Cholesterol is natural, how can it be bad for us?!?

[@johnmelton4940]

Before seeing your channel, I spent so much time and risked my health listening to those so called "doctors" who are actually chiropractors. They told us lies about cholesterol and saturated fats. In my country, Turkey, there are also some Turkish doctors advocating saturated fats and cholesterol. This is actually a global hype! Thank you Gil, for saving our health, time and wellbeing.

[@peanutnutter1]

💯

[@DetroitHomeInspector]

Ditto.

[@midneis]

Dr. Berg has left the chat

[@anathardayaldar]

You really should put your primary care provider's advice at higher priority than any internet advice. The main reason is you can sue your PCP if they get it wrong. And if they keep getting it wrong they can lose their license. If an internet source gives you bad advice they know they can't be punished so they have no incentive to make sure they are correct. Meanwhile, they sucked up your clicks and subs and got paid by the adverts. They got their money and thats all that matters to them.

[@bwoodward9564]

Our cells are made of cholesterol. How is it measured?

[@Physionic]

The same argument is also true for reactive oxygen species - a little is good and helps in cellular signaling, but too much leads to oxidative damage. Great video, as always.

[@iemu]

did you see Dr. Berg's recent coping video?

[@jacobstaff549]

❤❤❤

[@dekyor9547]

Many other things than that. Basically everything circulating in our bloodstream is bad in too high amounts it seems

[@dekyor9547]

Where is the Collab with nutrition made simple?

[@Dfsdd665e]

Free Physionic insiders please

[@Paddle-N-Fish]

It seems that according to natural selection, that fertility would be selected , not longevity. So if eating a high fat and meat diet helped avoid starvation and one successfully reared many offspring, then their high chloresterol and having a fatal grabber at age 38 would be a non factor in our genetic history.

[@jeffchoi73]

What an interesting perspective!

[@drott150]

People aged 38-80 still benefit their offspring in their survival beyond reproductive years. They provide accumulated resources, protection, wisdom that only comes with age (that helps guide the younger generation through tumultuous times) and direct help in caring for and raising their grandchildren (and in some cases their great grandchildren). So, there is still at least some evolutionary pressure to promote longer lives beyond reproductive years.

[@noggintube]

Yeah this basically the essence of natural selection that people miss. Nature never intended us to live past the age of successfully rearing out next generation to the point they can survive without us. Basically around 30-40. As long as we can successfully make it that far, the genes are successful. Past that it's irrelevant what we die of.

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

I agree. We didn’t live long enough for problems to emerge. This is, imo, how later-in-life diseases are around today (like rheumatoid arthritis, most cancers, lupus, Hashimoto’s etc). We procreated early and died early… so the genes are passed on, unknowingly. Now we’re living much, much longer and these things are serious issues This is why I don’t listen to the camp that claims “We used to be healthier!!”, like nooooo we used to die by age 30, and 30+under **tend to be in pretty good health 🤷‍♀️ **everyone knows someone that is an outlier, my cousin had lupus at age 16 for example. These don’t count in the average of statistics, which is why they are labeled outliers/statical anomalies.

[@Ruktiet]

Reductionistic, borderline retarded view on human evolution. The transfer of knowledge of elderly, the care of grandparents, etc. are all fagtors that provide selection for older age

[@jadedk9916]

One of very few KZbin channels that people can rely on. I don't know how you could get any more logical and objective than this!

[@georgehornsby2075]

4. We do have protective mechanisms which we are overwhelming with radically different lifestyles than we evolved with. We have protective mechanisms to control glucose, blood cholesterol sodium/potassium ratio etc and our modern lifestyles have to work hard to overcome them

[@optimumwellnessofficial]

Protective mechanisms like EXACTLY what, and PRECISELY how do you suggest we are overwhelming our systems that's causing these protective mechanisms to break down?

[@TheGaragelifter]

Dr Gil. Your hard work making these videos has literally changed my life. Thankyou so much for what you do. It must be an amazing feeling knowing you are changing so many lives for the better.

[@Starship_X]

Great topic. Thanks for getting to the heart of the issues, Dr. Carvalho!

[@rejoyce318]

I see what you did there! ❤

[@carlsapartments8931]

so you are saying that this LDL is the actual mechanism of injury itself, and not just responding to another mechanism of injury in a protective effort causing inflammation, eventually causing large enough injury that will result in a blockage or partial blockage?

