FAT: Why are we still getting FATTER despite ALL the healthy Diets? | ENDEVR Documentary

they were all in agreement about what you could do what we could do for Charlie what the tra treatment options were there was drugs and there was brain surgery and you're out of luck and so it was a while ago but so Charlie is was born March 11th 1992 and he had a pretty normal first year and then right around his first birthday a little before his first birthday I was actually pushing him in a swing one day and he kind of threw his arm up in the air and twitched his head a little bit

and I didn't even think much of it and I asked my wife Nancy I said have you seen anything like that and she said yeah I've seen a bunch of it so um that was the beginning and we started seeing neurologist okay the seizures increased in intensity and in duration he wound up having seizures in the arms of the chief of pediatric neurology at Boston Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital UCLA La children's hospital so we tried all the drugs were available at the time uh Charlie had a brain surgery a horrendous brain surgery and nothing

really stopped his seizures and we lost hope we were basically told there is no hope and one day after the visit I stopped at the medical library and as soon as I started researching pediatric epilepsy one of the first things that came up was a ketogenic diet and it was kind of shocking to me because because what it said was um that about a third of the kids with epilepsy as bad as Charlie um who go on a ketogenic diet as their seizures go away and another third are significantly improved and for a third it

doesn't work and yet all of these folks we had taken Charlie to see never mentioned a word about diet nutrition information can be so confusing and as advanced as we are medically and scientific the question remains what food should we eat to achieve good [Music] health we're in a war for information and the Fallout affects all of us the media is just going to sell what people are going to buy and if people knew the truth they would know what to ask for my name is Vinnie toich and I've been in the health and fitness

game for the better part of 40 years specializing in weight loss over the years I've seen everything com and go at least 100 times but as a country we've only gotten fatter what should I eat what pill should I take should I take a pill what about this protein shake we all know someone who's trying to lose weight and most of those people don't realize simply losing weight doesn't mean good health my mother for instance she was always on some diet one week it was the came diet the next week it was the Scarsdale diet

the next week it was the cabbage soup diet but wait a minute the next week she ate nothing but bananas where did that come from I always wonder about things like eight 8 O glasses of water per day really where did that come from high blood pressure you know doctor will say oh you have high blood pressure stop drinking coffee really these are all just myths the myths have become ingrained in our society far too strongly for people to realize their myths what are some of the health myths we hear every day grains are good

for you and that is bad for you obesity is an energy balance disorder calor in calorie out calories in calories out as long as you're burning enough calories you can ingest whatever you want that you have to exercise to have better health saturated fat is the cause of heart disease a lowfat diet is a healthy diet we saw fat in the coronary arteries and that must come from ingested fat a growing number of doctors are learning that almost everything we're taught about nutrition is wrong and I realized there was this incredible story that we had

gotten it pretty much completely upside down and backward on fat believe it or not the story of how we got to where we are today started in the 1860s with the 7th Day Adventist Church and a woman named Ellen White Ellen was a higher up in the the church and she would have these premonitions and one night she had a dream that God came to her and said that we shouldn't eat anything with the face I was taken to another place high above this world and I I I Heard a Voice there started modern day

veganism it just it really didn't exist before then there were other religious groups who were more vegetarian they would eat eggs and dairy and so on and so forth as a matter of fact uh God also told her that coffee and tea were bad which made no sense because both of those are vegetation not long after in our history there was a man named velmer Stephenson he also believed to a certain extent that a vegetable heavy diet was mandatory for good health he was an explorer who ended up living with Inuits in Canada in 1906

and in that time in place he was forced to adopt a new diet due to the lack of options he made a discovery that will change the way you look at food now this raises the whole question of uh food then you yourself must have longed for a green vegetable once and then at first at first his preconceived notion is I'm going to die there is nothing green here there there is no vegetation they simply eat fish and drink water it was unlike anything that he'd experienced right completely unlike the Western diet it was probably

70 to 80% fat the Inuit lived half the year on caribou and half the year on whatever they could fish out of the sea for 4 and 1/2 months I lived on literally nothing but fish and water and at the end of 4 and 1/2 months I was hey and had never been before and this is on an exclusive meat diet that was exclusive fish in this case on this diet they were perfectly healthy I mean Stephenson was somebody from the medical world and he knew what cancer was looked like he knew what heart disease

looked like and he did not see anyone suffering from ill health in that Community when he came back to the United States no one believed him of course what people eating nothing but meat and fat how could that be they certainly would die dror Charles Norris chief medical examiner does not approve of an all meat diet I failed to see why the case of the Eskimo with his strict carnivorous diet should be cited as an example to the white American the Eskimo has never accomplished anything and the white man has we have a weakness of

not learning from the natives but rather teaching them you see everything through the colored spectacles of your education you're bringing up you know we go through this whole idea of green good red bad Green Piece a light turns green it means go eat your greens yet when you look at red red well red means stop blood is red it doesn't take long for media to pick up on these things and we don't realize it's happening but it's happening right in front of us it's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are Back to Ellen

White and her Visions Ellen was having these premonitions and all of this was happening the writings were happening in the mid 1860s but 10 years earlier in 1856 a 12-year-old boy came to work with the church his family was in a church and that was John Kellog John by the time he was 16 was writing and putting out literature for the church he would go on to share some of the most bizarre beliefs that Ellen White and the church had including the idea that masturbation and sex were off limits excuse me Ricky to save off

these sins of the flesh you should never eat meat because meat increases sexual desire well this is what eventually led to cornflakes that's right cornflakes were created by 7eventh Day Adventist to curb sexual desires he was the guy who figured out something that he termed dextrinization it's when you cook down grain so much it turns into dextrose it turns into a sugar you know today when you see dextrose in a product you should you should run in the opposite direction it's as bad as seeing high fructose corn syrup as used for bacon is used in

in salami all the the the luncheon meats that you get includes Dex nowadays because it gives it a shelf life it's a way to cure it fast it's cheap it's easy to do so something that John Kellogg started way back in the day has also seeped across to the other side into the meat industry there are two issues there's always multiple questions one is if you switch from a a standard American diet of processed foods and sugary Beverages and you know for lack of a better word we'll call it junk and switch to a vegan

diet with healthy vegetables and beans and legumes and fruits you're getting rid of a lot of crap that probably bad for you which is the sugar and the highly refined processed foods you would expect somebody to feel better if they did that the second question is if you did that and switched to a whole food diet that was animal food based rather than plant-based would you be would they be healthier I have spent aggregate one six years on red meat that is uh seal meat Caribou meat muskar meat polar bear prison bear and so on

the Stephenson diet was considered an all meat diet so what he did in 1928 was subjected himself and a friend of his to living in the hospital being monitored for an entire year eating nothing but meat fish and water and that became the famous bellw study the studies on Stephenson which were intensively made from every clinical angle started on February the 13th 1928 St Stenson was tested during the experiment with an excessively high protein minimal fat diet and as a result became ill stefanson said the only time that he felt ill was when he ate

too much lean meat not accompanied by the fat but that some thick steaks made him feel better again you have to have fat with a lean uh lean and fat together uh make a perfect bad at the end there were six Publications that came out of that experiment by different doctors looking at whether or not they got enough vitamins and minerals and everything they could Poss measure and they were found to be in perfect health excessive meat eating is not only not injurious Dr Lee says but the experiments tended to show that Health was improved

