A lot of this turned on Eisenhower's heart attack...you need to add this to your video: Eisenhower was reported to drink 15 cups of coffee and smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day while in office! During WWII it was reported that he smoked 10 (TEN!!!) packs of cigarettes per day. Heart attack cause? I'm betting it wasn't the red meat in his diet...
Jeebus, four packs of ciggies??? No effin' wonder. Man, I never understood the appeal of smoking. I was a little kid in the 1960s and back then was exposed to second hand smoke (but thankfully only when my folks had guests--out came the ashtrays because asking people to take it outside wasn't a thing then). Also when we went to someone else's house etc. I hated the smell.
Just like the covid counts a few years ago. "Kenny is a 56 year old man who has diabetes, smokes 2 packs a day, weighs 350 pounds and drinks too much. Kenny died in the hospital and was found to have Covid, therefore he died of covid related illness" Uh no, how about he smoked, had a disease and drank a bunch
@@samhwwg Of course, I realize that's what keeps people hooked (the nicotine especially) but could never figure out how people started smoking in the first place-- the instinctual coughing fit upon inhaling the first few times should be enough to put anyone off.
PS: Seed oils and vegetable fats were a waste product left over from WW2 marketed as a food product. Low fat diets made room for companies to add flavor by putting sugar in everything. These two factors made America sick.
To be pedantic, HYDROGENATED oils as food was the ww2 innovation that is screwing our health. Humans have been using seed and vegetable oils forever with no ill affects.
Well, even before factory farming...can anyone explain why we let pigs "wallow"? Surely, if they had the choice, they would choose to roll in mud, and not their own excrement, right? Maybe we're just idiots.
Be careful to not of lump everything called a “vegetable oil” together. “Vegetable oil” is an umbrella term _(misleading one because no one uses vegetable simply means “vegetation” anymore but still)_ not a synonym for soybean oil in particular. Cocoa butter, Soybean oil, Grape seed Oil, Rape seed oil, Corn Oil, Cotton seed, Sunflower oil, Peanut Oil, Sesame oil, Safflower Oil, Hemp Oil are all in the group of “vegetable oils” _(though in the calling them “seed oils” is more accurate because they’re are made from oilseeds)_ “Vegetable oils” also include ones not made from seeds like; Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Avocado Oil, Algae Oil, Marula Oil, & Coconut Oil And on the topic of healthfulness theoretically none of them would be that bad if westerns didn’t regularly cook with them and we didn’t regularly eat ultraprocessed/processed food that contains them in substantial quantities - but the large majority of people do at least one these two things. So for the more questionable ones dose & frequency would be high enough for them to be a problem since oil is still viable for cooking/processing in tiny quantities. Also I think it’s arguable in an otherwise healthy diet that certain fresh vegetable oils actually could serve as a rather healthful part of one’s diet. In essence: Olive Oil, Rapeseed oil, Olive Oil, Sesame Oil, Cocoa butter, Avocado Oil & Corn Oil all have such distinct nutrition profiles, effects on the body , & unique qualities that it’s kinda silly to speak on one’s healthfulness and apply that to any of the others. “Vegetable oil” is a diverse group
@waltercraig137 in the same way corn and tomatoes are. These are what are known as colliqual definition the definition that most people use most of the time regardless of scientific accuracy. All categories are arbitrary and human creations that don't exist without humans.
Great and informative video. As a type 1 diabetic, I was always told to eat what I want but just count the carbs and cover it with insulin. After a decade of gaining weight and having trouble controlling my blood sugars, I greatly decreased my carb intake and upped my meat intake. Since then I’ve lost 25 pounds, feel much better and have stabilized my blood sugars. To me what works is the important thing, not dogma.
Also diabetic. I eat a low carb diet, but still don't eat meat, and I've always been fit and consistently just a bit underweight (which is where I'm comfortable, although not what my specialists recommend). Fat and animal protein doesn't need to replace carbs, and it will definitely cause health issues in other areas over time.
@@Nylak-Otter Very genuinely curious what "low carb ~no meat" looks like, as well as what your body uses for fuel in the absence of both carbs and fat. Seriously, genuine curiosity.
@@stevenkeeffe9137 That's why they're underweight. The low-carb part of the diet gives some fuel but not enough, so their body is slowly eating itself.
I reversed pre diabetes and lost 115 pounds eating mostly red meat, low carb. I've kept it off for almost 3 years now. I don't care what the "experts" say. I'm listening to Dr. Berry and believing my own eyes and lab results!
@@TheCharleseyeThat's fine. Autophagy is an important process in the body because it prioritizes digesting senescent cells not healthy ones. Where it gets bad is if you eat so little you waste away. As long as fats (preferably animal fat) are eaten in a good amount you'll have enough energy and materials for gluconeogenesis and ketosis.
I have 20 years experience as a chef. When we use beef tallow or lard for the deep fryer, there no grease build up for zero cleaning... but when we used deep frying oil, the grease build up is insane. And it's the same with seed oils and grease build up on the walls
Makes me wonder if the big stink about McDonald’s fries being made in beef tallow was because they knew it was better for health and of course let’s change it to soy/canola oil with artificial beef flavor.
As a southern Arizonian who likes to drive around the state for the heck of it, I have seen a large increase in feed lots that feature huge acreage of fields of beautiful green grass around them. The grass is harvested for hay and fed to the cattle which poop all over the ground they occupy. Also straw is put down to help catch the stuff. This stuff is scraped off the ground and concrete between occupations and worked into the fields reseeded with grass. Add irrigation water and magic happens. This repeating cycle has to be profitable or the cattle producers would not do it. The same thing is occurring north of I-8 in Imperial County, CA. This has to be increasing the quality of U.S . raised beef.
A lot of that happens in the southern US as well. The only problems is that our land is naturally forest here, so the land has to be artificially kept as grassland in order to use it for that purpose. Makes more sense to do that in Arizona!
@Madnessinmedia Straw is put down on the ground where the cattle are to help catch their poop? The poop-laden straw is scraped off the ground? Where do concrete and occupations come into the picture?
