The TRUTH About the Mediterranean Diet

[@SiimLand]

Timestamps: 00:33 Traditional Mediterranean Diet vs Clinical Mediterranean Diet 02:10 Mediterranean Diet Benefits 04:00 Mediterranean Diet Foods 09:38 Should You Eat a Mediterranean Diet Longevity and Anti-Aging Playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3yxpJl7d71-g8k&ab_channel=SiimLand

[@Alfamoto8]

I am from Crete and as you may know Mediterranean diet is based on Cretan cuisine. My two cents on the topic as raised and grown up in a village in Crete I would say there are two key factors here: a) The pyramid of the Mediterranean diet is not based on what's best to eat rather than what was more accessible to eat. e.g. red meat was rarely consumed because it was so expensive. Small cheaper fish, chickens and rabbits were more accessible but still expensive. Eggs and goat milk you could have more often. etc... b) The quality of food is (was) the most important aspect of the diet. No broccoli or avocado, no berries, no dressings and staff you eat today. Most of the diet was plain green plants out in the fields, no pesticides, no synthetic fertilizers etc. We had our own olives, gardens and animals. Eating seasonal fruits under the trees,. I could write for hours... Snails was the protein for the poor and a delicacy at the same time. Whole wheat boiled, nothing refined. A few thing store bought, home made sweets and stuff... I ate salmon in my late 30s and I am 45, like the avocado... Nowadays they're all gone. If you base your Mediterranean diet sources in the super market you are getting cancer... It's sad...

[@hai.1820]

I'm in cyprus and we love lamb meat and kababs.sheftalia mmmmm

[@qijingfan5656]

so jelly

[@MajicFreeman]

There is a recent study showing most vegatable food oils have high amounts of plastics and olive oil had the highest when several different brands of each type of oil was tested. I'm going to stick to just eating olives and avacado's and cut out oils all together. They don't appear to be in butter and tallows so it most likely has something to do with the industrial filtering process of food oils.

[@TheKonkehagia]

Really? You mean oils packaged in plastic bottles or in general? I am Greek and never heard of that, caught by surprise! I know that there are fake oils yes, but that never heard

[@MajicFreeman]

@@TheKonkehagia Yah it's not the fake oil thing, and it said it didn't matter if it was in glass or tins or plastic bottles, they all had the same amounts of plastics. The expose I watched eluded that it's something to do with the filtration process

[@maplenook]

They walk a lot and get plenty of sun. Relaxed lifestyle. Other factors.

[@DavidPaulNewtonScott]

No matter what i eat when I am back home in Portugal, I feel great. The food is not full of crap.

[@Acton65]

Thanks Siim!! You always have a balanced point of view together with supporting information. I recall that Valter Longo also pretty much endorses this view. After a few years on carnivore, I am now incorporating vegetables. Gallbladder / liver doesn’t like the lack of fibre in carnivore.

[@Sogehtsgut]

I love your Channal. Very good done, good Information, perfekt!

[@FastingStarChanelNo5]

Great info. I'm sticking w/dry fasting daily as long as possible, eating OMAD or 2MAD keto-biotic but I cheat sometimes. Who doesn't love pasta or bread on occasion? Thx Siim.

[@nellosnook4454]

1. My foundational diet is 95% Carnivore. 2. Once you’ve established metabolic flexibility, you can periodically enjoy your favorite carbs, fruits & vegetables in limited amounts with no problem. 3. Your healthy microbiome is durable & will recover.

[@rfbead321]

I'm also >90% carnivore. This mediterranean concept is total nonsense based on flawed observational studies and of course it does better comparing it to the typical high processed food diet most people have these days...

[@Diss-jd2un]

I don't see how someone can enjoy a vegetable lol, they are disgusting

[@nellosnook4454]

@@Diss-jd2un 1. Individual tastes acquired over time. 2. I actually love sauerkraut, broccoli, garlic, onions. 3. And even Carnivores debate over the good & bad of certain fruits-especially berries.

[@campersruincod6134]

@@Diss-jd2unhuh? I love the taste of vegetables. Sweet potato, lentils and carrots cooked in tomato sauce, with some EVOO and sea salt tastes great :)

[@campersruincod6134]

@@nellosnook4454only downside to berries is fructose. Cranberries have almost zero fructose. They’re the king of berries. Packed full of polyphenols with no downsides to excess consumption… only problem is they’re difficult to obtain fresh.

