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Jeff C's avatar

Watched it myself and while there wasn't really any new revelation in it for me, it was something to have it all strung together in one place. The processed food industry (anything that comes in a box) is corrupt to the core and poisoning America with food-like substances. The medical industry knows it, but it's more profitable to "treat" the symptoms of the poisoning than to cure you (i.e. tell you to eat real food).

Eating keto/semi-carnivore has changed my life, not to mention meat is delicious. People with aliments for decades, particularly autoimmune problems like IBS, tell incredible stories of finally being healed after going carnivore. In addition, people get off all sorts of drugs including psychotropics. I'm about 80% carnivore myself with the rest being some veggies/nuts. It's made me healthier than I've been in decades, despite being in my early sixties. No drugs whatsoever other than an occasional ibuprofen. Bloodwork is great. My chronic gut issues I had after intestinal surgery a while back are gone.

Dr. Ken Berry is a great source for all stuff carnivore and keto.

https://x.com/KenDBerryMD

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Politico Phil's avatar

Ditto Jeff. 73 and not one prescription drug. The only drug that occasionally passes my lips is aspirin... but rarely.

I get my meat from two sources: Wild Pastures and Wild Ideas. My son get his meat for his family of 5 from a local rancher who uses no drugs and from scuba diving in the Gulf.

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Jeff C's avatar

There's this prolific lie out there that as we age we are destined to fall apart and need a handful of prescription drugs just to function. In reality, the falling apart is caused by decades of eating garbage that takes it's toll. It's like using kerosene as a fuel in a car engine, yes it will run but not well and for long.

What's amazing is that the body is so incredibly designed, we can often reverse those decades of damage just by eating real food. Exercise is good too of course, but most people's core problem is that they are eating a lot food-like substances made from sugar, refined flour, and industrial seed oils. Getting rid of that stuff and replacing it with meat, eggs, fish, and low carb vegetables has amazing and almost instant results.

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Politico Phil's avatar

The FIRST goal for good health is to completely eliminate all PUFAs from your diet.

The second goal is to eliminate all refined sugars. That will get you started.

Here Mercola chimes in with Calley & Casey.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/08/20/modern-diets-autism.aspx

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Fre'd Bennett, MAHA's avatar

You guys are amazing. Keep up the good eating. Food is medicine.

Unless it comes from a box. Then it's poison.

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Fed up's avatar

Awesome, same. There was a great substack recently by Dr. Yoho about aspirin being a wonder drug and to stay away from any other NSAIDs.

https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/320-tylenol-is-a-pharma-atrocity

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Marsha McGrath's avatar

Thanks … I’ve been hoping to find this to share it.

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Juju's avatar

Same here! Saved my life literally. I’m standard Keto tho, but love LOVE my meats. I went from relying on 13-14 prescriptions for over 20 years to nothing after just four months. 2-1/2 years later I’m healthier than I’ve ever been.

And what I love about this video is it’s a great resource for waking others up. Like you said, all the necessary topics are nicely lined up all in one single place.

Love Barry! Also love Drs Bickman, Lustig, Fung, Westman, Elbert, Taubes…. Even Nina Teicholz. So many wonderful resources to teach us.

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Jeff C's avatar

That is amazing Juju, congrats and great job. The fantastic Dr Robert Atkins really got this ball rolling decades ago and was vilified for it to no end. So nice to see him totally vindicated and these other folks you mentioned carrying on the cause (all of them whom I follow).

Gary Taubes' book Good Calories, Bad Calories completely changed my view of human nutrition though it's a tough read unless one really wants to dig into the science. Micheal Pollan's " In Defense of Food" also had a huge impact on me even though he's not a keto advocate. His book first made me realize that combining sugar, seed oils, some protein extract, and refined carbs in a factory isn't the same thing as eating the food God provides for us and humans thrived on since the beginning of time. Seems so obvious in hindsight it's embarrassing it took me so long to understand it.

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Juju's avatar

Yes! Atkins! I loved him. About 27 years ago I read his book cover to cover and saw how you couldn’t just read the first few chapters, or even half the book and know exactly how to do it and why it worked. That’s because very key points critical to understanding what his diet really was about was in those last chapters. I lost all the baby weight I gained from my first child and that was the last time I was as healthy as I am today. It seemed nobody read the whole book. They wanted a quick fix with no effort. They’d get started with the first few chapters and last 2-3 weeks but didn’t understand how to properly go from there. So most people couldn’t stick to the diet and blamed him for it when really it’s because they never understood. But I got so much flak right along with Atkins, especially by friends who were dietitians. I think the first derangement system was the Atkins one. LOL I lost a best friend from college over it because she hated how I passionately explained his science to others and she learned in college (nutritionist) that it was the most dangerous diet to be spreading because fat was bad for us, and therefore I was highly inappropriate and irresponsible. Never mind I was the thinnest and healthiest among them. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Also he was the first real threat to the food industry. They successfully infiltrated his products tho because now the Atkins products on the market are some of the worst you can get, with nasty ingredient lists a mile long full of all the bad things our bodies need to avoid. It became all about the money. I truly believed after his death they purposefully sabotaged the company from the inside to control its “competition” and risk. He would be so sad at how they adulterated his science.

Like you, I am so glad to see that what he was trying to do for us finally has been done. We are still fighting the industry today and they try to discredit the diet at every turn, but we have more doctors on board now and more options with our food. Plus, internet! Wasn’t as good back then. LOL The internet may for some seem to be the biggest threat for misinformation but really it’s the biggest threat for the dissemination of the truth, because no matter how much bad information is there it can never survive the truth.

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Juju's avatar

Ekberg not Elbert. Lol

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Fla Mom's avatar

I, too, am "of a certain age," and take no prescription drugs.

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Dianne Denson's avatar

We have a great friend who is a keto and fasting coach. Follows a carnivore diet. We have begun to follow also and hubby has lost 30 lbs so far! And quit the statins. Are trying to get him off most other meds that the 'drug pusher doctors' have had him on for years.

https://www.fasting-coach.com/

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