@@Epidian OK but that doesn't explain "occupations." Cattle don't have "occupations." No accounting clerks, store managers, real estate brokers, or dentists. They just meander around eating grass. Farmers have an occupation , singular. It's called farming.
@@soilmanted "Occupations" refers to the periods of time that a batch occupies a particular pen ( think of the German occupation of France). You can't muck out a pen with a skid steer loader or whatever if it's still occupied ( or populated) by cattle. Also any cattle I've ever had have been heavily occupied by feeding and breeding but that's a different type of occupation. The verb occupy comes from the French word for busy as in je suis tres occupe.
I would also like to raise the point that at least in my local one, locally owned and operated slaughterhouses that are independent of any big company usually have meat which is from animals which were raised in the local area.
Is it as hard as I'm thinking it is to raise meat. Like I'm sure I can raise some chickens but otherwise idk how one would raise their own meat other than owning a whole farm
That's good. Too many are disconnected. After seeing in person what animal agriculture looks like, I made the choice not to participate as much as practically possible. It certainly made my life simpler the last 12 years. Plus, I learned to cook with a variety of plants I never would have bothered to try.
@@spunkysamuel I have no interest in raising cattle, so I trade with a neighbor who does. I'm a much better hunter than a farmer, so I trade him some venison, feral pork, and wild turkey for equal weight in beef. He's happy, I'm happy, it's all good. If you can find someone who is willing to barter and you're not much of a hunter, figure out if there's anything you can offer in trade. Maybe he could use a hand once in a while. Maybe you've got something that's more valuable to him than it is to you. You'd be amazed what some friendly conversation and an open mind can do for you.
The agricultural revolution was 10,000 yrs ago. By then, humans had long béen adapted to meat. Imo 10,000 yrs isn't long enough for a species-specific diet to radically change. Fossils show the poor health after the A.R.
Southern India begs to differ... Most cultures must intake some meat to be healthy, but a few have made the change. Vegetarian is much better than Vegan, however, both are problematic unless you come from the few cultures that have already acclimated to it.
Ancel Keys discarded data because of inconvenience. I question everything I'm forced fed nowadays especially if its on a foundation of an appeal to authority or if its using celebrity influence.
Bravo! I did the opposite of what my obese diabetic doctor told me to do and i reversed pre diabetes and lost 115 pounds. We've been misled! The medical, scientific and most other establishments are corrupt to the core now. Can't "trust the science" when it's bought and paid for.
The ancient hunters used chiseled rocks to butcher meat. When they first found these tools, the scientists tried their hand at replicating them. It took them hours to make one. Therefore, they assumed that these were prized possesions that were carried around from hunt to hunt. It turns out that the hunters were able to bang one out quickly and then throw it away after. That is how much hunting and meat eating went on. The other example is how they classified newly found societies. If the teeth of the corpses were rotted out and the bones weak, they always turned out to be agrarian based. If they had minor tooth decay and strong bones, they were found to be hunters mainly. We were made to eat meat.
I suspect it's a lot more probable to say that they broke a lot. Bone is hard, and while rock is also hard, even the best rock-based tool is likely to break WAY more often than most metal tools that were made later. To say they wouldn't carry them from hunt to hunt, then is a guess, at best. I'd wager they would, simply because of the fact they'd always want to have tools ready for various things if possible. That said, different groups could also have had different attitudes about the value of their tools, and that is also subject to the quality of available rock to work into tools where they were. Then a consideration for nomadic groups will also be how likely or not it would be to find usable rocks for tools wherever they were currently traveling to. I'll bet they kept tools as well as they could for this reason alone, not necessarily to avoid the labor of having to make new, but because good rock material for tools was never guaranteed. That said, most of the places where it would be harder to find good tool rock would be when the ground is permafrost, and most of the surface doesn't have exposed rocks everywhere or if they had to traverse places where it was very swampy or muddy and therefore very suboptimal to find rocks (they'd be there, just awful to get to). There are many more considerations surrounding this topic I can't even begin to think of, I'm sure. Oversimplifying things like this might seem like a nice way to put it to bed and move on, but if you really want to know for sure, you have to dig deeper. Now I'm more curious and am about to go on a reading binge about it.
The earliest stone tools have been found in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, over 3 million years old. Similar tools (the Acheulean hand axes) were made from lots of different rock all over the place for more than a million years. Good design, apparently. But as humans themselves became smarter, the designs became specialized and required specific rock types. That rock was carried around and maybe traded among different groups.
Reminds me of how it was starting my job. I was insanely slow then compared to now. Anyone could make these tools very quickly if they knew how to make them and had lots of practice.
Just because they ate a lot of meat doesn't mean it's best for overall health. They did a lot of things we'd never do today but for some reason people are stuck on retaining their ancestor's diet even though it may not maximize longevity. Who cares what they ate? Focus on the available longevity studies and the populations who experience long lives instead of anecdotal ideas.
My issue with "carnivore" vs "veggie/vegan" is the blanket statements. I'm sure you'll get into this in the video (I'm barely in) but the human experience is so variable. Especially considering nutrition. What works really well for one person could do nothing for someone else- or end up being actively harmful. Especially when it comes to cutting out whole food categories. I could go on and on about how going gluten free was life changing, how it solved so many problems I was having, how I feel so much better now. I would never say that every person needs to go gluten free right now and they'll feel so much better. Because I have celiac disease (and tbh I think a lot of people who go gluten free and say it's life changing and everyone needs to do it probably have undiagnosed celiacs). I also have issues with red meat, and I know several people who have issues with red meat. My mom, my sister, my mom's sister, and now me all slowly over time started getting sick after eating red meat. All of us have cut it out of our diets and feel much better. My dad meanwhile can eat red meat all day and be totally fine. Quite frankly I think a lot of people do not understand how different everyone's bodies are. I'll stick to my gluten free, red meat free diet, buy lactase pills and cut down on dairy for the rest of my life. I don't think everyone should do the same thing by any means. I think you should find what feels good for you and stick with that. I wish more people felt that way too.
