Long life depends on this: Gary Wenk at TEDxColumbus
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Do you know what will really keep you living and thinking clearly for a long time? Dr. Wenk does. His research explores the intersection of food and drugs and will challenge your biases on what makes a long life. His talk will explore why what we eat, and how much we eat, is the single most important daily decision we make that impacts how we age and how long we live.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) - Наука та технологія
Doctor Wenk Rocks , honest real information with no hidden agenda ......
As a biochemistry student, I see this man's work as a very refreshing take on nutrition.
As a senior approaching the age of 73 It is not wanting to live to be 100, but the quality of life that concerns me. About 2 years ago I started having acute OA, first my hands, then my knees. I couldn't hold a knife to cook or turn the key in the door lock. Then about last October as I was volunteering at a historic park, I twisted my right knee. I could hardly walk, I thought like a younger person saying; I can walk this off but as the days past the knee became inflamed and the pain now is acute. As far as my heart and weight I am very, very healthy with the exception of OA. I just had the CMC surgery on my right hand and now scheduled for knee replacement in May. Living a long life isn't important to me, it living a quality life, the ability to do the things I like to do. If I drop dead at 78, so be it. If I live to 93 well, that will be amazing.
This guy is a brilliant communicator and has done stellar research in this area!
The Chinese proverb goes ''You are what you eat''. The Japanese proverb goes '' You are what you think''. My proverb goes ''You are what you believe.'' If everyone eats well and live well and longer, I'm sure ''how to depopulate'' will be a lecture topic most demanded with TEDx Talks!!!
Wisepersonsay You are right with good sense of humor.
Isn't depopulation already on the agenda?...you know... Abortions, one child policy, and homosexuality!??...🤭🤭🤣🤣
My Grandparents Drank Coffee everyday . and as kids they would give us a half cup before school . well my Grandfather just passed at 95 he had a very full good life Drank 3 cups a coffee.everyday
my Grandmother still alive at 94
Younger generations won't have access to it. Over half of the world's coffee is at risk of extinction due to climate change, deforestation, disease and drought, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed 124 species and found 75 species face the threat of extinction - with 13 considered critically endangered, 40 endangered and 22 classified as vulnerable.
I am 65 now....7 years back I weighted in at 270 lbs and I am 6'4'
I agree that it did not help....Now I am 220 llbs.
I eat right....Loved your presentation....thanks
Thank you for bringing this forward.
Charles Adams
fasting is so amazing. I now do OMAD and it is amazing. Been one meal a day for the last 3 months with a 48 hour fast every week.
I have been eating one meal a day under doctors care. I eat between 5 PM & 8 PM. I have released 80 lbs in a year and half.
@@obertbrinley6541 Thanks for sharing that! Congratulations to you and your doctor! Please keep sharing it.🌻🌻🌻🌻
I started a week ago fasting from 8 at night until 2 -3 pm the next day. I may have one or two meals. The amazing thing is ...I'm NEVER hungry, unlike eating a low-cal diet where I feel deprived at each meal. This way you can eat unitl you are Full when you have your meal. So your body doesn't slow your metabolism thinking you're starving. I've lost 4 lbs already. I only have about 5 to go, so I have to be careful. But normally would be in the kitchen every hour at night, looking for a handful of carbs, and would never be satisfied. . Because I only have 1 or 2 meals now I really want to make the ones I eat really healthy too. So I have cut usesless carbs. NO hunger, no cravings, amazing!
@@obertbrinley6541 That's too close to bed time. Stop at 6PM.
@@crand20033 I will continue do what my doctor said.
Studies have shown that its better to intermittent fast than to do caloric restriction over 3 meals a day, so do anything from 16 to 23 hour fasts each day. Or fast 24 hours once a week or even better do a 5 day fast once every 4 months, its all to do with autophagy which Gary Wenk did not discuss in this video.
Totally agree that is my goal . We instinctively know these from our evolution. Modern medicine has gone off course with reductionism and arrogantly denying the wisdom of our body which tells us to eat for medicine think and excercise right it is a self repairing mechanism we still have lots to learn about.
I fast once a month for 2 to four days. Great healer
what do you eat or drink during fasting ?
