"Use These 3 FOOD FACTS To LIVE LONGER!" | Mark Hyman & Lewis Howes

that advice led to the worst obesity epidemic and diabetes epidemic in the history of mankind diabetes Alzheimer's heart disease the big killers are by sugar and food yes this video will give you the key nutritional tips to living longer and staying healthy this is dr. Mark Hyman and then of course there's the social issues people don't understand that the quality of the food we eat the processed food they've refined oils the sugars the chemicals the additives affect behavior we know for example louis that in prisons if you give people a healthy diet in prisons they will reduce violent crime in the prison by 56% if you add a vitamin supplement it goes down by 80% because they're all nutritionally depleted I mean I had a patient not a patient he was a I don't know he was a guy was in jail was a murderer he wrote me a handwritten letter years ago he said I followed your program in jail I realized I was a murderer my behavior was so violent my whole life and when I changed my diet I became a completely different person I realize it was what I was eating and now I am so thankful for having my life back so you think our diet also determines our behavior absolutely there's clear evidence about that I'm just reading a study the other day that showed that people eat a lot of carbohydrates and sugars and starches have much more violent behavior we know that people eat refined oils which we now have 10% of these as our calories from soybean oil it's in everything it's not less than we put it in our food it's in every packaged processed food that has led to increase of homicides and violence and suicides around the world and we've gotten higher on these refined Omega 6s and low on omega-3s so the evidence of how it affects behavior moved poverty it keeps poor communities down and then the food industry targets these communities disproportionately so you have all these things happening at the same time and then kids kids can't learn in school because they're eating Doritos and coke and they can't actually focus and learn and their behavior is all erratic and they're on these chemicals which alter their behavior that's why you know 106 kids has some neurodevelopmental problem which is enormous right adv now faxing a 1 out of 10 kids I think I think 14% of kids have a DB and about one in 10 kids are on medication you think a DB can be if we have a better diet where is that something absolutely I'm the brain no absolute no it's not a brain problem it's a body problem and the body problems caused by our diet and by environmental toxins and I've had hundreds of the ATV patients who transformed their lives I mean I just we're talking about the broken brain documentary series I did I had a guy I was in a New York Russian bathhouse today so I come that's all urine series how we're gonna eighty medication my whole life and it helped me get off my medication we see this so you've got health you've got the economy you've got social justice and poverty issues you've got climate you've got environment you've got education it's all connected and the issue is that most people don't connect the dots number one and most people don't realize that we're in this situation because of money in the food system that's driving our policies right you were mentioning how how you know there's some press hits that you do I won't mention who but I would say you can't talk about certain things because of a sponsor that's funding oh yeah oh yeah we can't talk negative about one brand or 100 diet or no because of that yeah that's right I was told you can't cover this subject because we get our funding from this sponsor I can tell you a story from the past because it shows not on the air anymore I was a Martha Stewart Show and I was on the show and we're working with a producer and we were talking about getting healthy and working out and detoxing and Martha had her trainer there and the producer says we're gonna have to do a bit as part of the segment on dairy and how dare is such a great sports recovery drink no way yes and so I was like you know I'm just sorry to tell you but there's always evidence that that's not true so I download all the scientific papers documenting the science behind the fact that dairy isn't a sports drink and he's like mmm I know but we kind of have to because this spot is sponsored by the dairy cow my god and then the if you're ever on television you know that the experts don't get notes they don't get cue cards they don't get teleprompters they have to know their stuff well this woman who was the trainer had all these two cards that was being held up Darry with all the bullet points of wide area such a great food and sports drink it's insidious so we think we're getting news we're thinking any authors from exports - from militaries or specialists or experts and we are influenced by these experts I mean it the evidence is so clear that you know industry is heavily funding science and their funding corrupt science so if you look at the data for example artificial sweeteners 99% of the studies done by the food industry show that they're safe 99% of the studies on artificial sweeteners done by independent scientists find that they're not safe mmm you know if your industry funds a study they're eight to 50 times more likely to find a positive benefit for their product right right where do you look you look at and then you look at the American Heart Association American diabetic Association the American nutrition I mean the American nutrition Dietetic Association these are all funded by the food industry and if you look it's coca-cola its Pepsi its Cargill it's it's frightening to see how much money is you have Trix cereal for kids as a heart-healthy cereal Cocoa Puffs Lucky Charms I mean tricks has seven teaspoons of sugar red dye blue dye yellow dye you died in Omaha it's all in there and it's a heart-healthy food why cuz they get $300,000 for every time they put that check on a box no way yes way and this is happening globally globally I mean there's a huge battle going on in Malaysian out because Nestle has has promoted this drink called Milo which I never heard about but it's a big drink in the developing world and Asia and South America and it's basically Ovaltine it's basically a malted beverage with sugar that has the same glycemic index as coca-cola and they have athletes on there in sports characters and how it's a great drink for health and the hens commercial which I saw which was a Filipino rock star singing this great you know rap song about how everybody who's a kid has an energy gap four or five kids have this thing called an energy gap I was in medical conference that's an energy gap I mean I was at a medical conference of 1500 doctors as anybody here heard of an energy gap that four out of five kids have no they completely made this up and they say these kids need Milo for the energy gap yeah and they this guy who lives or malaysia called them out on this and they came out with this huge propaganda campaign against him to discredit him and manipulating the facts and you know lying and i'm it's I was just watching this whole thing it's unbelievable so it's it's not an accident that we're in this situation wow the manipulation yeah and do you think that all inflammation chronic pain and disease is can be eliminated from the foods we eat or is caused by foods I think besides having like a car accident or something yeah they're you know I'm a functional medicine doctor you know run the Center for functional medicine at Cleveland Clinic and so we look at the root causes of disease and they are many right there's environment there's lifestyle there's genetics all affect these various systems in your body right so we always say there's five causes