I agree with this a lot. Even the same diet stops working for the same person after a while. I am also celiac and my dietary journey has taken me everywhere from keto to 1 meal every other day to carnivore to whatever the BCAA reducing diet is called (basically extremely low protein). A lot of these diets feel GREAT when you start but overtime issues can creep up. Both in carnivore and veganism you have these almost like streak trophies where people have been lion diet carnivore for 5 years, or full vegan for 10 years. They ignore health problems that from an outsider obviously stems from their diets just because they dont want to break their streak.
There is no such thing as a standardized human diet. I also think that, at least Americans, are quick to attribute normal aging to dietary choices. Humans are the ultimate generalists, just gotta eat a nutritionally balanced diet with what makes your individual body feel good and you'll be fine all things considered.
But gluten actually is bad for everyone, so nothing would be lost by everyone going gluten free. Veganism is another matter as it is inherently lacking nutrients, especially so for a good proportion of people whose bodies cannot do some nutrient conversions (like K1 -> K2, beta carotene -> retinol, ALA -> EPA, etc.), while carnivore is nutritionally complete. But I do agree that everyone needs to listen to their own bodies and do what works for them.
I am going to be honest with you, I am going to need to do a lot more of my own research to get an opinion on this. But I am thankful that you made me go out of my way to look for these things, so that I not only can but also want to make my own conclusion on this. The bottom line that Ive started to take away as a general trend is that Americans view a lot of their science as being funded by either the government or corporations to back up their views, same with creating documentaries, nutrition related articles on the internet and video essays on social media platforms. As such, I am choosing to not trust you unconditionally and I believe you have your own bias towards what views you hold, in which there is no wrong we are biased by design as humans. I will happily want to engage in this discussion and learning with you and your audience though, as such I appreciate your content not for being necesarilly educational as much as being conversation opening content. Thank you for your work.
This comment give me so much hope in how, _I believe_ , we should receive messages. I never want to replace anyone else's discernment. We're all susceptible to blind trust. From me to you, Thank you for thinking critically!
@@NoLabCoatRequired Your little soapbox bit at the start of the video does wonders for this approach. I've been researching on my own and double checking everything as I've been watching and it's been really interesting so far.
There are two verifiable and undebated facts that tilt the argument heavily toward pro-meat. One: Human beings REQUIRE a nutrient (B12) that is ONLY found in sufficient quantity in animal sourced food. There is no non-animal source of B12 that is not synthetic or refined/processed in a way that would have been accessible to primitive-living humans. Two: Stable nitrogen isotope testing on the collagen found in the long bones of ancient human remains shows that pre-agricultural humans all over the globe ate diets of 70%-90% animal sourced food. There is no debate, this is not opinion. The science exists. Human beings are obligate carnivores. CASE CLOSED.
I'm pretty sure _most_ people who are vegetarian or vegan do it for ethical reasons. The absolute terror that is factory farming, how it contributes to climate change, not eating things that can feel pain, that kind of thing. Cutting out specifically _red_ meat is a little different, of course, though it is worth mentioning that red meat tends to be a little more of all those things.
I primarily switched to being vegetarian after learning about how much more efficient it is from a land and water use perspective. I remain vegetarian because I've been so long enough that I've developed an intolerance for meat and I've always found it kind of gross to prepare and handle raw
I made a meatloaf today with a pound of grass-fed ground beef from a local farm. I drive by the farm every week. The cows are always out in the pasture, eating the lush green grass, getting fresh air and sunshine. I had half for lunch, and will have the other half for dinner. My doctor suggested eating more meat and lifting weights, and I feel great, barely a week into it. 👍👍
This is exactly what the US used to do. But thanks to industrial farming they don't and it's hurting the animals and us. I can't eat red meat due to an autoimmune disorder I have but I'd gladly give my bf grass fed beef.
I wonder if it's possible to raise enough grass-fed beef for every citizen to eat a pound a day. What amount do y'all think is a sustainable level for everyone to eat without resorting to factory farms?
9:23 Very nice presentation, young man. I haven’t seen one of yours for a while and this one came across. After watching it, I remembered a few others a while back that I had watched. You have a real talent. You’re going places. Best of success for you!!
Fantastic presentation! Western doctors (and I'm one of them) have ruined our health, but this kind of information is gradually helping us claw our way back to where we were before the Medical Industrial Complex took hold.
We shouldn't feel like eating a specific type of food gets us brownie points so we belong to a specific crowd or that we would be monetizable. We need to eat good foods we can afford, but the system makes it hard for us to do the quality research, get insightful knowledge from doctors with our best health in mind without feeling like they got paid off hy a megafood/nutrient foundation, and afford the food we know we should eat.
I view myself as a citizen scientist in this field; an engineer by trade. After decades of trial and error diet types and then a deep dive research stint over the last eight years, achieving good health seems pretty simple to me now. I would start with an elimination diet. This is red meat and animal fats. How long I am on this regimen will determine my health benefits over time. I feel amazing like never before. If I still feel that this is too restrictive, I’ll add some eggs, dairy and cheese to the extent that my body can tolerate them. This is still an extremely healthy way of eating, considering what our bodies can do with this food. If I still need more variety, I’ll start adding back vegetables. Vegetables are actually anti-nutrient for humans and may require taking supplements. I’ll still be healthier than I’ve ever been as long as red meat and animal fat makes up the majority of my diet or unless I have extreme sensitivity to the anti-nutrients or pesticide remnants in vegetables. Then fruits. However, if I start adding grains back in, my health will noticeably decline. I’ll never reintroduce seed oils back into my diet.
Most Dr's I know eat crap! Recently a Dr I work with said he eats whole food vegan. I told him I eat whole food meat. He said don't do that you will kill yourself! I replied, " 3 million years of evolution would lead me to disagree " he said please take a Dr's advice. I laughed, but he is a nice guy and we parted friends.
@@michaelcrain3360 I would not add dairy or eggs. Now, this is just me, but I found adding some activated hardwood charcoal was helpful, since I don't consume fiber. It has been helping pull toxins out. Once one fixes the toxicities and deficiencies (sometimes over years), and maybe before then, I think the muscle meat only carnivore diet is the optimal diet for humans. Assuming we are all 1 species Edit: I wouldn't add any toxins back into my diet. By deduction we determined that red meat, salt to taste, and water, are about the only non toxic things for the human body. Anything beyond that would then be toxic to some degree. Why take toxins on purpose? I'd rather get to my optimal health.