[@kurtselleslagh7489]

Excellent video

[@АндрейЕрмилов-х8п]

Hi sir. I heard from dr Gundry multiple times that polythenols have low rate of absorption 1-10% and when combined with dairy they are not absorbed at all. smt like coffee with cream or yoghurt with berries will cancel out the benefits of polythenols. I wonder is it true or not since it's hard to find any more information on that. My diet is based around second ferment kefir from kefir grains where i grind up and ferment a lot of rich in polythenols foods like apples and flaxseed. Thanks

[@KuumbaOnline]

Your voice sounded so different with the first few words you said on this video lol “ah the Mediterranean” 😂

[@zp61]

yes, i wondered if i had actually clicked on a siim land video

[@marcelotemer]

Closer and closer to WFPB

[@weisland2807]

i just got this idea.. someone should make a fridge cupboard combo based on the pyramid. you could have the fridge on the one side with the tip down (keeping the meat colder) and the widest section on top with a less cold temp for the veggies. and a cupboard for dry goods with the tip pointing up next to it.. It could look like a normal square fridge/cupboard combo, just with weird triangular doors. I think it would be an awesome way to make it easier to follow a healthy diet, and make planning of food purchases easier. of course it could just be a smart device and order online as well. hm...

[@Nic_Holas]

Not disputing clinical Mediterranean diet, but it's based on research ripped out of the culture and the environment. Real Mediterranean diet effect has to do with lifestyle of people in those areas. It's not just the food, they just take life differently. If you're typical European continental, go live in Milan for 6 months, then go to Naples. See if they drive you mad in Naples.

[@rickadlam7467]

Siim, all good points. The Mediterranean Diet is a myth, like the Food Pyramid was. In Australia most people eat crap diets and life expectancy is touching 83.7 years here this year. The stars are Hong Kong citizen's who eat mainly carnivore diets, and are smokers. If you look at the mean and the top life expectancies, there is only about 15% difference. No a lot in the scheme of things. To me, healthspan is more important than lifespan.

[@raddgreat01]

Siim update your supplement list 2024 on your website

[@Cekatu]

@simland are you still recruiting participants for your project?

[@seds94]

Portugal!!! Show some respect sir

[@seds94]

My great grandmother lived until 103. With a sharp mind

[@jaredmatthews9403]

He didn't say 'Atlantic diet' haha

[@FilipStasresinic]

I am from a small island in mediteranean know for longevity. Old people maybe ate healthy when they were younger but in last 15 years they all eat a lot of procesed crap. Cookies, sweets, store bought milk etc. From talking with old people their diet when they were young some 70 yrs ago was all local. Fish, legumes, vegetables, chicken only on sundays, red meat only on special ocasions and bread as staple. Lots of potatoes. Now listen to this. Is there a nation today that eats natural balanced diet without procesed crap? Today in Italy, Greece or where ever, they all eat crap carbs and procesed shit. Its still much better than in USA but its no where near natural. If you just follow natural, no sugar, good red meat, sometimes fish, nuts, a little bit of legumes, some complex carbs, good fats, vegetables,you will do much better than those mediteranean people 70 years ago. Red meat was allways praised and for good reason. Its a superfood. Mediteranean is a myth. Eat paleo with maybe some grains and some fermented dairy and you fly! Other thing is tight social connectios and active lifestyle. Outside working all day, meeting friends all the time on every corner and laugh, thats our way! No cars, no traffic. Just one big island family surrounded by nature. We friends prepare dinners every weekend, usualy, grilled fish or meat, or wild pork stews or something.On the side of that is usualy baked potatoes and some kind of sallad. No bulshit dressings like in USA. Just olive oil and maybe vinegar. But emphasis is allways on good protein. Today legumes are rarely eaten. None of my friends are fat. They all like athletes.

[@Marshadow69]

And they eat more in the middle of the day, have a siesta, getting out into the sun.

[@jp7357]

I gave up animal food 5 years ago … lots of great benefits but I’ll be mad if I’ve given it up and don’t live to 100. If I know I’m going to die tomorrow I’m getting a Big Mac and a Dairy Queen double dipped cone.

[@DigitalDive19]

How tall is Siim?

