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Starbucks went under in Melbourne Australia. Nobody went to get a coffee at Starbucks. We are the coffee capital of the world. The standard latte at a local cafe makes Starbucks taste like instant NesCafe😂
Heard professional coffee taster saying Starbucks coffee quality is below average and I'd totally agree as a coffee lover, ppl buy it there just for show. Once I got myself hot chocolate there and gave it back and asked what is that supposed to be, cos only thing I could taste was water mixed with unidentified powder, that was my last time there. Ever.
28:30 I am a recruiter, and most of our applicants for military service are complete physical disasters, not just fat, but chronically ill with disqualifying conditions. Then they arrive at basic training and break down because of low bone density and inadequate muscle volume to manage physical stresses on their body.
that's scary. Almost every woman I am good friends with is a hypochondriac. On top of that, they LOVE being sick, they LOVE finding out something is wrong with them, and they LOVE going to the doctor...anything to get attention. So it makes me think that the kids you're trying to recruit are 17 going on 45 with that amount of issues at such a young age 😬 That's a shame.
lm 60 and have severe arthritis from DV. Been in pain for most of my life. Drs have patched me up and told me and l will in pain for the rest of my life. Not taking it. The last year l have changed my life. Diet , exercise and mental heath care. l have no pain but still have a long way to go. Off 3/4 of meds. Type 2 diabetes has slowed. l have a fatty liver and l only drink water. Eat healthy organic diet. l live in Australia. No alcohol or recreational drugs. My liver has healed. Would never take those medications for weight loss. Long way to go but love that l have improvement. Grow my own veges ( exercise and great food too )
@@theunluckycharm9637chronic illness doesn't make you dead quickly .it could take decades of mental and physical difficulty and cost .Trying to minimise it is self- serving in a good way.
I came off my meds, OMG, THEY WERE GIVING ME THE ANXIETY, paroxetine 10y, I became human, there will always be a reason not to come off, but it causes the problems creating the block to coming off,but every action you have managed to make well done, remember heart brain connection and love gratitude ❤🤗
I started raising cattle 3 years ago at age 59. The first steer born on my farm was just processed in October. Since then I've average 1.5 pounds of all natural, hormone free, grass fed beef per week. It's the only change in my lifestyle or diet. The neuropathy I've had in my feet for several years is now completely gone. Only 4-5 weeks into eating my own beef I suddenly realized that the neuropathy just vanished, without me realizing. Since then, my joints are generally less painful and my energy level seems improved. Waiting now to hear if the same beef helps my brother with his neuropathy as well. If so, we'll know for certain that the grass fed beef is the difference.
Let FOOD be your medicine; grass-fed and finished is the cleanest so best for the liver. Everyone is carnitine deficient from not eating MEAT. You are what you eat ... you sir are an ambulatory mammal :)
My dad was one of the pioneers of grass fed beef and I essentially grew up on it. I have NO weight issues. In fact, I'm on the low end of my height and build and I'm scaring the heck out of 70. BP good.
If you just started raising cattle three years ago, your diet wasn't the only thing that changed. Everything that goes along with raising cattle changed. Perhaps your locale changed. Perhaps you sleep better. Perhaps you don't drink as much. Perhaps you are moving in a different manner and that decompressed the nerves or did away with the inflammation in the area in question. It could be any number of things. I've heard lots of people make similar-type claims. There are a lot of changes that people don't realize happened at the same exact time, but they only attribute it to one thing - the one they wanted to believe. For instance, I heard a lady say she moved from the city out to the country and started growing her own produce and her kids no longer have whatever ailed them, so her vegetables cured it. Or was it the fact that there was no noise pollution or maybe her house had radon or maybe they got away from allergens or maybe it could be a change of attitude or maybe even a placebo effect. Could be a combo of any of those and then some. The amount of pseudoscientific talk about things like this ends up being propagated based on anecdotes, like the crap with HFCS or seed oils. I'm glad that whatever changed helped you and more power to you, keep on keeping on. But, to say it's this beef or that beef strikes me as a stretch. Even scientific studies on it can't pin down any one thing. If they did, were they looking for that in the first place? Imagine finding what you were looking for (and you missed a half-dozen other things in the process). I'm not coming at you personally or anything, I just wanted to point out that there are often many other changes that people don't even notice or think of.
1.5 per week? Lol I do that in a day. Neuropathy goes away because B vitamins and avoiding inflammatory foods helps nerves. I got my mom on red meat diet and it went away too. All her issues went away.
Fabulous episode! This was really informative, especially when Dr. Attia discussed eating red meat with fresh produce instead of eschewing red meat altogether and replacing it with white meat. However, I applaud him when he admits that all too often, we Americans simply cannot afford high quality meats, fruits, and vegetables. It's rare for me to buy processed foods of any kind, but it forces me to dent my meager budget to purchase fresh meats, fish, and fresh produce. It really upsets me to see young, low-income parents forced to buy processed foods for themselves and their children because of the high costs of rent and utilities make buying fresh food too expensive.
My great uncle was 92 when he died, had all his faculties. worked hard every single day of his life, but finally had an injury that was about to put him in a home. He got his ducks in a row, and deleted himself, went out on his own terms. Most people are appalled, I think it's pretty metal. Dude fought in 2 wars, and he wanted to die with dignity. He didn't leave behind a wife or children or anything like that. He did quite a bit in his marginal years. You can never predict what will happen, but I am certain his lifestyle led to him being able to live so long and be so capable in his final years. Better than sitting in a home with bedsores and half your mind gone, no thank you.
I’m 65. After a big health scare last February, I cleaned up my act. No sugar, no simple carbohydrates (white flour, rice etc), no dairy, no alcohol, no oil besides what I get directly from food (avos, nuts, fish etc). Plenty, plenty vegetables - any and all of them - fruit, water, teas, whole grain/complex carbohydrates, nuts and legumes. And now and then a tiny bit of best steak or salmon. Power walking 5km every day also in snow, wind and rain. Dropped 25kg, health issue resolved, off all medication prescribed last year, and other problems like arthritis in fingers and psoriasis have disappeared. All blood work normal. Over Christmas I was tempted by some biscuits and chocolates and ate normal Christmas fare on the festive days. Immediately all the cravings came back and I felt hungry all the time. Sugar and other simple carbohydrates are just so addictive and unsatisfying for one’s body. And they wreck one’s health to boot. I, for one, won’t be tempted by them again!
1 year Carnivore today after learning all this information. Cured my life-long depression and suicidality . Survived an attempt and completely turned my life around also, I lost 60 pounds, turned around my hypothyroidism and gotten off every medication I’ve ever taken including decades of antidepressants, which spiraled me into many more medications like high cholesterol and pre-diabetes. I am 1 year clean and DEPRESSION FREE for the first time ever in my 50s and feel 35 Thank you for spreading this type of information. I hope that everybody learns to cut this stuff out out of their diet once and for all, and live of more ketogenic whole clean food type of lifestyle. Now onto the show 😊
51:36 people should know that they absolutely do not need to consume 1 carb to live an entire lifetime. Your body will create all the carbs it will ever need using animal fat.
@@reidveryan9414 There is not a single nutrient plants give us that is not already in meat and more bioavailable. Plants are survival food for when you are starving and can't find meat. Meat is thriving food. Explain to me this since you know how "we were designed": How did humans get their fruits and veggies during the ice-age with no agriculture btw?
@@ohiopigeonyou are forgetting phytonutrients which we can only get from plants. They interface with our bodies on a cellular level. Raw plants are best.
I just got back from Europe and it's true that the food is much better there. The yogurt was full fat, unsweetened, and satisfying. The desserts were not very sweet and I didn't bloat from the bread. I stopped eating when full. Someone said that they don't snack because they eat nutricious meals. I realized how over processed with fillers and sugars our food in the US is.
That’s funny, here in America. You can also eat full fat, unsweetened, satisfying yogurt, it’s in every single grocery store. You can also buy desserts that are low in sugar or make your own like I do and use Stevia in place of sugar. In America, you can also stop eating when you feel full. You can also choose not to eat junk food by eating healthy snacks. You can also eat organic veggies and fruit and grass fed grass finished beef and pasture, pork and pasture chicken; but you will pay more for these things as they cost significantly more to raise them. 😊.
@@joehowe9532 I think the baseline sweetness for desserts is much higher in the US than in Europe. I had a chocolate eclair in France and it was just barely sweet. Same with the ice cream. They just use less sugar, no corn syrup or stevia (which I'm allergic to). In the US, our desserts tend to be cloyingly sweet. Yes, I found one tub of Dannon full fat unsweetened yogurt. But the rest of the shelf was full of low fat/non fat lite yogurt. Can we find better options? Yes, but our baseline needs to improve.
@@joehowe9532 Yes, but this becomes more difficult with the less money you have. Most of the food that you suggest isn't usually available to people who buy food from dollar stores and who have to subsidize their monthly food with what they get from church food pantries.
@@filtheski1509No, but I think EU standards are better than in the US. There are many additives you don't allow in your food that we do. Also you don't spray weed killer on your wheat like we do.
I am 60 years. Thin, robust and healthy. I eat healthy and exercising. Non addictive , disciplined personality. However, when I eat a treat such as a fast food meal or sugary snack, I IMMEDIATELY crave more within 12 hours! This crap is addictive. It takes discipline to say no, after allowing it in my diet even as a seldom treat.
Exactly, I quit alcohol, easily diminishing from couple drinks a day to 1 drink a week, then once a month, then once a year, then nothing. This over 3 years ago. Sugar is incredibly difficult to quit and to stay quit. If I have a cheat day, there will be more to follow. The best thing is to keep it out of the house.
Thx guys, for having Peter speak to what he is excellent at. A fair minded man that has abilities of exposing issues that affect us all, sans blaming and demonizing. A very difficult skill to attain and put to great use. I hope he is heard by many.
I'm not excusing it, but food addiction is a very difficult thing. If you use heroin, the answer is stop using heroin. If you drink too much - stop drinking. If you eat too much, you can't stop eating. You need to eat less, or eat better. No one tells you to do less heroin, or do the right heroin. Dieting is really difficult. It's still the responsibility of the person, and difficulty is not an excuse. But it is still important to understand and empathize.
As someone who has been addicted to both xanax and oxycontin in the past, I can tell you for a fact it is not as easy or simple as just "stop using heroin". Mars bars and Kit-Kats don't cause physical withdrawal symptoms for a start. You won't die if you suddenly never eat another peanut butter Kit-Kat chunky again. The same can't be said for benzodiazepines. Someone could also argue eating healthy is not "really difficult". I live on (free range, grass fed) beef, dairy, eggs, walnuts, broccoli and bananas. Occasional turkey. Only drink coffee or water. Quit smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol too. It is really not that difficult (for me) to not eat M&M's everyday. It all comes down to the will power of the individual, regardless. The weak will cave and run back to their favourite hiding place i.e. their specific addiction of choice. The strong willed overcome and make the changes they want to see manifest in their lives. All addictions can be a very difficult thing. The key is finding that strength of will. Also, actually, people do get told to do less heroin or at least get booted on a different drug. This is not even remotely uncommon lol. What do you think a methadone clinic is for?