I agree to finding the best you can afford. Where I live, small family farms sell beef by the whole, half, and quarter. When you break it down, it comes out to the same price as the supermarket. The catch is that you have to have a large freezer and be ready to pay for a years worth of beef, plus get cuts you may not care for. The cattle roam on open pasture, not a cramped feedlot probably contributes to healthier meat. You also support a local farmer, not Con-Agra, Swift, Smithfield (which I think is now Chinese owned), so the money stays close to home.
Where I live people who wat to do that and have small families or small freezers will go shares with friends or neighbors or church members. It can be fun learning how to use cuts your not used to. My Mexica fried taught me how to use flank steak, I've shared the methods & recipes with several people.
The farmer could farm plants instead of animals, far more efficient and then no animal would have to suffer. You also wouldn't need to cough up a lot of money at once to get fed. Its a win-win. Go vegan 🌱
THANK YOU for putting out there what many of us have known for YEARS. I read a book called "The Cholesterol Myth" that blew this thing to shreds for me probably 20 years ago. What a shame so many have fallen for it.
That doesn't work on a population level - layne norton has spoken at length about it and cites numerous meta-analyses that show that high LDL cholesterol is a direct predictor for population level CVD
Great video, thank you. Changing my diet saved me from debilitating back pain, nerve pain, joint pain, muscle pain, digestive issues, raised blood pressure, 20kg over weight. It took around 8 months for all these problems to resolve. I'm completely pain free and never felt and looked healthier. Since 2020 I've only been eating fatty meats, seafood, eggs and dairy. Prior to that I was eating the mainstream version of a healthy diet (lots of veggies, fruit, whole grains, low fat, eating the rainbow etc) for decades and watching my health slowly decline. Dr Anthony Chaffee, Dr Paul Mason, Dr Ken Berry, Dr Shawn Baker, Dr Gary Fettke, Dr Benjamin Bikman, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, all helped me get my health back.
Thank you for this. I really love the thought and attention you put into each video. My husband and I go through many dietary phases but definitely feel best when we eat meat just a few times a week and stay away from processed foods all together. One big change we started making at the meat counter is instead of buying pre-ground beef, we pick a cut and have it freshly ground. This has helped cut down on my intrusive concerns over getting sick from ground beef. I think just being more mindful overall over what we're putting in our bodies is something everyone can strive to be.
I have found that I can't tolerate ground beef from those styrofoam 'flats'.... but have no issues with the bulk meat in 'tubes'... best I can guess is that there's no air contact in the tubes. Oxidation, maybe?
@@stevenkeeffe9137 Preservation. Likely the meat in the Styrofoam flats weren't preserved with any salts or any other preservative and therefore don't last as long.
@@stevenkeeffe9137 yes. exposure to the air and all it's floaters. that's my opinion. flats can't sit in the fridge for more than a couple of days before smelling bad, but the tubes can endure more than a week before i pack them up in reused containers and freeze them. also, who needs all that extra garbage in the flats.
@@vulcanfeline The biggest preference for the tubes for me are that I can take them straight home and freeze. No freezer burn. I typically consume 1lb at a time, so no waste of packaging, too.
@@kingzach74 There's also whatever it is they put in the packaging for those cellophane-wrapped styrofoam flats to keep the meat from turning brown. I don't know if it's an issue, but red meat doesn't stay red when exposed to air.... unless you replace that air with something else.
I wish that I could get my doctors to understand all of this. My cholesterol tests come back with a total they never like, and they always tsk-tsk and threaten to put me on statins. But my HDL-LDL ratio is great, and there’s still no direct evidence that “high cholesterol” will cause me to have a heart attack. Especially since I’ve never smoked.
My personal experience with this is I have emphysema. I went to a high meat low carb diet. now some days I don't need to take my medication and the SOB attacks stopped. 😊
The Carnivore Diet (all meat with the exception of some fruits), my brother managed to suppress his Chron's Disease. Long story short, the doctor was like, "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it".
Dr. Berry has another, newer RU-vid channel called OB Farms, where he demonstrates the animal husbandry and land management techniques he uses on his sheep farm.
just to be clear, there is basically no evidence to support the claim of "Regenerative" beef or really any meat. Lots of operations have tried it and none have been able to pull it off. It will always come at an environmental expense. It's a pretty simple math problem that the beef industry really likes to misrepresent with words that make consumers feel good. It's all nonsense. This isn't even mentioning the rampant groundwater/waterway contamination from raising meat. Or the myriad of other ways that raising meat, even small operations, damage the environment. Checkout that amazon forest that's being decimated to make way for pasture lands that the brazilian government now allows to be labeled "green beef".
I really appreciate this video. As a health coach and someone who studied public health, it’s crazy how much of nutrition/medical/health education still teaches people the dogma of “saturated fat is bad”. there’s so much nuance and the cholesterol/sat fat relation to heart disease has been debunked… but education and public knowledge isn’t caught up with the research. And is affected by who funds what. Videos like this which break down the facts and show historical events is so important!
Great video! You explain things so clearly. This is my new favorite nutrition channel. A couple of things I'm surprised you didn't include: 1.) How the sugar industry bribed two Harvard professors to say that sugar was not unhealthy and instead to point the finger at fat as the problem. Everyone just blindly accepted it, and that led to the low-fat movement, obesity, and diabetes. There was never any research to support it; worse, no one asked to see the data. 2.) Bacon's demonization came from faulty research. A medical researcher (who worked alone) did some studies about feeding bacon to rats and thought he saw cancer. But the research was faulty, and later, when other researchers reviewed it, they said they would never have come to that conclusion. Meanwhile, the message was already out that bacon causes cancer. 3.) The Seventh-day Adventist Church played a significant role in shaping negative public perceptions about eating meat by influencing health institutions and funding biased research.
Thank you! As someone who avoided meat for years because of all this propaganda I now eat a varied omnivorous diet which includes a lot of different low carb veggies & animal proteins including a moderate amount of red meat. Beef, bison, pork, chicken, fish or whatever else I can find. It keeps it interesting. I cook 99% of my food at home. We keep blaming meat for what sugar, junk food and cigarettes did.
