With all the calamities that have befallen Chris (my husband, Mr. Plant Chompers), I would have been a widow many times over without heroes like Dr. Cois.
As a 61yo Australian woman living nearly 30 years with multiple sclerosis, our universal health care is absolutely part of the difference. I just started a new medication, costing me $60. Same drug in the US:$99 000 USD , and that's if the insurance company approve! I have a store selling fresh fruit and vegetables 500m from my home in outer suburbia. It's a 5 min drive to multiple supermarkets and fresh food stores. Multiple local markets selling produce direct from the growers are held regularly. I live minutes from the beach, the bush, and multiple public reserves. Being in nature is part of our lifestyle. My grandchildren go to school and come home again. We have zero school shootings in our history. The greatest risk to our children during their school day is sun exposure! They have a "no hat, no play" policy and sunscreen is routinely applied before going out to play. The classroom doors are not locked and often open to allow fresh air flow. I can't imagine living in the US.
What a pleasant and fabulous doctor to listen to! I'm 66 and mostly eat vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, some fruit and seeds. I have some chicken and a tiny bit of turkey and sardines as well. I am a small person: 5'6" and 138 lbs and exercise as heavyhander and tai chi player. Now I feel that I should ditch my animal foods. I'd probably do just fine without them and cause less suffering. Thank you for posting this interview.
Chicken and Turkey have to be the worst animal products to consume. If you want to be vegan with a little animal product, to up performance I would think ditch the poultry and add 1 whole egg, 1 tablespoon of natural yoghurt, 1 tablespoon of whey, teaspoon of cold liver oil, 1 ounce of liver (you can cut it up into 1 ounces pieces and cook and freeze, if you don't like liver, mince it and add lots of garlic, ginger, chilli, herbs, turmeric, some oil, milk, flour and cook in a bain-marie)
@@kingakuma7 chickens raised to maturity in like 6 weeks, fed like grains, soy only. Even if you get a good breed, fed properly, every other bird is better. Danish people seem to do well on pork, but it too, is not exactly the best
If you eat chicken be sure to eat the skin and gristle. Chicken is a major source of methionine, which promotes cancer and uses up your glycine stores. You need glycine to make collagen. Vegans have a higher level of glycine than omnivores for that reason. This lower level of methionine also helps prevent the growth of cancer (cancer needs methionine and can't upcycle any of its own.)
Thank you. As an Australian putting together a Veganuary guide for my colleagues for next year.. This just made it to video of the day for day 5. What another treasure of a perspective, and how very rational and tempered is his speech. So glad to have one video in our accent on the site now, thank you
@@adrianlcois I'm using Google sites. A page for each day of the month, with an ingredient of the day, a video of the day, and then some optional "rabbit hole" content at the bottom. I think I'll run four or five virtual meetings to make it a bit more social... I have not yet succeeded in finding any subjects for a test run in July and this does not bode well for the project 😅 I tend to discuss problems with colleagues and usually it helps me think about it differently. Step by step I'll get there probably 😆
@@agentdarkboote absolutely no takers at the moment! I am hoping that maybe one or three of my 20 immediate colleagues will be interested, and the beauty is I can reach more people in other locations as it is a big company (over 6000) so.. yeah I will need support of people in another couple of departments (wellbeing e-news) and then maybe I MIGHT be allowed to advertise it internally to everyone. Big fat might 😅
Last week, my cousin lost two brothers to heart attacks. One of them was walking in the gym, and his heart attack was so sudden, he was probably dead before he hit the floor. And the other brother was stressed out because of his loss, and after a couple stressful days, he died of a sudden and massive heart attack too. I've been to their cookouts enough times to know what their diet was: LOTS of meat, LOTS of beer, LOTS of cheese, butter, ice cream, potato chips, donuts....pantry stacked high with colorful boxes.... fast food bags and pizza boxes usually visible... They were 44 and 49 years old.
@@Viva-Longevity I think this hints at why America's life expectancy is so much lower than Australia's. Both may eat a lot of meat, but there is unhealthy and there is UNHEALTHY. I don't think healthcare is the primary driver. Healthcare would have made no difference for these two unfortunate individuals.
@@carl13579 Around where I'm from, in Louisiana, I can think of many people I knew, who died very young from heart attacks or cancer... There was RC, another unhealthy cousin of mine, died age 56 of a heart attack. SB, a milk truck driver and father of a childhood friend, dead at 44 from heart attack. CC, a 34 year old mother of two, distant cousin of mine, who died in her sleep of a heart attack. I could probably cite 30 examples of people relatively close to me, who ate the standard Cajun diet of fried meat and boudin, if I thought about it for a while. One friend of my cousin RC, a woman in her 50s lost both legs after an E.coli infection, from beef. ...seriously I could on and on....everybody knows it too. I hear people talking "aw, yeah! everyone's dying so young! what is going on?!?!" and if I ever chime in and say "maybe it's the food" I get (at best) confused silence, and "but my doctor gives me Lipitor..."
Great interview. I'm Australian and I've spent a lot of time in the USA including being married to a USA woman. As far as diet and health goes Australia isn't that great. The majority of people believe red meat is good for them and they'd die without it. The percentage of overweight people is around the same but the seriously obese rate is not as high in Australia. The biggest differences I've noticed are: Portion size in restaurants and fast food joints. Portion sizes are much, much larger in the USA. When I ate out in the USA my wife and I would share a meal and be more than full. Many Americans hate walking with a passion to a degree that's comical. Australians tend to be a little more active than Americans. This difference is most noticeable at the extremes. Australia has universal health care. We don't have to pay for health services for the most part which means in Australia if you have a health problem you go see a doctor. Early identification of conditions like cancer saves a lot of lives. Australia has less large companies lobbying government (most are mining companies and the meat industry). The country is not afraid of introducing policies that improve the health of Australians. Examples: we have plain packaging laws for cigarettes in Australia. When you buy a pack of cigarettes it has horrible pictures of people suffering from a range of diseases caused by smoking. During the pandemic the state and federal government enforced lockdowns, restrictions and preventative measures and encouraged vaccination in many ways. There are at least 300,000 dead Americans because the USA could not get a consistent health message about Covid-19 out to the public. Having said all that Australia still has huge room for improvement. Australian diets are 38.9% ultra processed foods. Australians eat way too much red meat. Australians don't eat enough vegetables. Many Australians don't get enough exercise. In the health system it is not common place for GPs to refer people who obviously have diseases caused by diet to dieticians (of all my pet peeves in western health systems this comes in at #1).
I noticed the Australian meal pattern is a meat and 2 veg with potato. Smaller portions too. It was like the 1940's American way of eating and back then most Americans were thin.
@@happycook6737 To be fair, what you describe would be normal for over 60's, not so much for those much younger. Meat and three veg was the common refrain for the evening meal. And God, it could be sooooo boring. Thank God for immigration and all those foods brought into our lives.
I'm on a carnivore diet and it's funny to hear people still saying that vegetables is the way to go. I've done my research and there's a lot of doctors that really find it amazing that all of the people who used to say red meat is bad didn't have anything to back it up anymore. It's really funny.
I think our healthcare system plays a huge role in life expectancy and mortality rates. We put off going to the doctor because we can't afford it and next thing you know, we're dropping dead from a preventable and treatable disease. Add poor diet on top of that and there you go.
Yep. That happened to one of my friends. His mom got sick and was too worried about a doctor bill to get help. By the time she was forced to go to the hospital, it was too late and she died three days later. :( And there is no reason for that to happen other than greed.
Exactly right. While the people on Medicaid who work very little go to the ER for an ear infection and pay nothing. For my insurance to cover the ER, death would need to be imminent! I went once for a massive allergic reaction to a food and my insurance tried to refuse saying an urgent care didn't see me first. My reply, when you can't breathe urgent care sends you to the ER. Made me 😡.
I agree not having excess to healthcare in the United States is a problem for Americans. However do you really feel that a Universal healthcare system would fix the problem here in the States. I really don't think it would help. If we had free health care here yes people would be covered but think about how many millions of people would need healthcare . There would be extremely long wait times to get an appointment to see a doctor. People would die waiting to see a physician here. You have to remember these countries with Universal healthcare like England, Australia much smaller than the United States. What works well for these countries might not work for the United States.
@@bh2155 You forgot to throw in 'homogeneous population' it's usually included in the 'merica mighty big country, biggest country, many more freedom than small, less wampum country' The largest of your issues is the inability to get past your own propaganda.
I love the aesthetics of your channel. The quality of the picture, the angles, your kitchen, your studio, the faces and their being colors, your effort need and cap... They're kinda fascinating.
I have a nice little meal suggestion - take some very thoroughly washed raw greens, pass them through the food processor with the thin slicing blade. I like a mixture of collards, kale, arugula, and spinach. Then after slicing this to a fine chiffonade, toss the (about a pound of) greens with a little garlic powder, prepared spicy mustard, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and finally a ripe avocado or two. Smash it all together using the lemon juice to add moisture as needed. Finish with ground black pepper and just a dash of (optional) turmeric. I call it "salad salad sandwich" ...lol.....I like to eat it stuffed inside a Toufayan whole wheat pita. OMG....it's an implausibly delicious sandwich, considering it's almost all raw greens.
@@Viva-Longevity Haha awesome! I actually ate that for dinner after writing that comment, but I just put the whole collards on my sandwich. lol, my jaw is sore today
@@Viva-Longevity Me too! (Except minus the raw collards. I'm a Southerner, so I've gotta eat those cooked. I slow cook collards with a lot of garlic, onion, and smoked paprika and eat with a bowl of red beans. 😀)
@@lauraz8349 The trick is to slice them extremely thin, (I use my mechanical blades, mandolin or food processor, for that) so the raw greens get fluffy and nice to chew, and then toss it with a salad dressing, then allow it to sit for 18 hours in the fridge. It sort of pickles the greens, considering you'd be using something with vinegar or citrus juice, and maybe a 1/3 tsp salt goes in there too. I've been enjoying it so much, I've eaten about 10 pounds of raw greens in the last week. It's addictive!
We eat terrible diets in the UK and have high obesity and overweight population. Free healthcare is likely the reason our life expectancy hasn't dropped off a cliff like the US.
Many people here in the USA would like us to switch over to your type of healthcare system. The conservatives are against it and encourage people to look into how your system is struggling too. We are told that everyone there doesn't get everything they need either. Supposedly people are on waiting lists for long periods of time for things you would get here quickly if your insurance/financial situation is good. Of course a significant percentage of our population is not so fortunate. They want the government to take over. The conservatives say we have 30+ TRILLION in debt and we just put Afghanistan on the credit card and after 20 years we have nothing to show for it. We have people living on the streets like stray cats in what I was told growing up was the best country in the world! I just had an appointment in town at the University medical center. When I was waiting to make my turn there was a person in a wheelchair in the rain hoping some people would try to give the poor soul some money. The USA is going down the tubes. The poverty and crime and drug abuse is so bad I would be embarrassed if I was the president and the visiting foreign leader sees how bad things are just a few blocks from the Whitehouse in Washington, DC. Thee end, good luck to everyone with everything.
Fellow UK person and I'd agree. I think the free NHS health care is starting to breakdown through sheer overload now though, leaving politics aside for the moment. And I'm really noticing recently just how prevalent obesity is becoming now even in younger people.
You also have a lower infant mortality. Deaths from things like heart disease and cancer tend to occur late in life and thus have a smaller impact on population average lifespan than infant deaths. You may have fewer accident deaths as well, which also disproportionately affect the young. If one person lives to 100 and their sibling dies as a baby, their average lifespan is 50. If one person lives to 100 and the other dies of a heart attack at 65, their average is 82.5. Globally, in countries where the average lifespan is like 45 or 50, it isn't because people drop dead in ther 50s, it's generally because lots of babies die.
How is it possible to hold such an in depth wide ranging interview while holding a camera perfectly stable and with out any notes….? Thanks for bringing us to Portland for this great interview.
On kids' preferences, that you touched on briefly around midway through, with the comment about ice cream, our experience is that our young kids will ask if things are vegan (on their own initiative) - which they usually are where we live - but will turn down even vegan sweets for being too sweet. Consequence of being plant based from birth.
Really love your videos! This was insightful and I’m looking forward to your next discussions! But…is there a way I can buy you another tripod?? So you don’t have to hold the camera next time 😅
Greedy food industry, greedy healthcare system, greedy politicians, crazy lack of gun safety...I'm not surprised. I'd be surprised if we were doing well. As a nurse, I didn't realize how our food is killing us. I did realize and do see how our health system fails those of us who aren't rich.
This is a very compassionate man. As a nurse, I remember so many of the patients who died under my care, as he does. The first one I remember as a student nurse was a German man whose family was just outside the intensive care door. After the doctor informally pronounced the patient dead he said, "We might as well let the student nurses do compressions, because to continue to agressively work on him is like beating a dead horse." That remark still gives me the creeps. What if a family member had heard that?