[@willbrink]

I have been thinking about this very topic recently and planned to do a vid myself. I may not bother now that this channel has done it. The caveman they found in the ice had CVD, and the mummies they have from various locations around the world, 4K + years old, all had CVD.

[@vipinsavai6008]

I love your videos they are very scientific and logical .... With all variables prior into perspective. Thanks for giving such a complex yet complete view of health parameters in as simple way as possible

[@nelsonv741]

I've seen lots of videos on Cholesterol and some of this was brand new to me! Excellent coverage!

[@tomk2708]

Another excellent video from you - concise and easily understood. Thank you.

[@marshcreek4355]

Wow. I've never heard a doctor even mention sickle cell disease in a general conversation, let alone on an educational channel like this one. Dr. Carvalho, kudos to you. Almost 50 years ago I was at Fort Benning, GA at the Infantry Officer's Basic School. My plan was to go to Airborne and the Ranger Schools afterwards. I knew I carried the Sickel Cell trait, but had no idea after my physical they would tell me I could go to neither school because of the potential risk of operating in unpresurised aircraft. And I didn't have the actual disease. At the time it was very disappointing. Great video as usual.

[@okamsug]

Great info. You always make sense but you also have the science to back up your reasoning.

[@xzx3]

Hi Gil, found your channel recently. If you thought who was chucking a like on your old videos in sequence over the weekend that was me lol. Loved them mainly for your analysis based directly on the research studies (prior to finding your channel, my hobby was reading medical research papers, I am not in any medical field but love science) and mostly how you separate facts and emotions while critically analysing other's channels and you are very polite in not criticising the person but just the facts. Hello, from this new subscriber.

[@drott150]

Brilliant and informative, as always. 👍

[@zhilahaghbin4766]

Thanks Dr. Gill, I love the way you address the nuances of present arguments over this issue, and address how they play with words.

[@spearofthelily]

Thanks for the info 💯

[@waynegolding14]

Great video as always Gil! Very intriguing

[@toxx1220]

Loved this episode!

[@eduardoamengual6158]

Another excellent video Gil, the best nutrition channel no doubt.

[@Jc-ww5kg]

Learning something as always! Thanks Doc

[@jimatsydney]

I think in online forums there is also a misunderstanding on how evolution works. As you said, after a person has reproduced and protected their progeny so they can reproduce too, the ability someone can effect human evolution diminishes. How long a person lives, is not important to evolution (except maybe helpful grandmothers). Maybe we have evolved to start developing diseases in our fifties because it frees up resources for those who are breeding and hence improve the survivability of our offspring.

[@chadcoady9025]

Dr. Daniel Larusso knows his stuff!

[@Ibr4-c]

Excellent video, thanks

[@grego4835]

Balanced simple and not ideological. I love it.

[@aligudboy]

Amazing information on how evolution has worked ..thanks

[@krissto22]

You’re absolutely right! Too much food. People didn’t consume so much food especially processed foods in old days like they do now. Many times they’d go around hungry for days which in turn would normalize their numbers. The ones that got sick more often were the rich (kings, queens, etc) because they had access to lots of food but many of them didn’t live long. Amazingly peasants were healthier and lived longer, not only because of variety of foods but also the workout they got working the fields and no tv’s, lol. And, please don’t misunderstand me here. I’m not saying that peasants had it so good, not at all, but one way or another they always found that protein either in an egg, or fish or chicken, etc. or that seed, or that berry in the wild to keep them going. So maybe it wasn’t much but it was varied. Our bodies are so good at adapting. So, my motto: less food = longer healthier life👍

[@Battery-kf4vu]

I was listening to a scientist who was saying that in humans cholesterol increases much less, I think 3 times less, than in champanzees when eating a high cholesterol diet. So humans have adapted to eating meat, to some extent at least. Which of course doesn't mean that a carnivore diet is the optimal.

[@alfonso365]

Another example is familiar hemochromatosis. In times of famine, parasites and blood loss due to injuries... Having extra iron absorption was beneficial. Now it's a problem.

[@lobotomizedamericans]

Excellent.

[@acke26]

Thanks for yet another very interesting video. How come the cholesterol levels increase when fasting or intermittent fasting? Based on the theory in the video shouldn't people with elevated cholesterol benefit from fasting or calorie restriction?

