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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Yeah. And do you think that should one expect side effects from having high blood pressure, only taking pills? It seems like maybe that might be a reason why you're having other illnesses and disease pop up, but actually we don't talk about that. It's like, well, if I manage the symptom, then like whatever else happens is totally unrelated to said issue.
A No, it's physiologic whack-a-mole, right? You can't, like if you have an imbalance in the human body, and this sounds Whoa, but it's really not. Like if you have an imbalance in the human body, you simply cannot whack this mole without three more popping up. You, it's very difficult to give someone a medication for any condition and not have something else happen because of it. You give someone a proton pump inhibitor because they have gastroesophageal reflux, right? Well, then you have an increased rate of pneumonia because of side effects. Then you have malabsorption of multiple nutrients, including B-twelve and other things that are dependent on the acidity of your stomach. So you have all of these downstream side effects because the problem really wasn't that they had a deficiency of a proton pump inhibitor. This isn't a pharmaceutical medication deficiency. This is an imbalance. It's a signal to us as physicians or as patients, quote unquote, that there's an imbalance in your body. In the case of, um, you know, gastroesophageal reflux, it usually has to do with dysbiosis in the gut at some level, whether it's, you know, the small intestine or some part of this. That's leading to a reflux and dysfunction of the esophageal sphincter. If you can get at the root of that and correct that with dietary change, lifestyle change, you probably don't need a proton pump inhibitor. And…
AI assessment note: “it's very difficult to give someone a medication for any condition and not have something else happen”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q So you think that you got those because of over-medication when you were younger?
A No, I just know that I had those for whatever reason. A genetic predisposition in the setting, in the context of eating standard American diet manifests those things, and I was over-medicated as a kid. So I grew up with a lot of medications. That didn't affect me positively either. Giving your kid lots of antibiotics can affect their gut flora, right? Giving your kid lots of stimulants To treat their asthma because we used to give children theophylline called theater. I got this in my applesauce when I was a kid. It makes kids anxious and hyperactive. So that doesn't help with elementary school performance or learning. So these things negatively affected my life, and it was this sort of domino effect. So at some point in my life, generally when I was out of college, I began to think about my food and started thinking about what I was doing with my food that was giving me this autoimmune condition, this series of autoimmune conditions. Really, it's a triad. It's called an atopic Condition, right? It's, it's basically eczema, asthma, and allergies, and it got to the point that it was bothersome to me, and I had numerous flares of my eczema that were very severe, requiring more systemic steroids, which are not great for anything, and at one, at times in medical school, the eczema would get infected, and I would impetigo, so like, from being on the mats for jiu-jitsu, so really imp…
AI assessment note: “No, I just know that I had those for whatever reason. A genetic predisposition”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Why did we stop doing raw milk versus pasteurized?
A Good question. So up until the early 1900, all milk was raw. In the early 1900 people were moving off of farms into cities, and people wanted milk. A lot of people were sickened by raw milk because they were milking cows in sub-sanitary conditions, mixing feces or urine with the milk, doesn't sound very appetizing, and they were feeding cows swill, which is the spent grains of alcohol fermentation, that's where the term swill comes from. And so they were feeding cows garbage foods, they were milking them in sub-sanitary conditions, and people get sick, and then the milk was Heated and pasteurized, and that helps with the public health issue, and we never sort of got back to the idea that we can now, with more technology, make milk raw in clean conditions, and potentially expose this to people who can benefit from it.
AI assessment note: “then the milk was Heated and pasteurized, and that helps with the public health issue”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Okay, so let's talk about it. So, What, what's the deal with lotion, perfume, Lululemon, and women?
A So let's do lotion and perfume first. These are cosmetics, but all cosmetics, anything that we're putting on our skin, whether we're a man or a woman, is being absorbed. Skin is an, it's not a lipid, you know, impermeable, impermeable barrier. It's not a water impermeable barrier. A lot of things you put on your skin can be absorbed. We know this, and this is the problem. We are porous, right? We have pores. This is how we sweat, and pheromones come out, and we regulate fluids in our body. We are full of holes. We just can't see them. So anything you put on your skin is going into your body, and being absorbed into the cells at your dermis and epidermis. So, there have been interesting studies looking at women, specifically, in the study, and cosmetics, and personal care products, whether it's deodorant, or lotions, and women who make a change, and Remove the personal care products that have parabens and phthalates and other endocrine disruptors. A lot of the stuff around forever chemicals is not noted on labels, so it's subtle. But women who make an intentional change to remove those things, we see noticeable, marked, statistically significant decreases in levels of these compounds in their body within a few days. Wow. It's, and, and we're talking like, the levels can go down by 50%. So there's a massive input, and we, these are not things that occur naturally in our bodies, r…
AI assessment note: “anything that we're putting on our skin... is being absorbed”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.25
Q a war going on between multiple sides of the coin. You know, and I think the war is interesting in a few ways. Like even, I was watching in a video where you said, canola oil, canola oil is toxic sludge and got flagged as misinformation on Instagram. Like, what is canola oil? That was fascinating in your video. And like, why do you think that gets tagged as misinformation?
A Right. So, it's kind of like who writes The history books. Who determines what is truth? In 2024, if I'm saying it on Instagram, meta determines what is truth, right? If I'm saying it on X, community notes determines what is truth. And that's a little bit better situation. Thanks, Elon. Not perfect, but, uh, a group of community members can have a more sort of democratic process than meta. You know, uh, Mark Zuckerberg and his CEO of Instagram get to say, well, We've decided that we're going to look at this one meta-analysis, which is a study of studies on seed oils, and this researcher, usually they reference a meta-analysis from a researcher at Tufts. His name is Darius, Darius Mazzafarian, the same guy who gifted us with the food compass guidelines that told us that Froot Loops and Cheerios were healthier than ground beef and eggs.
AI assessment note: “Meta determines what is truth... We've decided that we're going to look at this one meta-analysis”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.00
Q have you seen women's leggings lately? They are everywhere. They are very tight. There's, I, I, Collective, Taylor's gonna laugh, like, there's these new leggings that you just see, I'm like, I'm a chick and I'm looking, I'm sorry. Like, they are up in everything. Um, I, so do you, so what do you do? You throw your expensive leggings away? You buy only cotton ones? What's the answer here?
A I mean, it's, again, it's just like, knowledge is power. Know better, do better. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. If you're thriving, maybe that's not the biggest input, right? Maybe that's not the biggest lever to pull. I, if I'm in that situation, I'm thinking, okay, somebody needs to start developing leggings and sports bras in better fabrics. This is a business opportunity for a whole growing segment of men and women. If it's men, if it's rash guards, right? For, I mean, for me, like, I'm a surfer. There are zero companies that make board shorts out of anything but polyester. And believe me, I've tried to surf in cotton shorts. It doesn't work very well. It's horrible, right?
AI assessment note: “Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. If you're thriving, maybe that's not the biggest input”
