Ph.D. in Biology; Low Carb Diet/Exogenous Ketone advocate, Neuroscientist/Cardiovascular Disease researcher - I'm skeptical of LDL cholesterol as a cause of CVD

Background In a single general practice (GP) surgery in England, there was an eightfold increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three decades with 57 cases and 472 cases recorded in 1987 and 2018, respectively. This mirrors the growing burden of T2D on the health of populations round the world along with healthcare funding and provision more broadly. Emerging evidence suggests beneficial effects of carbohydrate-restricted diets on glycaemic control in T2D, but its impact in a ‘real-world’ primary care setting has not been fully evaluated.

Methods Advice on a lower carbohydrate diet was offered routinely to patients with newly diagnosed and pre-existing T2D or prediabetes between 2013 and 2019, in the Norwood GP practice with 9800 patients. Conventional ‘one-to-one’ GP consultations were used, supplemented by group consultations, to help patients better understand the glycaemic consequences of their dietary choices with a particular focus on sugar, carbohydrates and foods with a higher Glycaemic Index. Those interested were computer coded for ongoing audit to compare ‘baseline’ with ‘latest follow-up’ for relevant parameters.

Results By 2019, 128 (27%) of the practice population with T2D and 71 people with prediabetes had opted to follow a lower carbohydrate diet for a mean duration of 23 months. For patients with T2D, the median (IQR) weight dropped from of 99.7 (86.2, 109.3) kg to 91.4 (79, 101.1) kg, p<0.001, while the median (IQR) HbA1c dropped from 65.5 (55, 82) mmol/mol to 48 (43, 55) mmol/mol, p<0.001. For patients with prediabetes, the median (IQR) HbA1c dropped from 44 (43, 45) mmol/mol to 39 (38, 41) mmol/mol, p<0.001. Drug-free T2D remission occurred in 46% of participants. In patients with prediabetes, 93% attained a normal HbA1c. Since 2015, there has been a relative reduction in practice prescribing of drugs for diabetes leading to a T2D prescribing budget £50 885 per year less than average for the area.

Conclusions This approach to lower carbohydrate dietary advice for patients with T2D and prediabetes was incorporated successfully into routine primary care over 6 years. There were statistically significant improvements in both groups for weight, HbA1c, lipid profiles and blood pressure as well as significant drug budget savings. These results suggest a need for more empirical research on the effects of lower carbohydrate diet and long-term glycaemic control while recording collateral impacts to other metabolic health outcomes

For this episode, Dr. Dawn Leighton joined the show. Dawn is an emergency physician based out of Denmark. Dawn has managed a disorder called, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome through animal based nutrition.

I want to tell you a little about my journey and how I came to treasure the four key elements I emphasize in my private practice, my personal life, and on the website.

• Eat real food

• Engage in an active lifestyle

• Choose organic and sustainable

• Supplement and integrate your care wisely

8 months on Keto. 5 weeks on OMAD and nearly carnivore. Lost 33 pounds, reduced thyroid hormone dose by half after blood work, climbed a mountain 2.5 miles straight up and was able to stand for this pic. 2 years ago prior this hike nearly killed me.

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Dr. Drew Pinsky, the celebrity doctor and podcast host known as Dr. Drew, recently lost two notches off his belt when he went full carnivore for three weeks. “I’ll be goddamned if within three days I didn’t feel unbelievable,” he tells The Post.

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Elie Jarrouge is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and nephrology. He was a hospitalist in Houston, TX from 2013 until early 2022. As a hospitalist, his job was to take care of acutely ill patients admitted to the hospital for a myriad of medical conditions. In his early 30s, he wrestled with a host of health issues including chronic back pain, high blood pressure, prediabetes and was 35 lbs overweight. After being frustrated with conventional approaches, he took a radical departure from mainstream medicine and used lifestyle to completely reclaim his health. After his personal experience and realizing that most patients who end up in the hospital are often metabolically sick, he shifted his professional interests to focus on nutrition as his main tool to combat chronic metabolic diseases, primarily obesity and type 2 diabetes. He currently coaches patients how to change their lifestyle and helps them reverse their chronic diseases and come off medications.