[@SuperYobo]

172 cm

[@KenWang2]

5’-1”

[@DigitalDive19]

@@KenWang2 what? Please in centimeters :D or are you talking about His weight in Cups or Stones

[@henrikmadsen2176]

@1:28 ….. 78% of total fat coming from saturated fat ???

[@Nic_Holas]

7 to 8

[@Dirk_van_Tonder]

saturated fat is healthy. there is no evidence that is causes cardiovascular disease. research ancel keys and the demonization of saturated fats. watch some presentations by Nina Teicholz like 'big fat surprise' Polyunsaturated seed oils and hydrogenated margarines are what causes disease

[@hai.1820]

Just cut down processed foods and seed oils, you'll be much better off.

[@Jacob930321]

6:05 EVOO

[@iaan81]

Pizza - only pizza

[@henrikmadsen2176]

So the clinical Mediterranean diet has MUCH LESS protein than what Siim is eating !!??

[@MichaelAndretti55]

I do much better with meat consumption

[@gaurd3]

Well said. If it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.

[@rudolphodegraaf6437]

Results Worldwide, bivariate correlation analyses revealed that meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences of caloric intake, urbanization, obesity, education and carbohydrate crops were statistically controlled. Stepwise linear regression selected meat intake, not carbohydrate crops, as one of the significant predictors of life expectancy. In contrast, carbohydrate crops showed weak and negative correlation with life expectancy. Int J Gen Med. 2022; 15: 1833-1851. Published online 2022 Feb 22. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S333004

[@rfbead321]

Just eat ruminant animals for best outcome.

[@Diss-jd2un]

Those idiots guys who make videos about Mediterranean diet never went to a actually country that have this diet, those elders especially from Greece eat mostly dairy while Italians eat mostly meat and it's funny how everyone repeat poultry but no one speak about how good they are at cooking horse meat and their special salami. The Spaniards eat a lot of pork since in the past they were poor and cows were expensive.

[@sammavitae114]

As this video points out the clinical Mediterranean diet was based on the island of Crete in the late 1940's and '50's. As a matter of fact food from several villages was gathered and frozen and taken for storage. So the scientists involved know exactly what was being eaten back then and it is nothing like that now. Look at the comment here from a guy from Crete and he points out what it really was like.

[@eugene9000pro]

idiots are those who comment without watching the video

[@ramjee8211]

plant based .....lol

[@jackbuaer3828]

My parents are passed the average Med age. Perhaps Pharmaceuticals > Med Diet. They eat healthier than the average American, but they also eat a fair amount of junk,

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

What's fair about that?!

[@ahmedwolf8299]

Exactly. My dad is 80 lived a bad lifestyle eat a traditional Mediterranean diet based on meat has all kinds of problems but he alive and well thanx to MEDICATION he checks his health every 3-6 months

[@eugene9000pro]

I like your plant-based (vegan) propaganda

[@wadiknovgorodski1252]

Yeah maybe in this vid...but this dude eat a lot of fish meat and even Steaks...as he showed in one of his vids so...

[@doddsalfa]

“Seventh-day Adventist vegetarians, on average, live longer lives compared to non-vegetarian Adventists, with some reaching over 100 years old. This longevity trend is linked to the health benefits of plant-based diets, which have been extensively studied within the Adventist community. The Seventh-day Adventist Church, founded in 1863, has promoted vegetarianism since its inception, with founding member Ellen White encouraging members to adopt meat-free diets for better health and compassion towards animals.”

[@burnhamsghost8044]

Now do Hong Kong.

[@eugene9000pro]

saturated fat is proven to be bad for health by science. I don't see a logical reason to eat meat to expose to toxins in it.

[@doddsalfa]

@@burnhamsghost8044 no problem,the Hong Kong elderly eat 90% plant based old Hong Kong diet and the younger generation eats a lot of meat

[@bac0129]

@@doddsalfaFalse. Go to HK and see for yourself! Highest meat, fish, and seafood consumption.

[@bac0129]

False. The cult members that ate the most eggs, dairy, and fish had the longest life expectancies. Those members also exercised the most and drank and smoked the least. All associations and inferences. The cult founders seek depopulation by destroying human fertility, virility, and “eliminating desires” via vegetarianism and the Trojan horse of animal welfare.