resistance to disease strengthened and the subjects underwent no variation from normal health I wanted to try to dispel from the uh world the same misconceptions which I had of the Arctic when I went North I used to think that I was well informed on the Arctic before I went North H and but I concluded eventually that out of uh 10 things that I believed about the Arctic before I went North about six were wrong the medical community has been promoting saturated fat as being the bad actor for heart disease mainly and that really came from

weak science called epidemiology experimental evidence that shows that that's actually true has never been done I mean for example you could radio Lael saturated fat in the food and see if it shows up on the arteries that's never been done the entire teaching about saturated fat being bad for the heart is not really founded in good science it's not that the information is not out there I remember early on when I was in college I had a college professor explain to us that fat was our body's preferred source of energy okay fat is a very

good way to have energy and that same Professor a couple of weeks later said our bodies prefer sugar when we do exercise weren't we talking about fat just a couple of weeks ago yeah forget about all that it's sugar so the message even in top universities right here in the United States are a bunch of mixed [Music] messages do I think there's a big responsibility for media to do the right thing uh yes I do you know we had three big networks The Big Three ABC CBS and NBC whatever they told us we went with

hell when I was a kid there was still even cigarette commercials on the air at least we figured out that that was a bad idea [Music] tast it's very easy to see how someone can think something or just say something and that becomes a reality breakfast no eggs or fatty Meats instead eat grains and fiber that actually lower colle cholesterol how about the term heart healthy grains we've all seen it many people believe it after all the terms come from studies that prove it to be true right those were studies looking at whole grains versus

white processed flowers and Grains so of course when you're comparing it to something like white processed flour it's going to be better but does that mean it in and of itself is therefore heart healthy you can make the argument that whole grains are less bad for you than uh refined grains but that doesn't make whole grains good oatmeal or oat bread or an oat muffin or oat brand that is can either incorporated into some other cereal product it's like cigarettes you can have cigarettes with a filter on and they're less bad for you perhaps than

unfiltered cigarettes doesn't make the filtered cigarettes good it just means they're less bad and the same thing is true for whole grains they are less bad we should put more emphasis on our vegetables we should think about the vegetables we're going to have for dinner rather than the meat portion listen I'm not a doctor I'm just a guy with a physical education degree who became a trainer and somehow found myself in the world of modeling before I became a trainer to the stars and eventually a best-selling author and podcaster but when I started modeling in

LA in the early '90s I realized that the media would sell us anything to make a buck regardless of whether it's healthy or not let's face it every beer commercial you've ever seen is a bunch of ripped up guys on the beach playing volleyball because that's what beer drinkers look like if you have ripped up ABS or you have a nice set of shoulders they want you modeling everything in The infomercials it was the it was the Heyday of The infomercials if we think fat then we are bad diets powders pills still my weight's been

up and down like a yo-yo until the AIDS plan taught me how to take off weight and help keep it off just 20 minutes a day will turn your body into a calorie burning furnace we were coming into this age of hey if you just do what I tell you you can look like this guy or this woman in just a few weeks Dex did it I lost weight and feel great nobody wanted the truth they just wanted a lie that they could get everyone to believe now you can lose weight without diets no this

product really doesn't work without pills no that product really doesn't work without exercise well what does work now you can lose weight just by watching television so I learned very quickly be careful as to what you advertise the 1920s and 30s it was a lot different we were learning a lot of things back then uh we were discovering vitamins for the first time uh we also learned that food could heal and a lot of these therapies are what were being used to heal people they were using non starchy non-sugary diets to starve cancer in the

1920s and 30s take Oto warberg for instance he was doing cancer studies on rats he thought that the outcome would be that oxygen was what was fueling cancer cells to grow and what he learned with rats was that it was actually the sugar in the healthy cell glucose is split into carbon dioxide and water the tumor cell however is able to split glucose into lactic acid and so in a certain sense get along without oxygen and at the same time obtain the necessary energy from its food this is true not only in tumor cells separated

from the body but also true of tumors in animals and human beings his Discovery was well known as the warberg effect and it was shown to help in somewhere near 80% of the cases of people who had cancer why does it feel like no one knows this information we were making these discoveries so what else contributed to them not taking hold we had a great depression and then we had a war a lot of people were having trouble putting food in their mouth period so I don't think people were caring that much about their health

people were just trying to eat anything people didn't eat out as much we made homemade dressings you didn't have dressings that were full of processed oils and we weren't adding high fructose corn syrup to to everything that we ate we ate real whole foods that were cooked at home even fast food was different back in the 1940s and 50s if you had french fries they were made from rendered animal fat basically beef Tallow which was a better way to cook junk food so even our junk food was better in the 1940s and 50s and [Music]

60s it wasn't until we got to the 1950s where people started to become more prosperous we saw the Advent of TV dinners and all this stuff and more sugar and processed foods came from everywhere but what really happens happened in 1955 when uh one of the most popular presidents of our time Dwight de Eisenhower had had a heart attack news of president Eisenhower's sudden illness described by his doctors as coronary thrombosis came is a severe shock to us all films of President Eisenhower made just before his heart attack are dramatic evidence of the suddenness of

the illness that shocked the nation president Eisenhower's heart attack struck at a time when he was close to the Zenith of his Prestige at home and abroad it follows that the president's illness is a vital concern to the entire world well if he could die what could happen to me you have to understand this is a period in the 1950s when America is in a complete Panic about the rising tide of heart disease before that we never thought about heart attacks we never thought about health and fitness we didn't think about the food we were

eating no one back in the 1950s knew what their cholesterol score was much less even knew what the word cholesterol meant medical textbooks tell us that cholesterol is a white compound somewhat soapy to the touch and is distantly related to alcohol it is no alien poison to be avoided by man at any cost but an important element in the body's chemical Machinery cholesterol is a kind of a fat type molecule it's in all of our cells 30 trillion cells cholesterol is actually so important to the body that it actually makes the majority of cholesterol that's

in your blood right now but most of the dietary cholesterol you eat will go through you and very little actually gets absorbed and of that cholesterol you find in the blood most of it was made by your liver it is an essential of nerve tissue for instance and a raw material for the production of several hormones bile and a form of Vitamin D it is found naturally in the blood and also often in the walls of arteries and other blood vessels if you eat more cholesterol your body will make less if you eat less your

body will make more which makes it very interesting that it was so maligned in the past few decades heart disease had been rare in the early 1900s and had really risen since the late 1920s to be the number one killer Disease by the 1950s we took a collective gasp in this country we didn't want to have another president die in office just imagine your president not being in the Oval Office for 10 days and he's in bed besides this guy was very popular people wanted to find out what caused it could it have been his

diet and if so what was he eating and how can we change it this is also the time when the media was more prevalent motion picture cameras joined newspaper reporters in the Old State Department building for an historic presidential press conference the first ever filmed in Sound by newsreal cameramen I see we're trying a new experiment this morning I hope it doesn't prove to be a disturbing influence [Music] the power of media you can't really tell that story without telling the story of Oprah Winfrey it was 1993 and by happen stance I was put up

for an appearance on Oprah they needed someone the next day they were looking for younger men who were dating older women and since my girlfriend was 7 years older at the time I was invited on I wasn't into it uh I had no idea what really happened on op but I was told no you have to do it it'll be great for your career so they fly me to Chicago and I get to the Green Room I was introduced to a woman named doe the theme of the show was younger men who were dating older