@@myhighest1 hi. I make bone broth with onions carrots garlic celery etc. put it on low simmer for 3 days strain out everything. Have bowl three plus times day with added sauerkraut and sleep alot
@@myhighest1 I eat nothing and no supplements either, I drink water or herbal teas only normally green tea.
Awesome Ted Talk - One of the best ones I've seen. (Doesn't hurt that coffee, chocolate and cannabis are 3 of my favorite things to consume haha)
Joshua Smith lol same 👍
You probably dont care but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account?
I stupidly lost the login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me.
Eat less and wisely. Makes lots of sense. Great talk.
Keep in mind his audience for this presentation. Most of his listeners aren't going to have a good or even general understanding of metabolism, so this presentation is, accordingly, "dumbed down." Everything he is saying is based on research, so none of it is incorrect, and I think some of you may be taking what he is saying too seriously. So even though a banana and donut may have similar caloric value (perhaps a very small donut) in theory, they are chemically distinct and the body does not catabolize them in the exact same manner. Also, the donut will have precursors for the acetylcholine anabolism pathways that the banana does not have to offer, therefor increasing some executive functions in the brain. Acetylcholine transmission is antagonized by adenosine, and caffeine, an adenosine agonist, can serve to increase acetylcholine transmission via disinhibition, therefor increasing attention, memory, etc. Also, colorful foods do contain antioxidants, so I do not see the problem with him saying that. Lastly, it is well documented, in animal studies especially, that lower calorie diets lead to less disease, there is no arguing that. It's not like he is saying that the only way to live your life is to eat coffee and donuts for breakfast everyday followed by a light lunch consisting of 2 blueberries, a hershey's kiss and a joint. He is just advising you to be mindful of what you are eating, and presenting to you the relationships between certain foods and their effects on the body supported by current science. Perhaps he could have illustrated the negative side effects of some of his recommendations (refined sugars from the donut and acute side effects of marijuana), but overall, nothing he said was untrue. I advise those of you who have a disdain for Dr. Wenk to read some of his research before sharing your possibly uninformed opinions (you can find plenty of it for free at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed - just search his name). His science is a little flashy for me too, and even this presentation could have probably included more data and less fancy graphic art, but he is a pretty respected researcher. So maybe after you have spent some time at Johns Hopkins University and the National Science Foundation as a program director (As Dr. Wenk has, himself), then you can criticize Dr. Wenk's presentation using such words as "absolute rubbish".
Well said Sir.
Boom, there it is. lol Way to take it down a notch.
…, and so a B-vitamin supplement three times a week along with a hefty B-12 dose once a week isn't even on the table?
Paul Thomas 97”"
Paul Thomas r
make the best with the TIME you got......... TIME is a ILLUSION
love is the only TRUTH everything else is just a smaller or bigger ILLUSION..........
go further on to your higher own PERCEPTION in your HEART and open your PINEAL GLAND
This was the most entertaining talk of the day in my opinion! Loved TEDx Columbus! :)
Thanks for scientific and research conclusions. Great help.
Best explanation on anti-aging I have ever seen.
we shold listen to tedx talks with less than a grain of salt
i really appreciat it that the explanation im amaze.
Great speech. Very useful. Thank you very much
Wonderful research! Popular culture definitely needs few updates on how to eat right and live longer and healthier.
You will be ok my friend Look to cooking rice, lentils etc along with having ved and fruit along your way.
wow!! that was wonderful
Exciting!!
So glad to hear some of the things that I’ve been doing are beneficial 💙
Moderation with potion control. Intermittent fasting, reduce the stress. Don't stress the small stuff. Smile more and live a long life! 🤔
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That's exactly what I was thinking!
Omg when he flashed the picture of the brain cafe I first saw "the Bran Cafe" 🤪
Yeah man! Put a couple of lines of lard up my nose. Made me feel like I had a cold!
Interesting comment about a puff of cannabis per day. Which strain of the 50 varieties of cannabis in the natural world does he use or recommend? I have just watched the following TEDx and it is not as simple as "go smoke a joint": Behind the smokescreen of medical cannabis | Dedi Meiri | TEDxTelAviv. I used to smoke when I was a student but have not touched a joint in 50 years. If I am to start over again, I want to use the best strain available.