Densmore promoted a fruit and meat diet, which he believed was the natural food of primal man.[9][10][11][12] He stated that "bread is the staff of death".[12] Densmore opposed the consumption of bread, cereal, pulses and vegetables. He believed that all starch foods were not beneficial and urged the use of sweet fruits in their place.[13] His recommended diet consisted of fruit, meat, nuts, fish, eggs and milk.[11][14] He believed that the natural life of man should be 120 years.[11]

Densmore was a fierce opponent of the medical profession and vegetarianism.[11] He opposed the use of all drugs and believed that dietetic and natural hygienic measures could cure disease.[13][15] He advocated fasting as a treatment for illness.[15] Densmore authored the book The Natural Food of Man, and moved to Britain just before 1890.[15] His book was influential to naturopaths.[15] Medical experts criticized the book for promoting a fad diet. A review in the Edinburgh Medical Journal, noted that Densmore's belief that carbohydrate foods are injurious to health is not supported by physiology and "in demolishing a vegetarian fad, it seems to us Dr Densmore is only constructing another fad of his own."[16]

Densmore argued that cereals were "unnatural and disease-inducing foods".[15] Articles were published that contested his "anticerealism".[17] James Burn described his diet as "anti-vegetarian quackery".[18] Densmore edited the London monthly magazine, Natural Food (1890–1895) and with his wife Helen, edited the health magazine Earnest Words.[19][20] In 1890, Densmore and Helen founded the Natural Food Society in London which offered a system of dietary principles that was more enjoyable and practical than "orthodox vegetarianism or the ordinary fare".[21]

This is a funny result - Nurse Eric originally tweeted that Fruit is healthy for people with obesity and cited an epidemiological study to support his argument. I combated it with talking about fatty red meat. The rest is history. In August 2021 Eric became a Carnivore Dieter. 

https://twitter.com/Regenarian/status/1231776067276300288

"It's because of one sided thinking propagated by people like @VinnieTortorich and @FructoseNo

Tunnel vision syndrome if you ask me." - Feb 23, 2020

I wrote in response: "I still can't believe people think fruit is healthy when there is zero good evidence. #blind #gullible #fools"

Eric's Reply: "Van Duyn, M., & Pivonka, E. (2000). Overview of the Health Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption for the Dietetics Professional: Selected Literature. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 100(12), 1511-1521."

"Epidemiologic evidence of a protective role for fruits and vegetables in cancer prevention is substantial. "  literally no one gives a shit about epidemillogical "evidence". Have anything real? Interventional?

Oyebode, O., Gordon-Dseagu, V., Walker, A., & Mindell, J. (2014). Fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause, cancer and CVD mortality: Analysis of Health Survey for England data. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(9), 856-862.1

Nurse Eric People who eat seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day have the lowest risk of mortality from any cause... a random sample of 65226 participants aged 35 and older. This was linked to UK mortality data up to the first quarter of 2013.

Travis StathamNobody cares. It’s not science.

Nurse Eric You are talking out of your ass. Is that normal for you? show me some evidence that increased fruit and vegetable intake is associated with poor health outcomes. #evidencebasedrevival

Travis StathamI don't care about associations. I care about essential nutrients and only eating that's what necessary - which is fatty red meat. Not worthless fructose bombs mostly composed of water and fiber. F&V consumption has been pushed by health authorities for decades. Has it helped? No

Nurse Eric"Has it helped?"   Has anyone actually eaten this way?    The restaurants and grocery stores tell a different tale.   You are arguing against recommendations that the masses didn't follow. The problem isn't the recommendation fella.

Prior: I was very skeptical. I debated people on the carnivore diet on Twitter espousing the benefits of Mediterranean / plant-based diets. Start: August 9, 2021 Benefits first 3 months: 30lb fat loss and 10lb of lean mass gain, digestive irritability reduced, energy levels and mood improved.  Benefits after 3 months: I realized that for the first time in 2 decades I was no longer depressed. I have a gym routine again after 2 decades of lack of motivation.  I've been sharing my story on YouTube.  

