I got my blood test results... (and the future of this YouTube channel) 

I forgot to add that I have more than a handful of short clips of normal hawker fare from old vlogs that my viewers have asked me to put up. So there will still be some of that being lived in the months to come, but that will eventually taper out

Hi Greg, Please do not assume that having a CAC score of 0 means you are in the clear. The more accurate scan is a coronary CT angiogram which studies the coronary arteries for plaques. Soft plaques are non-calcified and you may be surprised to find soft plaques in your coronary arteries and still have CAC score of 0. These soft plaques may have an even higher risk of plaque rupture which cause heart attacks and even sudden death. Your LDL is extremely high and is not a good marker for cardiac risk in the setting of the presence of any plaques (which you have not definitively excluded) and borderline prediabetes. Please do a coronary CT angiogram to confirm the presence / absence of coronary plaques before you continue on your high fat diet. You may be required to start on Statins and Ezitimibe +/- blood thinners if any plaques are found. This will dramatically reduce the risk of future heart attacks and strokes if caught early. You may also want to consider intermittent and prolonged fasting in order to boost insulin sensitivity and facilitate the correction of your raised triglycerides. To further boost these effects, doing light to moderate exercise (brisk walk, slow jog, swim, cycle - these cardio exercises are more beneficial for the heart in preventing a heart attack than strength training. Strength training does produce other benefits but cardio work is more specific for heart health hence the word cardio) whilst in a fasted state may also be considered. Personally, I eat one meal a day (OMAD) effectively bringing my fasting time to 24 hrs. This encourages the phenomenon of autophagy - a natural process of cell recycling and rejuvenation. I brisk walk / slow jog 1 hr every morning during my fast and drink plenty of water during my fast to further boost the onset of ketosis and autophagy. My meal for the day is rich in veg, meat, nuts and occasionally low carb fruits such as berries and avocado. I maintain low carbs in my diet. I feel fantastic every day with this protocol. May God bless you on your journey to health and wellness. My 2 cents worth as a medical doctor.

I applaud you sir. You're absolutely right, chasing youtube views at the expense of your health is definitely not worth it. I've been a longtime viewer because your content has always been very laidback and informative, no crazy editing with loud sounds. I'm looking forward to your future content and I hope 2024 is a great year for you and your family :)

LDL cholesterol is a poor bio marker for heart disease. It is but a mere snapshot in time. Inflammation in the arteries is what causes plaque to build up. (But of course since they are both contributory, keeping LDL low and inflammation low is key.)

Taking a new direction that focuses on a new way of enjoying food that considers health benefits should be interesting, and may open up a new segment of viewers with similar inclination. Great job.

Thanks for your service and contributions to SG culinary! Alternative food reviews will really help lots of Singaporeans too!!

Just found your channel. Happy to see another positive outcome for the keto/carnivore diet here in SG. The numbers of people that report these positive outcomes is increasing, and channels/videos like yours will encourage people to carefully think about nutrition, instead of swallow mainstream prescriptions wholesale. Looking forward to the new videos going forward! (ps: been keto for 3 years - tried out of curiosity, stayed because now I love this way of eating)

My wife and I are also on this life changing journey after she was diagnosed as being pre diabetic. After several kg later, we're at ideal results and will try our best to maintain this. So happy to see and hear you're doing and feeling much better now. Keep it up!

you're lucky to find a good doctor that understands LCHF... you won't find that very oftenn

Good luck, you have given me many hours of pleasure watching your videos. Stay healthy!!!

All the best Greg I really hope you will find your way to good health.

Good for you Greg! I look forward to more videos from you searching for healthier options...we will all benefit from that information!

Many local hawker food are indeed very unbalanced in terms of nutrients, e.g. lack of veg or lack of protein or too oily. It's something that the local food culture needs to evolve.

i became a carnivore dieter here in singapore fifteen months ago. it has been crazy beneficial for my health and feel twenty years younger. leaa great food options out in the wild for me though.

I'm happy for the decision you made and for that I subscribed. I'm diabetic, diagnosed with an A1C of 13.1% years ago. I'm on a low carb diet for 2 years now and my A1C is 5.8 to 6.0% for 2023. I aim to lower it further as you mentioned 5.5%. Hope you and me both will get there.

Actually I have super high triglycerides previously, I have try several ways to lower it. After many trials and tests, I have found only few ways that works wonders, just eat normal ly but do the following 1) breakfast oat 2) take more fish oil 3) donate blood every half yearly. 4) avoid soft drinks And u can still eat ur favourite food. Don’t even need to do low carb diet.

