Hey Doc! Your presentation is perfect especially for me who loves a touch of humor in everything. Someone once asked me “So, how do you like your eggs?”. I said…”I like them a lot”.
Great stuff Sully, I'll be sharing this with a few patients I know who are afraid to eat eggs for the very same reasons you mentioned. These tend to be the same people who are afraid to lift because it's "bad for the knees"
I'm not an expert but it seems like everything we eat is a risk factor if a person just sits around doing nothing. I love eggs and I think I'll just live on the edge and keep eating them. Ha!
If I take a course of raw eggs on an empty stomach for 6 weeks…….. this is what happens…… my strength goes up, my recovery improves, my sex drive increases and people in the gym have often said I must be taking steroids. Happy work outs 🏋️💪👊
John died of a heart attack, he ate an egg every day - conclusion the egg killed him. what they did not say is he also ate a big mac extra fries every day along with a pint of ben and jerrys ice cream. oh he didn't exercise. of course I'm yokeing. but this is how those who have an agenda work.
Thank you, Sully, great video. So, what you're saying is that correlation does not necessarily constitute causation and dietary cholesterol may only correlate to serum cholesterol and serum cholesterol may only correlate to heart disease. Isn't it amazing how much we know we don't know? Thanks again.
Very entertaining, funny, and brilliant, it's a great combo💯‼️💪..,. I've been eating eggs for over 50 yrs, and from the beginning I could feel a difference, like better concentration, energy and happiness, and that's a wonderful feeling...💪🥚🥚🥚🍳🍳....🥩🥩🥛🥛💪 yessa.
Edds are mainly Protein and Fats... BOTH do not trigger insulin use if any minute little.... CARBS are what trigger insulin and glucose production and raise it in your body when you eat them... so how can it effect diabetic like me when I am one who consume more eggs for the protein and fats. Since I took this route from Keto and focus more on protein as I wa t to build my body .. my diabetes is in remission and I am fitter and feel more stronger and healthy at age 60
I been taking an average of 4 eggs a day for 16yrs now. I am 46, i workout but never believed this egg theory of high cholesterol and so on !! And as long as eggs don t get me cancer i m ok dying of hearth failure !!!
Great video, Sully. I like how you pointed out in the beginning that the reason eggs were vilified was flawed logic. They leaped to the conclusion that dietary cholesterol affects cholesterol deposition in arteries. I love me some eggs!! I was looking for some "Easter eggs" in your video...
If you are concerned about egg ingestion elevating blood lipid levels, might I suggest trying them as a suppository? It may actually decrease your risk for colon cancer as a side effect. Then again it may not. Unfortunately we don't yet have the data to say for certain.
Dear Mr. Sullivan, While your eggs will not kill you, I am gravely concerned by the color of your yolk and your happiness. At minute 1:30 you are holding up a boiled egg that looks really grey in the yolk. 6 minutes to boil an egg. No longer. It should be sunny yellow inside. I promise it will taste so much better that way!
Hi Sully, I had a shoulder skin graph 5 yrs ago, so now I can only do hex or front loaded squats. I've learned to center the weight and push from the ground straight up through. I just hit 100 pounds. I'm going to have to sell my couch soon and buy a squat rack, its getting too heavy to lift and snap up to my neck. I also have a slight torn quad tendon right above the knee cap, but squatting seems to strengthen it. Any advice on a small tear would help, thnks
How about more egg whites and less yokes? Doc, do you accept new patients? I’m in Michigan and need a primary care doc. It would be great too get past the conversation of deadlifts and squats with my doc twice a year.
If hundreds of thousands of people have been scrutinized over decades and the data is so inconclusive that tells me de facto there is no significant clinical risk.
Just had bloodwork done, id have to say by the lipid numbers, 6 eggs a day may be too much for this ol boy. Too much of anything, not good!! Ill go back to 2!
1989 my Food Science & Nutrition professor suggested to us that if we needed to write a research paper we might look into the cholesterol issue as it was not so clear cut as society was being told over and over again. I did, to the dismay of the Technical Writing professor. He was very upset with me. "Who do you think you are to doubt the well established findings of science!?" Well, ever since I have enjoyed eggs without concern.
Honestly, I don't think there's much risk at all, as long as you're not in a high-risk group. That's a lot of eggs, though. :) Of course, you should discuss this with your doctor if you're concerned.
I would eat them in a house. I would eat them with a mouse. I would eat them in a box. I would eat them with a fox. I do so love my eggs and ham. I like them, Mr. Shamasu-man.
