I am doing a PhD in Immunology and I think that chronic inflammation is the root of +90% of modern diseases. When I switched to keto for the first time, I wanted to see how my body reacts to it and got a blood test for inflammation (CRP). The CRP was not detectable, meaning that at the very least, the ketogenic diet was not inflammatory. I am planning different self-experiments to figure out what diets are "inflammatory" and what are "anti-inflammatory". I am excited to figure this out.
60 years of age. .. After 12 months of keto, now net 14kg weight loss...my CRP tested on 4 occasions has never been above 0.50 and HDL/Trig ratio always around 2:1 my HbA1c went down from 5.7 to 5.0 and now probably less than that. Looking at a slice white bread now strikes fear into me.
Optimize with Science - I don’t think you need a PhD to figure out that anything that triggers insulin is potentially inflammatory. Do a 5 day water only fast and you’ll quickly learn what’s good for your body.
@@jammin6816 How do you learn? Do you mean when you start eating again? I recently did a 3 day coffee fast, which I think was healthful in many ways, but it didn't help me identify foods that I'm sensitive to.
peanutgallery77 Yes, you eliminate foods and reintroduce them one at a time and see what happens. It can take up to 72 hours for certain reactions. It’s good to go carnivore and do this.
Me too! So amazing. Had no clue my keto weight loss would change everything. So grateful. No more asthma, no more sore joints, no more allergies, stronger nails, no more cracked heels.
Crikey, that's so good, just had a doctor tell me I need to be on meds, everyday, for asthma I only get occasionally from infections. I have just found a low carb doctor, see her tomorrow,lets see what she says about that!
Going mainly carnivore helped me so much with my pain, fibromyalgia and inflammation. I tried eating some tomatoes that i grew in my garden for a week, the pain in my joints for that week was extreme pain, no more tomatoes for me. I love my basic eating diet plan now - Sardines, Meat, Chicken, Pork, Bacon, Eggs, Butter, Olive Oil, Bullet Proof Coffee, occasional sauerkraut and pickles
Tinned tomatoes make the tip of my nose pulsate and tingly. I'd say that's inflammation. As for fresh tomatoes from the supermarket I kept one on the kitchen bench for over a month. It remained in perfect condition for one month until I threw it away in disgust. Years ago a real tomato would not last more than a few days without going soft and sloppy.
I was riddled with inflamation until I left almost all vegetables and carbs alone. Thirteen years I went through hell while my doctor thought I was faking it. Brisbane.
This is something I'm currently struggling with. Having trouble getting help/belief from Dr's however but learning that maybe this is a good thing for the damage they could possibly do with corticosteroid shots/pills. Feel at a loss and learning that diet and self reflection might be worth a look into. Fighting with food, or internalizing seems easier to resolve than some issues these other methods would cause for sure. Interesting but frustrated. Hating food and hungry for change.
I went LCHF/Keto for arthritis pain. It worked very well for about 3 months, some of the pain came back the last 3 months so I started intermittent fasting and it seems to be working as well. I was ready to retire last year the pain was so bad but I'm working 7 days a week now no problem. I'm about 75/20/5 Fat/Protein/Carbs.. I count net carbs (net of fibre). Most of my carbs come in the form of a salad I eat each day that has things like cabbage, mushrooms, bok choy, arugula, romaine lettuce, fermented cabbage or kimchi etc. I almost always add some canned fatty fish like sardines, herring or mackeral, drizzle on some olive oil and usually sprinkle on some nutritional yeast. It would probably average 700-900 calories if I counted. Other than that I eat a lot of fatty beef, pork, chicken and other meat, eggs, bacon, a handful of nuts here and there. To intermittent fast, I usually finish up eating around 7 or 8 and then don't eat or drink anything but water for at least 16-20 hours.
@@d.b.1858 Meat, fresh fish, butter, eggs, I dare a coffee or two with pure cream and an occasional dark chocolate. Sometimes I will try a few greens but that's a few and maybe once a week. I have to be careful. Green beans, that' sort of thing.