Hi Greg, it’s easy to resolve your issue. Just go on intermittent fast - one meal or two meals a day. No eating after 6.30pm. Or you can focus all food during a 8 hrs period only. And no binging snacking all days. Each time you eat, it spikes your insulin. Btw, saw you in the bus with a woman near 888 plaza. Very nice Mee Pok there. One of my top choice. ❤

Hi Greg love watching your videos . Yeah our mouth dig our grave. Cannot control eating the delicious food. Eat and eat no day and no night. Wishing you and family a happy, health y and prosperous New year.

You can have a "0" reading on your coronary calcium score and still have CVD events. Heart attacks are mainly caused by soft plague. Those are the one that are loosely attached to the artery walls. Those calcified plagues will not dislodge. The scan will not detach soft plagues. I have 0 calcium score and had heart attack. High cholestrol levels of all kinds are implied risk factors. The only direct risk factor is your lipoprotein(a) and ApoB level which is a subset of LDL. For general public health, LDL level is generally used to determine risk. But you can have very high LDL and low LP(a) and ApoB and still be healthy. Only refined carbs are bad. Complex carbs do not spike insulins as much as there are more fiber. If you want refined carbs, take non-soluble fiber like chia seed or supplements right before or together with them. Vinegar does the same. Sushi rice with vinegar has a Glycemic index of 70 vs white rice 100. Stay active(walk, move around, do housework etc) for 30 mins after refine carbs and your insulin would not spike as much. If you want quality content on science based health matters, check our "Nutrition made simple" backed by science. Prevmedhealth is pretty good too.There are so much misinfomation by so called "youtube doctors" including famous ones like Dr. Eric berg, Paul Saladino and many websites.

Looking forward to see low carb places. I am T2 diabetic and been on lots of meds and insulin but then i meet these 2 doctors who helped me to reduce weight and slowly wean off the medication. The strategy was a no brainer so like Greg it involves cutting down or removing carbs from the diet and also doing IF. Today my blood sugar is decent without medication. I look forward to the day that my my govt doctors to tell me i dont need to see them any more lol

Although not from Singapore but a very good idea to look for the more wholesome choices.. it's quite a challenge to eat out while being on a keto-ish diet, no carb/sugar low carb/sugar so I will be looking forward to your finds... and keep it up with your health💪

It's so exciting to have a channel focused on low carb/carnivore hawker reviews, I can't wait to see your videos thing forward!!

Yes I’m low carb too! Happy to try some of your new recommendations!

Greg thank you for sharing your journey with us. As a fellow low carb high fat dieter, I am really looking forward to your future videos. 😋👍🏻

Excited to see the direction you are taking! Will definitely continue to watch your videos :)

Have you consulted with a nutritionist? I think what you are saying is your personal opinion (works for yourself) but not as a general direction for viewers with the same condition. Maybe you shd make a video with a nutritionist giving suggestions about what we can do, eat.

The low carb diet is not a fad and it is not a scam. I am a T2 diabetic who was diagnosed 2 years ago. Since adopting a low carb diet and eating a Mediterranean diet (but without the grains like rice and processed foods), I’ve lost 17 kilos (20% of my body weight), my blood sugar has gone from HBA1C 6.5% (diabetic) to 5.2% (normal blood sugars). My triglycerides has come down significantly and the rest of my bloodwork is all normal. @gregory, if you are reading this comment, as somebody who has done this for 2 years, I’ll recommend that you adopt low-carb breads, eat more tree nuts, and get a glucose meter to test the impact of all the foods you’re eating.

Im a little sad that you are not longer making normal hawker videos. But I am also excited about the new direction your channel has taken. Cant wait to see your next food recommendation video! A video about how to eat a low crab diet while on a tight budget would be amazing as well!

Take care Greg, all the best with your new diet and channel direction. Health is most important

I am glad you decided to take the diet to a stricter level. I hope this works well to bring down that triglyceride value. Sometimes its can be quite persistent and challenging, but bringing down the carbs to near zero is a good way about it. As for CAC score, the score is only good when its a trend. If possible do one more CAC 1 year later (since you have high triglycerides) and hopefully the triglycerides are normal. If its still trending zero, then there is a good low risk for next 10 years. Given that people are still screaming that we will die of high LDL, just do 1 CAC scan every 2 years would be good. I did mine 2 years apart with LDL 200-300+ over the years and the trend was flat, meaning now new plagues (score of 9, then 6). But if you really want to be sure that the high triglyceride is not giving soft plague, you could do a CT angiogram, its quite expensive, not sure if your insurance will cover it, but it will give you a good baseline assurance.