[@robertbrown6531]

When doing something that causes you to lose weight (IF, Prolonged Fasting, Calorie Restriction), we mobilise stored fat, so the cholesterol normally stored in fatty tissue will be released into our bloodstream, causing a temporary rise in blood cholesterol levels. This effect is not permanent and cholesterol levels will commonly decrease as your weight stabilises, unless you go back on the type of diets known to increase it in first place!

[@k.h.6991]

This does not seem to be a confirmed effect of fasting. Fasting (and fasting mimicking) have also been used to help people get their cholesterol levels down.

[@treich1234]

"Evolution doesn't plan ahead" Luv it

[@Battery-kf4vu]

I am not sure it is completely true. Many of our genes that we have inherited are not expressed anymore, and selection can like reactivate these old genes depending on the environment.

[@Battery-kf4vu]

@@Mallchad IIRC Yves Copens was talking about that concerning recent human evolution. The evolution appeared to have occured too fast for evolution to create and select the new genes, but the genes were already there. It's kind of like the breeding of wolves initially that ended up with races of dogs that are that different from each other. The genes were already in the wolf.

[@ThingsYoudontwanttohear]

The Sickle Cell and Malaria example is such a great example.😃

[@mkoco]

@NutritionMadeSimple Good point. Too much of good things IS ALWAYS bad (in all senses). Can you do a science fact check about "turkey tail" mushroom against cancer (if there is any research at all) ? Good work...

[@dennisward43]

I'd like to know who decides what 'high' means regarding blood markers and how they got to that figure? I have seen the minimum level for cholesterol by some health body's guidelines as zero. In that case surely you would be dead. How do we know that high is high for everybody or if low is too low?

[@CharlieFader]

We know by how these levels correlate with health outcomes.

[@carinaekstrom1]

The body makes the cholesterol you need. There is no reason to eat it.

[@dennisward43]

I should add my age is 73.

[@CharlieFader]

@@dennisward43 how is this relevant? Also, where have you seen the level of total cholesterol being zero?

[@liamtaylor4955]

The good doctor has also done a video interview in which the issue of how individuals respond to cholesterol, i.e. hyper- and hypo-responding, was discussed.

[@chandebrec5856]

Geography nit: Dr. Gil says sickle-cell anemia has been largely weeded out "except in some regions, like for example some parts of Africa, where it persists, and it's even common." He refers to the persistence of sickle-cell in *equatorial* Africa, which is not the whole continent but rather a sloped horizontal swath through the middle. But the *whole* continent, colored green, appears in a graphic at 2:45. (If interested, google "map of sickle-cell in Africa".)

[@stephenyoud6125]

Excellently put as usual. For the individual its bad but population wide, the only thing that matters is that enough individuals survive to post reproductive age (just long enough to help raise their grandchildren).

[@drott150]

Parents aged roughly 38-80 still benefit their offspring in their survival well beyond their reproductive years. And they do so in ways that enhance the survival and subsequent reproduction of their offspring. They provide accumulated resources, protection, wisdom that only comes with age (that helps guide the younger generation through tumultuous times) and directly help in caring for and raising their grandchildren (and in some cases their great grandchildren). So, there is still at least some evolutionary pressure to promote longer lives beyond reproductive years.

[@drott150]

I would add though, that the beneficial evolutionary effects of long-lived parents on their offspring, probably hasn't been in play long enough to weed out our modern ailments of atherosclerosis, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, dementia etc. Especially with respect to the sedentary lifestyles and high consumption of processed food, both of which are environmental impacts very new on the scene (evolutionarily speaking).

[@TheUpTownFan]

Good point

[@kestag2110]

Love the point about post reproduction being not as important to nature. Longevity is not to nature’s advantage, if anything it’s probably detrimental in a lot of ways, especially on the environment. However I do want to live a healthy life beyond my reproductive years, so it’s up to me to take responsibility and care of my body.

[@Galahad_Augevit]

Gil, it is noted in several accounts that a population such as the Masai have relatively short life-spans. Is there any documentation on their cholesterol levels overall and main cause of death?

[@clintonslayton4512]

Another informative presentation. I do not like to comment off-topic, but can you please address the issue of "resistant starch," as I find some med pubs that acknowledge that it exists, others that it does not, and none agree on the heating-cooling-reheat process for rendering rice, potatoes, pasta, etc. into gut-friendly starches that act more like fiber. KZbin for med advice is an eating disorder waiting to happen for many of us.

