I love the diet doctor podcast! One of the main reason being he isn't so dogmatic. There are many low carb and keto podcasts and sites that really are more of a turn off than encouraging. This podcast is so informational and encouraging. Thank you.
Dr. Ludwig's reasonableness really speaks to me. It is about finding working solutions & answers. No sense attacking the other ideas. The old saying goes, 'proof is in the pudding' bodes well in medical science.
Dr Lugwig should listen to Peter Ballerstedt on animal agriculture. We need to switch a lot of monopoly crop fields back to pasture, prairie or savanna. Cattle could feed the world and replenish the soil.
Yes, there are farms that do this.. I have seen videos of this. The farm productivity is lower but their costs are much lower cuz they don't have to spend time tilling spraying pesticides and fertilizers. They let plants and trees live or die; if they get infected with bacterial fungus insects the ones who survive are sturdy and healthy.
Don't forget, ruminates could help put carbon back into the earth, slowing and even reversing global warming. IF they are allowed to roam naturally, as they once did, in numbers.
Fabulous interview! I failed my first diet when I was 11 years old; put on by pediatrician at the urging of my mother. I can see now I was already insulin resistant. Never diagnosed with T2D ( my fasting glucose was always “normal”) but my liver became fatty and my kidneys were damaged from a lifetime of high insulin. Everything is improving with keto. I’m so concerned with kids and the SAD.
I think the work you do is invaluable to how we see our food and even though research is highly underfunded hopefully the ripple it causes will have an effect on the general mindset of society . I am morbidly obese and studies like these opens my mind to choices other than what has been recommended to me in the past.
I love the reference to sourdough bread. I make my own. I also soak my beans and rice. Using traditional methods if food preparation has significantly improved my gut health. Although I stay vey low carb, I do cook for my family and once in a while my carb for the day may be a homemade piece of sourdough rye bread. I have taken my glucose level after eating it and it doesn't seem to affect it nearly as much as an apple. I seem to need that type of fiber as opposed fruit or vegetables for bulk. Again the n of 1. Each person needs to figure out what works for them. What makes these discussions so interesting to me are the case studies and what the real doctors who work with real patients are discovering.
I really found this interview helpful to my understanding of how nutritional science is so necessary to helping us understand the interrelationships between dietary choices and health outcomes. Things are not just black and white out there, though when we are in the passionate throes of experiencing benefits from choosing a LCHF, ketogenic, fasting protocol, it is easy to become blinded by our own enthusiasms. Thank you Dr Ludwig! I shall listen to some more of your talks on youtube. Thank you Dr Sher, for the great interview!
Feed North America (Canada) a meat based diet and the rest of the high population countries all the plant based diets like Bread and Fruits 24/7/365/6 ! I will stay with my Carnivore feeding and fasting regiments thank you very much!
Great to see the paradigm shift starting to take place. While I’m optimistic future generations will not have to suffer from the diseases due to refined sugar, as low carb will just exist across the greater general population, I would expect that the benefits of low carb will mostly pass at least the baby boomers due to entrenched habitual compliance with prior dogma. However, similar to automotive seat-belts, they too didn’t save as many lives when they were first becoming available. A full paradigm shift to mass compliance will go through many phases (development, mass production, legislation, enforcement, compliance). Keep up all the great work Dr’s!!!
Georg Lehner eliminating consumable “processed” food-like items that possess calories, AND adapting an “ancestral” diet, are two huge starting points toward restoring metabolic wellness. However, humans did not survive and evolve through access to, and consuming, an endless supply of genetically modified fruits, vegetables, honey, sugar cane, etc. And where those heirloom varieties did exist, glycemic load was much lower, serving as a primary means of increasing subcutaneous energy stores (fat) to weather a cold season where hunting and gathering was less productive. Nutritional ketosis was therefore how are ancestors survived, thrived and evolved. In the modern store bought food supply world, this can only be achieved through a focus on reducing overall carbohydrate intake. Essential fatty acids & essential amino acids. Haven’t yet heard of an essential carbohydrate.