women older women having the courage to live their dreams and fulfill their fantasies and live their lives exactly they the way they wanted to including dating younger men doe said that I would have to pretend that I was dating her and I said what are you talking about my guest today they're all members of a provocative new kind of dating service I told her that I would not go on stage and lie I would go on stage and sit next to do but I would not say that we dated I quickly realized that i' had

been bamboozled because doe introduced me as her boyfriend I'd like you to meet Vinnie torich he's a Beverly Hills Fitness expert he's hot sweet he loves women and he's emotionally accessible a get out of here I couldn't believe what was happening and at that moment I said to myself I'm going to turn this into not the Oprah show but the Vinnie show number one women don't even hit their sexual prime until they hit 40 they don't even know what's going on until they 40 I've been dating older women I'm only 39 I'm going to make

this show so bad that they won't possibly be able to run it on National Television want to be with an older woman was the difference between riding in a Volkswagen and a Cadillac if you want to ride in the voles wagon go right ahead if you want the Cadillac go for the older woman well it turns into a circus the people in the audience actually believed all this do and I had just met it was like the audience was participating in this huge game of Mad Libs two different Generations how school oh I learned arithmetic

I don't see how two people can have something in common if they're not the same age it seems like people are treating this like some sort of fetish what could you possibly have in common let's say share walked into the room and said she had to have you Sally get Shar on the phone I ended up asking share out on a date during the show share is on the phone share uh my name is Vinnie Toto I want to say this in front of the whole country is the camera on me yeah sh I I

live in Beverly Hills let's get together and have lunch I'll have my agent call your agent and we'll do it because we'll have a great time no matter how out landish I got they seem to enjoy it more and more what I want to know is from the ladies in the audience should I have lunch with this guy as a matter of fact you can see Oprah Oprah started dancing in the aisles the show ended and I went back to LA and I just assumed well that show is going to bomb as of last year

it was the seventh highest rated show in Oprah's history people still recognize me for it today and virtually none of it was true I took that realization that media can change everything Eisen Hower has a heart attack and he wants the whole country to know that this was a real issue I am happy the doctors have given me at least a uh a parole if not a pardon and uh I expect to be back at my accustomed duties although they say I must ease my way into them and not bulldo my way into them but

the media had other ideas they have their own agenda ah he had the common cold of heart attacks he didn't really have a bad one the media was trying to show him on the golf course having a great round of [Music] golf it was thought that diet was the cause he was also like a four pack a day smoker which may very well have given him his heart attack yes according to this survey more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette try camels yourself right around that time enters anel keys anel keys was a pathologist

at the University of Minnesota he got the idea in the 1950s that uh saturated fat and cholesterol were what caused heart disease it strikes without warning a pinman we can expect five to get [Music] it but we can't say who or when or why anel Keys was this incredibly persuasive person he had a really outsized belief in his own ideas the facts are simple you know the chief killer of Americans is cardiovascular disease disorders and degeneration of the heart and blood vessels here are Vital Statistics they show that this problem here in America is the

worst in the world anel Keys was famous for something called the seven country study this is where he went and studied seven different countries and came up with this hypothesis as to how we're supposed to eat based on correlation anel Keys is the one who proposed what he called the diet heart hypothesis and that was that saturated fat and cholesterol dietary cholesterol would give you a heart attack especially saturated fat like you know like hot oil down a cold stove pipe it would just clog up your arteries and give you a heart attack the problem

is he cherry-picked these countries to fit what he was trying to hypothesize it set out to prove that the more calories you got from fat the better chance you had of getting heart disease it seemed like a straight line between the least fat consumed and the most fat consumed with the us at the top the only problem is Keys studied 22 countries and if you factor in all of those countries the results are all over the place he just took the seven countries that Pro this point that fat causes heart disease this study made Keys

the temporary savior of the medical community and therefore the world such that he was able to get onto the American Heart Association nutrition committee and he turned the whole association around in one year and got them in 1961 one to recommend that all Americans restrict saturated fat and cholesterol in their diets in order to fight heart disease dietary fat and its relation to heart attacks and strokes most persons in the United States who are overweight will find it profitable to reduce their total caloric intake reducing the amount of fat in the diet is one way

to do this this is the first advice anywhere in the world telling people not to eat saturated fat and cholesterol to fight heart attacks that's like the beginning of it all that is what just blossomed bloomed grew into the giant oak tree of advice that we have now we have no credible evidence to say that saturated fat causes heart disease and that sounds crazy to say when you look at our government guidelines and our dietary guidelines but there is no highlevel credible evidence to show that saturated fat causes heart disease the interesting thing about key

is he got virtually everything wrong but it never infected his humility we live in a time right now when we've had a narcissistic term people are very primitive and narcissistic a lot of injuries in childhood and it has caused us to perhaps not have the most uh secure sense of self and identity people attach themselves to one particular approach to diet and it develops into an identity around which people maintain a religious intensity they offended as though any question uh in their Dogma is like you're questioning their religious Dogma or threatening their very sense of

the the fabric of reality and so we start looking around for things to attach ourselves to and political groups religious organizations different diet fads we attach ourselves to these groups and we look to the groups for our identity so our going forward in life is is is somehow threatened by somebody saying hey maybe Fat's not so bad for you it's it's positively comedic but it's becoming ridiculous in the United States coronary heart disease is so common that you have all one has to do to study the complete natural history of the disease is to take

a sample of men any sample of men that are now healthy follow them wait a little while and a lot of them will have coronary heart disease well it wasn't very long before it appeared that there was some connection between coronary heart disease and cholesterol in the blood no question we hear over and over and over again that cholesterol equals mortality we've seen it in the commercials flashman's Maring it's the only leading Marg made from 100% corn oil it has no cholesterol we've heard about it from our doctor over time they build up on the

walls of veins and arteries helping to clog them restricting blood flow it's what causes heart attacks and strokes we've heard about it plenty of times from our friends and our family and because of that we tend to think it's just simply the truth it certainly has the degree of repetition that we would expect in the 60s and 7s we were focusing more on the specific types of cholesterol LDL and HDL and LDL became known as the bad cholesterol and all of a sudden medicine was focused on LDL it was noticed that higher cholesterol in the

blood appeared to correlate or track with higher heart disease rates cholesterol is carried in the blood by proteins called lowdensity lipoproteins or ldls the more cholesterol we eat the more the number of ldls and that's dangerous so essentially the idea was developed that the higher cholesterol was getting into your arteries and was causing arterial disease because the higher that lipoprotein level goes the greater the risk of heart disease there are some studies that show a correlation does that mean causation and this is a very important differentiation that is too infrequently made because something is correlated

doesn't mean it is the cause so if high cholesterol is present in people who are having heart disease we have to look a little further as to why that is and if there are other factors when you really look at the studies and you crunch the data LDL is not the best marker for heart disease what's even more powerful are your ratios so whether it's your total cholesterol to HDL ratio or your triglyceride to HDL ratio those have better predictive value than LDL itself the ratios indicate your level of insulin sensitivity or insulin resistance so