In general, I love your work, but you quote studies, at least in this video, with apparently no concern for the deceptive practices among those who benefit financially from the debasement of science. You have pointed this out in other work, joint supplementation comes to mind. You admitted that you take joint supplements on the slim chance that they might help, all while highlighting that it is primarily the producers who benefit from joint supplements, produced by an unregulated industry. You have a video titled, "Health will never come in a pill". And in "#7: The Sick Aging Phenotype" you talk about ill people polluted with a basket full of drugs. It is, however, the medical profession itself, a statutorily protected monopoly, that sells the notion "Health always comes in pill form", just as they happily promoted cigarette smoking for many decades. I am not suggesting that you are trying to be deceptive, but you so often seem intent on showing details with metabolic pathways, molecular structures, compound names and the like, which hint that you have dug into at least some of the nitty-gritty. In this video, all you seem to have done is quote what the authors had to say about the study. You give us viewers no insight as to how, or whether, you might have analyzed the study itself. When one reads the studies themselves, it is very often discovered that the study was designed to create a predetermined outcome. For instance, a study I read recently was designed to show that beef consumption lowered cholesterol levels, compared to vegan diets. They got exactly the result they were paid by the beef industry to get by adding a hundred grams of saturated fat to the daily vegan diets. Even then it was only a slight, non-statistically significant effect. But, to an almost certainly scientifically illiterate journalist click-baiting a similarly scientifically illiterate public, the inherently deceptive nature of the study is irrelevant. Unfortunately, the US public is constantly bombarded by the results of industry-funded and fraudulently-designed studies which are presented as gospel by video hosts and moderators who have not taken the time to analyze the studies. For most of them the stated result is sufficient to simply tell them what they want to hear, or, more accurately, what they want to tell their viewing audience. It is very sad that in the US medical schools are essentially run by the pharmaceutical companies - profits are the motivation for medical practice, not the welfare of patients. That is why almost no medical schools in the US require their students to take even a single class on human nutrition. I live near Michigan State University and they require of their prospective MD's no knowledge of human nutrition, despite the fact that almost all "health care" in the US addresses food-related illness. They do, however, learn how to prescribe some drug for almost any complaint. Good nutrition and exercise are probably the two most important factors for a high quality of life at any age, but physicians in the US are ignorant of both. Again, medical establishment profit, not one's good health, is the objective right from the beginning of medical school. You make the disclaimer that Greysteel videos do not constitute medical or training advice(you do, nonetheless, comport yourself in the videos as if you are giving training and medical advice), but then you refer your viewers to someone who is almost certainly no more knowledgeable of nutrition and exercise than the viewers themselves are. Sure you need to do that for legal reasons, but it is completely senseless in a practical good-for-what-ails ya sense. Here in the US, a wholly ignorant MD, is considered to be an expert, even in areas where they are devoid of understanding. What's more, you, Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, would be shouted down by most of your MD colleagues, for the crime of promoting the idea(from your channel's ABOUT page) that "Living well means aging well, and it means staying active, training smart, eating right, sleeping well, and keeping our horizons broad." To suggest that a human being can ever be well without money flowing to a "trained medical professional"(however ignorant), is the medical and pharmaceutical equivalent of high crimes. Your prescription of exercise and good nutrition are part of the religious dogma of a large group of Seventh Day Adventists living in around Loma Linda in CA. They are vegan, having never eaten any animal products, including eggs, and they move a lot in their daily lives. What's their payoff for following what you would prescribe? They are the US sub-population having the longest life expectancy and the shortest end-of-life morbidity. They are evidence that your prescription works and it works without eggs or any other animal products. As a note: if you want to promote high-protein foods, which also contain other great nutrients and that are known to reduce arterial plaques, why not suggest beans, lentils, peas, nuts, seeds and corn, or even spinach, kale, brussel sprouts, and artichokes? These things make up nearly all the calories consumed by the longest living human populations around the world. [EDIT: I saw in another of your videos that you do indeed suggest all these foods when you say, "eat mostly plants"] All the best
A beautifully written polemic--you are eloquent and intelligent, clearly. But I have neither the time nor inclination to respond in detail. I can only report summarily that while I am in agreement with much of what you say, I find many of your conclusions and claims flawed and ill-considered, and some of them I find unnecessarily insulting and objectionable. With regard to my positions in the video, I am unmoved, and I stand by my content, 100%. It is NOT the case that vegans are "the longest-lived people in the world," as you would know if you evaluated the literature in depth. NO lifestyle or nutritional parameter has EVER been substantively demonstrated with good methods and without bias to extend the natural lifespan in populations. Pro-vegan literature is every bit as confounded by biases and poor methods as the rest of the nutritional literature--in other words, a lot. And it is NOT the case, as you seem to insinuate, that I am a member of some criminal profession or criminal industry, or that my colleagues are all corrupt and benighted quacks. I shall take exception, sir. I am a physician. I say it loud and proud. I am a Doctor of Medicine, and happy for it, proud of my noble profession, flawed and primitive as it may be, and proud of the vast majority of my colleagues, men and women who have devoted their lives to the treatment of disease, the preservation of life, and the relief of suffering. What do YOU know of the difficulties, the horrors, the uncertainties, and commitments involved in caring for the sick and injured in a world where the answers to many questions--including the best diet for the individual patient in front of you--are in doubt? And...really? YOU take ME to task for responsibly suggesting that my viewers work with their doctors? REALLY? My viewers who have physicians shouldn't at least talk to them about what they learn on my channel, if only to inform their doctors of their choices? That is your CLEAR insinuation....and what ARROGANCE! Nutrition is a highly personal matter, influenced not just by health concerns but by our individual aesthetic, cultural, and religious perspectives. I have no agenda other than health--if you want to be vegan, be vegan. You want to be paleo, be paleo. That's all fine with me, but I shall begin to doubt that you are equally magnanimous in lacking a particular agenda or that you are engaged in a particular variety of nutritional evangelism. That is your affair, but I won't be taken to task for not participating. I hope you will fare well.