As a scientist in healthcare I'm very impressed with peter's answers, seems like a true professional and a down to earth guy. Zero populism detected. Might go ahead and purchase his book
I remember the first time I went to the US and bought some regular sliced bread from Walmart, It tasted so sweet I actually thought I had gotten some jam or chocolate spread on it by accident. It tasted like cake.
@@pattybaselines Fruit is complex carbohydrates. They do have sugar but in a complex form which your body deals with differently to simple sugars - like the sugar in sweets and cakes and processed foods. There is nothing wrong with eating fruit. I also eat a high (complex) carbohydrate diet - fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes with a tiny bit of meat about twice a month. Blood work and all other vital signs perfect.
It's not just a question of willpower. If your food is carb heavy, your blood sugars go up and then down, making you ravenously hungry even when you don't need to eat. This is why a low carb diet helps - it cuts down your food cravings and makes it easier to stick to a diet.
It depends on the kind of carbs you are ingesting. Your body requires more carbs than any of the other three macros. Carbs is energy. Which is what your brain primarily requires. When people hear "carbs" they immediately think bread. Carbs are in most foods, fruits, and vegetables even. People today don't take enough accountability to educate themselves on what they are eating. But it can be difficult. The big businesses are very deceitful, and our governments don't help much either.
@@RyanGetLowAt last, a bit of sense. Thank you. It’s the kind of carbs one ingests. Complex vs simple. I follow the “Forks over Knives” lifestyle and eat mostly complex carbohydrates in the form of fruit, vegetables and whole grain foods and don’t crave anything. I always feel satiated. It’s only when, on an extremely rare occasion (like Christmas), I allow myself to have dessert which obviously contains simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour, that cravings for more appear.
Yeah. Willpower is fake. Motivation is a chemical response in the brain. If you eat crap foods, that chemical exchange won't take place and you will lack motivation
Agriculture is doing just fine. It’s demand and peoples’ choices that determine what the food looks like. Want to eat different food? Make different choices. There’s never been more choice than there is now.
I’ve never listened to Dr. Attia before, but man he’s a great guest. Very educated and articulate, but I love how’s he doesn’t speak pretentiously and breaks down complex topics into very simple terms that anyone can understand.
40 years ago my parents bought a house. It had over 300 square meters of vegetable garden, a chicken house(in bricks) with about 300 square meters of gras to feed them. 8 rabbit cages and a pigshouse. People lived only 40 years ago totally different lives from us now. They were more self supplied, closer to nature, understood death is a part of life when keeping animals for food and most important, they knew what those animals ate.
@liampollock9780 it would have to be the generation before that. Because my parents didnt used it that way. Only chickens stayed. And im not saying they were like caveman. My grandparents could tell what weather to have in summer by looking at winter day whats up. My point also goes to many kids nowadays not knowing where milk comes from. Cheers
I lost 62 lbs in 5 months on a keto diet. Bacon and eggs every morning, meat for lunch, bowl of spinach every night. Followed by peppers an mushrooms and meat for dinner. Snacking on cheese, olives, pickles, nuts.
Be very careful with spinach... do your research on oxalates . They are crystals present in plants. They cause kidney stones and sties. One in five people have a severe issue with them. They create micro cuts on tissue. I eat like you but factored out the oxalates. It's easy to do. If I had known this as teen ( I'm 55) they wouldn't have to operate me and take out 6 feet of my big intestine in Nov. 2022. 1/2 cup of spinach has 20 times your daily allowance. Research this on YT.
Even though there are multiple reasons we are overweight, the biggest debt you can make is eliminating carbs except above ground veggies. You can remain slim without exercise. If you could pull one lever to be healthy, pull that one. It's a large lever
And you'd be correct. Everything contributes, obviously, so it's not like modern medicine had no impact. But the biggest factors have been sanitation, clean water, nutrition. Also, that myth that people only used to live to 30 or 40 should really die. That was the _average,_ heavily skewed downward due to high infant/child mortality in the past. Once you take those early deaths out of the equation, and only consider people that survived the first 5 years of their lives, even the ancient Romans lived until well in their 50's and 60's.
in my 20s and 30s I was heavy into bodybuilding. I ate excess calories. Tons of carbs,fats,sugar,protein.. whatever. Who cares right? Im in the gym daily. Well that may have slowed the rate of which my liver took on stress but the abundance of food was surely stressing my systems. When I was 38 I had a bunch of issues all at once. Low blood platelets,high blood pressure, canker sores, migraines,skin cancer, skin rashes, blood vessel rupture showing on chest, esophageal varices, gastritis,sore joints,calcific tendonitus, pain in my liver area.......... Im at the point now where I understand food was killing me and all of these systems were because of my choices... I looked lean and fit but my liver was fatty and was putting pressure on my portal vein and was causing sharp stab pains as the muscles in the portal vein spasmed from time to time. I had to severely alter my diet. Now I eat a few eggs and some strawberrys, a steak or chicken or fish with lots of greens. I eat 1 or 2 fruits a day, no more because my insulin is still very unstable. Keep my calories around 2000 and stay active. All whole foods, no grains, no packaged crap, lots of water. im 6ft 172 lbs 22.3bmi 118/77 bp . I used to be 220 lbs 26bmi 154/92bp. You dont have to be fat to be sick
It would be a very rare occasion that glyphosate would be applied to wheat. Currently there are no roundup ready varieties of wheat approved for sale in the US.
I was behind a family of 7 that probably way over 1500 pounds together and of course it’s the first of the month and they’re shopping cart were full of bullshit food underneath the car loaded with soda. Food stamps used to be an embarrassment to use now it’s considered normal and yeah, right we need to stop allowing bullshit food being able to be purchased. This is not helping them This is not a helping hand We are creating these people to be consumers of the pharmaceutical and Medical industrial complex.
I was just outside of San Fran in Lafayette CA a few weeks back and a taco bell had a sign stating they accepted EBT. Blew my mind. I'm sure CA isn't the only state that allows this. In my own state when I'm checking out at the store and someone is using food stamps 9 times out of 10 they're buying absolute garbage: sodas, chips, little Debbie's etc.
Double whammy because then the taxpayer ends up paying medical bills as well, for their diabetes meds, high BP meds, and the liver and kidney transplants, too!😢
@@taylorcuthrell4123 That's because so many people are homeless and don't have access to cooking facilities or even running water, so legislators have allowed "fast food" to be bought with "food stamps".
Do not overlook the effects of stagnant, inflation adjusted median household income (MHI) in the US on this issue. Inflation adjusted MHI has been basically flat in the United States for 50+ years. This while the cost of things has gone through the roof. The majority of households cannot afford to buy the cleanest of foods funneled through this modern supply chain as they simply cost too much. The food they are forced to buy based on their budget would have to be extremely unpalatable to the eye, nose, or touch, to get them to spend more on a cleaner product. Our American consumerist tendencies mixed with limited budgets, leads us to the warehouse stores and the like where we buy in bulk to get the cheapest price per pound for what we buy, regardless of how it’s produced. If it all looks the same in the packaging, smells and feels the same, people are going to walk past the five dollar per pound chicken for the two dollar per pound chicken all day long. For America to have a chance to turn this corner agriculture must return to the neighborhood, in the form of a return to polyculture taking us away from the monoculture of 1970s American agriculture which was encouraged by the late US agriculture secretary, Earl Butz.
My father managed one of the first Burger Kings, in Miami Beach, when he was in high school in the early 60s. Everything was fresh. Kind of hard to imagine now. Not even sure it qualifies as food anymore.
Great, great conversation. For me, the issues discussed in this video and how they are addressed are existential for our world. So important. And tied into so many facets of America's societal fabric.
GMO does not mean "dependent on pesticides". Roundup Ready crops can withstand being sprayed with glyphosate, which makes weed control easier and facilitates no till farming. They do not depend on being sprayed with pesticide. Bt crops produce Bt protein (exogenous application of Bt protein is used in organic farming btw) which is toxic to a specific subset of insects, so those crops are dramatically *reduce* dependence on being sprayed with pesticide.
The book you need to buy is a(ny) cook/recipes book. Buy ingredients - meat, chicken, fish, grains, veggies, rice, fruit, spices, herbs , garlic and ginger etc and cook / bake your own meals and snacks every day. Whole grain baguette and bread, some cheese, cold pressed oils are ok. Occasional sugary treat or ice cream made at home once or twice per week is just fine. Eat/order out not more than once a week. Keep alcohol to less than 5 drinks per week, zero is best. Half your problems will be gone. You will learn to enjoy cooking soon enough 😊
Yes, I can’t remember what study I read quite some time ago but these very much contribute to the increase of life expectancy. However, clean, drinking water and appropriate sanitation are seriously going downhill these days. We need to clean up both.🇨🇦
I suspect that is true worldwide, but in the US & other first world countries, I believe that is already the norm. Setting aside an individual case here or there - usually with well water contamination, I don't think dirty water is shortening many lives in first world countries. Horrendous advice from Governments on what is & is not healthy seems a LOT more likely to contribute to obesity & shortened lifespans - especially quality of life. I'm 70, & been dieting according to the US suggested diet for at least 50 of those years. I gain weight every single year, & can not stop it. Only starvation dieting & insane exercising will reduce my weight, which SLAMS itself right back on me (& more) the moment I stop the insanity. I believe the insanity that started in my teens, of prolonged fasting, & near starvation dieting contributed to my body's ability to sustain life on nearly no food, & to hold on to each & every calorie not instantly used, to store it as fat, waiting for the next starvation event. The push for fruit, fruit, fruit & Grains, is the problem, and one the US is still pushing. Stop counting Calories, & start counting Carbs, & suddenly you'll see where the problem lies. All those fruits and grains are making you fat. They're chuck full of calories & carbs, but meat has zero carbs. It does have calories, but zero Carbs. Count the carbs. You'll feel better, & your health will improve. I didn't lose much weight, but I stopped taking meds, due to not needing them anymore. Also, take Vitamin D. It helps with a LOT of issues, & it's practically free.
Healthy food can be accessed in the US and it is not anymore expensive than junk, however it often requires more preparation time than people are willing to spend. The biggest issue is that the people like junk food. It tastes good to them and they don't want to adjust to the different taste of healthy food.
Right. I spend a lot of time cooking because I prepare everything myself. But, I cook enough for two days to give myself some days off. And if you don’t have time to cook, then you must have time to be at the doctor’s and to be sick.
@Hänfling-bird people are just lazy. They want something in a plastic box or a can they can heat and serve. Standing and cleaning, peeling, chopping, slicing vegetables takes energy and time. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if overnight all the restaurants and factory food disappeared! People would be forced to cook to survive. I'd be laughing
I agree about the food prep. Food preparation is a big hurdle for me in pursuing a healthier eating life. Never cared for cooking. Eating healthy requires more time in planning and preparation, and more skill. I have a carb addiction and I’ve come to the conclusion that I must make my healthy food -whether carnivore or low carb-as delicious as possible. At near age 70 this is perhaps not the hobby I would have wanted to start learning but there you have. I’ve just purchased a very expensive fry pan which I hope will be a help on my journey!