of all disease based on how they influence your genetics and combined with your lifestyle toxins so environmental toxins that's not your fault that's just the fact we put 80,000 chemicals the environment without testing them we have 3000 food atoms we eat every year as Americans about 3 to 5 pounds of it which is frightening and you know there are heavy metals and pesticides everywhere so we're exposed a lot toxins they make people sick infections which we can get whether it's viral infections and bacterial infections Lyme disease tick infections allergens which are increasingly common and or food sensitivities things where your body's create an immune response whether it's gluten or dairy those are big and then poor diet and stress all those are contributing to disease but by far the biggest cause is food by far and and it affects I mean we what's amazing is it's not it's not just like a little bit so I can say all my migraines or my arthritis or my irritable bowel if you'll don't connect the dots between how they feel and the food they're eating and then when you switch people have transformations very quickly yeah you know they notice it quickly quickly yeah I mean in goes away the weight goes off all these things yeah I mean always say food is medicine it's not just like a medicine it works faster better and cheaper than almost any me drugged I mean we have people who are off insulin who are type 2 diabetics within a week you know and and get off all their medications I mean it was a huge study just published on a ketogenic diet intervention for type 2 diabetics not only ketogenic diets are right for everybody but in an extreme situation where your metabolism is so broken it can help reset things basically reducing carbs of 30 grams a day 70% fat and help if it contests a healthy plant rich diet and they were able to get a hundred percent of the people in a year over diabetics off of the main diabetes medication and ninety four percent off insulin or dramatically lower with an average weight loss of thirty pounds about twelve percent of body weight and this is unprecedented in the research because food if you know how to apply it in the right way at the right dose for the right person it's the most powerful drug yeah here's the thing you talked about in the book that you've been studying food for 35 years 40 now for years I was like oh I did the math I the knight 2018 I was started in 1978 in college and I'm like that old here's the thing you've got 11 New York Times bestselling books you've probably done how many books total 14 14 books 11 New York Times including this one food what what they actually eat and for 40 years you've been studying food and you say even the experts are confused by the science they are they are so how come how come I talk about you know all the answers I don't think about 40 years I don't think I know the answers but I don't have a bone to pick yeah in other words I haven't spent my life dedicated to the low-fat diet I haven't been dedicated my life to veganism I mean I I'm looking at like what works and the other thing I know is that I'm not an academic well I do research but that's not how I started I'm a practicing doctor so what's happened over the years is the latest thing comes in I try it see what happens see what happens to patient so seeing tens of thousands of patients doing thousands and thousands of lab tests over the years seeing what happens when people change their diet and how their biology responds that's the best laboratory I'll ever see - I even known as somebody self I was a vegetarian for ten years and I see pictures of myself when I was 28 and I am so scrawny even though I ate really healthy I ran 5 miles a day I did yoga all the time and I look at myself now doing far less exercise and I am far more muscular and had more muscle mass than I did when I was 28 cuz I learned how to change my diet and we know that with the right kind of high high fat diet and and added what protein actually increases muscle mass Wow yeah I mean I literally just got off the phone with a friend this is you know I went on a vegan diet and three days into it like I can't lift anymore yeah but then you see some like you know athletes that are all vegan this trick gained muscle mass in case you're anything you're like well what is it maybe they're taking steroids I don't know who knows do you think so you think living a vegetarian or vegan fully vegan or vegetarian lifestyle that it's hard to gain muscle mass it's hard it's hard it's not impossible I mean if you really work at it and really work out and they are great vegan athletes out there but there's never been a historically voluntary vegan society ever and when you look at yes we look lose owns er no they were never exclusively vegan really right they always had some animal food or something yeah and you know as hunter-gatherers we eat eight hundred species of plants so we had a very plant rich diet but we also included wild animals when we could catch them and so it is part of our evolutionary history and our bodies are well adapted and the protein in vegetables is different so for example there's something called leucine which is an amino acid that is the rate limiting amino acid for muscle synthesis in other words in order to bustle you need this amino acid and it's very low in plant proteins very high in animal proteins alright so why not just live a plant-based diet and it have the supplement you could you could and I you know I paste or vegans monks I mean I'm not gonna of course people not to eat it but it's much harder to do and you have to know what you're doing and and I see people over time initially when they switch from a processed American diet to a Whole Foods vegan that they are gonna get so much better yeah but the real issue is compared to what right right I really do is and they and they looked at over time these big studies looking at animal and plant proteins and stuff over time looking at what people do it there's a there's a vegan vegetarian omnivore study which was two hundred forty five thousand people it was an observational study but they didn't find any difference in outcomes mmm leather study forty two country study looking at food pattern consumption over long periods of time showed actually the people had animal fat and protein did far better than people who focus on cereal grains in their diet less heart disease other study the peer study just came out recently 135,000 people was five continents at the 18 countries 10 years and there was actually an improvement when people had more saturated fat and more good fats and less cereal grains and more animal protein more animal protein or more and Oprah yeah yeah it was not a risk factor right now these are difficult studies to interpret sometimes because there are there observational but you look at interventional studies where you intervene by giving people high fat protein diets with lots of plant foods people do better metabolically so really the item it's very hard to eat a low glycemic diet if you're a vegan you can but it's very hard I have a friend who's a keto vegan and she's a type 1 diabetic and she's rocking it but you have to know what you're doing it's so disciplined yet super disciplined super smart about as challenging yeah so I think I think you know I'm the data on meat honest seems like going to the book in great detail is confusing for people because there's these all depends on the factors of the meat yeah we get it the environment it's in how it's ahead you know it's recipe right exactly what's lost everything right totally right so you know people go we shouldn't be eating meat because it's better for the animals better for the environment right yes we should not be eating factory for me this is really bad it's bad for the