Red meat and processed meat are not the same thing. A steak is healthy and delicious. Freshly ground hamburger is also relatively healthy and nutritious. A McDonalds "hamburger" is garbage, shouldn't even be legal.
This hits home because I thought about who stands to gain from us eating crap food. Otto Warburb even figured out how to negatively impact cancer and won a Nobel prize and yet we still use chemo as the first option. Ever since I switched to a modified carnivore diet (was hard core meat and leafy green only) I lost 35 lbs in 2 months. Also all of my allergies went away even lactose intolerance. I am not a pure carnivore because I think it is not sustainable with family functions but I eat only meat and season my food with everything but sugar.
Lactose intolerance is a caused by genetics and cannot be solved by eating more meat. The core issue is that your body doesn’t produce the lactase enzyme to digest lactose. Consuming more red meat cannot make your body start creating lactase. This is evidenced by over 90% of Asian Americans being lactose intolerant while only 36% of Americans in general are lactose intolerant. It’s about genetics- not your diet.
Try looking into epigenetics. Nothing is set in stone, not even your "genetics". Certain switches can turn on or off. Change your environment/behaviors and these "switches" respond. @aiddog10gaming82
The interesting thing is that your video hits upon is why people no longer believes or trust science. So many conclusions are claimed to be absolute truths when they haven't gone through pier review or unbiased audits before making the big conclusions. Keep up your good works.
You could almost take this entire video and insert either Covid or Vax everywhere he said red meat and reach the same conclusions about how the research and indoctrination occurred.
29:25 L.I.A.R- Language of observational studies: (L) Link 🔗 (I) Increase/intake 📈 (A) Association 🫂 (R) Risk 🛑 This acronym you coined @NoLabCoatRequired is BRILLIANT! 😮 wow 🎉
I’ve viewed many presentations and interviews by actual scientist and scientist that I believe are bought and paid for. They have two distinctly different characteristics in how deliver and debate their points. Once you become familiar with these two styles it’s easy to spot the bullshit and the truth.
It’s your teaching style for me. BALANCED… I appreciate how you elequently weigh both sides of a topic, and explore the nuisances. You never shy away from the nuisances that helps us understand how we draw particular conclusions that ultimately shapes our personal worlds. Oh, and the visuals are cool too. 😎 lol 😂💕
Beyond Meat's share price shows that we have not lost anything, peaked at $234 currently worth $5.40 It's not the meat that is the problem, its how we produce it, we have the Great Plains because of herds of animals eating grass, popping the grass and then pushing it into the soil with their hooves, once they eat all the grass they move to the next field with fresh grass and start over. We use manure on crops for a reason! The feed lots in Northern Colorado are so large that when a storm is brewing, the city will smell like manure for a few hours. I've been on a GrassFed ranch in eastern CO and they said when they move their cattle from field to field, that the wildlife comes in after since it is such a healthy environment. Feeding millions of cows and letting them all poop in a small area is extremely toxic for the cattle, the workers, the cities around them and ultimately the consumer
Beyond Meat's share price is irrelevant. What you really want to see is the proliferation of plant-based items. It's pretty clear they've gotten dramatically more popular across the board. You see all the large conglomerates making more plant-based options. Restaurants across the world are adding more plant-based options to their menus. There have never been more substitutes for animal products. Environmentally as well, animal products are exponentially more resource intensive. More and more people are reducing/eliminating animal products for reasons ranging from health, environment, ethical reasons, what have you. The battle is over.
@@markanderson100 Irrelevant? How? It's IPO was meteoric in 2019 and now the stock price looks like an NFT pump & dump. Their website lies and calls it "Meat" and only explains 5 ingredients, they forgot to mention that its an ultra processed food (I thought those were bad, I try to avoid them). Human's have survived because we eat meat and we have not evolved that much in the last 20 years, we should eat less meat and produce better quality meat, but calling it over is just brainwashing
Thank you, Johnny, for this very informative video. I once had a vegan doctor tell me that I was one of the few people who needed to eat red meat at least twice a week! (and you should've seen his wince when he said it!) This was in the 90s when he told me this and it's still crucial to me all these years later! But it's not for everyone and I understand that too. I appreciated you bringing anthropology into the picture. Thing is, our teeth haven't changed much in a long, long time, and they say we are omnivores. We need to eat meat. We now have the luxury of finding out which meat is best for us as individuals. Your teeth also say we must chew our food, not eat like a dog or cat, gulping down chunks of food that our bodies can't process! If you haven't, I hope you cover that factor one day. Understanding it helped me to avoid lots of stomach issues! Many friends of mine who thought they couldn't eat red meat without getting sick have found that the dyes used in its processing and cooking methods were to blame more than the meat itself. Allergies play a huge role here! This is another thing I'd love to see covered one day, as this problem has more to do with how we allow companies to handle what we eat before it gets to us. Why do we think it should be 'that' color? It's amazing how color notions of food got into our heads too and it goes back to ancient times, just like this video did. Thanks again!😊
Funny story that pokes fun at your "dog or cat" example: For a few years, I went "Full Carnivore" in an attempt (successfully, mind you) to remedy several health issues. To be clear, it wasn't necessarily carnivore that worked, it was cutting out the things that were harming *ME* in the "Standard American Diet". Anyways, at some point, I learned that very little of the meat we eat makes it to the porcelain throne (if you get my drift) as it is processed by our digestive system long before it makes it that far. To my point: I would cut whole muscle meat (think: steak, roast, etc., not ground or otherwise processed) into pieces just small enough to swallow whole, safely (turns out about a 1" cube, for me) without chewing. The only downside was that I didn't get to enjoy the flavors you really only get while chewing. I probably went off track with all that, but the thought of "gulping down chunks of food that our bodies can't process" brought me here to say what I said. If you're eating meat, and can safely swallow it without choking on it, your body will still process it just fine, especially if it's full of that scary "saturated animal fat" that we're supposed to be afraid of, lol.