@@vester7457 People are struggling to get by. Many of the poor and middle class are worker a lot more than 40 yrs. a week. That's not laziness. People are more worried about paying rent, then making a nutritious meal.
39:49 It’s a complete fallacy that “clean” food is too expensive in America…. The reality is, people don’t want to eat clean. They’re too lazy here. I’ve been eating clean for decades now, and my grocery bill is SUBSTANTIALLY less than EVERYONE I know. I don’t shop in the middle of the store; they do. That’s the difference.
I think it goes deeper than that, "fresh produce" has been declining in its nutritional value for decades. I recall reading an article a couple of years ago which showed that nutrients in vegetables have decreased between 5-20% since the 1980s. This was attributed to soil degradation, breeding vegetables for their durability not nutritional value and on other factors such as processing. Now this is comparing vegetables in the 80s when modern agricultural practices were well established. One can only imagine the difference in nutrients compared to vegetables in the early 20th century...we are probably talking 50% reduction. So, even if you stick to just the produce section, we are getting a worse diet than our ancestors 100 years ago. If we returned to the procedures our ancestors used a 100 years ago, the yield would be drastically reduced and the price would sky rocket....which is why, I think, politicians just don't want to tackle the subject.
@@johnsmithers8913 Ok, let’s assume you’re correct. 💯 on the nutritional value. So if the fresh produce were more nutritional like it was years ago, that would stop someone from eating Popeye’s all the time? And drinking Coke? And eating endless bags of snacks?? I don’t think so. Americans are lazy and want to pleasure themselves. Plain and simple.
I am waiting for Dr Attia to dive into endocrine disrupting chemicals. So far he hasn't gone into this realm though many of his peers are talking about it in depth now and include the EDC, micro plastics etc as part of the equation regarding longevity and overall health and fertility.
Literally a few seconds before it he mentions fructose ultimately processed in the liver. lol folks be trying hard to "gotcha" this guy for some reason.
@ Fructose and glucose are both simple sugars, but they are metabolized differently in the body, which can lead to different health effects. Here are some reasons why fructose is often considered worse than glucose: 1. **Metabolism Pathway**: - **Glucose** is metabolized by nearly every cell in the body. It is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and raises blood sugar levels, prompting insulin release, which helps cells take up glucose for energy or storage. - **Fructose**, on the other hand, is primarily metabolized in the liver. When the liver receives fructose, it converts a significant portion into fat. This can lead to an increase in triglycerides, which are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. 2. **Insulin Response**: - Glucose stimulates a significant insulin response, which helps regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin also plays a role in signaling satiety. - Fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion to the same extent. This can lead to less regulation of appetite and a potential increase in calorie intake, as the signals for feeling full are not as strong. 3. **Effects on Appetite Regulation**: - Fructose does not stimulate the release of leptin, a hormone involved in regulating hunger and energy balance, as effectively as glucose does. This can contribute to overeating and weight gain. 4. **Potential for Liver Fat Accumulation**: - Excessive fructose consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) due to the liver's conversion of fructose to fat. Over time, this can impair liver function and lead to other metabolic disorders. 5. **Impact on Metabolic Health**: - High intake of fructose, especially from sweetened beverages and processed foods, has been linked to insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. 6. **Uric Acid Production**: - Fructose metabolism increases the production of uric acid, which can lead to gout and hypertension.
@@lifes2short4aname @ Fructose and glucose are both simple sugars, but they are metabolized differently in the body, which can lead to different health effects. Here are some reasons why fructose is often considered worse than glucose: 1. **Metabolism Pathway**: - **Glucose** is metabolized by nearly every cell in the body. It is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and raises blood sugar levels, prompting insulin release, which helps cells take up glucose for energy or storage. - **Fructose**, on the other hand, is primarily metabolized in the liver. When the liver receives fructose, it converts a significant portion into fat. This can lead to an increase in triglycerides, which are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. 2. **Insulin Response**: - Glucose stimulates a significant insulin response, which helps regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin also plays a role in signaling satiety. - Fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion to the same extent. This can lead to less regulation of appetite and a potential increase in calorie intake, as the signals for feeling full are not as strong. 3. **Effects on Appetite Regulation**: - Fructose does not stimulate the release of leptin, a hormone involved in regulating hunger and energy balance, as effectively as glucose does. This can contribute to overeating and weight gain. 4. **Potential for Liver Fat Accumulation**: - Excessive fructose consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) due to the liver's conversion of fructose to fat. Over time, this can impair liver function and lead to other metabolic disorders. 5. **Impact on Metabolic Health**: - High intake of fructose, especially from sweetened beverages and processed foods, has been linked to insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. 6. **Uric Acid Production**: - Fructose metabolism increases the production of uric acid, which can lead to gout and hypertension.
My father, who passed at 100, suffering blindness from glaucoma and severe vertigo, and having cared for my mom for more than 12 years while she suffered and ultimately succumbed to Alzheimer’s, said in great sadness, and not a small amount of bitter irony, “Isn’t it wonderful that medical science has allowed us to live so long…”. Maybe we’ve out-punted our coverage.
It's "ACTIVE life span". My grandma lived 113 years. In the last 30 years of her life, she was so tired that she just sat there the whole day with ZERO activity. She wasn't sick. I don't know if she's healthy.
Regenerative agriculture can and does improve the soil biome which reduces and can eliminate the reliance on pesticides and fertilisers while increasing the nutrition of the grown food.
There are so many people here in the comments saying "My diet regime is better than yours." that its actually ridiculous. Just goes to show how we collectively have little idea about how different diets affect people differently.
My father lived to 86 years old. He never had any major health problems. The one thing he struggled with and cried about was that he had outlived all his relatives ( not his children) and friends. A long life is a double edged sword for many people. He was a tough guy and ran his own business till he was 85! He always said that when he sold the business, he would die....and he did. A massive heart attack with no previous heart issues. I believe that when it's your time, it's your time.
You're right about that double edged sword. I live in a street surrounded by neighbours all in their late 70's and older (I'm the young brat at 47). All people who've lived here since they were young twenty-something year olds, all childhood friends. The last couple of years have been brutal on them. They see their friends die off one by one, their social circle shrink with every passing year.
I love how you manage to shed light on traditional legitimate concerns of the left, but at the same time strip them from criticism of corporate greed etc. I am sure your wealthy sponsors are proud of you! 👍
The problem with what he's saying about subsidies is that there's no reason to assume that government is particularly competent at placing its finger on the scale, or believe that those who will decide when when where to "tweek" the balance in ways that are immune to disinformation and individual greed.
When it comes to willpower it is not just that we have different levels of willpower, it is also that we face different levels of challenges. For me I always felt unsatiable hunger every 30min and struggled not to constantly eat. After getting medication to stabilize my blood sugar, and removing sugar from my diet, I no longer feel that. My blood sugar is stable and that hunger that I couldn't control is no longer there. I still get hungry, like half a day without food I start to feel hungry. But that is like a day and night difference for me. And at some point I asked myself "is this normal person hunger?". My willpower is suddenly more than enough to deal with it.
You don't have to be overweight to have type 2 diabetes. There are diabetics who appear fit and healthy, exercise regularly and are still diabetic. Just weight issues are more common.
Thank you Peter for the excellent presentation. You make it so understandable. I love your honesty and command of the language. Look forward to listening to your other lectures. Dr Rapiti Cape Town
I think that a significant unacknowledged factor in obesity is emotional dysregulation, mostly stemming from childhood. Many people eat to numb negative emotions, and many people have self-discipline issues and addictive behaviours because of unresolved trauma.
As a plant breeder i can tell you with out a doubt they teach to breed the nutrients out of the flower (the pod, kernel, wheat grain, etc) and replace it with water wt. We need to switch to an agricultural model model of nutrient density harvested per acre rather than just pure weight. Farmers have no incentive to do anything but make the heaviest crop possible.
Currently when it comes to animal agriculture the government have their entire body on the scales.... if we took our taxes away from the dairy industry, it dies, simply as that. Its also quite ironic that he wants to see what happens if we remove subisdies for just corn syrup but doesnt mention animal agriculture.... its showing his bias.
38:00 glycophosphates are only banned for small particulaire entities (small farmers, citizens, KMO small business,...). The big operations have until 2025 to get rid of it in their operations but the deadline has already been adjusted twice
It's not even banned for citizens, not here in Italy at least. It's freely available on the shelves and I use it to get rid of Japanese knotweed. The EU has recently ok'd it again for agriculture. So whatever it is that makes European grains healthier, it isn't that... I don't know why someone so seemingly knowledgeable would be spreading this myth. That's besides the point that grains are shipped around the world, most of us don't even consume locally grown grains.
@wjdeoliveira3809 in the US, they actually spray glyphosate on ready-to-pick wheat to make it dry faster. So spraying a weed is not the same as spraying glyphosate, say, on a fully ripened tomato, then eating it, for example. That's the problem with spraying glyphosate. They also do the same thing to the dried beans you buy at the grocery store.
My sister’s boyfriend graduated film school and wants to direct/edit movies. Obviously it’s a very difficult industry to make it in. He got a great job editing commercials for an ad firm. Easily half of the commercials are for junk food. Doritos offered $1M for whoever makes the best commercial that they’ll run in the Super Bowl. People love this stuff, as do you dear viewers. When people start voluntarily buying smaller portions (aka rejecting a deal and paying more for food) and eat broccoli instead of potatoes, they’ll be healthier. Americans are just more discerning as customers and better at business than Europe. You’re delusional if you think using different chemicals on wheat will make people eat less bread.
100% Carnivore is the way. I’m 49, gotten rid of decades of health issues that stopped in 48 hours going carnivore, some in a couple weeks and the rest in a couple months No more weekly migraines and migraine medication for me in 11 months. Anyone telling you to eat fruit, veg, pasta, breads hasn’t tried carnivore. It changes lives
@@WhiteEvo6 Truly so. For me, besides carnivore, also going to crossfit and a good massage, to release chronically tight muscle, gave a huge improvement.
It came up and they went a different direction/changedthe subject. Others in the comments made it sound positive. I don't know a lot about it, but if Hollywood is any indication, the stuff is awful.
@RCGWho Hey 🖐️ It turns out you've to sign up to the substack to hear that portion of the discussion. I'm diabetic and I've just been put on one of these. I trust this channels integrity, so I was hoping for some factual, non-biased discussion on the subject.
Exactly this. It's a form of enablism to suggest that people's ability to use discipline is genetic and out of their controlm. It's much more about how you're raised, your social group, etc.
I grew up on a farm in kansas and I assure you this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. my grandparents' farms on both sides were affected by the dustbowl and the dept of agriculture actually fixed the problem by educating farmers on how to plow/disc orthogonally to westerly winds and plant rotationally, not only between different crops but grazing one year and planting another. this has been standard operating procedure on high plains farms since the 1940s.
I expected the Dr. to talk about nitrogen fertilizer from WWII and corn subsidies instead of the 30s Dust Bowl effects. I did not grow up on a farm in Kansas, but I have read about the extensive education farmers received after the Dust Bowl years. From reading An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, I learned that there was an excess of b*mb-making nitrogen compounds leftover after the war. Somebody figured out it would make good fertilizer and distributed it to farmers. Somebody else figured out that corn in particular used this fertilizer more efficiently than all the other crops, and soon we had a zillion tons of corn somebody had to find a use for. The price went so low farmers had to be paid to grow it, completing the cycle. And now corn is in everything we eat in America. Just one of the reasons we're all inflamed and sick.