animals it's bad for the planet it's bad for us because the quality of the meat is very poor but let's say a wild elk or a grasp it finished bison or even cow very different and it turns out that these animals actually have higher levels of omega-3 fats and higher levels of antioxidants and minerals and nutrients and beneficial fats and and actually our great source of protein and don't have the harm that we think they do when you look at the studies that showed there was harm the reason they show that is because when you do a study observational study you give people a questionnaire in every year so you take ten thousand people a hundred thousand people and every year you get my question your wedgie wedgie last week when you and I if you can remember and people answer according to what they think they should answer a lot of times right so if meat is bad they're gonna underestimate the amount of meat they're eating so during the time of these studies meat was considered bad so people who wake me didn't really care about their health so they smell and the data show it when you look at the factors of these people their characteristics which you can read in the studies which I read they were overweight they smoked they drank they didn't fruits and vegetables they need exercise and take vitamins anymore process with more sugar of course they were sicker essentially what you're saying is completely opposite of what we've been all told whole lively right why fat is the key to sustained weight loss yeah good health who woulda thunk it right are we not supposed to have fat diet isn't it bad for us as a great heart disease and high cholesterol and all these other things that yeah are bad for us or is it so we were all taught right that's the whole line our government told us to eat 6 to 11 servings of bread rice cereal pasta today to eat a low-fat diet and fats and oils were sparingly only at the top supposed to be and yet that advice led to the worst obesity epidemic and diabetes epidemic in the history of mankind that's like the the food charts that we're all saw in school right lately opposite of what we should be doing no and and so the science has caught up with this bad advice and the advice unfortunately louis was based on really shoddy science on very weak evidence on pots a few population studies not really experimental studies back all the experimental studies that told us to eat low-fat diets they actually didn't tell us that we should be doing that they were actually contradicting the recommendations that were developed in 1980 mmm by the UK or the USA really so basically if you looked at the actual randomized controlled trials that were there weren't that many but there was a few of them they all said that eating low-fat wasn't beneficial but the power outside of the u.s. trial no the trials all over okay they just didn't look at that evidence so the guideline committees who were working I didn't you sort of dismiss that evidence and they had this theory and they went with the theory but cuz it made sense right if you if you look at calories for example fat has nine calories per gram carbs and protein have four calories per gram so you think well gee that has more calories per gram be less of it you're going to lose more weight logical but unfortunately metabolism is not a math problem you know yeah it's it's okay metabolic problem it's a hormonal problem it's not energy balance so all your calories and calories out this is the biggest crock up you know what they've been pushed on the American public because there's a message implicit in that which is if you just told someone to lose weight by eating less and exercising more if they don't do it it's their fault right just eat less exercise more if you don't you're a lazy glutton right right so it's your fault you're fat okay right but the truth is that it's not it's not just about calorie balance in fact that's what the the global energy balance quote global energy balance Network which was it actually funded by coca-cola mmm and that they actually actually funded University scientists to kind of be the front people for this nonsense that's all about calories and calories out it has been completely discredited there the New York Times wrote a big expose of this but what we've been taught is it all calories the same they're actually not so food is not just energy it's actually information it gives drugs right so this is like a big breakthrough in science right so food is not just calories it's actually information so the information in food communicates with your body every single minute so every bite you take it turns on or off genes that create health or disease that make you lose or gain weight it turns on or off hormones that make you lose or gain weight or create health or disease it's like a feedback for you it's direct instructions and it's and it works minute by minute it's not something that takes a long time it regulates inflammation it regulates your hormones as I said it regulates your brain chemistry it regulates even your gut microbiome all the floor in your gut that we now know are linked to everything from weight gain diabetes to heart disease to cancer to autoimmune diseases and so many other things is the game health even depression and ATD and autism may be linked to changes in your gut flora so we now know that when you eat food it's not just about the energy in it because if that was true then you could just survive on soda all day and it wouldn't matter as long as you only 1800 calories of soda and I had this argument I had this argument with the vice chairman of Pepsi we had dinner together no way yeah we did it and the guy in between us because I was in here you sitting here the guy was like was like being in the middle of like a war zone and I said how can you say that how can you say that eating a Turner calyx of soda is the same as having 1,800 calories of broccoli or arm right these as well as long as you have that amount of calories you're not gonna it's not gonna be any different I said this just not how about getting the nutritional value from that right right I mean when you blow just just like look at a thousand calories let's say are 750 calories of broccoli is is 21 cups 35 grams of fiber half a teaspoon of sugar and tons of phytonutrients phytochemicals and upregulate your genes that didn't actually help you prevent cancer then a move hormone metabolism into so many things right same calories from a big gulp 750 calories 46 teaspoons of sugar right high fructose corn syrup up regulates your liver to turn on a fat production factory that makes high triglycerides or as fat more right stores fat lowers triglycerides I mean raises triglycerides lowers the good cholesterol causes a fatty liver raises hormones that make you in women make them grow hair on their face and have loss hair on their head men they drops their testosterone they have no sex drive and they lose their hair on their bodies all this from the same calories right a number of college how is the same but the information in the food is very different so now we have this concept that is actually really about the hormonal I call it hormonal hypothesis I talked about in an effect get thin which is how do you change your hormones so you're not hungry all the time because what that's the key the typical advice you eat low fat and your your fat actually makes you satisfied right because if you if you eat fat you're not craving all the time you're not hungry and it actually is a brain actually food because it actually stops the addiction center in the brain from turning on so you never feel hungry or have any cravings it also speeds up your metabolism that speeds up your metabolism yeah it burn more fat if you burn more fat it releases fat from the fat cells right so