@@johnnypenso9574 With your condition I would go back to plain meat and fish with eggs and start again. Something is affecting you. You have to find out what it is. I doubt it's butter so butter and cream is fine but I would leave milk off for a week. Then start adding things once a week. Starting with leafy vegetables like lettuce and cabbage. Be careful, don't add any spices except salt. You will require plenty of that. Best of luck.
Very good. However, no one is looking at emotional stress as being an inflammatory trigger. We also digest our emotions. I was very fit, not obese still suffered inflammatory symptoms, which led to breast cancer. A life of stress, that I thought was, 'normal,' which was totally wrong. Also, emotional stress maybe the pre curser to people feeling the need to over eat, thus causing obesity. Emotional health as well as the right foods both need to be addressed for a good anti inflammatory result.
This was my second attendance at this conference. Learnt so much again. Australia and the world would benefit by being low carb! Think how much inflammation we could reduce. Highly recommend you get to Low Carb Gold Coast every October.
Nice presentation. I hadn't heard of "The Plant Paradox," so I checked it out at Barnes and Noble. I was immediately put off by the fact that the four endorsements on the back cover of the book included ones from Dr. Oz and Tony Robbins. That did it for me, and I returned the book to the shelf.
I really enjoyed all of the excellent presentations, which explained a lot of my obesity issues, unable to stop gaining weight and resulting health issues. I'm chronically depressed and this help has given me motivation to retry a Mediterranean, keto diet again. Thank you.
Gosh I wonder if you're still out there he posted this 2 years ago but if you are can you let us know how you've done on a personal note though never obese myself I dropped 95% of the sugars in my diet and I've dropped over 20 pounds without even trying to.
The problem with promoting olive oil is that most of it is mixed with cheap vegetable oils to save money. Put your olive oil in the refrigerator over night. If it stays liquid it is mixed with vegetable oils.
Yes, most olive oil exported from the Mediterranean region is either mixed with seed oils (deceptively marketed as 'vegetable' oils) or it is all processed seed oil with chemicals added to make it seem more like olive oil - some of them very toxic. The refrigerator test is not accurate: >>> The Fridge Test: Not a Good Measure of Olive Oil Quality Earlier this year, The Dr. Oz Show featured a segment on the olive oil 'fridge test,' which suggested that you can tell your extra virgin olive oil is pure if it solidifies in the fridge. The US Davis Olive Center decided to test the theory out and found that this is actually a very unreliable way to detect olive oil purity. In fact, the Olive Center researchers refrigerated seven samples of oil and found that none of them congealed after 60 hours in the fridge. While some had areas that had hardened, due to the varying levels of saturated fats in the oil, none solidified completely. So you can save yourself the effort and avoid using this test. "All olive oils contain a small amount of saturated fatty acids that solidify at refrigerator temperatures," said Paul Vossen, UC Cooperative Extension advisor. "The amount of solidification is equal to the amount of saturated fatty acids in the oil, which depends mostly on the varieties of olives used to make the oil and to a lesser extent where the olives were grown. Solidification does not indicate freshness, purity, flavor, extra virgin grade, or any other quality parameter." >>> Source: articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/05/olive-oil.aspx
Yes, most olive oil exported from the Mediterranean region is either mixed with seed oils (deceptively marketed as 'vegetable' oils) or it is all processed seed oil with chemicals added to make it seem more like olive oil - some of them very toxic. The refrigerator test is not accurate: >>> The Fridge Test: Not a Good Measure of Olive Oil Quality Earlier this year, The Dr. Oz Show featured a segment on the olive oil 'fridge test,' which suggested that you can tell your extra virgin olive oil is pure if it solidifies in the fridge. The US Davis Olive Center decided to test the theory out and found that this is actually a very unreliable way to detect olive oil purity. In fact, the Olive Center researchers refrigerated seven samples of oil and found that none of them congealed after 60 hours in the fridge. While some had areas that had hardened, due to the varying levels of saturated fats in the oil, none solidified completely. So you can save yourself the effort and avoid using this test. "All olive oils contain a small amount of saturated fatty acids that solidify at refrigerator temperatures," said Paul Vossen, UC Cooperative Extension advisor. "The amount of solidification is equal to the amount of saturated fatty acids in the oil, which depends mostly on the varieties of olives used to make the oil and to a lesser extent where the olives were grown. Solidification does not indicate freshness, purity, flavor, extra virgin grade, or any other quality parameter." >>> Source: articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/05/olive-oil.aspx
Yep. Good onya Doc. Joints Pain free for the first time in decades; lost 30k on low carb. Anyone in doubt should try it themselves for a few months and see what happens. What have you got to lose. Thanks very much.