@@GreySteel Thank you so much for your reply. To be clear -- I commend you on your efforts to encourage healthy living. I truly believe that your efforts through this channel can contribute significantly to one's quality of life, as well as, life expectancy, both of which are observed to be enhanced by exercise and nutrition. You asked, "And...really? YOU take ME to task for responsibly suggesting that my viewers work with their doctors? REALLY? My viewers who have physicians shouldn't at least talk to them about what they learn on my channel, if only to inform their doctors of their choices? That is your CLEAR insinuation....and what ARROGANCE! " You have informed yourself about nutrition and exercise, but almost every one of your MD colleagues is ignorant on both. I'm merely pointing out that directing your viewers to their doctor is a waste of time. Just like making the decision to pick up that first barbell, your viewers need to take responsibility for their own health outcomes. I know you need to do it for legal reasons, but almost none of them will have a physician with knowledge or experience, and I'm sure you know that. I'm certain you know that your understanding of these important life variables is vastly greater than that of most of the others in your profession. I've run more than 40 marathons. My physician - insurance dictated - was useless regarding nutrition, biomechanics, and exercise physiology. With the physician's objective being primarily to get you the hell out of the office ASAP, a several minute long exchange with someone that ignorant will provide effectively no benefit. More than once I've had my own doctor prescribe a medication I was allergic to. To physicians, my health is not the goal, not the aim, not the objective. Our health care system is among the worst in the developed world and it shows with basically every interaction with every physician, MD, OD, or physician's assistant. Almost every health care dollar in the US is spent on fool-related illness, while those who are the legally recognized "experts" in "health care" are themselves largely devoid of human nutrition wherewithal. As a matter of note, I have studied nutrition for more than 50 years, starting in my teens, and my points are not at all flawed or ill-considered. Formally, I have studied physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition, biochemistry and other relevant sciences like statistics and protocol design to devise scientifically valid experiments and studies. I know what those of your profession know, and I know what they have been trained not to know. Most of those in the medical profession are intentionally trained in medical school to be ignorant of human nutrition and exercise as vectors of healthfulness. In my note to you I said outright, "I am not suggesting that YOU are trying to be deceptive"(emphasis added). Sadly, we all transmit erroneous information when we rely on fraudulent sources. And, today, for a few bucks, financially motivated MD's and PhD's seem all too willing to become those fraudulent sources, saturating the media with frauds, deceits, lies and misrepresentations. Again, the tobacco industry leveraged a few million bucks a year paid to MD's into billions and the medical profession had known the truth of it since no later than the early forties. Literally, tens of millions of people died due to doctor's willingness to take the money and look the other way. I truly believe you when you say, "I have no agenda other than health--if you want to be vegan, be vegan. You want to be paleo, be paleo. That's all fine with me, but I shall begin to doubt that you are equally magnanimous in lacking a particular agenda or nutritional evangelism." I happen to be vegan(for health, philosophical and environmental reasons), but, first and foremost, I share with you the agenda of health. Though I do not shy away from sharing what I've learned, I am no nutritional evangelist. The agenda of health is why I began watching your videos and subscribed to your channel. I don't find disagreement at all disagreeable and I will continue watching and remain a subscriber. I truly believe YOU, when you say that YOUR agenda is health, but consider this: In the United States, 36.5 percent of adults have obesity; another 32.5 percent of American adults are overweight. In all, more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity. Almost all of the associations in the US whose missions it is to address one or more of today's health problems are functionally useless, and almost everyone of them has medical professionals at the helm. But, manifestly, the problems continue to get worse by the day. Clearly, the medical profession is not our solution to health problems. No matter how expensive it gets, not matter how much faith the medical profession places in the pharmaceutical industry's ability to find the next latest and greatest pill, quality of life for people keeps getting observably worse. But, we are living in an age of greed-motivated deception. Heart disease is preventable. What the American Heart Association and the MD's who run it have to say about it? Nothing. The American Heart Association takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the beef industry, poultry and dairy producers, and millions from fast food and processed food manufacturers. This is effectively hush money, accepted in exchange for the degradation of the general health and welfare of the US population. By not speaking out against those things known to be bad for the heart, they are effectively perpetrating a fraud, perhaps even a conspiracy to intentionally keep people sick. It is part of their stated mission to help people avoid heart disease, and, they, like you, know