@@wmartonejr "Essential fatty acids & essential amino acids. Haven’t yet heard of an essential carbohydrate." Essential fatty acids and proteins are also not used by the body as calories. This doesn't tell you anything about which one is the better fuel See, like half of this interview of Dr. Ludwig is about how you one should avoid dogma in these diet debates and stay agnostic towards any particular one. Low Carb diets aren't the one and only answer for everyone. Just as an example, going by macronutrient breakdown the diets in the blue zones are heavily starchy, high carb diets. The Okinawan diet consists of 60% sweet potatoes and 20% rice. Yet they are one of the most long lived one on earth. More generally most populations on earth were starch based, look for example at rural Asia where obesity, heart disease and diabetes was a very rare phenomenon before people adopted more western eating behaviours. A whole food plant based diet in the style of Dr Ornish or Esselstein is the only diet we know of that has clinically shown to reverse heart disease. The macro breakdown is about 80/10/10 for those diets. It has also shown to help with type 2 diabetes and weightloss. So I would be very careful with appeal to nature arguments like this. Ketogenic diets seem to have their place, apparently for being effective for speeding up metabolism. I'd be careful about the amount of animal products added (bacon for example is a carcinogen, heavy meat consumption increases mTor and IGF1, thus accelerating aging. The effect of heart disease is also something Keto advocates still have to adress: Atkins himself on his low carb diet had heart disease at age 60.) although I know you can also do (at least seemingly) healthy Keto diets with lots of leafy greens, nuts and seeds. The foods Dr. Ludwig listed: Avocados, Cacao, Olive Oil, etc are all plants btw. A couple anecdotes: I was always thin and never had trouble with weight gain. My metabolism is and always was rather fast. I eat a wfpb-diet ala Dr.Greger. When I did a fasting mimicking diet a couple weeks ago I lost 2 kg that I still didn't put back on (I didn't lose strength though so I'm confident none of it was muscle mass). I don't need weight loss and I'd much rather have the health benefits of the super anti-inflammatory diet that I eat right now + I have the added benefit of ending up vegan, which no one can argue is the most ethical and enviromental friendly solution. Another example: Ryan from Happy Healthy Vegan (he's around 50) eats about 12 bananas a day. He posts his blood work regularly and he is in amazing health. People's insulin response to different foods can be very very different and it's all about finding out which foods and which style of diet works for you. And as an athlete your insulin sensitivity is higher from the get go. I know there's a honeymoon phase when adopting a new diet where one thinks it's the one and only solution to anything but I'm very confident that it wouldn't be a good idea to enforce low carb diets on the general population. It doesn't adress heart disease, we don't know its effect on longevity and with respect to keto in particular: there's no long term studies on keto diets yet, and unless you're vegan keto or close to it the enviromental question is a very serious one (the carbon footprint of a person on a "standard" keto diet high in meat is much higher than even someone on a standard american diet). We don't even have long living ketogenic communities anywhere that we could orient ourselves on. Use it for those people that benefit from it, but use it as a tool, not a religion.
Well, we know who the vegan/vegetarian is. Study history to understand who started and who is continuing to push veganism/vegetarianism. Online, look up: < "belinda fettke" AND "temperance movement" >. Beginning in the 1800s in the western world, eating HCLF (high carb, low fat), vegan, and vegetarian and refraining from salt were started by and are being continued by the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDAs). (Vegetarianism was started in the Eastern world by another source.) The SDAs believed and still believe masturbation and sexual urges to be sins. One of their major 1800s leaders was Ellen White. She had what she felt to be revelations from the SDA's deity. Those revelations were to eat as little animal fats, animal proteins, and salt as possible because those things "inflamed the body". Sure enough, when you listen to enough ex-vegans and ex-vegetarians, after sufficient weeks, months, or years of veganism/vegetarianism, they lost their erections, periods, and libido. The SDAs is a very wealthy religion and uses what they call "medical evangelism" to get everyone else to follow their veganism and vegetarianism. The final goals are to stop everyone from masturbating and from having sexual urges and to convert everyone to their religion. SDA members started Kellogg's cereal company and the American Dietetic Association. The SDAs have very influential positions in many "health organizations". Also, read the books: (1) "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz. (2) "The Case Against Sugar" by Gary Taubes. (3) "The Salt Fix" by Dr. James DiNicolantonio PharmD. The publicly-traded sugar, carbohydrate, and human-invented seed-oil corporations are pushing veganism and vegetarianism, too, because those corporations stand to make a huge amount of money if they can get everyone to switch to eating their plants. Taubes and Teicholz reveal, in their books, the sleazy and criminal actions of those corporations. They are using the same tactics that the tobacco industry used in the 1900s to keep everyone thinking that tobacco products didn't cause health problems.
