not everyone has to eat this way, but some of us do, it's not possible to switch 7,5 billion people over to a vegan lifestyle. And P.S. fish and poultry, are meat too, not just cow, there's lamb, goat, and a few others.
Very good point on the meta-analysis, but the end-conclusion is also fallacious: Directing guidelines according to populations may actually make things worse for those populations, without a comprehensive understanding of what is going on.
Its total cholesterol..no no its LDL...pardon me, its LDL particle count that matters...no no its oxidized ldl...and now, its apoprotein b:)) this theory definitely not explaining the CVD equation.
Its really not hard to be healthy (I cannot say that cancer can be prevented however, as everything seems to cause it somehow). Just cutting out processed shit from someone's diet and exercising 4x a week or more depending on how much you sit, is enough to probably add decades to your life.
I would like to see one day dr. Neal Barnard and dr. Berg sit down on a panel and discuss how best to lower cholestrol. They are both on completely different sides on this very important issue that is killing people. How can we find a true way to lower cholesterol when doctors can't even be on the same page. I am not on one person's side more than another, I just want clear answers so I'm not confused anymore. The only thing that I did get from this was that I didn't hear Dr berg state that a plant based, low fat diet is not an acceptable alternative to lowering cholestrol, whereas Barnard stated fat contributes to high cholesterol and why cholesterol is lowered initially on a keto diet. The only thing I did hear Dr berg say that agreed with Dr Barnard was that the body makes its own cholestrol, so if that is the case, why would we need to eat heavy doses in meat, cheese, dairy, and oils if the body produces its own? Isn't too much of one thing bad?
One of the main reasons for me adopting a whole-food, plant-based, vegan diet is that I do not want any animals to die in order to feed me. There has to be a better way. So for two years I’ve been eating a vegan diet, and I feel great.
Dr. Berg and DR Berry believe that because the liver doesn't need insulin to produce usable lipids from dietary animal fats to nourish our cells. They proclaim that sugars and carbohydrates trigger an insulin response that is harmful in numerous ways. Also, in their educated opinion they explain that harmful triglycerides are a byproduct of overindulging with fructose and carbohydrates. I think both schools of thought present interesting theories and eventually the best diet will be discovered.
@@richardwalker8398 we are talking about cholesterol not your reasons for not eating animals. Have your cholesterol levels changed from your new diet??
@@mosaicsanctuary3 since I have been on a plant-based diet, my blood pressure is lower and is in the normal range and my cholesterol and associated ratios are good. My weight is down by 10kg, I am way more flexible and have a lot more energy.
Bless those plant-based doctors like Dr Barnard. "It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical science will lead to the doctors' healing their patients with foods." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahai Faith
So, everyone still disagree with one another. You know your fucked when one "expert" tells you that cholesterol is bad and you don't need to consume it, and another that goes into detail on how it DOES NOT do anything to your heart. Somebody is freaking wrong.
Normally the more ‘religious fervour’ and shaming rhetoric the speaker is using to convince you, the less right they are. We know now that HDL and healthy LDL are good but oxidised LDL is not. Anyone telling us not to consume dietary cholesterol has to prove it is more likely to become oxidised LDL in the body than LDL manufactured by it. I have no idea, but it’s clear from current real science that one can’t demonise any form of HDL or LDL that is healthy and those that do are simply parroting ancient dogma.
@@neilxify Yea, I am coming to that conclusion myself. I just eat cholesterol foods that is full of nutrients, exercise and keep excess inflammation down with fish oil and Tumeric.
Well, the connection of cholesterol and heart disease was found a long time ago. There are many industry interests to fight against that, so after these results, many studies where funded by the industry to ensure their business model. In the end it's honestly not that hard, turn on your own brain. But I mean that stuff that clogs the arteries literally consist mainly of cholesterol.
@@okdoomer620 Inflammation causes the build up of plaque moron. Cholesterol is just the reaction to the inflammation. Cholesterol is needed for the body to fuction for fucks sake. What causes inflammation? It isn't Cholesterol. Its carbohydrates and sugars. THIS IS THE FACTS. Look up what happens when you eat a shit ton of sugar in the body. Inflammation city.
@@okdoomer620 Just type in "Sugar Causes Inflammation". There are many studies that prove this. To say this is all a Cholesterol funded conspiracy is a fucking joke.
You have to ask the question: Who is funding these studies? Pharmaceutical companies in order to get Drs to push Statin drugs. You can always tell when someone is stuck in their own world because they make fun of people who disagree with them. It's the oldest trick in the book.
Not really. Most health studies other than clinical trials for drugs are funded by the NIH, not pharma companies. The animal agriculture industry has billions of dollars and a huge incentive to misrepresent data the data to downplay the negative effects of cholesterol, but we still see that it consistently increases heart disease
I took a blood test or rather my GP send me for one (I didn’t ask for one), the results came with all kinds of deficiencies. GP put me on various vitamins. I collected the medication kept it on the self and went on a dietary path, glass of milk, eggs twice a day. By the third BT everything was within the required limit. I returned all medication to chemist. After that anytime GP send me for a BT, I do my business and make him happy. When I was growing up, we were taught up; egg and whole milk were whole food, that is the truth. Selling by products is Is everybody’s goal. Many are touting for business. That’s how they designed the system. Your body has the capability producing everything that needs. Whatever you have, have in moderation, you’ll be fine.
@@kenmarriott5772 Doctors don't have an answer to that question but they will find a way to blame it on "Family History" and tell the patient he/she needs a stent and be put on a fancy new expensive blood thinner like Eliquiis or Brilinta for the rest of their life ( no Warfarin or Coumadin, no siree)especially if they have the dreaded "widowmaker". A friend of my husband's has been taking Statins for over 20 years due to a Family history of heart disease and had a heart attack recently where they found a widowmaker with a 95% blockage. So much for Statins preventing heart attacks and strokes!
Noah, the dietary cholesterol hypothesis came out of Senator George McGovern’s committee on dietary guidelines for Americans. The Senator asked if there was any evidence for this. He was told no but it would be easier for people to understand, since they were blaming serum cholesterol.
Noah, the new thinking is chronically high levels of insulin is causing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s, joint inflammation. These diseases are reversible by lowering insulin. Cholesterol is the symptom of metabolic syndrome, not the cause.
People are so gullible and lazy. He is a non-practicing psychiatrist and plays musical instruments in a couple bands.It really takes a couple seconds to Google things.
@@StickJockeyFPV you left out the fact that he’s a clinical nutritional researcher an adjunct professor of medicine and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Now tell us your credentials.
@@xbioman7882 you left out the fact that he’s an adjunct professor of medicine, a clinical nutrition researcher and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
The most important issue is shoved aside! If cholesterol is needed by everything in our body, why is it bad when it comes to the rescue of irritated blood vessels? Shouldn't science concentrate on searching how to prevent vessels irritation?
Before going plant based I was don't carnivore. Now I don't personally know what that did to my cholesterol cause I never had it checked. What I do know is all the people that were getting checked had their doctors telling them they should be on a statin and most of those people saw their cholesterol levels at least double. Some of them are in the 600s, many are 300-500. Clearly eating cholesterol in our diet impacts cholesterol levels.
Old info . There is actually little correlation between cholesterol and heart disease. The cholesterol and calcification of the arteries is caused by Insulin Resistance.
What this doc claims doesn't add up (bio)logically. Cholesterol is a vital substance and so is LDL. LDL is a carrier for cholesterol and fat soluble micronutrients into vital glands and other body parts. Excess LDL gets absorbed by the liver in a *healthy* person. A high LDL molecular count ratio to HDL and plaque build-up are *symptoms* of an underlying disorder. It's not the pathology itself. It's a defence mechanism, but against what? Inflammatory processes sound like a valid culprit but what causes them? Cholesterol or LDL itself? It doesn't sound plausible. I suppose these kinds of anti dietary cholesterol hypotheses turn the causalities upside down. The question is why some people get atherosclerosis sooner than others. Nutrition certainly plays a role but the real question is what are the fundamental root causes for those symptoms to arise. Too much cholesterol is a too simplistic answer.
Egg industry versus the pharmaceutical industry. Why did they not mention sugar efffects and the claim of some that most of your cholesterol is produced by your own body in this presentation?
For most people, physiologically-normal LDL levels are ~35-70. However, lots of folks have LDL levels of 90-250, and they only got that way through unhealthy diet and lifestyle.
Dr Bernard is NOT a part of the pharmaceutical industry- he believes a healthy diet can deal with most of our modern lifestyle chronic diseases. Dr Bernard did talk about cholesterol being made by the liver ( that our body makes cholesterol) and explained cholesterol is vital for many functions. Dr Bernard also explained you have to be careful as too much can be harmful.
@@HealingLifeKwikly my own parents are examples of genetics in cholesterol. Dad eats whatever... Fried foods and eggs and ice cream etc...mom is very careful. But their bloodwork is the reverse of what science says it should be. I know many ppl like this and as a nurse see many ppl do poorly on meds. Its just not that simple.
@@grainiac7824 OK, but now you are talking about data: Before you sounded like someone claiming people could just sense what is healthy for them and find their way, and since the first indicator about half of people have that they have heart disease is a fatal heart attack, that wouldn't be good enough. Similarly, diabetes sneaks up on people. Yes, some people have genetics that tip the scale significantly one way or another, but most don't. I'm wondering if your dad's LDL is under 70 eating that way, or if it's just under the phony "normal" many doctors use (under 100 or under 130). Also, his post-prandial LDL may still be significantly higher than his fasting LDL if he eats that way. Take care.
It is the oxidised cholesterol that is the problem, there are 2 types of LDL, particle A & B. A lot of people forget HDL & LDL are not cholesterol but carriers of cholesterol. I would be more concerned about high Triglycerides and Oxidised LDL. I could go on more about why Cholesterol does not cause heart disease but my comment would probably be removed...
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Don't worry about cholesterol. Worry about the hdl/triglyceride ratio, and get a calcium scan. It will see the disease progression that ALL lipid panel metrics miss
Interesting. Age 60 here. My doc told me to stop eating eggs (I eat 2/day) because my TC was 247 and my LDL was 145. But my HDL was 61, and my TGL's were 45. And my BP was 124/70, I am 6'0" and weigh 168 lbs., I walk 12 miles/week, belong to a gym, never smoked, and have no family history. I'm still eating 2 eggs a day. Screw him.
@@markbodine9298 Thanks. I am aware of the calcium scan. I think I'm OK so I will skip it. And do you know why the calcium scan is rarely used, with most people never even hearing of it? Because there is no money in it for Big Pharma, that's why. I truly believe that. And even worse, it means less money because millions will drop their statin prescription with a good calcium score.
2 questions. 1. What damages the artery in the first place that makes the cholesterol arrive to patch the injury?...Answer...carbs/sugar and chronically elevated insulin levels from eating 6x a day. 2. Diabetics are affected more by cholesterol. What causes diabetes? Eating excessive Carbs/sugars and chronically elevated insulin levels from eating 6× a day.
About 80% of diabetes is caused by dairy. Lack of exercise is also a major factor. Hmmm. Looks like only refined carbs are bad. Still not as bad as milk. Also a major cause of artery damage is not enough vitamin C.
I would have liked him to go further into this. But really he was there to talk about association and relevant numbers. He made his points but yes I think the real challenge is to identify those who are able to tolerate some cholesterol etc.
@@michaeldautry And anybody that knows anything about nutrition , knows we need carbs in our diet to be healthy !!! So far in my almost 74 years i have never meet even 1 person that cut carbs from there diet that is healthy !
@@ceolbeats7182 Don’t be silly. You eat them and they supply you with healthy fats, protein and lots of other nutrients to make a strong healthy body. No one gets fat eating eggs fried in butter, lard or olive oil. Avoid the seed oils though - they’re poison.
@@ubself Learned a lot from the following on YT: Stephen Sinatra (Cardiologist) Jason Fung (Nephrologist) Natasha C.McBride (Neurologist and Nutrition) - GAPS diet for many conditions (Psychological and Physiological) John Bergman D.C. - he adds many references to his discussions about various issues Darren Schmidt D.C. - shorter talks - well researched
@@ubself Another most vocal on the cholesterol issue, is Dr. Aseem Malhortra: th-cam.com/video/mAoTwfx1Sic/w-d-xo.html (He focusses much on how lowering cholesterol is a not really showing benefits) There are also others like Malcolm Kendrick and David Diamond with good data - specifically focussing in on cholesterol studies. Hope this helps you!
Reverse Causation. Your cholesterol levels can drop just before death. This is a well known phenomenon. When you look at actual science you will see that hypercholesterolemia is deadly.
Last year blood work pre diabetes, almost border cholesterol, gout, inflammation, diverticulitis, staying away from saturated fat only eating egg white, exercise, why am I on my way to be un healthy, so last November went on keto low carb no sugar and started eating bacon regular egg saturated fat my blood work 3 months ago is perfect no high cholesterol everything is better even my gout I lost 35lbs and I feel better man I love my bacon and egg.
Thank you Dr. B! Just went vegan 3 months ago, am a type 1 diabetic, have already lost 13 pounds and feel so much better. Very interested in research you share. You have helped influence my decision to go low fat plant based. Keep up the good work..people are changing 4 the better.
You’re losing weight because the body consumes its own muscle on a vegan diet. Pretty soon after all the muscle is gone you’ll get nervousness, then it will get so bad you’ll need to eat meat. I ate sardines after being vegan for a year and immediately my entire body calmed down. You need to cut pufa and pretty much all sugar out of the diet, as well as aninutrients and toxins which are found in most plant “foods”.
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I only have a question about eggs. I have been eating around 90 eggs a month and my cholesterol and triglycerides haven't been high during these years.Adding to that at the same time, a lot of full fat milk and full fat jogurt leaves me with a question mark here
anecdotal evidence is not proof we can find some smokers who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and lived to 80, doesn’t mean that smoking isn’t harmful
Wow, what a strange presentation. It's like stepping back in time. Our knowledge of cholesterol and metabolic diseases has moved on a long way from this deadend. And this man is a doctor? Just shows how much work needs to be done to educate the educators.
Correct. It’s almost unbelievable. Notice how he claims cholesterol is linked to CVD by dismissing anyone who disagrees with this, despite numerous studies showing that there is no link (or likely an inverse relationship) between cholesterol levels and CVD or longevity I.e the higher your cholesterol level, the less likely you’ll get CVD and the longer you’ll live. The problem is the small oxidized cholesterol which are LDLs damaged due to the consumption of seed oils and other toxins. Sadly lots of ignorant people will look at this garbage and think it represents the latest understanding of cholesterol, diet and CVD.
Right, he didn't say anything about the fact that the body would rather convert fat to energy than sugar. Fat does not increase insulin. He also neglected to show all of the groups that were being paid to say that eggs were bad, he just showed the groups that wanted to promote egg use. Just how much money do the cereal makers spend to make eggs look like killers? He never said anything about the difference between Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. There were many many other things left out of the research.
@@franklopeziilmtmti603 oh no, he's a medical advisor for a org that seeks to reduce animal suffering and death! Don't care. As long as you have the science to back up plant based diets, it honestly doesn't matter. Eat suffering and death, become suffering and death. Cope
Well I was Keto and my cholesterol went up, especially my LDL. I’m off of Keto and now eat a WFPB diet and losing weight. I get blood work in January and will see where I stand.
Keto was probably a better diet than whatever you were eating before. You’re comparing keto to YOUR previous diet, not Keto to a Whole Foods plant based diet. Cholesterol drops even lower in a Whole Foods plant based diet. There’s published case studies of patients dropping A1c to 4.5 on plant based diets, so yours could be lower.
We need more people like this in the world who look out for the greater good. The funding sources he showed really drives home how the odds are stacked against anyone who believes what most medical reports or doctors say because it’s just not transparent enough for us to make the right choices.
Now let me tell you why this is half true. Today I've finally crossed my 3 years self experiment where I ate 3-4 eggs EVERY SINGAL DAY for the past 3 years. Just today, I did my most recent blood work where my cholesterol is 3.6. 1.1 HDL and 2.49 non-HDL cholesterol. I'm mainly a meat eater with a balanced over all diet, no added sugar, no refined carbs, and lots of meat and green leaf vegetables. How do you explain thay Doc?
There is too much confusing info out there. The people who use keto diet advocate eating eggs, meat, cream, whole milk... and discourage eating fresh and dried fruits. Who is right?
ZAHOORUL HAQ Well only recently since they been eating more animals, not less.Why didnt they have higher incidents of diabetes when they were eating proportionally more plants than animals then compared to today? Same thing with the US and every other country. People fry food and eat more animals now than 100 years ago. I'll give you a hint. Eating animals used to be considered a luxury before factory farming. The fatest people were the wealthiest people then. Ill grant you being vegan/ vegetariam doesnt mean healthy. Whole food plant based low fat diet isn't your typical vegetarian/vegan diet. Its not enough to be vegan/vegetarian. Whole foods are superior to refined.
Glen M You are ignoring travel and time. People werent going into the woods to kill an animal every time they wanted a meal. 2nd, most people werent hunters. They either didnt live in rural areas or have the time to hunt. You are appealing to the exceptions which is irrelevent. I didnt claim it was impossible. It was considered a luxury then. It is only becuase factory farms where eating meat is convienent staple now. The less available a resource is the more expensive it is. All anyone has to.do is look at the consumption of food between the wealthy and you averege joe blow. It was the wealthy that had the resources to buy the meat. So unless joe blow had the time and patience to either farm their own animals or hunt them, they bought the meat, which was way more expensive compared to plants. Even most farms had a few animals compared to the crops. Look at the health of the very wealthy 100+ years ago. They are like your average American today.