the best cholesterol measures are not actually even talking about a cholesterol thing they are indirectly talking about insulin resistance and health a lot of the fat research well well look we saw fat in the coronary arteries and we thought that fat must be coming from somewhere it must come from circulating fat and that must come from ingested fat it was a very simplistic kind of idea the contrary opinion that the alternative hypothesis which has been around for couple couple hundred years is that we get fat because we eat carbohydrates like pasta potatoes bread they used

to be called Simple com simple carbohydrates um now the terminology is changing to adjust to the fact that a lot of people think maybe these starches as my mother called them are not quite so good for us we focused in just by timing and bad luck on this idea that saturated fat causes heart disease and we bought into it even though the evidence didn't ultimately didn't really support it and we made everything else we believed about diet have to be reconciled with that Dr key singling out of excessive consumption of fats as a major factor

in coronary disease is by no means accepted by all investigators in front of us day by day are in uh increasingly more and more very tempting Foods in the mid 1960s John yudkin comes on the scene he's a British scientist he thinks sugar is the problem when people have heart disease they don't just have elevated cholesterol in fact they often don't have elevated cholesterol they have a whole cluster of metabolic abnormalities 10 15 20 things you could measure and yudkin was saying if I feed animals sugar or I feed college students that I'm using in

my experiments sugar I could cause pretty much all of these things just by giving him a lot of sugar see up to say 2 or 300 years ago the average consumption of sugar in this country was about 4 lb a year that's Splendid I'd be very happy if everybody ate 4 lb of sugar a year they eat1 comparative studies of the diet of 41 Nations have convinced Professor YK that there is an almost exact relationship between the consumption of fat and sugar moreover many sugar containing foods cakes candies cookies chocolate ice cream various kinds of

puddings also contain fat you always eat some fat so if you eat high carb Foods you you raise your blood glucose you raise your BL your fat storing hormone insulin and you're going to store the fat that you eat it's all individual how much you can tolerate but if you eat more than your body can tolerate then you will most likely gain weight gain fat drawing the analogy of the relationship between diabetes and National sugar intakes that could statistically also be related to the fat intake Professor Yadkin considers that heart disease May well be causally

related to the consumption of sugar and instead of looking at it ano Keys just jumps right on top of it in the media and turns this guy into a nut job Keys was really a bully when it came to trying to quash anybody who opposed him anel Keys wasn't going to let anyone come in and Reign on his parade he published a nine page rebuttal in a journal called atherosclerosis in print he said yudkin is a mountain of nonsense it is clear that yudkin has no theoretical basis or experiment Al evidence to support his claim

for a major influence of dietary sucrose in the ideology of heart disease keys and his colleagues managed to paint yudkin as a quack and to portray yudkin and his sugar Theory as quackery and to say there was absolutely no evidence to support it none of what is said here should be taken to mean approval of the common level of sucrose in manyi diets Keys was more had more political influence and more Savvy maybe than yudkin and some how this dietary and we were spending money testing the dietary fat hypothesis so even though the tests weren't

confirming it the more money they spent the more people were wedded to the hypothesis having to be right these studies are extremely expensive and there have been enough good studies done to support our moderate approach which is looking at balanced Foods vegetables fruits grains and lean meat and dairy products the argument once again is it has to be tested when you believe it's wrong prosy you're not going to spend the money to test it why are these nutrition scientists just not more curious about other ideas you know I was at a conference recently where we

talked about a low carb study where they reversed the diagnosis of diabetes for it was a large University based study in just one year on a very low carb diet and not one of them said wait what diabetes reversal wow how' you do that can you just explain your study a little bit to us because that's what we as nutrition experts we really need to do in America and I actually got up to ask a question from the audience I said I I said you know did you hear that that was 60% reversal of diabetes

should that not be headline news and should you not be curious why are you not even curious about these ideas you know it makes you think of stories like the Mackenzie family parents and South Dakota who realized they have to take matters into their own hands when their son lost 5 lbs in 5 days I called the doctor that morning and I explained that I thought my son had rapidly lost weight and something was wrong and we knew within 5 minutes of him doing a UR is test that there was sugar in his urine and

we were escorted to the hospital to learn how to manage our new life we both concluded that we were going to make drastic changes in our diet reducing carbohydrate intake shortly thereafter we were told that we didn't need to do that that we could feed our son recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes whatever he wanted at take a look I'm trusting these people who are now in charge of caring for my son and they're telling me give him pancakes and give him french fries and cupcakes and pizza because now that your kid has this disease

his life is pretty crummy already and the worst thing you could do as a parent is to try and change his food I fed my kid the exact prescribed amount of carbohydrates I prebolus his insulin I put a continuous glucose monitor on him I bought him a diabetes alert dog I literally did everything in my own capacity to follow the guidelines and manage his disease and I failed miserably Riv do you want the yogurt the tablets or the gel I put a big message out in the social media groups that I'm connected to in the

diabetes community and I asked how are you people achieving normal blood sugars what are you doing and about every fifth answer I got was that these people were changing their children's diet and and implementing a very very low carb diet we removed all the processed carbs the flour the sugar the grains the fruit anything that would spike his blood sugar and so the next appointment we had with our endocrinologist I skipped in there like I had won the lottery oh my goodness I stumbled upon a low carb diet and look at my son's blood sugars

and during that appointment our our very kind-hearted doctor looked at me and told me my son was going to resent me for the rest of his life that this way of eating is not sustainable that I'm subjecting my son to an eating disorder and he also handed me a business card to go see a therapist um because he thought maybe I was struggling with some things and had some issues for wanting to do this for my son and to change his diet and I'm told to follow these guidelines because without those carbohydrates my child won't

grow properly and his brain function will be compromised so when you're a parent of a type one and you're told the American Diabetes Association this large governing body that must know exactly what we're up against they're recommending this that's intimidating we either had to E either make a change or accept mediocre care I'm an orthopedic surgeon it seems now as if it's the patients that are trying to make the medical community aware of what they already know of what the patients know because they have tried to follow the rules as given to them and they

failed when somebody comes to me with a belief that they and they tell me I believe your son is going to do better if you feed them more carbohydrates I know they're wrong and when it comes to my son I'm going to do what I know as opposed to what they believe our son went from taking 45 to 50 units of insulin every day to maybe 15 units of insulin if you extrapolate that over every child with this disease you can understand that that's going to have a market effect on the profitability of the disease