Really enjoyed this interview; the way it was filmed was novel and engrossing, and the conversation style was familiar but very informative. I was pre-med for a couple of years many years ago (before changing majors completely), and have worked on and off as an informal medical caregiver and patient advocate for friends and family since then, and it was fascinating to hear the thoughts of an ER medico with training in a different medical system, as well as here in the U.S. Good luck to Dr. Cois and his family in their pursuits, and thanks to you, Chris, for posting : )
Frenchie here, great video! Watching it as I'm shelling hyacinth beans and thinking: "here's a nice food that I grew, organic, is helping biodiversity, on site local, perennial, and healthy with no animals dying for me." Add the fact that I got my seeds from the local wild populations and planted them, it's 100% free food that I really just harvest and shell, and don't do any other work. Plus I get to binge your videos while I shell them and prep the beans for the pressure cooker 😆
I am an Australian physiotherapist that has been traveling to and from the USA since 1979. There are differences between the nations that Adrian has been excessively PC about. This unfortunately masks the real reasons why America scores poorly among developed nations on longevity. 1. America has a higher spread between rich and poor. The poor generally eat worse than developing world standard. 2. America has a higher % of minorities who in general are more poorly educated, poorer, and eat a poorer diet. Minorities pull the American average lifespan down significantly. 3. American diet guidelines are set by a commercially swayed organization (USDA). Australian guidelines are set by a govt dept that is more independent. Check the daily recommendations of the US vs Australia for fibrous carbs. 4. Under the guidance of the USDA, American schools and colleges provide meals to students that guarantee an early death after decades of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. 5. On my first visits to America, I was shocked that there were stores that sold nothing but donuts and coffee. I could not understand how they could sell enough to make a profit. Over the decades such stores have come to Australia as well. So America led the trend. 6. I was also shocked at how much sugar and salt was added to American meals.....and how big servings were in restaurants. 7. I met many Americans who just did not have a palate for vegetables. This is only possible if one eats fast food regularly. 8. Australia is not that far behind America today, in eating a disease promoting diet. 9. It saddens me that 97% of patients I see are diseased because of a poor diet. Medicine has become compartmentalized. Doctors I know believe it is not their role to promote a healthy diet and weight loss. Instead they just prescribe prescribe prescribe bandaids to mask the effects of their patients' poor lifestyles. They do so because they do not comprehend how powerful lifestyle choices are.....But also, there's arrogance among doctors, in that they think rehashing the weight loss and healthy diet message isn't sophisticated enough for all the education and status a doctor undergoes. On the other hand, physiotherapists are not taught pathophysiology deeply enough to comprehend how one's diet causes chronic disease and degenerative diseases. Tendinopathies, inflammatory arthridites, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases....all these are in great part due primarily to poor blood flow and blood loaded with inflammatory and oxidative agents.
Nutrition, is not taught in medical schools, so doctors can't really accept that they spent 7-10 years in med school and residency, having been taught how to treat illnesses with medication, that many of those illnesses can be eliminated by proper diet. No wonder they won't subscribe to that notion.
As a Canadian doctor I agree that many doctors underestimate patient’s capacity to make lifestyle changes but the unfortunate reality is that the majority of our patients are not motivated to change their lifestyles and we have no choice to prescribe meds. Thanks for your comment. Your list is comprehensive and insightful
You raise an important topic here… How to teach the children. The problem is, It’s more than “not kind” to the animals. It’s the largest holocaust ever, and ethicists are correct in viewing it as such. How do you relate to people, loved ones, family, who commit atrocities, as though those suffering creatures didn’t even exist? Tip toeing around this subject does not express the urgency of the crisis, nor the severity of the violence, or the wrongness of the transgression. Kids should be taught that animals deserve to be protected, not that meat eaters should be respected and accepted(which is what they demand). their behavior is not accept-A-ble. We didn’t defeat Nazi Germany by downgrading the intensity of the crimes against humanity. In fact, much of the US struggled to find its ethical center and practically supported Germany’s antisemitism in the lead up to WW2. (See Ken Burns, US and the Holocaust). Also see the latest gas chamber investigations of how they kill pigs in the Uk. (Joey Carbstrong) Animal agriculture is a crime against the animal kingdom, and that includes humanity, and against ALL the earths ecosystems. Regarding biodiversity, it is the single worst industry in the entire world. The Holocene extinction is underway. (See the 2020 study from Oxford published in the journal Science. ) Doctors as scientists need to step up, like this fine gentleman. But, my favorite question is, would you dine with Nazis? In that regard, should we even patronize establishments that serve animals and their babies’ milk? Ordering vegan food…. You are still helping their bottom line. How lonely do you want to be? Thankfully, Chris’ large family seems quite supportive and great company. He’s got an army!
I liked this more than I thought I would like this. We truly have a disconnect in this country between what we sell/promote through advertising and what is really healthy for us. This has been this way since the Victorian era; it’s only intensified since the 70’s. That’s why channels like this, giving scientific interviews & in depth discussions of evidence is so important. It’s not saving everyone, but I’m sure it’s saving some. Curious on when the interviews you alluded to in the video are going to drop. More!! More, please. :-).
Problem #1: Oversight by insurance companies largely disallows interventional preventative medicine. Problem #2: Food industry PR is designed to confuse consumers about about what's in their food and its real effects on the human body. Problem#3: Big pharma's co-option of medical school curricula to de-emphasize nutritional studies hamstrings young physicians into believing that the only interventions worth considering are pharmaceutical. US citizens face a gauntlet of obstacles navigating the truth about health and food.
Would love a video on low blood pressure! I have low blood pressure and there is to be no advice to manage beyond "stand up slowly". It's really annoying to feel groggy and *still* be told to limit salt 😢
You might read up on orthostatic hypotension and postural hypotension. There might be a specific cause to your hypotension. There’s endocrine disorders to rule out. Going through all OTC and prescription meds you might use is important. There are medications to use; generic substance names, effortil and midodrine. They’ve been around for ever and should be cheap. Using compression stockings helps. Increase salt (there’s certain mineral salts that might work better than regular salt) and water intake too. It wouldn’t hurt to check your potassium and haemoglobin levels like B12 iron folate etc too. The reason you feel groggy is that there’s not enough blood flow through the Cerebellum (“the little brain”) in your brain. It regulates movements, coordination, balance, there’s cognitive functions, balance. Without a normal BP, the Cerebellum can’t work properly and it needs medication because it’s not possible to fix in other ways. But you need to advocate for your needs and don’t take no for an answer and whoever told you to cut down in salt is not following the medical evidence. Trying to pin down if you’ve always had LBP or if it came later after an illness like and infection or whatever is helpful.
Problem with US system is it's penalized for doing a good job with prevention...your dentist loses money and job security if they successfully help you do a good job with preventing tooth decay, and there are many other examples like that. So you get this situation where the healthcare industry goes out of business if it actually does a good job...just a simple conflict of interest on a massive scale. This is why dentists didn't march or lobby in DC decades ago to get refined sugar regulated etc. On top of that, healthcare is the largest industry in the US, so if we suddenly started doing a great job at prevention the healthcare industry and whole economy would be negatively effected.
@@taroka1119 To quote an oft uttered refrain from Dr. McDougall, "excuse me!? Excuse me!" lol.....the dry starches on which I base my diet are all purchased at Walmart, and just today I had a 55 pound grocery haul of beans dry peas, and lentils, with brown rice, and whole wheat pasta for a bank-breaking $75. What I see when I'm in Walmart is: shopping carts filled with hundreds of dollars of ultraprocessed ready-to-eat junk foods. So, I don't buy for a second, that people are doing the best they can. Maybe it's not entirely their fault, for the myriad reasons outlined on this channel, but it's CERTAINLY not the best they can do with what they have. In fact, it seems that they're going out of their way to jack up their grocery bill as much as possible while simultaneously guaranteeing themselves sickness.
@@taroka1119 Disagree. Just as easy to grab cans of beans as cans of pie filling or bags of potato chips! I see loads of single serve junk foods, boxes of hamburger helper when pasta is cheaper, tons of soda pop when water is nearly free and homemade tea is so cheap, etc
@@happycook6737 exactly. but we're in such a state of learned helplessness, that we as a society can't seem to snap out of it. it's like everyone is walking around in a trance, mesmerized by marketing, unable to take any action that hasn't been subconsciously approved by their brainwashed psyches.
Universal Healthcare in Australia, everyone e gets the same top level of care--no insurance companies denying treatment coverage. And the doctors get paid the same--the profit motive to practice is not like in the u.s. where many doctors are only in it for the money. The animals are not fed corn, they are grass fed only.
Only sheep and cattle are grass fed in Australia (raised on huge stations the size of countries with minimal feeding and maintenance) and they are mostly fattened up with grain before sale. With other animals like pigs most of the meat sold comes from animals in factory farms just as bad as the USA. The default for milk dairies in Australia is grass feeding so the milk in Australia is better but it's still milk (40% fat by dry weight). It's unlikely it's doing your health much good if you're drinking a lot of it.
Working towards a Vegan world one day at a time! ❤ Was surprised you guys didn't talk about the culture of sports here in Aus ad a potential factor in longevity...
Watching them is part of our culture, been 50 years since a large proportion played regular sports. The cost for children is a large part of that fall in participation.
Hi Chris, another great video. The ER doctors are all heroes and Dr Cois is certainly one of the best. Over in the UK the NHS staff are just as important. Also very interesting to hear his story on going plant-based (what a lovely family). Interesting to hear of the trauma the ER staff get (and no surprise). Chris - your arms must have hurt by the end of the shoot (hand-holding the main camera for the footage!) 😉Keep up the great work. I'm glad the medics were there for you when you needed them! best wishes Michael
Thanks Michael! Very kind of you. Dr. Cois really is a jewel. I had my elbows on the table, which made holding the camera easy, and steady. I liked the perspective of filming Dr. Cois looking me right in the eye instead of looking off to the side, as would happen if the camera were on a tripod, but I guess some people disagreed.
Hi Chris, Ah yes, I saw your technique closely! It certainly worked to help give a more natural 'humanist' feel to the conversation. But toned arms were no doubt still required! I have been in hospital and the A&E (uk) a few times and all the doctors, nurses, ambulance workers and admin are worth celebrating. Your conversation with Dr Cois on the preventative side of a better (healthy, plant-based) diet is the other side of the puzzle. So your channel continues to make the tools available for more people to learn what is helpful for their health in the long term. Love those woods as a setting too! 😁👍🌿
I had no idea America had such a difference in life expectancy to the rest of the world. I am in the UK and here our health service has been underfunded for years sadly. It seems to be under attack.
@@11235Aodh you think the majority of people know that they are voting away their NHS? I personally very much doubt it. But you are welcome to your opinion 🙂
I've often wandered the same, stress & trauma (historical, familial and personal trauma). We don't know enough about the impacts of the determinants of health on disease burden.
Stress if you get sick perhaps. In Australia if you get sick you're not worried about paying for the doctor or the hospital. We have universal health care. From a broader perspective I've lived in both countries and didn't see any significant difference between the stress level of people in Australia and the USA.
what will it take for americans to recognize that universal health care is a GOOD thing? and not 'socialist take-over'...or whatever else they think. i will never ever understand this - and it breaks my heart. thanks for another great interview!
Too many of us are brainwashed to be suspicious of or even disdain things that help us to be safe because trigger words are used to describe them. It's endlessly baffling as an American how easily my fellow Americans are hoodwinked. [sigh]
It's so odd, because no one complains about the fire department being socialized. We treat firefighters as heroes and they don't refuse to put out your fire if you lost your job.
Also the amount of money per person spent by the USA on the health system is around the same as Australia spends per person. Australia has universal health care, the USA does not. Americans are being ripped off by the health system paying 3 or 4 times what people in the rest of the western world pay. There are multiple reasons for this. One is around 25% of the cost of health care in the USA going to management of the interaction between health providers and insurance companies. Another is the cost of health providers trying to prevent being sued by running a pile of tests patients don't need. In Australia the default is free or almost free for health services when you need them. Obviously we pay for them with our taxes and you can pay for private health insurance allowing you to go to a private hospital etc. But as I mentioned earlier the amount the Australian government pays per person for health is around the same as the USA government pays per person.
Well, when you don't have to worry about getting healthcare, childcare or going to college....that helps mightily in addition to a plant based approach to eating.
Very enjoyed this conversation. Something very interesting should (imo) be visited. The obvious US drop of ”Life Expectancy” in 2021. This is vey strange…. Thank you
In 2023 US life expectancy is 76.4. Social Security Full Retirement Age FRA is 70. Six years for yourself after working your ass off for 45-55 years. The US is a Penal Colony with prison grade food, ultra surveillance, high stress, and horrible health and an incompetent goverment.
Great respect for Dr. Adrian, and other ERs. I always wonder as well: how come people do not care too include more healthy lifestyle changes in their lives? We could be enjoying a much longer and healthier life with our loved ones. It's mind-boggling, and sad.
32:51 this detachment from the patient journey is way some doctors don’t listen to their patients, pulling the “I know more than you” card and have wrong diagnosis. That being said. There are lots of caring people in medicine that just don’t treat it like a job clocking out after 10 hours and don’t care. Thanks to all those giving kindness, respect and humanity 🙏🏾
Compared to the health system in the 50's 60's 70,and 80's, and it has been ,what we have now in Australia is a dark shadow ,of what was once a patent orientated system , to a drug company driven machine .The Australians are unfortunately catching up to the USA.................
Great interview! Can you talk more about salt? About Hyponatremia? I'd very much like to hear about outliers. We keep our sodium at or below 1500mg per day. But we're not salt free. Still, I'd love to see what trustworthy guidance there is about _minimum_ sodium intake.