Dr. Barnard says, "There really isn't anyone who disputes that cholesterol contributes to cardiovascular disease." I find there are many experts now that would say cholesterol is a minor contributor. Other factors like insulin resistance and poor blood sugar control are major players in heart disease. Get those well under control and then it probably doesn't matter what your cholesterol is.
I was diagnosed with very high cholesterol at age 17. I'm now 55. My last two Coronary calcium test were both zero. I can also make my triglycerides go up or down on cue. When I eat high carb they go up and when I eat low carb/high fat/high protein they plummet. I do my bloodwork every three months and have duplicated this as an experiment. The true story is that there is still alot of unknowns. Keep your insulin down that seems to be the real culprit.
@@flolou8496 Poke my finger many times a day to know what's going on daily, but get my A1C and my fasting insulin number checked usually every 3 months. I find the Contour One to be accurate.
His science is wrong. This study completely *demonizes Fiber (more likely because of Carb + Sugar content) and shows Cholesterol, Animal Protein and Eggs as having the Lowest Risk Factors* for Cardio Vascular Disease. However, the study did not report these findings. The paper analyzed Data from *6 of the largest Cholesterol Heart Disease studies* between 1985-2016. JAMA STUDY *Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality* jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2728487 These Figures can be found by clicking the Figures / Tables Menu heading of the Report on the Right side. I recommend everyone view them. *FIGURE 2* 300mg of Cholesterol Consumed per day A) CVD Risk • Fiber was a Higher Risk Factor than Processed Meat and Sodium • Animal protein had the Lowest risk factor, with Eggs + Red Meat grouping (huh?) as Second Lowest B) All Cause Mortality • Fiber was a Higher Risk Factor than Sodium and Processed Meat • Eggs + Red Meat grouping had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal protein and Eggs as the Second and Third Lowest *FIGURE 4* With Each additional Half Egg A) CVD Risk • Fiber was the Highest Nutrient Risk Factor • Cholesterol had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal Protein, Sodium and Saturated Fat coming in Second, Third and Fourth B) All Cause Mortality • Fiber was the Highest Nutrient Risk Factor • Cholesterol had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal Protein, Sodium and All Fats coming in Second, Third and Fourth *FIGURE 5* 300mg Cholesterol and CVD Risk against various Sub Groups • Low Saturated Fat Diet had the Highest Risk Factor by far • Non-smokers had Higher Risk Factors than Current and Ex-Smokers • BMI less than 25 had Higher Risk Factor than 25-30 and Greater than 30 • Diabetes had Higher Risk Other Analysis of Data from 3 of the 6 Studies included in the JAMA Study *Jackson Heart Study* After reviewing 4 papers on the Jackson Heart Study, I could find no significant mention of Cholesterol regarding CVD outcomes. This study's focus was regarding CVD disease awareness in the Jackson Community and treatment quality. This paper seems inappropriately cited given the subject of the analysis. *Framingham Offspring Study* Dietary Cholesterol, Lipid Levels, and Cardiovascular Risk among Adults with Diabetes or Impaired Fasting Glucose in the Framingham Offspring Study www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024517/ “In sex-stratified analyses, men in the highest sex-specific tertile of dietary cholesterol had a 43% lower risk of CVD …” “This study found no evidence of adverse association between dietary cholesterol and risk of CVD among adults with T2DM or prediabetes. In fact, after adjusting for confounding by other lifestyle factors, those with higher dietary cholesterol intakes had a lower long-term risk of developing CVD.” "Further, there was no adverse association between dietary cholesterol intake and changes in lipid levels (LDL, HDL, LDL:HDL ratio, or triglycerides) over 20 years of follow up in the Framingham Offspring Study." *MESA Study* Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Biomarkers of Key Biological Pathways in Cardiovascular Disease www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108521/ “In addition, LDL particle number was a better estimator of atherosclerotic risk when there was discordance between LDL cholesterol (mass of cholesterol carried by LDL particles) and LDL particle number[4].” “Pentadecanoic acid, a fatty acid biomarker of dietary dairy intake, was inversely associated with incident CVD and CHD, suggesting a potential cardio-protective role for dietary dairy fat. Similarly, trans-palmitoleic acid from dairy fat was associated with lower blood pressure and lower risk of incident diabetes.” *Other useful Studies* Low cholesterol and violent crime www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11104842/ The Evidence for Saturated Fat and for Sugar Related to Coronary Heart Disease www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856550/ Dietary sugars, not lipids [fat], drive hypothalamic inflammation www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5518723/ Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246 Insulin Therapy Increases Cardiovascular Risk in Type 2 Diabetes www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28958751 A ketogenic diet favorably affects serum biomarkers for cardiovascular disease in normal-weight men www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12097663/ A Ketogenic Formula Prevents Tumor Progression and Cancer Cachexia [muscle wasting] by Attenuating Systemic Inflammation in Colon 26 Tumor-Bearing Mice www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852782/ Relationship between admission serum sodium concentration and clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure: an analysis from the OPTIMIZE-HF registry www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17309900 Reduced Dietary Sodium Intake Increases Heart Rate. A Meta-Analysis of 63 Randomized Controlled Trials Including 72 Study Populations www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805644/ Excessively low salt diet damages the heart through activation of cardiac (pro) renin receptor, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, and sympatho-adrenal systems in spontaneously hypertensive rats www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722333/ Reversal of Diabetic Nephropathy [kidney failure] by a Ketogenic Diet www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080383/ A Ketogenic Diet Extends Longevity and Healthspan in Adult Mice www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28877457
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@@ceolbeats7182 Not a doctor, here's what the *latest report from the American Diabetes Association* has to say about Fat, Protein, Carbs and Cholesterol, under the "Macronutrient" section: Nutrition Therapy for Adults With Diabetes or Prediabetes: A Consensus Report care.diabetesjournals.org/content/42/5/731 *Are Carbs Necessary?* No, the body makes it's own Carbs when they are absent. “The amount of *carbohydrate intake required for optimal health in humans is unknown.* Although the recommended dietary allowance for carbohydrate … is 130 g/day ... *this energy requirement can be fulfilled by the body’s metabolic processes,* which include glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis (via metabolism of the glycerol component of fat or gluconeogenic amino acids in protein), and/or ketogenesis in the setting of very low dietary carbohydrate intake (49).” *Does Reducing Protein Improve Diabetic Health Markers?* No, Protein positively affects Insulin and blood sugar. “There is *limited research in people with diabetes or prediabetes without kidney disease on the impact of various amounts of protein consumed* ... A 12-week study comparing 30% vs. 15% energy from protein *noted improvements in weight, fasting glucose, and insulin requirements in the group that consumed 30% energy from protein (61).* " *Fat and Low Carb Diets (like Carnivore)* "Eating patterns that replace certain carbohydrate foods with those higher in total fat, however, have *demonstrated greater improvements in glycemia and certain CVD risk factors (serum HDL cholesterol [HDL-C] and triglycerides) compared with lower fat diets.* ” “Although *the DGA concluded that available evidence does not support the recommendation to limit dietary cholesterol* for the general population, exact recommendations for dietary cholesterol for other populations, such as people with diabetes, are not as clear (8).” In short, Dietary Carbohydrate is not necessary for Human Health, Protein is a better regulator of Blood Sugar, and Ketogenic Diets have shown the most success in treating Diabetes.
@@ceolbeats7182 it does not take a doctor to see that Barnard is basing his science on epidemiological studies (guesses about food quantities). That is not the main problem. Barnard does not differentiate healthy LDL from oxidized LDL. This alone invalidates all of his arguments against elevating serum LDL levels. He does not even mention how LDL becomes unhealthy. Its like ice skating in army boots. He is all over the place.
Also... Cholesterol when you eat eggs goes up temporarily and pulls cholesterol you used to repair vessels out.. Making serum cholesterol rise until the liver processes it. Whereas if you eat high carb all the time the lack of cholesterol causes the blood cholesterol to oxidize and damage tissue and cause inflamation and eventual plaque and clotting.
Although you have the wording backwards, that was the initial conclusion of the 2015 FDA panel based on one very small meta-analysis in which 11 of the 12 studies were funded by cholesterol-producing companies/interests (Egg Boards, fisheries). Then scientists complained and it was changed to eat as little as possible because the better research shows diabetes and heart disease ramping up with higher egg consumption.
@@Malcolm-Achtman That's odd, because the original statement was that cholesterol is no longer a nutrient of concern for overconsumption. So I guess Barnard mixed it up while talking. Take care.
I eat on average I eat 3 to 4 eggs a day I train 3 times a week, 2 hrs resistance training My blood work shows normal cholesterol levels Last blood work was 2 months ago What effect does exercise have in reducing cholesterol levels?
excercise alone has little to affect cholesterol. the problem with the medical industry is that they have such a large range of "normal", being within "normal" is not healthy. I can have the testosterone level of a 60 year old man and I'd still be within the "range of normal" chart. Was your cholesterol actually HEALTHY, or just in the "normal range." the best way to reduce cholesterol is through diet. reduce saturated fat mainly. reducing dietary cholesterol can help a bit. Nuts and seeds are good because they contain phytosterols
@@watermelon1221 No. When say normal. I mean healthy Every blood test ive had in the last few yrs shows my cholesterol levels to be within a healthy range I get it tested twice a yr Here in Australia its a free test. If ones cholesterol level is abnormal then they send you to a dietician to get it fixed Its part of a QLD health initiative. My doctor has told me . I have excellent blood work and nothing to worry about Btw. I now eat around 4 eggs a day Reason is , im trying to put on muscle mass. Eggs are an excellent source of protein In a bodybuilding group im in. Some of the guys eat upto 8 eggs a day Their cholesterol levels are healthy, within range, normal .etc etc
@@isaaccraig3666 that's what I'm saying. that "range" is just showing that your health markers are within range, aka normal. They don't actually show if it's healthy or not. You'd have to actually research your results to figure out what a healthy number would be eggs are cheap and high in protein but you can get it more effectively through chicken breasts or whey protein powder. eggs don't have any magic or protein you can't get elsewhere
@@watermelon1221 I dont need to research the test results. Thats why my doctor goes over the results He ...tells me if theres a problem or not So far , every doctor ive had has told me there is no problem or issue with the results Also eggs . Are not just a source of protein You cant compare eggs to whey protein or chicken breast Eggs have a much higher utilisation rate The second highest for a protein source Human breast milk being the 1st with the highest utilisation rate.
yo, these physician committee videos are FANTASTIC and informative but looks like they were made in the 90s and don't sound very good, quality-wise. Please upload higher quality video and audio because I love the science and message of these videos and it would make them easier to share with people.
@@g.e.boroush5176 I'm not complaining; I said the videos are fantastic and informative and that I love the message of the videos. The point that I'm making is that the poor audio and low video quality makes the videos less appealing to listen to and watch. I'm bringing it up as constructive criticism because I already know it is an excellent free education. I agree with you entirely on that. I've been vegan for 7 years and have watched many of Dr. Bernard's videos and I have shared them with others. I'm a younger generation teacher, and I teach kids and teens and I watch a lot of TH-cam. It's clear to me that to at least reach a younger and wider audience, the quality of the video matters a lot. People will pay more attention to this great information if more effort is put into the presentation. That's why I brought that up. I believe that would help them reach more viewers and share such great information.
As the Mayo Clinic reports, most healthy people can eat up to seven eggs a week without increasing their risk of heart disease. Studies have even shown that eating between one and three eggs on a daily basis improves HDL levels, which is the good type of cholesterol. HDL helps to remove some of the bad kind of cholesterol (known as LDL) from your arteries, so you want your HDL levels to be high so that they protect your heart. Of course, everyone is different. Keep in mind that people with diabetes are already at higher risk of heart disease and some research suggests that eating as many as seven eggs a week could elevate their risk even more. In short, there is research to back both cases. We suggest limiting your egg consumption-whether that's once a week or three times a week-so that you keep your heart in tip-top shape.
How is it that all my auto immune symptoms, obesity and pain have resolved after going keto and carnivore? Body functions better than 20 years ago. Humans have been eating meat in their diet along with cholesterol way before the explosion of ill health plaque that we are facing now.
On Ketogeic life style for 9 months now. I've lost 25lbs, 205 to 180, no longer need my BP medication, and my vision has returned to 20/20 20/15. My knees no longer hurt, and I don't spend my life being hungry! The vision thing I did not expect, thought it was my imagination, but when my ophthalmologist saw my improvement she asked, " are you on a low carb or ketogenic diet?" I of course answered yes, and she replied " That is amazing, I've had several patients now regain their vision on these diets."
Anita, how is it that morphine cures all disease? Well, because it's not curing anything, it's only confusing the brain. The keto diet works by the same principle. Sometimes it's also an elimination diet and it can accidentally do some good if you've an autoimmune disease. But you'll get more problems over time because animal foods ruin the immune system.
your symptoms went away because you are no longer obese which cause pain in your joints. People will find out that the keto diet with all the saturated fats is not good for you especially someone that has a history of cvd in the family
I met this guy in person in Washington DC at a bicycle tour event around 1990 and bought one of his books directly from him. He seemed like a very friendly and nice guy. The book was all about eating a high carbohydrate, low protein diet with lots of vegetables and grains and beans and rice and potatoes and stuff like that. It was really horrible advice! My key to better health is low carb, healthy fats, high quality protein with no industrial seed oils and with intermittent fasting and time restricted eating. There is nothing wrong with eggs, butter, and high quality animal protein. There is a lot wrong with high Omega 6 diets and linoleic acid and lots of complex carbohydrates and sugar.
Layperson here, trying to understand: If dietary intake of cholesterol leads to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, why haven’t we seen that increased risk among populations who have traditionally consumed a diet that was relatively high in cholesterol? For instance, the Inuits.
Small particle ldl is bad (sugar), large particle (red meat) not so much. Why is particle size not addressed? Are you working for Lipitor or something?
@@egidijus6973 You're an idiot. LDL can become oxidized by sugar. This is called the small dense LDL that gets sticky due to sugar and can glog your arteries. Do your research idiot.
I found it interesting how he points out that cholesterol is necessary to produce testosterone... then says "I'm not saying that's a good idea, but that's what happens"...? I realize he's joking and playing on stereotypes linked to testosterone/toxic masculinity, but it's still an oddly dismissive remark... Men with adequate testosterone have fewer heart attacks. We all know that testosterone is beneficial in exercise and intense exercise can cause the body to produce more, so long as it has enough of the raw materials like cholesterol... Having more muscle mass aids you as you age - - helps issues of mobility and quality of life... the resistance exercise that builds muscle also increases bone density, leading to fewer age related fractures... Certainly we'd rather people elevate testosterone through diet and exercise rather than through replacement therapies? I'd like to see a study of people eating a lot of eggs... but half of the group does intense resistance training and the other half does no exercise, or only low resistance, low intensity exercise -- we know exercise triggers hormonal response... might it not lead the body to utilize excess cholesterol in positive ways, rather than leading to heart attacks?
The moment he equated skepticism on the conventional wisdom on cholesterol and heart disease to the conspiracy theory on Moon landing, he lost all credibility
Doesn't matter. But what matters is there is ample data, based on good quality studies that raise skepticism on the supposed link between Dietary fat - LDL Cholestrol - Heart disease. Dismissing those as conspiracy theories doesn't do this man's profession any good. These false equivalences to moon landing conspiracy theories or climate change denial are meant to mislead the listeners and silence the valid criticisms/concerns
@@dayalambo Low fat plant based diet, so far, is the only diet known to reverse heart diseases. The autopsy done on Dr Nathan Pritkin had revealed no arterial blockage whatsoever. And, while I don't mean to indulge too much information, yours truly here alleviated erectile dysfunction a few months after switching to a whole food plant based vegan lifestyle. You can say that I am an early riser now, at 60, as I was when I was in my teens. Certainly that indicates my arteries are clearing.
I predominantly follow a vegetarian diet, but one with complex carbs, fats and minimal sugar and refined carbs and that has worked well for me. And I have heard of people who switched to Keto claiming dramatic improvements in health. My problem with the above video is the emphasis on fat and the data he touts as supposed evidence to the link between fat and heart disease. The Ancel Keys study he cites is the most controversial and usually shown as a classic example of wrong way to analyze data in data science 101 courses. The relative risk chart he shows is also designed to mislead people, not one that would withstand scrutiny by any data professional. The emphasis on 'low fat' has over the last 40 - 50 years only led to people consuming more sugary, starchy processed foods labeled as 'low fat' and 'healthy' , which in turn has only increased obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dementia and probably cancer in modern societies. Only a diet balanced with healthy amounts of fat, complex carbs and protiens can reverse that, regardless of whether it is vegan, vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Unfortunately, people start treating this topic like religion, rather than relying on data from good quality studies. I rest my case
What about studies that conclude that cholesterol by itself does not cause heart disease? I'm 59, I consume 3 eggs a day. I can run 5 kms comfortably and go to the gym at least 3 days a week.
@@dj-fe4ck I don't have the latest numbers but they were normal the last time I checked them. Besides I'm not a meat eater. I stick to eggs and fish and lots of vegetables. I also take B complex and multivitamin supplements as well as apple cider vinegar twice everyday.