I think we underestimate people's ability to make a change and I think if there were doctors and nurses and dietitians who were willing to give patients that option I think the face of diabetes would be different we're a very weird culture because we have an endless amount of energy to talk about almost everything but when it comes to the core issues and the ones that just affect everything such as family or such as diet we have you know we just went through an election we talked about everything but no one ever talked about diet or

family or any of this stuff now you have kids with type to diabetes you have fatty liver disease you have sleep apnea none of this stuff existed before and if if you think it's just old people using this it's getting younger and younger and younger it's an epidemic and it's one of those things like hey Powers it be hey folks in charge let's this is going to break the bank how do people scream all day about Medicare and this doesn't come up never come because it's not sex it doesn't work you want votes you telling

people like hard news like hey Mom you're poisoning your kid get your [ __ ] together no votes for you the current recommendations it started in the late 60s in response to a documentary that aired on CBS News called hunger in America this spring a private agency the citizens Board of inquiry released an exhaustive report claiming that serious hunger exists many places in the United States out of a total population of 200 million the report States 1 million Americans are impoverished with family income below $3,000 a year 5 million of these people are helped by

two existing Federal food programs now a new figure must be added of the 30 million who are impoverished 10 million Americans whether or not they are reached by federal aid are hungry the federal food program might be better administered by the department of health education and Welfare or by a special commission whose only concern would be to see that hungry Americans are this leads right to 1968 in the McGovern committee public calls to address the issue of hunger had been building ever since Robert F Kennedy had tour of the devastated slums of Mississippi it's obviously

greater poverty as we've had and they're going to lead a very difficult unhappy life through the rest of their existence but it was George McGovern the senator from South Dakota who would head a committee that started in 1968 privy to the poverty that the nation was now aware of the former director of food for peace and JFK Administration was intent on bringing change that would eventually affect all of us it's always bothered me to see hungry people in the world I like to eat if we are to save ourselves in this country it seems to

me that a radical restructuring of our policies and priorities is absolutely [Music] necessary there is nothing more to say really Senator Kennedy died at 1:44 this evening we've got to draw the line at violence so I have mixed emotion I'm supporting the president as he tries to bring this wardor Clos it was quite sad really to break up with the bills CU to see it just fall apart was was sad we have a mystery story out of Washington five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in

the middle of the night when you think of 1972 1973 we're still in Vietnam Nam is not a popular war then 1972 comes around and we have Watergate people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook well I'm not a crook people were just in a haze about diet no one was really paying attention to this movern committee you we had bigger problems this complacency at the time is what allowed these Health myths to seep in as you know I represent all sorts of delicious things greasy bacon potato chips french fried

potatoes fatty meat and gobs of butter on everything why you know us fat separately are just little guys but put us all together and what do you have you have millions of calories that's what I have to store those calories is fat and I can't take it anymore I'm getting bigger and bigger and bigger and the bigger he gets the harder us heart cells have to work Mr fat you're a real killer you know I don't know the answer but why is it whenever a new study comes out it's always talking about how food is

going to kill you I think that's a major misdirection to what we should be focused on food should be used to prevent illness not to just help reverse it once it's too late one of the areas we haven't talked about until recently is how food can affect your brain health I became interested in mental health uh and the connection between mental health and diet after I had developed a lot of my own health problems and had changed my diet and discovered uh that diet had a lot more to do with health and mental health than

I had ever been taught that it had in my early 40s about 10 years ago I developed a number of mysterious symptoms that I think a lot of people especially middle-aged women will identify with so things like uh chronic pain fibromyalgia IBS chronic fatigue uh migraines uh lots of different symptoms that uh all of my very smart Harvard Affiliated doctors couldn't help me with after about 6 months of trial and error I arrived at this diet that was completely upside down from what I had been taught was good for me uh it was basically a

mostly meat diet high in meat and fat and cholesterol and uh when I arrived at that diet all of the symptoms that I've been struggling with uh completely went away and I thought you know this diet actually is also improving my mental health and I'm a psychiatrist the most powerful way to change your brain chemistry would be through food because that's where brain chemicals come from in the first place if you're getting most of your sugar and most of your GL glucose from the outside of the body you run the risk of getting spikes uh

uh Peaks and troughs in your blood sugar and insulin level and those can destabilize brain chemistry so those can create mood swings insomnia um irritability changes in appetite throughout the course of the day when you eat a ketogenic diet you're using fat uh primarily for energy and the brain is using a uh to a large extent ketones instead of glucose today if you're anywhere near Google you will learn that this is known as dietary ketosis most Healthcare professionals are familiar with keto acidosis and that's a state where the body is out of control diabetes is

out of control blood glucose is through the roof insulin is not able to keep up with this glucose derangement and so that's a life-threatening State when you're type 2 diabetic out of control nutritional ketosis is quite a different scenario blood sugars are absolutely under control the patient is healthy in every single way electrolytes insulin glucose perfectly perfectly controlled we have now trained the body to switch over from burning carbohydrate as the primary fuel now the individual becomes fat adapted and they use fat as the primary source of energy and that's really the difference between a

very unhealthy and a very healthy State we had a scientific question in the 1960s where the researchers asked the wrong question but there were questions we needed answered we know that the way you gain weight is you take in more calories then you don't then then you burn and those calories can be fat or they can be carbohydrate and so they get this hypothesis which sounds reasonable that fat people get fat because they accumulate a little bit of extra calories every day and we could get back to this by not asking how much extra calories

they don't have to really confront the problems with the hypothesis and that becomes a Theory ever since the history of science once again is full of common sensical facts that turned out to be dead wrong when we did the science you're certain you use words like it proves when you look at the data it either isn't there or we just didn't speaking of experiments here's a timeline of events that happened with the McGovern committee after a year of fighting for funding the committee operations began in 1969 there were Democrats and Republicans including future presidential candidates

George McGovern Walter mandale and Bob doe the initial goals of the community centered around hunger and malnutrition and this led to the legislation in 1970 with principles of free food stamp and Nationwide standards for eligibility it was in 1971 that the committee expanded to focus on eating habits in poor neighborhoods but in 1972 this extremely pressing issue was put on hold so that McGovern can run for president when he lost 49 states to Richard Nixon who would eventually resign and be replaced by this guy it was back to fixing America's health in 1973 the Senate

select committee on nutrition and human needs began to hold hearings on the American diet and heard dozens of eminent doctors and scientists linking cholesterol to heart disease unfortunately dietary guidelines were based on the singular Focus to lower cholesterol why we're treating heart disease by supposedly lowering bad cholesterol we're going to help people lose weight if you tell a public of 215 million people people what they're eating is going to kill them they're going to probably listen and the unintended consequence is that someone is going to step in and take advantage of these people when it

doesn't work right coincidentally drug companies were spending millions of dollars developing drugs to Target LDL in the ' 80s and '90s a class of drugs was invented called the statens and these drugs did lower the cholesterol very effectively and they also were shown to lower heart disease rates but the question that's probably more interesting to me that I think should be more interesting to you is does it help you live longer it might reduce heart attacks by 20 or 30% at best and it doesn't really reduce mortality much we like simple answers that we have

treatments for but that's not where the best evaluation and treatment for heart disease is it's absolutely amazing to me the trajectory of statins and low-fat diets with everything we have today stem from a committee that was focused on poverty and people who weren't getting enough to eat and somehow colesterol got into the mix thanks to anel keys and in a complete U-turn in 1974 they expanded the committee to focus on overnutrition the very recommendations made led to people eating way too much of the wrong kind of food so now we have just the opposite problem

we have a hunger problem we have an obesity epidemic the senate committee finally issued a set of dietary goals in December 1977 the McGovern committee issued a set of nutritional guidelines for all Americans intended to battle heart disease cancers Strokes high blood pressure obesity in the dietary guidelines for Americans they recommend fewer calories less fat less saturated fat less cholesterol more polyunsaturated fat all in favor of nominating vegetable oils say I less sugar less salt more fiber more starchy food the committee's original report urged Americans to reduce their risk of heart attacks by reducing their

intake of cholesterol down to the equivalent of about one egg a day this great experiment we were doing with tax dollars seem to have one idea repeated over and over cholesterol is bad cholesterol is bad on its own or in conjunction with other things one way to look at it is that saturated fats are are healthy when you're not eating carbohydrates or that saturated fat was never unhealthy all along but that gets you into the realm of your telling people that what they've believed is wrong as time has gone on both doctors and private citizens