[@DrDGr2]

Thank you

[@rafaelgelpi2718]

I was today years old when I found out that sickle cell is Antagonistic pleiotropy. I knew that it’s a ‘good’ thing in areas where malaria is endemic and bad where it’s not but, I had no idea that there’s a name for it

[@magistral5732]

Love your channel, almost everyone on social media falls for these fallacies! I would like to see you make another video to destroy seed oil skeptics once and for all with your scientific method!

[@ggjr61]

I think he already has one.

[@dan-qe1tb]

It drives me crazy to see so many uninformed people replace "evil seed oils" in their diets. The ill conceived "carnivore diet" will allow people to do just that. Some of them will believe anything: even that cooking everything with lard and butter is a great idea to avoid disease.

[@magistral5732]

@@ggjr61 yeah but he just deals with inflammation

[@peterfaber7124]

An interesting aspect of atherosclerosis in traditional tribes is that it bulges outwards, leaving the lumen the same size, as where us on our modern diet, atherosclerosis bulges mostly inwards reducing the size of the lumen. Try to get your head around that one. 🤔

[@heiditoon3170]

I am wondering if you still eat the same way you did with your earlier videos. Like what you bought on your grocery shopping trips and stuff. Do you still eat that way? If you have learned new science and have changes some of the way you eat can you update us please.

[@mariomenezes1153]

Great video. Thank you! Have a question. Would you say that high cholesterol is more of an indictor of possible metabolic dysfunction rather than it being "bad". There are many people with high cholesterol who never suffer heart disease. May it be better to say that if you have high cholesterol, it is a wake up call to check your triglycerides, fasting insulin, C reactive protein levels to assess your overall health. I realize that may be too much detail for the topic of the video but worry that casually mentioning that high cholesterol is bad may scare people into unnecessarily taking statins when faced with doctors who do not necessarily understand the big picture.

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

high cholesterol is an indicator of high ApoB lipoproteins kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5fHqKSvpb50orc the other parameters you mention are independent from it (but also relevant)

[@cpasa798]

Hello, can you explain why cholesterol goes up when you do prolong fasting 3/5 days? How does that conciliate with dietary cholesterol and saturated fat consumption with cholesterol in circulation?

[@martinloftus6625]

Can you help me with something I hear in relation to very long physical efforts mostly from ultra runners: the body treats sugar differently during long events (multiple hours). So, gels, gummie bears, etc. are ok to consume in large quantities during a long event. True?

[@olderthanyoucali8512]

Dr.Cravelho can you review Prof. Matthew Budoff's LMHR study of 54 individuals who followed a Keto diet for 4 years and extremely high LDL-C, low triglycerides and high HDH-C. yet had either 0 or low 8 on a scale of 45 of arterial plaque development. In the comment section of the interview of Prof. Budoff on Dave Feldman's channel. People were using this information to justify not being concerned about their own high levels while on their Carnivore/Keto diets.

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

I´m afraid we can't comment on an unpublished study since the data can't be examined

[@johngriswold2213]

We have had no time to adapt to modern manufactured "foods", most of which are known to cause cardiovascular disease.

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

we have a video coming on this exact question. it's true some "modern" foods are thought to raise risk, e.g. refined carbohydrates. others don't. some even lower it. foods thought of as "ancient" (correctly or incorrectly) also vary in their health effect

[@johngriswold2213]

@@NutritionMadeSimple Look forward to it!

[@ft4403]

Is there a way to unclog arteries?

[@N330AA]

Get LDL extremely low, like under 70.

[@Jeffs60]

@@N330AA And how do you get it that low? Some anorexics have very high cholesterol levels and how would they get it that low?

[@jovanivanovic1161]

PCI is the only way to significantly widen the clogged arteries. Diets don't perform well in decreasing the plaque, however they are very important in preventing the further buildup of plaque

[@Battery-kf4vu]

Try to lower TMAO. In the recent study on berberine, that's how they think it worked to reduce arterial thickness. Berberine lowers FMO3 in the gut, which converts TMA to TMAO. Other things also lower TMAO. Curcumin decreases TMA formation in the gut and also reduces the conversion of TMA to TMAO in the liver. There is also a supplement made from tomatoes ( not lycopene ) that has been shown to lower TMAO. I've seen there are other supplement that work also to lower TMAO. Also cruciferous vegetables seem to be the best to reduce plaque buildup. There is a study that showed that aged garlic extract decreased plaque increase by 80%. It doesn't work through TMAO. Pygnogenol from french maritime pine may also help.