Dr Ford Brewer, Dr Davis, Ivor Cummins, etc...search YT for these people and others. They're discussing the latest research that strongly indicates inflammation from carbohydrates as the major cause of CV disease. This is a growing contingent. Worth listening.
Tuula Ollikainen I’ve been high carb plant based since 2013. 47 years old. Went to doc for first time since diet change last month due to needing some stitches. They could not believe my numbers. I left them seriously dumbfounded.
@Glen M Only a gullible buffoon would believe the 1% of scientific studies while disregarding the other 99%, but that's the majority of people who are intellectually lazy nowadays. By the way, please enlighten me on the nations that recommend increasing dietary cholesterol in their nutritional guidelines. I'll be waiting.
@Glen M You post "abstract" studies, which aren't studies, and you dismiss epidemiological studies? Are you waiting for metabolic ward studies from birth to death? You are a typical gullible buffoon. Continue with your fad diet, it is what all lazy people do.
2019 vs 02/20 current date: Nov: 2019 Chol 313, Trig 78, HDL 79, VLDL 16, LDL 218, T.chol/HDL Ratio: 4.0 vs Feb. 2020 Chol 324, Trig 84, HDL 95, VLDL 16, LDL 212 T.chol/HDL Ratio: 3.4 I think I can relax somewhat now. :-) till a few months from now when retested.
Don't worry about your LDL being high if your on keto, it's most likely the the fluffy good LDL particle, not the small sticky ldl that gets oxidated by sugar, carbs & radicals. Ask your Dr Doctor for a fractionation test for LDL just to make sure. But most likely since your HDL has gone up, and your Tryglycerides are low and A1c is low. Your good on Keto.
@@Snooker-cn3dm This is an example of how your lipids look on a Keto diet. I would have guessed it. It is perfect. A low Triglycerides to HDL ratio is great. Even better if it is less than 1 like this guy!
The issue is not what you named. The problem is: We need cholesterol. Our brain needs cholesterol. We make cholesterol in our liver, because it’s obviously important for the body. What we eat has a direct impact on how healthy we are. Everybody knows that, specially the ones for keto diet. I’m much healthier now then when I didn’t eat butter and eggs. All my tests show it. Remember that before this cholesterol spurning, Americans were healthier. And much more lean. The problem is processed food. If you were right the French, with all their butter, organ meats and NATURAL SEA SALT, should have been eradicated from the face of the Earth. Instead they beat the USA at all the healthy indicatives.
Yes, the body needs cholesterol, but it makes all it needs, and if you keep LDL under 70, arterial plaques don't form. As for the French, they have lots of folks dying of heart disease, but research shows they underreport CVD deaths. Both the French and US have lousy health outcomes--on a truly healthy diet for a lifetime, heart disease simply disappears.
@@RitaHutchins I should add that the egg industry and Egg Boards have done a very clever job of designing research studies that are rigged to make eggs look healthier than they are and then spreading the word to a public who doesn't know how to see through rigged research. Very clever stuff, then all these websites who want to believe them keep repeating the "no harm" message, even though the whole thing was based on weak and rigged studies.
@@HealingLifeKwikly I believe you believe that Karl, and I would not 100% discount it. But the truth is that it’s much more likely that the giant labs did try to make their concocted statins more useful then they are. Sorry. Think about it. It’s an easy choice.
It's a small increase so for one person it may not make a big difference. Multiply that small increase by millions of people and it makes a big difference because there are so many people.
The probability is high that there are people within the population that have sensitivity or already dangerously high cholesterol, and for them, a small bump would make a large difference. Therefore making a difference to a portion of the population that is measurable over the whole population. The probability that you or I, a single person, are under those circumstances and would be harmed by a few points increase, is a lot lower. Hope that makes sense. I did not understand this for quite some time.
Genetics. Like smoking, some people can get away with a bad diet. I myself am not willing to risk my life on the possibility that I have good genes. I will continue to eat a vegan, mostly WFPB diet. Besides, I like the "side effects" too much.
This soap-opera central casting doc doesn't get it. ***No one's trying to overeat cholesterol.*** Minimize the carbs and eat lipids with only moderate proteins. The cholesterol you have will be healthy with undamaged Apo B lipoproteins, not **damaged by the carbs**. The adipose tissue you gained **by eating carbs** will be consumed by the beta hydroxybutyrate metabolic cycle, which is less oxidative It's the carbs that destroy the endothelial glycocalyx and allows triglycerides and damaged cholesterol (that should be kept low) to get under the endothelium and build plaque. This is the 21st century: We landed on the moon 50 years ago, and this snide and pompous doctor needs to leave the medical flat earth society.
harvard already documented a 2019 study that supports everything in this presentation. stop cherry picking and wrongly misinterpreting vague studies and rejecting the hundreds of documented latest evidence... You're literally living in an enclosed wall
You could tell from the background sounds that Dr. Barnard was delivering this lecture while his audience was eating, and they probably weren't serving low fat, whole food, plant based meals.
Intoxicated by the waste products produced from burning high carb, low fat diet, so as not to be able to think critically or even remember what was said; not taking notes - in by the one ear, out by the other...
The reason why arteries get blocked is that cholesterol is repairing the inflammation in the artery and if inflammation continues the artery eventually gets blocked. It's not the Cholesterol that is bad but the inflammation.
For people eating the diets that we have clear data on, high LDL is THE main CAUSAL factor in heart disease. But it's easy for people to get confused about serum cholesterol because of the flaws in so many studies. For example, what you are saying DOES appear to be true in studies that are contaminated by restriction of range issues (no large group with truly healthy LDL levels) or in studies contaminated by reverse causality (lower LDL IS sometimes found to be associated with higher mortality in the ELDERLY because several diseases and conditions that lower LDL also increase mortality). However, when you overcome those problems and study a population with a wide range of LDL levels, you see a clear trend, with higher LDL going hand in hand with more arterial plaque: See: www.onlinejacc.org/content/70/24/2979 and particularly the very clear trend graph That's cross-sectional, but what about experimental studies? The pattern across statin studies that lowered LDL a LOT is that both degree of plaque and major CVD events declined as LDL levels went down, and got towards the truly healthy range (apparently under 67, but a little higher may be fine too when people aren't eating an artery-damaging diet). See the trend line regarding the statin trials: www.onlinejacc.org/content/43/11/2142 That study also points out that an LDL of around 35-70 appears to be normal for mammals without heart disease, as indicated by the LDL levels of free-ranging mammals, newborn humans, and hunter-gatherer tribes, many of whom have TOTAL cholesterol levels under 130. Other types of studies confirm a causal role for elevated LDL in the development of heart disease. First, a study of miscarried fetuses showed that those whose mothers had higher LDL had more plaque in their arteries. Finally, genetic variations that give most individuals (but not all) an LDL level in the healthy range wiped out 88% of expected heart disease, despite unhealthy diets, obesity, diabetes, and smoking: Ference BA, Yoo W, Alesh I, Mahajan N, Mirowska KK, Mewada A, Kahn J, Afonso L, Williams KA Sr, Flack JM. Effect of long-term exposure to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol beginning early in life on the risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomization analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Dec 25;60(25):2631-9. Cohen JC, Boerwinkle E, Mosley TH Jr, Hobbs HH. Sequence variations in PCSK9, low LDL, and protection against coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med. 2006 Mar 23;354(12):1264-72. Critically, that research establishes that even when people have diets and lifestyles that SHOULD HAVE caused more heart disease, elevated LDL is the critical key without which heart disease doesn't develop. Other research shows that both large fluffy and small dense particles are atherogenic (large fluffy are only about 1/3rd less atherogenic for men and women alike). Finally, oxidized cholesterol is terribly harmful/atherogenic, and unfortunately, exposure to air or light as well as cooking and reheating meat leftovers all produce oxidized cholesterol. So the odds of eating high cholesterol foods and not consuming oxidized cholesterol are lousy. Then there are the clinical trials in which serious heart disease was stopped and reversed in people with a history of serious heart disease and rates of CVD events were dropped to zero or close to zero using diets that are VERY low in fat (~10% of calories) and have ZERO cholesterol. No diets with higher fat content or dietary cholesterol have achieved similar outcomes. For example, see: dresselstyn.com/JFP_06307_Article1.pdf www.dresselstyn.com/Esselstyn_Three-case-reports_Exp-Clin-Cardiol-July-2014.pdf Significantly, in an earlier 12-year study, Esselstyn succeeded in stopping heart disease in its tracks for a population of older people who had serious heart disease by using a very low fat whole food vegan diet (and statins for some to get LDL low enough), but that diet did NOT limit sugar. This indicates that sugar is not such a problem for heart disease IF people are eating very little fat, getting LDL very low, and are eating lots of anti-inflammatory whole plant foods. www.dresselstyn.com/site/study02/ One very long-term study followed people for an average duration of 26.8 years with an starting age of 42, and clearly found stepwise increases in CVD and CHD deaths with higher LDL levels, and also found higher all-cause mortality for groups with above 100 LDL than for those with under 100 LDL. Those relationships would have likely been even stronger had they controlled for reverse causality (some diseases/conditions that kill us lower LDL first), and had they focused on people who got LDL levels under 70 with healthy living/diet. www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.034273 It's super-easy to get confused about cholesterol because there are more weak "no-relationship, no harm" correlational studies out there than there are higher-quality studies that pin down the real nature of the relationship. Also, most studies have terrible restriction of range issues and don’t have a large population with truly healthy LDL levels-around 35-70. But people WANT to believe it’s not a problem, so they pay attention to the weaker “no harm” studies and ignore the stronger studies showing that elevated LDL IS a problem. I’ve seen one informal on-line analysis concluding that for people eating more than 2.3 eggs a week, arterial plaque went down as LDL went up, but until we have evidence you can eliminate heart disease with higher LDL and a bunch of weekly eggs (as you can with a very low fat whole food plant-based diet), the safer route is to get LDL down to around 35-70 eating lots of whole plant foods and little dietary fat. To be sure, improving endothelial functioning is still beneficial for reducing CVD, but if you get LDL low enough, plaques stop forming even with a crappy diet and lifestyle. Take care.
WOW! Thank you doc, for this amazing video; God bless🙏 I took one 10 mg lipitor each night for about 15 years and it affected me very badly; I didn't know that was the culprit until it was almost too late. I was born with Scoliosis and used to have slight back pains when walking, standing and sitting for long periods. A month after I started taking lipitor I noticed that my back pain got worst but I never thought it was the side effects of lipitor. My doctor prescribed Motrin tablets for my pain but after a while the pain started going down to my hip, and then the ankle of my left leg. Sometimes I had a lot of pain that prevented me from even getting out of bed. Many times I've forced myself to get into a cab to visit the doctor for an injection to ease the excruciating pain because entering and exiting a cab made me screamed; it was hell! My doctor and I thought that the pains were due to Sciatica and Scoliosis. Sixteen years later I couldn't raised my arms above my waist and neither take a shower; I could've only used the bidet. I had to wait until my daughter visited on Sundays to give me a shower. I soon realized that I was slowly being crippled. Every night when praying I'd say God, I don't know what's going on but please do something to help me, please, I can't live like this! One night, lying in bed I wondered what would become of me, what kind of life I'd have, and crying I fell asleep. I dreamt my dad who had passed since 1999; it was a very short dream and with a stern and angry voice he said, why are you taking that damn lipitor! I immediately woke up and couldn't go back to sleep with the excitement of knowing what was causing my pains. I believed in my dreams because they're always straight! The next day, I visited my doctor and asked if he'd change the lipitor because I think that's what causing my pain. He said no, it's been a while since you've been taking that so it's not that, and then said, you must remember that you're getting older and all these things comes with age. I said doc, I'm telling you it's the lipitor and please don't ask how I know that but it IS! He said I can't change it because I know it's not the lipitor and don't stop taking it because you can get a heart attack/stroke. I said ok doc thank you; I shooked his hand as usual and left his office very disappointed. I returned home and that very night I abruptly stopped the Lipitor and I didn't care what happened! ONLY 6 days after, I could've taken a shower by myself. I called my daughter and gave her the great news, then made an appointment to see my doctor. I went to my doctor and said doc, within 6 days I got younger instead of older! I raised both my arms above my head and then behind my back only to show him that I can again raised my arms WITHOUT pain! He watched and smiled then said, what happened, what did you do? I said doc, I stopped that damn lipitor! AND, I'll now tell you why I was so sure that it's the lipitor and I told him my dream. Without hesitation, he wrote a prescription for Crestor 5 mg. It's 5 years since I've been taking Crestor and so far I've no problem. I can walk, stand and sit for longer periods because my suffering wasn't due to Sciatica/Scoliosis but Lipitor! I'm so happy that I'm getting younger instead of older, lol. Thanks to my loving dad who's still guiding me; may he Rest In Peace🌹🙏 Most of all, Praise to our Dear Lord because nothing happens without him 🙏🙏🙏🌹
@@sheetalsingh9594 You're wrong! They're both Statins but NOT the same! I don't have pains since am taking the Crestor and NOW my cholesterol is much better. Many people just have to take cholesterol lowering medications. Sometimes a certain medication doesn't work for everyone so you'd have change medications to see which one works for you. At the end of this month I shall do my blood test and if my cholesterol is still good my doctor told me that I can then gradually stop the Crestor.
Missing the point : it is not a matter of fat intake alone, it is a matter of the ratio between carbohydrates and fat. If you "kill" your carbs intake and replace it with fat you will improve all your stats. Shame most scientific do not integrate this simple fact and truly help people rather than exposing their knowledge without suggesting anything...
Scientific studies don't "integrate this simple fact" because it's not a fact. And scientific studies don't take your confident statement and just integrate it. They test. Your stats with a fat keto diet? Some will improve in the short run, and then some such as cholesterol will deteriorate in a longer run. Keto will make you lose weight (as you lose water and glycol weight and your appetite is suppressed by your forcing your body to mimic a disease state in which the body tries to rest by reducing consumption) for a while. Then not. Then your numbers will start getting worse. Then you'll get off keto because, seriously, no one can do that for long. (It produces "rabbit starvation.")
I eat 75-90% of my calories from carbohydrates and no more than 10% fat and on my last blood test, my fasting glucose was 70 after 18 hours of fasting and my A1c was 4.9
Low cholesterol is dangerous and leads to early death. Keto is not starvation, its a state of repare. Only high protein diets produce rabbit starvation, keto is moderate or low in protein
@@mortenandersson9358 Now you're getting confused by studies where reverse causation wasn't factored out: Many diseases lower people's cholesterol AND also kill them. HOW your cholesterol is lowered matters (lowering it on WFPB diet is good, lowering it via cancer, cocaine addiction, smoking is not good). Even if better studies someday prove that people in the 80s benefits from a little more cholesterol because their body is breaking down and they need a little more for repair, most of us aren't in our 80s so that doesn't apply to us. Take care.
if you do research only with eggs then you understand the real picture, all studies done and they did not address the carbohydrate at that time. If you cut off carbohydrate and do the research only on eggs, you know that eggs doesn't increase you sugar or bad cholesterol.
Except it is NORMAL to eat carbohydrates and all the best overall long-term health outcomes have comes from diets where most calories came from whole food carbs. So how are supposed to dodge the healthy carbs while eating the eggs?
@@bettywhill Thanks for your reply. "low carb diet is the way to go." There simply isn't any long-term evidence for the efficacy of very low carb diets. There is tons of evidence for the efficacy of whole food pant-based diets that are very low in fat. "Carb cause insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes which leads to all kinds of problems." With all due respect, you're confusing the effects of eating processed carbs within the context of a diet that is too high in fat with the effects of whole food carbs. Studies clearly show that you can prevent and REVERSE diabetes on diets with 60-75% calories from whole food carbs. ALL large, slim, and largely diabetes free populations in recent history got the majority of their calories from whole food carbs. Take care.
@@HealingLifeKwikly I don’t need study to show me which one is effective in reducing blood sugar. Carbs in whole food might not elevate blood sugar as fast as processed sugar, but it still cause blood sugar to go rise above normal range for people with pre diabetic or diabetes. Been on low carb for 3 months. Completely off med and A1C normal.
@@bettywhill Thanks for your reply. Part of what I study as a researcher is how people get fooled about what is true or effective in various fields and if I had a dollar for every time I heard someone misjudge the meaning of their own personal experience, I could buy a boat. . The confusion over diabetes is profound--not just amongst the public but amongst researchers as well. The vast majority of westerners eat too much fat, including too much saturated animal fat. This sets in motion two problems that impair their ability to normally process carbs. First, eating lots of saturated animal fat harms the beta cells of the pancreas. Second, eating lots of fat makes your muscle cells fattier, thus increasing insulin resistance. You've basically rigged your body so it can't process carbs as it evolved to do. The, most carbs westerners eat are processed carbs, so if you eat processed carbs after having given yourself insulin resistance with too much fat, of course blood sugars rise. But if you only eat 7-15% calories from fat, suddenly your insulin resistance improves markedly then if you eat slowly digested whole food carbs, you can keep your blood sugars in the normal range. Let me be clear about what I meant: Experimental studies have shown you can reverse diabetes and bring diabetics' blood glucose levels into the normal range in 3 weeks on a whole food plant based diet with 73% of calories from carbs. I'll say again, ALL large, slim, and largely diabetes-free populations in recent history got the majority or vast majority of their calories from whole food carbs. As for your low-carb experience, of course you can control blood sugars eating that way, but a) low-carb diets haven't proven to be safe in the long run, and b) you haven't fixed the problem (inability to process carbs normally), you are just dodging its symptoms by not eating carbs. Take care.