Check out the video's of dr. Peter Rogers, he talks a lot about sodium and the health of our cells. The sodium present in vegetables is plenty (make sure to get a source for iodine like seaweed though).
@@davepage6428 Yes, I've read several studies involving miso. I'm still very skeptical though. If the presence of beneficial soy compounds magically offsets all of the negative effects from excess sodium, then it definitely shouldn't be exclusive to miso. Tofu and tempeh should also work. Just add those to your high sodium meal and all of your worries will fade away? This creates the concept that it doesn't matter what the sodium content is. As long as there are beneficial soy isofalvones, etc. then there's nothing to worry about. I don't buy it. Nope.
@@11235Aodh Thanks for the tip. I want to see the Plant Chompers take on this since he's the one that brought up concerns about Hyponatremia. He did lots of research on it. So I'd like to see what that was.
I do think the "isolate yourself from others" mentally in America also plays a role in the reduced walking hours which also related with reduceed health. So many kids in the suburban are becoming mentally ill. Homo sepians are not meant to live like this. We are social animals, we eat plants and tubers, and we walk all the time.
My concern about a vegan diet is getting sufficient calcium and risk of osteoporosis. My close group of friends and family -- we're all around 65 years old -- are either vegetarian or vegan, and almost all of us have osteoporosis or osteopenia. I've added occasional sardines and salmon to my diet, along with eggs and yogurt, hoping that will help -- basically, the Mediterranean diet. I'm hoping you can make a video about the risks of osteoporosis with a vegan diet, and what you do, and what others recommend, for avoiding this. And how the vegan and Mediterranean diets compare in regards to osteoporosis. Thanks!
I would also add the alienation from natrue. People no longer have a sense and connect with the land and soil. "food" in many people's mind are some packaged good from industrial plants. People no longer have the knowledge that they can simply grow endless amount of leafy greens basically for free. And there's so much invasive plants outside we can help eat. On the other end there's animal being cut into small chunks are renamed to "proteint". The separation from what people see in grocery store by their marketing schemes and the reality of origin of the products. I think people need to get reconnect with natrue and who we really are as a species.
A couple of other things: in a lot of Asian cultures (and perhaps elsewhere): a person eats until they're 3/4 to 2/3 full. Also, as pointed out in some of the comments: Aussies apparently walk more then Americans in general. And obviously, as pointed out by the doctor, Australia has universal healthcare. One other thing, and correct me if I'm wrong: Australians typically get more Sun then their American counterparts (higher vitamin D levels perhaps?). This last one is just a theory.
Chris, do you have a Patreon or a charity to donate to? I am getting so much value and enjoyment watching your content. I am 29, vegan for almost 5 years, I bike a lot. I feel in some ways I am very healthy and in others, I have a lot to learn. Thanks for your teachings!
@@Viva-Longevity My parents are in the same situation and they taught me to value information above everything else. Maybe I could donate something to your favorite charity or so? I mean I guess my overweight, wine/meat-loving 65-year-old father could learn a thing or two about nutrition but statistics are his strong suit. He always talks about stress or a lack thereof is a very important factor in longevity as well as wealth and of course luck. I guess a meta-analysis of something as arbitrary as stress is tough but have you looked into data regarding wealth? Of course, surviving and thriving are two very different things but I worry about both of my parents and their health. My mum recently finished her 2nd round of chemotherapy for intestinal cancer (wasn't super serious). What are the effects of diet on cancer survivability/prevalence? To me, it seems logical that consuming milk products certainly doesn't inhibit cancer growth but in fact the opposite. Is there any merit to this or am I just barking up the wrong tree? Thanks for everything you have done, are doing, and will do. Pete
Here in New Zealand we have a similar health care system like Australia. The downside here in New Zealand is the system is underfunded with a chronic shortage of nurses and doctors, resulting in huge waiting list for most common surgeries. People just have to wait, suffer and pop pills to manage their pain.
Don't assume it's better here in the U.S. I'm still waiting for my appointment, made almost 4 months ago, just to see a dermatologist. I have had to go to urgent care for things that aren't really urgent, like a sinus infection, because my primary care physician is booked out 6 weeks, and my ENT is booked out 10 weeks. I'm not sure why people think that our overly-expensive, private health insurance system means we have easier access and shorter wait times. We have way higher costs but that money doesn't go to making sure we have plenty of doctors and nurses. It goes into the pockets of the insurance companies and Big Pharma. Add to that the fact that many people are denied coverage for treatment by their insurance, even if they do get in to see a doctor, and you can see we have a much worse situation overall.
We just learned from a specialist that my husband has Chronic kidney disease, so I went with him to his primary care visit. After convincing my husband to eat only a plant based diet & he agreed, his PCP said, no you do have to do that, “I love meat & cheese.” I was furious. She didn’t even know what stage he was in but said that she is monitoring him.
Argh, so sorry to hear that. Kidney dialysis centers are popping up all over the nation in strip malls; I just saw a new one in our neighborhood yesterday. And what do they all tell their patients because it's the recommendation of all the kidney associations? Eat less protein, and by protein most people mean meat: you kidneys can no longer filter it. 😞
I bet he’s a great doctor because how more aware he is compared to others doctors, but the medical system also contributes to early mortality. Misdiagnosis, under-diagnosis, putting patients under procedures they don’t need, dismissing new ideas that could benefit patients. Being around doctors is mostly a bad idea, but they can help during acute situations sometimes. Chronic situations, not so much.
Thank you both for what you do! Spreading the word & saving lives 🥰 You mentioned two US populations and I immediately thought of the Adventists in Loma Linda, but cannot think of the second.. Thank you for another great video, looking forward to the next one!
I had no idea Ken Berry had his license suspended. I stopped watching him when he went from keto to carnivore. I'm trying to be plant-based so he wasn't the one to follow.
@@timodavis6805 Here are two sources -- www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/healthprofboards/minutes/me/ME012318.pdf -- "Dr. Berry’s license is currently on probation pursuant to a May 18, 2016 board order which disciplined Respondent for prescribing controlled substances and other medications without following the prerequisites to issuing prescriptions outlined in the Board’s rules." ....and www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/dar/18.01%20DAR.pdf -- "Licensee: Ken D. Berry, MD, Camden Violation: Guilty of unprofessional conduct; to wit: The Board adopts, as is fully set out herein, rules 1200-14-03.01 through 1200-14-03-.03 inclusive, of the Department of Health and as they may from time to time be amended, as its rule governing the process for implementing universal precautions for the prevention of HIV transmissions for health care workers under its jurisdiction. Action: License placed on probation to extend two years following the expiration of previous period of probation with terms; assessed civil penalties in the amount of $3,000.00 plus costs not to exceed $10,000.00" Also documented on Reddit using decent sources: www.reddit.com/r/ketoduped/comments/1aiw7ko/the_bizarre_past_of_carnivore_diet_influencer_dr/ 🥕 Plus Plant Chompers also has two sources in his above video description 🥕➡ DISCIPLINARY ACTION REPORT (Dr. Ken Berry) www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/dar/18.01%20DAR.pdf STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN THE MATTER OF KEN D. BERRY M.D. BEFORE THE TENNESSEE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS: www.healthgrades.com/media/english/pdf/sanctions/HGPY7D4D26E384202708501242018.pdf
I'm looking at your chart at 00:58 and thinking about well known data that the "wealth" of the US is mostly concentrated in the top 15 or 10th percent of the population. What would the chart look like if the top 10% of each country were thrown out? A lot worse, I'm guessing.
I learned about hyponatremia the hard way in high school, fortunately I got to a doctor quickly and was able to recover by the end of the next day. Still the worst experience i have ever had in my life.
Could it be that Australians are more physically active than your average American and that they participate in more outdoor activites as leisure? Also, I'm curious about their rules regarding chemical additives to food and if the government subsidizes corporations that make ultra processed food like we do here.....
Could be any of a bunch of things. Whilst we have socialised health care, and many pharmacy items are affordable, some older folk (like me I guess) avoid going to the GP, as many of them seem to get their latest "science" from the glossy pharmaceutical brochures and they are all too ready with their script pad. I also hate sharps and red stuff, so running a battery of tests on me traumatises me greatly! Only our stubbornness and silliness in AU keep us from going to the doctor, rather than the stress of needing to mortgage the house to pay a medical bill. Not much of the AU population can afford to eat out every day, but the folk I have been in contact with in the US seem to each out a lot, and up to 3 meals a day! Restaurant foods tend to be higher in fat and sugar to achieve the taste that keeps you coming back. Very few AU businesses seem to be of the "super-size me" mindset. Bottomless cups and free refills are not really a thing here with the sugary, fizzy drinks. Very little of the country gets any snow, and whilst some areas are woeful with public transport, you can live in quite a few areas of AU without needing a car. So much of what I have seen or read about US seems to require one or more cars per household. There seems to be lots of the folk here out walking their dogs, and / or kids, and plenty of mums (and dads) out pushing prams on the bike paths. Where I live, this is 12 months of the year. AU is much less religious, and gatherings of people are usually family or friends. Basically folk that actually enjoy being together rather than folk in their Sunday best doing the sit-stand-kneel shuffle for an hour and hearing how they are born sinners over and over. AU doesn't have a USDA pushing dual agendas, but there are still government subsidies which make animal products disproportionally cheaper than plant foods. There's various health labelling incentives on packaged foods, but I believe some of these are purchased rather than rigorously scientifically tested. I do believe that quite a few items in nutritional panels have much lower recommended maximum daily values in AU than those recommended in the US. Items such as salt.
Australians are only more active in a small way. I've lived in both countries and Australians are marginally more active and not afraid of walking but it's not a huge difference. Australia doesn't really subsidize sugar or other components that go into ultra processed food. Australian farmers are some of the least subsidized in the world. I don't know of any special rules about chemical additives to food that would be substantially different to the USA.
@@mikebeagley Great points. One thing that surprised me about America was how cheap fast food is making it much easier to eat out. And yes the portion sizes are much larger in most American restaurants (almost twice the size of Australian restaurants).
I listened to a friend talking about health care in Canada last night and the extreme difficulty of arranging and receiving care. It's not the first Universal Health Care story that I have heard either. And I learned that many folks I worked with do buy or are provided private health care coverage. This is true in the UK, Australia, and Canada. It begs the question "If universal health care is so good, why do people buy private insurance? Then I look the US attempt at "improving" and all I see is insurance exchanges ($$), increased cost and fewer covered items. I also recall hearing a breakdown of malpractice insurance costs that was just staggering and I'm sure the fear of malpractice drives a lot of unnecessary testing. As far as EOL, I think we desperately need to have discussions among ourselves as to what the end of life means and what our desires are--this, I learned from my mom who spent the vast majority of her nursing career working in the ICU. So many folks spend their last days in the ICU ($$$) or hospital ($$) when maybe home care would be better. And so many receive heroic treatment when maybe it's not the best thing (hence the need talk about what end of life means for us all). I'm not convinced Universal care is all that it's made up to be. At the end of the day, those with wealth receive better care making it two classes. There are still problems of scheduling and perhaps even of evaluating need. I'm sure there is a better way for us in the US, I just don't believe what we have today is any better than what it replaced.
You make some excellent points @ianclements. The wait list times are a real issue in universal healthcare and in Oz which has a hybrid model people who are wealthy can get access to specialist care quicker. However there is a definite improvement on access to the primary healthcare network which definitely carries better outcomes. Also to the point of wait times - the US is just as bad and I would argue even worse. We have patients who can't establish care with a PCP for up to 6 months! A GI clinic has a waitlist of over 6000 patients for screening colonoscopy. And if you lose your job - then you lose your care - compounding the issues that we see for those folks who go through a rough patch. So when you compare them head to head - yes universal healthcare has issues - but it's much better than for profit healthcare. Also don't forget the US already has universal healthcare - the VA system. It's publicly funded and runs at a cost of around 2% compared to over 15% in for profit healthcare - and the patients love it!
@@adrianlcois Not suggesting one is better than the other. But I will argue that for profit is not a bad thing. There are a lot of ways to make that happen within the confines of providing better healthcare for all.
Can't speak for the Canadian system, but as an end user in Australia, neither I or any member of my family have had an issue with health care, yes there has been a wait on occasion, but they were not urgent issues, it also helps to be in relatively good physical shape. A good surgical candidate can be assessed and moved on through the system, those with complications, need to deal with minimising the risk factors before a surgical intervention, weight, diet or any of the other things that can change your outcome. As for insurance, it's much like transport, everyone could use a Toyota Yaris, but many choose to travel in a Lexus, or a McLaren, just because they can. Oddly enough, I have several acquaintances that have dealt with various cancers, they were very unhappy with their insured treatment and praised the public system. However 4 decades of govt have simply not increased funding for the system as demand grew, conservative govts deliberately cut funding and the entire system is overloaded at this point.
Here in Oz if you go to emergency it doesn't matter who you are - you will be treated and your life will be saved. However, I have private insurance so was able to arrange a knee arthroscopy within a couple of weeks. A colleague the same age had to wait 18 months for the same procedure through public health. Not life threatening. By the way, health insurance here is not linked to employment and some of the funds are not for profit. They don't seem to be the same money making machines as in the US. And - we have health insurance but are definitely not wealthy. My mother-in-law was on an aged pension and she made it a priority to keep up private health insurance.