This closely describes my diet for about 30 yrs. ; it started with free coffee at work. When I ate dinner with my family daily I eventually gained 20 lbs. ; now, I generally just snack in the evenings and am a steady 5'9" - 160-170 lbs.. I am over 50 and have hardly any grey hair, though beard is half grey. What the DR. asserts makes sense to me.
Compare with Taoist knowledge of the meridians which tells us that stomach meridian peaks around 9 am in the morning.
This is an excellent video.
I got more confused after listening this. How can 5 cups of Coffee and Donuts be healthy!?
Because you will eat less calories even on that INSANELY silly diet. MORE CALORIES = ILLNESS.
@Will H We know it has healthy chemicals in it. And they have studied people who got or didn't get Parkinson's. Scientists can analyze those beans. Why would you ignore the research, science and studies.
An encouraging video if your looking for motivation to eat less.
Great presentation. Very interesting :)
"The Psychobiotic Revolution" is worth a read.
Why isn't this video in the oficial ted.com site? I searched for Gary Wenk there and nothing
Amazing presentation! The slides were great, loved them!
You talk simply about a wide range of topics, amazing! much better than what i was expecting, and good theory! :)
Shame how the more healthier we have to eat to live the more it cost. So live a life worthy of being healthy and wealthy.
Healthy food is not cheap.
Cannabinoids Cure Diseases & The Endocannabinoid System Makes It Possible.
And right now my brain is telling meto stop watching this video
It's telling me to go buy some marijuana.
Chocolate is made from Cocoa and it's good but Cacao is much better for you. Though raw cacao is well-known for being healthier than cocoa, cocoa powder is actually healthy for you, without excess fats, sugars, calories, or oils. Cocoa powder is also much more affordable than raw cacao at the store
i thought there was a war on drugs in USA, but they are having these huge buildings selling food and drugs
Lol, there is no lard council. The 'ad' for lard was a joke, likely originating in a UK magazine like Viz. Good TED talk tho with some interesting science based facts.
LOL. That Lard ad isn't real, it's from Viz magazine (March 1992)!
I was wondering if breathing, or holding one's breath have anything to do with keeping free radicals in the bloodstream too? When I'm tense, I unconsciously hold back my breathing and feel that from that I've held onto some illnesses longer.
Treat yourself once in a while. Have some cake, ice cream, cookies, donuts, chips etc. Just do it in moderation. It would be terrible to go through life without experiencing eating some junk food.
Ya that was a good one.
Drink tea
It quickly became obvious that I would require a cup of coffee.
And one puff of marijuana per day.
There are tidbits of useful info here
Thankyou Mr Wenk,very interesting,would it be more the cocoa in chocolate because the sugar may not be good,cocoa is so good for us.
So is cacao.
Keep it simple. Eat fresh ripe fruit to maximize antioxidant intake.
There is much more to it than that. You need a large variety of foods to stay healthy.
Frozen fruit is just as good or better for you. The nutrients are locked in from the time they are picked.
Funny thing just popped in my mind. I have actually eaten less and lost weight, while smoking pot on regular bases now =D
Good for you man! I'm proud of you!
I hope you've kept it up and are drinking lots of coffee? :D
I lose weight best also with some weed...feel healthier, exercise more....I hope it is legalized before I die....
if i smoke i eat everything in sight, when i dont have any i dont eat anything. i think it balances it out lol
I eat OMAD at end of day - are there studies on this? I realize that it is better to eat earlier but it does not fit my schedule. Plus eating makes me hungry and easier for me to wait.
ive been wondering about the paradox of fitness/bodubuilding being good for you and eating less also being good for you. fitness people eat more calories and process much more oxygen. so, whats better?
well they say that calorie restriction and/or intermittent fasting extends lifespan and is healthy (abdbyou are ingestinf less toxins abd additives and soya which is in pretty much almost everything). While bodybuiliding os exercising - which is also healthy. Though new research shows that too mucu exercise is unhealthy (like quite unhealthy, at least in terms of cardio exercise), so a balance must be found. It is a lot more in depth than this, and one must do their own detailed research.