[@lifeisgreat1718]

@@N330AAlies

[@peterbedford2610]

I thought a previous guest had shown that eating cholesterol did not mean it was going into the blood stream?

[@fla8731]

he's talking about cholesterol in the blood, not the cholesterol we eat.

[@sandraelder1101]

To me it’s like asking, if bleeding too much is bad, why didn’t evolution come up with a way to eliminate bleeding to death from knife wounds. Perhaps we were never meant to eat unhealthy foods and be couch potatoes.

[@CalinAlexander]

I've got a question hopefully you can share your opinion on. You cite a lot and I appreciate how thorough you are with your reviews of available data, what's your take on sponsorship bias for studies? Do you think this is a real problem have you seen/experienced this? That is ... the bias driven by the person/people/entities sponsoring a clinical trial, RCT, etc.

[@alwaysinrepair]

Gil notes in another video (I think one he has about seed oils?) that sponsorship isn't necessarily bad as long as there is a body of evidence to compare it to. I took it to mean that if all the studies we have about eggs are funded by the egg industry that's not good, but if the egg industry funds a few studies and we have a lot of studies that receive funding from other sources, then they all just become part of the general body of evidence. Researchers can see all the studies in context and see if egg funded studies have results that are outliers. But I agree, a general video about study funding and how that impacts individual studies and science as a whole would be incredibly interesting.

[@leetpg]

I would pay you to make an honest video outlining what you eat on a weekly basis. I have a lot of fruit, veg, nuts etc but i also eat a lot of red meat and animal product. I want to correct my blood pressure without jacking my cholesterol. Ive not been able to lower my blood pressure unless i do a strict carnivore diet high in fat and sodium. Down to 121/75 from 150/80.

[@AvengerNk]

What are the "benefits" of hypercholesterolemia? Why would storing fat in the blood be better than anywhere else in the body?

[@ef9033]

We don't Store fat in our Blood, we distribute fat thought our Blood. And VLDL are the trucks. WE want the the fat in our Cells and Not in our Blood. Even to many Trucks on the Streets can cause problems

[@dekyor9547]

Where is the collab with physionic?

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

in the works :)

[@dekyor9547]

@@NutritionMadeSimple great!

[@jeffreyjohnson7359]

I'd love to see a panel discussion with all of the guys and gals on your top ten list...

[@suivzmoi]

i'm 35yo with LDL=6.35mmol/DL (>240mg/dL). mind you this is much higher than most people's TOTAL CHOLESTEROL. i have blood records going back 9 years with LDL>5.5. I have healthy weight (BMI

[@andrew_schaeffer]

Didn't know that about sickle cell anemia. Very interesting, thanks. Could you remind me just how much advantage they have against malaria than non sickle cell people?

[@bryansalerno6078]

Would high cholesterol be bad if you had zero inflammation in the arterial walls?

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIaao5mefM5gipY

[@luisoncpp]

I don't see how more LDL could be adventageous in a low nutrient environment, because LDL is there to carry nutrients, if there are not a lot of nutrients to carry, then high LDL would be a waste of resources for the body.

[@dbtest117]

I'm trying to find a video which discusses saturated fat and omega-6. I can't find it. Some claim it's the omega-6 that is the problem with saturated fat and that most saturated fats are way too rich in omega-6. Do we have any studies on this?

[@elinino5275]

Million dollar question!

[@rosemary20001]

Back when people weren't so squeamish about eating natural foods - tadpoles, insect larvae, reptile eggs, and so on, food was never a limiting factor - especially considering that there were fewer people competing for the same resources. I am always a bit astonished when scientists assume that food was harder to come by in more primitive times.

[@shaystern2453]

makes sense

[@orbifold4387]

By the same token, could insulin resistance have arisen as a way to save glucose?

[@s.schattenprophet]

Why is high cholesterol bad? Is it maybe just a correlation to factors of the metabolic syndrome? Or is it causal?

[@4plum]

Why does the definition of Metabolic Syndrome NOT include any mention of LDL levels but only the Triglycerides to HDL ratio? I have a ratio of under 1 (low Tri, high HDL), but my LDL was calculated at 150 which is way too high according to most experts.... There are also at least 2 competing formulas to calculate LDL levels which give different results. No wonder many of us are confused! It would be great to explore some of these questions in a future video :-). Please....