how to avoid the illness, but they fail to do communicate that knowledge to the public in favor of corporate underwriting and sponsorship. Same holds true for the American Diabetic Association. The health of the US public is being sold out by the medical profession. You said, "It is NOT the case that vegans are "the longest-lived people in the world," as you would know if you evaluated the literature in depth. NO lifestyle or nutritional parameter has EVER been substantively demonstrated with good methods and without bias to extend the natural lifespan in populations. Pro-vegan literature is every bit as confounded by biases and poor methods as the rest of the nutritional literature--in other words, a lot." Here you directly contradict yourself. In your own videos, scripted and presented by you, you clearly and consistently point to exercise and nutrition as lifestyle choices that can both enhance quality of life and extend life. You refer to life being shortened by lifestyle and nutritional choices. If life can be shortened, say by the non-stop consumption of junk food, then it can be extended by removing junk food from the diet and replacing it with some good whole food. Your videos are an attempt to improve and extend life for your viewers. So, you are contradicting yourself in your response to me. You have counseled your viewers in your videos that "mostly plants" is one of the keys to nutritional health, and it's not all unreasonable to extend that idea to only plants. As you point out, plants supply the nutrients for maintaining our physiology, including their being our only source of fiber. You said in another video that vegans can make athletic gains, but you claimed that they have a more difficult time. There are world class athletes who are vegan in nearly every sport, including track and field, powerlifting and ultramarathoning. Though I have looked for it, I have found no evidence that vegan athletes incur any disadvantages for their dietary choices. I love your work. I love seeing knowledgeable experienced people at work. You have a great production team, including your writer and on-air personality. Americans are being royally screwed by the medical profession, especially regarding nutrition and exercise. I see no reason not to shed a bit of light on the topic. All the best
@@signmeupruss Thanks for taking the time. I just don't have equal available time to respond in depth, except to point out that in your eloquent post (a) you have cited no _evidence_ for your contentions about the ignorance of doctors and the corruption of AHA (I'd like to see it--I've done research review for AHA and my last new client was referred for barbell training by her DOCTOR) and (b) you have seriously confused lifestyles that allow us to live naturally long and healthy lives with LIFE-EXTENSION interventions. These are not the same thing. From the very beginning we have made it _explicitly_ clear that we are talking about compression of morbidity and prevention of _early_ death from preventable disease, _not_ life extension. We have _never_ suggested (or found evidence suggesting) that barbell training or any other lifestyle factor will help one live longer than one's genetic endowment and overall multifactorial _Geworfenheit_ would predict. We have only _ever_ suggested that a healthy vigorous lifestyle may help us avoid dying young from the Sick Aging Phenotype. We are interested in stronger, healthier, richer years, not more years (although we'd take that, too, if it were on offer). Please be clear on this. It will clarify much of our content. All the best.
After the first two minutes I had to pause to breath in between peals of laughter. Well done!
Thanks, Steve. Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey Doc! Your presentation is perfect especially for me who loves a touch of humor in everything. Someone once asked me “So, how do you like your eggs?”. I said…”I like them a lot”.
Great stuff Sully, I'll be sharing this with a few patients I know who are afraid to eat eggs for the very same reasons you mentioned. These tend to be the same people who are afraid to lift because it's "bad for the knees"
Funny how that works, isn't it?
Death by lightly poached egg on toast (with a sprinkling of sea salt & black pepper) doesn't sound like a bad way to go to me.
I'm not an expert but it seems like everything we eat is a risk factor if a person just sits around doing nothing. I love eggs and I think I'll just live on the edge and keep eating them. Ha!
Matt, you have put your finger on it.
Dude! I just bought your book, cuz you know, the elderly still like to read!
My 95 year old grandma had a boiled egg every day of her life for breakfast
Great video, I eat 4 eggs every day at breakfast. Great take-down of lipid hypothesis.
Thank you.
Loved the great information you always provide. Thanks :-)
Thank you for watching!
I eat about 10 eggs per day
If I take a course of raw eggs on an empty stomach for 6 weeks…….. this is what happens…… my strength goes up, my recovery improves, my sex drive increases and people in the gym have often said I must be taking steroids. Happy work outs 🏋️💪👊
John died of a heart attack, he ate an egg every day - conclusion the egg killed him. what they did not say is he also ate a big mac extra fries every day along with a pint of ben and jerrys ice cream. oh he didn't exercise. of course I'm yokeing. but this is how those who have an agenda work.
Thank you, Sully, great video. So, what you're saying is that correlation does not necessarily constitute causation and dietary cholesterol may only correlate to serum cholesterol and serum cholesterol may only correlate to heart disease. Isn't it amazing how much we know we don't know? Thanks again.