Don't listen to them. Olympians eat like MAD and live longer than average people. This is why I never listen to a psychologist speak. They talk like they are experts in everything, which they are not. Gary is giving diet advice, while holding no degree in dietetics.
Psychologists will argue about EVERYTHING! and tell you how wrong you are. But as soon as you discuss something that offends them or isn't politically correct. they will say..."CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION"
Gary broke the golden rule. He's stating that correlation is implying causation.
In general eat less. But know your specific metabolic rate. We are may all be egual under the law but physically we are all different. I burn calories at a fantastic rate even when sitting down, so I need to eat more than the couch potato with a slow MBR. Still, to generalize, years ago I was told that every 7 years you need to reduce your caloric intake by a factor of 1/7 until you reach an optimum intake by age 50 which will serve you will in old age. Any comments on that Gary?
I appreciate your advice it's speaks volumes I will eat more colorful and less
And smoke dope.
The bottom line that I’m getting is eat less that is with the IF 16/8 and the OMD the key is that you are eating less and the other take away is eat a more healthy diet quality meats dark colorful fruits and veggies stay hydrated get some sort of exercise daily another take away for me is that not everything is TERRIBLE for you like the 🍩 and coffee ☕️ that use to be my breakfast of choice but for me it wasn’t beneficial due to the fact that I was already over weight but for someone who is active who knows it may be an option to a great start of the day
What a cool man.
This is all common sense. Your body will tell you whats wrong if you listen.
Wow! Lots of concrete thinkers and humorless souls eager to be offended. This speaker combines a dry wit with a healthy sarcasm and refused to protect “sacred cows” - I found him fresh and funny. If people listen to what he’s really saying in it’s entirety, it boils down to reducing aging by reducing caloric intake and resultant free radical production, while being mindful of substances that modulate our neurotransmitters, mood and behavior. He wasn’t really saying eat donuts over veggies, or drink gallons of coffee, or don’t remain active! It’s a pity his wit was lost on a majority of those who commented in this space! Even his “misogyny” was merely meant to point out that the poster was dated and sexist - not that he himself espoused those beliefs.
He's true about tims hor tons us Canadians are addicted to it !
Kyle Baker speak for yourself...trhat shit is not fit to eat
how is it its better then shity ass dunkin doughtnuts
Kyle Baker its all shit in my opinion.....but fill your boots if you like it
Give me LARD and BUTTER any day.
longevity can be attained, just by expelling excess of heat from the body. I can tell you how to do that.
Sleep cold?
Ready
@@carlloeber sleep cold, not enough
Show me. I want to learn how.
life time is given to all of us , as a PRESENT / GIFT you cant stay longer, but you can stay in much more better/higher QUALITY in the time,where is given to you..........take care
sorry I LOVE YOU I THANK YOU PLEASE FORGIVE ME
and one big KISS in to your HEARTs,,,,,,,,, thats what you deserve and NEED............
Best way to hide a lie is between 2 truths, coffee too much, weed long term, donuts, eat wise, better info out there.
Colour foods antioxidants and coffee are ok but Marijuana is illegal here in India. Well 30% caloric restrictions or carbs reductions??
He's mostly bald. The rest of his hair is gray and he's overweight. Guess he learned this late in life.
but he is 120 years old.
@Paul Thomas Thanks for writing your bit on this presenter. I was thinking he may be correct, but there are pieces of information missing. I have heard coffee more than 2 cups a day was bad for a person's health in one of the male type cancers --( Colon or prostate which I don't remember due to quick information source.almost a sound bite delivery) I was looking for more on the positive dietary foods. But I suppose time limits prevented some of that. Peace.
Telling people to have a donut and coffee for breakfast is irresponsible. I don't care whether he was joking or not.
Why is coffee for breakfast irresponsible? I agree with you about the donuts.
Only for short-short-term brain stimulation, such as for his students as they take exams. Edit: He wasn't talking about coffee with gallons of cream and syrups.