@@leenysnell8804 So for 18 months, your friend must live a limited lifestyle while he waited? Sometimes, the wait is necessary but when people are cared for in a timely fashion, they can return to a "normal" lifestyle more quickly. There's value in that. For profit hospital systems create competition for resources and patients making some resources more readily available at the same time, it also drives costs up. I think we can agree that both systems have their issues but your example of patients having to wait carries its own risks. For example, walking around on a joint injury could result in severe degradation of the joint that requiring a more aggressive treatment.
I think it’s the American attitude to working. Americans have an attitude that if you want to go home at the end of your shift on time, or actually take any part of that two measly weeks of vacation given to you, or take a sick day because your actually sick, then your a slacker, lazy, underperforming. Americans think they have to work, even if they have the flu. And they must work 80 hours a week! And the more hours you work the better. Even if you don’t get paid for the extra hours. And companies expect this work ethic!! But younger Americans are pushing back. Demanding their vacations. Taking off when sick. Demanding a better work life balance. So I’m expecting this trend won’t continue as Americans start learning the value of spending quality time with their families outside of their jobs. I’m an American and I work to live. Not live to work. And I’m a freak because of it. But I’m proud of it! I go home at 5. Work 40 hours. That’s it. Take my vacation and treasure it as time with my son. And I’m considered abnormal. Lazy. But I don’t care.
With that many meds, it seems like it would only be a matter of time before making a medicine dose mistake, or just having an imbalance from all the meds interacting with changes in body needs from day to day. Just too hard to keep all that in proper, consistent balance. I’d also be curious to see the average number of Rx’s by age, for U.S. vs other countries. My parents and grandparents said the best medicine is not to have to take any. (But you’ve got to do all you can for health, so that you won’t need those medicines.) Easier said than done, I know. I’m trying but by no means perfect.
When my sister and brother-in-law (late 60s) show up for a visit, they each bring a gallon zip-lock bag full of their prescriptions. I honestly don't know how they keep track of all of it.
Medical treatment is the third biggest cause of death in america today Elderly taking many medications causes serious life threatening problems called “polypharmacy toxicity “
A couple of things the good doctor said that really stood out to me. He mentioned that sometimes a person has to get maybe several points of view or just an impactful story from someone to have an epiphany (if you will) to change. Mine was a few interviews that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders (I loved her first two albums with the original lineup) gave on RUclips and the conviction she showed toward animal rights (for some people this would be off putting). The other thing the doctor was basically saying vis a vie his children was "a half a loaf is better then no loaf" (I believe this saying is often attributed to Ronald Reagan, though I'm sure others have said the same). Anyway, while I value vegan purists, it more people would just eat a lot less meat & animal products in general, this would go a long way toward improving the health of many plus take away a lot of environmental degradation and cruelty/death toward animals.
A reduction in animal product consumption is warranted and justified for health and environmental improvement. But can't in good conscience but justified for animal welfare reasons. Reducing meat consumption for animal welfare reasons is a bit like beating your partner up less, the latter is better than the former but hardly a good benchmark to strive for.
One major difference between Australians and Americans is that Australians cook a LOT more at home. While our diets might be as sad as the SAD, the majority of people (gen x and above) I know cook meals from scratch and take their own lunch to work. Eating out/takeaway occurs only 1-2 times per week at most.
When it comes to socialized medicine (something I'm all for) it's more sophisticated than just corporate propaganda against it. If Americans are going to accept universal healthcare they're going to have to also accept the reality that the government is going to heavily tax anything (food especially) that will increase their risks. As much as I am for universal healthcare, getting even a quarter of Americans to accept that reality is going to be basically impossible.
Yeah... It's so odd, because we have socialized fire departments and never a complaint. 911 picks up the call on the first ring, dispatches a fire engine immediately, it's modern, well maintained, the firefighters are well trained, risk their lives, never asking to see your insurance card and refusing to put out flames if you lost your job.
Its fundamentally a problem of perspective and economic ideology. Americans are basically trained to only view up front costs and short term consequences because of our capitalist heavy system. Anything viewed from a "possibility" or "inevitability" is basically ignored or written off. At some point Americans are either going to have to accept that socialist systems act as a counterbalance to the inherent failings of capitalism or they're going to have to let unfettered capitalism destroy the country they so vehemently pretend to care about.
Maybe they will, meanwhile i'm over here in the Netherlands waiting till we don't subsidize meat and dairy anymore whilst having our universal healthcare..
Thought provoking as always Chris - I appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos. As a guest suggestion, could I recommend Chris Van Tulleken, author of the recent book "Ultra-Processed People (Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food... And Why Can't We Stop?)". Reading his book I was struck by how he focused on the work of many of your previous guests - Kevin Hall and Mark Schatzker to name two. I think you would both find a lot to talk about!
Thanks for your’s and your guests' insights and sharing. Just a thought on the high sucker rate in the US for wellness “products and gurus”. (It would be interesting if American are more taken in, I see it in many countries). It could be these folks want to be well and healthy, but can't afford legit medical care so they start listening to the talk show circuit, social media and hear-say. It also does not help when commercial interests start promoting unsubstantiated “healthy options”.
Chris, please do a review of Caldwell Esselstyn's book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease if you want to see your fellow Americans live longer! I'm on week 3 of his heart attack proof diet and already feeling wonderful.
I try to tell people the message of this healthy diet but no one seems to care and act annoyed or upset if I even mention if the message isn’t on MSM they don’t listen
Chris, thank you! I loved hearing from this doctor. Have you had enough feedback in the other comment sections? I don't want to come across as rude. In this video, there were 1 or more times, when you didn't pause before starting a new topic. It was hard to follow your train of thought until after you finished speaking. It makes it a lot easier for the audience if you add those pauses. Even a maximum of 1 second is enough. Is that possible? By the way, in a recent video comment section, I said that you were losing me. I was writing in terms of losing my loyalty as an audience member. I was referring to you communicating in ways that I couldn't understand. I say this, because I realized that I might have seemed off-putting.
@@eugenetswongif you want to edit/correct an earlier comment tap on the three dots beside your posted comment and hit the edit tab, then you can simply edit the original comment. 🙂
Good interview that make me as a Canadian glad to have universal healthcare. Alas, It is not without it’s flaws because the system Is busting at the seams with more patients than ever and not enough money to be able to offer treatments without lengthy wait list times or offer a full range of all types of treatments. Seems to me it is time to start promoting “healthcare” Not just disease care.
So... you kind of were ghosting the Emergency Room Guys? I'm glad you changed your mind and came back to full consciousness. I love your Videos ❤ Ps. What you described somehow reminded me of the Track "Descending" by Tool
It's surprising what he says about Australian healthcare system because I was under impression it was ran much like the rest of the UK. I have a friend in England who is always complaining how she can't get care or tests even for things like heart scans for chest pain. She is envious that as an American I often just go to the doctor asking for specific tests and get tested right then. I have two friends in Australia and while I have never discussed their healthcare with them what stands out is how active and outdoorsy they are and that may be why their health is so much better. They hike, go snorkling, clam digging, fishing and kayaking and belong to a community group where they play bagpipes and march. So there is the social aspect to health which I often read reports is a problem in the US as there is less social activity and more isolation among people. I have noticed that myself as I have moved cross country to areas where there is less community activity. The part about young heart attack victims makes me think they probably have the MTHFR gene mutation and if they take un-methylated B12 or folate or don't consume enough methyl donors then it makes their homocysteine high which is a risk for heart attack or stroke. Those people need homocysteine and lypoprotein-A blood tests often. And if it's high then genetic testing.
Love this interview and all your videos. This video has a lot of cuts in it though, which is a bit annoying 🙃 it makes the conversation a bit staccato and weird. And, btw, influence of big pharma is a very real and dangerous thing. Please don’t put everything on one big heap and stay critical always.
Does Dr. Cois make sure his kids have a source of vitamin K2? Natto, or tobacco-based MK-4 supplement, like the one by NOW, that contains alfalfa? There is chickpea natto, but I don't know if it contains K2. Sauerkraut contains too little to use it as your sole source of K2.
0:00: 📊 The video explores the disparity in life expectancy and healthcare costs between the US and other advanced countries. 7:30: 💡 The speaker discusses the addition of ethics to their dietary choices and the cognitive dissonance surrounding our treatment of animals. 11:37: 😅 Parents struggle to get their kids to eat healthy food, but it's important to keep trying. 28:04: 😔 The speaker is upset about people receiving bad advice, particularly in the diet book industry and on the internet, which he believes is dominated by Americans. 15:27: 🍖 The video discusses the impact of lifestyle choices on health, particularly in Australia and the US, with a focus on meat consumption. 19:33: 🌿 Nature-based interventions have excellent outcomes for health and the healthcare system in Australia values preventative health. 23:34: 🔑 Access to different perspectives and experts, and the challenge of discerning trustworthy information. 31:38: 🩺 The speaker experienced hyponatremia due to low sodium intake and strenuous exercise, but received medical treatment and learned about electrolyte balance for endurance athletes. Recap by Tammy AI
Unless you're wealthy, in the US you don't go to the doctor until something is severe, and often not even then. So health conditions get to severe or gonna-kill-ya level before we can even consider going to the doctor, and then when we do, of course, the medical debt will probably make us jobless, homeless, and utterly destitute. But wait, there's more! Many US states are making any kind of obstetric care illegal, so if women give birth in those states, they're going to be in the 1890s as far as medical care is concerned. Better have a jug of whiskey to pull on and a bullet to bite, and if you die in childbirth, Oh Well, it's Gawd's will. So while life expectancy in the US has been falling for something like a decade, I expect it to keep falling and at a steeper rate.
Great interview. I feel like we can't turn the corner on a massive plant based conversion until we can get more of the medical (and medical insurance) industry involved. I remember when car insurance got cheaper if you weren't a smoker. Incentives work wonders.
In a world where trump was president,musk is considered a genius and Peterson an intellectual,the message does not matter,the loudest matter. Thks for the effort though! Take care.
Apendics? Acute? I got 3x only a drug. We where poor. 2 doctors knew that, so operation was to expensive. So they gave a drug and i was fixed! 3x in one year. After that, i never had an apendix problem. Very, very, very painful it was. Glad i was fixed. My father could not pay the hospital bill, so this 2 house doctors came with the same drug in the 80's.
With all the calamities that have befallen Chris (my husband, Mr. Plant Chompers), I would have been a widow many times over without heroes like Dr. Cois.
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Hi, Toni!
You'd be buried alive in rubbish if wasn't for those hero rubbish collectors. Please, these people are just doing a job for money!
@@eugenetswong Hi Eugene! Hope you and your family are doing well. We miss seeing you!
@@tonimacaskill6533 You both remember me? All I've done is comment in these videos. Is it possible that there is another Eugene in your lives?
As a 61yo Australian woman living nearly 30 years with multiple sclerosis, our universal health care is absolutely part of the difference. I just started a new medication, costing me $60. Same drug in the US:$99 000 USD , and that's if the insurance company approve!
I have a store selling fresh fruit and vegetables 500m from my home in outer suburbia. It's a 5 min drive to multiple supermarkets and fresh food stores. Multiple local markets selling produce direct from the growers are held regularly.
I live minutes from the beach, the bush, and multiple public reserves. Being in nature is part of our lifestyle.
My grandchildren go to school and come home again. We have zero school shootings in our history. The greatest risk to our children during their school day is sun exposure! They have a "no hat, no play" policy and sunscreen is routinely applied before going out to play. The classroom doors are not locked and often open to allow fresh air flow.
I can't imagine living in the US.
What a pleasant and fabulous doctor to listen to! I'm 66 and mostly eat vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, some fruit and seeds. I have some chicken and a tiny bit of turkey and sardines as well. I am a small person: 5'6" and 138 lbs and exercise as heavyhander and tai chi player. Now I feel that I should ditch my animal foods. I'd probably do just fine without them and cause less suffering. Thank you for posting this interview.
yes! I wish my parents (the same age) felt and ate like you.
Chicken and Turkey have to be the worst animal products to consume. If you want to be vegan with a little animal product, to up performance I would think ditch the poultry and add 1 whole egg, 1 tablespoon of natural yoghurt, 1 tablespoon of whey, teaspoon of cold liver oil, 1 ounce of liver (you can cut it up into 1 ounces pieces and cook and freeze, if you don't like liver, mince it and add lots of garlic, ginger, chilli, herbs, turmeric, some oil, milk, flour and cook in a bain-marie)
@@brucejensen3081 Pork is the worst meat, you don't know what you're talking about.
@@kingakuma7 chickens raised to maturity in like 6 weeks, fed like grains, soy only. Even if you get a good breed, fed properly, every other bird is better. Danish people seem to do well on pork, but it too, is not exactly the best
If you eat chicken be sure to eat the skin and gristle. Chicken is a major source of methionine, which promotes cancer and uses up your glycine stores. You need glycine to make collagen. Vegans have a higher level of glycine than omnivores for that reason. This lower level of methionine also helps prevent the growth of cancer (cancer needs methionine and can't upcycle any of its own.)
Thank you. As an Australian putting together a Veganuary guide for my colleagues for next year.. This just made it to video of the day for day 5. What another treasure of a perspective, and how very rational and tempered is his speech. So glad to have one video in our accent on the site now, thank you
How receptive are your colleagues to it? I think if I tried it at my workplace I'd be laughed out of the room 😅
That's awesome! Good on you for setting that up. How are you displaying - a website, mail list?