No idea why you made the comment. America's soil is ruined by over use of fertilizer and Monsanto poisons. I imagine that is the same in Kansas. Something of a pointless overaction on your part that completely missed the point.
@emetzger what about all the factory, corporate farming going on now. What about all the glyphosate being sprayed. And chemical fertilizers. And subsidized GMO crops?! Your grandparents may be smalltime old world organic farmers who only fertilize with ruminate manure and chicken manure, and rotate and rest their fields appropriately. Which is great. But the rest of American farmland is being sterilized by antibiotic and microbiotic herbicides and chemical pesticides being sprayed year after year. So many forever chemicals abound that we are now born with them in our systems!
Dude the government especially the dept of agriculture created the dust bowl. The government is 100% to blame for the dust bowl and the great depression. Go watch The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns. We should be using no till regenerative agriculture practices across the board. Educate yourself on Joel Salatin @ Polyface Farms, Dr. Allen Williams, Gabe Brown, Will Harris @ White Oak Pastures and others in their orbit.
The government especially the USDA is directly responsible for the dust bowl. The government created the dust bowl. Go watch the documentary by Ken Burns titled the dust bowl. The government also created the great depression. Just like the government created the 2008 economic collapse. The government created the obesity epidemic were currently dealing with. All of the metabolic disease. You can take the government for all of these things! Educate yourself on Will Harris, Joel Salatin, Dr. Allen Williams, Gabe Brown, and others that they work with
I like how he talks about people trying to solve a business problem, instead of engaging in cheap moralising. He's great - the point about maximising healthspan is very imorportant.
My thumbnail pic is me at 63. I grew up on a farm in SK Canada, eggs for breakfast every single day, with bacon. Loads of good fats. Auntie cooked with lard that was made from the hogs we raised. I still eat the same way. Eggs or chicken now for breakfast, I've been lifting weights for over 40 years, don't smoke, enjoy my ice cream but I have never used seed oils, ever. My testosterone level is over 800, never used a drug and keep my cholesterol at NORMAL healthy levels, which is 240-260 .Don't eat fried crap unless its me grilling it with lard. I get lots and lots and lots of sun, never used sunscreen. I'm living that life we lived as kids and teens in the 60s and 70s.
I suspect there is a link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and high fructose corn syrup being in almost everything we eat and/or drink which is even remotely sweet.
No, it's excess calories. Ever had foie gras or heard of it? That's the liver from a goose that has been fed an excess of calories. Foie gras is French for "fatty liver." HFCS has nothing to do with that except as a portion of the excess calories one consumes. Even studies I've read don't seem to take into account that people who eat a lot of HFCS also eat more of everything else, too. If you are drinking four or five Cokes a day that's roughly 640 to 800 extra calories on top of food and probably snacks. The person drinking that much Coke couldn't care less about making healthy choices or caloric intake. You people are so convinced of this kind of stuff while ignoring that HFCS is the same two monosaccharides as table sugar. The Mexican Coke that most of you hold up as some exemplar of virtuosity ends up with the two monosaccharides in the same proportions as HFCS once it's sat on the shelf for a bit because sucrose hydrolyzes to 55% fructose and 45% glucose. That's why they use HFCS in the first place - it's more stable and we have a plentiful supply owing to all the corn grown to make ethanol. It only tastes different because its other components are tuned to the Mexican palate.
We all want simple answers, but health isn't that simple... Real, home-cooked natural food (with diverse plants) good sleep, minimal or no alcohol/drugs/smoking, regular exercise, minimal stress (probably the hardest factor of all) and good quality relationships, all have a part to play.
Farmers lost all power when the government allowed corporations to patent seeds they hadn't even created and allowed equipment manufacturers to void warranties if farmers did work on their own equipment. Support Right to Repair. Most people today are too young and/or far removed from the farming community to remember the seed sharing programs that prospered in the 1800s and into the 1900s. The program was initially informal, but in 1839, Congress allocated funds to distribute 60,000 seed packages annually. The program ended in 1924 after the American Seed Trade Association convinced Congress to stop the free distribution. A few more decades of corporate lobbying...and here we are. Farmers bent over a barrel, not allowed to perform maintenance on their own equipment for fear of "voiding the warranty", don't own their own seed which has to be purchased every year, etc. Every year Reagan's warning becomes scarier - "I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
Yes, big agriculture eg Monsanto is an absolutely evil entity and we can't fully understand the state of health without looking there in the sane way we look at big pharma
Great interview. If I were to focus on one thing, it would be fasting. No breakfast, and at least a 36-hour fast every 1 to 2 months. My identical twin brother passed away from cancer 8 years ago and had never fasted.
Regarding non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, if you know what foie gras is, you're basically doing that to yourself. Geese are fed an excess of calories and that fattens their livers. Foie gras literally means fatty liver in French. Maybe if they said you might end up with foie gras instead of NAFLD, more people would get the message.
The issue is also that doctors aren't checking for it until the liver numbers are elevated. Which isn't a good indication of fatty liver, necessarily. Getting the NASH numbers checked is something usually only a specialist would check and it would be far too late by that time. Still reversible if it's in its lower stages, but also a shame that general doctors aren't checking these values with the yearly checkups in the states.
44:00 corn subsidies are not made for the cornsyrup that is a waste product. Majority is for bio ethanl (ethanol derived from plant material for gasoline blends)...
A great conversation! Thanks for asking Peter some of the tougher questions which I feel he often avoids on his own podcast! Seems Peter is more open minded than I thought about controversial topics such as food quality, glyphosate, red meat, healthy user bias, the critical role of metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistane in chronic disease. I feel like when you watch his podcast has been much more about cholesterol lowering meds, avoiding saturated fat, anti-focus on nutrition bc the science sucks.
I feel like Dr. Attia leans a bit too much on innate issues here when it comes to food consumption. The way someone is raised plays a major part in their eating habits and that's backed by data. Throwing the hands up and calling it genetics seems way too lazy. I wish they pushed back on him a bit more there.
Truly admire Peter Attia. One suggested edit for his consideration where he discusses agriculture: @36:00 gmo plants are not “dependent on pesticides”. To borrow a turn of phrase from Peter, we are now in Ag 4.0 and going towards Ag 5.0 where biotechnology is assisting farmers use fewer & less chemical inputs that may be harmful to people and the environment than previously possible. As well, it is now Bayer. They purchased Monsanto in 2018. 🥂
Italians eat for pleasure. Portion sizes are smaller. Food is not processed, it’s hand made and keeping ingredients as pure as possible. Alcohol portions are even smaller. A glass of wine is very small compared to the USA. You get full because you’re eating nutritious, tasty food. You’re consuming empty calories
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Hey guys. I would to see Chris Van Tulleken on here.
Not sure why you two remind me of the singers from that 1980s band the Pet Shop Boys.
Testosterones relationship with micr0plastics...He's faking if he doesn't know ✌️Good questions.
Really glad you guys took this topic on.
F*CK Bayer, and F*CK Monsanto.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 your a Genocide apologist that hates free speech!
Starbucks is more of a milkshake place than a coffee place.
Starbucks went under in Melbourne Australia. Nobody went to get a coffee at Starbucks. We are the coffee capital of the world. The standard latte at a local cafe makes Starbucks taste like instant NesCafe😂
To be fair, I hate coffee, when I pretend I can afford starbucks I get what is essentially a chocolate shake. I make sure to specify no coffee, lol
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@Professor__S: This is good news indeed. Not for the first time, good things come out of Melbourne!
Heard professional coffee taster saying Starbucks coffee quality is below average and I'd totally agree as a coffee lover, ppl buy it there just for show. Once I got myself hot chocolate there and gave it back and asked what is that supposed to be, cos only thing I could taste was water mixed with unidentified powder, that was my last time there. Ever.
28:30 I am a recruiter, and most of our applicants for military service are complete physical disasters, not just fat, but chronically ill with disqualifying conditions. Then they arrive at basic training and break down because of low bone density and inadequate muscle volume to manage physical stresses on their body.
that's scary. Almost every woman I am good friends with is a hypochondriac. On top of that, they LOVE being sick, they LOVE finding out something is wrong with them, and they LOVE going to the doctor...anything to get attention. So it makes me think that the kids you're trying to recruit are 17 going on 45 with that amount of issues at such a young age 😬 That's a shame.
lm 60 and have severe arthritis from DV. Been in pain for most of my life. Drs have patched me up and told me and l will in pain for the rest of my life. Not taking it. The last year l have changed my life. Diet , exercise and mental heath care. l have no pain but still have a long way to go. Off 3/4 of meds. Type 2 diabetes has slowed. l have a fatty liver and l only drink water. Eat healthy organic diet. l live in Australia. No alcohol or recreational drugs. My liver has healed. Would never take those medications for weight loss. Long way to go but love that l have improvement. Grow my own veges ( exercise and great food too )
Id rather die than live like that
You must do a Carnivore diet
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@@theunluckycharm9637chronic illness doesn't make you dead quickly .it could take decades of mental and physical difficulty and cost .Trying to minimise it is self- serving in a good way.
I came off my meds, OMG, THEY WERE GIVING ME THE ANXIETY, paroxetine 10y, I became human, there will always be a reason not to come off, but it causes the problems creating the block to coming off,but every action you have managed to make well done, remember heart brain connection and love gratitude ❤🤗
Please research Dr Anthony Chaffee and Dr Ken Berry.
A wonderful surprise, I love Peter Attia, an honest approach to patients.
I started raising cattle 3 years ago at age 59. The first steer born on my farm was just processed in October. Since then I've average 1.5 pounds of all natural, hormone free, grass fed beef per week. It's the only change in my lifestyle or diet. The neuropathy I've had in my feet for several years is now completely gone. Only 4-5 weeks into eating my own beef I suddenly realized that the neuropathy just vanished, without me realizing. Since then, my joints are generally less painful and my energy level seems improved. Waiting now to hear if the same beef helps my brother with his neuropathy as well. If so, we'll know for certain that the grass fed beef is the difference.
Let FOOD be your medicine; grass-fed and finished is the cleanest so best for the liver. Everyone is carnitine deficient from not eating MEAT. You are what you eat ... you sir are an ambulatory mammal :)
My dad was one of the pioneers of grass fed beef and I essentially grew up on it. I have NO weight issues. In fact, I'm on the low end of my height and build and I'm scaring the heck out of 70. BP good.
This is awesome and gives me hope as a 41yr old aspiring food raiser.
If you just started raising cattle three years ago, your diet wasn't the only thing that changed. Everything that goes along with raising cattle changed. Perhaps your locale changed. Perhaps you sleep better. Perhaps you don't drink as much. Perhaps you are moving in a different manner and that decompressed the nerves or did away with the inflammation in the area in question. It could be any number of things.
I've heard lots of people make similar-type claims. There are a lot of changes that people don't realize happened at the same exact time, but they only attribute it to one thing - the one they wanted to believe.