Interestingly enough, you're wrong. He wasn't joking, either. While eating a dozen donuts for breakfast is a bad idea, eating A (as in one) donut for breakfast is actually a good thing. There was a study done a decade or so ago, which was almost immediately followed up by a number of others because the results were rather surprising. The study was an attempt to determine why France had such a low obesity level when compared to the rest of the world despite all of the rich, heavy foods they eat. It was determined in all of these studies that it was their breakfast habits. The French tend to eat sugary pastries for breakfast. It turns out that the main function of breakfast is to jump-start your metabolism after being at rest for the night so it can metabolize anything left from dinner and to prepare for what you will be eating for lunch. While like ANYTHING else, overdoing it is counterproductive, a small dose of sugar and carbs stokes up the fires of your body's food processing systems quite well. The coffee is a good stimulant to further accomplish the same goal. In addition to all of this, the benefits Dr. Wenk spoke of as far as brain chemistry is concerned, are also legitimate.
Actually, like Jason mentioned below, he is right - coffee is more effective as it stimulates the metabolism (and a few other hormonal/neurotransmitter-mediated increases in neural functioning) when coupled with a quick source of energy i.e. something easy to digest that gives you rapid increase in blood sugar levels. Of course, this has to be supported as insulin effects may kick-in if this is over done or energy (glucose) is not used. We tested this on military service members required to perform at a short moment's notice (the typical fighter jock's breakfast... a doughnut and a soda!). I am serious, we tested it, Ciao, L
For my late breakfast yesterday I had six chicken wings (skin and cartilage eaten) two large coffees with sugar and cream, two large mandarins, a large banana, three gluten-free toast with cheese. I then went for an eight-hour walk (average time) up a steep hill, a tricky traverse then back home, which took me 5.5 hours. I had nothing to eat on the walk and didn't feel hungry.
You can include coffee and donuts in your breakfast but not exclusively. Dr Wenk was not being overly prescriptive.
Amla has highest antioxidants. It has 100 times more antioxidants than berries
just noticed the girl playing on her cell phone during the part about attention.
Seems like you weren't paying attention to the speaker
Are you a Owen or Canto?
I am an Owen trying to become a Canto.
Why marijuana ad try something different, people use it.....
I just understand one thing eat less
The problem with using marijuana donuts, coffee and chocolate is, who can stop with just one?
3:20 the girl with the iphone clearly doesnt have high acetylcholine levels
not neccessarily. She could just be prioritizing whatever it is that the phone satisfies as more important.
If there is no carbon ie debris in the body, we will still breath oxygen into our body, then there wld b even more excess oxygen ?
My cousin's first husband died in 1966 when he had a heart attack while driving and crashed off the road, her second husband died in 1989, and even after all that she's still going at 90. She got a lot of money partly becuase of her husbands. She's alway's liked her beer and meat, so I guess she has the fair genes.
and please explain better what it is your trying to tell us @ 17:10??
Well, I am going out and buy some chocolate and make some coffee!
Dale Couch sounds perfect we had to leave early
I had both at breakfast and feel energized.
What if you just eat more antioxidant rich food instead of eating less? I eat a lot but I am still skinny so can't eat less really.
Michelle vittmann
Ancient Indian medicine says the same . . . thousands of years earlier . . .ayurveda
+Vicki Nikolaidis ancient indian culture told so many such things which scientifically proved to be True at this date:) They were/are rich cultures for many many years.... Not a lot of people have identified it though... which is a sad part.
Hard to take seriously...Life depends on donuts and caffeine ....hahahaha
And marijuana he says.
genius !
Great talk but is he following his own advise?
Does it matter ?????
Yes he smoke marijuana.
when i puff, i eat more. that's counter-productive?
Try a different strand
This is only true because we started mixing food with not food, and called it food. (hee hee hee)
Anybody notice how right after the "Eat Less" speech finished, they panned to the fattest member of the audience?
two identical astronauts spent 10 years in space travelling to a distance planet.
the air is identical and also the food both are deemed perfect for survival
they do the same exercises: time, speed etc.
but astronaut (A) is only even 5 years of food. other is given 10 years (B).
(A) rations the food to last 10 years buy eat half to the allocated foods
(B) does not, eats everything and runs out on the last day of year 10
A & B arrive at planet same time as planed but die afterwards. NO EFFECTS from planet etc.
My question is this.... who will die 1st?
It seems you are saying astronaut B will die 1st.
+Paul Evans I need some coffee to be able to solve this.
