Can an Animal-Based Diet reverse heart disease and diabetes? With Sean O’Mara, MD. 

Dr. Sean O’mara was a great guest, I listened to every second of this and sent to my family. Would love a part 2.

I’m 61 and I ride hard enduro motorcycles with people 20 30 40 years younger than me. Well not to brag but I kick ass. All day long. Carnivore and fasting.

I'm 74 and way better health wise then when i was 72. Visceral fat was killing me, my abdomen was round and hard like a basketball. I went low carb and in a year i had some fat still but my abdominal area is soft and i find that exciting. I really feel good. :-) now 60lbs later i have intrest in exercise and do some and picking up power. Getting better is cool.

Dr Natasha Campbell's McBride's, an extremely experienced clinician and creator of the GAPS DIET wrote her book "Put Your Heart In Your Mouth! What Really is Heart Disease and what we can do to prevent it and even Reverse it" in 2007. She felt the need to write the book as she was advocating a diet of animal fats, including meat, fish, eggs and fermented dairy (homemade kefir) to her numerous patients. This was in the early 2000s, Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome was first published in 2004. As she was going against the mainstream dietary advice at the time, rather than having to explain to the hundreds of thousands of people following the GAPS diet why she was recommending her diet, she wrote a book about it. I am delighted to say that I have been on her diet for about 4 years, I recently did a CAC test my score was a big fat 0, and the cardiologist when reviewing the ultrasound called my heart the perfect machine. My cholesterol was around 330, DR. McBride would say "Rejoice!" and so I am.

These podcasts are priceless.. Such incredible information that can directly benefit our overall health and performance moving forward. We have been waiting for a guy like Sean O'Mara for a long long time.. Thanks Paul

Pickles! You forgot to mention pickles as a fermented food. Pickles are my preferred fermented food. I love them.

I watched the entire thing and it was all literally mind blowing. My head is spinning. I’m 78, male, and have coronary artery disease. Had endarterectomy 3 years ago left side. I started a carnivore diet 6 days ago. It was learned practitioners like yourselves that convinced me to try it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with others!

I could listen to this all day. Thank you

The long distance runner who switched to sprinting blew my mind. It makes so much sense. I've always noticed at my gym, the overweight unhealthy looking people are on the treadmills, and the lean healthy looking people are at the weights. I see people jogging down the road, they almost never look healthy. 50% of them are overweight, and the other half look stiff and sickly.

One of the best! The pictures really helped. Thank you for sharing this and keep going on and educating us.

Excellent information! Love how clearly the MRI images showed the improvements and slip-ups. I'm looking forward to part 2.

Wow, this is huge! Such a great validation that we are headed in the right direction. Thank you! 👍👍🙏

Those MRIs are riveting! Great job explaining to lay people what we are looking at. I can't help but think how many strokes, MIs, early deaths, etc. could be avoided if patients could only see and process this on an individual basis! I believe the stumbling block is the expense of an MRI and the non-coverage by insurance for "healthy" patients.

Just wanted you to know you changed my life man , ive been following what your doing and starting to apply it to my life and share it with others! I think what your doing is amazing and healthy to society and we need more of you out there brother. Keep this up man your an inspiration to many, and many that may not share it or show it. I believe your on the cusp of changing a lot of how we view our health.

You both rock. Thanks for another supper interesting visual podcast

Such a great presentation. Thank you, so much. Really beneficial. Life changing!

WOW! I’m going to have to listen to this one again-so full of exciting information! Thank you! ❤️

Such a good interview. Thanks for doing it Paul.

What an excellent episode! Paul deserves more subscribers for sure. So much good information so often.

I found these case studies and images inspirational, motivational and encouraging. Thank you.

Wow. I loved this, subscribed and shared. Thank you so much for the truly enlightening education. Amazing. I'd love a part 2 also...

Hi to the both of you, and thank you for this awesome podcast!🤗

This info is FANTASTIC! THANK YOU! 😁

These images are very powerful! Fantastic way to see how nutrition without processed foods or harmful seed/vegetable oils can have very tangible improvements on a person's health.

Great work gentlemen. Loved the images. Respect.

Wow! Extremely impressive! This is ground breaking material!