Very entertaining, funny, and brilliant, it's a great combo💯‼️💪..,. I've been eating eggs for over 50 yrs, and from the beginning I could feel a difference, like better concentration, energy and happiness, and that's a wonderful feeling...💪🥚🥚🥚🍳🍳....🥩🥩🥛🥛💪 yessa.
Edds are mainly Protein and Fats... BOTH do not trigger insulin use if any minute little.... CARBS are what trigger insulin and glucose production and raise it in your body when you eat them... so how can it effect diabetic like me when I am one who consume more eggs for the protein and fats. Since I took this route from Keto and focus more on protein as I wa t to build my body .. my diabetes is in remission and I am fitter and feel more stronger and healthy at age 60
I been taking an average of 4 eggs a day for 16yrs now. I am 46, i workout but never believed this egg theory of high cholesterol and so on !! And as long as eggs don t get me cancer i m ok dying of hearth failure !!!
Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. Had me laughing out loud. Thanks Dr. Sullivan, I needed a good laugh!
Whenever I hear that eggs will likely kill me:
"...So...do I want fried or scrambled this morning?"
Thank you for sharing this!
My pleasure. Bon appetite!
Cottage cheese with a salty mix in. My fav.
Great video, Sully. I like how you pointed out in the beginning that the reason eggs were vilified was flawed logic. They leaped to the conclusion that dietary cholesterol affects cholesterol deposition in arteries. I love me some eggs!! I was looking for some "Easter eggs" in your video...
They're in there, Bill!
I'm having a five egg ham and cheese omelet right now. Tastes even better now.
Bon Appetit!
This is fantastic!
Thanks
I'm 60 years old and I eat 12 eggs per day for 40 years. I ride 30 miles and walk 6 miles per day. Today I still eat 12 eggs per day and I love eggs.
Had three this AM, thank you very much.
I am 67, workout 3 x week and eat 5 eggs in an omelet along with oats...daily for the last 7 years...
Great video thanks again for your time and help Dr Scully 🏋️
If you are concerned about egg ingestion elevating blood lipid levels, might I suggest trying them as a suppository? It may actually decrease your risk for colon cancer as a side effect. Then again it may not. Unfortunately we don't yet have the data to say for certain.
I eat 24-30 a week , love them 💪🏽🤙
Can you do a video on the benefits of drinking milk? Thanks Dr. sully!
We'll add that to the list of topics. Thanks.
Thanks Sully! I can finally reference a video to some naysayers who think milk is the worst thing on the planet!
Well, that's dumb. Clearly, liverwurst with mayonnase on rye is the worst thing on the planet. By a long shot.
There are no benefits to drinking milk unless your a baby.
I like eggs!
Some of the “experts” pushing back against the consumption of eggs would also push a vegan diet. Just my opinion of course.
This was plainly amazing
Take two eggs, a third cup instant oatmeal, mix, cook in frying pan, and you have a delicious, nutritious pancake.
'Gotta try that!
You can add fruit, coconut, whey, whatever. These make an amazing preworkout meal.
if you want a little sweetener, try about half teaspoon of agave syrup
I eat 4 white with one gem a day. Thanks for the content! !
4 Years late. But I enjoyed the video.
Dear Mr. Sullivan, While your eggs will not kill you, I am gravely concerned by the color of your yolk and your happiness. At minute 1:30 you are holding up a boiled egg that looks really grey in the yolk. 6 minutes to boil an egg. No longer. It should be sunny yellow inside. I promise it will taste so much better that way!
Chickens are one of those animals that, if aliens chose just one creature from Earth as a pinnacle specimen - I bet it would be a chook :)
We have made them a very successful species....
I for one, welcome our chicken overlords :)
YMMV... HA HA HA Thank you for the sensible information and great content in your video!
Can’t hardly afford them anymore !!
We will all die some day but it won't be from eggs
Hi Sully, I had a shoulder skin graph 5 yrs ago, so now I can only do hex or front loaded squats. I've learned to center the weight and push from the ground straight up through. I just hit 100 pounds. I'm going to have to sell my couch soon and buy a squat rack, its getting too heavy to lift and snap up to my neck. I also have a slight torn quad tendon right above the knee cap, but squatting seems to strengthen it. Any advice on a small tear would help, thnks
1:49 name of this song Please?
I love your videos. I also own your book
Unrefrigated r OK just cook them well ( room temp)
See Dr. Esslestyn
How about more egg whites and less yokes?
Doc, do you accept new patients? I’m in Michigan and need a primary care doc. It would be great too get past the conversation of deadlifts and squats with my doc twice a year.
starting at 1:12 - just about wet my pants...too good.
If hundreds of thousands of people have been scrutinized over decades and the data is so inconclusive that tells me de facto there is no significant clinical risk.
what about raw?
Not a good idea.
