Podcast: Q&A with Dr. Greger 8

[@Susanonwow]

I don’t have a treadmill so I walked up and down the stairs listening to this. Easy and relaxing if you take it at your own pace and a great way to warm up.

[@flocela]

nice!

[@arroyobaby38]

Neato Nice way to get your exercise in ❤

[@kenpca]

I dont have a treadmill or more than 2 steps lol but i bought an exercise bike years ago...i used it on occassion and used to joke that i looked at it....but now im taking it seriously and exercise pretty much every day..sometimes twice a day.

[@Susanonwow]

@@kenpca Awesome stuff! I was pretty sedentary for a few years. I’m actually surprised by how quickly my body responded to exercise. Feels good.

[@kenpca]

@@Susanonwow Amen! That's awesome keep it up! Exercise gives us life! I respect that 100 year old Vegan man that runs marathons! Snart man!

[@dorisglasgow8678]

Happy Birthday 🎉🎈Thank you! Your site is our family’s go to for nutritional facts.

[@chrissy4011]

I am sorry to hear you have a lingering condition from the virus. I heard you say the word rare would you mind sharing what symptoms now are occurring ? Thank you Dr for all you and your staff do for this world !!

[@haylaebay]

He has sciatica

[@joerockhead7246]

I wish he would have went more into the systems, and duration of having Covid.

[@Willie3]

I was taught, vegetables are our vitamins and fruit is our minerals. Happy birthday Doc, appreciate you.

[@Cedrus1952]

I'm sure glad I had a PSA test. They found cancer...and I beat it. In addition, I transitioned to a WFPB lifestyle to help my radiation treatments. It turns out that finding this cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me.

[@annak3380]

Love you Dr. Greger! Come to visit in London and you can eat everything you like at our house! 😊😊😊

[@skippy6462]

Include the North East too please 🙏 loads of kale in our house Dr. Greger 😆

[@blue-fj9ky]

I enjoy hearing what you like to eat, Doc. I had a hemp milk latte for breakfast: highly recommend!

[@AndrewPawley11]

I love this channel! At the time of posting 922K others agree. One million subscribers on the horizon.

[@user-qd5lo6oi8n]

Could you please do a video on Oral Allergy Syndrome?! It makes a vegan wholefood diet much harder to follow, it also doesn't help I get acid reflux sometimes too. It makes it very difficult for me to eat any berries, do you have any alternative to berries? I am usually OK eating dates and figs. But most other fruits cause issues.

[@andreawisner7358]

Have you tried allergy desensitization?

[@user-qd5lo6oi8n]

@@andreawisner7358 Hi Andrea, how would I do that? I would be glad of any help if you know how to deal with it.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

@@user-qd5lo6oi8n You can try allergy shots or sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) for the pollen that's triggering your OAS, but you should probably research it a bit since I've heard of some cases where it triggered eosinophilic esophagitis. My daughter has Celiac & OAS & she was ovo-lacto vegetarian. She started vomiting uncontrollably & she wound up hospitalized. She was diagnosed w/ Celiac in hospital (after 1st being misdiagnosed w/ ARFID). The OAS diagnosis came after seeing a mast cell specialist as an outpatient. Since her diet is so limited she now eats poultry a couple of times a week. She can tolerate some things if I cook them to death. We have a room HEPA filter - that helps. She takes Claritin every day, plus Mg, vit C, vit D, bromelain & luteolin - all for mast cell stabilization. Plus other vitamins to make up for nutritional deficits and also CoQ10 and some other things for chronic fatigue. As alternative to berries you might try hibiscus tea; some grains also have anthocyanins (I think Dr Greger mentioned red sorghum?). My daughter can eat blueberries. Fuji apples are the least allergenic & the peel has most of the allergen & there's still quite a lot of beneficial stuff in the flesh (e.g., dihydrochalcones); cooking denatures the allergen.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

You might want to try a low histamine diet - but that's adding more restrictions. My daughter seems okay with tomato paste, which is high in histamine. But I have GERD off and on, and tomato paste is a big GERD trigger for me. GERD may also be mast cell related (I have MCAS). I found persimmon tea made just with dried persimmons to be helpful for GERD.

[@andreawisner7358]

@@user-qd5lo6oi8n Allergy shots from the allergist. If it's mast cell activation (MCAS) that's a whole different thing and allergy shots or even low histamine diet may not help. Cromolyn helps.