have done their own experiments as a software engineer I look a lot at networks networks are basically objects talking to each other and a lot of understanding a network is kind of like understanding a brain no one cell in the brain controls your whole body that actually cholesterol was part of a larger network of objects and how it is that they can move about to provide us what we need another thing we don't talk about is how complicated the human body is for the government to even recommend what you should be eating in a first

place is one thing but for them to do it in such a simplistic way is another you know there were certain scientists that had some hypothesis and they said well some of the stuff we're looking at is leaning towards red meat might be bad for your heart the commission would say well what do you think doctors took issue with that at the hearing saying that eight studies involving 5,000 patients failed to show hard medical evidence that diet has anything to do with heart attacks I have pleaded in my report and will plead again orally here

for more research on the problem before we make announcements to the American public yes before you make announcements to the public you should have data that proves what you're saying maybe like Dave Felman did my story is a bit interesting I found that I could move my cholesterol up and down with the dietary fat that I ate so the more fat I ate the lower my ldlc the less fat I ate the higher my ldlc on a 3-day diet of over 5,000 calories and 450 G of fat he lowered every marker of cholesterol I eventually

got a number of other people to replicate this the success rate is somewhere around 85% of those people went on a low carb high-fat diet fatty cheeses fatty Meats fatty nuts and in doing so even though their calories increase substantially even though their saturated fat just jumped through the roof their ldlc and their total cholesterol plummeted it's very unintuitive but sure enough the more fat they would eat the lower their ldlc Dave Felman is not a doctor at at all this guy took all of the science that was available and figured it out yet members

of a publicly funded committee took 10 years to find nothing and when they were pressured to change recommendations with no science to back it up they ran around in circles for a while and came out with the same report but this time they said oh you can have some meat and some salt I would only argue that Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does a waiting until every last shred of evidence is in so there you have it the national advice that everything you see today is based on that report was then

uh taken over to become government official government policy so it went over to the US Department of Agriculture and by 1980 they came out with the policy which was the dietary guidelines for all Americans I think it's audacious that the government based on very weak evidence should tell Americans what to eat a healthy population at the time how do you tell some guy from the Midwest who's been living on beef his entire life to start eating vegetables especially at that time you couldn't get them year round you couldn't get fruit year round it wasn't like

it is today where we we refrigerate and ship fruits and vegetables around the world you're telling people from different parts of the United States what to do how to do it and everyone's just throwing their hands up going I'm going to do the best I can do I think the government was complicit in in causing this problem yes do I think they meant to do it absolutely not I think McGovern heart was in the right place they just went the wrong way about it but we went on that experiment and the government put us on

that experiment they didn't ask us about it they didn't ask Our advice they just told us how to eat and they told the food industry uh asked the food industry to produce low-fat food products industry slowly is responding to it producing foods that are lower in salt and fat and so on and people are beginning to get the message low cholesterol no cholesterol lowers cholesterol good fat bad fat low fat non-fat milk suddenly came in you know bewildering number of varieties all of them reduced in fat and whether or not it was a result of

the experiment this coincided with the Obesity explosions and obesity and diabetes we've been seeing today the 1980s brought in all sorts of brand new foods [Music] there's a d and Body in everybody unlike some yogurts it's low in fat the whole thought pattern was if you didn't eat fat you couldn't get fat not having fat does not automatically make something a health food and that's where we get into this this debate about is it just calories in calories out does it not matter what we eat as long as we're burning enough calories to burn it

off and we still don't know if feating a lowfat diet was a good thing it was a some of the smartest scientists and the president in the National Academy of Sciences and the late 1970s called this a huge experiment in which the American public were the subjects the American has an infinite number of combination of choices with which he can constitute a healthy diet unfortunately he also has an infinite number of combinations from which he can choose an unbalanced diet let's examine why there is so much confusion about good nutrition one reason is that we

have been given a lot of misinformation usually by those looking to make a profit today there are still many unusual ideas as to what we should [Applause] eat people tend to believe that just because it's in print or on television it must be true the 80s also brought in all sorts of new fitness Trends make the commitment now and watch how fast you see results are you ready to do the workout we couldn't get enough of Fitness in the 1980s but although we were doing all of this we weren't getting any thinner our sugar consumption

increases in part with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and that's an unintended consequence of these government actions it's arguably the case if if they had done nothing we wouldn't have had this epidemic we might have had it anyway but uh they they probably or almost assuredly made it worse for 25 years we've been pushing a low fat Dogman it said eat less fat first it said eat less total fat and you'll have less heart disease less cancer and you'll way less then that's not exactly true this started because there's incontrovertible evidence that saturated

fat is bad and that is well established in long-term trials you build up in a community institutions organizations everybody collects to them people who think just like they do like we like each other we respect each other cuz we think alike you know I know nothing about you other than that you think like I do so I respect the way you think and institutions do this and then somebody else comes along from the outside and says oh you guys all got it wrong look here's the evidence all these obese diabetic people are neck deep in

obesity and diabetes we got to change everything hard to accept hard to back out of there's no way to back out of it that doesn't destroy your credibility in this country we have freedom of choice to say what we want to say we have freedom of choice to print what we want to print we have freedom of choice to think what we want to think but we do not have freedom of choice for our own health care why I guess profit in politics and power the MDS and nutritionists and um all people need to work

together for the total benefit of this country's health so in 1992 we did the most brilliant thing we've ever done as a country we started the food pyramid now this is so ridiculous that I can't even ever remember I because in my own mind it makes no sense I always have to read it off of a piece of paper the pyramid at the base the biggest part was bread cereal and rice six to 11 servings not per week hang on folks per day if you went to the maximum vegetables that's five vegetables a day five

servings and fruit if you went to the max that's four that's 20 servings of carbohydrates every day and then when you get into milk and dairy milk has carbohydrates that's lactose and milk that's like drinking sugar and on meat the most you can have in any given day is three servings now it gets even worse because we start wondering this what's a serving what's a serving of meat they didn't tell you how many ounces well I can tell you it was 2 to three ounces per serving but who knew that you got to eat the

right stuff start with a little meat a little Dairy you got to add a bunch of fruit you have tone and P by telling people to eat more grains bread cereal rice noodles and eat a whole lot less and if you thought that was ridiculous the servings that they did give us with the food pyramid did not match what the government told us that servings should be on the packages of food those servings which were also mandated by the government were completely different from the servings that we heard about when it came to what was

on the pyramid the new food label represents nothing less than a major victory for the consumer and for the public health when you're given a percentage and you see that this is 50% or this is 10% of of your expected daily total then you know very quickly that this food either contributes a lot of fat or a little bit of fat and how to plan the rest of your diet around this particular food this food label which will be on virtually all foods will be a benchmark for nutrition information well into the 21st century the

government makes the manufacturers put the product ingredient list in the amount in which it appears on the package if the number one thing in it is grains you will see rice first if the second thing is sugar you will see sugar second these companies got really smart at some point and figured out hey wait a minute we can't do it this way because people are seeing sugar sugar sugar sugar so what they do is they name the sugars other things at last count we were at 70 names 7 many different names for sugar on packages

