concept but imagine this your girlfriend or significant other is killing the d right
now this this topic came about because i noticed that in my e-function intensive this happens to
keep popping up so imagine this you've been married or dating someone for a really long
time and she or he has found this mecca that makes them feel so good and so wonderful that they have
decided to put it on you and it has to do with your diet they've told you to go vegan and that
it's going to make you so much healthier in so many different ways well today i've got to talk
about the fact that i honestly always believe that everything in moderation works better than very
restrictive diet and veganism is is no different so some of you who are die hard vegans are going
to get mad at me so let's just get right into it now the the issue with being vegan isn't the fact
that that that you have access to all of these amazing amazing vegetables and things like that
the the problem is that historically speaking humans have eaten meat to the point that
even when we couldn't even when we didn't have the tools millions of years ago what did we do we
tried we we took the leftovers that the animals ended up leaving for us right and
eventually we evolved to the point where we could actually hunt ourselves so it are is meat no
bad no it's not bad and it may be bad for some people but to call it bad would be
leaving out a big part of the story right because if you get meat that's organic
that's been grass-fed that hasn't been pumped with hormones and antibiotics you're actually going to
be in a pretty decent space so let's go through and talk about the ways that your girlfriend or
your wife's diet is killing the d alright so so first off i want to talk about this thing called
omega-3 fatty acids now with omega-3 fatty acids they're so important for so many different reasons
mainly they strengthen the nervous system they lower oxidative stress they reduce inflammation
they increase nitric oxide production all of which are so important when it comes to the d now
it's an essential thing and i feel like when you're vegan or vegetarian you decide
to try to get this omega-3 fat fatty acid from amazing things like avocado sometimes flax seeds
the problem with this is that when our body takes in ala the whole idea is that we want it to turn
into two different types of of of omega-3 right we want it to turn into epa and we want it to turn
into dha the problem is that when you get it from a plant-based diet it readily changes things into
epa but the dha ends up being lacking and when dha is lacking which is an it's an essential fatty
acid it's so important for so many processes in our body not only does it make it hard to
produce happy hormones it makes it hard for you to get an erection right so when gentlemen come into
my e-function intensive and they're vegan one of the things that we have to do is try to backfill
a lot of these processes that i'm talking about because in in a lot of instances without you
really knowing the science behind the vegan diet and what you're missing i feel as though the vegan
diet can destroy the d right so let's take it one step further now when you're when you're vegan
or you're vegetarian one of the biggest things that you do is that you spend a lot of time on
rice not not rice but peas and and and beans because that ultimately becomes
the best form of protein for you well this is great and i love peas and beans as a matter of
fact i have to kind of put them in moderation for my kids because they love them so much
because when all of your protein is coming from a plant-based diet and you're loading up on the
kidney beans and you're loading up on the peas there's something in our kidney beans and our peas
the reason remember back in the day when mom was cooking them on the stove she would cook them
for hours and hours and hours and i don't know if they knew this or not but what they were doing is
they were actually trying to destroy something that's called lectin which is an anti-nutrient
and this anti-nutrient can mess up your gut now we don't talk as much about gut as i would like
to but your gut actually has the bacteria in it that becomes the powerhouse the cornerstone
of what is happening in your whole body so if you don't if you have too much lectin in your diet you
can actually destroy the gut by leaking too many toxins into the gut those toxins can leak out into
your body and you can end up having really bad gut issues and really big health issues all together
so you have to be very mindful of the fact that you should in fact take your your beans and your
peas and they should soak overnight and you should cook them for a really long time because you want
to get some of that lectin out when we're talking about omega-3 fatty acids you know this is going
to be tough some of you are going to need to take omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil
right but if you're going to stick to being a vegan try algal oil algal it's because what's
happening is you're getting it from the algae you may not even want to do that if you're
vegan but i'm telling you the d will suffer if we don't backfill some of these pathways right
so then the next part of it is that you know unfortunately what happens
when we take when we take on a restrictive diet is we're constantly like so
i can't eat this but i can't eat this so i might overload on it right so unfortunately what happens
when you are void of meat products is you don't get enough vitamin b12 so a lot of you have
decided hey that's okay i'm gonna take a vitamin and this vitamin is actually going to help me
with my b12 levels well it sounds great in theory but unfortunately what happens with a lot of b12
is that you're taking a kind that can't be readily absorbed so i always advocate if you're going to
do b12 and you really need it and you're a vegan you should do sublingual based meaning the kind
that goes underneath your tongue and either melts or sits there and gets into the system that way
because when you swallow it and it sits in your stomach sometimes it may not dissolve
because of some of the gut issues that might have developed because of your vegan diet so you want
to go sublingually or you can even go into your clinic see your physician and get shots or ivs
um you know shots actually not ivs of vitamin b12 so you got to be mindful of b12 because the only
source that we can get b12 from are animal based you cannot get b12 from any plant-based things