@17:00 we should all be getting it by now...each time we read an article telling us good news about our bad habits, we should look up the "according to a recent study" and see how many people were in the study, who funded it, and how results can be swayed in the direction of the funding. Not to say that we can't find good things, but even just reading the abstract and seeing what these foods were compared to will open our eyes. Don't just read random articles online and base your life on that--really dig. So many articles I have read don't even list the studies, because they've been read, re-read, and portrayed how we want them to be.
I was diagnosed with diabetes 2 years ago and I can say with much confidence that; Dr Barnard’s books and methods saved my life.
Hdl .whart is the ideal reading
@@davidwhartoni5346 LDL is 35-50
I am so glad you made the choice to save your life and I am so grateful for this wonderful man saving me too. I had horrible migraines, depression, acne, bacterial infections, candida, and more and it's all going away. It's only been a month and I feel way better already. I was only 26 and have a horrible response to sat fat. Cutting it out has been revolutionary for me. WFPB no oil for my health and vegan for the sweet moo moo's and baa baa's and cluck cluck's!
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Dr. Neal Barnard is the best doctor in America!
Honest and brilliant,he makes no money on this.
What is your opinion of Ivor Cummins aka the Fat Empero, David Feldman (cholesterol code), and Dr William Davis. Apparently, despite what we physicians have been taught, LDL is quite a poor marker for CVD risk. Better marker is HDL/triglycerides which I believe should be less than 2. When elevated, is a sign of insulin resistance which is definitely a/the driver for almost all CVD.
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Yes, LDL by itself is a silly metric. Dave Feldman proved live that he can show impressive LDL with an incredibly poor diet in a week!
Reducing insulin is a key factor in great health. This obsession with LDL is just a way for people to push their beliefs onto you. Your body creates and regulates cholesterol. Eating more foods with cholesterol will make your liver create less - and vice versa.
@@paulg687 Actually, experimental research clearly demonstrates elevated LDL is the central causal factor in LDL because if you keep your LDL in the normal range for a lifetime (35-70), then unless you have a rare genetic disorder, no plaque forms. No elevated LDL=no plaque= no heart attacks.
"Dave Feldman proved live that he can show impressive LDL with an incredibly poor diet in a week!" That doesn't prove or disprove anything--LDL isn't the ONLY factor in human health.
William Davis' book was incredibly weak and flawed on the research and Ivor Cummings dupes people by showing studies where people have LDL under 100 or 130 or even 140 and pretends that is normal or "low" LDL. Then he says--"See, people still have heart disease with normal LDL," except that ISN'T normal or low LDL, it is elevated LDL. Normal LDL is 35-70, and when people's LDL stays down there, arterial plaque doesn't form.
I am so disappointed in the scientific community as a whole, the more research I do. It should be a punishable offence to publish biased studies in journals that receive funding from/are done by affected industries. Because of all the confusion and uncertainity the disingenous findings cause, the health of the world (people, animals and environment) have been compromised and even those with the best of intentions have no idea whether they are impoving or worsening any given situation. It is so sad. The best people can do is to compare these research papers themsleves and come to their own conclusions, but not everyone has the time or the knowledge to interpret the data, and it is in no way a foolproof method either. We just trust either one scientist/doctor or another. And to be honest, my vote is with the person guaranteed to have the most empathy and compassion in their hearts, therefore the least likely to decieve or push an agenda for personal gain - I will go with the vegan community.
Very well said
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Why are we surprised? We're not really.
It's how our own brains work.
Why did people choose to believe those patently false studies?
For the same reason more and more people will continue smoking pot event as more and more studies reveal it's health dangers.
Because smoking grass and tobacco gives them pleasure.
Yup. You are very right .
Vegans are ideologically dogmatic too. They will also skew the results in their favour. You are basing your diet on a conclusions arrived at using erroneous assumptions.
Around the world the longest lived and healthiest people are not vegetarians they are omnivores, be it Greek islanders, Sardinians, Japanese or Hong Kongers.
when I was first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, I really disappointed my doctor by refusing to take medications. As I reviewed what the meds were actually doing for people, it sounded to me that meds were making people more and more insulin resistant. A nurse who was coaching me about diabetes, told me I would need to be on metformin, and a year or so later, I would need more metformin, eventually I would need insulin injections. I rejected that. I at first tried Keto that seemed to help but I never felt healthy. Now I am on plant-based way of eating and feel great. I had never heard of type 2, 1.5 with an autoimmune element. I need to learn more about that, as I also have another autoimmune condition.
Great, first using alimentation as a correction is always the best. It seems to be greatly underestimated. Insuilin against type2 diabetes is contraproductive!!
I want to say Dr Barnard ROCKS!!! I can’t think of any other physician that has done more for veganism and plant based nutrition than him! He inspires me BIG TIME. I was proud to support him and PCRM 2 years in a row at AMA getting important resolutions passed. I am a plant based cardiologist and have been obsessed with evidence based nutrition, lifestyle medicine and veganism for 3+ years now (just had my veganniversary). Dr Barnard you was one of the most influential doctors in my decision. We should support Dr Barnard and PCRM. GO PLANTS! Trying to spread the word myself as well via TH-cam and other places. Let’s be the change!
I love your work dr Lome. I've learnt loads from your videos. Thank you :)
A cardiologist should know that eating meat has nothing to do with heart disease. The cause is the over-consumption of processed sugar and carbohydrates combined with the consumption of the wrong type of fats (mostly vegetable oils.)
Banished From The Dwarf Planet Then why do the ACC/AHA guidelines for prevention of heart disease (written by dozens of the top cardiologists) recommend plant based diets or provegetarian Mediterranean diets? See here: www.onlinejacc.org/content/accj/early/2019/03/07/j.jacc.2019.03.010.full.pdf
@@DrStevenLome That's the billion-dollar question. You've been in practice for a while, but not as long as I have (I took the liberty of browsing your doximity profile) and you should know very well that eating meat has positively no effect on cardiovascular health. You're an interventional cardiologist, so do you really want clear out your cath lab? I'll be honest with you, I'm becoming more and more suspicious of all you "top cardiologists" telling people to eat these pro-inflammatory foods.
Dr Steven>> From your link:
"All adults should consume a healthy diet that emphasizes the intake of vegetables, fruits, nuts,
whole grains, lean vegetable or animal protein, and fish and minimizes the intake of trans fats,
processed meats, refined carbohydrates, and sweetened beverages. For adults with overweight and
obesity, counseling and caloric restriction are recommended for achieving and maintaining weight
loss."
That seems to back up MY claim in my previous post. Nowhere does it say to eliminate animal food, rather to limit processed carbs and trans fats, just like I said.
I don’t know about all y’all, but I functioned my best when I dropped sugar’s and flour’s, in all of their forms. I found energy, I woke up ready to work, I was excited, and I rarely had those low days. Problem is sugar’s and Flour’s are in EVERYTHING. And they have many names.
How about starchy food like potatoes yams?
@@gate-gate6863 potatoes & Yams are good for you.
Not on a vegan SOS vegan diet🤷🏽♀️
I’m still all over the place whether or not to be concerned with LDL versus cholesterol. On the one hand there are studies that show it’s not the cholesterol per se that is bad, but the oxidized/glycated LDL which may not directly correlated with the total cholesterol. And also say that high LDL-cholesterol is not necessarily a bad thing as long as HDL, Triglycerides and HbA1c are all within normal limits because it means LDL levels indicate a healthy movement of triglycerides needed for cellular processes… versus this one from Doc Barnard where it lumps all the cholesterol into a bad thing overall…. also about that statin thing, which makes me adamant at taking it to “cure” my high LDL-cholesterol because I have very good numbers for HDL, triglycerides and HbA1c…. 🥴
Check out Dr. Nadir Ali.
Just do not bother with blood cholesterol figures. The true is that nobody knows their significance anyway. They make money out of jiggling with the figures, nothing more. In 99% out of the presentations the metabolic paths are ignored, or wrongly considered.
What is your Hb1C level, if I may ask?
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@@primopierre That is a healthy value. In the scale I used: 5.7% - 6.4% = pre-diabetes, above 6.4% = diabetes. The values may slightly differ with the laboratory and the interpretation - with the physician. To make sure it is ok, you may go for an HOMA-IR. I think you know, but just for my piece of mind: the laboratory tests are not the Holy Cow of the medical science.
Hb1C changes only after at least 3 months, so checking and 5-6 months is enough. To be noted that the contribution of the diet in 30 days prior to test contributes 90% to the test results, while the remaining 2 months - only by 10%.
I assume you are not on diabetes medication. If you are, there is a totally different discussion and please disregard what I said.
Thank you Dr Barnard for your responsible professionalism. And for being humble and kind enough to teach us the truth for free. By learning the truth about how food effects our bodies I've made dietary changes, become more healthy, energetic, got my serum cholesterol down to the healthy range, my blood pressure stays around 110/70, my joints are pain-free and inflammation-free, my back is pain-free, and I feel and look younger than most people who are ten+ years younger than me.
MsFit Vegan happy for your health. His teachings are flawed though.
you seem to have best nature!!
He's an idiot period.
I eat a high-fat animal product diet and my blood pressure is 120/60 with very low triglycerides.
The crap to avoid is vegetable oil and canola oil.
Give it time. Most people do not see immediate effects of animal fat until later. Your blood pressure is your pressure is a snapshot of your blood pressure and health at a given point.
THANK YOU demoskunk. This bullshite is medicine from the 1960s...they just refuse to give it UP.
The stuff to avoid isn't just vegetable oils like canola and soy and corn, it's also ALL refined foods. All junk foods. All foods that contain sugar. Cholesterol is like little sticks of dynamite in your system and sugar is the box of matches. Keep them both DOWN if you want to avoid disease and live long.
Do u eat the animals in Cowspiracy
@@LisaMurphy Healthy fats are good, though. And that includes butter and the marbled fat in steaks.
It’s really a shame that we have to listen to people apparently eating during his lecture.
Such an insult 😢
My father died after 8 years in a nursing/hospital setting. He had a stroke and had suffered greatly afterwards. I have seen many people suffer and continue a horrible diet even after a heart attack. Who wants their end of life to be filled with pain, unable to move and bed ridden until death. While I am an oval vegetarian, I do not eat a lot of them and will probably give them later. I am also disabled and can tell you about suffering from pain. I do not need to add to my suffering. I broke my back and have rods, plates and screw. Pain is daily, statins made the pain worst, so going vegetarian was the right call for me. My actual lifestyle is Whole Food, Plant-Base. While it won’t stop the pain in the back, it has changed my life. 8 months and still going strong. Food is Medicine.
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My non-scientific guess is that the culprit is processed foods. Food from white flour, combined with overconsumption of added sugar. Every measure; plant-based diet, intermittent fasting, Paleo diet, etc.; are beneficial simply because they reduce our consumption of white flour-based foods and added sugar.
Oskar Denis Baharudin the issue is saturated fat. Watch any fatty eat and you will see the plate is primarily fatty foods.
@@adiposerex5150 almost all diseases in modern times are linked with unmanaged glucose level in blood. Please show me any research which shows low carb and high fat cause diabetes. (and please don't show me a research which mix high fat with high carb and calls it high fat diet)
@@realimagevanity2289 eating whole food complex carbohydrates are not unhealthy.
Our ancestors ate lots of tubers, whole food complex carbohydrates to fuel themselves.
I cannot eat low carb, it makes me very unwell.
I am happy to cut out refined/processed junk food carbs, anything made out of flour from my diet such as bread, bagels, muffins, pasta ect.
But I feel much better/healthier when I eat whole food complex carbs like potato, sweet potato and rice with lots of vegies or salad.
@@michellehashish5341 nothing wrong with that as long as you keep fat very low. What I am saying is that mixing high carb with high fat is the issue.
@@realimagevanity2289 yes I am doing my best to eat low fat. No dairy and I am learning you can cook without oils. I am eating flax and chia seeds for my omega 3.
My LDL cholesterol DOUBLED when I started keto diet with eggs and fish. Now my ldl level is 198
There is a good reason for you ldl going high. You should search for the research done by Dave Feldman. He explains this and more. In short, a key diet will pull vldl from your liver. These stay around for a few days. So the previous 3 days can affect the level. Also you fast for a blood test, which pulls out vldls which will raise the ldl. Measuring and using ldl in this way is flawed.
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@@paulg687 thanks a lot dear friend 🙏.
We do fasting blood test for lipid profile and sugar tests. I watched the video you suggested. He ate high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrates. It reduced his carotid artery’s thickness and lowered blood pressure. I hope this keto diet will also help me to cure my BP and my heart ( palpitations)and kidney (eGFR 79)ailments. Once again thanks a lot for your kindness. May god bless you
@@govindang9303 you’re welcome. Just so you know, from what I’ve researched wrt heart palpitations: there are a few common issues that can cause afib. One is electrolyte depletion in magnesium and/or potassium. You can easily try supplementation to see if it fixes the issue. You have to be careful not to overdo potassium supplementation. Start very low and research before you try. A lot of afib issues can actually be caused with back problems. The nerves for the heart come out of the spine (around just below the shoulder blades). If these nerves get pinched they can cause palpitations. If you have back issues around this area, you may want to try to correct that with exercises and stretches. There’s videos based in the McKinskey method you can see to show how to do this. Chiropractors may be able to help, but by doing these McKinskey exercises you can do them each day or as needed. Additionally, with a low carb diet, you may experience a lot of weight loss. This may also improve the situation because you’re applying less pressure on the nerves. Hope that helps.
@@paulg687 thank you, I will try these. My bp shoots up with tight feeling at heart, when try to drink water to keep 1.5 litres daily intake. I think it is because of low GFR of 79. I am restless.
@@govindang9303 I had PVC..ie heart palpitations and started taking magnesium and it was gon the next day and has not returned.
Giving people food during a presentation was a bad idea
I think it significantly adds to the atmosphere, then again I was having lunch whilst watching this video.
So it's not just me who hears the kitcheny noises in the background 🤔
What a stupid thing
Troubles me is that there are so many diverse and in some cases opposite opinions from leading cardiologist and nutritionist on this subject
Me too. You can find any opinion that'll satisfy your own confirmation bias. This video could more accurately have been called _''Adding_ to the cholesterol confusion...''
I think he just jumped to the conclusion at the very beginning that cholesterol is bad for you and need to reduce. But in the meantime he also said our body makes cholesterol. Study also shows Statin drug reducing cholesterol doesn't affect heart disease.
Like my doc says , any diet that totally eliminates any food group or promotes only one food group exclusively without exemption is probably wrong or at least unsustainable. Works for me.
Well why would u eat animal products & raise your cholesterol & coat your veins & arteries with it along with fat & saturated fat?
It's called denial
Was on statin for only 2 months and then spent the next 18 months trying to overcome arrhythmia (14000 pvcs per day).
It's been a year since the pvcs have stopped. Cholesterol is quite high as per my lipid panel report last week, but not taking statin. Instead cutting out eggs, processed fats, etc. while also on 18:6 intermittent fasting.
If I drink more than one cup of coffee per day, I start to have pvcs. If my BMI is high so is cholesterol, if normal my cholesterol is normal. I have tried to take statins three times but always had to stop because of muscle pain. I am old with no artery blockages, but doctors still think I need statins. Just a statistic of one but thought this might help.
May be Cholesterin is not most important. Think of sugar and carbohydrates and obesity!
I stopped eating eggs for a whole year, took the blood test e the cholesterol level did not go up or down. I’m back eating 2 eggs a day.
Nice and full of humor presentation. However, I was hoping to hear something about the various types of cholesterol subgroups, e.g. VLDL. There is a lot of recent research explaining the subgroups, focus mostly on LDL, which reveal a new picture for those worried about cholesterol. Instead of treating only HDL and LDL as big blocks and using the old total cholesterol formula which dates back many years.
Agree. Watching hours of presentations of how something is linked to something else and what the statistical correlations were computed is wasting time. This is no science but pseudoscience. Biochemistry is a difficult science and that is why most physicians simply do not know. It is so easy to dump some figures in a computer program and graph the outputs! Add a tie and a screen and voila! You have "science". I forgot to mention the money :-)
You want someone to tell you that high total cholesterol is good. It’s not good. It’s not that complicated. It’s just that Keto diet doctors are trying to explain away keto dieter’s total high cholesterol numbers, trying to say higher numbers are good.
@@mariaespiritu9512 That might be an oversimplification of the matter as most recent research is starting to reveal. If lipids are sitting idle in a tube, true that they could end up sticking. But when those same lipids are being actively pushed forwards by various transporters, the picture is different.
@@mariaespiritu9512 You have absolutely no clue.
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Great info. Bottom line imho-If you will just look around at the public walking in plain view the obesity in front of you will tell you something is wrong.
True that's the biggest problem, it's not the cholesterol, it's the overconsumption of carbs
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Marja Stuyt yeah it must b all those burger buns 🙄
It's the overconsumption of food stuff. And very likely the overconsumption of all the wrong foods.
I do not understand the citizens of this world who pay for food to create illness in their own bodies. STOP EATING CRAP PEOPLE!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900715000775
Just common sense. It's not the cholesterol, read this article, see how Americans followed the guidelines and get obese
Marja Stuyt They ate a shit ton of cheese and didn’t exercise. They over ate bad carbs, and underate fiber. They ate too few fruits and vegetables, and ate too many donuts.