For instance, I heard a lady say she moved from the city out to the country and started growing her own produce and her kids no longer have whatever ailed them, so her vegetables cured it. Or was it the fact that there was no noise pollution or maybe her house had radon or maybe they got away from allergens or maybe it could be a change of attitude or maybe even a placebo effect. Could be a combo of any of those and then some.
The amount of pseudoscientific talk about things like this ends up being propagated based on anecdotes, like the crap with HFCS or seed oils. I'm glad that whatever changed helped you and more power to you, keep on keeping on. But, to say it's this beef or that beef strikes me as a stretch. Even scientific studies on it can't pin down any one thing. If they did, were they looking for that in the first place? Imagine finding what you were looking for (and you missed a half-dozen other things in the process). I'm not coming at you personally or anything, I just wanted to point out that there are often many other changes that people don't even notice or think of.
1.5 per week? Lol I do that in a day. Neuropathy goes away because B vitamins and avoiding inflammatory foods helps nerves. I got my mom on red meat diet and it went away too. All her issues went away.
Fabulous episode! This was really informative, especially when Dr. Attia discussed eating red meat with fresh produce instead of eschewing red meat altogether and replacing it with white meat. However, I applaud him when he admits that all too often, we Americans simply cannot afford high quality meats, fruits, and vegetables. It's rare for me to buy processed foods of any kind, but it forces me to dent my meager budget to purchase fresh meats, fish, and fresh produce. It really upsets me to see young, low-income parents forced to buy processed foods for themselves and their children because of the high costs of rent and utilities make buying fresh food too expensive.
My great uncle was 92 when he died, had all his faculties. worked hard every single day of his life, but finally had an injury that was about to put him in a home. He got his ducks in a row, and deleted himself, went out on his own terms. Most people are appalled, I think it's pretty metal. Dude fought in 2 wars, and he wanted to die with dignity. He didn't leave behind a wife or children or anything like that. He did quite a bit in his marginal years. You can never predict what will happen, but I am certain his lifestyle led to him being able to live so long and be so capable in his final years. Better than sitting in a home with bedsores and half your mind gone, no thank you.
Great example for me. Thank you
I’m 65. After a big health scare last February, I cleaned up my act. No sugar, no simple carbohydrates (white flour, rice etc), no dairy, no alcohol, no oil besides what I get directly from food (avos, nuts, fish etc). Plenty, plenty vegetables - any and all of them - fruit, water, teas, whole grain/complex carbohydrates, nuts and legumes. And now and then a tiny bit of best steak or salmon. Power walking 5km every day also in snow, wind and rain. Dropped 25kg, health issue resolved, off all medication prescribed last year, and other problems like arthritis in fingers and psoriasis have disappeared. All blood work normal.
Over Christmas I was tempted by some biscuits and chocolates and ate normal Christmas fare on the festive days. Immediately all the cravings came back and I felt hungry all the time. Sugar and other simple carbohydrates are just so addictive and unsatisfying for one’s body. And they wreck one’s health to boot. I, for one, won’t be tempted by them again!
Glad to hear your success story! Keep it up!
I admire your discipline 👍
1 year Carnivore today after learning all this information. Cured my life-long depression and suicidality . Survived an attempt and completely turned my life around
also, I lost 60 pounds, turned around my hypothyroidism and gotten off every medication I’ve ever taken including decades of antidepressants, which spiraled me into many more medications like high cholesterol and pre-diabetes.
I am 1 year clean and DEPRESSION FREE for the first time ever in my 50s and feel 35
Thank you for spreading this type of information. I hope that everybody learns to cut this stuff out out of their diet once and for all, and live of more ketogenic whole clean food type of lifestyle.
Now onto the show 😊
Carnivore is the way.
51:36 people should know that they absolutely do not need to consume 1 carb to live an entire lifetime. Your body will create all the carbs it will ever need using animal fat.
I like a steak as much as the next guy, but we were designed to be omnivores, and plants too have many things our bodies need.
@@reidveryan9414 There is not a single nutrient plants give us that is not already in meat and more bioavailable. Plants are survival food for when you are starving and can't find meat. Meat is thriving food. Explain to me this since you know how "we were designed": How did humans get their fruits and veggies during the ice-age with no agriculture btw?
@@ohiopigeonyou are forgetting phytonutrients which we can only get from plants. They interface with our bodies on a cellular level. Raw plants are best.
I just got back from Europe and it's true that the food is much better there. The yogurt was full fat, unsweetened, and satisfying. The desserts were not very sweet and I didn't bloat from the bread. I stopped eating when full. Someone said that they don't snack because they eat nutricious meals. I realized how over processed with fillers and sugars our food in the US is.
That’s funny, here in America. You can also eat full fat, unsweetened, satisfying yogurt, it’s in every single grocery store. You can also buy desserts that are low in sugar or make your own like I do and use Stevia in place of sugar. In America, you can also stop eating when you feel full. You can also choose not to eat junk food by eating healthy snacks. You can also eat organic veggies and fruit and grass fed grass finished beef and pasture, pork and pasture chicken; but you will pay more for these things as they cost significantly more to raise them. 😊.
@@joehowe9532 I think the baseline sweetness for desserts is much higher in the US than in Europe. I had a chocolate eclair in France and it was just barely sweet. Same with the ice cream. They just use less sugar, no corn syrup or stevia (which I'm allergic to). In the US, our desserts tend to be cloyingly sweet. Yes, I found one tub of Dannon full fat unsweetened yogurt. But the rest of the shelf was full of low fat/non fat lite yogurt. Can we find better options? Yes, but our baseline needs to improve.
@@joehowe9532 Yes, but this becomes more difficult with the less money you have. Most of the food that you suggest isn't usually available to people who buy food from dollar stores and who have to subsidize their monthly food with what they get from church food pantries.
Ah, yes. The famous country of Europe. We're all the same, and eat the same.
@@filtheski1509No, but I think EU standards are better than in the US. There are many additives you don't allow in your food that we do. Also you don't spray weed killer on your wheat like we do.
In 2019 I lost 90 lbs by following Dr. Attia’s dietary guidance.
I am 60 years. Thin, robust and healthy. I eat healthy and exercising. Non addictive , disciplined personality. However, when I eat a treat such as a fast food meal or sugary snack, I IMMEDIATELY crave more within 12 hours! This crap is addictive. It takes discipline to say no, after allowing it in my diet even as a seldom treat.
I noticed that with pizza. I don't eat it often but when I do I can be full and an hour or two later eat more.
Ultra processed foods are designed to be addictive. Sugar is addictive
Sugar and salt mixed in processed food makes it addictive, you can't stop eating it.
Exactly, I quit alcohol, easily diminishing from couple drinks a day to 1 drink a week, then once a month, then once a year, then nothing. This over 3 years ago. Sugar is incredibly difficult to quit and to stay quit. If I have a cheat day, there will be more to follow. The best thing is to keep it out of the house.
I crave more within seconds. I gave up carbs but now and then I fall off the wagon.
Thx guys, for having Peter speak to what he is excellent at. A fair minded man that has abilities of exposing issues that affect us all, sans blaming and demonizing. A very difficult skill to attain and put to great use. I hope he is heard by many.
I'm not excusing it, but food addiction is a very difficult thing.
If you use heroin, the answer is stop using heroin. If you drink too much - stop drinking. If you eat too much, you can't stop eating. You need to eat less, or eat better. No one tells you to do less heroin, or do the right heroin.
Dieting is really difficult. It's still the responsibility of the person, and difficulty is not an excuse. But it is still important to understand and empathize.
Exactly. Difficulty is not an excuse. 💪🏾
Many people are self-reporting that their alcohol addiction goes away on the carnivore diet.
As someone who has been addicted to both xanax and oxycontin in the past, I can tell you for a fact it is not as easy or simple as just "stop using heroin". Mars bars and Kit-Kats don't cause physical withdrawal symptoms for a start. You won't die if you suddenly never eat another peanut butter Kit-Kat chunky again. The same can't be said for benzodiazepines.
Someone could also argue eating healthy is not "really difficult". I live on (free range, grass fed) beef, dairy, eggs, walnuts, broccoli and bananas. Occasional turkey. Only drink coffee or water. Quit smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol too. It is really not that difficult (for me) to not eat M&M's everyday.
It all comes down to the will power of the individual, regardless. The weak will cave and run back to their favourite hiding place i.e. their specific addiction of choice. The strong willed overcome and make the changes they want to see manifest in their lives. All addictions can be a very difficult thing. The key is finding that strength of will.
Also, actually, people do get told to do less heroin or at least get booted on a different drug. This is not even remotely uncommon lol. What do you think a methadone clinic is for?
I totally agree with you 💯
@@ToppovDejungleI hate your comment and find your long winded retort simply ignorant.
As a scientist in healthcare I'm very impressed with peter's answers, seems like a true professional and a down to earth guy. Zero populism detected. Might go ahead and purchase his book
"The truth about ozempic". Where was the discussion?
Around a bit earlier than 34:12
Barely mentioned.
That's why I started to watch this video. Click bait
Truth about ozempic and other GLPs is that they are very effective and Attia supports them used in conjunction with diet and exercise.
@@dales8536 MVP move right there. Thanks much.
Great discussion with Dr. Attia. Thank you!
This guy is a hero. Excellent book, which has completely changed my attitude toward daily life. Thank you Peter.
I remember the first time I went to the US and bought some regular sliced bread from Walmart, It tasted so sweet I actually thought I had gotten some jam or chocolate spread on it by accident. It tasted like cake.
Straight facts! As a fellow physician this guy is so balanced and non-alarmist and just outlining the issues so well.
I moved to Europe 25 years ago, don’t eat sugar, only organic fruits , vegs and beef and chicken. No health issues , no wrinkles , good BMI
You can eat that diet anywhere.
Organic fruits have…sugar
@@pattybaselinesYou can probably interpret what they intended to say. Probably that they don't consume products with added glucose or HFCS sugar
@@pattybaselines Fruit is complex carbohydrates. They do have sugar but in a complex form which your body deals with differently to simple sugars - like the sugar in sweets and cakes and processed foods. There is nothing wrong with eating fruit.
I also eat a high (complex) carbohydrate diet - fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes with a tiny bit of meat about twice a month. Blood work and all other vital signs perfect.
@@Hänfling-bird she's the one who said she didn't eat sugar.
It's not just a question of willpower. If your food is carb heavy, your blood sugars go up and then down, making you ravenously hungry even when you don't need to eat. This is why a low carb diet helps - it cuts down your food cravings and makes it easier to stick to a diet.
Bullshit
It depends on the kind of carbs you are ingesting. Your body requires more carbs than any of the other three macros. Carbs is energy. Which is what your brain primarily requires. When people hear "carbs" they immediately think bread. Carbs are in most foods, fruits, and vegetables even. People today don't take enough accountability to educate themselves on what they are eating. But it can be difficult. The big businesses are very deceitful, and our governments don't help much either.
So it is about will power. You feel hungry but have to have the will to know you are not.
@@RyanGetLowAt last, a bit of sense. Thank you.