I'm not a Dr. But if i was I would investigate the high insulin all day problem. The diet definitely is the problem. I would eat the sad diet and feel super hungry a few hours after. Then do it again and again. It was a lack of nutrients and lack of saturated fat. Saturated fat is very satiating. That is how i lost weight. If the brain isn't hungry. You get lean.
Yes, sorting through the findings is a full-time job. I'm 63 and mostly in excellent health, but a chronic itchy face resists all suggested solutions (no sugar, wheat, or dairy). Fasting seemed to help, but it's tricky when you're thin. Eating should be a pleasure, not a chore.
That was fantastic, and really interesting about the man with the problem knee getting better on the keto diet. I think that mead acid might have been part of the problem. We make mead acid out of oleic acid, when there's a deficiency of arachidonic acid, which is very common if you avoid animal fat, and mead acid is mainly in the joints. One of the problems is that mead acid induces inflammatory hormones. Then, unlike arachidonic acid, which makes lipoxin to stop the inflammation (so it's ultimately anti-inflammatory), mead acid can't stop the inflammatory response, plus it even inhibits bone repair! So, that's a one-two punch for our knees, hips, neck, shoulders, etc., and may explain a lot of replacement surgeries happening these days.
There is some word out there, one MD did it to her husband (on youtube as well, she has been interviewed, and posted her own video), that Coconut oil bought him back from Alzheimers till 12 months later he was able to use a computer. Her husband too far gone to be admitted to a trial, but her research found the major ingredient being used in the trial... which was a basically a MCT found in coconut oil. There was a properly Tested notable effect after 90 minutes of taking 3 tablespoons of coconut oil. I guess the theory is that some part of coconut oil is directly converted to ketones without need the usual digestive tract process, so reaches the blood relatively quickly.. You can test this yourself, as I have many times, 30-60 minutes after one tablespoon of coconut oil noticeably boosts blood BHB. eg. tonight before dinner BHB 0.8 .....one hour after bacon eggs cooked with two tablespoons Coconut oil.... 1.7
Akane Cortich - coconut oil contains MCT (medium chain triglycerides) which are lipids which can be processed quickly for energy. Since they are ketones and not carbs insulin is not stimulated and therefore not inflammatory.
@@Olds79Starfire Some portion of coconut oil bypasses the usual digest process and is rapidly converted into ketones. Sadly I saw this assessment in a lecture on the effect of coconut oil on Alzheimer's but don't recall the link for that.... but I believe it all started with this persons experience as mentioned above. " also...pubmed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30056419 " ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dfux-5Z4COo.html YOu will probably have to google this. But it is easy enough to test. Having not eaten for a while, take your Keto measurement, take a desert spoon of virgin coconut oil, the 30mins to 1 hour afterward take your keto measurements again. Works so well for me that I just take a teaspoon just to ensure I stay in ketosis when Im out and about.
The doctor is Mary Newport . All on RU-vid . She also did TED talk about it. She is a neonatologist and knew mct was given to premature babies. She then discovered coconut oil is 60% mct .
Yes! Have you heard that some researchers are now calling Alzheimer's disease 'type III diabetes'? More and more physicians and medical researchers are becoming aware that the root cause of most non-contagious or infectious diseases is chronic inflammation.