let's say you're diabetic type one type two it doesn't matter if you don't know how to read these labels your life hangs in the balance this is the world we live in this is our society this is our community and if we don't fix it who will no one will the food label has become a veritable mindfield of misleading and downright false claims and many in Congress feel the same way they're concerned that any confusion over the truthfulness of Health claims could be dangerous because the potential benefit of displaying important health information on food labels

would be lost if consumers lose confidence in what they're being told when I was a kid in the late 70s the term metabolic syndrome did not exist at all metabolic syndrome is not one thing it's several things it's fatty liver disease it's type 2 diabetes something else that barely existed in the 70s we have people on Statin and Metformin none of this existed in this quantity in the 70s we've gone from here to here in just a few short years so the same foods that my mother's generation grew up believing would go right to their

hips you know by the 1980s we were being told to eat six to 11 servings per day they were the base of the food guide pyramid in the 1990s and they coincided with this obesity epidemic I mean we couldn't have screwed up the signs of OB any more if we had tried we don't know what to do nutrition experts The Establishment the Orthodoxy just doesn't know what to do so they continue raising money for the American Heart Association American Diabetes Association but they don't have any new ideas they keep saying just keep applying the advice

that we've given you and somehow it'll turn out different this time one of the things that I always say is why not just be open to new ideas like here's some other ideas coming along let's just consider them don't we have an obligation to the public to consider at least other IDE ideas you're about to meet a father who refused to give up a man who defied the doctors and went looking for a miracle My Generation remembers Jim Abrams quite well he dides some of our favorite movies like airplane and Hot Shots and all of

these funny movies in the 70s and 80s well it wasn't very funny when Jim Abrams had a a 16-month-old son who was having seizure after seizure after seizure and he was going because he was a big producer and he had the means he went to the Top Doctors in the United States and at the time Charlie was averaging about a dozen seizures a day he was on four anti-epileptic medicines if you have a critically ill kid what would you know what would your choice be do you want to drug him do you want to cut

his brain or do you want to change what he eats and it just seems so obvious to me this is not to blame doctors doctors are spread really thin and they have to try to do the best they can but it was Jim who figured out on his own by going to a library in the hospital and just happened to open a book to a page that showed the ketogenic diet as being the best way to deal with seizures in infants the book claimed that experts here in Baltimore were perfecting something called the ketogenic diet

a diet consisting largely of something most doctors tell us to avoid I called Dr Freeman from Johns Hopkins told him about Charlie and he said s his medical records we did and he said we'll bring Charlie out to Hopkins and we'll try the diet and we started the diet and in two days the seizures were gone two days two days Jim was angry and puzzled that none of the six doctors he went to for help ever mentioned the diet what has stopped Charlie seizures has been in existence for 70 years it's been sitting there it

was waiting for him you had some knowledge that this diet was probably working back at John's Hopkins and yet you you dissuaded the Abrams from from attempting it how come well because I don't think we had exhausted all of the medical approaches yet um there were actually still other medications that we hadn't tried yet Dr Freeman tells us that 50 to 70% of the patients that come through his doors and get put on the diet have success can you think of any any drugs in these hard cases that have 50 to 70% success rates probably

not anything that comes up to that level in another month Dr Freeman weaned him off all for anti-epileptic medicines and Charlie went from a prognosis of a lifetime of seizures and what they call Progressive retardation to we got our son back and his smil was back and he was happy again and our family could go on with life this is Charlie Abrams and his mom Nancy I've known him since birth I've watched his delightful personality emerge through a normal first year I witnessed his debilitating battle with seizures and medicines I rejoiced with his family when

the ketogenic diet stopped his epilepsy and now I derive strength and joy like so many of his other friends as we watch him begin to develop again it's too early to tell whether the nine months of pummeling from seizures and medicines did any permanent damage to Charlie's brain if he has anything to say in the matter I know they won't however it's not tooo early to tell that had Charlie's parents been informed about the existence of the ketogenic diet when he first got sick and about the success they've had with it at John's Hopkins a

vast majority of Charlie seizures would not have occurred and most of his $100,000 worth of medical Surgical and drug treatment would not have been [Music] necessary even today 1.5 out of every 10,000 people with epilepsy who would benefit from a ketogenic diet are using it today doctors are not taught diet therapy or even nutrition in medical school they just simply aren't try an informal survey on your own next time you see a doctor you're doctor anybody any doctor say when you were in medical school how long were you how how much time did you spend

investigating and learning about Nutri nutrition and diet therapy I didn't really have much nutritional training like most doctors in four years of Psychiatry training we didn't talk about food once extend of my training I got nutrition let's see let's talk about year one two three four then four years of residency zero zero I got zero in addiction too zero zero in nutrition zero in addiction we were we were we were so damn busy taking care of sick taking care of illness uh and trying to push that back and save life that trying to prevent illness

was not really on our radar I feel anger I I'm pissed off and again I think that part the reasons that the diet hasn't become more popular has nothing to do with efficacy at all it has to do with Revenue sources that are more lucrative the ketogenic diet isn't that expensive the problem is it doesn't generate revenue for the medical world there are powerful forces at work in our medical system that have nothing to do with good health my patients have been getting fatter and sicker over the last few decades and in particular we're starting

to see diabetes out of control and that changes everything I used to see the occasional person who needed diabetic foot ulca management and and needing an amputation then it started becoming virtually weekly when you come into a clinic and there's patients with you know uh with Rotting Flesh and and it is Rotting Flesh and it smells bad uh it looks bad and all you're doing is just uh trimming off a little bit of uh foot it starts with a toe starts with an ulcer then it moves up the foot and uh sometimes you know you

get to a point after doing two or three operations it's been going a couple of months and then the decision is you've actually got to chop that leg off there's something which really upsets me and that's when you actually amputate someone's limb there's a sound of actually dropping that leg into a bucket I don't want anyone to hear that com you know that noise it's just yeah it's just sickening I started talking to my patients about reducing sugar and the benefits were immediate Not only would uh the people's fatty liver disease get better not only

would all of their their blood numbers get better but in fact he would not have to end up chopping off a foot or leg I then went to the hospital dieticians and said hang on this is really exciting this stuff about sugar started talking about it to uh the staff and then I started implementing uh a sugar reduction for my patients only to find out that I was starting to tread on some big toes the dieticians uh then started kicking up a stink about that involving their parent organization the dieticians association of Australia who started

becoming involved in uh pressuring the hospital into vicing me we received evidence in Sydney from a medical practitioner in Tasmania Dr Gary fi uh he gave the evidence to the committee in the morning of our Hearing in Sydney uh 3 hours later uh he received an official ction from Opera the first time I heard the story I just thought it was a joke the board's actual statement requires that doctors double check that their personal beliefs don't compromise care that they don't put their commercial interest in front of patients and lastly doctor should provide appropriate dietary

advice ultimately the medical board made a ruling that I am now the only doctor as far as we know in the world to be banned from advising his patients to reduce their sugar and junk food uh intake and if that sounds crazy then that's what it is we recognize that uh the the being subject to the notifications process for a practitioner can be an extraordinar stressful um thing because you know there are pretty serious issues at stake ultimately in terms of their practice of their profession and uh and their reputation and their reputation and uh