Regenarianism: I call myself a Regenarian. Regenarians make three foundational commitments. 1. We support farming practices that protect our home, planet earth, and the farmers that provide us with food. 2. We recognize that humans have the right to access ways of eating that are consistent with our species, Homo sapien, and 3. With the acknowledgment that life requires a balance of right and wrong actions, we support farmers and hunters who do the most right by treating livestock and prey according to the highest ethical standards possible.  My pinned tweet speaks to the way of the Reganarians. https://twitter.com/Regenarian/status... 

Nursing credentials: BSN Bachelors in the Science of Nursing CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse certified through AACN.org ATCN Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses certified through TraumaNurses.org Recipient of the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. https://www.daisyfoundation.org/daisy...COVID ICU from day to through the worst of the 2021 waves that hit Arizona.

Hi there! My name is Esmée La Fleur, and this is my best friend and soulmate “Sasha” The German Shepherd Dog.

In 1986, at the age of 16, I decided to become a vegan for ethical reasons. I did not like the way commercial ranching operations treated the animals they were raising for food. I also did not like the idea of killing another living being to feed myself, especially if it wasn’t necessary for my own survival. Over the next 10 years, my health gradually deteriorated until I was forced to drop out of Mount Holyoke College where I was studying Medical Anthropology on a full academic scholarship. I was finally diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Dr. Paul Cheney in 1996, at the age of 26.

Besides experiencing fatigue so extreme that taking a shower was a monumental effort, my main difficulties involved food. Pretty much every thing I ate made me feel terrible. I tried every conceivable way of eating from raw foods to macrobiotics to the paleolithic diet of modern hunter-gatherers. The only time I felt even half way decent was when I stopped eating all together and drank just water. As a result, I have done many water-only fasts over the past 20 years lasting anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks in length. By 2003, I hit a very low point both physically and mentally. I weighed only 87 lbs. and was pretty close to ending my earthly existence.

However, I was inspired to try Redwood Hill Farm’s goat milk yogurt and found that I could eat it without feeling like I wanted to kill myself. For the next two years, I ate only goat milk yogurt and raspberries. The raspberries were somewhat problematic, but I continued to eat them because they provided vitamin C and other nutrients considered to be essential for human health. I tried other fruits from time-to-time, but they all made me uncontrollably hungry. After two years on yogurt and raspberries, I had regained 20 lbs. and was feeling better. But, the yogurt just did not feel satisfying to me anymore. I ate every 2-3 hours, but I still felt hungry all the time.

At this point, I decided to try eating raw beef with olive oil or coconut oil. I did not think it was possible to get all the nutrients I needed only from the meat, so I also ate raw leafy greens. This diet worked well enough for me that I followed it for another two years. I still experienced unpleasant physical symptoms after eating and – over time – they gradually became more pronounced the longer I continued to eat this way. I was reacting to the olive oil and coconut oil, more than the beef or greens, but I thought the problem was “fat” in general rather than plant fats in particular. It never even occurred to me to try eating the meat with an animal fat like butter which I now regret. I tried eating the meat by itself without any add fat, but – since I was eating lean grassfed beef – that did not provide enough calories.

So I quickly moved from a general very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet to what is known by some as a zero carbohydrate diet. However, zero carb is a bit of misnomer; it would really be more accurate to call is a zero plants diet. Zero carb-ers confine their food choices to the animal kingdom, while eschewing foods from the plant kingdom. They consider meat, eggs, cheese, cream, and butter to all be fair game. They do not drink milk because of it’s high sugar content. However, there is a subset of zero carb-er who eat only meat and eggs or even just meat, foregoing cheese and cream because they find it addictive and dislike the way it makes them feel.

Since I discovered the Facebook group Zeroing In On Health, founded by several long-term zero carb-ers, I have met numerous individuals who have been living entirely on meat and water for anywhere from 5 -18 years, and have even given birth to and raised children on this diet. You can read about Kelly’s personal journey on her blog My Zero Carb Life. Clearly, the importance of fruits and vegetables and even fiber in the diet has been highly over-rated. In fact, according to Dr. Georgia Ede, MEAT contains ALL of the nutrients that humans need for optimal well-being. This makes perfect sense when you remember that a diet of only meat and water is, after all, the Original Human Diet.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PrincipiaCarnivora/ - Co-Creator and Mod