@@Jefferdaughter yes .. insulin resistance taking various forms is the basis of most chronic inflammation. ...moving away from seed oil, processed flours, sugars relieves the chronic conditions ...check out Westin Price
Very interesting. Dr Bruckner briefly alluded to the role of sleep in inflammation - and just like diet can be harnessed to reduce inflammation, so can sleep. Once again, there is a bi directional relationship, with poor sleep increasing inflammation and inflammation dysregulating sleep. As soon as ewe break the cycle, things improve..
I have a question regarding fruits and veg showing reduced inflamation in sick people (27min ~). Can it be that the reduced inflamation was a resolt of people reducing other things in order to consume more fruits and vegs?? I mean if it replaced fried food for example, sure it look like the fruit and vegs reduced inflamation... maybe it was what they stopped eating and not what they added?
Since the 'meat industry' is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the total industrial agricultural complex and processed food industries, this is not likely to happen. Most of the money made in agriculture is made by the huge corporations making and selling harmful chemicals - synthetic fertilizers that kill soil life and contaminate waterways and water supplies, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides. And selling unnaturally altered life-forms which they have been allowed to patent, in spite of a specific prohibition against this in the US constitution. And from feeding those crops to poultry, hogs, and beef in confinement - which provides a market for the commodity grain and soybean crops. And manufacturing highly processed food-like stuff. Millions of $ were poured into finding out just how to get people to buy and eat more manufactured and processed foods- foods that hijack our biology to induce us to eat more and more of them, and more in general. Add to that the push to further increase the percentage of plant-source foods in our diets, as the EAT Lancet report reveals- in spite of the fact that it is known that diets high in, or soley of, plants are nutritionally deficient. Dr. Georgia Ede on this topic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NknJ2vBuGqM.html This is almost certainly being done to increase corporate profits and increase control of the food supply. The claim that meat is bad for the environment is totally false. Meat is best raised, and more efficiently produced, living on the land filling the ecological roles that each type of animal was designed/evolved to fill. Sustainable and regenerative farming practices allow livestock to benefit the land, soil life, plant community, and wildlife - with increasing numbers and diversity seen in life above and below the soil surface WHILE ALSO increasing the productivity of the land AND providing high quality human food. However, this does not fit the industrial sense of 'efficiency' - which claims that raising thousands of hogs on a couple acres in a building that never see the light of day and live 24/7 (but not 365 days, since they are now harvested at about 4 months of age) on concrete slats is 'more efficient' than raising pigs outside on pasture. Or tens of thousands of chickens in a warehouse type building that never get to peck at pasture, and are harvested at 8 weeks of age - with little flavor and diminished nutrition. But the industrial ag complex discounts the costs and ecological damage of chemical-based farming that produces the crops to feed CAFO animals. ***OR to produce plant based foods for humans - the seed oils 'vegetable' oils), the grains, soybeans, etc. Millions of TONS of MULTIPLE chemicals are used on US crops alone, each year. Or the fuel required to grow feed, instead of allowing animals to get some, or in the case of dairy animals and beef, lamb, and other ruminant animals even ALL of their feed directly from the land - no diesel fuel or increasingly expensive machinery - which causes harmful soil compaction - required. Nor do the industrial ag companies address the way that CAFOs takke the blessing of manure and urine, and turn it into a waste problem - by unnaturally concentrating it, and/or putting it into water. All industrial processes ignore anything outside the process. We do this at our peril. It is well worth seeking out the independent farms that are producing meat, milk and milk products, and/or vegetables or fruits using sustainable and regenerative methods. The planet, the animals, the farmer, the nutrition, and the FLAVOR all benefit. While we still have the choice... In the end, it does not really matter how a carnivore diet, or a VLCHF diet, or any other diet, works for the majority of people. Or one other person. All that matters is how it works for us. Still, well designed and conducted studies on a carnivore diet would be good to see. We may have to crowdsource the funding, or something...