Your anti-carbohydrate crusade is bullshit and you are misleading people on here.
Just because cholesterol is found at the scene of the crime doesn't necessarily mean it is culpable. That would be like saying that firemen cause fires because every time you see a fire you see firemen.
The better analogy would be smoke. They are finding smoke at the scene. You may wish to dig deeper and look at the radioisotope tracking that has been done on cholesterol and other lipids and their eventual path into cells, tissues, and plaques. It is quite fascinating.
@@DrReginaldFinleySr
No. The body is smart; it does not try to kill itself. The liver produces cholesterol in order to move us into the direction of ease - away from a diseased state - in an effort to keep us alive.
@@maricamaas5555 Unsure what you are disagreeing with. I know this. I teach this.
@@DrReginaldFinleySrYou are welcome to teach whatever you believe. Others teach differently. Highly acclaimed medical professionals have written books to debunk the high cholesterol myth.
@@maricamaas5555 I don't teach what I believe, My beliefs are irrelevant. I review the preponderance of the scientific literature.
I raised my dietary cholesterol drastically with pasture beef and eggs. My cholesterol dropped to perfect. Total 153 and my triglycerides are 35.
I wish someone would explain why they think your case should be ignored. Not how we mortgage our children’s future, but what happened that was different than described. All those studies showed that eating cholesterol raises cholesterol. Was the flaw that pastured meat and eggs were not used? I’m trying to find the fundamental flaw in those old studies he referenced. I eat very little meat. Lots of veggies. LDL is above 70. I DO have a sugar addiction though.
Birtee I believe the fundamental flaw is context. Meat, as in feed lot conventional burgers with fries, beer, and onion rings is a far cry from my pasture raised beef and eggs eaten with lots of vegetables and no processed foods. The studies don’t take into account food quality. People don’t talk about this very much. Quality is very important.
@@Jeffopar The problem is the beer and onion rings, not whether the meat is lot or pasture raised. Still, I wish agriculture would eliminate the vast acreage for corn and wheat and start growing alfalfa and timothy for the livestock.
with all due respects , please throw some light on people having high cholesterol and blocked arteries despite having spent all their lives on plant based diets. Please take this seriously , as i am coming from India where millions of people die from such diseases despite an overarching culture of vegetarianism. Please help us understand this phenomenon better .
Oils
Plant based diets are different from being vegan although studies show that it’s not what they’re eating that’s killing them in India. Just because your eating a plant based diet doesn’t mean your off the hook. You have to eat the necessary foods and possibly it’s something in the Indian culture food that’s the problem (that’s just my theory)
@@MrPotatoPants326 The indian diet is overloaded with inflammatory cooking oils. Cholesterol is not the only cause of CAD, and in fact it's just a small causal factor. When you damage your arteries, cholesterol adds to the mix, creating the plaques. The rupture of these plaques is the most common cause of heart attack and stroke.
Cholesterol is also made in your body. When you eat oils and other inflammatory foods, your cholesterol raises even without dietary cholesterol. This is because cholesterol helps with the healing of your arteries when they are damaged, but it also hardens them, increasing blood pressure.
The problem with animal products is not limitted to cholesterol, however. They also are high in saturated fat, as Neal Barnard explained. They contain heme iron and other inflammatory nutrients, and they are much more polluted than plants due to bioaccumulation. In short, most of the meat we eat causes both the inflammatory response and the cholesterol raise.
Excess sugar (glucose) relatively to fat and protein is the problem. Excess glucose is the basis of all modern diseases, especially coronary artery disease. Vegan diet unfortunately implies de facto excess sugar (to get enough calories). See Ketogenic diet for optimal health. The more fat (but not inflammatory grain oil fat) the better. Note that you can do keto with a vegan diet if you are a religious person but it is not easy. Last but not least don't believe nutrition associative studies about cholesterol. Read the study and check whether the diet of tested people was including more than 5% of calories as carbohydrates . If so those people were in fact on a high sugar diet hence the artery and other diseases. We cannot look at egg consumption in isolation. If you eat sugar and eggs or anything else, sugar prevails. Sugar is the key variable. Reliable studies should test people on ketogenic diet versus people on high sugar diet (5% of calories as glucose and above).
Refined carbs bad , grains dubious ... mix either with saturated fat bad , mix either with modern seed oils disastrous . We as humans evolved eating fatty Grass fed meat and vegetables .
I find that I do best when I don't combine fat and carbs. This way, my digestion is happy. I put olive oil on my non starchy veggies. But I eat beans or oats without fat. I feel best eating that way. 🙂
I am on a relaxed carnivore diet, I have a low carb so I can include dairy, the most digestible food on the face of the planet and an 8 ounce glass of vitamin C juice. The rest is grass fed grass finished red meats bison and beef and pasture raised eggs and pork Wild caught fish. I have contact dermatitis, the carnivore diet put me in remission after 30 days! Cholesterol has been proven to have no link to heart disease, but doctors insist on peddling medication for it.
@@Spyrit2011 I'm on a similar diet, but I don't have juice, that's too much sugar. I do believe in milk though and grass fed animal meat. I eat low carb veggies and low sugar fruits (berries) I also supplement with Spirulina and Chlorella. I'm in perfect health at 67.
@@LisaMurphy I drink juice from red pears, they are low on the glycemic level , 84% water, anti-inflammatory, and packed with nutrients that compliment the carnivore diet. Absorbic acid plays a role in aiding iron absorption into the blood cells as well as boosting the immune system, which these days is pretty important. I am doing carnivore for it's anti-inflammatory properties and fat adaption.
@@Spyrit2011 there isn’t enough land to feed our population animal based foods even IF they were healthy. But they aren’t the most healthy anyway. Plant foods is the most environment, animal and health friendly way to eat as a whole.
@@jbarber1016, we don't eat as a whole, we eat as individuals, what works for some may not work for all. While eating vegetables may be okay for some, eating meat is necessary for many. Those of us who are eating meat as a means of controlling our inflammation, don't really have a choice in the matter, for us, vegetation of some types cause inflammation and extreme pain. I have Psoriatic arthritis, it is an autoimmune disease, I have found out that eggs and milk products cause me pain, the same goes for garlic and onions, I can eat a meat based diet, and test other foods while I am on it to see what causes a flare up and what doesn't. Not everyone has to eat this way, but some of us do, it's not possible to switch 7,5 billion people over to a vegan lifestyle. And P.S. fish and poultry, are meat too, not just cow, there's lamb, goat, and a few others.
Very good point on the meta-analysis, but the end-conclusion is also fallacious: Directing guidelines according to populations may actually make things worse for those populations, without a comprehensive understanding of what is going on.
Veganism towards culling the population.
"Cholesterol particles have oxidized and irritated the artery wall" Are you sure about that causation?
Its total cholesterol..no no its LDL...pardon me, its LDL particle count that matters...no no its oxidized ldl...and now, its apoprotein b:)) this theory definitely not explaining the CVD equation.
Glycated and oxidized... Lets just guess by what.
All this lecture is mostly piece of garbage without real science to show the facts.
Thanks a lot. Let the voice of truth be known far and wide. God bless!
Can’t thank you enough Doctor Bernard
Nobody's getting out alive! Eat real food, exercise, be cool to everybody, be happy and wish for a little luck!
Its really not hard to be healthy (I cannot say that cancer can be prevented however, as everything seems to cause it somehow). Just cutting out processed shit from someone's diet and exercising 4x a week or more depending on how much you sit, is enough to probably add decades to your life.
And do shrooms once in a while for increased levels of awesome
The best advice on here.....nice one
Yeah if those years are healthy that's a world of difference.
@john m So we recently created these plants?
I would like to see one day dr. Neal Barnard and dr. Berg sit down on a panel and discuss how best to lower cholestrol. They are both on completely different sides on this very important issue that is killing people. How can we find a true way to lower cholesterol when doctors can't even be on the same page.
I am not on one person's side more than another, I just want clear answers so I'm not confused anymore.
The only thing that I did get from this was that I didn't hear Dr berg state that a plant based, low fat diet is not an acceptable alternative to lowering cholestrol, whereas Barnard stated fat contributes to high cholesterol and why cholesterol is lowered initially on a keto diet. The only thing I did hear Dr berg say that agreed with Dr Barnard was that the body makes its own cholestrol, so if that is the case, why would we need to eat heavy doses in meat, cheese, dairy, and oils if the body produces its own? Isn't too much of one thing bad?
One of the main reasons for me adopting a whole-food, plant-based, vegan diet is that I do not want any animals to die in order to feed me. There has to be a better way. So for two years I’ve been eating a vegan diet, and I feel great.
Dr. Berg and DR Berry believe that because the liver doesn't need insulin to produce usable lipids from dietary animal fats to nourish our cells. They proclaim that sugars and carbohydrates trigger an insulin response that is harmful in numerous ways. Also, in their educated opinion they explain that harmful triglycerides are a byproduct of overindulging with fructose and carbohydrates. I think both schools of thought present interesting theories and eventually the best diet will be discovered.
Berg is a chiropractor.
@@richardwalker8398 we are talking about cholesterol not your reasons for not eating animals. Have your cholesterol levels changed from your new diet??
@@mosaicsanctuary3 since I have been on a plant-based diet, my blood pressure is lower and is in the normal range and my cholesterol and associated ratios are good. My weight is down by 10kg, I am way more flexible and have a lot more energy.
Bless those plant-based doctors like Dr Barnard. "It is certain that in this wonderful new age the development of medical science will lead to the doctors' healing their patients with foods." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahai Faith
Yes... the new age is now ... this message was delivered over 100 years ago
Eileen Mcgovern it’s called the great awakening 🙏❤️
@@eileenmcgovern9193 lk
So, everyone still disagree with one another. You know your fucked when one "expert" tells you that cholesterol is bad and you don't need to consume it, and another that goes into detail on how it DOES NOT do anything to your heart. Somebody is freaking wrong.
Normally the more ‘religious fervour’ and shaming rhetoric the speaker is using to convince you, the less right they are. We know now that HDL and healthy LDL are good but oxidised LDL is not. Anyone telling us not to consume dietary cholesterol has to prove it is more likely to become oxidised LDL in the body than LDL manufactured by it. I have no idea, but it’s clear from current real science that one can’t demonise any form of HDL or LDL that is healthy and those that do are simply parroting ancient dogma.
@@neilxify Yea, I am coming to that conclusion myself. I just eat cholesterol foods that is full of nutrients, exercise and keep excess inflammation down with fish oil and Tumeric.
Well, the connection of cholesterol and heart disease was found a long time ago. There are many industry interests to fight against that, so after these results, many studies where funded by the industry to ensure their business model. In the end it's honestly not that hard, turn on your own brain. But I mean that stuff that clogs the arteries literally consist mainly of cholesterol.
@@okdoomer620 Inflammation causes the build up of plaque moron. Cholesterol is just the reaction to the inflammation. Cholesterol is needed for the body to fuction for fucks sake.
What causes inflammation? It isn't Cholesterol. Its carbohydrates and sugars. THIS IS THE FACTS. Look up what happens when you eat a shit ton of sugar in the body. Inflammation city.
@@okdoomer620 Just type in "Sugar Causes Inflammation". There are many studies that prove this. To say this is all a Cholesterol funded conspiracy is a fucking joke.
You have to ask the question: Who is funding these studies? Pharmaceutical companies in order to get Drs to push Statin drugs. You can always tell when someone is stuck in their own world because they make fun of people who disagree with them. It's the oldest trick in the book.
Not really. Most health studies other than clinical trials for drugs are funded by the NIH, not pharma companies. The animal agriculture industry has billions of dollars and a huge incentive to misrepresent data the data to downplay the negative effects of cholesterol, but we still see that it consistently increases heart disease
I took a blood test or rather my GP send me for one (I didn’t ask for one), the results came with all kinds of deficiencies. GP put me on various vitamins. I collected the medication kept it on the self and went on a dietary path, glass of milk, eggs twice a day. By the third BT everything was within the required limit. I returned all medication to chemist. After that anytime GP send me for a BT, I do my business and make him happy. When I was growing up, we were taught up; egg and whole milk were whole food, that is the truth. Selling by products is Is everybody’s goal. Many are touting for business. That’s how they designed the system. Your body has the capability producing everything that needs. Whatever you have, have in moderation, you’ll be fine.
Well said, you are good by heritance and behaviour andbeeing critical overlook!
Thank you for adding more confusion.....
Half the patients admitted to hospitals for heart attacks have normal cholesterol. How is it obvious that cholesterol causes heart attacks?
@@kenmarriott5772 Doctors don't have an answer to that question but they will find a way to blame it on "Family History" and tell the patient he/she needs a stent and be put on a fancy new expensive blood thinner like Eliquiis or Brilinta for the rest of their life ( no Warfarin or Coumadin, no siree)especially if they have the dreaded "widowmaker". A friend of my husband's has been taking Statins for over 20 years due to a Family history of heart disease and had a heart attack recently where they found a widowmaker with a 95% blockage. So much for Statins preventing heart attacks and strokes!
@@kenmarriott5772 That's because the "normal" cholesterol levels are actually quite high. The physiological LDL cholesterol levels are 50-70mg/dl
Noah, the dietary cholesterol hypothesis came out of Senator George McGovern’s committee on dietary guidelines for Americans. The Senator asked if there was any evidence for this. He was told no but it would be easier for people to understand, since they were blaming serum cholesterol.
Noah, the new thinking is chronically high levels of insulin is causing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s, joint inflammation. These diseases are reversible by lowering insulin. Cholesterol is the symptom of metabolic syndrome, not the cause.
You are great human being and medical Dr. The best wishes for you.
People are so gullible and lazy. He is a non-practicing psychiatrist and plays musical instruments in a couple bands.It really takes a couple seconds to Google things.
He is a trained psychiatrist, not a nutritionist or even a practicing MD.
@@StickJockeyFPV you left out the fact that he’s a clinical nutritional researcher an adjunct professor of medicine and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Now tell us your credentials.
@@xbioman7882 you left out the fact that he’s an adjunct professor of medicine, a clinical nutrition researcher and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
The most important issue is shoved aside!
If cholesterol is needed by everything in our body, why is it bad when it comes to the rescue of irritated blood vessels? Shouldn't science concentrate on searching how to prevent vessels irritation?
It's not bad. What's bad is too much ... LDL ... & Trigs
Before going plant based I was don't carnivore. Now I don't personally know what that did to my cholesterol cause I never had it checked. What I do know is all the people that were getting checked had their doctors telling them they should be on a statin and most of those people saw their cholesterol levels at least double. Some of them are in the 600s, many are 300-500. Clearly eating cholesterol in our diet impacts cholesterol levels.
TY for this brilliant info. I was particularly interested to see that most of the cholesterol is in the lean part of the meat and not in the fat.
Better look for other info
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@@marjastuyt5322 I'm hardly gonna listen to a keto promoter. Death promoter. No thanks. Best of luck to you
@@sugarbabylove1000 yes, you better listen to someone who references to Ancel Keys and Mark Hegsted, both frauds
Stella Elkhenizy watch Cowspiracy
@@ceolbeats7182 I think the other person commenting should LOL
Old info . There is actually little correlation between cholesterol and heart disease. The cholesterol and calcification of the arteries is caused by Insulin Resistance.
What this doc claims doesn't add up (bio)logically. Cholesterol is a vital substance and so is LDL.
LDL is a carrier for cholesterol and fat soluble micronutrients into vital glands and other body parts. Excess LDL gets absorbed by the liver in a *healthy* person. A high LDL molecular count ratio to HDL and plaque build-up are *symptoms* of an underlying disorder. It's not the pathology itself. It's a defence mechanism, but against what? Inflammatory processes sound like a valid culprit but what causes them? Cholesterol or LDL itself? It doesn't sound plausible.
I suppose these kinds of anti dietary cholesterol hypotheses turn the causalities upside down. The question is why some people get atherosclerosis sooner than others. Nutrition certainly plays a role but the real question is what are the fundamental root causes for those symptoms to arise. Too much cholesterol is a too simplistic answer.
Yea, Im call ing BULL$H*+
What a great presentation. I learned more of chemistry and biology with it than in months at school back in those days...
The problem is, he is talking shit. Everything he has said here has been debunked.
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@@argentum3919 There's intelligent people watching these videos you can't just say "debunked" and consider that as evidence.
Egg industry versus the pharmaceutical industry. Why did they not mention sugar efffects and the claim of some that most of your cholesterol is produced by your own body in this presentation?
For most people, physiologically-normal LDL levels are ~35-70. However, lots of folks have LDL levels of 90-250, and they only got that way through unhealthy diet and lifestyle.
Dr Bernard is NOT a part of the pharmaceutical industry- he believes a healthy diet can deal with most of our modern lifestyle chronic diseases. Dr Bernard did talk about cholesterol being made by the liver ( that our body makes cholesterol) and explained cholesterol is vital for many functions. Dr Bernard also explained you have to be careful as too much can be harmful.
@@HealingLifeKwikly my own parents are examples of genetics in cholesterol. Dad eats whatever... Fried foods and eggs and ice cream etc...mom is very careful. But their bloodwork is the reverse of what science says it should be. I know many ppl like this and as a nurse see many ppl do poorly on meds. Its just not that simple.