and it's so important for so many different things it can create different forms of anemia
it can of course kill the d but it can lead to heart palpitations shortness of breath
nausea weak muscles numbness tingling soreness of muscles pale skin even coming in and having lots
of ulcers you don't sores in your mouth doc my tongue hurts i'm getting all these canker sores
all of a sudden well they may not be canker sores they might actually be signs of pernicious anemia
signs that your vitamin b12 levels are low and that you need to to raise them and if you find
that you're thinking that your b12 levels are low you can actually get them tested you can
ask your doctor to test them and there's a lot of home testing kits available as well
and then what you can do is back fill the pathways so you can actually go ahead and get
your sublingual or get to your nearest functional medicine place that can actually give you a b12
shot and actually start to increase some of those levels of b12 but mind you if you're deficient in
it don't go and take a bunch of capsules or pills or whatever they're telling you they are you want
to try the sublingual underneath the tongue version so that you can get that in there right
then the next thing i find that a lot of us are focused on okay i can't eat meat but i can eat
pasta right how many vegans do you know blew up or got bigger once they got on this diet right
um because and the problem with too many carbs is this you know carbs are amazing when they're when
they're fresh and from the earth but unfortunately too many cards we've done this the potatoes right
the pasta too many carbs can not only lead to increased levels of inflammation in the body we
know what inflammation does to the d right it actually impairs blood flow and can interfere
with and cause oxidative stress so the the tissue of the the d actually starts to get fibrotic but
it also can lead to something called fatty liver because what happens is that when you're putting
these these processed carbohydrates into your body you're raising your blood sugar your blood sugar
is going up so the insulin levels go up because your body's like oh my god i gotta just figure
out how to do this fat can set in and fat starts to creep into the liver the problem with what
what we call fatty liver is that once your liver starts to become fatty now your body has trouble
processing toxins the liver is designed to help you detoxify your body on a regular
ongoing basis when the body starts to get what we call fatty liver you actually
become impaired in your ability to detoxify your body right so those toxins actually can build up
estrogen can build up and all of those by-products of things that we need to come that come in
already we want them to go out they never actually get a chance to leave so what we have to do
is not only monitor how many processed carbs that you that you take in but you actually
want to limit them if you're doing a vegetarian or vegan diet you have to load up on the green
leafy vegetables you've got to load up on things that are from the earth and not just potatoes
not just corn because potatoes and corn and pasta and all that carb rich stuff like that
will in fact raise your blood sugar increase inflammation and actually lead to problems
with liver issues and that's how we end up blowing up on our vegan diet instead
of actually getting smaller which is what you would expect right so just to recap and to review
you could potentially be killing the d if in fact you go to one of these restrictive extremes and
you don't backfill the pathway particularly if you go vegan and you don't supplement your
omega-3 fatty acids not just the kind that comes from plants but the kind that comes from the sea
right and then that that's the reason why the Mediterranean diet is so helpful for guys who
have erectile issues it's because it's so rich in omega-3 fatty acids the other part is when you're
getting your peas and your beans and your legumes you want to try to focus on a pathway where you're
actually using making sure that the lectin has been removed from them so how do you do this
you actually are cooking them for long periods of times you're letting them soak in advance
so that we're getting rid of some of that lectin so that those peas and those beans can actually
be really healthy for us the other part of that is you've got to cut back on processed carbs you've
got to understand that that that stuff like corn and potatoes and pasta they go straight to sugar
they lead to a spike in your insulin levels they actually can increase inflammation and destroy
the integrity of the blood vessels that we need to to deliver the blood right so too many carbs
can can kill the d too much sugar can kill the d to too many too many products that have
high levels of lectin can interfere with the d actually getting to the point and one thing we did
not mention but i feel like i mention it all the time i'll never forget a young boy comes into the
office he has delayed onset of puberty and so i'm working with the mom we're doing a workup we're
trying to figure out what could be the issue why is it where does this boy's testosterone
level so low what we found out is that at the dollar store they had actually
released this fantastic bar that he was eating every day he'd eat it for breakfast he put it
in his lunch he'd put it in his dinner and when he brought the box in it was a soy-based bar and
what that soy was doing as a plant estrogen is that it was destro destroying his body's ability
to make his hormones so there's a lot of debate out there whether soy is is great for guys or not
and i will go ahead and every day say that something we give to women when
they're having hot flashes to help regulate their hormones is not going to be healthy
and effective for guys when we're really trying to boost testosterone and lower estrogen levels
so i am going to stand on the soapbox today and say that yes there is a lot of data on both sides
a lot of people have done studies the soy industry which is so big in the united states of America
has done plenty of studies to show you that soy can be very helpful and healthy for guys but i
beg to differ so if you are vegan and your girlfriend has decided or your boyfriend has
decided that you should be vegan too i want to make sure that you have the tools necessary to
make sure that your vegan diet does not destroy your d alright so I'm Dr Rachael we got new videos
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