I am very aware that I tend to look at everything in terms of shades of
gray. I've mentioned that on a couple of other videos. One of my favorite terms is,
"it's not that simple" - a couple of references to movies
50 SHADES OF GRAY and the other movie I think it's not that simple came from the
NOTEBOOK, and I also realized that people - especially on YouTube - just want a
very simple fact to be stated all of us like to have facts that we can rely on
one of the problems is that I focus on - making sure that my viewers are aware of
the actual science and so quite often the actual science is very muddy. Man is
not as smart as man thinks sometimes and we struggle with our science but I got a
I got a comment about this last night from John Walker, "the research in the verdict
always seemed to be inconclusive on this channel". OK - I'll take that. My response
later on was - I wonder why - do you think that might be the reality? but it got me
to thinking I really do want to make sure that there are there are a lot of
conclusions that you should get from my channel. If you haven't gotten them, shame
on me. And maybe shame on you. Okay let's go through some of those conclusions
some of those truths number one you can reverse plaque. There's no question
despite what your doc says, despite what the assumption about, "This is just old
age. You CAN reverse plaque. I've done it." John Lorscheider's done
it. And plenty of my patients have done it. Number 2 -you can reverse most
diabetes and insulin resistance or pre-diabetes really the CDC said and
everywhere else ADA - all say, " it's a chronic irreversible
disease." There's a very critical question about
the term - reversible. most people can clearly reverse the course of their disease
again I've done it John's done it. There's a whole book about this . Read THE
OBESITY CODE by Jason Fung. Time and time again he talks about patients that are
overweight that come in and reverse their diabetes
it happens all the time for those of us who whose insulin resistance is being
caused or contributed to by being overweight that is the simplest item I
didn't say it was easy glycemic carbs are not harmless if you have insulin
resistance pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes no matter what the ADA says
about the ADA - recommended diet with all those carbs and breads and grains in it
I'll actually add another thing here grains tend to be a bigger problem than
sugar now pardon me I know that's going to create a lot of reaction. Fructose for
sure ,glucose ,sucrose straight sugars are a straight shot to your arteries.
From that perspective they are a major hit they're a quicker hit they're a
harder hit however just think about the amount of carbs in a big bowl of pasta
versus the amount of carbs in coffee that you sweetened with your sugar. The
whole point is for for most people pasta and grains white breads even highly
finely ground whole grains are a major and bigger problem because they get so
many more of them. IR (Insulin Resistance) diabetes. NUMBER 4 - IR and diabetes is not just
obesity it's not just from a high carb diet either age is still a major driver
here probably still the biggest one again I expect
get a lot of hate , hate comments about that one, too. But
look at the numbers. Just look at the numbers. We think about heart attack and
stroke just killing old people. But the bottom line is heart attack and stroke
do not have to kill old people we'll talk about that one in a minute number
five you cannot supplement your way out of a bad lifestyle I don't know that
there's that much discussion at least well I do have to say that we see this
all the time everybody is not everybody but so many people are grasping for the
next supplement I agree the top three priorities in terms of lifestyle are:
DIET, DIET, & DIET. But there are other things that are important obviously
sleep is very important stress is important exercise is important but you
can't supplement your way out of needing to lose 20 or 30 pounds - it ain't going
to happen and guess what NUMBER 6 - you can't
medicate your way out of needing to lose 30 pounds. You just gotta do the work
NUMBER 7 like it or not medications have a place
NUMBER 8 like it or not statins have a place that includes
statins NUMBER 9 whether the docs like it or not
supplements have a place NUMBER 10 periodontal disease is causally related
to see the inflammation we've been arguing that the CDC and everybody else
are acknowledged gosh 30 years ago they were billboards there were billboards on
the side of the road thirty years ago about the relationship between
periodontal disease and heart attack and stroke but it wasn't until a couple of
years ago that some of the definitive research actually indicated that yes
it's causal we've always known about a connection between periodontal disease
and heart disease and from my perspective the reality is I think most
of that's driven by something else insulin resistance
because we know that insulin resistance type-2 diabetes pre-diabetes causes both
periodontal disease and heart attack and stroke but again there's been research
which shows that the peridontal disease itself does let bacteria and
does create inflammation and that inflammation is a cause of heart attack
and stroke NUMBER 11 -cv inflammation is far is
a far bigger cause of heart attack stroke death dissin built and death and
disability than high LDL our medical standards are wrong about that
they still continue to ignore CV disease I mean cardiovascular inflammation now I
will say this LDL is not totally off the plate it is an actor but the biggest
actor we continue to ignore that's the problem NUMBER 12
over half of adults have insulin resistance type 2 diabetes again I don't
have to.
That's not my belief. That's research from the University of California LA (UCLA) and
guess what we're not talking about adults 60 or over or 50 or older we're
talking about adults 30 or over .John did a video on that and I keep wanting to go
back and do another one because we seem to not be getting it as I've said here
it's far more than unfortunate that we don't understand it it's tragic that
Docs and patients most of our society is ignoring the fact that the the cause the
number one cause of death and disability heart attacks and stroke are right in
front of us we don't feel it it's sneaking up on us it's boiling us like a
frog slowly boils in water and we're doing most of us are doing absolutely
nothing about it
NUMBER 13 - insulin resistance type-2 diabetes pre-diabetes
is the major cause of cardiovascular inflammation and therefore the major
cause of death and disability and yet we continue to ignore it
(number thirteen insulin resistance type 2 diabetes oh I'm sorry)
NUMBER 14 there are 58,000 names on the Vietnam Vietnam Memorial Wall
it was a huge tragedy (I lived through some of it)
but 58,000 people die every three weeks from type-2 diabetes insulin
pre-diabetes cardiovascular disease. And 3 weeks
from now, 58,00 more will die. These decades ( I mean again we keep
saying well that's because they're old so that doesn't count). These people could
have lived two decades longer. It does count and again - that is an absolute that
if you haven't heard that on our Channel like I said - shame on us. But it's there.
And if you don't want to hear it - you don't want to acknowledge it -
shame on you. These deaths could happen two decades later. I've already said that
again as you can see there's passion here. And I'm risking I know the edges of
going into a rant. NUMBER 15 fasting. wHEther mimicked, intermittent or
prolonged - decreases the root cause causes of type two diabetes insulin
resistance and pre-diabetes high blood sugar and insulin fasting does kudos to
those that are doing these types of fasting. OH, I forgot to mention 5:2
fasting. Anyway to those that are not doing fasting and I've got plenty of
folks some patients in a lot of patients just our culture has gotten away from
fasting and - guess what - if you're used to eating three and four three meals a day,
four meals a day plus snacks I understand you know what I've been there
up until a few years ago gosh what well I did
I'm not gonna get into my own fasting history but I've done fasting on and off
for many years I just didn't know that it was so so important and had given it
up until a few years ago and restarted it. So John Walker - Yep -
the research on a lot of things - a lot of key questions that we're asking, like
what's the role of FOXO3, what's the - how much the statins actually work etc etc
et. You know what they are they're science going on and they're not that
simple if you want to hear somebody tell you that garlic is clearly going to
clear up your problems. This is not the right channel for that. This is a channel
where we look to tell you what's known about garlic and we've done just that so
I know you didn't ask about garlic but your comment is about the research.
It always seems inconclusive and there's a lot of stuff that's very
conclusive here in fact the key points of this channel are very conclusive.
Those are the ones that I just discovered again. Thank you for your
interest.