I got my blood test results... (and the future of this YouTube channel)
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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
Best of luck bud, to you and family. Maybe the next generation may pick up the baton!
Hi, Greg. Google recommended this video to me. I also watched your previous video on your “health journey” last year.
You were a “diabetic” 1+ years ago. The life changing decision to jump to Low-carbs / Keto camp maybe the smartest decision you have ever made. Keep it up!
From your latest blood test result, my opinion: -
1. AST = 43 / ALT = 39 & GGT = 29 indicates your non-alcoholic fatty liver still persists, hence this can explain why your TG is still elevated after 1+ years of LCHF. Normal value of AST and ALT shall be < or around 20, for LCHF dieter.
2. Urea = 58.9 or even slightly elevated uric acid is not a concerned if you are metabolical healthy. You consumed higher meats in your diet. Hence, higher by product from protein is normal. Just drink more water to discharge it.
3. Lipid profile is a big concern. HDL = 47 and TG = 196 indicated your fat metabolism is not ideal.
4. Blood glucose still elevated with HbA1c = 6.0% and fasting insulin = 8.3. I don’t have your fasting glucose level, but with HbA1c of 6.0%, your fasting blood glucose potentially may > 6.0mmol/L. With that figure in mind, your HOMA-Ir shall be around 2.2~2.5. This indicates you are still with insulin resistance.
5. I suspected you still have high level of ectopic fat at your muscle cell, which inhibit glucose metabolism (Randle Cycle).
6. It will be a long journey to your health recovery. With determination, I think you are able to reverse your pre-diabetes and fat metabolism issues.
I recommend you go and check Prof. Bart Kay Channel, on the explanation of “Randle Cycle”, on cell & mitochondria’s ATP production (either glucose or fatty acid, not both).
Good luck on your recovery journey!!
Now I understand why you made the rational decision to steer clear of green vegetables to eliminate oxalate kidney stones. For information purpose, here’s a useful PDF that ranks foods based on their oxalate levels.
ucikidneystonecenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Oxalate-Content-of-Foods.pdf
As you continue on your quest, keep updating us.
@@slteng73 thank you! I've been watching and learning from many keto/carnivore podcasts and videos everyday. basically I need to be more strict with my food intake 🤣
Can I suggest an alternative which allows you to keep eating the food you are so passionate about. Exercise and doing weights will boost your metabolism which will help you become more alert and obvious positive physical changes. Now I wouldnt suggest going to the gym, but buying a compact treadmill at home and using that 30min a day for 4 times and a weight stations to allow you do peck, back and shoulder reps. At the core humans are hunter and gathererswhich meant running around to get that meat source.
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.
Hi Arron, watch my earlier vlog about my health journey to get some further context to how I approached my health: czcams.com/video/MzYVGoKrAyk/video.html
Hi Greg,
I have been your follower and have watched the videos of your health journey. I have even commented in a couple of them.
What I have said above is in context with your progress so far. Your recent blood test results do raise some concern and warrant further investigation. I am aware of the findings of lean mass hyper-responders (LMHR). However, there is still no evidence so far to say these individuals have no risk of any cardiac event down the road if they persist long term with a very high LDL, low triglycerides, high HDL and maintain a lean mass (low BMI). They are being studied at the moment. I implore that you do take heed to some of the advice for the sake of safety, especially with a history of smoking, being overweight and prediabetes. You are definitely heading in the correct direction but may require some tweaks and refinements in your diet and lifestyle based on your unique set of clinical findings. Everybody is different and responds differently to any intervention. You have to do what is best for your body. Take care and Happy Chinese New Year in advance to you and your family! 🙏
Doctor, you "Two Cents" very big.
Thank you for the advise. Suspect ipect you can recited this in your dreams.
czcams.com/video/RWAKbg_CF_E/video.htmlsi=kH7zV2qx4xDe3W5G
Do an extended fast. Reset your gut and continue keto. You should be able to have a better score that lasts
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 :)
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)
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.
you're lucky to find a good doctor that understands LCHF... you won't find that very oftenn
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!
