Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights

Disease prevention 0:31 0
“So we do a CT heart scan to generate a cardiac calcium score, and his score, let's say, is 400, which is a high score.”

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Disease prevention 0:44 0
“What if we put you on baby aspirin, a high dose of a cholesterol drug like Lipitor, 40 milligrams, cut the fat and saturated fat in your diet, and had you exercise?”

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Disease prevention 2:03 0
“Can you reduce heart disease by reducing your intake of saturated fats or total fat, or taking a statin cholesterol drug, or taking a baby aspirin or, no. It has no material impact on heart disease.”

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Disease prevention 3:25 0
“Following a diet rich in healthy whole grains causes heart disease.”

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Nutrition 7:21 1
“So consuming anything that raises blood glucose, like grains, the amylopectin A of grains, raises blood glucose, which glycates small LDL particles. It also triggers the formation of small LDL particles.”

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Nutrition 11:01 1
“Well, any carbohydrate, whether it's glucose, sucrose, table sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or the amylopectin A of wheat and grains, which is a sugar molecule.”

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Nutrition 13:01 0
“So no sugar, no high fructose corn syrup, other source of fructose. No amylopectin A of wheat grains and sugars.”

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Nutrition 14:03 0
“If you live away from the coast, the ocean, you're getting very little iodine in your food, livestock or plants. So you need to supplement iodine.”

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Nutrition 14:09 0
“And likewise, most modern people don't eat brain anymore and we can't eat all the fish we want because it's contaminated with mercury, shellfish with cadmium. So we supplement omega-3 fatty acids, so those four nutrients, when put together, synergize to minimize insulin resistance.”

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Nutrition 15:51 0
“Let's go over those four supplements again. Vitamin D, magnesium, iodine. What was the fourth one? And omega-3 fatty acids.”

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Nutrition 16:21 0
“Iodine deficiency has been a plague on the human species... ever since we've walked this planet millions of years. If you go to Rome or Paris and go to the museums and see the artwork and statues, you'll see that a lot of them have goiters... They have enlarged thyroid glands on the neck from lack of iodine.”

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Toxin exposure 21:15 0
“And those are long, persisting heavy metals. If you get cadmium from eating, say, clams, and you did that in the year 1998, it's still in your body.”

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Nutrition 21:31 0
“So I'd like to say eat all the seafood and shellfish and seaweed, but you can't.”

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Nutrition 21:53 0
“But one of the problems with iodized salt is it only works if you are a very enthusiastic consumer of salt.”

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Nutrition 22:18 0
“So the easiest solution is to get iodine as a supplement.”

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Nutrition 23:01 0
“The 'RDA' recommended daily allowance in the US for iodine in adults 150 micrograms per day.”

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Nutrition 23:14 0
“I think it's probably more towards 300, 400 micrograms. Not real, real high, like some people are advocating 20,000 or 30,000, but 300, 400.”

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Nutrition 23:47 0
“So I had a very nice dietitian one time... She came to me and said, something weird is going on. I've gained 18 pounds. I'm sleeping 14 hours a day and I can't function.”

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Gut health 24:50 0
“That is the infestation of the small intestine with fecal microbe, which is extremely common.”

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Gut health 28:36 0
“They're not addressing the real cause of colon cancer, which is a disrupted gastrointestinal microbiome.”

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Oral hygiene 28:49 0
“The science has gotten very strong that if you have bleeding gums, gingivitis or periodontitis that allows the proliferation of a species called fusibacterium nucleotum...”

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Gut health 29:11 0
“So if a gastroenterologist was truly serious about wanting you not to have colon cancer, yeah, maybe do the colonoscopy, but then talk to you about how you correct the gastrointestinal microbiome in general and then also assess you for the presence of fusobacterium in the mouth and then talk to you about ways to eradicate it.”

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Nutrition 33:20 0
“Now, the real way to get omega-3 is to eat brain and fish and shellfish.”

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Nutrition 35:38 0
“Or you could go to triglyceride form, that is, when you eat fish, you're getting the triglyceride form, three fatty acids on a glycerol backbone.”