@@grainiac7824 OK, but now you are talking about data: Before you sounded like someone claiming people could just sense what is healthy for them and find their way, and since the first indicator about half of people have that they have heart disease is a fatal heart attack, that wouldn't be good enough. Similarly, diabetes sneaks up on people. Yes, some people have genetics that tip the scale significantly one way or another, but most don't. I'm wondering if your dad's LDL is under 70 eating that way, or if it's just under the phony "normal" many doctors use (under 100 or under 130). Also, his post-prandial LDL may still be significantly higher than his fasting LDL if he eats that way.
Take care.
My cholesterol dropped 75 points in 12 weeks following his diet. My a1c dropped .4
It is the oxidised cholesterol that is the problem, there are 2 types of LDL, particle A & B.
A lot of people forget HDL & LDL are not cholesterol but carriers of cholesterol.
I would be more concerned about high Triglycerides and Oxidised LDL.
I could go on more about why Cholesterol does not cause heart disease but my comment would probably be removed...
Stay Extra Virgin - Health, Nutrition & Lifestyle meat is a pro oxidant
James Which types of meat?
Stay Extra Virgin - Health, Nutrition & Lifestyle Cholesterol alone may not cause the heart disease but it definitely plays a role.
@@StayExtraVirgin I meant to say heme-iron
Stay Extra Virgin - Health, Nutrition & Lifestyle They are not an industry, you are free to say whatever you want, that’s your opinion, it might not be right, that’s how it is 😊
Don't worry about cholesterol. Worry about the hdl/triglyceride ratio, and get a calcium scan. It will see the disease progression that ALL lipid panel metrics miss
Interesting.
Age 60 here. My doc told me to stop eating eggs (I eat 2/day) because my TC was 247 and my LDL was 145.
But my HDL was 61, and my TGL's were 45.
And my BP was 124/70, I am 6'0" and weigh 168 lbs., I walk 12 miles/week, belong to a gym, never smoked, and have no family history.
I'm still eating 2 eggs a day. Screw him.
Erik, have him order a calcium scan. Listen to 'The Fat Emperor ' podcasts. Calcium sees the mature plaque formation that lipid numbers alone miss.
@@rubygreta1 that's not a bad hdl/tgl ratio, by the way.
@@markbodine9298 Thanks. I am aware of the calcium scan. I think I'm OK so I will skip it.
And do you know why the calcium scan is rarely used, with most people never even hearing of it? Because there is no money in it for Big Pharma, that's why. I truly believe that. And even worse, it means less money because millions will drop their statin prescription with a good calcium score.
@@markbodine9298 The goal is to be below 2.0, and I'm well below 1.0!
Eating lots of eggs and meat without sugars has lowered my cholesterol and triglycerides dramatically.
Kenneth Crawford prove it. Sugar has nothing to do with fat. Fat is the issue.
2 questions.
1. What damages the artery in the first place that makes the cholesterol arrive to patch the injury?...Answer...carbs/sugar and chronically elevated insulin levels from eating 6x a day.
2. Diabetics are affected more by cholesterol. What causes diabetes? Eating excessive Carbs/sugars and chronically elevated insulin levels from eating 6× a day.
About 80% of diabetes is caused by dairy.
Lack of exercise is also a major factor.
Hmmm. Looks like only refined carbs are bad.
Still not as bad as milk.
Also a major cause of artery damage is not enough vitamin C.
I would have liked him to go further into this. But really he was there to talk about association and relevant numbers. He made his points but yes I think the real challenge is to identify those who are able to tolerate some cholesterol etc.
Broccoli is a carb so I think you are misleading people here...
@@michaeldautry
And anybody that knows anything about nutrition , knows we need carbs in our diet to be healthy !!!
So far in my almost 74 years i have never meet even 1 person that cut carbs from there diet that is healthy !
@@herbbowler2461 carbs are not essential or necessary.
How were the eggs prepared? We're they boiled or fried and fried in oil, lard or butter? They didn't address that in the study. 12:25 approx.
I prefer my eggs fried in the bacon fat (lard).
@@neilxify &carry it on your body😂😂😂
@@ceolbeats7182 Don’t be silly. You eat them and they supply you with healthy fats, protein and lots of other nutrients to make a strong healthy body. No one gets fat eating eggs fried in butter, lard or olive oil. Avoid the seed oils though - they’re poison.
Older people who have higher cholesterol levels live longer than those with lower. Why even bother and look at insulin/glucose levels instead.
Susan Barrett that’s not true with all study’s and all people, I’ve seen this too! An you link me your source please I’m searching
Keep telling yourself that.
@@ubself
Learned a lot from the following on YT:
Stephen Sinatra (Cardiologist)
Jason Fung (Nephrologist)
Natasha C.McBride (Neurologist and Nutrition) - GAPS diet for many conditions (Psychological and Physiological)
John Bergman D.C. - he adds many references to his discussions about various issues
Darren Schmidt D.C. - shorter talks - well researched
@@ubself
Another most vocal on the cholesterol issue, is Dr. Aseem Malhortra:
th-cam.com/video/mAoTwfx1Sic/w-d-xo.html
(He focusses much on how lowering cholesterol is a not really showing benefits)
There are also others like Malcolm Kendrick and David Diamond with good data - specifically focussing in on cholesterol studies.
Hope this helps you!
Reverse Causation. Your cholesterol levels can drop just before death. This is a well known phenomenon. When you look at actual science you will see that hypercholesterolemia is deadly.
3:11 “Cholesterol is mostly in the lean portion of meat!” This is something I did not know! This should be very concerning to Jack Sprat.
Maybe he needed the cholesterol.
@@swissladydriver8980
We do need cholesterol.
It's in both.
TB1M1 The cholesterol is in both the fat and in the lean.
@@johnparadise3134
So does that make cholesterol bad if it is found in both the fat and lean portions of meat?
Last year blood work pre diabetes, almost border cholesterol, gout, inflammation, diverticulitis, staying away from saturated fat only eating egg white, exercise, why am I on my way to be un healthy, so last November went on keto low carb no sugar and started eating bacon regular egg saturated fat my blood work 3 months ago is perfect no high cholesterol everything is better even my gout I lost 35lbs and I feel better man I love my bacon and egg.
Congratulations! You have made the right choice!
Thank you Dr. B! Just went vegan 3 months ago, am a type 1 diabetic, have already lost 13 pounds and feel so much better. Very interested in research you share. You have helped influence my decision to go low fat plant based.
Keep up the good work..people are changing 4 the better.
You’re losing weight because the body consumes its own muscle on a vegan diet. Pretty soon after all the muscle is gone you’ll get nervousness, then it will get so bad you’ll need to eat meat. I ate sardines after being vegan for a year and immediately my entire body calmed down. You need to cut pufa and pretty much all sugar out of the diet, as well as aninutrients and toxins which are found in most plant “foods”.
The vegan diet is a starvation diet. It will destroy your brain or kill you.
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Low carb diets, high in fat low in common sense
Didn't he cite meta-analyses in his presentation as evidence for a plant-based diet reducing blood pressure?
He did actually making his whole presentation and conclusions also questionable.
Meta analysis is considered very high on the hierarchy of evidence, but you have to look at how things were interpreted.
But if we say food cholesterol doesn't contribute to cardio disease, then how is BIG pharma going to sell product?
I only have a question about eggs. I have been eating around 90 eggs a month and my cholesterol and triglycerides haven't been high during these years.Adding to that at the same time, a lot of full fat milk and full fat jogurt leaves me with a question mark here
Maybe your blood type plays a role?
How did you know that your cholesterol isn't high?.
How did you know that your cholesterol isn't high?.
Eat a lot of fiber and you’ll remove most it through your digestive tract.
anecdotal evidence is not proof
we can find some smokers who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and lived to 80, doesn’t mean that smoking isn’t harmful
There are 8 billion people on the planet. Do we really want everyone to live to 100 years before they die?
I am confused after hearing all the doctors on TH-cam about nutrition cholesterol fat eggs meat
Wow, what a strange presentation. It's like stepping back in time. Our knowledge of cholesterol and metabolic diseases has moved on a long way from this deadend. And this man is a doctor? Just shows how much work needs to be done to educate the educators.
Ignorance is bliss, can you actually debunk anything he said?
He started talking crap at 3.20, so I turned him off.
Correct. It’s almost unbelievable. Notice how he claims cholesterol is linked to CVD by dismissing anyone who disagrees with this, despite numerous studies showing that there is no link (or likely an inverse relationship) between cholesterol levels and CVD or longevity I.e the higher your cholesterol level, the less likely you’ll get CVD and the longer you’ll live. The problem is the small oxidized cholesterol which are LDLs damaged due to the consumption of seed oils and other toxins. Sadly lots of ignorant people will look at this garbage and think it represents the latest understanding of cholesterol, diet and CVD.
Right, he didn't say anything about the fact that the body would rather convert fat to energy than sugar. Fat does not increase insulin. He also neglected to show all of the groups that were being paid to say that eggs were bad, he just showed the groups that wanted to promote egg use. Just how much money do the cereal makers spend to make eggs look like killers? He never said anything about the difference between Good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. There were many many other things left out of the research.
Not convinced, my understanding through other videos is much different
This confuses me. I went keto and my cholesterol drop 100 points!
Triglycerides became normal and 5.4 a1c.
He is on the board of PETA, a main reason he promotes meatless diets.
@@franklopeziilmtmti603 oh no, he's a medical advisor for a org that seeks to reduce animal suffering and death! Don't care. As long as you have the science to back up plant based diets, it honestly doesn't matter. Eat suffering and death, become suffering and death. Cope
Well I was Keto and my cholesterol went up, especially my LDL. I’m off of Keto and now eat a WFPB diet and losing weight. I get blood work in January and will see where I stand.
Keto was probably a better diet than whatever you were eating before. You’re comparing keto to YOUR previous diet, not Keto to a Whole Foods plant based diet. Cholesterol drops even lower in a Whole Foods plant based diet. There’s published case studies of patients dropping A1c to 4.5 on plant based diets, so yours could be lower.
@@franklopeziilmtmti603 so what, doesn’t negate the data. Most people have higher cholesterol on keto than on a plant based diet, that’s just facts.
We need more people like this in the world who look out for the greater good.
The funding sources he showed really drives home how the odds are stacked against anyone who believes what most medical reports or doctors say because it’s just not transparent enough for us to make the right choices.
Does he push statins as well??
Now let me tell you why this is half true.
Today I've finally crossed my 3 years self experiment where I ate 3-4 eggs EVERY SINGAL DAY for the past 3 years.
Just today, I did my most recent blood work where my cholesterol is 3.6.
1.1 HDL and 2.49 non-HDL cholesterol. I'm mainly a meat eater with a balanced over all diet, no added sugar, no refined carbs, and lots of meat and green leaf vegetables. How do you explain thay Doc?
good _n=1_ story. Not science.
@@buckmurdock2500 all recent science studies support my claims :)
@@ticketforlife2103 You are referring to the industry funded studies, correct?
There is too much confusing info out there. The people who use keto diet advocate eating eggs, meat, cream, whole milk... and discourage eating fresh and dried fruits. Who is right?
Seekthetruth3000 Keto is the way to go!
If vegetarian diet was such a panacea, there would be almost no diabetic in India, which has one of the highest incidence of diabetes in the world.
ZAHOORUL HAQ Well only recently since they been eating more animals, not less.Why didnt they have higher incidents of diabetes when they were eating proportionally more plants than animals then compared to today? Same thing with the US and every other country. People fry food and eat more animals now than 100 years ago. I'll give you a hint. Eating animals used to be considered a luxury before factory farming. The fatest people were the wealthiest people then.
Ill grant you being vegan/ vegetariam doesnt mean healthy. Whole food plant based low fat diet isn't your typical vegetarian/vegan diet. Its not enough to be vegan/vegetarian. Whole foods are superior to refined.
Glen M You are ignoring travel and time. People werent going into the woods to kill an animal every time they wanted a meal. 2nd, most people werent hunters. They either didnt live in rural areas or have the time to hunt. You are appealing to the exceptions which is irrelevent. I didnt claim it was impossible. It was considered a luxury then.
It is only becuase factory farms where eating meat is convienent staple now. The less available a resource is the more expensive it is. All anyone has to.do is look at the consumption of food between the wealthy and you averege joe blow. It was the wealthy that had the resources to buy the meat. So unless joe blow had the time and patience to either farm their own animals or hunt them, they bought the meat, which was way more expensive compared to plants. Even most farms had a few animals compared to the crops.
Look at the health of the very wealthy 100+ years ago. They are like your average American today.
Glen M You have no rebuttal, and going off topic. Typical.
@Glen M and nun of that proves that meat is healthy for you
Their food is soaked with oil. High amounts of ghee. The wealthy are eating more and more meat.
Dr. Barnard says, "There really isn't anyone who disputes that cholesterol contributes to cardiovascular disease." I find there are many experts now that would say cholesterol is a minor contributor. Other factors like insulin resistance and poor blood sugar control are major players in heart disease. Get those well under control and then it probably doesn't matter what your cholesterol is.
I was diagnosed with very high cholesterol at age 17. I'm now 55. My last two Coronary calcium test were both zero. I can also make my triglycerides go up or down on cue. When I eat high carb they go up and when I eat low carb/high fat/high protein they plummet. I do my bloodwork every three months and have duplicated this as an experiment. The true story is that there is still alot of unknowns. Keep your insulin down that seems to be the real culprit.
@@lpass1 How do you monitor your insulin on a weekly or monthly basis? do one of those glucose/sticky strip's give accurate enough results?
@@flolou8496 Poke my finger many times a day to know what's going on daily, but get my A1C and my fasting insulin number checked usually every 3 months. I find the Contour One to be accurate.
This is an outstanding lecture.
Im finally getting to understand this
His science is wrong. This study completely *demonizes Fiber (more likely because of Carb + Sugar content) and shows Cholesterol, Animal Protein and Eggs as having the Lowest Risk Factors* for Cardio Vascular Disease. However, the study did not report these findings.
The paper analyzed Data from *6 of the largest Cholesterol Heart Disease studies* between 1985-2016.
JAMA STUDY
*Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality*
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2728487
These Figures can be found by clicking the Figures / Tables Menu heading of the Report on the Right side. I recommend everyone view them.
*FIGURE 2*
300mg of Cholesterol Consumed per day
A) CVD Risk
• Fiber was a Higher Risk Factor than Processed Meat and Sodium
• Animal protein had the Lowest risk factor, with Eggs + Red Meat grouping (huh?) as Second Lowest
B) All Cause Mortality
• Fiber was a Higher Risk Factor than Sodium and Processed Meat
• Eggs + Red Meat grouping had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal protein and Eggs as the Second and Third Lowest
*FIGURE 4*
With Each additional Half Egg
A) CVD Risk
• Fiber was the Highest Nutrient Risk Factor
• Cholesterol had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal Protein, Sodium and Saturated Fat coming in Second, Third and Fourth
B) All Cause Mortality
• Fiber was the Highest Nutrient Risk Factor
• Cholesterol had the Lowest Risk Factor, with Animal Protein, Sodium and All Fats coming in Second, Third and Fourth
*FIGURE 5*
300mg Cholesterol and CVD Risk against various Sub Groups
• Low Saturated Fat Diet had the Highest Risk Factor by far
• Non-smokers had Higher Risk Factors than Current and Ex-Smokers
• BMI less than 25 had Higher Risk Factor than 25-30 and Greater than 30
• Diabetes had Higher Risk
Other Analysis of Data from 3 of the 6 Studies included in the JAMA Study
*Jackson Heart Study*
After reviewing 4 papers on the Jackson Heart Study, I could find no significant mention of Cholesterol regarding CVD outcomes. This study's focus was regarding CVD disease awareness in the Jackson Community and treatment quality. This paper seems inappropriately cited given the subject of the analysis.
*Framingham Offspring Study*
Dietary Cholesterol, Lipid Levels, and Cardiovascular Risk among Adults with Diabetes or Impaired Fasting Glucose in the Framingham Offspring Study
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024517/
“In sex-stratified analyses, men in the highest sex-specific tertile of dietary cholesterol had a 43% lower risk of CVD …”
“This study found no evidence of adverse association between dietary cholesterol and risk of CVD among adults with T2DM or prediabetes. In fact, after adjusting for confounding by other lifestyle factors, those with higher dietary cholesterol intakes had a lower long-term risk of developing CVD.”
"Further, there was no adverse association between dietary cholesterol intake and changes in lipid levels (LDL, HDL, LDL:HDL ratio, or triglycerides) over 20 years of follow up in the Framingham Offspring Study."
*MESA Study*
Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Biomarkers of Key Biological Pathways in Cardiovascular Disease
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5108521/
“In addition, LDL particle number was a better estimator of atherosclerotic risk when there was discordance between LDL cholesterol (mass of cholesterol carried by LDL particles) and LDL particle number[4].”
“Pentadecanoic acid, a fatty acid biomarker of dietary dairy intake, was inversely associated with incident CVD and CHD, suggesting a potential cardio-protective role for dietary dairy fat. Similarly, trans-palmitoleic acid from dairy fat was associated with lower blood pressure and lower risk of incident diabetes.”