Yes Gregory, you are right, and I support your decision. Health is more important than youtube likes/views etc (On a side note, if you really do sacrifice your health just to increase the views on your videos, think not only me, a lot of people would immediately unfollow you LOL!! I like your reviews because of your honesty) Will continue to support your channel 🙏

Take good care Greg and follow your doctor’s instructions. Your health is most important to you and your family. No worries. I will continue to support your channel. Will pray for you and your family! 🙏🙏

I look forward to your videos of the health friendly food out there. Good luck and all the best of wishes to you.

Wah the results seem to be amazing with regards to what you were trying and able to achieve with the context of your diet. Congratulations!

As a diabetic already on insulin, I welcome your low carb videos! Thanks for not giving up!

Generally good news overall! Looking foward to know more about healthy eats from you too!

When we know nothing is going wrong with our health, we'll eat anything and everything we wanted. But once bodily health go south, and with blood tests report showing undesirable results, we'll generally change if we want to be healthy. I was over 100kg in 2020 and laid on the operating table 4 times in the same year! That changed me no one, that knows me, can imagine. Weight dropped to 78kg from extreme diet (boiled veg and fish only) plus daily exercise. Yes, weight gone but I was so haggard with loose skin. Got into Carnivore diet (for me only beef) with scepticism to increase muscle mass without putting on body fat. Has been 22 months since I started such diet and I have never felt so good in my life. Blood test result was on point except higher LDL which Dr. is concerned but not me. Don't wanna go deep into LDL topic but what I can say is LDL is good for my body. My body weight has increased to 83kg and has stabilised for the past 12 months regardless how much I ate (carnivore meals). Physically very much stronger than 22 months ago and looks better than my army days! It's gonna be the way I eat for the rest of my life... As for Greg, health comes first and so I'm so looking forward to those healthy hawker stalls that you going to discover and recommend us.

I just stumbled onto this video so I am not familiar with this channel, but find it ironic that this channel intro includes "I will promote any Singapore eatery that uses 100% animal fat for their cooking oil. Butter, ghee included. Coconut oil also included (especially for Malay food)". Aren't these great for taste but bad for health if eaten excessively?

Looking forward to the new direction!

Thank you for the update, Greg! Sending best wishes from London and I'm really keen to see what you unearth in terms of healthy, tasty dishes in SG. As you so rightly said, this is an area that gets overlooked in favour of taste in SG so would love to hear your picks going forward! Add oil!!

Great direction Greg, It's hard to eat healthy in Singapore especially in common food places like hawker centres and kopitiams and your content going forward will definitely be helpful to those of us that are trying to make better food choices.

I hope you be better. Thank you for the food videos.

Glad this comes to an early realization than later. Good luck on your health journey.

Used to look forward to your content but health is more important and I fully support your new direction. Looking forward to your new content!

Look forward to the new direction the channel will go towards!

Looking forward to your new videos on the new diet! I'm also trying to be more aware of my diet ever since my dad had to start Kidney dialysis treatment. He was a huge canto foodie! It's in our fam's blood to be like him. See u soon!

Hi Gregory, thank you for sharing. You have drastically cut down your carbs and sugars but your trigylecride levels are worse than before when you were eating more carbs and sugars. Maybe instead of eliminating carbs, a less extreme options is to cut back on dietary fat and meat and replace with veggies?

Hi Gregory, I am surprised that you are talking about carnivore and keto. I have watched your videos years ago and RU-vid has recommended your diet videos recently. I have been on Carnivore for two years and i took a break for a year due to high stress during the pandemic but I have come back to following an animal-based diet for 9 months atm where fruits and honey are used as a carb source.. In my experience on animal-based, fruits, milk and honey does not affect me like sugar and vegetable do you might want to take into consideration and watch paul saladino on his transition and give it a try if you deemed necessary. I am glad your health has improved on just a hybrid keto and carnivore approach and wish you the best of health. It is true that being carnivore in Singapore is actually not that difficult just more expensive if you eat out as you can find roast pork stalls virtually anywhere. But finding the correct online grocers will save you significant amounts of money if you are willing to cook for yourself.

Hi Gregory, Thanks for your videos and updates. Do take care. Health is more important

I have been on the carnivore diet for 8 years in and my health report results are excellent for a 59yo female. Those who have not tried or researched enough, perhaps you should do your homework first.

we will continue to support you. I enjoy watching your food review.