it it makes you less hungry it's it makes you burn more fat and liberate the fat from the fat cell so it's really a powerful word sugar the opposite happens you get hungrier because you increase insulin you drive when you make stuff so much it's terrible I was addicted to it all of us were I mean I was too I was a vegetarian I eat like tons of of no whole wheat bread and auger and honey and everything all I mean grape-nuts an ice cream for breakfast that's my life right so when did you stop one of the research become known or the facts of the data becomes no not even its honest doctor you're eating sugar no it's not when when did you start to realize and one of this information about fat become well it's been mounting for decades right so it's it's building on a mountain of any evidence and this book I reviewed over a thousand studies or 500 quoted in the book that I reference they wouldn't let me put more because there was no room in the macula yeah yeah and and it's all well documented in and the signs of this is very power from one of my colleagues David Ludwig wrote a book called always hungry he's the Harvard professor he's done a lot of the research that this is based on when he freqs he gave two groups of people same calories okay same calories but change the percents of fat and carbs uh-huh and it was a very well controlled study and in the first group you know they had 60% carbs 20% fat 20% protein the other group switched it 60% fat 20% carbs you know 20% protein so it's the opposite and the group that had the high fat diet burned 300 calories more a day by doing nothing yet not only just about having more fat by eating more fat their metabolism sped up 300 calories it's like same amount of calories though they they ate the same make house in but they burned 300 right because your metabolism sped up interesting right so in other words like running an hour a day without getting off the couch interesting right that's powerful very powerful yeah and I know for me you know as as I've seen myself and my patients transformation is amazing and their cholesterol gets better it's just totally contradictory yeah right fat is supposed to raise your cholesterol by eating cholesterol supposed to raise your cholesterol but for the first time since the dietary guidelines came out in 1980 the US government in 2015 completely reversed their stance on fat there's no more restriction like January first week of January 2016 this year this year like a few weeks ago a few weeks ago just changed that they changed this complete guide completely so they would leave first time they said for get my fat you can use much you want no no limit on fat this is the never man the government the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee established these recommendations this is a scientific group that establishes guidelines for the government helps them shape policy and then the government makes the policy they kind of guide it around this research or this yeah they said you know no worry about fat don't worry about cholesterol eggs are back my eggs are back you know forget about the egg white omelets just eat the whole egg no way completely and they said there's that what there was it made it made me laugh they said new cholesterol is no longer a nutrient of concern quote nutrient of concern like well we got it wrong for 35 years no way yeah so it's like it's totally different and they also said that we should for the first thing they said we should reduce sugar now the the policy advisors who are the scientists said we should limit sugar sweetened beverages because they're proven to be linked to obesity diabetes but the government because of the food lobby changed the wording to say no we should be restricting added sugar so we see less added sugars now what's an added sugar it doesn't say added sugar on the label right so how do you know because the food labeling from the FDA is also influenced by the food lobby right so which is say added sugar on the label not just sugar right so you don't know right let's design to totally confuse people what the truth is that this is a huge advance and now we we actually have come to realize that this is not true so the science around fat and how your body burns fat and what makes you fat it's all really clear now it's all based on this hormone idea of insulin which is a fat storage hormone so anything you eat that increases insulin which is sugar refined flour I mean white flour raises your blood sugar more than table sugar so if you had two slices of white bread it raises your blood sugar more than a tablespoon of table sugar really I mean whole-wheat bread it's just as bad unless the bread is so like dense that you can stand on it without it squishing then you shouldn't eat it shouldn't eat it no like the German rye bread and love bread though yeah everybody the bread we eat isn't the bread we ate right so our ancestors ate very do not buy hard bread it was very coarse and we own had the grain mills that started in the 1800's before that we couldn't eat refined grain and now even whole wheat is super refined it's just you know and are all grains bad as well on your pan no I don't think all grains are bad at you know I joke I said you know in the book I talk about you know an induction plan like basically a way to get quick start to change you from like just being storing fat to burning fat to eating fat makes you thin and that's a 21 day plan and after that I talked about how you transition to what I call peak and diet well he in pekin as opposed to paleo or vegan it's kind of a joke because one day I was in between yeah I was sitting on a panel with two friends of mine when was a vegan cardiologist and the other was like a paleo doctor and I was like well I don't know I guess they must be a peaking because I'm in the middle here okay what does the vegan diet look like the peak and on you know it was amazing Louis is that the the principles of paleo vegan are often very similar so both groups believe that we should be eating whole unprocessed unrefined foods yes we should get rid of food additives form around yeah everything no antibiotics no hormones no pesticides no GMO we should be had in having no MSG no artificial sweeteners no high fructose corn syrup everybody agrees that that's true we also agree that everybody should be eating lots of fruits and vegetables yes right a little heavy on the plant foods yep basic principles both agree that we should have dairy which is interests right we'll talk about the Paleo no dairy no dairy right no dairy yes there's someone must say like some specific cheeses or something yeah you know grass-fed butter like there's some things but you know but it's but the the proteins in dairy are very inflammatory and the dairy again we eat is in the dairy we ate we've hybridized our cows all fertilized by one mole not organic dairy it's not organic it's not raw it's not how our it's just right yeah even organic cow's a pump milk them when they're pregnant they're just full of hormones so okay also you know it's it's just not always tolerated well by many people right and then what else does everyone everybody agrees that we should be eating foods that that are phyto nutrient rich that are nutrient dense and and we should be lots of nuts and seeds and lots of good oils like avocados and olive oil what's what's photo nutrient phytonutrient is a is a chemical that's in plant foods phyto means plant and it's not vitamin or mineral it's not a protein fat or carbon fiber it's something else so for example like broccoli has glucosinolates which up regulates detoxification catechins are in green tea which are powerful detoxifier of metal powerful antioxidants tomatoes have lycopene which is a powerful cancer preventer for prostate cancer so so anthocyanins