uh despite the fact that we are not punitive in our Focus we are protective in our Focus so our mandate is a public protection Focus we understand and appreciate that it may not feel like that for the practitioner involved in the process for a long time I couldn't actually work out why there was anything actually against what I was talking about everything about reducing sugar and carbohydrate is basic biochemistry it's in the first 100 pages of textbooks it's there's nothing uh there's nothing extreme about it once you see the results of reducing sugar and carbs

particularly in diabetes you can't unsee them you know at this point I think there is active suppression of this science and this has been going on since the 60s one of the things that I found in my research the biggest ever test of anilus hypothesis was something called the Minnesota coronary survey it was on more than 9,000 men and women in five Minnesota Mental Hospitals which was a really well-controlled study because somebody in a hospital you can you can control everything they're eating they gave half the people what that was considered the normal amount of

saturated fat regular milk regular meat cheese butter Etc the other half they gave 9% saturated fat so soy filled milk soy filled cheese soy filled Burgers they found that the people on the vegetable oil soy fill diets there was no effect on cardiovascular morality or total mortality that study was not published for 16 years one of the principal investigators I in France was asked by a journalist why did you not publish the study he said well there was really nothing wrong with it we were just so disappointed in the way it came out well that's

like you know that's basically scientific fraud not publishing your results I started to ask the question what got in the way what's withholding the med the the message well there is a pharmaceutical and medical device industry that makes billions selling their products to doctors who have no interest in in diet therapy there um is a sugar industry that adds sugar to all of our processed foods that has no interest in promoting a sugar-free diet there is a Cardiology Community led by the American Heart associate iation that has been spreading misinformation about a high fat diet

based on flawed science for over 70 years those diets have been used in children for many years who have epilepsy and those children show definite cognitive dysfunction also those diets contain they don't think as clearly those children are also children who have as many they're in transigent childhood epilepsy they have as many as 400 seizures a month they're untreatable by drugs they go on the diets and the diets I think it cures 33% of them cures themy and then they aren't able to think today Charlie is a uh Elementary School teacher at a certificate in

early childhood education he boxes he plays piano and we are Beyond grateful every day for his outcome I'm not sure what would have become of me if my family hadn't found the ketogenic diet but I doubt that today I I would be an a student in high school with lots of friends I doubt I would have been playing piano for the last 8 years and I doubt I could hdden eight iron 160 yards they just couldn't accept that they were dealing with these intractable conditions and not just pediatric epilepsy but obesity is an intractable condition

diabetes type two diabetes is an intractable condition type one is in here you have this diet that appears to put these conditions into remission The Establishment here represented by our friends is a little too dogmatic and that we may never know the truth unless we acknowledge that there is a counter theory that has never been tested and that that theory more and more people are beginning to accept parts of the theory as being legitimate and that it could answer a lot of problems and it could even make it easier for Americans to lose weight people

are able to reverse diabetes people are able to lose weight sustainably most if not all cardiovascular risk factors are improved along the way on a low lower carbohydrate diet that diet ought to be at least considered if it turns out to be true I'll be the first to change my mind but show me the data well here's just one study that says that long-term ketosis reduces body weight triglycerides LDL and blood glucose and shows that it's safe to use a long-term ketogenic diet you can lose weight on a plant-based diet you can lose weight on

a on a ketogenic diet but are you mortgaging your health when you do that and the answer is yes the ketogenic diet when you look at the arteries of people or animals that go on a ketogenic diet they tend to be more clogged even though they may be losing imagine someone who spent his whole career getting the wrong answer not only getting the wrong answer getting a wrong answer that's dangerous that's actually may have killed tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people millions of people prematurely there's no way to tell and these Outsiders

come along and say you're wrong not only are you wrong you're completely wrong or not even wrong it's so senseless what you've been doing and you're killing people and you have to switch I don't think any human being I mean we're just not wired to be able to say oh yeah that's a good point point I get it I see what you're saying and I'm sorry and they if you're an institution like the American Heart Association I mean imagine the press release you would have to write Dear American public we're sorry if we killed prematurely

your loved ones and your parents and maybe we're killing you but in retrospect we shouldn't have given the advice we did you know we we think about corporations or the or our government which is a corporation and the first question is do we blame them well you can't hurt the government's feelings you can't hurt corporations feelings because corporations and governments are not people they're machines they're just big giant machines and any person in that machine is just a cog and there's no way to hurt anyone's feelings or to get on anyone's bad side it's just

a machine that keeps running decisions of a nation and of a government that at one time could tolerate three or four weeks of study now demand almost instantaneous a reaction the people of the United States recognize one by one thousand by thousand million by million that this is a problem which is whose solution is long overdue long before London Johnson came into position of power our leaders were recommending uh great advances in the field of civil rights and great advances in the field of Health and things of that nature uh I just happen to be

the Catalyst we're living in a fast age and all of us are rather impatient I am proposing today a new National Health strategy emphasizes keeping people well not just making people well I do Envision the day when we may use the Private health insurance system to offer more middle income families high quality health services at prices they can afford and shield them also from their catastrophic illnesses today I'm proposing to the Congress a national health plan this major initiative will meet the most urgent needs in health care of the American people our Administration will propose

to Congress a comprehensive plan to cover catastrophic illnesses I am proud to have been part of an Administration that passed the first catastrophic Health bill whatever form it takes a catastrophic illness costs money there are some little known but very important for Visions in this new balance budget that will take us a tremendous step forward in our fight against diabetes these Investments total more than $2 billion over the next 5 years we must remember that the best healthc care decisions are not made by government and insurance companies but by patients and their doctors because you're

eating healthy and you're out there active and you're playing sports and you're out in the playground and doing all those things uh not only are you going to have a a better life but you're also uh helping to create a stronger healthier America and that saves US money it means people are not sick as much it means that uh our health care costs go down when you roll up at a McDonald's what does what do Donald Trump order that fish to light sometimes right uh the the Big Macs are great the quarter pound are with

chees I mean I it's great do people in the windows be like what I think all of those places bro King I can I can live with them I had the other night I had Kentucky Fried Chicken not the worst thing in the world if you think it's up to government you're wrong if you think it's up to Industry you're wrong it's up to you and if you're going to make a change if you're watching this change right now tonight don't wait until tomorrow if it's a Friday night don't say Monday you're going to start

start now there's no time better than right now to get your life in order [Music] [Music] for [Music] I've been doing a podcast with anaval Chino for about seven years when we first started the podcast uh nobody was listening someone's gone I I don't want to lose weight I'm wait that steak is 1,200 calories this bowl of pasta is 500 calories less and as a woman you're told don't eat more than 1,200 calories a day if you want to lose weight so you think oh I can't have that steak because that's my whole day we

started attracting the attention of people in the low carb Community uh doctors authors like Gary tabs n Tai Shultz it's important for us to have the experts on cuz we're like see what that guy said Anna also turns out is a great cook as a person who works with food a lot I get asked many questions about uh fake sweeteners or fake this or fake that and I personally think it's going to have to go in an even more natural direction to where we just had this return to just eating food in its most natural

[Music] state Vinnie and I are very passionate about this topic let's say you watch this documentary let's say you watch the others and you're like this is it I'm going to do this I am going to give up the processed sugars and Grains and I'm going to go for a high-fat low carb diet and uh which you should do it try it it can't it can't hurt to not have sugars and Grains like just try it when that happens and there's an adjustment phase all of us in this country myself included have been in the

diet mentality if we can peel back that diet mentality it would be amazing