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Nutrition 35:47 0
“When they... process fish oil, they process it in ethanol and alcohol, and it breaks off those three fatty acids.”

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Nutrition 35:55 0
“So we call those ethyl esters because they replace the glycerol backbone with an OH group.”

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Nutrition 36:02 0
“But you can also buy fish oil where the triglyceride form is reconstituted onto a glycerol backbone once again.”

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Nutrition 36:39 0
“And I think the dosage you recommended was 3000 milligrams of EPA, DHA in combo.”

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Cognitive stimulation 37:06 0
“So it's DHA that provides cognitive benefits. The science is pretty good. It actually has been shown to slow or prevent cognitive impairment in the earliest phase.”

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Disease prevention 37:46 0
“There's the JELIS trial. J-E-L-I-S from Japan, 19,000 participants. And EPA added to a fish-rich diet, seafood-rich diet in Japan had additional benefits.”

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Nutrition 42:42 0
“their lipoprotein molecule was much less likely to cause heart disease and they got about 5000 milligrams of EPA and DHA per day.”

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Nutrition 44:13 0
“You take fish oil, and it reduces fibrinogen. That's not blood thinning, that's correction of an abnormality, but it's interpreted as blood thinning.”

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Nutrition 45:37 0
“krill oil is 40 times more potent than fish oil. That is complete nonsense.”

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Nutrition 47:08 0
“a lot of cod liver oil is contaminated by PCBs.”

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Sleep 49:31 0
“I mean, that's very subjective. I can't say I've noticed a specific difference with sleep when I've done that but let's talk everything magnesium and how you feel about that as a supplement.”

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Hydration 49:44 0
“Well, in an ideal world, Jesse and his family would get up in the morning, go to the river or stream and drink water. But we can't, right, it's got sewage, farm runoff, all kinds of other garbage in there. So you can't just drink that water. So you have to filter it.”

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Nutrition 50:11 0
“The family gets up in the morning and you go hunt for wild plants that you know are safe. And wild plants are rich in magnesium. Cultivated, farm sourced produce is very low in magnesium. Typically 80% to 90% less magnesium than wild plants.”

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Nutrition 50:40 0
“So we rely on magnesium supplementation to compensate for the deficiencies of water and plants, produce. Now, the form of magnesium, I think is a bit overblown.”

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Nutrition 50:51 0
“Magnesium citrate is better as a laxative. So if you have some constipation issues, irregularity issues, magnum citrate is a good one, but they are in multiple good forms.”

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Nutrition 51:33 0
“So no wheat, no grains. You don't bind magnesium anymore. Eating better food, like organic food, a little bit higher in magnesium.”

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Nutrition 51:57 0
“Magnesium is a major constituent of your bones. It's also a major player in heart rhythms and blood pressure.”

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Nutrition 52:45 0
“In this case, magnesium sulfate. You can give megadose because there's no diarrhea. Oral magnesium gives you diarrhea, but you can give megadose intravenous because it doesn't go through the gastrointestinal tract.”

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Sun protection 56:21 0
“Ideally, you and I would spend our days outside in a Speedo bathing suit and get lots of vitamin D.”

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Nutrition 57:04 0
“Calcium is very critical. If you have low calcium, you can have seizures and die, have heart rhythm disorder and die.”

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Nutrition 1:00:43 0
“When you get vitamin D, it enhances dramatically intestinal absorption of vitamin D.”

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Nutrition 1:01:09 0
“Those of us following these kinds of lifestyle changes are hyper absorbers of calcium that you get from broccoli or kale or spinach and those kinds of things.”

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Nutrition 1:03:26 0
“Yeah, we know with good evidence that calcium supplementation may have a very modest effect in the first year of supplementation, but not much beyond that.”

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Nutrition 1:03:48 0
“Magnesium. Big role restoration of lactobacillus reuteri a big role via oxytocin. Restoration of other healthy gut microbes, other lactobacilli, bifidobacteria species that enhance calcium absorption.”