I'd be long dead by now! Lol
Just had bloodwork done, id have to say by the lipid numbers, 6 eggs a day may be too much for this ol boy. Too much of anything, not good!! Ill go back to 2!
At 7:53 you said 1989, but the text says 1999
Good eye. A slip of the tongue, and by the time we caught it it was too late. The paper came out in 1999.
1989 my Food Science & Nutrition professor suggested to us that if we needed to write a research paper we might look into the cholesterol issue as it was not so clear cut as society was being told over and over again. I did, to the dismay of the Technical Writing professor. He was very upset with me. "Who do you think you are to doubt the well established findings of science!?" Well, ever since I have enjoyed eggs without concern.
Dr sully , how much can i eat ? Is 10 eggs okey
That's excessive, IMO. I eat between zero and three a day. Diversity makes for better nutrition.
@@GreySteel i eat about 5 in the morning, and health risk?
Honestly, I don't think there's much risk at all, as long as you're not in a high-risk group. That's a lot of eggs, though. :) Of course, you should discuss this with your doctor if you're concerned.
@Frank Burjan link?
So funny.
Meat and 60 eggs a week, still alive.
Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse?
I would eat them in a house. I would eat them with a mouse.
I would eat them in a box. I would eat them with a fox.
I do so love my eggs and ham. I like them, Mr. Shamasu-man.
In general, I love your work, but you quote studies, at least in this video, with apparently no concern for the deceptive practices among those who benefit financially from the debasement of science. You have pointed this out in other work, joint supplementation comes to mind. You admitted that you take joint supplements on the slim chance that they might help, all while highlighting that it is primarily the producers who benefit from joint supplements, produced by an unregulated industry.
You have a video titled, "Health will never come in a pill". And in "#7: The Sick Aging Phenotype" you talk about ill people polluted with a basket full of drugs. It is, however, the medical profession itself, a statutorily protected monopoly, that sells the notion "Health always comes in pill form", just as they happily promoted cigarette smoking for many decades.
I am not suggesting that you are trying to be deceptive, but you so often seem intent on showing details with metabolic pathways, molecular structures, compound names and the like, which hint that you have dug into at least some of the nitty-gritty. In this video, all you seem to have done is quote what the authors had to say about the study. You give us viewers no insight as to how, or whether, you might have analyzed the study itself.
When one reads the studies themselves, it is very often discovered that the study was designed to create a predetermined outcome. For instance, a study I read recently was designed to show that beef consumption lowered cholesterol levels, compared to vegan diets. They got exactly the result they were paid by the beef industry to get by adding a hundred grams of saturated fat to the daily vegan diets. Even then it was only a slight, non-statistically significant effect. But, to an almost certainly scientifically illiterate journalist click-baiting a similarly scientifically illiterate public, the inherently deceptive nature of the study is irrelevant. Unfortunately, the US public is constantly bombarded by the results of industry-funded and fraudulently-designed studies which are presented as gospel by video hosts and moderators who have not taken the time to analyze the studies. For most of them the stated result is sufficient to simply tell them what they want to hear, or, more accurately, what they want to tell their viewing audience.
It is very sad that in the US medical schools are essentially run by the pharmaceutical companies - profits are the motivation for medical practice, not the welfare of patients. That is why almost no medical schools in the US require their students to take even a single class on human nutrition. I live near Michigan State University and they require of their prospective MD's no knowledge of human nutrition, despite the fact that almost all "health care" in the US addresses food-related illness. They do, however, learn how to prescribe some drug for almost any complaint.
Good nutrition and exercise are probably the two most important factors for a high quality of life at any age, but physicians in the US are ignorant of both. Again, medical establishment profit, not one's good health, is the objective right from the beginning of medical school. You make the disclaimer that Greysteel videos do not constitute medical or training advice(you do, nonetheless, comport yourself in the videos as if you are giving training and medical advice), but then you refer your viewers to someone who is almost certainly no more knowledgeable of nutrition and exercise than the viewers themselves are. Sure you need to do that for legal reasons, but it is completely senseless in a practical good-for-what-ails ya sense. Here in the US, a wholly ignorant MD, is considered to be an expert, even in areas where they are devoid of understanding.
What's more, you, Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, would be shouted down by most of your MD colleagues, for the crime of promoting the idea(from your channel's ABOUT page) that "Living well means aging well, and it means staying active, training smart, eating right, sleeping well, and keeping our horizons broad." To suggest that a human being can ever be well without money flowing to a "trained medical professional"(however ignorant), is the medical and pharmaceutical equivalent of high crimes.
Your prescription of exercise and good nutrition are part of the religious dogma of a large group of Seventh Day Adventists living in around Loma Linda in CA. They are vegan, having never eaten any animal products, including eggs, and they move a lot in their daily lives. What's their payoff for following what you would prescribe? They are the US sub-population having the longest life expectancy and the shortest end-of-life morbidity. They are evidence that your prescription works and it works without eggs or any other animal products.