Ancient humans never had a habit of eating meat in chunks, but instead used obsidian flakes to make ultrathin slices of meat which they hung in strips from branches in bright sun to dry and UV to weaken endoparasites. (Fire replaced sun in the rainy season). This proto-jerky was chewed like gum, not sheared with carnassial shearing molars as canids & felids do.
Good information. I like the actual presentations of facts and sources. LMNT is also a product I use. I work outside all my life and cramps and heat stroke is a problem sometimes. LMNT has eliminated, or at least significantly reduced those problems. So a good product that actually works.... As for meat, I have also cut out processed foods and sodas. I eat a lot of red meat, and chicken and fish.... and my A1C went from 8.2 to 6.1 so far. Diabetes is under control and I can definitely link it to dietary changes. And yes, these changes were triggered by a heart attack. The meds the doctors originally prescribed made it almost impossible to work, with side effects such as cramps, fatigue and malaise. Changing my diet to include a lot more red meat and fish (and cut out sugar) has allowed me to cut the meds in half, and go back to work full time and healthy. I think it was Hippocrates that said, let food be your medicine and medicine your food. Thank you for your video.
i really hate the saying "vote with your dollar"... most people dont have dollars to vote with, leaving only those who do have dollars to be the ones to vote for us, when in most cases they will not vote the same as us because that would, usually, make those dollars they are voting with to go away since it would change the influence of their capital gain
Dude, I don’t think looking back centuries to see what people eat is fair because people didn’t live very long. Not that that complete proves or disproves anything. Just using it as a metric for health is tricky.
That's based on the flawed premise that people didn't live long before. Life expectancy was skewed due to child mortality. There's so many studies disproving that myth. One I just found literally found that men in Ancient Rome who survived childhood were expected to live to 72 years of age. The life expectancy for men in the USA is 73 and that is dropping. If you're gonna criticise others, stop peddling myths first.
@@ToonsGoofyMemesJust curious do you also happen to know their diet as well? Significantly more or less meat than the current average American. What kind of meats?
@BreatheManually Honestly, the truth is you can live long on any unprocessed whole food diet. It's not clear what the general population ate, but the average person did not each as much meat. Athletes and richer individuals ate more meat, particularly pork/ boar or beef. Grains and olive oil was the staples.
This is a great video and a great channel. Thinking critically has been reducing in popularity in the past few decades and tribalism has been taking its place. This channel is one of the few that insists on not taking anything at face value, and it is giving me a little bit of hope.
Excellent unbiased information as usual Johnny, thank you very much. I am in Hawaiʻi where we locals still hunt for our meals in the mountains, and the sea. All land mammals are introduced, and invasive, so pigs, deer, goat sheep, and even cattle are multiplying faster than they can be eliminated, thus destroying the unique island ecosystem. Eat meat and save the islands.
It's amazing how after hundreds of thousands of years and various hominid species developing tools specifically for obtaining and processing meat leading to the evolution of our species that now suddenly meat is bad.
lots of new research shows that our ancestor's diets were likely at least 75% plants. It varies based on which culture we're looking at but now that the muzzle is off there is more and more evidence coming out to show the "meat eating ancestor" idea is most likely myth.
You are legitimately my favorite knowledge based unbiased youtuber, you feel like the adult version of Vsauce (I grew up with that so that is my childhood lol)
I'm so glad you are spreading the truth of this, so many people are spreading false information about saturated fats. Including Food Theory and alot of body builders weirdly
I'm 55 years old, and throughout my life we were told all sorts of contradictory things about food. My conclusion is this: eat 3 square meals a day, like we always did. That means a main portion of meat or eggs, a smaller portion of veggies or fruit, a slice of bread with butter or some potato, etc. That's it.
I was already a proponent of meat, but I have to say that this is some of the best scientific literacy that I’ve seen packed into a video. I especially appreciate the part that covered absolute vs relative risk because many scientific reporters routinely mix these up.
You're killing it, Johnny! Great job at presenting a topic that many have strong emotional reactions toward. It's great to see your channel grow so much since I began watching your videos.
I'm in a unique boat.. vegetarian leaning, not because I dislike red meat, but because I had my gallbladder removed at 19yo. Nobody talks about how much the digestive system relies on the gallbladder, or how the estrogen in BC can affect it.. digesting red meat (for example) before and after the surgery would cause severe abdominal cramps. Now, 8 years later, I'm unsure if I continue to have digestion difficulties due to not having a gallbladder, or from avoiding red meat consumption for so long.
Wait. You can actually find tubs of animal fat where you shop?? Every grocery store I’ve visited including specialty ones don’t even OFFER animal fat options. Closest I’ve seen is a $9 small container of filtered bacon grease.
In the UK I can get real butter everywhere, lard in most city supermarkets and in the big city supermarkets pretty much every type of animal fat, inc unpasteurised butter. I've been making beef broth and using the fat I take off the top (once it's cooled) to cook with. When I cook red meat in the airfryer, I pour the oil into a bowl afterwards and keep that for cooking too. The price of olive oil has gone through the roof recently here, so it's great to have these even healthier fat sources available as a side product of some other meal. People shouldn't overlook them. 😊
I can get lard by the brick. If your supermarket doesn't carry it, check out a local Mexican supermarket. They're sure to have lard because it's an ingredient for the best tortillas.
There is one big problem with the red meat narrative. If we were eating wild game we would be eating high protein, lean low fat animals. Like vegetables and fruit we have hybridized animals to be unhealthy fat. You do not find ruminant herbivores to be naturally highly marbleized with ectopic fat. That is an indication of metabolic dysfunction. The fatest part of an animal is its organs and its why carnivores in nature prioritize organs high fat and high minerals and nutrients. The faux carnivore folks dont recognize this fact by choice.
I have a bachelor of enviro science and it was more or less pushed during my course that veganism (along with other personal choices) would directly influence positive outcomes for the environment. I was swept up in it for a while but it wasn't until after I finished studying that I better realised that individuals do NOT have the capacity to influence positive social or political outcomes. I mean unions are a prime example of that.
My sister cannot eat red meat due to alpha gal tick disease. Her ex has the same problem. Before retiring, they ran and worked for a landscaping company. My sister tried once to eat a small chuck steak. Three hours later, she broke out in hives, started wheezing, self administered an EpiPen and drove to the ER.