@@adrianlcois I'm using Google sites. A page for each day of the month, with an ingredient of the day, a video of the day, and then some optional "rabbit hole" content at the bottom. I think I'll run four or five virtual meetings to make it a bit more social... I have not yet succeeded in finding any subjects for a test run in July and this does not bode well for the project 😅 I tend to discuss problems with colleagues and usually it helps me think about it differently. Step by step I'll get there probably 😆
@@agentdarkboote absolutely no takers at the moment! I am hoping that maybe one or three of my 20 immediate colleagues will be interested, and the beauty is I can reach more people in other locations as it is a big company (over 6000) so.. yeah I will need support of people in another couple of departments (wellbeing e-news) and then maybe I MIGHT be allowed to advertise it internally to everyone. Big fat might 😅
Last week, my cousin lost two brothers to heart attacks. One of them was walking in the gym, and his heart attack was so sudden, he was probably dead before he hit the floor. And the other brother was stressed out because of his loss, and after a couple stressful days, he died of a sudden and massive heart attack too. I've been to their cookouts enough times to know what their diet was: LOTS of meat, LOTS of beer, LOTS of cheese, butter, ice cream, potato chips, donuts....pantry stacked high with colorful boxes.... fast food bags and pizza boxes usually visible... They were 44 and 49 years old.
I’m so sorry. 😔
@@Viva-Longevity thanks
@@Viva-Longevity I think this hints at why America's life expectancy is so much lower than Australia's. Both may eat a lot of meat, but there is unhealthy and there is UNHEALTHY. I don't think healthcare is the primary driver. Healthcare would have made no difference for these two unfortunate individuals.
@@carl13579 Around where I'm from, in Louisiana, I can think of many people I knew, who died very young from heart attacks or cancer... There was RC, another unhealthy cousin of mine, died age 56 of a heart attack. SB, a milk truck driver and father of a childhood friend, dead at 44 from heart attack. CC, a 34 year old mother of two, distant cousin of mine, who died in her sleep of a heart attack. I could probably cite 30 examples of people relatively close to me, who ate the standard Cajun diet of fried meat and boudin, if I thought about it for a while.
One friend of my cousin RC, a woman in her 50s lost both legs after an E.coli infection, from beef. ...seriously I could on and on....everybody knows it too. I hear people talking "aw, yeah! everyone's dying so young! what is going on?!?!" and if I ever chime in and say "maybe it's the food" I get (at best) confused silence, and "but my doctor gives me Lipitor..."
So young! How terrible. I'm so sorry for your losses.
Great interview. I'm Australian and I've spent a lot of time in the USA including being married to a USA woman. As far as diet and health goes Australia isn't that great. The majority of people believe red meat is good for them and they'd die without it. The percentage of overweight people is around the same but the seriously obese rate is not as high in Australia.
The biggest differences I've noticed are:
Portion size in restaurants and fast food joints. Portion sizes are much, much larger in the USA. When I ate out in the USA my wife and I would share a meal and be more than full.
Many Americans hate walking with a passion to a degree that's comical. Australians tend to be a little more active than Americans. This difference is most noticeable at the extremes.
Australia has universal health care. We don't have to pay for health services for the most part which means in Australia if you have a health problem you go see a doctor. Early identification of conditions like cancer saves a lot of lives.
Australia has less large companies lobbying government (most are mining companies and the meat industry). The country is not afraid of introducing policies that improve the health of Australians. Examples: we have plain packaging laws for cigarettes in Australia. When you buy a pack of cigarettes it has horrible pictures of people suffering from a range of diseases caused by smoking.
During the pandemic the state and federal government enforced lockdowns, restrictions and preventative measures and encouraged vaccination in many ways. There are at least 300,000 dead Americans because the USA could not get a consistent health message about Covid-19 out to the public.
Having said all that Australia still has huge room for improvement. Australian diets are 38.9% ultra processed foods. Australians eat way too much red meat. Australians don't eat enough vegetables. Many Australians don't get enough exercise. In the health system it is not common place for GPs to refer people who obviously have diseases caused by diet to dieticians (of all my pet peeves in western health systems this comes in at #1).
I noticed the Australian meal pattern is a meat and 2 veg with potato. Smaller portions too. It was like the 1940's American way of eating and back then most Americans were thin.
Thank you. Fascinating.
Very well explained. Bang on the money.
@@happycook6737 To be fair, what you describe would be normal for over 60's, not so much for those much younger.
Meat and three veg was the common refrain for the evening meal.
And God, it could be sooooo boring.
Thank God for immigration and all those foods brought into our lives.
I'm on a carnivore diet and it's funny to hear people still saying that vegetables is the way to go. I've done my research and there's a lot of doctors that really find it amazing that all of the people who used to say red meat is bad didn't have anything to back it up anymore. It's really funny.
I think our healthcare system plays a huge role in life expectancy and mortality rates. We put off going to the doctor because we can't afford it and next thing you know, we're dropping dead from a preventable and treatable disease. Add poor diet on top of that and there you go.
Plus the rise in opioid related deaths. It's a major cause of the decline in lifespan in the United States as well.
Yep. That happened to one of my friends. His mom got sick and was too worried about a doctor bill to get help. By the time she was forced to go to the hospital, it was too late and she died three days later. :( And there is no reason for that to happen other than greed.
Exactly right. While the people on Medicaid who work very little go to the ER for an ear infection and pay nothing. For my insurance to cover the ER, death would need to be imminent! I went once for a massive allergic reaction to a food and my insurance tried to refuse saying an urgent care didn't see me first. My reply, when you can't breathe urgent care sends you to the ER. Made me 😡.
I agree not having excess to healthcare in the United States is a problem for Americans. However do you really feel that a Universal healthcare system would fix the problem here in the States. I really don't think it would help. If we had free health care here yes people would be covered but think about how many millions of people would need healthcare . There would be extremely long wait times to get an appointment to see a doctor. People would die waiting to see a physician here. You have to remember these countries with Universal healthcare like England, Australia much smaller than the United States. What works well for these countries might not work for the United States.
@@bh2155 You forgot to throw in 'homogeneous population' it's usually included in the 'merica mighty big country, biggest country, many more freedom than small, less wampum country'
The largest of your issues is the inability to get past your own propaganda.
I love the aesthetics of your channel. The quality of the picture, the angles, your kitchen, your studio, the faces and their being colors, your effort need and cap...
They're kinda fascinating.
100%! I really appreciate the time, efforts and care put into the videos. I feel so lucky that those videos are free! ❤
I have a nice little meal suggestion - take some very thoroughly washed raw greens, pass them through the food processor with the thin slicing blade. I like a mixture of collards, kale, arugula, and spinach. Then after slicing this to a fine chiffonade, toss the (about a pound of) greens with a little garlic powder, prepared spicy mustard, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and finally a ripe avocado or two. Smash it all together using the lemon juice to add moisture as needed. Finish with ground black pepper and just a dash of (optional) turmeric. I call it "salad salad sandwich" ...lol.....I like to eat it stuffed inside a Toufayan whole wheat pita. OMG....it's an implausibly delicious sandwich, considering it's almost all raw greens.
!!!! I'm gonna try it! 👏💪😋
@@Viva-Longevity Haha awesome! I actually ate that for dinner after writing that comment, but I just put the whole collards on my sandwich. lol, my jaw is sore today
@@Viva-Longevity Me too! (Except minus the raw collards. I'm a Southerner, so I've gotta eat those cooked. I slow cook collards with a lot of garlic, onion, and smoked paprika and eat with a bowl of red beans. 😀)
@@lauraz8349 The trick is to slice them extremely thin, (I use my mechanical blades, mandolin or food processor, for that) so the raw greens get fluffy and nice to chew, and then toss it with a salad dressing, then allow it to sit for 18 hours in the fridge. It sort of pickles the greens, considering you'd be using something with vinegar or citrus juice, and maybe a 1/3 tsp salt goes in there too.
I've been enjoying it so much, I've eaten about 10 pounds of raw greens in the last week. It's addictive!
@@lauraz8349 I'm about to have cooked collards with my dark red and black beans....omg....it's really good!!
Excellent interview, I like Dr Cois. Keep chomping Chris!
Certainly one of your best interviews ever! I sent this video to my brother-in-law who is an emergency room Dr. I hope he relates.
We eat terrible diets in the UK and have high obesity and overweight population. Free healthcare is likely the reason our life expectancy hasn't dropped off a cliff like the US.
Caucasians of European descent have the best outcomes with obesity than any other ethnicity. Asians and blacks having the worst.
Many people here in the USA would like us to switch over to your type of healthcare system. The conservatives are against it and encourage people to look into how your system is struggling too. We are told that everyone there doesn't get everything they need either. Supposedly people are on waiting lists for long periods of time for things you would get here quickly if your insurance/financial situation is good. Of course a significant percentage of our population is not so fortunate. They want the government to take over. The conservatives say we have 30+ TRILLION in debt and we just put Afghanistan on the credit card and after 20 years we have nothing to show for it. We have people living on the streets like stray cats in what I was told growing up was the best country in the world! I just had an appointment in town at the University medical center. When I was waiting to make my turn there was a person in a wheelchair in the rain hoping some people would try to give the poor soul some money. The USA is going down the tubes. The poverty and crime and drug abuse is so bad I would be embarrassed if I was the president and the visiting foreign leader sees how bad things are just a few blocks from the Whitehouse in Washington, DC. Thee end, good luck to everyone with everything.
Can't wait to see the trend from beginning of 2023 onwards! I think we know what it'll look like!
Fellow UK person and I'd agree. I think the free NHS health care is starting to breakdown through sheer overload now though, leaving politics aside for the moment. And I'm really noticing recently just how prevalent obesity is becoming now even in younger people.
You also have a lower infant mortality. Deaths from things like heart disease and cancer tend to occur late in life and thus have a smaller impact on population average lifespan than infant deaths. You may have fewer accident deaths as well, which also disproportionately affect the young. If one person lives to 100 and their sibling dies as a baby, their average lifespan is 50. If one person lives to 100 and the other dies of a heart attack at 65, their average is 82.5. Globally, in countries where the average lifespan is like 45 or 50, it isn't because people drop dead in ther 50s, it's generally because lots of babies die.
Dr. Cois seems like a great guy, nice video Chris and Dr. Cois !
How is it possible to hold such an in depth wide ranging interview while holding a camera perfectly stable and with out any notes….? Thanks for bringing us to Portland for this great interview.
What an amazing insightful voice. Encouraging and very much appreciated.
Thank you guys.
On kids' preferences, that you touched on briefly around midway through, with the comment about ice cream, our experience is that our young kids will ask if things are vegan (on their own initiative) - which they usually are where we live - but will turn down even vegan sweets for being too sweet. Consequence of being plant based from birth.
Really love your videos! This was insightful and I’m looking forward to your next discussions! But…is there a way I can buy you another tripod?? So you don’t have to hold the camera next time 😅
Greedy food industry, greedy healthcare system, greedy politicians, crazy lack of gun safety...I'm not surprised. I'd be surprised if we were doing well. As a nurse, I didn't realize how our food is killing us. I did realize and do see how our health system fails those of us who aren't rich.
This is a very compassionate man. As a nurse, I remember so many of the patients who died under my care, as he does. The first one I remember as a student nurse was a German man whose family was just outside the intensive care door. After the doctor informally pronounced the patient dead he said, "We might as well let the student nurses do compressions, because to continue to agressively work on him is like beating a dead horse." That remark still gives me the creeps. What if a family member had heard that?
Really enjoyed this interview; the way it was filmed was novel and engrossing, and the conversation style was familiar but very informative. I was pre-med for a couple of years many years ago (before changing majors completely), and have worked on and off as an informal medical caregiver and patient advocate for friends and family since then, and it was fascinating to hear the thoughts of an ER medico with training in a different medical system, as well as here in the U.S. Good luck to Dr. Cois and his family in their pursuits, and thanks to you, Chris, for posting : )
Your YT’s are well edited, produced, researched. All are interesting, I’m surprised you don’t get more subscribers.
Frenchie here, great video! Watching it as I'm shelling hyacinth beans and thinking: "here's a nice food that I grew, organic, is helping biodiversity, on site local, perennial, and healthy with no animals dying for me." Add the fact that I got my seeds from the local wild populations and planted them, it's 100% free food that I really just harvest and shell, and don't do any other work. Plus I get to binge your videos while I shell them and prep the beans for the pressure cooker 😆
Good on you.😊
Thank you for this interview, Chris!
I am an Australian physiotherapist that has been traveling to and from the USA since 1979.
There are differences between the nations that Adrian has been excessively PC about.
This unfortunately masks the real reasons why America scores poorly among developed nations on longevity.
1. America has a higher spread between rich and poor. The poor generally eat worse than developing world standard.
2. America has a higher % of minorities who in general are more poorly educated, poorer, and eat a poorer diet. Minorities pull the American average lifespan down significantly.
3. American diet guidelines are set by a commercially swayed organization (USDA). Australian guidelines are set by a govt dept that is more independent. Check the daily recommendations of the US vs Australia for fibrous carbs.
4. Under the guidance of the USDA, American schools and colleges provide meals to students that guarantee an early death after decades of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
5. On my first visits to America, I was shocked that there were stores that sold nothing but donuts and coffee. I could not understand how they could sell enough to make a profit. Over the decades such stores have come to Australia as well. So America led the trend.