[@Bushcraft242]

Followed for many years great plant based

[@talks2squirrels953]

Grow your own ! If you are rural, grow your kale and potatoes

[@talks2squirrels953]

Frozen broccoli, green beans and Brussel sprouts are saving my budget. Fresh is so expensive right now

[@rebk5331]

Please review tips on folic acid. Ty

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

Purple sweet potatoes are relatively easy to grow but you will need to order slips. Kale is also pretty easy to grow, but you may have to pick off caterpillars. Braconid wasp adults like to feed on flower nectar - sweet alyssum is a good choice for companion planting. My MIL lives in TN & used to get the Kroger manager to order specialty items for her - don't know if store managers still have the ability to do that for customers.

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

I found it very easy to grow both leaf lettuce and 'dandelion greens' (actually Cichorium intybus) in zone 7b. I grew the lettuce using the dense planting technique in raised beds; no bolting until very late in season even tho it was a hot summer. Chicory never bloomed - it vigorously produced leaves until a hard freeze killed it. I can't remember the varieties, but I purchased from Johnny's Seeds. Don't buy their broccoli seeds for sprouting - they are not actually broccoli.

[@arroyobaby38]

Hope you have a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY ❤ 🎂 🎊 🥳

[@Pyriphlegeton]

1:42 what's the source for >90% of people having thyroid cancer on autopsy?

[@st.peterunner8758]

You can easily grow sweet potatoes and kale

[@andrewcool8774]

What happens if you microwave fruit like apple or berries are they still as healthy??? I would cook them with 1 1/2 cup of oats and water... do oats lose anything when cooked in the microwave?

[@kardste8114]

I would think berries would Lose their Vitamin C , because water soluble vitamins are destroyed with heating... from what I learned in college. I’m not a nutritionist. I thaw my frozen berries slowly by heating full saucepan of water.. and putting my porcelain bowl of frozen berries on top of the heated water, cover, and they thaw perfect for topping oatmeal. Be sure stove is Off when you Place berries atop the heated water.

[@kardste8114]

What side effect did u get from Covid? I couldn’t understand you.. Do you mind sharing? Thank you for ALL you do! 🙏

[@luluandmeow]

Happy Birthday! 50 years young

[@brucebelmore1831]

Good one but a big missed opportunity on the sugar question.

[@longjohnny]

Met Dr Greger in person last year. He was such a genuine nice kind guy. He was very weak, sickly looking and older than I thought he'd be but he may have been jet lagged etc.

[@skippy6462]

I met him too and I didn't feel he was weak, sickly or old. I think we expect everyone to be beautiful pretty or hunky handsome. Myself and my husband are neither but all our health tests are perfect. We are feeling really well and have energy. My husband is 72 and strong. I put that down to our plant based diet. Imagine if Dr. Greger ate the standard American diet and was 3 stone overweight.... bloated, red faced and breathing heavy- that's really what is sickly, weak and old.

[@kardste8114]

Is 80-100 grams of protein specific to plants? How do we know if we are getting that much? It’s hard to calculate. Any tips?

[@Ded-Ede]

Are whole plant protein shakes any good and healthy? You know the Greens ones and such. I’ve been going more meatless and I definitely see the muscle reduction on my body. I want to intermittent fast still be mostly Miklos at least five days a week and still retain muscle mass from adequate amount of protein intake. Oh I had a brain tumor meningioma removed so kinda careful about anything that promotes too much growth hormone like meat which I hear promotes tumors.

[@cs9134]

Hi, I wasn't sure how to post a question. Have you heard of mewing? Is it a real thing? Has it been "put to the test?" I'm interested because my husband has vestibular neuropathy and nothing has worked to help. Wondering if this could be an option. Thanks!

[@carlacooke7130]

How can I get hold of your book how not to age ?

[@skippy6462]

Not released until December 2023

[@claire4688]

did he say, shoot for .8 grams of protein per pound of body weight or per kilo? thanks!

[@sooooooooDark]

0.8g/kg per kg is the rda but imo its too low: ull look like a stick and not feel full/satisfied after meals, ur movements will also become slower/less powerful and no thats not theory, ive observed this in myself id shoot for 1.2-1.3 minimum to combat this (preferably even more than that, most plant sources rnt so nice - look up pdcaas on wikipedia if u r interested)

[@skippy6462]

Per kg per lean body mass.

[@RatsPicklesandMusic]

But what if you have the MTHFR gene mutation? Shouldn't I be taking methylcobalamin?

[@lisengel2498]

The seafood recommended is dulse, arame, nori and avoid hiziki

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

My first post on Ehlers-Danlos got deleted so I will try again. EHLERS-DANLOS OFTEN CAUSES GI PROBLEMS. Many people with EDS suffer from gastroparesis, some wind up on TPN. If you want to know more about EDS, The Ehlers-Danlos Society has a KZbin channel. There was also a recent 5 minute video on CNN on EDS '"Ehlers-Danlos patients share their stories" (try a web search as it is not on YT) - one woman shows her feeding tube.