As a note: if you want to promote high-protein foods, which also contain other great nutrients and that are known to reduce arterial plaques, why not suggest beans, lentils, peas, nuts, seeds and corn, or even spinach, kale, brussel sprouts, and artichokes? These things make up nearly all the calories consumed by the longest living human populations around the world.
[EDIT: I saw in another of your videos that you do indeed suggest all these foods when you say, "eat mostly plants"]
All the best
A beautifully written polemic--you are eloquent and intelligent, clearly. But I have neither the time nor inclination to respond in detail. I can only report summarily that while I am in agreement with much of what you say, I find many of your conclusions and claims flawed and ill-considered, and some of them I find unnecessarily insulting and objectionable. With regard to my positions in the video, I am unmoved, and I stand by my content, 100%.
It is NOT the case that vegans are "the longest-lived people in the world," as you would know if you evaluated the literature in depth. NO lifestyle or nutritional parameter has EVER been substantively demonstrated with good methods and without bias to extend the natural lifespan in populations. Pro-vegan literature is every bit as confounded by biases and poor methods as the rest of the nutritional literature--in other words, a lot.
And it is NOT the case, as you seem to insinuate, that I am a member of some criminal profession or criminal industry, or that my colleagues are all corrupt and benighted quacks. I shall take exception, sir. I am a physician. I say it loud and proud. I am a Doctor of Medicine, and happy for it, proud of my noble profession, flawed and primitive as it may be, and proud of the vast majority of my colleagues, men and women who have devoted their lives to the treatment of disease, the preservation of life, and the relief of suffering. What do YOU know of the difficulties, the horrors, the uncertainties, and commitments involved in caring for the sick and injured in a world where the answers to many questions--including the best diet for the individual patient in front of you--are in doubt?
And...really? YOU take ME to task for responsibly suggesting that my viewers work with their doctors? REALLY? My viewers who have physicians shouldn't at least talk to them about what they learn on my channel, if only to inform their doctors of their choices? That is your CLEAR insinuation....and what ARROGANCE!
Nutrition is a highly personal matter, influenced not just by health concerns but by our individual aesthetic, cultural, and religious perspectives. I have no agenda other than health--if you want to be vegan, be vegan. You want to be paleo, be paleo. That's all fine with me, but I shall begin to doubt that you are equally magnanimous in lacking a particular agenda or that you are engaged in a particular variety of nutritional evangelism. That is your affair, but I won't be taken to task for not participating.
I hope you will fare well.
@@GreySteel Thank you so much for your reply. To be clear -- I commend you on your efforts to encourage healthy living. I truly believe that your efforts through this channel can contribute significantly to one's quality of life, as well as, life expectancy, both of which are observed to be enhanced by exercise and nutrition.
You asked,
"And...really? YOU take ME to task for responsibly suggesting that my viewers work with their doctors? REALLY? My viewers who have physicians shouldn't at least talk to them about what they learn on my channel, if only to inform their doctors of their choices? That is your CLEAR insinuation....and what ARROGANCE! "
You have informed yourself about nutrition and exercise, but almost every one of your MD colleagues is ignorant on both. I'm merely pointing out that directing your viewers to their doctor is a waste of time. Just like making the decision to pick up that first barbell, your viewers need to take responsibility for their own health outcomes. I know you need to do it for legal reasons, but almost none of them will have a physician with knowledge or experience, and I'm sure you know that. I'm certain you know that your understanding of these important life variables is vastly greater than that of most of the others in your profession. I've run more than 40 marathons. My physician - insurance dictated - was useless regarding nutrition, biomechanics, and exercise physiology. With the physician's objective being primarily to get you the hell out of the office ASAP, a several minute long exchange with someone that ignorant will provide effectively no benefit. More than once I've had my own doctor prescribe a medication I was allergic to. To physicians, my health is not the goal, not the aim, not the objective. Our health care system is among the worst in the developed world and it shows with basically every interaction with every physician, MD, OD, or physician's assistant.
Almost every health care dollar in the US is spent on fool-related illness, while those who are the legally recognized "experts" in "health care" are themselves largely devoid of human nutrition wherewithal.
As a matter of note, I have studied nutrition for more than 50 years, starting in my teens, and my points are not at all flawed or ill-considered. Formally, I have studied physiology, pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition, biochemistry and other relevant sciences like statistics and protocol design to devise scientifically valid experiments and studies. I know what those of your profession know, and I know what they have been trained not to know. Most of those in the medical profession are intentionally trained in medical school to be ignorant of human nutrition and exercise as vectors of healthfulness. In my note to you I said outright, "I am not suggesting that YOU are trying to be deceptive"(emphasis added).