you're gonna black rice which has anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants that are in black rice that's emperor's rice love that throughout also very low glycemic sure so I think if the the the things that they disagree on are basically beans grains and meat like where you get your protein from everything else is everybody is the same paleo and vegan stuff for meat beans yeah and protein I mean I'm beans beans grains and protein beans approach right and I mean you know like you know meat right and so you know what I realize is that you know I think many people who who are sick do better when you take out certain things it can be inflammatory or high glycemic so if you're for example carbohydrate intolerant and you're diabetic which affects a lot of people mm-hmm they talk about how do you find out if your carbohydrate intolerant in the book which is a questionnaire you can tell if you actually know if you're someone who's carbohydrate intolerance like someone is gluten intolerant that means that they eat a lot of starch oh they have like two cups of rice even as brown rice or two cups of beans it can adversely affect their sugar so I talked about like having less like having smaller portions of beans and grains and non gluten grains in particular because gluten can be very inflammatory for many people I think for some people who don't react to it it can be fine but not in large amounts and then I think you know meat is a big is the big issue right I mean is the big issue so should we be we just we're just at dinner the other night right we're both had meat right made fish I will fish black cod yes which was awesome item mahi-mahi you had a black cod is them yeah I had the black car yeah yeah I deployed it guy next we had meatballs but you know so so the issues are I mean also I think our everybody agrees and agrees that if anybody eats meat this should be humanely raised it should be sustainable arranged it should be grass fed it should be not harming the environment the ethical and the environmental issues around animal eating are big and the real yeah every night many Buddha's patients having a Buddhist monk who's like a abbot who's you know as a diabetic and he's never gonna eat an animal you know so I I need help him understand how to in every need an egg how to eat a high higher fat protein diet which is low glycemic so we can do that okay right so more nuts and seeds you know less rice more beans your strategies for doing that sure and he did great lost 35 pounds reverses diabetes and I have like tons of bun people you know praying for me haha yeah yeah and and then the the the meat thing is tricky because you know it's also an environmental risk if you're eating factory farm animals there's antibiotics in that and as runoff from the pesticides and fertilizers that damages our water supply and rivers and lakes there's climate change that happens from the methane produced it's more more toxic to the environment than carbon dioxide there's so and there's high energy use one-fifth of all our fossil fuels are used for growing animals for human consumption you know our water is being used up at incredible rates for for feeding animals there's basically I think 70% of all water use and there's basically only 5% of the world's surface is is freshwater visible as freshwater right one percent is in Russia Wow and LU four percent for the rest of us and and 70 percent of that is being used for feeding animals for human consumption so there's real environmental issues so I think you know a factory farming is just should be not support in any way we need to change that and that is we need to change our patterns of consumption around me we need to downsize our meat consumption I call it having condom meat economy Condamine it's supposed to count like a condiment uh-huh economy you know it should be as a side dish or a dressing if you're gonna eat it sure and I think not a full plate of steak you mean you know I think there's there's three issues with with me right there's environmental issues there's moral issues and there's health issues so we kind of talked about the morrow I think that's people are entitled their beliefs and they should be able to follow whatever they want and be healthy the environmental issues are real I think everybody would agree whether the Paleo vegan that we need to stop harming the environment and I think even if you're not paleo vegan everybody really releases believes that in fact the dietary advisory committee that was advising the government said we should limit meat consumption because of the environmental impact right now if you if you have grass-fed meat if you have sustainably raised mean you can't there's it's not as abundant you can't produce as much and so we all have the lesson right and it's more expensive so that's ok and I think that that from a health point of view when I really looked at the literature and I did this in each fad get then I looked at all the research that I could find on me because I was like I don't know for yourself - yeah Mike I'm I'm recommending to my patients I'm you know human too and I want to live a long time and I don't want to be doing something stupid yeah so I wanted to find out what is the science tell us about meat so you did all the research so I looked at all the research and I wrote 8,000 words in the book on meat it's a lot of research in there and I address all these issues you know environmental immoral and the health issues were quite interesting you know when we look at the studies on me and anybody can quote anything saying anything right right so you want the Paleo people like a meats healthy here's all the research and the vegan value meats gonna kill you here's over yeah so it's like and then you're at the average Joe you're totally confused and your average doctor you're totally confused because we get no training and nutrition they haven't done the research themselves no we're going off of their opinion or their theory yeah they're like a average people like the rest of us in terms of nutrition science they don't know because it's not what we learn right I mean I I just am a Cleveland Clinic and we implemented a nutrition curriculum for the first time in the medical school they have this integrated in which is so great and that's all hi I help team Ryan who's a congressman from Ohio induced him he's he's you know introduced a bill called the enriched Act which was a bill that is funding 50 million dollars to fund nutrition in medical schools nutrition education for doctors ting that's where we need the most because doctors yeah a lot of the time I feel I could heal a lot of their patients food oh my god well food is the cause of most chronic disease it's the cure for most chronic disease and yet doctors know nothing about food and they just medicate a lot of the time I mean listen it's so bad I mean I use food as medicine and that's what I do dizzy our folder on the planet I mean that's why last week I was in Cleveland at the hospital teaching 300 black women how to cook in a cooking class like that's what doctors should be doing and that's how I'm gonna get that real medicine that's real mess it's not just just a quick sidenote what is your involvement with what is functional medicine and what is your involvement at the Cleveland Clinic can I finish my meal yes go ahead I was I was still rolling on the meat don't function medicine perfect perfect because people want to know like they're like well what about me they're like probably listening let's do it so so the science 8,000 words I'm not gonna give you a dollar I'll give you I'll give you a few hundred so the science of meat was passing so when I looked at the studies that showed it was harmful here's what here's what they were there were mostly