*Other useful Studies*
Low cholesterol and violent crime
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/11104842/
The Evidence for Saturated Fat and for Sugar Related to Coronary Heart Disease
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856550/
Dietary sugars, not lipids [fat], drive hypothalamic inflammation
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5518723/
Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)
www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
Insulin Therapy Increases Cardiovascular Risk in Type 2 Diabetes
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28958751
A ketogenic diet favorably affects serum biomarkers for cardiovascular disease in normal-weight men
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12097663/
A Ketogenic Formula Prevents Tumor Progression and Cancer Cachexia [muscle wasting] by Attenuating Systemic Inflammation in Colon 26 Tumor-Bearing Mice
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852782/
Relationship between admission serum sodium concentration and clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure: an analysis from the OPTIMIZE-HF registry
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17309900
Reduced Dietary Sodium Intake Increases Heart Rate. A Meta-Analysis of 63 Randomized Controlled Trials Including 72 Study Populations
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805644/
Excessively low salt diet damages the heart through activation of cardiac (pro) renin receptor, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, and sympatho-adrenal systems in spontaneously hypertensive rats
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722333/
Reversal of Diabetic Nephropathy [kidney failure] by a Ketogenic Diet
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3080383/
A Ketogenic Diet Extends Longevity and Healthspan in Adult Mice
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28877457
Ariel Venner Where did you qualify as a doctor???
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@@ceolbeats7182 Not a doctor, here's what the *latest report from the American Diabetes Association* has to say about Fat, Protein, Carbs and Cholesterol, under the "Macronutrient" section:
Nutrition Therapy for Adults With Diabetes or Prediabetes: A Consensus Report
care.diabetesjournals.org/content/42/5/731
*Are Carbs Necessary?*
No, the body makes it's own Carbs when they are absent.
“The amount of *carbohydrate intake required for optimal health in humans is unknown.* Although the recommended dietary allowance for carbohydrate … is 130 g/day ... *this energy requirement can be fulfilled by the body’s metabolic processes,* which include glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis (via metabolism of the glycerol component of fat or gluconeogenic amino acids in protein), and/or ketogenesis in the setting of very low dietary carbohydrate intake (49).”
*Does Reducing Protein Improve Diabetic Health Markers?*
No, Protein positively affects Insulin and blood sugar.
“There is *limited research in people with diabetes or prediabetes without kidney disease on the impact of various amounts of protein consumed* ... A 12-week study comparing 30% vs. 15% energy from protein *noted improvements in weight, fasting glucose, and insulin requirements in the group that consumed 30% energy from protein (61).* "
*Fat and Low Carb Diets (like Carnivore)*
"Eating patterns that replace certain carbohydrate foods with those higher in total fat, however, have *demonstrated greater improvements in glycemia and certain CVD risk factors (serum HDL cholesterol [HDL-C] and triglycerides) compared with lower fat diets.* ”
“Although *the DGA concluded that available evidence does not support the recommendation to limit dietary cholesterol* for the general population, exact recommendations for dietary cholesterol for other populations, such as people with diabetes, are not as clear (8).”
In short, Dietary Carbohydrate is not necessary for Human Health, Protein is a better regulator of Blood Sugar, and Ketogenic Diets have shown the most success in treating Diabetes.
@@ceolbeats7182 it does not take a doctor to see that Barnard is basing his science on epidemiological studies (guesses about food quantities). That is not the main problem. Barnard does not differentiate healthy LDL from oxidized LDL. This alone invalidates all of his arguments against elevating serum LDL levels. He does not even mention how LDL becomes unhealthy. Its like ice skating in army boots. He is all over the place.
Also... Cholesterol when you eat eggs goes up temporarily and pulls cholesterol you used to repair vessels out.. Making serum cholesterol rise until the liver processes it. Whereas if you eat high carb all the time the lack of cholesterol causes the blood cholesterol to oxidize and damage tissue and cause inflamation and eventual plaque and clotting.
CoFFaN32 ..?
Dumbass.
"Cholesterol is not a nutrient of consumption for overconcern." Fascinating!
Although you have the wording backwards, that was the initial conclusion of the 2015 FDA panel based on one very small meta-analysis in which 11 of the 12 studies were funded by cholesterol-producing companies/interests (Egg Boards, fisheries). Then scientists complained and it was changed to eat as little as possible because the better research shows diabetes and heart disease ramping up with higher egg consumption.
@@HealingLifeKwikly I was just quoting exactly what Dr. Barnard said as he started his speech.
@@Malcolm-Achtman That's odd, because the original statement was that cholesterol is no longer a nutrient of concern for overconsumption. So I guess Barnard mixed it up while talking.
Take care.
@@HealingLifeKwikly That's a silly argument. He obviously just mis-typed the original statement.
I eat on average I eat 3 to 4 eggs a day
I train 3 times a week, 2 hrs resistance training
My blood work shows normal cholesterol levels
Last blood work was 2 months ago
What effect does exercise have in reducing cholesterol levels?
excercise alone has little to affect cholesterol. the problem with the medical industry is that they have such a large range of "normal", being within "normal" is not healthy. I can have the testosterone level of a 60 year old man and I'd still be within the "range of normal" chart. Was your cholesterol actually HEALTHY, or just in the "normal range."
the best way to reduce cholesterol is through diet. reduce saturated fat mainly. reducing dietary cholesterol can help a bit. Nuts and seeds are good because they contain phytosterols
@@watermelon1221 No. When say normal. I mean healthy
Every blood test ive had in the last few yrs shows my cholesterol levels to be within a healthy range
I get it tested twice a yr
Here in Australia its a free test.
If ones cholesterol level is abnormal then they send you to a dietician to get it fixed
Its part of a QLD health initiative.
My doctor has told me . I have excellent blood work and nothing to worry about
Btw. I now eat around 4 eggs a day
Reason is , im trying to put on muscle mass. Eggs are an excellent source of protein
In a bodybuilding group im in. Some of the guys eat upto 8 eggs a day
Their cholesterol levels are healthy, within range, normal .etc etc
@@isaaccraig3666 that's what I'm saying. that "range" is just showing that your health markers are within range, aka normal. They don't actually show if it's healthy or not. You'd have to actually research your results to figure out what a healthy number would be
eggs are cheap and high in protein but you can get it more effectively through chicken breasts or whey protein powder. eggs don't have any magic or protein you can't get elsewhere
@@watermelon1221 I dont need to research the test results.
Thats why my doctor goes over the results
He ...tells me if theres a problem or not
So far , every doctor ive had has told me there is no problem or issue with the results
Also eggs . Are not just a source of protein
You cant compare eggs to whey protein or chicken breast
Eggs have a much higher utilisation rate
The second highest for a protein source
Human breast milk being the 1st with the highest utilisation rate.
@@watermelon1221 so what is normal and healthy to you then? you act like you know everything lol
yo, these physician committee videos are FANTASTIC and informative but looks like they were made in the 90s and don't sound very good, quality-wise. Please upload higher quality video and audio because I love the science and message of these videos and it would make them easier to share with people.
Never miss an opportunity to complain about the excellent free education you just received that could save your life.
@@g.e.boroush5176 I'm not complaining; I said the videos are fantastic and informative and that I love the message of the videos.
The point that I'm making is that the poor audio and low video quality makes the videos less appealing to listen to and watch. I'm bringing it up as constructive criticism because I already know it is an excellent free education. I agree with you entirely on that.
I've been vegan for 7 years and have watched many of Dr. Bernard's videos and I have shared them with others. I'm a younger generation teacher, and I teach kids and teens and I watch a lot of TH-cam. It's clear to me that to at least reach a younger and wider audience, the quality of the video matters a lot. People will pay more attention to this great information if more effort is put into the presentation. That's why I brought that up. I believe that would help them reach more viewers and share such great information.
@@DavidDorenfeld that would be ideal but maybe it was limited time. Who gets paid for this?
As the Mayo Clinic reports, most healthy people can eat up to seven eggs a week without increasing their risk of heart disease. Studies have even shown that eating between one and three eggs on a daily basis improves HDL levels, which is the good type of cholesterol. HDL helps to remove some of the bad kind of cholesterol (known as LDL) from your arteries, so you want your HDL levels to be high so that they protect your heart.
Of course, everyone is different. Keep in mind that people with diabetes are already at higher risk of heart disease and some research suggests that eating as many as seven eggs a week could elevate their risk even more.
In short, there is research to back both cases. We suggest limiting your egg consumption-whether that's once a week or three times a week-so that you keep your heart in tip-top shape.
How is it that all my auto immune symptoms, obesity and pain have resolved after going keto and carnivore? Body functions better than 20 years ago. Humans have been eating meat in their diet along with cholesterol way before the explosion of ill health plaque that we are facing now.
On Ketogeic life style for 9 months now. I've lost 25lbs, 205 to 180, no longer need my BP medication, and my vision has returned to 20/20 20/15. My knees no longer hurt, and I don't spend my life being hungry! The vision thing I did not expect, thought it was my imagination, but when my ophthalmologist saw my improvement she asked, " are you on a low carb or ketogenic diet?" I of course answered yes, and she replied " That is amazing, I've had several patients now regain their vision on these diets."
Anita, how is it that morphine cures all disease? Well, because it's not curing anything, it's only confusing the brain. The keto diet works by the same principle. Sometimes it's also an elimination diet and it can accidentally do some good if you've an autoimmune disease. But you'll get more problems over time because animal foods ruin the immune system.
your symptoms went away because you are no longer obese which cause pain in your joints. People will find out that the keto diet with all the saturated fats is not good for you especially someone that has a history of cvd in the family
Yup - this guy is wrong - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15927927/
I met this guy in person in Washington DC at a bicycle tour event around 1990 and bought one of his books directly from him. He seemed like a very friendly and nice guy. The book was all about eating a high carbohydrate, low protein diet with lots of vegetables and grains and beans and rice and potatoes and stuff like that. It was really horrible advice! My key to better health is low carb, healthy fats, high quality protein with no industrial seed oils and with intermittent fasting and time restricted eating. There is nothing wrong with eggs, butter, and high quality animal protein. There is a lot wrong with high Omega 6 diets and linoleic acid and lots of complex carbohydrates and sugar.
Layperson here, trying to understand:
If dietary intake of cholesterol leads to an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, why haven’t we seen that increased risk among populations who have traditionally consumed a diet that was relatively high in cholesterol?
For instance, the Inuits.
Adam Edwards, I thought this might be useful information about Eskimo diet.
th-cam.com/video/IExLpYfpmtY/w-d-xo.html
@@Mmariemay3811 Thank you. I’ll check it out.
Small particle ldl is bad (sugar), large particle (red meat) not so much. Why is particle size not addressed? Are you working for Lipitor or something?
LDL is sugar? No.
@@egidijus6973 You're an idiot. LDL can become oxidized by sugar. This is called the small dense LDL that gets sticky due to sugar and can glog your arteries. Do your research idiot.
I found it interesting how he points out that cholesterol is necessary to produce testosterone... then says "I'm not saying that's a good idea, but that's what happens"...? I realize he's joking and playing on stereotypes linked to testosterone/toxic masculinity, but it's still an oddly dismissive remark...
Men with adequate testosterone have fewer heart attacks. We all know that testosterone is beneficial in exercise and intense exercise can cause the body to produce more, so long as it has enough of the raw materials like cholesterol... Having more muscle mass aids you as you age - - helps issues of mobility and quality of life... the resistance exercise that builds muscle also increases bone density, leading to fewer age related fractures... Certainly we'd rather people elevate testosterone through diet and exercise rather than through replacement therapies?
I'd like to see a study of people eating a lot of eggs... but half of the group does intense resistance training and the other half does no exercise, or only low resistance, low intensity exercise -- we know exercise triggers hormonal response... might it not lead the body to utilize excess cholesterol in positive ways, rather than leading to heart attacks?
Vegans have the same free testosterone as omnivores.
The body produces it's own cholesterol as he mentions.
5:12 So all of this "Cholesterol is bad" rhetoric is based on a link found 30 years ago ??????? Are you a real doctor ?????
He wasn't done explaining the history, but okay
The moment he equated skepticism on the conventional wisdom on cholesterol and heart disease to the conspiracy theory on Moon landing, he lost all credibility
And you are?
Doesn't matter. But what matters is there is ample data, based on good quality studies that raise skepticism on the supposed link between Dietary fat - LDL Cholestrol - Heart disease. Dismissing those as conspiracy theories doesn't do this man's profession any good. These false equivalences to moon landing conspiracy theories or climate change denial are meant to mislead the listeners and silence the valid criticisms/concerns
@@dayalambo Low fat plant based diet, so far, is the only diet known to reverse heart diseases. The autopsy done on Dr Nathan Pritkin had revealed no arterial blockage whatsoever. And, while I don't mean to indulge too much information, yours truly here alleviated erectile dysfunction a few months after switching to a whole food plant based vegan lifestyle. You can say that I am an early riser now, at 60, as I was when I was in my teens. Certainly that indicates my arteries are clearing.
I predominantly follow a vegetarian diet, but one with complex carbs, fats and minimal sugar and refined carbs and that has worked well for me. And I have heard of people who switched to Keto claiming dramatic improvements in health. My problem with the above video is the emphasis on fat and the data he touts as supposed evidence to the link between fat and heart disease. The Ancel Keys study he cites is the most controversial and usually shown as a classic example of wrong way to analyze data in data science 101 courses. The relative risk chart he shows is also designed to mislead people, not one that would withstand scrutiny by any data professional. The emphasis on 'low fat' has over the last 40 - 50 years only led to people consuming more sugary, starchy processed foods labeled as 'low fat' and 'healthy' , which in turn has only increased obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dementia and probably cancer in modern societies. Only a diet balanced with healthy amounts of fat, complex carbs and protiens can reverse that, regardless of whether it is vegan, vegetarian or non-vegetarian. Unfortunately, people start treating this topic like religion, rather than relying on data from good quality studies. I rest my case
@@allee3476 TMI
What about studies that conclude that cholesterol by itself does not cause heart disease? I'm 59, I consume 3 eggs a day. I can run 5 kms comfortably and go to the gym at least 3 days a week.
Do you know your Homocysteine and C Reactive Protein levels?
@@dj-fe4ck I don't have the latest numbers but they were normal the last time I checked them. Besides I'm not a meat eater. I stick to eggs and fish and lots of vegetables. I also take B complex and multivitamin supplements as well as apple cider vinegar twice everyday.
What studies? The higher the LDL levels, the more plaque more people have, with no plaque formation under around LDL = 67.
@@HealingLifeKwikly You need to watch this video: th-cam.com/video/GC9V1TWYLo4/w-d-xo.html
Good for you. Im a vegan. I run 7 kms per day.
Dr Neal Barnard is the best.
Dr Ford Brewer, Dr Davis, Ivor Cummins, etc...search YT for these people and others. They're discussing the latest research that strongly indicates inflammation from carbohydrates as the major cause of CV disease. This is a growing contingent. Worth listening.
....and they would be 100% dead wrong.
@Stephen Otto Nope
Tuula Ollikainen I’ve been high carb plant based since 2013. 47 years old. Went to doc for first time since diet change last month due to needing some stitches. They could not believe my numbers. I left them seriously dumbfounded.
@@PaDutchRunner get a CAC score. Takes 10 minutes. Std blood markers can be very misleading as to calcium build up in your arteries.
18:18 “If I wanted to do a study, and I wanted to make cholesterol look good, I could do it.”
He probably only needs to stop manipulating the data and just follow the scientific method
@Glen M Like all good children's books, they come complete with colorful pictures.
@Glen M Only a gullible buffoon would believe the 1% of scientific studies while disregarding the other 99%, but that's the majority of people who are intellectually lazy nowadays. By the way, please enlighten me on the nations that recommend increasing dietary cholesterol in their nutritional guidelines. I'll be waiting.
@Glen M Ok joker. So you're a conspiracy theorist, the world is flat.
@Glen M You post "abstract" studies, which aren't studies, and you dismiss epidemiological studies? Are you waiting for metabolic ward studies from birth to death? You are a typical gullible buffoon. Continue with your fad diet, it is what all lazy people do.
2019 vs 02/20 current date:
Nov: 2019
Chol 313, Trig 78, HDL 79, VLDL 16, LDL 218,
T.chol/HDL Ratio: 4.0
vs
Feb. 2020
Chol 324, Trig 84, HDL 95,
VLDL 16, LDL 212
T.chol/HDL Ratio: 3.4
I think I can relax somewhat now. :-) till a few months from now when retested.
Are you on a whole food plant based diet? Your LDL should be between 50 and 70 mg/dl.
@@Snooker-cn3dm nope. KETO!
Don't worry about your LDL being high if your on keto, it's most likely the the fluffy good LDL particle, not the small sticky ldl that gets oxidated by sugar, carbs & radicals. Ask your Dr Doctor for a fractionation test for LDL just to make sure. But most likely since your HDL has gone up, and your Tryglycerides are low and A1c is low. Your good on Keto.
@@Snooker-cn3dm This is an example of how your lipids look on a Keto diet. I would have guessed it. It is perfect. A low Triglycerides to HDL ratio is great. Even better if it is less than 1 like this guy!
I am so sorry that some Drs are putting misinformation as is included in this video for the public to watch and become misinformed.
Are they eating while he’s speaking?
Hahaha spoon and plates sound😂
Eating bacon and sausages...
The issue is not what you named. The problem is:
We need cholesterol. Our brain needs cholesterol.
We make cholesterol in our liver, because it’s obviously important for the body.
What we eat has a direct impact on how healthy we are. Everybody knows that, specially the ones for keto diet.
I’m much healthier now then when I didn’t eat butter and eggs.
All my tests show it.
Remember that before this cholesterol spurning, Americans were healthier. And much more lean.
The problem is processed food.