So nice to follow and listen to those that practice what they preach. Thank you for uploading and sharing.

Mind blowing. Wow. Great podcast. I like his point that if you have metabolic dysfunction you generally can’t cope with carbs until healed.

We changed our diet at home and that helped. However, we continued to eat out. We love to go out to restaurants. We realized that everything we ate out was basically poison. Everything was cooked in seed oils. Lots of things were processed especially desserts. We stopped going out and that has been a game charger.

Wooowww!!!!! Now loving Dr Sean O'Mara as much as Dr Paul Saladino!!! Actually taking notes from this..

That was super fascinating, thanks!

Dr. Sean O'Mara = Must watch. 💯 Great content. "Chronic cardio is harmful." Has anyone alerted Zack Bitter?

So much good info here. All the info you need to be healthy.

What an awesome video! Thank you for the content.

Wow- great visuals. If this doesn't convince people, nothing will. Thank you for the podcast.

Powerful interview and imagery 👏🏽

I love the fact that I'm building muscle without much exercise; walking 40 mins daily and mostly meat/ animal fat does the job.

A part two would be great!

55:00 Position on what percentage of carbohydrates in the diet benefits "most" people. This is highly subjective dependent on the person's metabolic health and activity level. I tried a LCHF diet instead of keto in 2020 with 112g - 13% Total Carb, 74g net intake and gained 10 pounds over the year, with cravings, binging, large waist gain, and mood swings. I strongly agree with Dr. O'Mara's take on this subject for "most" people. Just like Dr. Atkins suggested, adding back carbs (including honey) is possible over a 20g total or even net carb intake. This discussion revolved around athletic performance and visceral fat, but really did not delve into other health/lipid markers. Dr. Volek (among others) reported the difference in blood markers between even a ketogenic diet and a LCHF diet. This may be a good topic for a Round 2 discussion.

Absolutely fascinating! Great info!!

I admire both doctors here, and I know some of their back stories. Dr Sean is amazing in all that he is doing. I can’t wait for a part 2. Joe Rogan has much to learn, but I don’t see his ability to learn is great nevertheless.

Been waiting for this since it was mentioned in the newsletter 😁

Thank you doctors!👏🏻💖

This was awesome. Thanks!

I've been carnivore, except for coffee, for 4 months. I'm 49 y/o with a CAC of 139. I couldn't start this video soon enough.

What a great interview! The best I've heard yet on the carnivore diet. Loved the scans...amazing results!

Thank you brother.

After I started the animal diet, my heart rate when wayyy down, and I no longer felt my heart beat when I would lay down. this was after only 2 weeks!

Great talk, Thanks :)

I bought your book and I agree with 99% of what you say I'm a 76-year-old male and the one thing that I do not agree with is I believe that a small amount of fiber is definitely beneficial, maybe when you're younger not so much, I think it is beneficial to have a little fiber in your diet. if I don't I am always constipated and having to use something like milk of magnesia about every three or four days a small amount of fiber something like Sealyham husk solves the problem and I am quite normal. I suspect that as we age your intestines are less active and therefore a little fiber is beneficial, probably not necessary in people 55 or younger. I have noticed that most of the people that say fiber is not necessary are under the age of 55, time will tell. My motto is I'm going to live to be 100 or I'm going to die trying.

Great job!

He actually responds to emails! 😊

Great vid

I'm all in paul... 4 months strong now. Hell I'd love to have a debate with you in questioning or posing philosophical questions about the mechanism and other great topics

👍👍👍👍👍👍 I was wanting to see this yesterday, you read my mind 😃

Great video, thanks. It reinforces the benefits of a animal based diet. I would also be keen to understand what you believe is the best sprint routine and the rest period between sprints.

Great content 👌

Another great informative podcast... I also just subscribed to Dr. SeansRU-vid channel

Wish you would do a podcast on sugar/carb addiction. I'd love to get your view on it.

Brilliant...incredibly motivating. The visuals definitely show incontrovertible evidence.

Wow, you have to get Stasha Gominak on Paul!!! After that restless legs comment so close to comments about vitamin D and microbiome this is all slotting together. Incredible.

Good video.