6. I was also shocked at how much sugar and salt was added to American meals.....and how big servings were in restaurants.
7. I met many Americans who just did not have a palate for vegetables. This is only possible if one eats fast food regularly.
8. Australia is not that far behind America today, in eating a disease promoting diet.
9. It saddens me that 97% of patients I see are diseased because of a poor diet. Medicine has become compartmentalized. Doctors I know believe it is not their role to promote a healthy diet and weight loss. Instead they just prescribe prescribe prescribe bandaids to mask the effects of their patients' poor lifestyles. They do so because they do not comprehend how powerful lifestyle choices are.....But also, there's arrogance among doctors, in that they think rehashing the weight loss and healthy diet message isn't sophisticated enough for all the education and status a doctor undergoes.
On the other hand, physiotherapists are not taught pathophysiology deeply enough to comprehend how one's diet causes chronic disease and degenerative diseases. Tendinopathies, inflammatory arthridites, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases....all these are in great part due primarily to poor blood flow and blood loaded with inflammatory and oxidative agents.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. Great message, if a little depressing. 😁
Nutrition, is not taught in medical schools, so doctors can't really accept that they spent 7-10 years in med school and residency, having been taught how to treat illnesses with medication, that many of those illnesses can be eliminated by proper diet.
No wonder they won't subscribe to that notion.
As a Canadian doctor I agree that many doctors underestimate patient’s capacity to make lifestyle changes but the unfortunate reality is that the majority of our patients are not motivated to change their lifestyles and we have no choice to prescribe meds. Thanks for your comment. Your list is comprehensive and insightful
You raise an important topic here… How to teach the children.
The problem is, It’s more than “not kind” to the animals. It’s the largest holocaust ever, and ethicists are correct in viewing it as such. How do you relate to people, loved ones, family, who commit atrocities, as though those suffering creatures didn’t even exist? Tip toeing around this subject does not express the urgency of the crisis, nor the severity of the violence, or the wrongness of the transgression.
Kids should be taught that animals deserve to be protected, not that meat eaters should be respected and accepted(which is what they demand). their behavior is not accept-A-ble.
We didn’t defeat Nazi Germany by downgrading the intensity of the crimes against humanity. In fact, much of the US struggled to find its ethical center and practically supported Germany’s antisemitism in the lead up to WW2. (See Ken Burns, US and the Holocaust).
Also see the latest gas chamber investigations of how they kill pigs in the Uk. (Joey Carbstrong)
Animal agriculture is a crime against the animal kingdom, and that includes humanity, and against ALL the earths ecosystems. Regarding biodiversity, it is the single worst industry in the entire world. The Holocene extinction is underway.
(See the 2020 study from Oxford published in the journal Science. )
Doctors as scientists need to step up, like this fine gentleman.
But, my favorite question is, would you dine with Nazis? In that regard, should we even patronize establishments that serve animals and their babies’ milk? Ordering vegan food…. You are still helping their bottom line.
How lonely do you want to be?
Thankfully, Chris’ large family seems quite supportive and great company. He’s got an army!
I liked this more than I thought I would like this. We truly have a disconnect in this country between what we sell/promote through advertising and what is really healthy for us. This has been this way since the Victorian era; it’s only intensified since the 70’s.
That’s why channels like this, giving scientific interviews & in depth discussions of evidence is so important. It’s not saving everyone, but I’m sure it’s saving some.
Curious on when the interviews you alluded to in the video are going to drop. More!! More, please. :-).
Awesome video like always just shared like many times, so glad you are ok now, God Bless you and your family.
Great interview and holding that camera still for that long! Wow 👏
Thanks! I had my elbows on the table so it was no prob with the camera.
@@Viva-Longevity I can't talk without my hands (the Italian in me LOL)so I think I would need a tripod. LOL!
Problem #1: Oversight by insurance companies largely disallows interventional preventative medicine. Problem #2: Food industry PR is designed to confuse consumers about about what's in their food and its real effects on the human body. Problem#3: Big pharma's co-option of medical school curricula to de-emphasize nutritional studies hamstrings young physicians into believing that the only interventions worth considering are pharmaceutical. US citizens face a gauntlet of obstacles navigating the truth about health and food.
Would love a video on low blood pressure! I have low blood pressure and there is to be no advice to manage beyond "stand up slowly". It's really annoying to feel groggy and *still* be told to limit salt 😢
Me too! I increased my salt intake but dont want to go overboard with that. It seems to help somewhat.
LBP also has a relation to dehydration.
I have tried 10-20g a day and it still only helps a little. I reduced it because of the stomach cancer risk
Taking extra iron helped me.
You might read up on orthostatic hypotension and postural hypotension. There might be a specific cause to your hypotension. There’s endocrine disorders to rule out. Going through all OTC and prescription meds you might use is important. There are medications to use; generic substance names, effortil and midodrine. They’ve been around for ever and should be cheap. Using compression stockings helps. Increase salt (there’s certain mineral salts that might work better than regular salt) and water intake too. It wouldn’t hurt to check your potassium and haemoglobin levels like B12 iron folate etc too. The reason you feel groggy is that there’s not enough blood flow through the Cerebellum (“the little brain”) in your brain. It regulates movements, coordination, balance, there’s cognitive functions, balance. Without a normal BP, the Cerebellum can’t work properly and it needs medication because it’s not possible to fix in other ways. But you need to advocate for your needs and don’t take no for an answer and whoever told you to cut down in salt is not following the medical evidence. Trying to pin down if you’ve always had LBP or if it came later after an illness like and infection or whatever is helpful.
Great interview.
Problem with US system is it's penalized for doing a good job with prevention...your dentist loses money and job security if they successfully help you do a good job with preventing tooth decay, and there are many other examples like that. So you get this situation where the healthcare industry goes out of business if it actually does a good job...just a simple conflict of interest on a massive scale. This is why dentists didn't march or lobby in DC decades ago to get refined sugar regulated etc. On top of that, healthcare is the largest industry in the US, so if we suddenly started doing a great job at prevention the healthcare industry and whole economy would be negatively effected.
Such an excellent interview! Thanks!
Have you ever gone to Walmart and looked what's in people's shopping carts? People eat garbage like it's their true calling.
Many ppl shopping at Wal mart are likely doing the best they can with what they have. Empathy is an important.
@@taroka1119 To quote an oft uttered refrain from Dr. McDougall, "excuse me!? Excuse me!" lol.....the dry starches on which I base my diet are all purchased at Walmart, and just today I had a 55 pound grocery haul of beans dry peas, and lentils, with brown rice, and whole wheat pasta for a bank-breaking $75.
What I see when I'm in Walmart is: shopping carts filled with hundreds of dollars of ultraprocessed ready-to-eat junk foods. So, I don't buy for a second, that people are doing the best they can. Maybe it's not entirely their fault, for the myriad reasons outlined on this channel, but it's CERTAINLY not the best they can do with what they have. In fact, it seems that they're going out of their way to jack up their grocery bill as much as possible while simultaneously guaranteeing themselves sickness.
@@taroka1119 Disagree. Just as easy to grab cans of beans as cans of pie filling or bags of potato chips! I see loads of single serve junk foods, boxes of hamburger helper when pasta is cheaper, tons of soda pop when water is nearly free and homemade tea is so cheap, etc
@@happycook6737 exactly. but we're in such a state of learned helplessness, that we as a society can't seem to snap out of it. it's like everyone is walking around in a trance, mesmerized by marketing, unable to take any action that hasn't been subconsciously approved by their brainwashed psyches.
Cliffhanger… waiting for next episode.
Wish I had a doctor like this
Universal Healthcare in Australia, everyone e gets the same top level of care--no insurance companies denying treatment coverage. And the doctors get paid the same--the profit motive to practice is not like in the u.s. where many doctors are only in it for the money. The animals are not fed corn, they are grass fed only.
Only sheep and cattle are grass fed in Australia (raised on huge stations the size of countries with minimal feeding and maintenance) and they are mostly fattened up with grain before sale. With other animals like pigs most of the meat sold comes from animals in factory farms just as bad as the USA. The default for milk dairies in Australia is grass feeding so the milk in Australia is better but it's still milk (40% fat by dry weight). It's unlikely it's doing your health much good if you're drinking a lot of it.
Working towards a Vegan world one day at a time! ❤
Was surprised you guys didn't talk about the culture of sports here in Aus ad a potential factor in longevity...
Watching them is part of our culture, been 50 years since a large proportion played regular sports.
The cost for children is a large part of that fall in participation.
Another thoughtful, thought provoking episode, Chris!! Thanks!!
Well, they definitely don’t have as many gun deaths per capita.
Hi Chris,
another great video. The ER doctors are all heroes and Dr Cois is certainly one of the best. Over in the UK the NHS staff are just as important. Also very interesting to hear his story on going plant-based (what a lovely family). Interesting to hear of the trauma the ER staff get (and no surprise). Chris - your arms must have hurt by the end of the shoot (hand-holding the main camera for the footage!) 😉Keep up the great work. I'm glad the medics were there for you when you needed them! best wishes
Michael
Thanks Michael! Very kind of you. Dr. Cois really is a jewel. I had my elbows on the table, which made holding the camera easy, and steady. I liked the perspective of filming Dr. Cois looking me right in the eye instead of looking off to the side, as would happen if the camera were on a tripod, but I guess some people disagreed.
Hi Chris,
Ah yes, I saw your technique closely! It certainly worked to help give a more natural 'humanist' feel to the conversation. But toned arms were no doubt still required! I have been in hospital and the A&E (uk) a few times and all the doctors, nurses, ambulance workers and admin are worth celebrating. Your conversation with Dr Cois on the preventative side of a better (healthy, plant-based) diet is the other side of the puzzle. So your channel continues to make the tools available for more people to learn what is helpful for their health in the long term. Love those woods as a setting too! 😁👍🌿
I had no idea America had such a difference in life expectancy to the rest of the world. I am in the UK and here our health service has been underfunded for years sadly. It seems to be under attack.
Yes, our government would like us to move to a more American system.
@@lorraine7960 I wish people knew what the American system actually looks like in terms of life expectancy.
@@juliashearer7842 Trust me they know, they also know that the american system makes more money for the people at the top.
@@11235Aodh you think the majority of people know that they are voting away their NHS? I personally very much doubt it. But you are welcome to your opinion 🙂
@@juliashearer7842 No the people don't know, and believe what they are told without doing research. The people in charge do know.
Would chronic stress in America be a contributing factor? How would this be measured? Cortisol per country?
I've often wandered the same, stress & trauma (historical, familial and personal trauma). We don't know enough about the impacts of the determinants of health on disease burden.
Stress if you get sick perhaps. In Australia if you get sick you're not worried about paying for the doctor or the hospital. We have universal health care. From a broader perspective I've lived in both countries and didn't see any significant difference between the stress level of people in Australia and the USA.
What an interesting interview. Thanks for introducing us to new people. I'm off to follow him, too!
what will it take for americans to recognize that universal health care is a GOOD thing? and not 'socialist take-over'...or whatever else they think. i will never ever understand this - and it breaks my heart. thanks for another great interview!
Too many of us are brainwashed to be suspicious of or even disdain things that help us to be safe because trigger words are used to describe them. It's endlessly baffling as an American how easily my fellow Americans are hoodwinked. [sigh]
It's so odd, because no one complains about the fire department being socialized. We treat firefighters as heroes and they don't refuse to put out your fire if you lost your job.
Universal healthcare is communism and gun ownership is freedom. I will never understand american culture. Watching this from Sweden.
Also the amount of money per person spent by the USA on the health system is around the same as Australia spends per person. Australia has universal health care, the USA does not. Americans are being ripped off by the health system paying 3 or 4 times what people in the rest of the western world pay. There are multiple reasons for this. One is around 25% of the cost of health care in the USA going to management of the interaction between health providers and insurance companies. Another is the cost of health providers trying to prevent being sued by running a pile of tests patients don't need.
In Australia the default is free or almost free for health services when you need them. Obviously we pay for them with our taxes and you can pay for private health insurance allowing you to go to a private hospital etc. But as I mentioned earlier the amount the Australian government pays per person for health is around the same as the USA government pays per person.
Sigh. I don't know. Maybe it will be the same thing that makes us realize that gun control is a good thing, too.
Well, when you don't have to worry about getting healthcare, childcare or going to college....that helps mightily in addition to a plant based approach to eating.
Great interview with a great person!
👍 👍 👌 👍 👍
Actually with 2 great persons ;).
Very enjoyed this conversation. Something very interesting should (imo) be visited. The obvious US drop of ”Life Expectancy” in 2021. This is vey strange…. Thank you
Yeah exactly.
The drop was caused by Covid-19 deaths.
In 2023 US life expectancy is 76.4.
Social Security Full Retirement Age FRA is 70. Six years for yourself after working your ass off for 45-55 years. The US is a Penal Colony with prison grade food, ultra surveillance, high stress, and horrible health and an incompetent goverment.
Such a great video again - two great minds 🙏
Great respect for Dr. Adrian, and other ERs. I always wonder as well: how come people do not care too include more healthy lifestyle changes in their lives? We could be enjoying a much longer and healthier life with our loved ones. It's mind-boggling, and sad.