For reference - I'm vegan, have been for a while, and have no intention of going back to eating meat. I have a family history of certain health problems, and once I went vegan, my doctor noticed my risk markers went down. Your video is focused on nutrition, so I won't argue about the environmental side of veganism. I struggled watching this video because I've seen most of the documentaries mentioned, have read countless sources of information about whole foods plant based diets, and have personally seen what a change in diet could do for me. I also struggled because I understand how the government gets involved with companies that make lots of money - I don't think it's wrong to say that the meat industry brings in a lot more money than the plant based industry. You made really solid arguments about how certain societies were funded by plant based entities - I think the same could be true for meat eating entities. If people who believe that plant based eating is better can conduct research studies, then people who want to keep making money selling meat can also conduct research studies. I would be interested to see a follow-up comparing how the meat industry has marketed/lobbied/advertised, and how that's affected the nutritional recommendations here. It sucks that nutrition is so confusing. There are foundations and companies dedicated to almost every type of diet. Doctors are either confused, or funded, and so not every patient is getting the same information. I've personally had the hardest time trying to figure out what works for me, and I still don't know how that'll look in the long term. The government cares about who gives them the most money, and so their choices and actions and recommendations stem from greed, rather than from a genuine care for us as citizens. Being vegan works for me. I think it could work for my family, too, so I'll keep trying to convince them to make the switch. This video did help to point out the bias in information, though, and make me think a little harder about the information I'm taking in. (I'm currently reading The China Study, so this came at a good time.)
My boat is that I don't find meat eating wrong in itself, I just try to reduce my meat intake because the industrialized meat industry is morally disgusting
Great topic. I think all of our food industries are overly profit-driven, at the cost of our health and environment... buuuut, almost all I eat is red meat, butter and eggs for a few years now, and it's the healthiest I've ever been - and I've done years of Mediterranean, paleo and vegan before that. They did not compare. I get my blood tested twice a year and a carnivore-based diet has been a clear winner for my body's hormones and vitamin levels. I feel SO good. I simply cannot subscribe to the "red meat is bad" thing. I hope there will be even more research, and work to improve meat industries/farming.
Short-term health outcomes don’t always translate to long-term health outcomes. In fact, some of the things that make us feel really good short-term end up being really bad for us long-term. Plus, subjective report is an unreliable guide for determining objective health. We can’t feel plaque slowly building up in our artery walls or whether we are at a 12% increased risk of suffering a heart disease in 30-40 years time.
They said in V for Vendetta: Artists use lies to tell the truth. I say, statisticians use the truth to tell lies. Percentages are inherently comparative. So your doctor tells you taking a certain medication will increase your risk of heart disease by 100%. Does that mean you’re 100% going to get heart disease? No. What is the comparative aspect? What was the original risk? If it was 0.00008% and it doubles to 0.00016%, maybe it’s worth it to take that lifesaving medication. This is why I don’t like using percentages because they can be spun to convey any convenient misunderstanding and push whatever narrative they want.
27:00 L.I.A.R Four words indicating observational (weak) evidence being used to generate scaremongering media headlines: Link Increased Associated Risk Seriously guys, become aware of these headlines and be skeptical of all these studies, they are literally written every day like the media/academia complex has a duty to spread as much anxiety as possible.
Because they DO have a duty to spread anxiety. Its not just your imagination. Thats why the media industry has conglomerated and essentially become an oligopoly.
Wonderful video. They healthiest I've been is when I stick to a keto diet that includes a lot of red meat. I've gotten myself completely off insulin, and gotten my triglycerides to lower by 2/3s. I try to stick to ethically sourced meats and much as possible.
I'm B+. I like meat & vegetables. I'm not confused & eat both happily. I'm also fond of complex carbs, i.e. potatoes & eat them also. No fried food, seed oils, very occasional bread & I've cut 2/3s off of my sugar intake. Moderation seems to work for me.
Always appreciate when you delve into the risk factors and other statistics. I'm currently in a tussle with my cardiologists about taking blood thinners. I took them for three weeks and got really bad side effects. Quit and the side effects went away immediately. Taking blood thinners is reducing my 2-5% annual risk of stroke. Also, taking blood thinners caused a 100% risk of bad side effects. Go figure.
I stopped regularly eating beef about a year ago because of the environmental impact of factory farming. Now it's become pretty hard for me to digest. I can eat small portions of beef as part of a larger dish, but I can't handle an actual beef burger. John and Hank Green have been talking about choosing to have "beef days" lately, meaning that you save beef consumption for special occasions, just a few days a year. I like that idea myself. It's probably not a bad thing to be mindful of what you're eating and the impact it has on the world. And the less you eat it, the more you enjoy it when you do.
I think REDUCTION rather than elimination needs to be talked about more. Factory famed meant is objectively worse for your health, the animal, and the environment. It seems that everyone can agree on that no matter their diet. You don't have to give it up, but if everyone replaced ate just a few more vegetarian meals a week, or hell even just smaller portions of meat, there would be a big difference. I don't follow any particular diet, but my gf is vegetarian and has been for a long time. I eat meals that are vegan, vegetarian, or have meat. sometimes eat meat every day in a week, sometimes I eat vegan for a week, just depending on what's convenient or what feels right. Red meat does sit a little different with me now, as its easily the thing I eat the least. But if I'm at a cookout, and they got some good burgers, you bet your ass I'm gonna sit down and have a burger.
I stopped eating rice for a while and when I tried to reintroduce it it hurt my stomach so bad. I no longer had the bacteria in my gut digest it well, but I pushed through and now I can enjoy rice again 😊
@@dominicjackson6857 I agree with you from a health and environmental perspective. However, I haven’t really heard a convincing moral justification for killing animals when we don’t need to eat them as part of a healthy diet. How would you morally justify killing animals and eating them when we don’t have to?
Also love the conflation of "processed red meat" with "red meat" you read all over the place. Imagine if people critical of a high carb diet didn't distinguish between jelly, fruit juice, fruit candy, and actual pieces of fresh fruit.