Sleep well by seeing every sunrise and sunset and avoiding all light except fire at nignt👌

Dr. Steven Gundry says those with APOE4 need to avoid animal fats and replace them with olive oil. Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Thomas Dayspring say do not think a high LDL-P is safe regardless. Has Dr. Saladino thought about inviting them onto his podcast or going over to theirs? He had Dr. Gundry on once but that was about animal protein rather than animal fat.

Dr. Paul - had a question for perhaps another podcast day - which by the way, I listen to all the time. Any chance you can explore Sesame? I've heard that it has properties which block a lot of the bad Omega-6 aspects. I have been making great strides towards a healthier lifestyle (just had some grass finished beef liver the other day :) ), but every so often, I run into questions about some seeds. I know you typically avoid seeds and their oils due to the linoleic acid, but again, really curious about exploring Sesame (also, i think it tastes pretty good). Separately, if you could spend some time on Flax and Chia too, that would be awesome. I'd say I'm primarily animal based, but will have the occasional flax, chia, and sesame seed. Just curious to know what the truth is - thank you again! Love the show.

Great podcast! The only piece of info I’m trying to work through is the last bit about chronic cardio. I just learned about Phil Maffetone’s work in what he calls the Maximum Aerobic Function (MAF) method. This is right up your alley, Paul, because it has to do with beta oxidation of fatty acids and keeping lactate production minimized. Just curious to hear your thoughts on that, because it strictly based on heart rate control for aerobic exercise. Seems like it could benefit mitochondria.

Now I want to get scanned

After I started the animal diet, my heart rate when wayyy down, and I no longer felt my heart beat when would lay down. this was after only 2 weeks!

How do I order the visceral fat MRI? My doctor keeps saying that is a DXA scan but you guys seem to say something else. What is the technical order term to use?

Dr Paul, can you share a sprinting routine? I’m really interested in adding it to my exercise.

PAUL! Do an episode with a few interviews with the most successful carnivore turn around stories! Pleaseeeeee. I know there is meat rx but i think it could be a good addition to your library

Fascinating discussion thank you. Please provide the specific description of the MRI of the arteries in the brain & is the same procedure available for the coronary arteries & if not why not?

What is considered chronic cardio? I do Brazilian jujitsu or kickboxing an hour a day four days a week. I am 58 transitioned from Keto to carnivore -love it.

This guy isn't a radiologist but is trying to pretend that he is. I'm board certified in radiology and have issues with most of what he says. Selected points... The fist images showing the volume of visceral fat are misleading. the last one is taken lower down by the umbilicus where there is always less visceral fat. i could take the same person on the same day and take different axial slices and make it look just like that. Im curious what software they are using to estimate total volume volume. you would have to draw in regions of interest by hand to include the peritoneum but exclude bowel and organs. we do similar things for valve areas for example but its pretty tedious and inaccurate He says "not an angiogram I minus doesnt use radiation" but it is in fact an angiogram, thats what the "a" stands for in mra, and it does use radiation, its just nonionizing radiation, and no radiologist would say I minus, you dont even use iodinated contrast in mri. you would use something that is T1 shortening like gadolinium. Wtf When he is showing the 9 months later no plaque image that really doesnt show you anything very interesting. You arent looking intra-luminally just at the contour. i see vasospasm for example that looks like that resolve in 30 mins on follow up scans. attributing it to dietary change is misleading at best. You would have little idea what changed and no idea why. When he is talking about mri being ideal to capture atherosclerotic disease disease in the brain where there is no motion. No shit but then he talks about someone having a myocardial infarction. Didnt help much then did it? I mean maybe there is a correlation between coronary disease and and cerebrovascular disease but probably should have done a cardiac gated coronary cta huh? I highly doubt that people are "getting smarter" because of increased blood flow from atherosclerotic regression due to dietary change. I guess its worth testing but he didnt prove it by saying its so. There is such a thing as multi-infarct dementia but while you can stop progression, it isnt really reversible. If there is a change in cognition i would guess its probably from decreased systemic inflammation but who knows. He says endorsement doesn't happen with other diets but that's not true, i know lots of vegetarians and vegans who endorse their diet. Most people endorse what works for them as if its best for everyone. He says that most of his examples are "n of one" but then says "show you what the science says". n of one isnt science. Making falsifiable statements and testing them is. He is making broad statements to try to make sense of trends that he sees and supports his theories using tools he doesn't understand. In the picture where he is pointing out the pericardial fat, that's mostly anterior mediastinum. Most of the pericardial fat is inferior by the diaphragms. And then Paul summarizes that all of this incontrovertible evidence that an animal based diet is the best. Huh? The guy wasnt even arguing for a carnivore diet but i dont think you can conclude that based on anything talked about. Just my 2 cents