Thank you, what a nice doctor and you did a wonderful job with the interview 😊
32:51 this detachment from the patient journey is way some doctors don’t listen to their patients, pulling the “I know more than you” card and have wrong diagnosis. That being said. There are lots of caring people in medicine that just don’t treat it like a job clocking out after 10 hours and don’t care. Thanks to all those giving kindness, respect and humanity 🙏🏾
Compared to the health system in the 50's 60's 70,and 80's, and it has been ,what we have now in Australia is a dark shadow ,of what was once a patent orientated system , to a drug company driven machine .The Australians are unfortunately catching up to the USA.................
When I see that chart I think of that song, "One of these things is not like the others..."
Great interview! Can you talk more about salt? About Hyponatremia? I'd very much like to hear about outliers. We keep our sodium at or below 1500mg per day. But we're not salt free. Still, I'd love to see what trustworthy guidance there is about _minimum_ sodium intake.
+1
You should look at changing from salt to miso as studies have shown that the interaction of the soya offsets the effect of the salt.
Check out the video's of dr. Peter Rogers, he talks a lot about sodium and the health of our cells. The sodium present in vegetables is plenty (make sure to get a source for iodine like seaweed though).
@@davepage6428 Yes, I've read several studies involving miso. I'm still very skeptical though. If the presence of beneficial soy compounds magically offsets all of the negative effects from excess sodium, then it definitely shouldn't be exclusive to miso. Tofu and tempeh should also work. Just add those to your high sodium meal and all of your worries will fade away? This creates the concept that it doesn't matter what the sodium content is. As long as there are beneficial soy isofalvones, etc. then there's nothing to worry about. I don't buy it. Nope.
@@11235Aodh Thanks for the tip. I want to see the Plant Chompers take on this since he's the one that brought up concerns about Hyponatremia. He did lots of research on it. So I'd like to see what that was.
I do think the "isolate yourself from others" mentally in America also plays a role in the reduced walking hours which also related with reduceed health. So many kids in the suburban are becoming mentally ill. Homo sepians are not meant to live like this. We are social animals, we eat plants and tubers, and we walk all the time.
True true. Though we probably are lean meats like rabbits and fish for B12 and protein needs while barely getting by.
Love that phrase: “We have high performance teams”
My concern about a vegan diet is getting sufficient calcium and risk of osteoporosis. My close group of friends and family -- we're all around 65 years old -- are either vegetarian or vegan, and almost all of us have osteoporosis or osteopenia. I've added occasional sardines and salmon to my diet, along with eggs and yogurt, hoping that will help -- basically, the Mediterranean diet. I'm hoping you can make a video about the risks of osteoporosis with a vegan diet, and what you do, and what others recommend, for avoiding this. And how the vegan and Mediterranean diets compare in regards to osteoporosis. Thanks!
I would also add the alienation from natrue. People no longer have a sense and connect with the land and soil.
"food" in many people's mind are some packaged good from industrial plants.
People no longer have the knowledge that they can simply grow endless amount of leafy greens basically for free. And there's so much invasive plants outside we can help eat.
On the other end there's animal being cut into small chunks are renamed to "proteint". The separation from what people see in grocery store by their marketing schemes and the reality of origin of the products.
I think people need to get reconnect with natrue and who we really are as a species.
A couple of other things: in a lot of Asian cultures (and perhaps elsewhere): a person eats until they're 3/4 to 2/3 full. Also, as pointed out in some of the comments: Aussies apparently walk more then Americans in general. And obviously, as pointed out by the doctor, Australia has universal healthcare.
One other thing, and correct me if I'm wrong: Australians typically get more Sun then their American counterparts (higher vitamin D levels perhaps?). This last one is just a theory.
Chris, do you have a Patreon or a charity to donate to? I am getting so much value and enjoyment watching your content. I am 29, vegan for almost 5 years, I bike a lot. I feel in some ways I am very healthy and in others, I have a lot to learn. Thanks for your teachings!
Thanks, very kind of you. I just do it because I think it's so important and am lucky I don't need the financial support.
@@Viva-Longevity My parents are in the same situation and they taught me to value information above everything else. Maybe I could donate something to your favorite charity or so? I mean I guess my overweight, wine/meat-loving 65-year-old father could learn a thing or two about nutrition but statistics are his strong suit. He always talks about stress or a lack thereof is a very important factor in longevity as well as wealth and of course luck. I guess a meta-analysis of something as arbitrary as stress is tough but have you looked into data regarding wealth?
Of course, surviving and thriving are two very different things but I worry about both of my parents and their health. My mum recently finished her 2nd round of chemotherapy for intestinal cancer (wasn't super serious). What are the effects of diet on cancer survivability/prevalence? To me, it seems logical that consuming milk products certainly doesn't inhibit cancer growth but in fact the opposite. Is there any merit to this or am I just barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for everything you have done, are doing, and will do.
Pete
@@petewiggins Dr. Peter Rogers has a ton of videos on cancer and the influence of diet.
@@11235Aodh hey thanks!
Here in New Zealand we have a similar health care system like Australia. The downside here in New Zealand is the system is underfunded with a chronic shortage of nurses and doctors, resulting in huge waiting list for most common surgeries. People just have to wait, suffer and pop pills to manage their pain.
Don't assume it's better here in the U.S. I'm still waiting for my appointment, made almost 4 months ago, just to see a dermatologist. I have had to go to urgent care for things that aren't really urgent, like a sinus infection, because my primary care physician is booked out 6 weeks, and my ENT is booked out 10 weeks. I'm not sure why people think that our overly-expensive, private health insurance system means we have easier access and shorter wait times. We have way higher costs but that money doesn't go to making sure we have plenty of doctors and nurses. It goes into the pockets of the insurance companies and Big Pharma. Add to that the fact that many people are denied coverage for treatment by their insurance, even if they do get in to see a doctor, and you can see we have a much worse situation overall.
We just learned from a specialist that my husband has Chronic kidney disease, so I went with him to his primary care visit. After convincing my husband to eat only a plant based diet & he agreed, his PCP said, no you do have to do that, “I love meat & cheese.” I was furious. She didn’t even know what stage he was in but said that she is monitoring him.
Argh, so sorry to hear that. Kidney dialysis centers are popping up all over the nation in strip malls; I just saw a new one in our neighborhood yesterday. And what do they all tell their patients because it's the recommendation of all the kidney associations? Eat less protein, and by protein most people mean meat: you kidneys can no longer filter it. 😞
What a great guy
I bet he’s a great doctor because how more aware he is compared to others doctors, but the medical system also contributes to early mortality. Misdiagnosis, under-diagnosis, putting patients under procedures they don’t need, dismissing new ideas that could benefit patients. Being around doctors is mostly a bad idea, but they can help during acute situations sometimes. Chronic situations, not so much.
Another great video! Thank you - prevention really is the key to sustaining great health, in my opinion.
Thank you both for what you do! Spreading the word & saving lives 🥰 You mentioned two US populations and I immediately thought of the Adventists in Loma Linda, but cannot think of the second.. Thank you for another great video, looking forward to the next one!
I had no idea Ken Berry had his license suspended. I stopped watching him when he went from keto to carnivore. I'm trying to be plant-based so he wasn't the one to follow.
I have been tryin to find the article can you find it and share it to me please
@@timodavis6805 Here are two sources --
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/healthprofboards/minutes/me/ME012318.pdf --
"Dr. Berry’s license is currently on probation pursuant to a May 18, 2016 board order which disciplined Respondent for prescribing controlled substances and other medications without following the prerequisites to issuing prescriptions outlined in the Board’s rules."
....and www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/dar/18.01%20DAR.pdf --
"Licensee: Ken D. Berry, MD, Camden
Violation: Guilty of unprofessional conduct; to wit: The Board adopts, as is fully set out
herein, rules 1200-14-03.01 through 1200-14-03-.03 inclusive, of the Department of Health and as they may from time to time be amended, as its rule governing the process for implementing universal precautions for the prevention of HIV transmissions for health care workers under its jurisdiction.
Action: License placed on probation to extend two years following the expiration of previous period of probation with terms; assessed civil penalties in the amount of $3,000.00 plus costs not to exceed $10,000.00"
Also documented on Reddit using decent sources: www.reddit.com/r/ketoduped/comments/1aiw7ko/the_bizarre_past_of_carnivore_diet_influencer_dr/
🥕 Plus Plant Chompers also has two sources in his above video description 🥕➡
DISCIPLINARY ACTION REPORT (Dr. Ken Berry)
www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/dar/18.01%20DAR.pdf
STATE OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN THE MATTER OF KEN D. BERRY M.D. BEFORE THE TENNESSEE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS:
www.healthgrades.com/media/english/pdf/sanctions/HGPY7D4D26E384202708501242018.pdf
I'm looking at your chart at 00:58 and thinking about well known data that the "wealth" of the US is mostly concentrated in the top 15 or 10th percent of the population. What would the chart look like if the top 10% of each country were thrown out? A lot worse, I'm guessing.
Thank you 💗🥦
"I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE." Hank Williams, Sr.
I learned about hyponatremia the hard way in high school, fortunately I got to a doctor quickly and was able to recover by the end of the next day. Still the worst experience i have ever had in my life.
China Study is a great book, changed my life. Now 67 feel good and happy.
Love your vids
Could it be that Australians are more physically active than your average American and that they participate in more outdoor activites as leisure? Also, I'm curious about their rules regarding chemical additives to food and if the government subsidizes corporations that make ultra processed food like we do here.....
Could be any of a bunch of things.
Whilst we have socialised health care, and many pharmacy items are affordable, some older folk (like me I guess) avoid going to the GP, as many of them seem to get their latest "science" from the glossy pharmaceutical brochures and they are all too ready with their script pad. I also hate sharps and red stuff, so running a battery of tests on me traumatises me greatly! Only our stubbornness and silliness in AU keep us from going to the doctor, rather than the stress of needing to mortgage the house to pay a medical bill.
Not much of the AU population can afford to eat out every day, but the folk I have been in contact with in the US seem to each out a lot, and up to 3 meals a day! Restaurant foods tend to be higher in fat and sugar to achieve the taste that keeps you coming back. Very few AU businesses seem to be of the "super-size me" mindset. Bottomless cups and free refills are not really a thing here with the sugary, fizzy drinks.
Very little of the country gets any snow, and whilst some areas are woeful with public transport, you can live in quite a few areas of AU without needing a car. So much of what I have seen or read about US seems to require one or more cars per household. There seems to be lots of the folk here out walking their dogs, and / or kids, and plenty of mums (and dads) out pushing prams on the bike paths. Where I live, this is 12 months of the year.
AU is much less religious, and gatherings of people are usually family or friends. Basically folk that actually enjoy being together rather than folk in their Sunday best doing the sit-stand-kneel shuffle for an hour and hearing how they are born sinners over and over.
AU doesn't have a USDA pushing dual agendas, but there are still government subsidies which make animal products disproportionally cheaper than plant foods. There's various health labelling incentives on packaged foods, but I believe some of these are purchased rather than rigorously scientifically tested. I do believe that quite a few items in nutritional panels have much lower recommended maximum daily values in AU than those recommended in the US. Items such as salt.
Australians are only more active in a small way. I've lived in both countries and Australians are marginally more active and not afraid of walking but it's not a huge difference. Australia doesn't really subsidize sugar or other components that go into ultra processed food. Australian farmers are some of the least subsidized in the world. I don't know of any special rules about chemical additives to food that would be substantially different to the USA.
@@mikebeagley Great points. One thing that surprised me about America was how cheap fast food is making it much easier to eat out. And yes the portion sizes are much larger in most American restaurants (almost twice the size of Australian restaurants).
NOT JUST EAT MORE PLANTS. IT IS TO DROP THE SUAGR OIL AND SALT. DO NOT SMOKE AND DRINK. KEEP FIT LAUGH, LOVE AND HAVE FAMILY CONNECTION.
I listened to a friend talking about health care in Canada last night and the extreme difficulty of arranging and receiving care. It's not the first Universal Health Care story that I have heard either. And I learned that many folks I worked with do buy or are provided private health care coverage. This is true in the UK, Australia, and Canada. It begs the question "If universal health care is so good, why do people buy private insurance? Then I look the US attempt at "improving" and all I see is insurance exchanges ($$), increased cost and fewer covered items. I also recall hearing a breakdown of malpractice insurance costs that was just staggering and I'm sure the fear of malpractice drives a lot of unnecessary testing. As far as EOL, I think we desperately need to have discussions among ourselves as to what the end of life means and what our desires are--this, I learned from my mom who spent the vast majority of her nursing career working in the ICU. So many folks spend their last days in the ICU ($$$) or hospital ($$) when maybe home care would be better. And so many receive heroic treatment when maybe it's not the best thing (hence the need talk about what end of life means for us all).
I'm not convinced Universal care is all that it's made up to be. At the end of the day, those with wealth receive better care making it two classes. There are still problems of scheduling and perhaps even of evaluating need. I'm sure there is a better way for us in the US, I just don't believe what we have today is any better than what it replaced.