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Animal source foods (ASFs) are evolutionary foods and provide key nutrients. There is no reason to eliminate their consumption from a human health perspective, well on the contrary. People who nonetheless decide to do so on ethical or environmental grounds should keep in mind that the robustness of restrictive diets depends on knowledge, resources, and careful supplementation. Although it needs to be acknowledged that current omnivore diets are often not well-formulated either, taking out some of the most nutrient-rich and species-adapted foods is an additional barrier to achieving adequate essential nutrition in an already problematic foodscape. Moreover, restricting or eliminating ASFs may not be suitable for everyone, potentially causing damage in the more vulnerable parts of the population, in particular the young, elderly, and metabolically challenged.

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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon is a functional medicine physician specializing in Muscle-Centric Medicine. She leverages evidence-based medicine with emerging cutting-edge science to restore metabolism, balance hormones and optimize body composition.

Dr. Lyon has brought unparalleled results to her patients with personalized advanced nutritional interventions, metabolic and genetic testing, and behavioral action plans that leave no stone unturned. When you work with Dr. Lyon, you will enter into a partnership that will bring you long-term success and life-changing breakthroughs in every aspect of your life. She will help you gain clarity and a deeper understanding of what aspects of your body, mind and health need healing—and then customize a strategic action plan to put you on the healing path so you can get your life back.

Dr. Lyon attended the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board-certified in Family Practice. She also completed her research fellowship in Nutritional Science and Geriatrics at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to her foray into medicine, Dr. Lyon was a national semifinalist in Fitness America, a professional fitness model and nationally ranked figure competitor.

Dr. Lyon's ongoing work is focused on metabolism, muscle, and body composition optimization. As a nationally recognized authority, Dr. Lyon is a regular speaker, sought after expert and educator. Dr. Lyon sees patients in New York City.

'Ex-Silenced' Orthopaedic Surgeon advocating real food. Healthy Eating advocate #LCHF. Author - Inversion - One Man's Answer for World Peace and Global Health

In Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes tries to bury the idea that a low-fat diet promotes weight loss and better health. Obesity is caused, he argues, not by the quantity of calories you eat but by the quality. Carbohydrates, particularly refined ones like white bread and pasta, raise insulin levels, promoting the storage of fat.

Taubes is a relentless researcher, shining a light on flaws in the scientific literature. For example, he charges that when scientists figured out how to measure cholesterol in the blood, they became “fixated on the accumulation of cholesterol in the arteries as the cause of heart disease, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.”

He also reveals how charismatic personalities can force the acceptance of unproven theories. For instance, nutritionist Jean Mayer persuaded Americans that exercise leads to weight loss when in fact, writes Taubes, exercising may increase hunger and calorie intake. According to a 2000 review of the medical literature, “some studies imply that physical activity might inhibit weight gain . . . some that it might accelerate weight gain; and some that it has no effect whatsoever.” Yet the latest government dietary guidelines, released in 2005, recommend 60 to 90 minutes a day of moderately intense exercise and a low-calorie diet to achieve weight loss. Once again, Taubes shows, conventional wisdom wins out.

Good Calories, Bad Calories goes a long way toward breaking the link between obesity, gluttony and sloth by demonstrating that genes, hormones and chemistry play as much of a role in weight gain as behavior does. Taubes’s tales of lame science and flawed laboratory tests are at times brilliant and enlightening. But they can also become repetitive and wearying. In the end, the most compelling case Taubes builds is one against stark dietary advice of any kind; nothing simple can capture the complex reasons for the epidemic rise in obesity. H.L. Mencken once said, “There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” Taubes cites this quote in his book; he, and all of us, would do well to remember it.

George Diggs is an evolutionary biologist and Co-Director of the Public Health Program at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. His research and teaching interests include evolution as it relates to human health, biogeography, plant defense, and the plants of Texas. He has co-authored four books including The Hunter-Gatherer Within: Health and the Natural Human Diet (2013), has written more than 30 scientific articles, has given a TEDx talk, and in his research has traveled to all seven continents.