Thanks for your service and contributions to SG culinary! Alternative food reviews will really help lots of Singaporeans too!!
Good luck, you have given me many hours of pleasure watching your videos. Stay healthy!!!
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.
Even if you ate veg all day & never exercised.. hello.
@@Ria-xl7kz It's better than eat junk food all day & never exercise, right?
@@Ria-xl7kz lol mine indian friend was vegetarian , but i see him like fat and unhealthy
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.)
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. ❤
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.
Great job
Good for you Greg! I look forward to more videos from you searching for healthier options...we will all benefit from that information!
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.
wow, another person in SG that is on carnivore diet, third one i came across on this comment section.
What if you could be mistaken, and the increased LDL leads you to unstable plague ? Plague currently is irreversible. I am a believer of a high fat, more meat based, less carb diet, IF with it and consume statins at the most, minimal dose 5mg rosuvastatin alternate days, and boost it with low dose of ezetimibe if needed. All in the name of reduced side effects.
All the best Greg I really hope you will find your way to good health.
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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 🙏
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
As a diabetic already on insulin, I welcome your low carb videos! Thanks for not giving up!
Are you a Type 1 ?
Yes I’m low carb too! Happy to try some of your new recommendations!
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.
@thekword22, how much is the CT angiogram, 700 ? I did my CAC in a Gov Hospital at 180
@@tonyzhuhai4132 I lost the bill, but it was covered by my insurance from my executive health check. I think at least 2-3K or more?
@@kwongheng Thank You
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 :)
Looking forward to the new direction!
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! 🙏🙏
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!
Take care Greg, all the best with your new diet and channel direction. Health is most important
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!
What a nice amplifier! Play us something, greg! I wish you good health and more videos for everyone to enjoy
Haha, maybe I’ll start a guitar channel 🤣
@@GregoryLeow I'll be watching out for that..Greg's Big Riffs? :) Always nice to see a fellow foodie and musician. Cheers from not-so-sunny Manila, Philippines! 🍻
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.
Generally good news overall! Looking foward to know more about healthy eats from you too!
Hi Gregory, I am surprised that you are talking about carnivore and keto. I have watched your videos years ago and CZcams 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.
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.
Nice, 4th person that is on a carnivore diet, seems that there are more opened minded people in SG than expected. Great job on your lab works.
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!!
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.
@daniellin5581 If you mind, may i know how long did it take to drop your hab1c to 5.2% , were you on any diabetic medications before that and after ? thank you
@@tonyzhuhai4132 It took me 2 months to drop from 6.5% to 5.4%. Then when I started "cheating" once a week, it went back up to 5.7%. Since then, i've gone back down to 5.5%, 5.3% and my latest is 5.2% at 18 months of testing. To be clear, I am not advocating a pure meat diet. I think it's really important to eat your non-starcy vegetables. Carrots, tomatoes, spinach, bokchoy, capsicums, mushrooms etc. are all part of my regular diet. The only foods I leave out are rice, bread, potatoes, processed foods (biscuits, mcdonalds etc).
Forgot to mention. Not on any medication at all.
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!
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!
Look forward to the new direction the channel will go towards!
Glad this comes to an early realization than later. Good luck on your health journey.
Hi Gregory,
Thanks for your videos and updates.
Do take care. Health is more important
Actually, I don't mind low-carb or healthy options recommendations. We are all getting old 😂
Maybe your CZcams channel might be a food recommendation for those who have diabetes or prediabetes.
Looking forward to your future content!
we will continue to support you. I enjoy watching your food review.
I hope you be better. Thank you for the food 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.
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.
I’m sure you know, keto and carnivore diets are not exactly mainstream-approved health advice. 🤣 I doubt any local nutritionist will be onboard with what I’m doing. But again, I can’t deny the results. I’ve followed mainstream health advice for decades and personally it hasn’t done me any good. But that’s just me.
Yes let's all get onboard the food pyramid and become healthier!
Look, he's got it in his head that what he is doing is correct. One can tell from his answers that he is already too deeply invested in his ideas to change. It's like trying to get a conspiracy theorist to change his views by rational arguments.