[@lisengel2498]

These Q&A can be pretty difficult to get the nuances of what is recommended ( if you dont know it already) e.g. The higher protein need with age became very unclear to me. I am 79 and have changed to a mostly whole food plant based diet, but I still like to eat heering, sardins and occationally wild salmon. My weight has gode down ( and I was not overweight) but I like the body feeling, but I still have some symptoms in my fight knee and some muscle paint after an influenza, so I was thinking that I should try 100% plant based ? But then maybe not if it is important to have higher amounts of protein when you age? 🍀💚🐸

[@skippy6462]

Lots of plant based protein. Plant based body builders get loads in. Soya beans, tempeh, tofu, beans, lentils, peanut butter, potatoes etc Omega 3 DHA & EPA based on algae supplement I take instead of the eating fish - contaminate free, sustainable, less cost and no fish die. Look up Dr. Greger's DAILY DOZEN app and his book from the library How Not To Die. Explains it all. Best wishes on your journey.

[@Willie3]

I add ground flax to my oatmeal every day for my omega 3s

[@reality_design]

💕

[@AnHourOfWolves]

Sugar also causes inflammation, which is not helpful for athletic recovery.

[@arthurwhite100]

How not to cook?

[@cariemorgangraff4829]

No sweet taters. 🤨 here is Mississippi we grow wonderful sweet taters

[@talks2squirrels953]

😆😅😆 millet is what my birds eat

[@paulcohen6727]

Begging your pardon, but isn't his name Dr. Greger rather than Dr. Greger 8?

[@solarcrystal5494]

The answer to the first question is wrong. Might as well not tell people about the benefits of plant based diets since they can't see the plaque in their arteries

[@homeshows]

You missed what he actually said. The question was in regard to full body scans. As over diagnosis or invasive procedures that are not beneficial are .... Not beneficial. That is a far cry from assuming he implied ignoring actual health problems.

[@skippy6462]

My husband had an MRI scan of his spine for back related issues and they found areas that looked like it might be cancer. He had lots of specific blood tests and all were negative. The anxiety through the roof waiting for those results. 5 years on and he's still alive and no symptoms of anything accept his occasional back aches. He probably needs to do his exercises.

[@phillippinter7518]

I'm not saying that you should do a mostly fruit diet but it's certainly a lot safer that getting most of your calories from dark green vegetables. You would die if you got most of your calories from dark green vegetables.

[@andreawisner7358]

Proof?

[@phillippinter7518]

@Andrea Wisner yes some Dr Gregers evidence based articles talk about the overdose limit on dark green vegetables such as spinach or chard or Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli. Of course it's very unlikely one would eat this amount of greens in a day but some crazy health nuts have landed themselves in the icu

[@andreawisner7358]

Dr. Greger is wrong about Ehlers-Danlos and shouldn't speak about things he doesn't know. There are Ehlers-Danlos Society videos with specialist doctors on KZbin and I suggest that he review them. Yes Ehlers-Danlos is connected to stomach pain - gastroparesis and MALS being 2 of them. Ehlers-Danlos is also connected to severe allergic-like reactions, another thing that you wouldn't expect if you know nothing about it. Most EDS patients are prescribed an increase in salt, which would horrify Dr. Greger. We tend to have very low blood pressure, with syncope. Absolutely this person should see a doctor but needs to be cautious about unknowledgeable doctors who will gaslight her and tell her that her symptoms are all caused by anxiety or are otherwise in her head. Doctors hate being wrong - God complex.

[@oraziohall2969]

No no no this is all wrong👎

[@jackschitt6235]

I delivered many meat 🥓🍖 lover's pizzas to this guy during the quarantine

[@paulcohen6727]

That's an obvious lie!

[@jackschitt6235]

@@paulcohen6727 Do u know that 4 a fact or do u just choose to assume that that's the case?

[@paulcohen6727]

@@jackschitt6235 Since you're making the claim, the burden of proof is on you to show that he ordered and received meat pizzas. But since I've met him personally on different occasions and read most everything he has written, I would estimate that the odds that you're telling the truth is less than one in a trillion.

[@jackschitt6235]

@@paulcohen6727 I think you are taking this more seriously than what is appropriate for boobtube!

[@paulcohen6727]

@@jackschitt6235 If you think I'm offended by your comments, you're absolutely right. Dr. Greger is a true gentleman, and unselfish saint who accepts no financial remuneration for his work which has helped possibly millions throughout the world. Yet you have the audacity to take a cheap shot at him! Grow up and develop an appropriate sense of humor.

[@semp223]

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