MANN, ScD, M.D., Dr. George V. Of Manchester (1917-2013). A retired professor from Vanderbilt Medical School in Nashville, TN, and noted medical researcher on the effects of cholesterol on human heart health, died at the NHC Nursing Home in McMinnville, TN on July 17, 2013 at the age of 95. Dr. Mann was born in 1917 in Fort Dodge in north-central Iowa, and was raised on several farms in the area, where his father was a sharecropper. He graduated in 1939 from Cornell College in Iowa with a degree in chemistry, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained a Doctor of Science in biochemistry and an MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1945. He interned in medicine at the Osler Service of Johns Hopkins University from 1945-1946 and became a resident at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1946-1947, and spent one year on the Joslin Diabetes Service of the New England Deaconess Hospital in 1948. In 1949, he joined the Harvard School of Public Health where he was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. He was also appointed an assistant professor of nutrition at Harvard University in 1949 and in 1955, became an associate director of the Framingham Heart Program, an ongoing cardiovascular study on residents of the town of Framingham, MA that began in 1948. In 1958, he moved to Vanderbilt University where he became a professor in medicine and biochemistry, and a Career Investigator with the National Institute of Health, positions he held until his retirement in 1987. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Dr. Mann conducted field studies on the effects of human diet on cholesterol levels on Alaskan Eskimos, Congolese pygmies, and Maasai of Tanzania and Kenya. These studies led Dr. Mann to a contrarian viewpoint that human heart disease was not the result of the consumption of foods like meat and eggs that are high in cholesterol, but are instead the result of other factors such as a lack of exercise. In addition to over 200 articles published in medical journals, he expressed his views in several books, including: Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense (1993). A varsity letterman in wrestling at Cornell College, Dr. Mann had a lifetime interest in the effects of physical fitness on heart health, was a technical observer at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, and published several books on this topic, including The Care and Feeding of Athletes (1980). Dr. Mann was married to Jean Ebersbach Mann from 1946 until her death in 1994. Jean Mann, a nursing graduate from Johns Hopkins University in 1943, was the Director of Nursing at Nashville General Hospital during the 1960’s to early 1980’s. During the 1990’s, Dr. Mann retired to a log cabin on Cardwell Mountain near McMinnville, TN. Dr. Mann is survived by five children: Ted Mann of Winston-Salem, NC, Marian Mann of Tsaile, AZ, Daniel Mann of Fairbanks, AK, Nathaniel Mann of Viola, TN and Paul Mann of Austin, TX, along with four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be private. Online condolences may be made at www.coffeecountyfuneralchapel.com. COFFEE COUNTY FUNERAL CHAPEL is honored to serve the family of George V. Mann, (931) 723-3330.

Psychiatrist, science writer, and speaker specializing in nutrition and mental health. Consultations available. Paleo, Keto, LCHF, Carnivore and more.

I recently had the pleasure of participating in the Boulder Carnivore Conference, the world's first meeting dedicated to the potential benefits of plant-free diets. For this special event, I created a new presentation exploring the nutritional differences between plant and animal foods, and summarizing the scientific arguments in support of all-meat diets for optimal brain health. Skeptical? You should be. This seemingly strange and extreme way of eating flies in the face of every piece of conventional nutrition advice we've been given, yet a growing number of people report  remarkable benefits, including resolution of serious, chronic psychiatric symptoms. 

If you are completely new to the idea of all-meat diets, allow me to provide a bit of context, along with some additional links and resources should you care to dive a little deeper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8X0Y77ilw

Glenn Elzinga is a former Forest Ecologist turned Rancher. Glenn and his wife Caryl run Alderspring Ranch, a small artisanal family ranch that has passionately produced award-winning grassfed organic beef for over 20 years in the Idaho mountains. Alderspring Cowboys live with the cattle during the summer months, rotationally grazing them over 46,000 acres of certified organic wild permit rangeland, restoring health to ecologically sensitive areas! Grazing these specific wild grasses creates supremely nutrient dense beef, as well! Alderspring has also built a successful online business, shipping organic grass fed beef direct to customers for the last 15 years! Alderspring is a climate positive and carbon negative operation.

I personally met Glenn on his ranch while doing a science project in July 2022 and he was one of the nicest people I've ever met. He personally told me he does a carnivore diet however we did try some of the plants on his ranch - including some red flowers from wild onions! Check out his amazing grass fed beef at alderspring.co