It’s the kind of carbs one ingests. Complex vs simple. I follow the “Forks over Knives” lifestyle and eat mostly complex carbohydrates in the form of fruit, vegetables and whole grain foods and don’t crave anything. I always feel satiated.
It’s only when, on an extremely rare occasion (like Christmas), I allow myself to have dessert which obviously contains simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour, that cravings for more appear.
Yeah. Willpower is fake. Motivation is a chemical response in the brain. If you eat crap foods, that chemical exchange won't take place and you will lack motivation
Agriculture is doing just fine. It’s demand and peoples’ choices that determine what the food looks like. Want to eat different food? Make different choices. There’s never been more choice than there is now.
I’ve never listened to Dr. Attia before, but man he’s a great guest. Very educated and articulate, but I love how’s he doesn’t speak pretentiously and breaks down complex topics into very simple terms that anyone can understand.
40 years ago my parents bought a house. It had over 300 square meters of vegetable garden, a chicken house(in bricks) with about 300 square meters of gras to feed them. 8 rabbit cages and a pigshouse.
People lived only 40 years ago totally different lives from us now. They were more self supplied, closer to nature, understood death is a part of life when keeping animals for food and most important, they knew what those animals ate.
people were closer to nature in 1985?! thats heavy doc
@liampollock9780 it would have to be the generation before that. Because my parents didnt used it that way. Only chickens stayed. And im not saying they were like caveman. My grandparents could tell what weather to have in summer by looking at winter day whats up.
My point also goes to many kids nowadays not knowing where milk comes from.
Cheers
Maybe your parents, not mine or those of anyone I knew.
@friendlyfire7861 and what exactly is your point?
Why is what i wrote offensive to you guys?
I lost 62 lbs in 5 months on a keto diet. Bacon and eggs every morning, meat for lunch, bowl of spinach every night. Followed by peppers an mushrooms and meat for dinner. Snacking on cheese, olives, pickles, nuts.
Sounds much like my diet, thanks to daughter !
Don’t forget the Sauerkraut
@@localosint6045 and kimchi!
Judt a heads up you can give yourself kidney stones from eating too much spinach! My grandmother grows her own spinach and did this
Be very careful with spinach... do your research on oxalates . They are crystals present in plants. They cause kidney stones and sties. One in five people have a severe issue with them. They create micro cuts on tissue. I eat like you but factored out the oxalates. It's easy to do. If I had known this as teen ( I'm 55) they wouldn't have to operate me and take out 6 feet of my big intestine in Nov. 2022. 1/2 cup of spinach has 20 times your daily allowance. Research this on YT.
Even though there are multiple reasons we are overweight, the biggest debt you can make is eliminating carbs except above ground veggies. You can remain slim without exercise. If you could pull one lever to be healthy, pull that one. It's a large lever
I would have thought that public health initiatives such as sanitation and clean water had the biggest impact on life expectancy
😂😂 not in today’s world.
Broadly yeah, though I'd also mention the various improvements made in the care of newborns and infants.
And you'd be correct. Everything contributes, obviously, so it's not like modern medicine had no impact. But the biggest factors have been sanitation, clean water, nutrition.
Also, that myth that people only used to live to 30 or 40 should really die. That was the _average,_ heavily skewed downward due to high infant/child mortality in the past. Once you take those early deaths out of the equation, and only consider people that survived the first 5 years of their lives, even the ancient Romans lived until well in their 50's and 60's.
They did. As did mass vaccination campaigns. But yeah clean piped water and working sewage systems are awesome, especially in cities.
For sure
in my 20s and 30s I was heavy into bodybuilding. I ate excess calories. Tons of carbs,fats,sugar,protein.. whatever. Who cares right? Im in the gym daily. Well that may have slowed the rate of which my liver took on stress but the abundance of food was surely stressing my systems. When I was 38 I had a bunch of issues all at once. Low blood platelets,high blood pressure, canker sores, migraines,skin cancer, skin rashes, blood vessel rupture showing on chest, esophageal varices, gastritis,sore joints,calcific tendonitus, pain in my liver area.......... Im at the point now where I understand food was killing me and all of these systems were because of my choices... I looked lean and fit but my liver was fatty and was putting pressure on my portal vein and was causing sharp stab pains as the muscles in the portal vein spasmed from time to time. I had to severely alter my diet. Now I eat a few eggs and some strawberrys, a steak or chicken or fish with lots of greens. I eat 1 or 2 fruits a day, no more because my insulin is still very unstable. Keep my calories around 2000 and stay active. All whole foods, no grains, no packaged crap, lots of water. im 6ft 172 lbs 22.3bmi 118/77 bp . I used to be 220 lbs 26bmi 154/92bp. You dont have to be fat to be sick
You are so generous to share this with us ❤
It would be a very rare occasion that glyphosate would be applied to wheat. Currently there are no roundup ready varieties of wheat approved for sale in the US.
Are you a farmer? A farmer from Europe has commented that it is also used over there. I've heard it's used prior to harvesting.
Not being able to buy junk with food stamps would go a long way.
I was behind a family of 7 that probably way over 1500 pounds together and of course it’s the first of the month and they’re shopping cart were full of bullshit food underneath the car loaded with soda.
Food stamps used to be an embarrassment to use now it’s considered normal and yeah, right we need to stop allowing bullshit food being able to be purchased. This is not helping them This is not a helping hand We are creating these people to be consumers of the pharmaceutical and Medical industrial complex.
I was just outside of San Fran in Lafayette CA a few weeks back and a taco bell had a sign stating they accepted EBT. Blew my mind. I'm sure CA isn't the only state that allows this. In my own state when I'm checking out at the store and someone is using food stamps 9 times out of 10 they're buying absolute garbage: sodas, chips, little Debbie's etc.
Double whammy because then the taxpayer ends up paying medical bills as well, for their diabetes meds, high BP meds, and the liver and kidney transplants, too!😢
@@taylorcuthrell4123 That's because so many people are homeless and don't have access to cooking facilities or even running water, so legislators have allowed "fast food" to be bought with "food stamps".
@jellybeanvinkler4878 so true to all comments above!! Maddening
Do not overlook the effects of stagnant, inflation adjusted median household income (MHI) in the US on this issue. Inflation adjusted MHI has been basically flat in the United States for 50+ years. This while the cost of things has gone through the roof. The majority of households cannot afford to buy the cleanest of foods funneled through this modern supply chain as they simply cost too much. The food they are forced to buy based on their budget would have to be extremely unpalatable to the eye, nose, or touch, to get them to spend more on a cleaner product. Our American consumerist tendencies mixed with limited budgets, leads us to the warehouse stores and the like where we buy in bulk to get the cheapest price per pound for what we buy, regardless of how it’s produced. If it all looks the same in the packaging, smells and feels the same, people are going to walk past the five dollar per pound chicken for the two dollar per pound chicken all day long. For America to have a chance to turn this corner agriculture must return to the neighborhood, in the form of a return to polyculture taking us away from the monoculture of 1970s American agriculture which was encouraged by the late US agriculture secretary, Earl Butz.
Excellent interview
Peter Attia is an original thinker and a breath of fresh air
Thanks!
0:24 "...and if the nutrient density goes down, you have eat more of something". That's the crux of the matter.
Thanks
My father managed one of the first Burger Kings, in Miami Beach, when he was in high school in the early 60s. Everything was fresh. Kind of hard to imagine now. Not even sure it qualifies as food anymore.
Another great episode! I highlx appreciate Dr. Attia‘s attitude, telling what he knows, believes and guesses and what not…
Biggest problem is excess carbohydrates combined with inadequate exercise . Sugar is a drug
Great, great conversation. For me, the issues discussed in this video and how they are addressed are existential for our world. So important. And tied into so many facets of America's societal fabric.
GMO does not mean "dependent on pesticides". Roundup Ready crops can withstand being sprayed with glyphosate, which makes weed control easier and facilitates no till farming. They do not depend on being sprayed with pesticide. Bt crops produce Bt protein (exogenous application of Bt protein is used in organic farming btw) which is toxic to a specific subset of insects, so those crops are dramatically *reduce* dependence on being sprayed with pesticide.
Science snuck in here
The book you need to buy is a(ny) cook/recipes book. Buy ingredients - meat, chicken, fish, grains, veggies, rice, fruit, spices, herbs , garlic and ginger etc and cook / bake your own meals and snacks every day. Whole grain baguette and bread, some cheese, cold pressed oils are ok. Occasional sugary treat or ice cream made at home once or twice per week is just fine. Eat/order out not more than once a week. Keep alcohol to less than 5 drinks per week, zero is best. Half your problems will be gone. You will learn to enjoy cooking soon enough 😊
Clean drinking water and appropriate sanitation are actually the largest single factors in increasing life expectancy
I have never heard that. Sources ?
Love my water distiller
Yes, I can’t remember what study I read quite some time ago but these very much contribute to the increase of life expectancy. However, clean, drinking water and appropriate sanitation are seriously going downhill these days. We need to clean up both.🇨🇦
I suspect that is true worldwide, but in the US & other first world countries, I believe that is already the norm. Setting aside an individual case here or there - usually with well water contamination, I don't think dirty water is shortening many lives in first world countries.
Horrendous advice from Governments on what is & is not healthy seems a LOT more likely to contribute to obesity & shortened lifespans - especially quality of life. I'm 70, & been dieting according to the US suggested diet for at least 50 of those years. I gain weight every single year, & can not stop it. Only starvation dieting & insane exercising will reduce my weight, which SLAMS itself right back on me (& more) the moment I stop the insanity.
I believe the insanity that started in my teens, of prolonged fasting, & near starvation dieting contributed to my body's ability to sustain life on nearly no food, & to hold on to each & every calorie not instantly used, to store it as fat, waiting for the next starvation event. The push for fruit, fruit, fruit & Grains, is the problem, and one the US is still pushing. Stop counting Calories, & start counting Carbs, & suddenly you'll see where the problem lies. All those fruits and grains are making you fat. They're chuck full of calories & carbs, but meat has zero carbs. It does have calories, but zero Carbs. Count the carbs. You'll feel better, & your health will improve. I didn't lose much weight, but I stopped taking meds, due to not needing them anymore. Also, take Vitamin D. It helps with a LOT of issues, & it's practically free.
Healthy food can be accessed in the US and it is not anymore expensive than junk, however it often requires more preparation time than people are willing to spend. The biggest issue is that the people like junk food. It tastes good to them and they don't want to adjust to the different taste of healthy food.
Well said
Right. I spend a lot of time cooking because I prepare everything myself. But, I cook enough for two days to give myself some days off. And if you don’t have time to cook, then you must have time to be at the doctor’s and to be sick.
@Hänfling-bird people are just lazy. They want something in a plastic box or a can they can heat and serve. Standing and cleaning, peeling, chopping, slicing vegetables takes energy and time. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if overnight all the restaurants and factory food disappeared! People would be forced to cook to survive. I'd be laughing
I agree about the food prep. Food preparation is a big hurdle for me in pursuing a healthier eating life. Never cared for cooking. Eating healthy requires more time in planning and preparation, and more skill. I have a carb addiction and I’ve come to the conclusion that I must make my healthy food -whether carnivore or low carb-as delicious as possible. At near age 70 this is perhaps not the hobby I would have wanted to start learning but there you have. I’ve just purchased a very expensive fry pan which I hope will be a help on my journey!