What foods would be included in this meal plan

Thank you for the immense amount of information. I wonder how bad is home made kombucha, it's a given that it's not animal product, but would the fermentation/bacteria outweight the sugar and theine in it?

people who ate rice probably ate fried rice made with vegetable oil . i dont think moderate amount of plan white rice would be bad

Point on 24:00 is why some some diet gurus on Twitter just don’t look very healthy; kind of overdoing it.

What # should visceral fat be?

The No Bullsh*t Zone. These 2 together...a powerhouse / all star team. Both passionate ab what they do and both smart AH. This is great. I try to tell people ab this stuff but not everyone wants to listen. They say..oh u think u r an expert. My response is...No, I listen to experts and provide info. Best damn podcast here. This is up there. What a team here. Love it but now my day is on hold until i watch entire thing...so that is the negative. Lol. This.. is a valuable podcast. Most are not. Wow. Thank you. Wish I could get some raw saurkraut. Everything is pasteurized. That is bsht. Cant get healthy stuff. Haha at the... Walk us through the sprinting. LOL. Walk, sprint haha good one Saladino. Not a lot of mention of fasting thougn. Hmm. Thoughts on I.F.?

How much sprinting and how many times a week are beneficial?.

I want to see scans before and after being outside for a month vs indoors with a consistent diet

Question for the doctors: Traditionally fermented wheat (aka sourdough bread) ... is this possibly an OK carb in small amounts the way small amounts of honey seem to be OK?

Can you invite Dr Gil Carvalho on your podcast? This podcast shouldn't become an echo chamber.

Wheres the video of you and Rogan going to roam ranch to promote regenerative agriculture?!

Boy I'm gonna really have to look at my off plan days🤔

Interesting info on fermented veggies but not good for someone with SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth)!!

Dr. Saladino, what kind of oil would you recommend to cook?

Great video! Question: How do you know if a rat has become schizophrenic? Do they hear voices? If so, how do you know they hear voices?

Microbiome likely major key.... overweight since age 4..... lots of antibiotics since age 4 in the 60's.....

Day 11 on carnivore, already losing weight and I even have pork rinds dipped in cream cheese sometimes yum!

Look at Paul in a lab coat! That’s a new one to see! Looks good on you, Doc! 🥼

More of this plz. Love you guys teamed up. Add that PE Diet guy...(Ted Naiman) and then that Indian Cardiologist. Forget his name. That would be the full dream team. Holy Bleep. Ok the Indian cardiologist that hates processed carbs and loves fasting is Dr J (Pradip Jasmadas ) and then also Dr Nadir. That,.. is a Dream Team like Michael Jordan, Dr J, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, etc. You guys are very far from the status quo nonsene. Way out in front. Youre the best. Not just knowledgeable, but decent people and fun to listen to. Wish you guys were my doc and family's doc. Talk ab brain power.

Microbiome expert Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride GAPS diet includes fermented vegetables, regular vegetables and of course she has been recommending organ meats which for her are the superfoods!

Dr. O'Mara looks like Richard Gere.

How low of carbs do you have to go to lower visceral fat?

Who would like to see him up against Vegan Gains?

Was that vegan Dr. MICHAEL GREGOR next to Dr. Paul in that screen shot comparison, lol??

I agree if someone is metabolically healthy it's ok not to go super low carb all the time n our ancestors were probably flexible

I'm curious if there would be a difference or improvement in someone that does a mix of faster (sprinting/speed work) with distance running while eating a low carb (animal based diet). I am a distance runner/athlete but include a mix of strength training and some faster speed work throughout my longer distance training. I have seen a huge benefit in my overall health in reducing my carbohydrate intake and eliminating traditional foods that are common for distance athletes (pasta and bread for example.)