But doctors literally got everyone sick... people should really think about that because they gave me fake "HIV" too (See House of Numbers & The Emperor's New Virus 4 why & how I am alive & well after a so-called "HIV DIAGNOSIS" 10 yrs ago & w 0 toxic "meds"). Seriously, I'm not crazy lol Check them out & spread the knowledge! "Germ theory" is terrorism, at this point
@@duxmealux281 I said saturated never hurt anyone. Explain your argument. As saturated fat is in all fats and oils and you can't live without it because it's in our brain, our skin, our liver and every cell in our body, it would be nice to know how you think you can even hold yourself together without it.
Answered my own question regarding the commercial production of K2mk7. Worked out how to make it from a research paper...so you can get between 10,000-20,000mcg/100gm natto with the process. At home even 5,000mcg is more than the 775mcg that is usual for a 100gm soybean.
Having chronic inflammation is hard going. Does removing fruits, bread, high carb foods, sugar, processed junk from your diet really eliminate inflammation?
Wine has good flavonoids, but it is also a known carcinogen (according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer). Is the risk of cancer worth it in order to get the flavonids?
i am trying to go on a keto diet with IF. eating green veggies, eggs, sardines and shunning all sugars and processed junk food. Once in awhile i eat bread, and sure enough my fingers get stiff in the morning. When I do not eat breads , my fingers are not stiff the following morning. This is my scientific research on myself. i am going to try carnivore diet but not 100 percent since i like my coffee and green tea (1 cup a day) and avocado and greens veggies and cheese. i don't think I can do 100 of any diets out there- WPBD, HFLC, HCLF, Carnivore, KETO, PALEO. I will try to see what my body feels , but for now Intermittent fasting with low carbs and no sugars works for me. I occasionally cheat with carbs when I cannot avoid it but in moderation.
Question for you in regards to chronic inflammatory disease. I am a hospice nurse with a pt on for malnutrition who has severe RA. Of course traditional treatment for malnutrition is boost and other sugary supplements. Pt has had increase in RA symptoms. Antedotically I wonder what the effect of low sugar high fat would effect his RA while helping him become better nutritionally. Hope this makes sense.
Mary Williams - you don’t need sugary drinks for nutrition. Carbs are not essential for life- protein and fat are essential. Vitamins A, D, E and K are fat soluble anyway. A good way to get nutrition and avoid inflammatory foods is to eat eggs, coconut cream or milk, almond milk, organic grass fed meat, and lots of bacon.
jammin6816 Bacon is only healthy if the pig it came from was healthy, as fat is a storage device for toxins. If (any) animal was CAFO raised on glyphosate /GMO corn....I would not call that meat healthy. Don't get me started on nitrates or smoking of the meat re cancer. I eat a lot of fat and meat....just make sure it's quality meat with quality fat. CAFO fat is TOXIC IMO
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! I am always saying that with the American diet, we are on a constant inflammation and the only way to heal is to completely uproot our diet and slowly add one food at a time to see how the body rejects most of it.
Oh, you are so, so right. Kick out all the vegetables and fruits, the nuts and all the junk then just plain meat and fish with just salt. No spices and herbs. This way you can find out if you have any sensitivities to a type of food. Meat won't hurt you and neither will salt. We're made of those.
Im confused by all the different health advice. "Only eat meat", "dont eat meat", "drink milk" "dont drink milk", "eat lots of almonds", "NEVER eat almonds", "Only drink fruit juice", "avoid fruit at all cost", "eat lots of fiber", "fiber gives you cancer"
"By simply changing his diet..." YES, EXACTLY !!!! Forget the plants. Get rid of fructose, all sugars & starches, not seed oils, no soy, nothing man-made...Just eat meat and nice healthy animal-fats, full-fat dairy optional.
Hidden amongst the beverages I recognized the labels of at least two diet sodas. Were they there for visuals or is there an implication that some contents in soda beverages, other than sugar, are inflammatory?