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Nutrition 1:04:19 0
“So if a woman takes vitamin K2, let's say 180 micrograms of the MK7 form of K2 she won't see an improvement in her bone density on a DEXA but she'll have less fracture.”

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Nutrition 1:05:57 0
“So bone broth that is prolonged boiling of the bones and the addition of vinegar to mobilize minerals. It does mobilize some minerals, like calcium, magnesium, but it also releases the lead.”

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Nutrition 1:10:49 0
“Every time blood glucose exceeds 100 but that becomes very important in collagen.”

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Nutrition 1:10:54 0
“So glycation is irreversible. You can't undo it. One of the great things is you can -- replace the collagen that was glycated by getting collagen.”

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Nutrition 1:11:08 0
“when you ingest collagen, you increase dermal collagen, joint collagen, brain collagen, heart collagen, arterial collagen.”

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Nutrition 1:12:11 0
“You consume collagen, you break it down into both single amino acids, as you do when you eat an egg or a piece of beef.”

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Gut health 1:17:50 0
“Hyaluronic acid is a fiber, and it's a wonderful fiber because it causes proliferation of species that are very beneficial. These are species like Akkermansia, Faecalibacterium, Ruminococcaceae, Lachnospiraceae.”

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Sun protection 1:19:52 0
“So almost all carotenoids also protect you from sun damage because they inhibit an enzyme called matrix metalloproteinase in your skin.”

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Hormone balance 1:21:27 0
“Reuteri, 'Jesse' is so interesting for so many reasons. So one interesting thing is it causes release of the hormone of love and empathy, oxytocin.”

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Nutrition 1:25:00 0
“There's a lot of misinterpretation. One argument, for instance, is that if you take vitamin D without K2, you will calcify your arteries. That's utter nonsense. There's no basis for that.”

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Nutrition 1:25:06 0
“We know that K2 intake strengthens bones. It does not increase bone density, it only strengthens bones.”

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Nutrition 1:25:35 0
“Now, there was a study called the Rotterdam heart study, came out about 15 years ago where they did this.”

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Nutrition 1:27:34 0
“modern people have disrupted their gastrointestinal microbiome. Well, do microbes produce vitamins? They do.”

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Nutrition 1:31:33 0
“So glucose, sucrose, fructose, and the amylopectin A of grains. The worst, by the way, is the amylopectin A of grains.”

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Metabolic health 1:31:39 0
“Your liver converts those sugars to triglycerides, packaged in a 'VLDL' particle, a very low-density lipoprotein.”

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Disease prevention 1:33:04 0
“That small 'LDL' particle goes around and around and around in your circulation, giving it lots of opportunity to take up residence in your arteries.”

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Nutrition 1:36:49 0
“What if your score is 700, but you did vitamin D and eliminate wheat and grains and sugars, eliminate small 'LDL' particles, and got omega-3s at a healthy level, got iodine, your thyroid, and address your SIBO”

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Nutrition 1:38:39 0
“but it has to do with things like wheat, grain, sugar avoidance, vitamin D, all these things you're familiar with omega-3 fatty acid, iodine addressing your, your bowel floor.”

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Gut health 1:42:15 0
“And we address bowel flora so that we eradicate endotoxemia.”

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Nutrition 1:42:10 0
“nutrients that, when put together, synergize to minimize insulin resistance and inflammation.”

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Gut health 1:42:40 0
“Well, I say, okay, 'Jesse,' were going to solve this by removing your small intestines surgically. You would say, well, you better be damn confident that strobuster. What if the solution was something that looks and smells like yogurt that you make in your kitchen?”

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Disease prevention 1:45:22 0
“attacks occur 105:22 from a minor plaque, maybe only blocks 30% of the diameter, that ruptures like a little volcano, and that triggers blood clot formation.”

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Metabolic health 1:46:30 0
“Small LDL is a product of carbohydrate consumption, magnified by insulin resistance, inflammation, and endotoxemia.”