Sadly, we all transmit erroneous information when we rely on fraudulent sources. And, today, for a few bucks, financially motivated MD's and PhD's seem all too willing to become those fraudulent sources, saturating the media with frauds, deceits, lies and misrepresentations. Again, the tobacco industry leveraged a few million bucks a year paid to MD's into billions and the medical profession had known the truth of it since no later than the early forties. Literally, tens of millions of people died due to doctor's willingness to take the money and look the other way.
I truly believe you when you say, "I have no agenda other than health--if you want to be vegan, be vegan. You want to be paleo, be paleo. That's all fine with me, but I shall begin to doubt that you are equally magnanimous in lacking a particular agenda or nutritional evangelism."
I happen to be vegan(for health, philosophical and environmental reasons), but, first and foremost, I share with you the agenda of health. Though I do not shy away from sharing what I've learned, I am no nutritional evangelist. The agenda of health is why I began watching your videos and subscribed to your channel. I don't find disagreement at all disagreeable and I will continue watching and remain a subscriber.
I truly believe YOU, when you say that YOUR agenda is health, but consider this: In the United States, 36.5 percent of adults have obesity; another 32.5 percent of American adults are overweight. In all, more than two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity. Almost all of the associations in the US whose missions it is to address one or more of today's health problems are functionally useless, and almost everyone of them has medical professionals at the helm. But, manifestly, the problems continue to get worse by the day. Clearly, the medical profession is not our solution to health problems. No matter how expensive it gets, not matter how much faith the medical profession places in the pharmaceutical industry's ability to find the next latest and greatest pill, quality of life for people keeps getting observably worse.
But, we are living in an age of greed-motivated deception. Heart disease is preventable. What the American Heart Association and the MD's who run it have to say about it? Nothing. The American Heart Association takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the beef industry, poultry and dairy producers, and millions from fast food and processed food manufacturers. This is effectively hush money, accepted in exchange for the degradation of the general health and welfare of the US population. By not speaking out against those things known to be bad for the heart, they are effectively perpetrating a fraud, perhaps even a conspiracy to intentionally keep people sick. It is part of their stated mission to help people avoid heart disease, and, they, like you, know how to avoid the illness, but they fail to do communicate that knowledge to the public in favor of corporate underwriting and sponsorship. Same holds true for the American Diabetic Association. The health of the US public is being sold out by the medical profession.
You said,
"It is NOT the case that vegans are "the longest-lived people in the world," as you would know if you evaluated the literature in depth. NO lifestyle or nutritional parameter has EVER been substantively demonstrated with good methods and without bias to extend the natural lifespan in populations. Pro-vegan literature is every bit as confounded by biases and poor methods as the rest of the nutritional literature--in other words, a lot."
Here you directly contradict yourself. In your own videos, scripted and presented by you, you clearly and consistently point to exercise and nutrition as lifestyle choices that can both enhance quality of life and extend life. You refer to life being shortened by lifestyle and nutritional choices. If life can be shortened, say by the non-stop consumption of junk food, then it can be extended by removing junk food from the diet and replacing it with some good whole food. Your videos are an attempt to improve and extend life for your viewers. So, you are contradicting yourself in your response to me.
You have counseled your viewers in your videos that "mostly plants" is one of the keys to nutritional health, and it's not all unreasonable to extend that idea to only plants. As you point out, plants supply the nutrients for maintaining our physiology, including their being our only source of fiber. You said in another video that vegans can make athletic gains, but you claimed that they have a more difficult time. There are world class athletes who are vegan in nearly every sport, including track and field, powerlifting and ultramarathoning. Though I have looked for it, I have found no evidence that vegan athletes incur any disadvantages for their dietary choices.
I love your work. I love seeing knowledgeable experienced people at work. You have a great production team, including your writer and on-air personality. Americans are being royally screwed by the medical profession, especially regarding nutrition and exercise. I see no reason not to shed a bit of light on the topic.
All the best
@@signmeupruss Thanks for taking the time. I just don't have equal available time to respond in depth, except to point out that in your eloquent post (a) you have cited no _evidence_ for your contentions about the ignorance of doctors and the corruption of AHA (I'd like to see it--I've done research review for AHA and my last new client was referred for barbell training by her DOCTOR) and (b) you have seriously confused lifestyles that allow us to live naturally long and healthy lives with LIFE-EXTENSION interventions. These are not the same thing.
From the very beginning we have made it _explicitly_ clear that we are talking about compression of morbidity and prevention of _early_ death from preventable disease, _not_ life extension.
We have _never_ suggested (or found evidence suggesting) that barbell training or any other lifestyle factor will help one live longer than one's genetic endowment and overall multifactorial _Geworfenheit_ would predict. We have only _ever_ suggested that a healthy vigorous lifestyle may help us avoid dying young from the Sick Aging Phenotype. We are interested in stronger, healthier, richer years, not more years (although we'd take that, too, if it were on offer). Please be clear on this. It will clarify much of our content.
All the best.
No way you will not die from eggs