[@MrBlobfish9]

I used to smoke 2 days a day. My first cholestrol score was 220, ldl-131 after diet modification for 1 month it came down to 170, ldl- 101 . After 2 months i drink little bit more alchol than tested it was 212 again, than doctor game me revostatin than i checked my cholestol which is 167 again. And tg is 165. Do i have blokages sir ? I am 28 years old. My bp is normal. I also done my ekg, which was normal too. Now i only smoke 1 cigrate a week.Are my arteries clogged sir? What should i do sir🙏 i am so anxious as my chest muscle and left side pain for 10 months. Its due to muscle stain or gastric i dont know. I am so scared sir.

[@shiftgood]

We have a "Capping Mechanism" for glucose... the cells shut down their GLUT4 receptors... what peopple have coined "Insulin resistance"...

[@MJB0110]

Hi Gil I really enjoy your channel. I’m still very confused about high LDL. If one has a 1:1 ratio of Triglycerides to HDL and they are both in the ‘normal range’ is the higher (than norm) LDL still an issue? Is it true that some statins can cause memory issues & some can also increase blood sugar levels and or issues such as ED? Is it true that some studies show higher LDL in those over 60’s reduces risk of heart disease and stroke? Is it safer to take lipophobic statins than lipophilic? Sorry for so many questions it’s just I really respect your thoughts, integrity and answers.

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

that's a lot of Qs :) ratio addressed here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpWvq36thNelbrM statins & cognitive function here (toward the end): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3eqp6ZnhspqmaM statins & diabetes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3mnl613bMp8p7M

[@MJB0110]

@@NutritionMadeSimple thx so much for taking the time to reply. Your video responses & links to the question(s) were spot on! Best regs!

[@888jucu]

Hi Ghil I hope you dont mind I ask but I understand true carnivores like cats can eat as much saturated fat as they like and not develop ASCVD whereas experimentation feeding herbivores saturated fat results is ASCVD formation. Humans being omnivorous are between the two but suffer ASCVD like a herbivore so do we know physically what is different between humans and cats in the way cholesterol is transported and somehow not deposited in cat hearts but for humans yes. Its a bit out there kinda question but super interesting, rgds

[@azdhan]

Excellent! Many thanks for sharing Dr Carvalho. On a somewhat related note, I was reasearching why certain ethic groups may be more prone to T2D, higher PFT(i.e., greater accumulation of visceral fat resulting in skinny fat look or what is referred to as Thin On The Outside Fat On The Inside). Apparently, there were two theories around this. (1) lack of lean muscle mass increasing risk of insulin resistance and greater likelihood of T2D, (2) Alternatively due to something evolutionary(i.e., diets they consumed), they could have poor carb and sugar metabolism, especially as it relates to highly refined carbs and sugar laden ultraprocessed foods. Greater consumption of these in the modern world, may put them at greater risk of diabetes. As far as LDL, and I could be wrong in some cases sedentary lifestyles and obesity may be an independent risk factor for high Apo-B and subsequent CVD issues. Our ancestors, I imagine were mostly on the go, walking for miles in search of water. It is possible, they had to endure long periods of fasting and surviving only on water. If that were the case, it could have also mitigated development of high LDL/Apo-B.

[@magne6049]

who do big apoB lipoproteins get stuck in the cell wall? It can't be simply a normal state of condition?

[@reyansh62]

LOVE FROM INDIA❤, SIR MAKE A VIDEO ON THEORY IN WHICH IT IS SAID THAT SUGAR( SIMPLE CARBS OR HIGH GLYCEMIC FOOD) DAMAGE OR CRACK THE VEIN AND ARTERIES, AND AFTER THAT BEGINING OF PLAQUES HAPPENS IN THESE CRACKS. PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON THAT ,FOR HOW MUCH EXTENT THIS THEORY IS TRUE AND WHAT ABOUT RCT RELATED TO THIS. 🙏

[@Better_Call_Raul]

Not all ancient groups were meat-eaters. Some groups were primarily vegetarian. And since high cholesterol is far less common with a vegetarian diet, could it be that no evolutionary protections were even needed? 🤔 _According to the DNA in dental plaques, the Neanderthals in Spain ate no meat at all. "We find things like pine nuts, moss, tree barks and even mushrooms as well"_

[@Lumencraft-]

Hey Doc. I double dog dare ya to do a video on Turmeric! Seriously I would like to see one😅

[@fractaltv5209]

Totally unrelated, but when I eat WFPB I get diarrhea. Do you have any solution for this? Any tips? Switching out some plant foods with meat apparently helps me a ton, but I don't want to eat meat for several reason. I stopped my 7 year vegan journey like 4 years ago because of excessive bloating, diarrhea, brain fog etc, and every time I try to go back to eating more or less plants only the diarrhea returns and I end up sore in my butt and get hemorrhoids from all the toilet paper. I don't get the bloating anymore though, and despite the diarrhea I still feel lighter and better and have more energy when I eat plants only. Eating some refined grains like white rice and white bread helps a little, but I don't like eating refined grains. Any tip is greatly appreciated.