@@GregoryLeow You are going in the right direction, I am a T2D for over 20 plus years, and my last two Hba1c was 5.1% without any diabetic medications. You will also have normal BP when you are successful. There are many T2Ds in SG, that are in remission and not "captured" in the MOH data because like you mentioned it is not "supported by the mainstream medical community. ( most tends to practice on their own).
PS I think TyG level has nothing to do with Sat Fats like someone commented, I eat lots of meat and my TyG was only 0.63 mmol/L.
I think you are not keeping up with what is happening in the diabetes management area. @@jr.bobdobbs
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.
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.
Get well soon Gregory! Take this time to heal up
Take care on your journey to better health, Greg!
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?
Look forward to your new content
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.
Dr. Gil Carvalho is a council member of the Truth Health Initiative, not to say anything about it, but its something to take note. It's not right to label some doctors "youtube doctors" to give a sense that they only do "doctor" work in the internet, but isn't Dr. Gils also a "youtube doctor" in this case? Many of the doctors holds clinical practice and treats clients, they just happen to have a youtube channel to help with nutrition education. Its not right to lump everyone together when you have not seen the work they do and just disrepect their work entirely without talking to them or their clients.
@@thekword22 Define youtube doctors to your understanding. Because to me, my defination has nothing to do with what they do offline. What my concern are their content they they published online. Just watch some fact checking videos on those doctors that i quoted. They even admitted being wrong after been fact checked. Tell me then, have their work offline got anything to do with the fact they they had spread misinformation online? Dr. Gil Carvalho has one of the best well researched content "youtube doctor" that i had seen. That is all to it.
I am very interested in the low-carb and healthy eating videos. Thank you Gregory!
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.
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 ...
Haha, if I do, you’ll be the first in line!
I am in the same boat as you health wise...will fully support you & your channel still...+ yiu 😊
Hi Geogory, sorry to hear that. try berberine to mitigate the AIC spike before meal. It works. But need to take 1000g
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.
Great Job, by the way are you from SG ? I think not many people in SG is into carnivore diet although there is a fb group in SG, Simply Carnivore, are you a member of the group ?
@tonyzhuhai4132 no, not a member. Perhaps can look into it.
Hawker food is in moderation. Aafter that go home eat lots of veg. Once a month eat as you wish. Exercise is most important 😊
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!
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.
Hi, there’s emerging research that says that high ldl cholesterol is not indicative of heart disease: czcams.com/video/qXtdp4BNyOg/video.htmlsi=em6QMYcJgtKAf3hz
I look forward to your new focus. Take care.
Keep going Greg, looking forward to the low carb content.
Thats great, am always curious on healthy hawker options in Singapore :D !
I would love watching recommendations on healthy nutritious foods in Singapore!
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 .
Looking forward to your future videos which will reveal the better hawker stalls selling healthier food.
Take care Greg, rooting for you.
Take care. I'm getting older too and health and diet is a major concern for me.
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.
Looking forward to your future videos on affordable low carb meals.
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?
Not at all. Animal fats are good for your health: czcams.com/video/rQmqVVmMB3k/video.htmlsi=tX4OmRf1yHkN1Cvj
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....
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.
well you certainly looked alot more healthier, Greg! what are the noticeable positive physical changes you've seen since changing up your diet?
Loads of changes: lost weight, much more energy, virtually no more aches and pains. I document all the changes in my vlog: czcams.com/video/MzYVGoKrAyk/video.htmlsi=O_RP8U048WD-zqMM
I look forward to seeing your "health food" videos series. As we get older, our bodies changes and our food intake needs to change with it.
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.
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.
I do actively eat fish once a week but I avoid fish oil because I’ve read reports about how oxidised it can get once it’s extracted.
Yes, my family eat fermented foods quite regularly - kefir, kimchi, yogurt and so on.
Regarding carbs in vegetables and cheeses, some people do have problems with them. They go keto and they lose some weight and then stall when it comes to weight loss and general health markers.