I am resurrected after ten months of a carnivore regimen and trust me my past includes most dietary variations simply to be healthy, i.e. vegetarian, raw vegan, Paleo, whole foods, food combining, sequential eating, D'Adamo eat for your type, and Ekadashi fasting. So now I still use some of these strategies but have one meal per day (OMAD) consisting of beef or lamb or seafood, eggs, butter, and dripping. 😊 Lately I have been heating up 250g of unsalted butter, 60g dripping, and a little spring water and then add in 9 eggs that have been beaten first. Continuing to heat until it is cooked to a desired level. The options to cook meat varies between cooking in dripping or air frying or steaming. Additionally, a little Celtic sea salt is added to my morning hydration of spring water. The simplest way to explain a carnivore regimen is that you are replacing carbohydrates with with fat. Just think for a minute about what are the purity controls on cotton plants? Yes cotton because the local takeaway uses cotton seed oil for their cooking! 😮
Dude. Your videos are so very good. Just railed two of them and subscribed. Thoughtful, entertaining, well-researched. Thanks for your contribution to elucidating nutrition science. Cheers.
The people telling me right now that saturated fat causes heart disease are the multiple cardiologists I’ve seen. I went on keto, lost 30lbs, but my cholesterol skyrocketed and yes also small dense particles that happens to “lean mass hyper responders”. But I’m still a little overweight and can only walk for exercise due to autoimmune diseases. Have turned down the cholesterol meds, but I’m not sure what’s the right call
It's not "either red meat or vegan". I love the taste of steak, but as I've gotten older it has gotten harder and harder to digest red meat. Meanwhile chicken and fish are no problem. There's plenty of evidence that the "Mediterranean diet" is best for long life and a healthy heart. You don't have to become vegan to eat a healthy diet.
I just find it quite ironic that the market has heavily shifted into targeting vegans and vegetarians. Some vegan food is terrible for you. Not to mention the strain on the farmers to keep up? Dude the quality has plummeted on vegetables.
The major issues with the American Diet are that it contains too little vegetables, too little fibre and too much fat. Protein is not an issue. Meat does not fix any of these issues, we need to eat more fibre, more micronutrients and that means wholefoods (excluding meat with is protein and fat). There is no doubt in my mind that "additives" are under researched and many could be harmful, so the addition of saltpetre in cured meats is not something I would want to eat. Meat if red, fish or white does not help with any of the major dietary issues so we need to keep them in moderation. Personally, I choose not to eat meat, there are too many issues with provenance, food fraud and animal health. I heavily restrict the amount of processed food in my diet, I do not eat factory made foods such as bread and fake meat that have all sorts of additives emulsifiers, flavourings, stabilizers, humectants, preservatives and so on. I eat unrestricted amounts of Vegetables, Grains, Lentils, Beans. I feel great on my diet, I don't know if others will.
I used to think this way too. For 25 years I ate a low-fat diet with tons of fruits and vegetables. Brown rice and wheat bread. If I ate protein, it was always lean like chicken breast or fish. egg whites, and I would throw out the yolk. Now I eat a carnivore diet - high fat. I’ve eaten virtually no fiber or plants in the last three years, and I have never felt better. My brain and body work so much better on fat and keytones than glucose.
Where I personally sit on the meat eating spectrum: I can't NOT eat meat because of B12 deficiency. Were I to try a vegetarian/vegan diet I'd have to eat A LOT more dark green veggies that'd have B12. And have you had B12 or iron injections?? I hugged that pharmacy wall and begged for mercy.
every vegan would run into b12 deficiency if they didn't take it as supplement, yet they take it and deny meat just fine. animals nowadays mostly get b12 supplements themselves anyways and, as far as i know, injections should last resource, as oral tablets are also more efficient
@@aheumedivirtoXD Even with supplements people can be deficient. Supplements are not designed to replace real food and the interactions of nutrients in real food is what allows our bodies to utilise them. You cannot isolate one aspect and expect your body to treat it the same way.
@@OldRoadFarm-ck3mj oh, wow, thank gawd that seems not to be a problem for my friend who's born vegan, or another who's 70 and vegan for 20 years. in fact, for these 10 years i've been vegan, my health just improves more and more, is that a side effect?
Love your channel, humor, and personality! I learned by taking one nutrition class in 2017 I couldn't obtain all necessary nutrients from just plants, I was shocked as I thought I was going to completely give up meat and become vegetarian. That was the moment I knew plant based was not natural. Thanks for having Dr. Berry!
@@iloveseaglass Why? I'm an environmentalist, not a health nut. edit: I did read a blurb with her going off on oxalates, and I frequently pick and eat wood sorrel (from the genus Oxalis). It's quite tasty. I also chew plants that contain methyl salicylate, they taste good too. But, they're both far less dangerous to my health than driving my car. Sorry.
I think you've missed one important point in the section about the prefix "carn": the belief of the Adventists that eating meat causes masturbation, therefore we should eat Kellogg's.
I guess it's a good thing humans are the only apex predators with hands then, lol. Can you imagine being in some random austere land, and found yourself face-to-face with a vicious creature that would otherwise hunt, kill, and eat you.... but you got away because "it was busy"?
I always repeat "Vegan diet is an extreme, but so is the average diet, most eat an entire week's worth of animal product in 2 days.. 5 days a week 100-150g of meat/fish is enough, but most consume 250-350 at dinner alone"
I've been in boat D as both a WFPB eater AND a carnivore, so open minded people are able to change their mind when presented with good evidence. I ate a 'healthy' low fat whole food n grains omnivore diet for 45 years with increasing weight and health issues. This lead me to plant based, 'cos it's healthier, right? 2 years of eating plants made everything worse, my health and teeth were degenerating quickly. 5 years mostly carnivore now, less than 5% fruit/nuts/veggies/coffee, absolutely love it and am thriving, all health issues resolved. I am fortunate to get fully pasture raised animals, both wild hunted and locally regeneratively raised. Northern European ancestry, if you think that makes a difference.
Remember that when it comes to processed meat, there is a difference between a chili cheese stuffed hot dog, and prosciutto. Both are processed meats, but one has 10x the ingredients of the other