The type of calories is the core in the fat gain or loss process .. calories that make a hormonal effect cause fat storage or fat loss. Insulin vs. Glucagon
Excellent presentation I agree with everything doctor ludwig said Especially the need to avoid making diet religion and keeping a scientific open to mind For myself I think it is patently ridiculous to think that everyone on the planet should eat the same way As a practicing obesity medicine specialist for the patient who has obesity type 2 diabetes or hyperinsulinemia Currently I do use the Ketogenic diet below 20 total grams. I am willing to entertain alternatives but in the clinic I have to offer what I see as the best I can offer for my patients now. ObesityDocATL
The change will come little by little as patients present to their doctors slimmer, healthier and happier. We will slowly teach our doctors about the many benefits of keto.
(my doc is poo pooing all natural remedies(ie activepk which im gonna try anyways vs pills)I just got in from a diabetic clinic appt. Ive lost 20 lbs (in the past few months)since being diagnosed (TYPEII)3 yrs ago. Ive really struggled ...doc tells me im doing great on Janumet(for the past 6mos). And wants to put me on cholesterol pills now. (as i am told that i am in a high risk group and need statins to bring it down) until i can get the right diet going. Glad to be watching this now so i can sort out what more i need to modify in my current dietary intake. My question is by going keto ...will that reduce my cholesterol levels naturally as well??? please advise if anyone knows thx ( ps I just have about 20lbs left to drop to feel healthy again) and i truly dont want to take meds the rest of my life if i dont really have to ..told the doc this too) SINCERELY , from ANOTHER diabetic in CANADA
LULZjunkie2018 cholesterol may rise but who cares? It’s protective. LDL will rise but oxidized small LDL will fall. HDL will rise and Triglycerides will fall. Perfect. Watch Ivor Cummins (cholesterol) and Dr Jason Fung (fellow Canadian, fasting). Fung gets type 2’s off all their meds
If you haven't done so and your doctor is still telling you to not fast and to not eat keto-style, I encourage you to buy the book "The Obesity Code" by Dr. Jason Fung, MD, and give it to your doctor. Dr. Fung has all the credentials to impress your doctor, and the book has a good Endnotes section referencing all the research that backs up what Dr. Fung wrote. The Endnotes section will impress your doctor, too. After your doctor reads that book, you might want to give your doctor the book "The Diabetes Code" by Dr. Jason Fung, MD. I gave my doctor "The Obesity Code". A year later at my next appointment, my doctor said they were using the book to lose weight, too.
It is fine to say it may take a long time for the correct idea to be recognized, but the United States is down to it’s last decade before the metabolic syndrome completely overpowers the economy.
Dieting with carbs=misery and lowered metabolism. The only guaranteed way around the medical community’s disgusting duplicity is to measure your blood glucose until you are adapted to no carbs, then measure ketones . Demand CGMs. Don’t let doctors tell you that people are too stupid or lazy to check their glucose. If people understood the impact of carbs on them, they would no what foods are the problem for them and this is very individual. I would really like to get beyond this endless cycle of diets. How do you maintain an appropriate weight? Again CGMs would really help…
@ 40.00 - yes finally someone who speaks it how it is. World wide Industrial Agriculture exploded our population but never said we would live long and prosper. We cant feed Steak to everyone.
I agree, why can't the world eliminate all carbohydrates from it's diet. It didn't become plant based overnight. The world could easily convert to an animal based diet within a few short years. But of course, that's not going to happen. Corn and soy are not an efficient use of Land. There is no shortage of food on the planet. If there were, we wouldn't be putting it in our gas tank. Food production could be reduced by one third and we would still have more than enough for everyone. And that's ignoring the fact that plant foods cause us to overeat. 39:55
Eat less move more sounds stupid to me. And yes, I get the meaning... Bottom line is, the 5th ape is stupid. -- Why, why would anyone actually care about tweeter or these other media ...WHO are you even talking to on these media things ... It is also stupid to care about what a ~human says when you do not even know who they are? lol
Ludwig seems like a fan of central planning ... and calls it 'free market' capitalism ... and then HE complains about the NIH's creative use of the language.
It was a good interview until I heard the word TAX because the 50 plus percent of our income going to government now just isn't enough, while we're at it lets have a vegetable tax for the farm tractor fuel, how about taxing the farmer to clean the chemical fertilizers out of our water, lets have another for the algae problem in Lake Erie, TAX TAX TAX because we know our government will spend it properly, what BS