[@odalr]

Maybe histamine intolerance?

[@bendavid3129]

What if CVD, T2D, obesity and inflammations correlates with wearing rubber soles shoes leading to massive reduction in grounding and loss of negative charge in the body...? Rubber shoes/soles started to be used around the same time as obesity etc. started to increase.

[@yo25999]

bro....

[@drott150]

What if someone like you actually provided real, repeatable, scientifically credible evidence to support your theory?

[@yo25999]

@@drott150 This. And not just some 1 off badly designed and executed study.

[@limitisillusion7]

All I know is grounding feels good.

[@yo25999]

It might but lets say it feels good because it helps you relax. Lowering stress levels and thus improving health markers and percieved health. I am not saying grounding cant be good, we just dont have the current evidence to make claims like the original commenter did.@@limitisillusion7

[@amandaaussie-at-heart2735]

we don't need extra fat or cholesterol, esp from animals ! so much confusion out there.

[@jwatkins672012]

Are you sure that wasn't asked in jest? I mean, same goes for sugar, salt, alcohol, etc. Seriously, someone's just being a troll.

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

not only is it a common question, I´ve seen medical doctors on social media asking it (!!!). sometimes it feels like the twilight zone :)

[@kevingeoghegan294]

How can cholesterol be bad for us when reducing it leads to an increased risk of death?

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

keeping cholesterol in the healthy range reduces mortality risk, the association with higher risk of death you'll see mentioned on social media is due to several serious diseases like cancer that lower cholesterol kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2TPeXukhK2sqJo

[@bengilkes7676]

I wonder if there has ever been, ever, someone who didn't eat dietary cholesterol at all, yet still had health problems caused by high cholesterol?

[@chandebrec5856]

Not sure whether or not you're being ironic/sarcastic, but if not: *dietary* cholesterol is not a significant contributor to blood lipids -- LDL-C/ApoB.

[@veniqe]

Vegans, even 'No Oil' vegans, often have high cholesterol. I lurk in many vegan Reddits and Facebook groups. Many of them take statins.

[@TasteOfButterflies]

Afaik saturated fat is a bigger contributor to high cholesterol than dietary cholesterol. And genetic hypercholesterolemia is also a thing.

[@CharlieFader]

It’s possible, since he could consume a high(er) saturated fat diet of plant origin, for example too much coconut oil and palm oil. And of course he could have familial hypercholesterolaemia.

[@rejoyce318]

⁠​⁠@@chandebrec5856 I don’t take @bengilkes7676’ question as snarky.

[@liamtaylor4955]

"But, but I eat only meat and lost 75 lbs and can see my abs and I feel better and lighter and I look more like Arnold so carnivore must be the best!" ;)

[@volos_olympus]

“My grandmother had high cholesterol all her life and died at the age of 97 so clearly all scientific studies are wrong.“

[@educational-101]

My grandmother died of heart attack. She smoked all her life and didn't get lung cancer

[@liamtaylor4955]

@@educational-101 I once read that only 1 in 6 smokers develops lung cancer, but more than 90% of all who develop lung cancer are smokers.

[@educational-101]

@@liamtaylor4955 Observational studies and we can't believe them, now can we🤔

[@nonyobisniss7928]

@@volos_olympus Doing what your grandmother (or grandfather) did, if they survived that long, might not be bad advice at all. Different people have different genes that mean we have different risk factors. Given we're quite likely to share genes with our grandparents then what worked for them may well work for us too. The tricky part is figuring out what parts of their lifestyle were beneficial, what were deleterious, and what were irrelevant to their health.

[@lenguyenngoc479]

Or u can simply point out "oh it's a fallacy, appeal to nature"

[@educational-101]

First like 😛 now to the video..

[@jameschristiansson3137]

What if you don't like it ?