population studies meaning they looked at groups of people follow them and then they ask questions of them what did you eat last year what did he last week what did you last you know month you know and they basically do these food frequency questionnaire and then they correlate that with their risk of disease and I try to control for all the confounding factors but it's very tough so the people who ate meat yeah they had more heart disease and more cancer and more death but what else was there a smoking yeah exactly right exactly thrust down so if you look at the data that they'd eaten more calories today they almost eat no fruits and vegetables tons of sugar yeah tons of sugar and processed foods lots of fried foods drink more smoke more didn't exercise and didn't take any vitamins and minerals well guess what you're getting as healthy as the other people so what most the studies were like that now there was a few study they were interesting I found one was a study of 11,000 people who shopped at health food stores and they found there were like a lot of vegetarians and a lot of meat-eaters like so who are the people who were you know like healthy meat eaters who only breastfed mean or who because mostly studies were not aggressive I mean either they were on factory farm me right so then again how do you generalize that sure but then there are these 11,000 people and they filed them for many years and they found that the meat eaters and the vegetarians there was no difference in their health outcomes exactly the same so if you're meat-eater who basically it's a healthy diet and has grass-fed meat versus a vegan or vegetarian no difference in the lifestyle healthy lifestyle then there's no difference so there's other factors like how it affects your gut flora and so on and I think you know those are more complicated issues I address all them in the book but at the end of the day I think it's okay if you have no moral issues and you can eat sustainably raised meat and in not in great quantities and it is part of your diet I think it's okay so let's go back to diabetes for a second tell me again the stat on diabetes how many people have it or are looking diabetic and and what I'm under educated on this so how many different types of diabetes are about dignity how is a cause okay okay so type one diabetes is an autoimmune disease pancreas fails it's called judiciously called juvenile diabetes and you need insulin it's just you need it it's you need insulin if you have one diabetes you need and you need is your papers diet because your pancreas makes insulin and helps your blood sugar get balance keeps that's the blood it's sort of a gatekeeper that's the the glucose into your cells so it's really important so how does that die what has died from that I mean how does the pancreas die oh well it doesn't get to that point so I can order like you get multiple sclerosis or Roger krytus it's it's basically or body attacks your pancreas is that kind of eating a lot of bad for not well there's been links to dairy and actually as an a driver of type 1 diabetes gluten 29 percent of people who have type 1 diabetes have celiac that are undiagnosed so uh celiac is a big cause of autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes so that's a very small number of people okay thank you one of the two Americans have what we call type 2 diabetes we just call adult onset except now kids as young as 3 are getting type 2 diabetes from this soda from the I'm oh my god I was I was working in it when I was a resident in urgent care center and this woman comes in for back pain she's got her baby in a carriage and I see her feeding this baby that's brown liquid in a bottle who's seven months old and I'm like what I'm like what is that sure that's coca-cola no I said why are you feeding your baby coach she's small he likes it oh my god oh my god listen I my wife showed me it's a video on on social media today it was a baby it looked like it was maybe eight or nine month old baby having ice cream for the first time oh oh having sugar for the first time and you watch the baby eat the ice cream I'll lie down and then the big I was like oh it was so crazy and it's highly addictive so yeah so now we're seeing one in two Americans suffer from either pre-diabetes or type 2 a type 2 diabetes and that is when you eat too much sugar and starch and every time you do that it raises your insulin your body becomes resistant to the insulin and so doesn't work as well seeing more insulin and insulin does what insulin makes you hungry they make sure you store belly fat it locks the fat in the fat cells and it slows your metabolism it's like a quadruple threat for your body to gain weight so it's why we're seeing you know and this goes back to what we're growing right so why are we eating all this food that it's because that's the food we produce mmmh and so that's the other part of the problems we have the chronic disease we have the economic impact and we like well why do we have this food so as a functional medicine doctor I'm always asking why well why am I taking sick because it makes money right well no yeah but I'm even further why it's doing this because as a why would a doctor care about agriculture and soil and all this crap because I as I was thinking about my patients diseases most of them were caused by food and can be cured by food mmm something oh well if it's how many or how many are most of them this is like 50% 80% 80% of anyone that comes in to the hospital or your patients yeah that's some type of disease some type of Sikkim unless it's like an environmental thing like mercury or lime or mold you know most of the answer cancer cancer is caused by food really 70% circumcenter cancer is caused by food and sugar is the number one culprit heart disease diabetes Alzheimer's heart disease the big killers are by sugar and food yes yes so if you change your diet you should be able to prevent or cure sometimes sometimes cure depends how long things are yes yeah you can prevent hard to these Alzheimer's yes 100% I mean the studies are there it's crazy that people already have Alzheimer's when they improve their diet they can we get more functionality back so so you've got me thinking okay well if the patient's disease are caused by food what's causing the food it's the food system they're like well what's causing the food system it's our food policies I'm liking what's causing our food policies it's the food industry that's lobbying Congress out money it's the biggest lobby group in Congress is agriculture and food fight bar like by twice as much as the next lobby group by a gas in a way oh yeah exactly right and it's like what so then I began thinking both I'm gonna help my patients I can't do it in my office I can it's like it's like I'm like in the boat bailing the boat with a hole instead of plugging the hole yeah you're not going to the source right so that I'm thinking okay what do I need to do as a functional I said look I need to go to the root cause right the root cause and why and then it became clear to me that it's our agricultural system that's driving so much the problem and what we grow is been based on good intentions that were in the 50s and people were hungry there was enough food there was a lot of poverty and so we we figured out a system to produce an abundance of starchy calories so we could have food so thank you and we were great at it and we have cheap abundant corn and wheat and soy which are the commodity crops that are turned into industrial processed food which is now 60% of our diet and for every 10% of actually eat your risk of death goes up by 14 percent of yeah so you're a Z so you're basically you know feeding Americans a diet we know is going to kill them the research is so clear on this there's no