What a nice amplifier! Play us something, greg! I wish you good health and more videos for everyone to enjoy

Get well soon Gregory! Take this time to heal up

Take care on your journey to better health, Greg!

i had high LDL and cholesterols . took insane drastic change to my diet. for 1 full month i ate ONLY instant oatmeal + fruits. a month later my cholesterol was at 180. since then i commit myself to eating 1 bowl oatmeal/day.

Hi Geogory, sorry to hear that. try berberine to mitigate the AIC spike before meal. It works. But need to take 1000g

It was pretty obvious you cant eat the foods you wont be eating. I am so looking forward to you new vlogs about tasty healthy foods! Let's go Greg!

Indeed healthy and low carb sg culinary channels are far and few between. I’m looking forward to your videos on healthy low carb Singapore food.

Look forward to your new content

Actually, I don't mind low-carb or healthy options recommendations. We are all getting old 😂 Maybe your RU-vid channel might be a food recommendation for those who have diabetes or prediabetes. Looking forward to your future content!

Very sad for me to see that the Channel will be changing from what it was but, at the same time, I look forward to seeing Sg food reviews from a different angle in the new iteration. Just as an afterthought; if you wanted to still do some of the old-style videos, you could employ a stunt double. I don't like to blow my own trumpet here, but if you're looking for a volunteer for that role ...

I have been on keto diet for 2 years. You can hardly find any hawker food that is keto friendly (bak ku the? Maybe, not the soup!). The only food that is keto friendly is sashimi 😅. However, I'm looking forward to watch what you can share eating keto (or at least low carb) outside.

I am very interested in the low-carb and healthy eating videos. Thank you Gregory!

Hawker food is in moderation. Aafter that go home eat lots of veg. Once a month eat as you wish. Exercise is most important 😊

Take care Greg, rooting for you.

Take care. I'm getting older too and health and diet is a major concern for me.

Greg I have been following your health journey for a while. Firstly I would like to applaud your commitment and effort in improving your health, and it’s amazing you manage to reverse your high glucose level / diabetes diagnosis with diet alone. And your cholesterol level although it has come down a bit it is still actually extremely high. Calcium scoring is unfortunately not the most accurate test in your situation. With your current cholesterol (total and LDL) level, it actually significantly increases your risk of heart disease regardless of what the calcium score show and irrespective of your triglyceride level. Can consider talking to a Lipid specialist / Cardiologist to discuss about this results if you are in any doubt at all and can discuss about what you read about Carnivore diet with them too. I understand that Keto / extremely low carb diet does help with managing your glucose level with evidence showing that, but unfortunately carnivore diet / high saturated fat diet do increase your lipid levels as shown in many large scale studies, thus increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease.

I look forward to your new focus. Take care.

I am in the same boat as you health wise...will fully support you & your channel still...+ yiu 😊

I have numerous illnesses . Doctors told me to lose as much weight as possible . I started intermittent fasting 16/8 but not loosing weight . Found it extremely difficult to go low carb and low sugar . My son says I am eating too much within the 8 hour makan time . Aiyah life is so difficult 😞 Please look after your health and I am looking forward to your new low carb healthy videos .

Thanks for sharing. Best of luck with your heath journey and changes. I have been a diabetic for quite a few years and have difficulties finding less carbs meals in the hawker centres/coffeeshops/foodcourts that will keep me full (need to have rice as no like vegs). Hope to see your new local food series soon.

I would love watching recommendations on healthy nutritious foods in Singapore!

Good move and stay healthy.

Keep going Greg, looking forward to the low carb content.

you need to include fasting and time restricted eating. and increase exercise.

Looking forward to your future videos which will reveal the better hawker stalls selling healthier food.

Hi, you might want to include Intermittent Fasting & probiotics (such as Kefir) to improve your Triglyceride and Cholesterol levels. Personally, i have a Triglyceride level of 0.57mmol/L.

well you certainly looked alot more healthier, Greg! what are the noticeable positive physical changes you've seen since changing up your diet?

Wow... I thought if one eats a small amount of carbo, the triglyceride will go down. I reduced my carbo consumption, my triglyceride went down dramatically.

You have to stick with it. Drop the CARBS totally for 90 days, you will see a big difference. I eat very clean and changed my life.

Looking forward to your future videos on affordable low carb meals.