@@vester7457 People are struggling to get by. Many of the poor and middle class are worker a lot more than 40 yrs. a week. That's not laziness. People are more worried about paying rent, then making a nutritious meal.
39:49 It’s a complete fallacy that “clean” food is too expensive in America…. The reality is, people don’t want to eat clean. They’re too lazy here.
I’ve been eating clean for decades now, and my grocery bill is SUBSTANTIALLY less than EVERYONE I know. I don’t shop in the middle of the store; they do. That’s the difference.
You are absolutely correct
I think it goes deeper than that, "fresh produce" has been declining in its nutritional value for decades. I recall reading an article a couple of years ago which showed that nutrients in vegetables have decreased between 5-20% since the 1980s. This was attributed to soil degradation, breeding vegetables for their durability not nutritional value and on other factors such as processing. Now this is comparing vegetables in the 80s when modern agricultural practices were well established. One can only imagine the difference in nutrients compared to vegetables in the early 20th century...we are probably talking 50% reduction.
So, even if you stick to just the produce section, we are getting a worse diet than our ancestors 100 years ago.
If we returned to the procedures our ancestors used a 100 years ago, the yield would be drastically reduced and the price would sky rocket....which is why, I think, politicians just don't want to tackle the subject.
If you are a family of 7 and "eating clean" means that it's labeled "organic" and sold at Whole Foods, it absolutely is too expensive.
How many people are you feeding? Where do you shop? What is your budget?
@@johnsmithers8913 Ok, let’s assume you’re correct. 💯 on the nutritional value.
So if the fresh produce were more nutritional like it was years ago, that would stop someone from eating Popeye’s all the time? And drinking Coke? And eating endless bags of snacks??
I don’t think so. Americans are lazy and want to pleasure themselves. Plain and simple.
This conversation needed to be much longer, it's so relevant and important.
One thing that stood out to me in the US was that the vegetables were tasteless. No wonder they want sauces in their salads.
I use Skinny Girl salad dressings to add some taste - very Keto friendly.
I am waiting for Dr Attia to dive into endocrine disrupting chemicals. So far he hasn't gone into this realm though many of his peers are talking about it in depth now and include the EDC, micro plastics etc as part of the equation regarding longevity and overall health and fertility.
21:23 glucose can be processed by all the cells in your body, but fructose can only be processed by your liver.
Right?!
Literally a few seconds before it he mentions fructose ultimately processed in the liver. lol folks be trying hard to "gotcha" this guy for some reason.
Fructose just just goes on to become glucose in the blood though...
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Fructose and glucose are both simple sugars, but they are metabolized differently in the body, which can lead to different health effects. Here are some reasons why fructose is often considered worse than glucose:
1. **Metabolism Pathway**:
- **Glucose** is metabolized by nearly every cell in the body. It is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and raises blood sugar levels, prompting insulin release, which helps cells take up glucose for energy or storage.
- **Fructose**, on the other hand, is primarily metabolized in the liver. When the liver receives fructose, it converts a significant portion into fat. This can lead to an increase in triglycerides, which are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
2. **Insulin Response**:
- Glucose stimulates a significant insulin response, which helps regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin also plays a role in signaling satiety.
- Fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion to the same extent. This can lead to less regulation of appetite and a potential increase in calorie intake, as the signals for feeling full are not as strong.
3. **Effects on Appetite Regulation**:
- Fructose does not stimulate the release of leptin, a hormone involved in regulating hunger and energy balance, as effectively as glucose does. This can contribute to overeating and weight gain.
4. **Potential for Liver Fat Accumulation**:
- Excessive fructose consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) due to the liver's conversion of fructose to fat. Over time, this can impair liver function and lead to other metabolic disorders.
5. **Impact on Metabolic Health**:
- High intake of fructose, especially from sweetened beverages and processed foods, has been linked to insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
6. **Uric Acid Production**:
- Fructose metabolism increases the production of uric acid, which can lead to gout and hypertension.
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Fructose and glucose are both simple sugars, but they are metabolized differently in the body, which can lead to different health effects. Here are some reasons why fructose is often considered worse than glucose:
1. **Metabolism Pathway**:
- **Glucose** is metabolized by nearly every cell in the body. It is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and raises blood sugar levels, prompting insulin release, which helps cells take up glucose for energy or storage.
- **Fructose**, on the other hand, is primarily metabolized in the liver. When the liver receives fructose, it converts a significant portion into fat. This can lead to an increase in triglycerides, which are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
2. **Insulin Response**:
- Glucose stimulates a significant insulin response, which helps regulate blood sugar levels. Insulin also plays a role in signaling satiety.
- Fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion to the same extent. This can lead to less regulation of appetite and a potential increase in calorie intake, as the signals for feeling full are not as strong.
3. **Effects on Appetite Regulation**:
- Fructose does not stimulate the release of leptin, a hormone involved in regulating hunger and energy balance, as effectively as glucose does. This can contribute to overeating and weight gain.
4. **Potential for Liver Fat Accumulation**:
- Excessive fructose consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) due to the liver's conversion of fructose to fat. Over time, this can impair liver function and lead to other metabolic disorders.
5. **Impact on Metabolic Health**:
- High intake of fructose, especially from sweetened beverages and processed foods, has been linked to insulin resistance, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
6. **Uric Acid Production**:
- Fructose metabolism increases the production of uric acid, which can lead to gout and hypertension.
Watching this at the library and before it ended I snagged his book from the shelf. Can't wait to read
Outlive is fantastic. Definitely worth a read.
My father, who passed at 100, suffering blindness from glaucoma and severe vertigo, and having cared for my mom for more than 12 years while she suffered and ultimately succumbed to Alzheimer’s, said in great sadness, and not a small amount of bitter irony, “Isn’t it wonderful that medical science has allowed us to live so long…”. Maybe we’ve out-punted our coverage.
What a fantastic guest, truly interesting to watch this video.. This is a thinking man...
“In a word, it’s scale and economics” 😂 words to live by
How is Francis Foster going to work in Venezuela in to this conversation?
Thank you so much for inviting people that don't really care about politics, but have some incredible insights.
It's "ACTIVE life span". My grandma lived 113 years. In the last 30 years of her life, she was so tired that she just sat there the whole day with ZERO activity. She wasn't sick. I don't know if she's healthy.
Regenerative agriculture can and does improve the soil biome which reduces and can eliminate the reliance on pesticides and fertilisers while increasing the nutrition of the grown food.
There are so many people here in the comments saying "My diet regime is better than yours." that its actually ridiculous.
Just goes to show how we collectively have little idea about how different diets affect people differently.
"I wEnT cArNivOrE aNd It cUrEd mY DePReSsIoN"
Theres so many of these clowns, im starting to wonder if theyre bots or being paid to spread this crap.
@@John.AR.Activism I think most of them still follow the cult of Jordan Peterson to be honest.
It’s weird…you do see a TON of carnivore keyboard warriors.
“Do not fight disease, rather practice good health” Dr. Ulric Williams
I love this episode. It's worth listening to twice or three times, and sharing!
For a laugh, it contains zero facts.
Also hygiene has had an enormous effect on health and longevity!
My father lived to 86 years old. He never had any major health problems. The one thing he struggled with and cried about was that he had outlived all his relatives ( not his children) and friends. A long life is a double edged sword for many people. He was a tough guy and ran his own business till he was 85! He always said that when he sold the business, he would die....and he did. A massive heart attack with no previous heart issues. I believe that when it's your time, it's your time.
You're right about that double edged sword. I live in a street surrounded by neighbours all in their late 70's and older (I'm the young brat at 47). All people who've lived here since they were young twenty-something year olds, all childhood friends. The last couple of years have been brutal on them. They see their friends die off one by one, their social circle shrink with every passing year.
The wages of sin are death, and we all shall get paid.
I love how you manage to shed light on traditional legitimate concerns of the left, but at the same time strip them from criticism of corporate greed etc.
I am sure your wealthy sponsors are proud of you! 👍
Enjoyable interview. Exercise always helps me regulate every other area of my life. When I don't exercise, my diet sleep etc go to shit.
Dr Peter Attia is a rare and indeed. His self awareness is inspiring.
The problem with what he's saying about subsidies is that there's no reason to assume that government is particularly competent at placing its finger on the scale, or believe that those who will decide when when where to "tweek" the balance in ways that are immune to disinformation and individual greed.
See also: the food pyramid
When it comes to willpower it is not just that we have different levels of willpower, it is also that we face different levels of challenges. For me I always felt unsatiable hunger every 30min and struggled not to constantly eat. After getting medication to stabilize my blood sugar, and removing sugar from my diet, I no longer feel that. My blood sugar is stable and that hunger that I couldn't control is no longer there. I still get hungry, like half a day without food I start to feel hungry. But that is like a day and night difference for me. And at some point I asked myself "is this normal person hunger?". My willpower is suddenly more than enough to deal with it.
You don't have to be overweight to have type 2 diabetes. There are diabetics who appear fit and healthy, exercise regularly and are still diabetic. Just weight issues are more common.
Yes I agree.
Being fat is a not as bad actually as tofi.
Beef and red meat is extremely nutritious, and I believe we should eat more of it.
Good interview, thanks
Thank you Peter for the excellent presentation. You make it so understandable. I love your honesty and command of the language. Look forward to listening to your other lectures. Dr Rapiti Cape Town
I think that a significant unacknowledged factor in obesity is emotional dysregulation, mostly stemming from childhood. Many people eat to numb negative emotions, and many people have self-discipline issues and addictive behaviours because of unresolved trauma.
Carnivore diet will fix that.
Good point
Yes, very fat people wear their pain
I mostly agree. But I've always wondered why we only had 2 fat kids in high school and my son's class is 50% obese. Something is different
As a plant breeder i can tell you with out a doubt they teach to breed the nutrients out of the flower (the pod, kernel, wheat grain, etc) and replace it with water wt. We need to switch to an agricultural model model of nutrient density harvested per acre rather than just pure weight.
Farmers have no incentive to do anything but make the heaviest crop possible.
45:35 those are subsidies.
You can't replace a system by saying "do it better/my way" if that is your statement you don't understand the problem.
Dittos.
Currently when it comes to animal agriculture the government have their entire body on the scales.... if we took our taxes away from the dairy industry, it dies, simply as that.
Its also quite ironic that he wants to see what happens if we remove subisdies for just corn syrup but doesnt mention animal agriculture.... its showing his bias.
It's a pleasure to listen to a discussion at such a high register.
38:00 glycophosphates are only banned for small particulaire entities (small farmers, citizens, KMO small business,...). The big operations have until 2025 to get rid of it in their operations but the deadline has already been adjusted twice
It's not even banned for citizens, not here in Italy at least. It's freely available on the shelves and I use it to get rid of Japanese knotweed. The EU has recently ok'd it again for agriculture. So whatever it is that makes European grains healthier, it isn't that... I don't know why someone so seemingly knowledgeable would be spreading this myth.