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Body weight 1:49:50 0
“There are three compartments of fat. There's subcutaneous beneath the skin. Then there's abdominal visceral fat. And then there's this recently recognized process called ectopic fat.”

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Body weight 1:53:38 0
“The FDA should never have approved those awful class of drugs. Let's say your wife pays $12,000... for a year's worth of Wegovy. She endures all the side effects, hopefully doesn't die of a bowel obstruction or something, but she loses 40 pounds. Of the 40 pounds lost, ten pounds is muscle, 30 pounds is fat.”

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Metabolic health 1:54:17 0
“So she stops the drug after a year, because few people can afford that forever. She regains 32 to 34 pounds, almost nearly all fat, not the muscle. She's now more at risk for diabetes, heart disease, dementia, breast cancer than she was at the start because the pivotal thing here is the loss of muscle.”

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Metabolic health 1:56:01 0
“In other words, whenever you lose muscle, you guarantee that metabolic rate will drop, the rate at which you burn calories and you will regain the weight.”

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Nutrition 1:59:04 0
“So it's what we've been talking about in its entirety. It's the diet. No wheat, no grains, no sugar, address those common nutrient deficiencies that altogether reduces insulin resistance and inflammation and facilitates loss of abdominal fat while not losing muscle.”

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Body weight 2:00:19 0
“and you want to lose 60, but of the 30 pounds, you also gained 15 pounds of muscle. The bioimpedance scale gives you a better index of that.”

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Body weight 2:00:27 0
“Or look in the mirror, ladies, say this to me. I'm doing the yogurt. Doing all this and I gained eight pounds.”

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Body weight 2:00:34 0
“What do you see? Well, my waist is smaller, my buttocks and thighs are smaller, and my shoulders and arms seem firmer. My neck is firmer.”

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Gut health 2:01:18 0
“Towards the end of college, I started developing GI upset with basically anything I ate.”

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Substances Mentioned

Overview

The video provides an extensive discussion on various health topics, primarily focusing on disease prevention and nutrition. It highlights the role of dietary changes, the importance of nutrients like iodine and omega-3 fatty acids, and delves into the complexities of gut health and metabolic diseases.

Disease Prevention Strategies

Effective disease prevention often revolves around monitoring and managing heart health. Techniques like CT heart scans are discussed to assess risk via cardiac calcium scores. The effectiveness of prevalent preventive measures like aspirin and statins are evaluated, with some claims challenging their efficacy in substantial heart disease risk reduction.

Nutritional Insights

Nutrition occupies a central theme, discussing the impact of specific diets and substances like grains, sugars, and processed carbohydrates on health. It emphasizes the reduction of LDL particles through dietary adjustments and avoiding sugar-rich diets. Iodine supplementation is advised, especially for those living away from coastal areas, due to its scarcity in inland diets.

Controversial Opinions on Common Diets

Some entries challenge conventional dietary guidelines, specifically critiquing the role of whole grains and dietary fats in promoting heart health. The potential adverse effects of modern interventions like processed fish oils and certain medications are discussed, advocating for a more natural intake of nutrients through diet.

Gut Health and Microbiome

The importance of gut health is underscored, linking it directly to conditions such as colon cancer and general immune function. Recommendations focus on managing the gut microbiome through diet and probiotics, suggesting that a healthy gut contributes significantly to overall health.

Misconceptions and Clarifications

Several entries address common misconceptions about supplements and drugs. For instance, the efficacy and risks associated with weight loss drugs are critically analyzed, highlighting the importance of understanding these substances’ effects fully before use.

Practical Recommendations

Practical health recommendations include the use of specific supplements like omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, and vitamin D to counteract the deficiencies often found in modern diets. The role of iodine in thyroid function and overall health is significantly emphasized, with suggestions for supplementation where necessary.

Conclusion

The discourse provides a comprehensive look at health via a combination of dietary recommendations and preventive measures, often challenging established medical advice and promoting a return to more natural sources of nutrients. It advocates for a critical evaluation of health interventions and the importance of understanding the body’s responses to various dietary and medicinal inputs.