scientific debate and yet we don't do anything about it because we're these dysfunctional food policies and then the way we grow the food causes climate change and we'll get into that but the number one cause of climate change is our food system really people don't realize that I didn't know it oh my god that's oil and you know gas and all this stuff like well what is it is that the trucking is it the animal feed okay so first of all deforestation is devastating not only do we like you destroy the soil on which we cut down the trees but the trees are carbon so we lose that so they're not sucking in the batter that's like putting out good eye oxide right I mean basically plants suck out carbon dioxide that's what they breathe we breathe oxygen they breathe carbon dioxide so that the perfect antidote right yeah and then the soil also we're damaging by the way we're farming we've lost a third of our topsoil mhm it's responsible the people who'll notice it of all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere the loss of soil organic matter like healthy rich soil is responsible for 30 to 40 percent of all greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere since the industrial ition is that meaning why is that decided because soil is it can hold more carbon then it's in the atmosphere right now right there's a trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere which is a lot I don't know trillion tons don't even know how to measure that and the soil can hold three trillion tons of carbon and how does it do that it's an ancient carbon capture technology that is available all over the world that's free that can be more effective than all the rainforests on the planet and all the forests and trees on the planet it's called photosynthesis and it and that if you have like grasslands for example like we had big prairies in the United States they suck down carbon they breathe it and they put it through the plants into the roots feeds the micro eyes of fungi which then make healthy soil feeds the bacteria and you get this incredibly rich live soil that holds a tremendous amounts of organic matter that is carbon right I mean carbohydrates comes from the word carbon which comes from carbon carbon dioxide Wow right I think ding ding it all connects and just and so we've lost so we don't have the soil for it to consume then we it just bounces off back into the air I guess into words yeah yeah in other ways yeah and and in the soil can hold so much carbon the UN estimated that if we took the 5 of the 5 million hectares of degraded farmland around the world if we took just 2 million of that and spent 300 billion which is the total military spent for 60 days the world which was not much yeah 60 days to months of everybody's military spending we literally could stall climate change by 20 years Wow because of putting back back the carbon in the soil and and not only that it holds water you've seen you know in in Iowa like a Midwest there was floods that just destroyed a million acres of cropland that otherwise could have been fine if the soil could hold the water but it just sits on the top where it runs through and we lose all this water so that when you have a organic matter in the soil it holds 27,000 gallons for every 1% organic matter in the soil per acre so it's an incredible water sink it's a carbon sink and we've lost all these soils and it's because we're growing these commodity crops in ways that destroy soil soil we're tilling on the soil or turning over to soil erosion and runs off into the rivers and we kill all the life in the organic matter by poisoning it with fertilizer right with pesticides with glyphosate herbicides and it's it's staggering and then we have all these sort of unintended consequences no we we started growing on this foo and then we thought this agriculture revolution was great all these chemicals are great you know fertilizers great we can do all this good stuff trackers big farms more food feed the world it's backfired on us and it's producing the worst food on the planet that's causing devastating environmental damage staggering climate change so it's it's the soil loss it's is that deforestation it's the factory farming the animals which is should be banned but it's the transportation storage refrigeration and the food waste I mean food waste in a lot of waste yeah well we move weights 40 percent of our food we've got a plate we don't need to go to grocery store buying much groceries okay and getting home and throwing 40% of garbage the average Americans waste 1800 dollars of food a year and it's about a pound a day and that goes to landfills the landfills then it rots and creates methane so you can be a vegan throwing out your food waste and scraps and you could be contributing climate change it food ways for our country it would be the third largest emitter of green house gasses after the US and China Wow yeah it's methane to produce and we need to compost you need to have community guard it looks always to fix it but it's it's like when you look at the whole end-to-end food system it is the number one source of climate change about 50% of greenhouse gases and people just don't appreciate that so why I mean if this information is public and it's out there and policy makers are aware of it or not they're not aware know I spent two hours in a saleable at this summer with a senator a smart senator he wasn't aware of it and I literally his jaw was hanging open the entire time and then I'm presented with this research animation now because I got so much money sensitive about lobbyists problem right I mean listen if all the people who are walking their office are Monsanto and Cargill and you know McDonald's and Pepsi and like and they're all donating millions of dollars I would say billions of dollars they're not hearing the other side of the science and you know how do you how do you fight that so you know I I was should write up obvious but I plan on you know of creating a food fixed campaign which is a nonprofit along with an advocacy organization to start to literally lobby senators and congressmen key people in the administration around these issues and start to drive policy change because in the UK and you were talking about I think in Australia New Zealand there or in I think in Asia you were saying that you can't do certain things with the food otherwise who'd go to prison you vote you'll get killed yo well yeah like in UK they don't have a lot of these dies and right right yeah so there's a funny you know the FDA you know is so influenced by the food industry and and I was once with the the former head of the Federal Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration Peggy Hill her former she was she was you know shoot but then she was the FDA Commissioner yeah but but now she's the former and I was at the World Economic Forum I said Peggy how how come you know we have so much trouble with with getting advances in food labeling or dealing with toxic chemicals in our food or the antibiotics and animal feed or you know it's like she's like well when we try to make too aggressive change Congress threatens to shut down our funding because of the food Lobby they threaten us shut down yeah and then what if they shut it down what would happen well they're limited in their ability to do their job and so the faculty see the same thing happened in the 70s there was a movement by the Federal Trade Commission to have you know negative I mean positive education campaigns are on sugar and how bad it was but the Congress says we're gonna pull your funding and shut you down if you if you do this and so they pull back so so I you know in in you know for example yes question by Asia we have this thing called grass which is generally recognized as safe so the food additives