Greg, have you considered consuming more fish (or fish oil) to lower your Trig:HDL ratio? Fermented foods, for example kefir, are also worth investigating. (BTW, while it's sensible to be wary of hidden carbs, I'm not sure that those from vegetables/cheese are culprits.) I think your channel's proposed new direction (healthful hawker recommendtions that don't avoid animal fats or are even keto-friendly) is sorely needed in the Singapore landscape, even as your regular/previous hawker food reviews were already in their own league in terms of refreshing perceptiveness.

It's right to reduce carbs (especially processed carbs) but your high triglycerides is probably due to the high saturated fats you are taking in. In addition, you high animal related food is impacting your gut microbiome. Do increase your inputs of high fibre food (soluble and insoluble) and your HBA1C and triglycerides will improve significantly. Also practice some intermittent fasting so that insulin produced by your body is less frequent. Best of luck with your health journey.

In a study of 1346 Japanese patients with diagnostic criteria of NAFLD, the cutoff value of ALT for diagnosis of the Fatty Liver disease was estimated to be 25 U/L in men. In other words, your Liver Function Test indicates you likely have Fatty Liver disease. You should try 16-8 or 18-6 intermittent fasting....

Hey Greg, Great video again. I have been on a similar diet since circuit breaker, and have been successful in maintaining my weight and health. Here are some of my views/suggestions on your situation (purely for reference only, I am not a health expert) 1. Yes, anything above 50g of carbs is a dangerous limit if you want to stay in Ketosis, especially when you are on a high protein and fat diet... If you are out of ketosis, there is a chance you may be storing those consumed fats in your body instead of burning them, and you will have to go hungry for a while before your body start switching over to burn these stored fats for energy. I feel that you can still have a cheat day once in a while, but you may need to find a sure fire way for you to get back into ketosis again within 1-2 days, like using a egg fast/fat fast or intermittent fasting. 2. Some food which seems like protein/ fat rich foods has very high hidden sugar content. Bak Kwa is a perfect example. I only got to know the crazy amount of sugar you have to put in Bak Kwa after I tried making some on my own... (its basically candied pork) 3. Low carb reviews sounds like a great idea! Given that there is a heighten awareness in Singapore on low carb diet, and I think you will have more viewers! Might be great if you can make a video sharing some low carb recipes or tricks, like swapping out the noodles with konjac noodles from your favourite hawker dish (lor mee/beef noodles etc... ) Hope the above helps, I look forward to seeing more great contents from you!

Thats great, am always curious on healthy hawker options in Singapore :D !

you're finally cutting out the cheat meals! yay!

Intermittent fasting n cut portion size down abit. I watch his previous video the lunch n dinner pretty big. I can do with 1/2 + 1 egg. Or throw in some exercise to bring down the triglyceride level.. I’m pretty much the same boat. Still working on my diet n waiting for next blood test

Cant download "Nanyang Heritage Cafe" apps.what is the actual name of the cafe

Im also looking for similar food options in hakwer or outside food! Go for it such content will go a long way to help people like me changing diets!

how much of the benefits do you think comes from exercising? if u exercise more, would that give u liberty to eat more?

Keto diets are not a good food channels and more than often not cost effective with hawker food. And food must come with different combinations to taste good, especially carb + proteins combined to give the well rounded taste. As time goes by, dieters end up tasting nothing with meat food, your interest will lost over time to even bother to eat out, just cook at home since all taste will be monotonous in the long run.

It's better to visit a dietician instead of following what Greg did.

Greg, Can I suggest that u can carry on tasting those food but not swallowing the food down the throat? That may sound cruel but we got to do what it takes! I trying to lose my weight yet having those cravings at times! I will prepare a small plastic bag when going for 'evil' food and puke it out when I finish chewing on them.

You have to choose if you want to live or just survive

Looking forward to eating healthier hawker food from your recommendations.

Who will ‘risks’ his/her own life for appraising food and stuff. I’ll be waiting for the low carb and healthy content from you. Keep yourself healthy which is the most important. Don’t worry about me. I’m having lentils everyday and I’m on OMAD too.😊

Hi Greg, just sharing my experience with you. My triglyceride reached 6.6 mmol/L after 3 months of carnivore, high fat, close to zero carbs diet, from 2.1 mmol/L a year prior. I adjusted the diet, cutting down the fat/butter and actually added back some carbs, my triglyceride gone down back to 2.0 mmol/L after 6 months. I am not selling truth here, just a n of 1 experience. I have looked at the recent LMHR study. I suspect the triglyceride data might be doctored and filtered.....

Good choice!

Health is most important. Have you considered adding exercise into your lifestyle? It should have some benefits to blood glucose levels