B will produce more metabolic waste and not do intermittent fasting which raises testosterone and detoxifying mechanisms which will prolong life of A
Donuts for breakfast! calorie is not a calorie. Learn from Dr Fung. It’s hormonal.
Soon you are going to your early death keep drinking coffee, and donuts......do me a favor research....research....and show us scientific proof.....not personal opinions.....
You'll want to eat slow digesting foods. to stay healthy.
Food is drugs? No wonder eating a lot of fruits and vegetables makes me happy. One thing though about this: there are healthier alternatives to chocolate and coffee to get antioxidants. And, if you're going to intake THC, eat baked or use a vaporizer. Don't inhale smoke.
If you want to live longer, don't look to indulge bad habits. Cut out most of your meat and dairy, replace that with fruit and vegetables. Also, don't drink much coffee: don't cut it out but don't drink a pot or two a day.
haha, this is a thru and thru scientist,lol..you try to correct someone who is a professor and a phd
lol..you made me laugh..he is at the cutting edge of science and technology
@@berthablanco2888 I'm not contradicting him, and I made this comment 8 years ago.
Also, I have a bachelor's in physics - I have a solid idea now of the scientific method, the flaws in the ways people can do things, that sort of thing. Nature tends to be a lot more complicated than we are smart.
Nutritional science is also more bias filled than other science because money is involved in a way that actually corrupts it to a degree. THAT SAID, it's gotten better since this comment I made 8 years ago. The things that scientists advise people to do nowadays appear to be converging more.
@@hellomate639 I have three bachelor's degrees and a master's degree in Psychology, I did research what he said and looked at his resume..he is amazing to say the least..he is one of the best scientist out there.
TED,have this guy BACK to better explain himself. IS this for real? DONUTS!! Now that is a colorful food!!
Is there any lab data to support this?
does decaf make a difference?
Not really and some processing makes it worse than ordinary coffee but just freeze dried should be okay.
Unless he was joking, he gets paid by the death industry.
😂😂😂😂
When I hit very hard times, I couldn’t buy food. Weight fell off me and I did at first feel so much younger. However, after it went on for too long I began to feel unwell. I felt like I was on Valium or something, and had bad stomach pains. Now I am over weight from eating comfort foods... Bread, cereals sugar. My body has had a breakdown and I feel unwell. Eat good quality fresh food . It is impossible for people on low income.
Coffee & a bowl of goodness....(not CEREAL) will be the new "breakfast of champions!" ;-) ! LOL! (Then one can more APPRECIATE the DONUT!!!) ;-)
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TOM HANX?
Eat once a day at night.
This researcher seems nice, but he is very narrow in his thinking. It’s like he is basing his statements off of only some studies and ignoring decades of research showing other things. This is part of the reason I went on to medical school after getting a PhD in Neuroscience. It’s hard to avoid letting your focus get too narrow, b/c there is so much research out there and you need to move in some direction instead of spinning in circles comparing all of the inconsistent findings. We’d like to make it simple, but our bodies are far more complicated than any of this!! Oversimplifying leads to misunderstanding - a common thing in the US - like when we tried “fat free” or “carb free” diets. Instead, we need to focus on balance and moderation.
1) Telling people to eat more donuts, that’s a terrible idea in the US!! Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. The biggest plague in US right now is obesity -> metabolic syndrome -> vascular disease, heart disease -> metabolic syndrome (diabetes included in this) destroys the entire body. We don’t really need “quick calories” usually. Our bodies are usually very good at keeping glucose levels stable (breaking down glycogen or fat stores) while fasting over night and even for the next couple of days. Quick calories are NOT necessary, unless you’ve depleted your glycogen stores from a couple of days of overexertion and lack of calories, OR you already have metabolic syndrome. Quick calories may be a major cause of insulin insensitivity leading to diabetes. Calorie restriction is may be the only useful things he mentioned. What about carbs, versus fats, versus proteins? If he is going to discuss left over oxygen and respiration….these 3 produce very different respiratory quotients. He should be discussing the importance of complex carbs, proteins, and healthy fats with calorie restriction AND exercise.