we have you know we have you know thousands of food additives only about 5% have actually been tested for safety and you other than her grandfathered in right let's go Chris go for example trans-fat was grandfathered in as a safety food to eat but it took 50 years for researchers to finally prove to the FDA that it wasn't safe it was the basis of all processed food oh I Crisco shortening you know it shortens your life that's like hutch my gosh and and so they they literally had to be sued by a scientist in order to actually turn it into a non-save substance and then they of course they gave their food in three years and years to get out of but but but in this country there's so many things that are used in our food supply that are banned in Europe like BH t-butyl II the hydroxy toluene food additives various dyes and something called azo dye carbon amide which is a softener that makes it like grande more like fluffy inside and which is an assembly sandwich our friend Vani Hari outed them said this is your yoga mat material in your Subway sandwich and they got to eat her yeah and she got out but the FDA still says it's fine to eat right and in Singapore if you use it in your food producer you get a four hundred fifty thousand dollar fine and 15 years in jail for putting in the food that same ingredient the same ingredient that anyone can use in the US or in the US yes and most of the things that are safe puts safe here are banned in Europe so it's like yeah they're not doing their job and then antibiotics and we have 30 million pounds of antibiotics are used in animal feed be about 37 million total so about seven million for humans to treat disease and 30 million for animals why for growth it's a growth factor rights makes them bat and it makes you one's bad too and it is used for prevention of from overcrowding and and the FDA says well this isn't a guide yeah I mean nobody thinks is a good idea but they go would you please pretty please not do it it was a voluntary guideline that the FDA produced not men Tories don't do it yeah you have to have a vet certify that the animals sick before you give them antibiotics oh man and now they you know continue to do it and just laughs you know they had voluntary the the FDA FTC put in voluntary guidelines around junk food market would you pretty please not advertise the bad stuff and advertise more good stuff it was just voluntary and the food industry went ballistic and had it overturned so even the voluntary guidelines are nullified like no and it just it's I mean sugar I mean it's like I'm the first one to raise my hand when I say like I love sugar and it's my everybody big it's vice right now I love cookies and candies and cakes and brownies and anything to think of I love it right we programmed I don't know why I don't doubt diabetes I'm so much sugar I've had my whole life but I happy ending that much could you look pretty good why train hard to your I go through waves and but it's a kid I would drink like 910 dr. peppers of day I remember what like some days in the summer you just sit around residents know what everybody's that if I would just I mean I would run around and and work out and play sports but then I'll just drink because I thought that if you were 16 18 like now I was like 9 10 right so I was like but it was you'd see it on commercials like you're and be a super smart drinking dr. pepper or sprite or whatever after on the basketball court and I don't know if it was just like subconscious or just it tasted good and you didn't think about it know it all I mean this is where the food industry is so I mean I talked about in my book food facts but this industry is so strategic about how it advances its mission and goals and it does it through multiple channels and I'm just gonna go through them because it's just people just don't know whatever the endorsements right yeah first you know obviously you know celebrity endorsements which is the obvious one they coop social groups so they fun groups like the n-double-a-cp and Hispanic Federation the you know african-american and Latino communities are the most affected by diabetes and obesity and they co-op them by funding them I want to show the movie fed up at the King Center in Atlanta and Bernice King Mern things daughter was all about it and she's excited but once once we got it scheduled if you did later I got a call that we couldn't show it I'm like why she's because coca-cola funds the King Center no yeah I went to Spelman College you know which is african-american women college in Atlanta and the Dean said to me half of the 18 year olds coming into college have a chronic illness obesity hypertension diabetes eight year old women and I'm like why is there soda machines all over the campus Y which is because coke funds no and one of the people on the Board of Trustees is one of the highest executives at coca-cola man never gonna marry woman it's like so the coop social groups and that's why they for example opposed soda taxes because they're there in the you know in the funding of these these big soda companies and then of course they fund research so they fund twelve times as much research twelve billion dollars worth of research a year to study nutrition so Gatorade gets studied by Pepsi Gatorades the best thing in the world it's not it's just sugar right or you know right right so the it corrupts include science of people are confused why is there so much confusion about nutrition science third they do they create front groups call them spin doctors so they create front groups that seem like they're independent works like cropped life yeah or you know like a tween Center for Consumer Freedom right or the American Council on science and health which by the way is run by a bunch of doctors who suggest that pesticides are safe the toxic dose Corp is great for you that smoking isn't cause disease and you know why would they do that because they get paid a lot there funded by Monsanto and big food and Pepsi just look at their funders and their business I mean they spent thirty million dollars fighting GMO labeling in California this front group it was all funded by Monsanto right and then you got these front groups and then you have them co-opting scientists and academies so the nutrition Academy is the American Heart Association American Diabetes Association they're funding in large part comes from industry and and so the Academy nutrition Dietetics which is our main nutrition association 40% of their funding comes from the food industry mmm you know they have sponsored you know lectures at their meetings that are you know when people say well high fructose corn syrup is good and diet drinks are good and like right it's just completely corrupted and so these professional societies give guidelines and they're they're corrupt and doctor I nineties from Stanford who is a deputy scientist who's looks at carefully at the research and in conflicts of interests as you know these professional societies like the American Heart Association and diabetes so she should not be making guidelines and then you've got all these ways in which things sort of screw things up and then of course they they're aggressive and advertising and marketing and which is illegal in those countries and then they have lobbyists running around Washington driving policy that supports all what they do so you've got this massive effort thank you so much for watching this video and if you're looking for more greatness in your life and check out this next video right here mold you know most of the cancer cancer cancer is caused by food really 70 percent 70 percent of cancer is caused by food and sugar is the number one culprit heart disease diabetes Alzheimer's

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Published: Fri Jun 19 2020