That's besides the point that grains are shipped around the world, most of us don't even consume locally grown grains.
@@wjdeoliveira3809
Depends on the country. It's forbidden for consumers in the Netherlands. Farmers can use is.
@wjdeoliveira3809 in the US, they actually spray glyphosate on ready-to-pick wheat to make it dry faster. So spraying a weed is not the same as spraying glyphosate, say, on a fully ripened tomato, then eating it, for example. That's the problem with spraying glyphosate. They also do the same thing to the dried beans you buy at the grocery store.
My sister’s boyfriend graduated film school and wants to direct/edit movies. Obviously it’s a very difficult industry to make it in. He got a great job editing commercials for an ad firm. Easily half of the commercials are for junk food. Doritos offered $1M for whoever makes the best commercial that they’ll run in the Super Bowl. People love this stuff, as do you dear viewers. When people start voluntarily buying smaller portions (aka rejecting a deal and paying more for food) and eat broccoli instead of potatoes, they’ll be healthier. Americans are just more discerning as customers and better at business than Europe. You’re delusional if you think using different chemicals on wheat will make people eat less bread.
you guys need to have Dr. KEN BERRY and ANTHONY CHAFFE on your show. 😎
100%
Carnivore is the way.
I’m 49, gotten rid of decades of health issues that stopped in 48 hours going carnivore, some in a couple weeks and the rest in a couple months
No more weekly migraines and migraine medication for me in 11 months.
Anyone telling you to eat fruit, veg, pasta, breads hasn’t tried carnivore.
It changes lives
@@WhiteEvo6 Truly so. For me, besides carnivore, also going to crossfit and a good massage, to release chronically tight muscle, gave a huge improvement.
😂 Ken Berry. 🤡
LOL. Why?
We can all watch Dr Matthew Nagra destroy that grifter Chaffee in a debate online, go have a look.
@@WhiteEvo6 If only there was some actual data and evidence to back up all these anecdotes from carnivore clowns larping as lions.
Peter Attia is always worth listening to.
Ozempics in the title, but it wasn't covered in any detail?
It came up and they went a different direction/changedthe subject. Others in the comments made it sound positive. I don't know a lot about it, but if Hollywood is any indication, the stuff is awful.
@RCGWho Hey 🖐️ It turns out you've to sign up to the substack to hear that portion of the discussion. I'm diabetic and I've just been put on one of these. I trust this channels integrity, so I was hoping for some factual, non-biased discussion on the subject.
Yes I found that irritating
Peter is a great talker. Very easy to listen to as well.
Agree, it's not just "free will" to not overeat. It's also how you're raised. Genetics is a distant third.
Exactly this. It's a form of enablism to suggest that people's ability to use discipline is genetic and out of their controlm. It's much more about how you're raised, your social group, etc.
So nice to hear a logical factual discussion.Thanks
I grew up on a farm in kansas and I assure you this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. my grandparents' farms on both sides were affected by the dustbowl and the dept of agriculture actually fixed the problem by educating farmers on how to plow/disc orthogonally to westerly winds and plant rotationally, not only between different crops but grazing one year and planting another. this has been standard operating procedure on high plains farms since the 1940s.
I expected the Dr. to talk about nitrogen fertilizer from WWII and corn subsidies instead of the 30s Dust Bowl effects. I did not grow up on a farm in Kansas, but I have read about the extensive education farmers received after the Dust Bowl years. From reading An Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, I learned that there was an excess of b*mb-making nitrogen compounds leftover after the war. Somebody figured out it would make good fertilizer and distributed it to farmers. Somebody else figured out that corn in particular used this fertilizer more efficiently than all the other crops, and soon we had a zillion tons of corn somebody had to find a use for. The price went so low farmers had to be paid to grow it, completing the cycle. And now corn is in everything we eat in America. Just one of the reasons we're all inflamed and sick.
No idea why you made the comment.
America's soil is ruined by over use of fertilizer and Monsanto poisons.
I imagine that is the same in Kansas.
Something of a pointless overaction on your part that completely missed the point.
@emetzger what about all the factory, corporate farming going on now. What about all the glyphosate being sprayed. And chemical fertilizers. And subsidized GMO crops?!
Your grandparents may be smalltime old world organic farmers who only fertilize with ruminate manure and chicken manure, and rotate and rest their fields appropriately. Which is great. But the rest of American farmland is being sterilized by antibiotic and microbiotic herbicides and chemical pesticides being sprayed year after year. So many forever chemicals abound that we are now born with them in our systems!
Dude the government especially the dept of agriculture created the dust bowl. The government is 100% to blame for the dust bowl and the great depression. Go watch The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns.
We should be using no till regenerative agriculture practices across the board. Educate yourself on Joel Salatin @ Polyface Farms, Dr. Allen Williams, Gabe Brown, Will Harris @ White Oak Pastures and others in their orbit.
The government especially the USDA is directly responsible for the dust bowl. The government created the dust bowl. Go watch the documentary by Ken Burns titled the dust bowl. The government also created the great depression. Just like the government created the 2008 economic collapse. The government created the obesity epidemic were currently dealing with. All of the metabolic disease. You can take the government for all of these things!
Educate yourself on Will Harris, Joel Salatin, Dr. Allen Williams, Gabe Brown, and others that they work with
I like how he talks about people trying to solve a business problem, instead of engaging in cheap moralising. He's great - the point about maximising healthspan is very imorportant.
My thumbnail pic is me at 63. I grew up on a farm in SK Canada, eggs for breakfast every single day, with bacon. Loads of good fats. Auntie cooked with lard that was made from the hogs we raised. I still eat the same way. Eggs or chicken now for breakfast, I've been lifting weights for over 40 years, don't smoke, enjoy my ice cream but I have never used seed oils, ever. My testosterone level is over 800, never used a drug and keep my cholesterol at NORMAL healthy levels, which is 240-260 .Don't eat fried crap unless its me grilling it with lard. I get lots and lots and lots of sun, never used sunscreen. I'm living that life we lived as kids and teens in the 60s and 70s.
Lard and bacon isn’t healthy lol
@@jxeh1442 tell me why it isn't. What do you eat? Veg? Rice? Noodles?
Good job, you are informed and doing the right things.
These are the convos we need 👍
I suspect there is a link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and high fructose corn syrup being in almost everything we eat and/or drink which is even remotely sweet.
No, it's excess calories. Ever had foie gras or heard of it? That's the liver from a goose that has been fed an excess of calories. Foie gras is French for "fatty liver." HFCS has nothing to do with that except as a portion of the excess calories one consumes. Even studies I've read don't seem to take into account that people who eat a lot of HFCS also eat more of everything else, too. If you are drinking four or five Cokes a day that's roughly 640 to 800 extra calories on top of food and probably snacks. The person drinking that much Coke couldn't care less about making healthy choices or caloric intake.
You people are so convinced of this kind of stuff while ignoring that HFCS is the same two monosaccharides as table sugar. The Mexican Coke that most of you hold up as some exemplar of virtuosity ends up with the two monosaccharides in the same proportions as HFCS once it's sat on the shelf for a bit because sucrose hydrolyzes to 55% fructose and 45% glucose. That's why they use HFCS in the first place - it's more stable and we have a plentiful supply owing to all the corn grown to make ethanol. It only tastes different because its other components are tuned to the Mexican palate.
Dr Robert Lustig is a world expert who completely agrees with.
(with you).
We all want simple answers, but health isn't that simple... Real, home-cooked natural food (with diverse plants) good sleep, minimal or no alcohol/drugs/smoking, regular exercise, minimal stress (probably the hardest factor of all) and good quality relationships, all have a part to play.
Farmers lost all power when the government allowed corporations to patent seeds they hadn't even created and allowed equipment manufacturers to void warranties if farmers did work on their own equipment. Support Right to Repair.
Most people today are too young and/or far removed from the farming community to remember the seed sharing programs that prospered in the 1800s and into the 1900s.
The program was initially informal, but in 1839, Congress allocated funds to distribute 60,000 seed packages annually.
The program ended in 1924 after the American Seed Trade Association convinced Congress to stop the free distribution. A few more decades of corporate lobbying...and here we are.
Farmers bent over a barrel, not allowed to perform maintenance on their own equipment for fear of "voiding the warranty", don't own their own seed which has to be purchased every year, etc.
Every year Reagan's warning becomes scarier - "I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."
Farmers greed got them bent over the barrel.....now it's too late
Yes, big agriculture eg Monsanto is an absolutely evil entity and we can't fully understand the state of health without looking there in the sane way we look at big pharma
Great interview. If I were to focus on one thing, it would be fasting. No breakfast, and at least a 36-hour fast every 1 to 2 months. My identical twin brother passed away from cancer 8 years ago and had never fasted.
Correlation does not imply causation
Regarding non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, if you know what foie gras is, you're basically doing that to yourself. Geese are fed an excess of calories and that fattens their livers. Foie gras literally means fatty liver in French. Maybe if they said you might end up with foie gras instead of NAFLD, more people would get the message.
Well, at least we're not force-feeding ourselves through a tube. Same delicious fatty liver, without the cruelty! 😂
The issue is also that doctors aren't checking for it until the liver numbers are elevated. Which isn't a good indication of fatty liver, necessarily. Getting the NASH numbers checked is something usually only a specialist would check and it would be far too late by that time. Still reversible if it's in its lower stages, but also a shame that general doctors aren't checking these values with the yearly checkups in the states.
Wincing as I listen to this great podcast whilst sitting in a McDonalds drive thru.
😅 Just eat the quarter pounder beef patties. Don't eat everything else that comes with it, on it or around it.
44:00 corn subsidies are not made for the cornsyrup that is a waste product. Majority is for bio ethanl (ethanol derived from plant material for gasoline blends)...
Precisely!
A great conversation! Thanks for asking Peter some of the tougher questions which I feel he often avoids on his own podcast! Seems Peter is more open minded than I thought about controversial topics such as food quality, glyphosate, red meat, healthy user bias, the critical role of metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistane in chronic disease. I feel like when you watch his podcast has been much more about cholesterol lowering meds, avoiding saturated fat, anti-focus on nutrition bc the science sucks.
I feel like Dr. Attia leans a bit too much on innate issues here when it comes to food consumption. The way someone is raised plays a major part in their eating habits and that's backed by data. Throwing the hands up and calling it genetics seems way too lazy. I wish they pushed back on him a bit more there.
Truly admire Peter Attia. One suggested edit for his consideration where he discusses agriculture: @36:00 gmo plants are not “dependent on pesticides”. To borrow a turn of phrase from Peter, we are now in Ag 4.0 and going towards Ag 5.0 where biotechnology is assisting farmers use fewer & less chemical inputs that may be harmful to people and the environment than previously possible. As well, it is now Bayer. They purchased Monsanto in 2018. 🥂
great breakdown. could have brought up the benefits of industrial hemp in modern ag to get us away from seed oil and GMO grains
Italians eat for pleasure. Portion sizes are smaller. Food is not processed, it’s hand made and keeping ingredients as pure as possible. Alcohol portions are even smaller. A glass of wine is very small compared to the USA. You get full because you’re eating nutritious, tasty food. You’re consuming empty calories