You make some excellent points @ianclements. The wait list times are a real issue in universal healthcare and in Oz which has a hybrid model people who are wealthy can get access to specialist care quicker. However there is a definite improvement on access to the primary healthcare network which definitely carries better outcomes. Also to the point of wait times - the US is just as bad and I would argue even worse. We have patients who can't establish care with a PCP for up to 6 months! A GI clinic has a waitlist of over 6000 patients for screening colonoscopy. And if you lose your job - then you lose your care - compounding the issues that we see for those folks who go through a rough patch. So when you compare them head to head - yes universal healthcare has issues - but it's much better than for profit healthcare. Also don't forget the US already has universal healthcare - the VA system. It's publicly funded and runs at a cost of around 2% compared to over 15% in for profit healthcare - and the patients love it!
@@adrianlcois Not suggesting one is better than the other. But I will argue that for profit is not a bad thing. There are a lot of ways to make that happen within the confines of providing better healthcare for all.
Can't speak for the Canadian system, but as an end user in Australia, neither I or any member of my family have had an issue with health care, yes there has been a wait on occasion, but they were not urgent issues, it also helps to be in relatively good physical shape.
A good surgical candidate can be assessed and moved on through the system, those with complications, need to deal with minimising the risk factors before a surgical intervention, weight, diet or any of the other things that can change your outcome.
As for insurance, it's much like transport, everyone could use a Toyota Yaris, but many choose to travel in a Lexus, or a McLaren, just because they can.
Oddly enough, I have several acquaintances that have dealt with various cancers, they were very unhappy with their insured treatment and praised the public system.
However 4 decades of govt have simply not increased funding for the system as demand grew, conservative govts deliberately cut funding and the entire system is overloaded at this point.
Here in Oz if you go to emergency it doesn't matter who you are - you will be treated and your life will be saved. However, I have private insurance so was able to arrange a knee arthroscopy within a couple of weeks.
A colleague the same age had to wait 18 months for the same procedure through public health. Not life threatening.
By the way, health insurance here is not linked to employment and some of the funds are not for profit. They don't seem to be the same money making machines as in the US.
And - we have health insurance but are definitely not wealthy. My mother-in-law was on an aged pension and she made it a priority to keep up private health insurance.
@@leenysnell8804 So for 18 months, your friend must live a limited lifestyle while he waited? Sometimes, the wait is necessary but when people are cared for in a timely fashion, they can return to a "normal" lifestyle more quickly. There's value in that.
For profit hospital systems create competition for resources and patients making some resources more readily available at the same time, it also drives costs up.
I think we can agree that both systems have their issues but your example of patients having to wait carries its own risks. For example, walking around on a joint injury could result in severe degradation of the joint that requiring a more aggressive treatment.
I think it’s the American attitude to working. Americans have an attitude that if you want to go home at the end of your shift on time, or actually take any part of that two measly weeks of vacation given to you, or take a sick day because your actually sick, then your a slacker, lazy, underperforming. Americans think they have to work, even if they have the flu. And they must work 80 hours a week! And the more hours you work the better. Even if you don’t get paid for the extra hours. And companies expect this work ethic!! But younger Americans are pushing back. Demanding their vacations. Taking off when sick. Demanding a better work life balance. So I’m expecting this trend won’t continue as Americans start learning the value of spending quality time with their families outside of their jobs. I’m an American and I work to live. Not live to work. And I’m a freak because of it. But I’m proud of it! I go home at 5. Work 40 hours. That’s it. Take my vacation and treasure it as time with my son. And I’m considered abnormal. Lazy. But I don’t care.
Good for you. Americans have much less holidays than Europe. I am in UK and our Rees-Mogg would like us to follow the American mode..
@@lorraine7960
Of course they do!! That’s the capitalist way. Enslave the masses to generate profit for the rich. Don’t let them do it!!!
I'd be curious to see the number of prescriptions/age charts for each country. My dad:16, mom:12. They both died of medical errors.
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With that many meds, it seems like it would only be a matter of time before making a medicine dose mistake, or just having an imbalance from all the meds interacting with changes in body needs from day to day. Just too hard to keep all that in proper, consistent balance.
I’d also be curious to see the average number of Rx’s by age, for U.S. vs other countries.
My parents and grandparents said the best medicine is not to have to take any. (But you’ve got to do all you can for health, so that you won’t need those medicines.)
Easier said than done, I know. I’m trying but by no means perfect.
That would be very initeresting. I would expect the med list to be shorter in countries where prevention is more focused.
When my sister and brother-in-law (late 60s) show up for a visit, they each bring a gallon zip-lock bag full of their prescriptions. I honestly don't know how they keep track of all of it.
Medical treatment is the third biggest cause of
death in america today
Elderly taking many medications causes serious life threatening problems called “polypharmacy toxicity “
In my experience... Australians believe in fairness and equality a great deal, Americans don't as much.
A couple of things the good doctor said that really stood out to me. He mentioned that sometimes a person has to get maybe several points of view or just an impactful story from someone to have an epiphany (if you will) to change. Mine was a few interviews that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders (I loved her first two albums with the original lineup) gave on RUclips and the conviction she showed toward animal rights (for some people this would be off putting).
The other thing the doctor was basically saying vis a vie his children was "a half a loaf is better then no loaf" (I believe this saying is often attributed to Ronald Reagan, though I'm sure others have said the same). Anyway, while I value vegan purists, it more people would just eat a lot less meat & animal products in general, this would go a long way toward improving the health of many plus take away a lot of environmental degradation and cruelty/death toward animals.
A reduction in animal product consumption is warranted and justified for health and environmental improvement. But can't in good conscience but justified for animal welfare reasons. Reducing meat consumption for animal welfare reasons is a bit like beating your partner up less, the latter is better than the former but hardly a good benchmark to strive for.
One major difference between Australians and Americans is that Australians cook a LOT more at home. While our diets might be as sad as the SAD, the majority of people (gen x and above) I know cook meals from scratch and take their own lunch to work. Eating out/takeaway occurs only 1-2 times per week at most.
When it comes to socialized medicine (something I'm all for) it's more sophisticated than just corporate propaganda against it. If Americans are going to accept universal healthcare they're going to have to also accept the reality that the government is going to heavily tax anything (food especially) that will increase their risks. As much as I am for universal healthcare, getting even a quarter of Americans to accept that reality is going to be basically impossible.
Yeah... It's so odd, because we have socialized fire departments and never a complaint. 911 picks up the call on the first ring, dispatches a fire engine immediately, it's modern, well maintained, the firefighters are well trained, risk their lives, never asking to see your insurance card and refusing to put out flames if you lost your job.
Its fundamentally a problem of perspective and economic ideology. Americans are basically trained to only view up front costs and short term consequences because of our capitalist heavy system. Anything viewed from a "possibility" or "inevitability" is basically ignored or written off. At some point Americans are either going to have to accept that socialist systems act as a counterbalance to the inherent failings of capitalism or they're going to have to let unfettered capitalism destroy the country they so vehemently pretend to care about.
Maybe they will, meanwhile i'm over here in the Netherlands waiting till we don't subsidize meat and dairy anymore whilst having our universal healthcare..
Thought provoking as always Chris - I appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos. As a guest suggestion, could I recommend Chris Van Tulleken, author of the recent book "Ultra-Processed People (Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food... And Why Can't We Stop?)". Reading his book I was struck by how he focused on the work of many of your previous guests - Kevin Hall and Mark Schatzker to name two. I think you would both find a lot to talk about!
Thanks for your’s and your guests' insights and sharing. Just a thought on the high sucker rate in the US for wellness “products and gurus”. (It would be interesting if American are more taken in, I see it in many countries). It could be these folks want to be well and healthy, but can't afford legit medical care so they start listening to the talk show circuit, social media and hear-say. It also does not help when commercial interests start promoting unsubstantiated “healthy options”.
Chris, please do a review of Caldwell Esselstyn's book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease if you want to see your fellow Americans live longer!
I'm on week 3 of his heart attack proof diet and already feeling wonderful.
Are you taking any medication
No meds for me - I hope you're also if pharma free!
@@slt42 Did you have a stent placed
I'm on year 5 1/2. Keep going!
I try to tell people the message of this healthy diet but no one seems to care and act annoyed or upset if I even mention if the message isn’t on MSM they don’t listen
Chris, thank you! I loved hearing from this doctor.
Have you had enough feedback in the other comment sections? I don't want to come across as rude.
In this video, there were 1 or more times, when you didn't pause before starting a new topic. It was hard to follow your train of thought until after you finished speaking. It makes it a lot easier for the audience if you add those pauses. Even a maximum of 1 second is enough. Is that possible?
By the way, in a recent video comment section, I said that you were losing me. I was writing in terms of losing my loyalty as an audience member. I was referring to you communicating in ways that I couldn't understand. I say this, because I realized that I might have seemed off-putting.
Chris, I meant that I was **NOT** writing in terms of losing my loyalty. Would you confirm that you read this correction, please? 😞
@@eugenetswongif you want to edit/correct an earlier comment tap on the three dots beside your posted comment and hit the edit tab, then you can simply edit the original comment. 🙂
@@GlennMarshallnz maybe my web browser has bugs, but it seems that I can't edit. Usually, I have to wait 0.5-24.0 hours.
Good interview that make me as a Canadian glad to have universal healthcare. Alas, It is not without it’s flaws because the system
Is busting at the seams with more patients than ever and not enough money to be able to offer treatments without lengthy wait list times or offer a full range of all types of treatments. Seems to me it is time to start promoting “healthcare”
Not just disease care.
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖
So... you kind of were ghosting the Emergency Room Guys? I'm glad you changed your mind and came back to full consciousness. I love your Videos ❤
Ps. What you described somehow reminded me of the Track "Descending" by Tool
It's surprising what he says about Australian healthcare system because I was under impression it was ran much like the rest of the UK. I have a friend in England who is always complaining how she can't get care or tests even for things like heart scans for chest pain. She is envious that as an American I often just go to the doctor asking for specific tests and get tested right then. I have two friends in Australia and while I have never discussed their healthcare with them what stands out is how active and outdoorsy they are and that may be why their health is so much better. They hike, go snorkling, clam digging, fishing and kayaking and belong to a community group where they play bagpipes and march. So there is the social aspect to health which I often read reports is a problem in the US as there is less social activity and more isolation among people. I have noticed that myself as I have moved cross country to areas where there is less community activity. The part about young heart attack victims makes me think they probably have the MTHFR gene mutation and if they take un-methylated B12 or folate or don't consume enough methyl donors then it makes their homocysteine high which is a risk for heart attack or stroke. Those people need homocysteine and lypoprotein-A blood tests often. And if it's high then genetic testing.
Love this interview and all your videos. This video has a lot of cuts in it though, which is a bit annoying 🙃 it makes the conversation a bit staccato and weird.
And, btw, influence of big pharma is a very real and dangerous thing. Please don’t put everything on one big heap and stay critical always.
You didn't mention Rip's dad being an influence on him.
Yeah, I should have said that.
Does Dr. Cois make sure his kids have a source of vitamin K2? Natto, or tobacco-based MK-4 supplement, like the one by NOW, that contains alfalfa? There is chickpea natto, but I don't know if it contains K2. Sauerkraut contains too little to use it as your sole source of K2.
0:00: 📊 The video explores the disparity in life expectancy and healthcare costs between the US and other advanced countries.
7:30: 💡 The speaker discusses the addition of ethics to their dietary choices and the cognitive dissonance surrounding our treatment of animals.
11:37: 😅 Parents struggle to get their kids to eat healthy food, but it's important to keep trying.
28:04: 😔 The speaker is upset about people receiving bad advice, particularly in the diet book industry and on the internet, which he believes is dominated by Americans.
15:27: 🍖 The video discusses the impact of lifestyle choices on health, particularly in Australia and the US, with a focus on meat consumption.
19:33: 🌿 Nature-based interventions have excellent outcomes for health and the healthcare system in Australia values preventative health.
23:34: 🔑 Access to different perspectives and experts, and the challenge of discerning trustworthy information.
31:38: 🩺 The speaker experienced hyponatremia due to low sodium intake and strenuous exercise, but received medical treatment and learned about electrolyte balance for endurance athletes.
Recap by Tammy AI
Unless you're wealthy, in the US you don't go to the doctor until something is severe, and often not even then. So health conditions get to severe or gonna-kill-ya level before we can even consider going to the doctor, and then when we do, of course, the medical debt will probably make us jobless, homeless, and utterly destitute. But wait, there's more! Many US states are making any kind of obstetric care illegal, so if women give birth in those states, they're going to be in the 1890s as far as medical care is concerned. Better have a jug of whiskey to pull on and a bullet to bite, and if you die in childbirth, Oh Well, it's Gawd's will. So while life expectancy in the US has been falling for something like a decade, I expect it to keep falling and at a steeper rate.
Great interview. I feel like we can't turn the corner on a massive plant based conversion until we can get more of the medical (and medical insurance) industry involved. I remember when car insurance got cheaper if you weren't a smoker. Incentives work wonders.
Love both u guys nice one once more! Xxxm👍💋❤️🌈🍒
In a world where trump was president,musk is considered a genius and Peterson an intellectual,the message does not matter,the loudest matter.
Thks for the effort though!
Take care.
Apendics? Acute?
I got 3x only a drug.
We where poor.
2 doctors knew that, so operation was to expensive.
So they gave a drug and i was fixed!
3x in one year.
After that, i never had an apendix problem.
Very, very, very painful it was.
Glad i was fixed.
My father could not pay the hospital bill, so this 2 house doctors came with the same drug in the 80's.