Then they find out that it’s due to an overconsumption of starchy vegetables and high carb cheeses, and not focusing on fresh meat, that is their problem
@@GregoryLeow Oh, I don't even think of starchy/root vegetables as vegetables; I guess I'm thinking that if one is at the stage where they think they are needing to count carbs in their vegs/cheese in order to maintain their keto-ness, then the bottleneck is quite likely elsewhere, that is, there are likely more effective modifications they can start making elsewhere (for example, fermented foods, a bit more sun exposure, etc.) than counting _those_ carbs (as opposed to the genuine hidden carbs that fly under most people's radars). Regarding the fish oil (which I mentioned only as the immediate thing that came to mind regarding lowering your Trig:HDL, which as you know is the most important metric in the entire cholesterol panel, for so strongly correlating with the size & density of your lipoproteins): if supplementing, definitely molecularly distilled (removes mercury) and encapsulated (airtight, so subsequent oxidation is negligible if regularly restocked and consumed soon after purchase instead of only at the end of its official expiry) and always stored in the fridge once its seal is broken (even though the manufacturer doesn't explicitly give this advice). Regarding kefir: just to point out that "KEFIR & robust KEFIR GRAINS" on Carousell is really good stuff (not all kefir grains are equally biodiverse, and certainly supermarket kefir is bogus, contains less than a fifth of the strains of probiotics in genuine kefir, and is by design never actually cultured from kefir grains). Thanks again, Greg! Was wanting to revisit old airport road after watching your parts 1 and 2 last night, but alas it is currently renovating till Sept.
you need to include fasting and time restricted eating. and increase exercise.
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.😊
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.
I think different people have different carb tolerances. I guess I'm more carb intolerant than you :(
@@GregoryLeow I do walk about 2 miles a day too.
you're finally cutting out the cheat meals! yay!
Cant download "Nanyang Heritage Cafe" apps.what is the actual name of the cafe
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
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!
Good move and stay healthy.
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.
Looking forward to eating healthier hawker food from your recommendations.
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.....
I don't think it is right for you to make that statement that you suspect the TyG data might be doctored without proof.
Everyone body reacts differently to different macronutrients, although I am not on a carnivore diet but my protein intake
is usually around 30 pct my TyG is only 0.63 mmol/L last test. Before when I was on Myhealthy plate type it was much higher.
There, thats what most health professionals have actually warned about keto diet. The science works, but in pratice, it is an EXTREMELY restrictive diet and most people are not strict enough to enjoy the benefits from ketogenesis. Thats why the recommendation has always been a balanced diet and regular exercise.
Actually it’s not as restrictive as I thought. That said, it was difficult in the two weeks or so. After that it was relatively smooth sailing.
Mind you, I didn’t do strict keto. I just lowered my carbs by 90%
@@GregoryLeow sure I guess you have a different perspective. You need to cut >90% of carbs from my perspective.
@@GregoryLeow Just share with you my experience on this lifestyle change to put my diabetes into "remission, there will be alot of people , especially those "mainstream healthcare educated" people will try to discourage you, but as long as you did your research and are comfortable with the risk/reward and your blood works are moving in the right direction , keep at it and you will be there.
FY my TC at one stage was above 7.5 but last two results was around 5.5 area.
good results. try fasting too! tg will go down in a week or 2 lol very fast.
how much of the benefits do you think comes from exercising? if u exercise more, would that give u liberty to eat more?
It's better to visit a dietician instead of following what Greg did.
what he said are true
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.
Hi, personally the idea that you need alot of variety in food is a bit of an outdated thinking. It seems that if your body is nutritionally satiated, it has less craving for variety. And there have been hundreds of testimonials of low carb dieters who have felt this way. I still continue to eat out for social reasons but also have introduced more home cooking into my life. Both can coexist, imho
@@GregoryLeow I am not referring to what is needed but merely saying what would not be a good tasty food CZcams channel. It is good to eat healthy but the food you are introducing will be unpopular for the mass, it will be niche. I was on keto too so I know in the long run meat will taste tasteless.