If you were right the French, with all their butter, organ meats and NATURAL SEA SALT, should have been eradicated from the face of the Earth. Instead they beat the USA at all the healthy indicatives.
~ Yes the Italians & Greeks too. Very interesting ...
Yes, the body needs cholesterol, but it makes all it needs, and if you keep LDL under 70, arterial plaques don't form. As for the French, they have lots of folks dying of heart disease, but research shows they underreport CVD deaths. Both the French and US have lousy health outcomes--on a truly healthy diet for a lifetime, heart disease simply disappears.
@@HealingLifeKwikly Karl, study more.
@@RitaHutchins I should add that the egg industry and Egg Boards have done a very clever job of designing research studies that are rigged to make eggs look healthier than they are and then spreading the word to a public who doesn't know how to see through rigged research. Very clever stuff, then all these websites who want to believe them keep repeating the "no harm" message, even though the whole thing was based on weak and rigged studies.
@@HealingLifeKwikly I believe you believe that Karl, and I would not 100% discount it. But the truth is that it’s much more likely that the giant labs did try to make their concocted statins more useful then they are. Sorry. Think about it. It’s an easy choice.
Where is the good doctor's disclaimer about conflicts of interest?
So much nonsense in this video....
Rabka D nearly as bad as the Keto frauds....
I don't understand how it cannot matter for an individual and matter for a population. That doesn't make any sense to me
It's a small increase so for one person it may not make a big difference. Multiply that small increase by millions of people and it makes a big difference because there are so many people.
The probability is high that there are people within the population that have sensitivity or already dangerously high cholesterol, and for them, a small bump would make a large difference. Therefore making a difference to a portion of the population that is measurable over the whole population. The probability that you or I, a single person, are under those circumstances and would be harmed by a few points increase, is a lot lower. Hope that makes sense. I did not understand this for quite some time.
Genetics. Like smoking, some people can get away with a bad diet. I myself am not willing to risk my life on the possibility that I have good genes. I will continue to eat a vegan, mostly WFPB diet. Besides, I like the "side effects" too much.
This soap-opera central casting doc doesn't get it. ***No one's trying to overeat cholesterol.*** Minimize the carbs and eat lipids with only moderate proteins. The cholesterol you have will be healthy with undamaged Apo B lipoproteins, not **damaged by the carbs**. The adipose tissue you gained **by eating carbs** will be consumed by the beta hydroxybutyrate metabolic cycle, which is less oxidative It's the carbs that destroy the endothelial glycocalyx and allows triglycerides and damaged cholesterol (that should be kept low) to get under the endothelium and build plaque. This is the 21st century: We landed on the moon 50 years ago, and this snide and pompous doctor needs to leave the medical flat earth society.
You are absolutely right!
This doctor seems to have been under a rock for the last 10 years. A lot of what he says is not valid.
What? This was a 2015 presentation, what changed since then?
harvard already documented a 2019 study that supports everything in this presentation. stop cherry picking and wrongly misinterpreting vague studies and rejecting the hundreds of documented latest evidence... You're literally living in an enclosed wall
Eggs do not make my bs meter shoot up. nor does Bacon.
You could tell from the background sounds that Dr. Barnard was delivering this lecture while his audience was eating, and they probably weren't serving low fat, whole food, plant based meals.
From the audience reaction, such as laughter when appropriate, they are already aware enough to want to eat a healthy vegan diet.
Intoxicated by the waste products produced from burning high carb, low fat diet, so as not to be able to think critically or even remember what was said; not taking notes - in by the one ear, out by the other...
The reason why arteries get blocked is that cholesterol is repairing the inflammation in the artery and if inflammation continues the artery eventually gets blocked. It's not the Cholesterol that is bad but the inflammation.
A lot of that inflamation is caused by a lack of vitamin C
Read about Nobel prize winner Lynis Pauling.
For people eating the diets that we have clear data on, high LDL is THE main CAUSAL factor in heart disease. But it's easy for people to get confused about serum cholesterol because of the flaws in so many studies. For example, what you are saying DOES appear to be true in studies that are contaminated by restriction of range issues (no large group with truly healthy LDL levels) or in studies contaminated by reverse causality (lower LDL IS sometimes found to be associated with higher mortality in the ELDERLY because several diseases and conditions that lower LDL also increase mortality). However, when you overcome those problems and study a population with a wide range of LDL levels, you see a clear trend, with higher LDL going hand in hand with more arterial plaque:
See: www.onlinejacc.org/content/70/24/2979 and particularly the very clear trend graph
That's cross-sectional, but what about experimental studies? The pattern across statin studies that lowered LDL a LOT is that both degree of plaque and major CVD events declined as LDL levels went down, and got towards the truly healthy range (apparently under 67, but a little higher may be fine too when people aren't eating an artery-damaging diet). See the trend line regarding the statin trials:
www.onlinejacc.org/content/43/11/2142
That study also points out that an LDL of around 35-70 appears to be normal for mammals without heart disease, as indicated by the LDL levels of free-ranging mammals, newborn humans, and hunter-gatherer tribes, many of whom have TOTAL cholesterol levels under 130.
Other types of studies confirm a causal role for elevated LDL in the development of heart disease. First, a study of miscarried fetuses showed that those whose mothers had higher LDL had more plaque in their arteries. Finally, genetic variations that give most individuals (but not all) an LDL level in the healthy range wiped out 88% of expected heart disease, despite unhealthy diets, obesity, diabetes, and smoking:
Ference BA, Yoo W, Alesh I, Mahajan N, Mirowska KK, Mewada A, Kahn J, Afonso L, Williams KA Sr, Flack JM. Effect of long-term exposure to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol beginning early in life on the risk of coronary heart disease: a Mendelian randomization analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012 Dec 25;60(25):2631-9.
Cohen JC, Boerwinkle E, Mosley TH Jr, Hobbs HH. Sequence variations in PCSK9, low LDL, and protection against coronary heart disease. N Engl J Med. 2006 Mar 23;354(12):1264-72.
Critically, that research establishes that even when people have diets and lifestyles that SHOULD HAVE caused more heart disease, elevated LDL is the critical key without which heart disease doesn't develop. Other research shows that both large fluffy and small dense particles are atherogenic (large fluffy are only about 1/3rd less atherogenic for men and women alike). Finally, oxidized cholesterol is terribly harmful/atherogenic, and unfortunately, exposure to air or light as well as cooking and reheating meat leftovers all produce oxidized cholesterol. So the odds of eating high cholesterol foods and not consuming oxidized cholesterol are lousy.
Then there are the clinical trials in which serious heart disease was stopped and reversed in people with a history of serious heart disease and rates of CVD events were dropped to zero or close to zero using diets that are VERY low in fat (~10% of calories) and have ZERO cholesterol. No diets with higher fat content or dietary cholesterol have achieved similar outcomes. For example, see:
dresselstyn.com/JFP_06307_Article1.pdf
www.dresselstyn.com/Esselstyn_Three-case-reports_Exp-Clin-Cardiol-July-2014.pdf
Significantly, in an earlier 12-year study, Esselstyn succeeded in stopping heart disease in its tracks for a population of older people who had serious heart disease by using a very low fat whole food vegan diet (and statins for some to get LDL low enough), but that diet did NOT limit sugar. This indicates that sugar is not such a problem for heart disease IF people are eating very little fat, getting LDL very low, and are eating lots of anti-inflammatory whole plant foods.
www.dresselstyn.com/site/study02/
One very long-term study followed people for an average duration of 26.8 years with an starting age of 42, and clearly found stepwise increases in CVD and CHD deaths with higher LDL levels, and also found higher all-cause mortality for groups with above 100 LDL than for those with under 100 LDL. Those relationships would have likely been even stronger had they controlled for reverse causality (some diseases/conditions that kill us lower LDL first), and had they focused on people who got LDL levels under 70 with healthy living/diet.
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.034273
It's super-easy to get confused about cholesterol because there are more weak "no-relationship, no harm" correlational studies out there than there are higher-quality studies that pin down the real nature of the relationship. Also, most studies have terrible restriction of range issues and don’t have a large population with truly healthy LDL levels-around 35-70. But people WANT to believe it’s not a problem, so they pay attention to the weaker “no harm” studies and ignore the stronger studies showing that elevated LDL IS a problem.
I’ve seen one informal on-line analysis concluding that for people eating more than 2.3 eggs a week, arterial plaque went down as LDL went up, but until we have evidence you can eliminate heart disease with higher LDL and a bunch of weekly eggs (as you can with a very low fat whole food plant-based diet), the safer route is to get LDL down to around 35-70 eating lots of whole plant foods and little dietary fat.
To be sure, improving endothelial functioning is still beneficial for reducing CVD, but if you get LDL low enough, plaques stop forming even with a crappy diet and lifestyle.
Take care.
@@HealingLifeKwikly Thank you for your detailed reply! Much appreciated
WOW!
Thank you doc, for this amazing video; God bless🙏
I took one 10 mg lipitor each night for about 15 years and it affected me very badly; I didn't know that was the culprit until it was almost too late.
I was born with Scoliosis and used to have slight back pains when walking, standing and sitting for long periods.
A month after I started taking lipitor I noticed that my back pain got worst but I never thought it was the side effects of lipitor.
My doctor prescribed Motrin tablets for my pain but after a while the pain started going down to my hip, and then the ankle of my left leg. Sometimes I had a lot of pain that prevented me from even getting out of bed. Many times I've forced myself to get into a cab to visit the doctor for an injection to ease the excruciating pain because entering and exiting a cab made me screamed; it was hell! My doctor and I thought that the pains were due to Sciatica and Scoliosis.
Sixteen years later I couldn't raised my arms above my waist and neither take a shower; I could've only used the bidet. I had to wait until my daughter visited on Sundays to give me a shower. I soon realized that I was slowly being crippled. Every night when praying I'd say God, I don't know what's going on but please do something to help me, please, I can't live like this!
One night, lying in bed I wondered what would become of me, what kind of life I'd have, and crying I fell asleep. I dreamt my dad who had passed since 1999; it was a very short dream and with a stern and angry voice he said, why are you taking that damn lipitor! I immediately woke up and couldn't go back to sleep with the excitement of knowing what was causing my pains. I believed in my dreams because they're always straight!
The next day, I visited my doctor and asked if he'd change the lipitor because I think that's what causing my pain. He said no, it's been a while since you've been taking that so it's not that, and then said, you must remember that you're getting older and all these things comes with age. I said doc, I'm telling you it's the lipitor and please don't ask how I know that but it IS! He said I can't change it because I know it's not the lipitor and don't stop taking it because you can get a heart attack/stroke. I said ok doc thank you; I shooked his hand as usual and left his office very disappointed.
I returned home and that very night I abruptly stopped the Lipitor and I didn't care what happened! ONLY 6 days after, I could've taken a shower by myself. I called my daughter and gave her the great news, then made an appointment to see my doctor.
I went to my doctor and said doc, within 6 days I got younger instead of older! I raised both my arms above my head and then behind my back only to show him that I can again raised my arms WITHOUT pain! He watched and smiled then said, what happened, what did you do? I said doc, I stopped that damn lipitor! AND, I'll now tell you why I was so sure that it's the lipitor and I told him my dream. Without hesitation, he wrote a prescription for Crestor 5 mg.
It's 5 years since I've been taking Crestor and so far I've no problem. I can walk, stand and sit for longer periods because my suffering wasn't due to Sciatica/Scoliosis but Lipitor!
I'm so happy that I'm getting younger instead of older, lol. Thanks to my loving dad who's still guiding me; may he Rest In Peace🌹🙏
Most of all, Praise to our Dear Lord because nothing happens without him 🙏🙏🙏🌹
thanks for sharing your experiences.
@@Joseph1NJ
You're welcome.
I agree statins are horrible, the side effects are so bad.
But both lipitor and crestor are same ....both are statins
@@sheetalsingh9594
You're wrong! They're both Statins but NOT the same! I don't have pains since am taking the Crestor and NOW my cholesterol is much better. Many people just have to take cholesterol lowering medications. Sometimes a certain medication doesn't work for everyone so you'd have change medications to see which one works for you.
At the end of this month I shall do my blood test and if my cholesterol is still good my doctor told me that I can then gradually stop the Crestor.
I still feel you need a little bit of meat. Cholesterol is necessary to produce testosterone for men. My focus on good quality cholesterol versus bad.
Missing the point : it is not a matter of fat intake alone, it is a matter of the ratio between carbohydrates and fat. If you "kill" your carbs intake and replace it with fat you will improve all your stats. Shame most scientific do not integrate this simple fact and truly help people rather than exposing their knowledge without suggesting anything...
Scientific studies don't "integrate this simple fact" because it's not a fact. And scientific studies don't take your confident statement and just integrate it. They test. Your stats with a fat keto diet? Some will improve in the short run, and then some such as cholesterol will deteriorate in a longer run. Keto will make you lose weight (as you lose water and glycol weight and your appetite is suppressed by your forcing your body to mimic a disease state in which the body tries to rest by reducing consumption) for a while. Then not. Then your numbers will start getting worse. Then you'll get off keto because, seriously, no one can do that for long. (It produces "rabbit starvation.")
I eat 75-90% of my calories from carbohydrates and no more than 10% fat and on my last blood test, my fasting glucose was 70 after 18 hours of fasting and my A1c was 4.9
Low cholesterol is dangerous and leads to early death.
Keto is not starvation, its a state of repare.
Only high protein diets produce rabbit starvation, keto is moderate or low in protein
@@mortenandersson9358 Now you're getting confused by studies where reverse causation wasn't factored out: Many diseases lower people's cholesterol AND also kill them. HOW your cholesterol is lowered matters (lowering it on WFPB diet is good, lowering it via cancer, cocaine addiction, smoking is not good). Even if better studies someday prove that people in the 80s benefits from a little more cholesterol because their body is breaking down and they need a little more for repair, most of us aren't in our 80s so that doesn't apply to us.
Take care.
@@mortenandersson9358 ketosis is a state of fasting and/or malnutrition and it's deadly. Taking supplements will not save you.
if you do research only with eggs then you understand the real picture, all studies done and they did not address the carbohydrate at that time. If you cut off carbohydrate and do the research only on eggs, you know that eggs doesn't increase you sugar or bad cholesterol.
Except it is NORMAL to eat carbohydrates and all the best overall long-term health outcomes have comes from diets where most calories came from whole food carbs. So how are supposed to dodge the healthy carbs while eating the eggs?
@@HealingLifeKwikly low carb diet is the way to go. Carb cause insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes which leads to all kinds of problems.
@@bettywhill Thanks for your reply. "low carb diet is the way to go."
There simply isn't any long-term evidence for the efficacy of very low carb diets. There is tons of evidence for the efficacy of whole food pant-based diets that are very low in fat.
"Carb cause insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes which leads to all kinds of problems." With all due respect, you're confusing the effects of eating processed carbs within the context of a diet that is too high in fat with the effects of whole food carbs. Studies clearly show that you can prevent and REVERSE diabetes on diets with 60-75% calories from whole food carbs. ALL large, slim, and largely diabetes free populations in recent history got the majority of their calories from whole food carbs.
Take care.
@@HealingLifeKwikly I don’t need study to show me which one is effective in reducing blood sugar. Carbs in whole food might not elevate blood sugar as fast as processed sugar, but it still cause blood sugar to go rise above normal range for people with pre diabetic or diabetes. Been on low carb for 3 months. Completely off med and A1C normal.
@@bettywhill Thanks for your reply.
Part of what I study as a researcher is how people get fooled about what is true or effective in various fields and if I had a dollar for every time I heard someone misjudge the meaning of their own personal experience, I could buy a boat. .
The confusion over diabetes is profound--not just amongst the public but amongst researchers as well. The vast majority of westerners eat too much fat, including too much saturated animal fat. This sets in motion two problems that impair their ability to normally process carbs. First, eating lots of saturated animal fat harms the beta cells of the pancreas. Second, eating lots of fat makes your muscle cells fattier, thus increasing insulin resistance. You've basically rigged your body so it can't process carbs as it evolved to do. The, most carbs westerners eat are processed carbs, so if you eat processed carbs after having given yourself insulin resistance with too much fat, of course blood sugars rise. But if you only eat 7-15% calories from fat, suddenly your insulin resistance improves markedly then if you eat slowly digested whole food carbs, you can keep your blood sugars in the normal range.
Let me be clear about what I meant: Experimental studies have shown you can reverse diabetes and bring diabetics' blood glucose levels into the normal range in 3 weeks on a whole food plant based diet with 73% of calories from carbs.
I'll say again, ALL large, slim, and largely diabetes-free populations in recent history got the majority or vast majority of their calories from whole food carbs.
As for your low-carb experience, of course you can control blood sugars eating that way, but a) low-carb diets haven't proven to be safe in the long run, and b) you haven't fixed the problem (inability to process carbs normally), you are just dodging its symptoms by not eating carbs.
Take care.
These so-called expert nutritionist need to get their information together because none of them seem to agree.
@17:00 we should all be getting it by now...each time we read an article telling us good news about our bad habits, we should look up the "according to a recent study" and see how many people were in the study, who funded it, and how results can be swayed in the direction of the funding. Not to say that we can't find good things, but even just reading the abstract and seeing what these foods were compared to will open our eyes. Don't just read random articles online and base your life on that--really dig. So many articles I have read don't even list the studies, because they've been read, re-read, and portrayed how we want them to be.
not pharma linked: The Cholesterol Myths by UffeRavnskov, MD, PhD