[@bennymountain1]

@@jameschristiansson3137 Then you unlike it?

[@jameschristiansson3137]

@@bennymountain1 Easy for you to say, you're a mountain.

[@educational-101]

​@@jameschristiansson3137I value Gil’s work highly. He has a unique perspective in a field that is often misleading

[@nichtsistkostenlos6565]

You can just ask more absurd questions and it gets people to understand the point pretty quickly. Why wouldn't evolution adapt us to consume ten gallons of water at a time? Why do sunburns exist if sun is good for you? Why can you overdose on vitamins or other naturally occurring hormones/compounds in your body?

[@limitisillusion7]

All it takes is a bit of logical thinking too understand that we are only acclimated to a certain range of everything.

[@888jucu]

Ive always found the "our bodies make cholesterol therefore how can it be dangerous argument" to be incredibly stupid and usually reply "the same can be said for glucose" but the equivalence sometimes flys over the head of carnivore trolls

[@ritaferreira2682]

I thought high potassium in the blood was a good thing???

[@fayem4091]

Hey can i ask for a huge favour? I am almost out of the "dietitian's" uni here in Greece (one year shy of graduation) with a degree in biochemistry and at the process of a master's on animals rights. So i am an ethical vegan (and quite health conscious too) and i had a huge fight online about the raw veganism and dr campell and the the shit show that was china study (statistically speaking). I talked with many people who somehow still preach 80/10/10 (and somehow 80/20 - that i pray they mean no added oil cause if you believe them they are obviously dead)... So point is even if i post PAGES (more than 15pg of evidence, quotes, research on wfpd and how those raw people just speak form their experience to sell their meal plans etc i cannot be heard. Maybe it's a lost cause to try to save those people and maybe 1% are the perfect vegan who take their supplements and thrive on a raw vegan diet... but for the rest of them i would really like a video for them to see because they just ignore any arguments from my part and i feel i am loosing the battle... what will even do if they come to my private office a year from now? Idk... i am really tired sorry to bother you i just really need some word of advice...

[@limitisillusion7]

Relax, and don't get in arguments with people online. That's not the way to convince anyone of anything. You're better off finding similarities with them. They're not going to listen to you. "Let it be."

[@fayem4091]

@@limitisillusion7 like i said at the end it's not about one person. It's about what the f*ck am i going to do when those people will come adamant in my office and a power point presentation and good conversation won't cut it...

[@limitisillusion7]

@@fayem4091 Do your job. If they don't listen, it's their problem. If you're worried about them attacking you, then you might be a little paranoid.

[@bendavid3129]

My mother lived to 100 years and always cooked with a lot of butter...!

[@contrarian717]

Okay so how many eggs a day 😋

[@davidhitchen5369]

The same argument applies for cobra venom.

[@eduardo_rocha_1]

👍

[@anabolicamaranth7140]

CO2 is essential for plants, that’s why we need to burn more fossil fuels, faster.

[@chegobego7930]

❤

[@SuperAngelic5]

Life expectancy 100 years ago was around 46, and 200 years ago about 35. They did not have the surgeries and medications that help us to achieve longevity.

[@nonyobisniss7928]

"Life expectancy 100 years ago was around 46, and 200 years ago about 35." You can't make a claim like that without specifying what populations you are talking about. If you mean worldwide or if you are including child mortality, then that would be an extremely dubious calculation. If you look at countries in Europe, an average Victorian who reached adulthood in Britain lived into their 70's. "They did not have the surgeries and medications that help us to achieve longevity." This is pretty ridiculous. How many people today require medications or surgery before age 35, or even age 46? And of those people who do end up requiring recently discovered medication, how many of their diseases are the result of modern diets and activity levels?

[@Nevyn42]

Are those figures including infant mortality? Generally, if you made it through childhood the average lifespan would have been higher than 35 years

[@doddsalfa]

Medication has done little to nothing for life expectancy

[@SuperAngelic5]

@southern842 If you exclude infants, then life expectancy does go up. But life expectancy has gone up for all age groups.

[@SuperAngelic5]

@doddsalfa Not true.

[@hillviewmews]

Found some of your interviews and monologues quite educational and thought provoking. But this one just went off the rails and lost the coupling links between ancestral diet and serum cholesterol that causes modern CVD post chronic and prolonged exposure to elevated blood glucose and insulin. You are a smart critical thinker and will know exactly what I mean 😊