2) When he described the metabolism of food with resulting excess oxygen left over, again, he really oversimplified the topic and deduced inaccurate, narrow-in-focus conclusions. He should have discussed balancing carbs with proteins and fats. Breathing is great, oxygen is great! Look at an athlete who does cardio once/day getting respiratory rate up versus someone with COPD. Carbon dioxide build up from less breathing is the bigger enemy. This researcher is extremely misleading in his conclusions.
3) Newer research shows people may be overdoing it on antioxidants. He suggests oxygen is the enemy, when in reality, oxygen is vital for life. In addition to oxygen being required for fuel in most cells of the body, the body creates free radicals from oxygen in order to kill bacteria. Without free radicals (oxidants), people would suffer fatal staph and fungal infections in childhood (as is seen in chronic granulomatous disease for example). He shouldn’t speak of these things (oxygen, sugar, coffee, marijuana, antioxidants, etc…) as enemies versus friends. Everything needs to be in moderation. All of these things can be BOTH enemies and friends. A good researcher would never base conclusions off of a subset of studies, as a study could show any of these things as being an enemy or a friend.
4) When he showed us pictures of the hippocampus and described his research showing marijuana reducing oxygen in the hippocampus in monkeys, it is absurd that he confidently deduced from those findings that oxygen is bad for the hippocampus and marijuana is good! I recall learning, in my neuroscience PhD program, about all of the studies showing how marijuana permanently damages hippocampal memory. I even had a professor who dedicated his career to studying memory b/c he had already damaged his memory by long term marijuana use. He now a notebook with him at all times and he has to write down everything in order to function, due to the permanent damage he induced. Just look at your typical pot-head, anyone who knows pot-heads, is a pot-head, or has even seen pot-heads on tv knows that memory gets worse, not better. Also, is the researcher of this talk forgetting the fact that we measure oxygen in fMRIs to observe areas of the brain that are successfully activated while using the brain? For example, the fMRI shows increased oxygen flow in the visual cortex while people are looking at pictures. Oxygen is required for brain cells to work!
5) How could he say “throw away your tennis shoes??!!” Hopefully anyone reading this could get a sense of how narrow his scope is by saying “coffee, quick sugars, and chocolate are good, you can throw away your tennis shoes.” Imagine the decades of research with enumerable studies showing the benefits of exercise for health versus a very small number of studies showing chocolate and quick sugars to be beneficial (and far more studies - including all of those on obesity - showing quick sugars and chocolate to be bad). Again, “calorie restriction” may be the only accurate thing he spoke of. But exercise is a vital component with calorie restriction. Cardio exercise increases the number of calories burned and muscle/strength exercising increases basal metabolic rate (so we can burn more calories per day) - both decreasing the net intake calories per day. But aside from just caloric benefit, exercise has been shown to be beneficial for the body in many different ways. For example, increasing heart and respiratory rate for 30 minutes/day can strengthen the cardiovascular system; exercise positively affects hormone and neurotransmitter balance in the body; there are many examples of health benefits.
This researcher is very narrow-in-focus with inaccurate and misleading conclusions.
Yeah, it seemed a little to me like he was just telling people what they want to hear. Maybe so they will shop at his grocery-mart? Maybe his bakery hasn't been selling enough doughnuts. I gotta disagree with your statements on marijuana though, i don't think it's the compound that damages your memory, but maybe just the conventional way of consuming it. I think it's the carbon monoxide we take in from smoking it, not to mention all the butane we inhale. There are ways around that though that make it way more healthy.
+Ceszack Anm I think you are placing a lot of emphasis on silly things he said like "eat more donuts" and "throw away your tennis shoes" a bit too seriously as they more or less were just half serious summaries of his points... and also you really should watch his longer lecture on youtube because his entire viewpoint focuses on moderation of all things and how there is no black and white of helpful vs non-helpful. Which is exactly the point you made.. it just sounds like you didn't hear him make it too.
Half silly points are what people remember over the mind numbing amount of words said. Its the statements that make people laugh that they will most likely remember in the future. So if he wasn't saying people should do that he should make jokes which reflect what he wanted to happen.
This guy addressed the moments most people will remember.
Ceszack Anm he didnt say eat a box of doughnuts! Hes just trying to get people excited about their health,something most doctors lack!
Ceszack An
If you're if you're smoking pot how can you eat 30% less
Lisa Morrow it's impossible...I'm trying