32:23 - The Omega 3 fatty acids from plant sources, like flax and purslane, are not in the form that the human body needs. Our bodies can convert only a small amount, if any, to forms we can use. Plant sources contain zero EPA and DHA, which are critical for brain development and function. 100% 'grassfed' milk and milk products can be a good source of Omega 3s, and other key nutrients like Vit K. Organic milk has been shown to contain higher levels of Omega 3 than conventional milk, as USDA Certified Organic milk has to come from cows that get a percentage of their diet from pasture during the growing season. More and more conventional milk is coming from 'farms' that confine cows, and use fossil fuels and chemicals to grow their feed and haul it to them. Ag extension agents, paid for by tax dollars, and the producers of machinery, synthetic fertilizers and 'cides' convince farmers that this is better than allowing the cows to harvest their own feed, and fertilize the pastures as they go. Jersey and many heritage breeds (Devon, etc) give much higher average cream content, aka butterfat, in their milk than the American industrial-style Holstein cows. 'Whole' milk in supermarkets is standardized to 3.25% butterfat. Jersey cows on high-forage diets (pasture, stored pasture, and other forages) often produce milk in the 4-5% butterfat range. The milk in supermarkets is also highly processed. This damages, eliminates, or reduced many of the nutrients and benefits of milk. The fat globules are artificially reduced in size (homogenization), kills the beneficial bacteria aka probiotics naturally present in milk, destroys much of the vitamin content including the Vit C, as already mentioned the fat content is reduced- so they can sell the extra cream, the beneficial ensymes are destroyed, including the lactase which digests the lactose (this, and the naturally present benefical bacteria in raw milk explains why many lactose intolerant people can enjoy raw milk), the immune factors are destroyed, and the proteins may also be altered by the high heat of 'flash pasteurization'. In spite of what we have been told, in the USA, we are 35,000 more likely to become ill from eating any other food than from raw milk or raw milk products.
They have their place. Some fruits and vegetables are better than others. Really depends on how they react with you. I sometimes eat vegetables, but I stay away from fruits.
Edward Bullmore might be as narrow-minded as most of the medical profession. I would have thought he'd be one of the first to think of diet if he's a neurologist. They know about keto.
Because it isn’t a high meat diet. Keto diets are generally considered moderate (around 15%) in protein. That protein can come from animal sources but it can also come from plants, thought it isn’t as easy to do that way.
1. It depends. Mine is low carb, high-ish protein, moderate fat- but it's not only meat. Diary, Fish, Vegetables, Algae (have you seen nutrition fact for algae? Awesome), but people tend go go for high fat, moderate protein. 2. It's low carb. High carb, high meat will be bad as well.
None of the evidence provided was convincing enough to say that polyunsaturated oils are inflammatory. In one of lectures, you claim that all carbohydrates are essential equal in terms of their final breakdown product in the body, so why sugar is more inflammatory and carbohydrates? Just wondering.
mmrekenson if your not convinced that seed oils are bad do some research, they're often rancid, bleached and deodorised and totally unnatural they are factory produced, they are hydrogenated trans fats a known carcinogen they are prone to oxidation.
Heat-pressed oxidized industrial oils are inflammatory, they wreck your LDL and cause it to damage your artery walls... wide-spread inflammation. Cold pressed oils that haven't been oxidized generally aren't inflammatory unless its way too much omega 6. Or, if you overheat while cooking then you oxidize even the cold pressed stuff and give your whole body a nice inflammation bath.
Dr Bruckner, thanks for your contribution. You're a public speaker so you must become aware that using the vast amount of a a a a a a um um um um um am am am am's is quite annoying. It's best to not utter a sound in between thoughts rather than allowing a bunch of n0n-word entities to fill in space and time. Also, this is YT. We like focus and to the point. 30 min. of your time could have been completely cut out as unnecessary info that's already been well known for years.
It is not utter bunk. In fact perhaps you should learn a bit more if you think that food can't attack you, you might consider yourself one of the lucky ones.