This is a fantastic discussion. I'm approaching 50 and it's only in the last year that it's dawned on me how stacked the odds are against people wanting to be healthy or who are very overweight and trying to lose some. I no longer think "you could do something about that if you wanted". At a recent GP visit, I was given an A4 piece of paper with 3 columns of food on it. Healthy, medium and bad. It was essentially billed as a low-fat diet and in the healthy column was low fat yogurt, which may not have fat in it, but has a huge about of sugur. Are you going to lose weight or help curb cravings eating that? Absolutely no chance. It's setting you up for failure right away, and these are governmental guidelines. So even if we consider them as the good guy wanting to share the right message, is also a lie.
Really enjoyed this episode. As a GP myself and a keen (though often injured) triathlete, I can tell you that GPs get next to no training in the lifestyle style aspect of health. As Dr Dan says we are trained predominately in recognising and dealing the pathology. You are absolutely correct to focus on this subject. I try hard to impart my knowledge that I've gained through training and reading and learning about triathlon when I talk to my patients about exercise and lifestyle. However, I often only have time to offer a large dose of enthusiasm of "go for it" as opposed delving into the more detail. Love your work and inspirational story!
The doctors practice with a manor focus on Cardio/ dtrength / stability / data driven metrics - bloodtests etc sounds like Dr Peter Attias practice - I believe a cirfa 150k per year subscription - id recommend starting with his book
Talking to someone yesterday who works for the ambulance service. She said the amount of people calling pretending they have chest pains so they can get a free lift to the hospital is unbelievable. The NHS is being abused and it needs to stop right now.
For a future podcast, would you consider interviewing Freddy from the Freddy Runs youtube channel? He seems to be following a similar fitness journey to you, his tag line is "obese to ultra runner" and he's at an earlier stage in his fitness journey, compared to when you first started your channel. I found his race day video from Endure24 Leeds 2023, from a few weeks ago, very inspiring and I thought he might be a really interesting person to learn more about.
The nation's health won't improve until we improve housing quality and supply, support early years/pre-school education, make non processed food cheaper through price fixing, educate children about health and diet, introduce mandatory exercise at school of at least 1hr per day, heavily tax processed food. These all require long term strategies over 30-40yrs. And they all focus on improving habits and lifestyles of children so that good health is bedded in at a very young age.
I agree with all the above 100%. I would also add cooking and food preparation lessons with a greater emphasis on healthy choices from a very early age.
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This is a fantastic discussion. I'm approaching 50 and it's only in the last year that it's dawned on me how stacked the odds are against people wanting to be healthy or who are very overweight and trying to lose some. I no longer think "you could do something about that if you wanted". At a recent GP visit, I was given an A4 piece of paper with 3 columns of food on it. Healthy, medium and bad. It was essentially billed as a low-fat diet and in the healthy column was low fat yogurt, which may not have fat in it, but has a huge about of sugur. Are you going to lose weight or help curb cravings eating that? Absolutely no chance. It's setting you up for failure right away, and these are governmental guidelines. So even if we consider them as the good guy wanting to share the right message, is also a lie.
Really enjoyed this episode. As a GP myself and a keen (though often injured) triathlete, I can tell you that GPs get next to no training in the lifestyle style aspect of health. As Dr Dan says we are trained predominately in recognising and dealing the pathology. You are absolutely correct to focus on this subject. I try hard to impart my knowledge that I've gained through training and reading and learning about triathlon when I talk to my patients about exercise and lifestyle. However, I often only have time to offer a large dose of enthusiasm of "go for it" as opposed delving into the more detail. Love your work and inspirational story!
The doctors practice with a manor focus on Cardio/ dtrength / stability / data driven metrics - bloodtests etc sounds like Dr Peter Attias practice - I believe a cirfa 150k per year subscription - id recommend starting with his book
Talking to someone yesterday who works for the ambulance service.
She said the amount of people calling pretending they have chest pains so they can get a free lift to the hospital is unbelievable.
The NHS is being abused and it needs to stop right now.
agree 100% !!!
For a future podcast, would you consider interviewing Freddy from the Freddy Runs youtube channel? He seems to be following a similar fitness journey to you, his tag line is "obese to ultra runner" and he's at an earlier stage in his fitness journey, compared to when you first started your channel.
I found his race day video from Endure24 Leeds 2023, from a few weeks ago, very inspiring and I thought he might be a really interesting person to learn more about.
The nation's health won't improve until we improve housing quality and supply, support early years/pre-school education, make non processed food cheaper through price fixing, educate children about health and diet, introduce mandatory exercise at school of at least 1hr per day, heavily tax processed food. These all require long term strategies over 30-40yrs. And they all focus on improving habits and lifestyles of children so that good health is bedded in at a very young age.
I agree with all the above 100%. I would also add cooking and food preparation lessons with a greater emphasis on healthy choices from a very early age.