Q&A: Dr. Greger Talks High Cholesterol, Cold Sores, and Fluoride
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Replay of Dr. Greger's live Q&A on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Would you recommend using sweet potato powder?
1:42 I was put on medication that caused me to gain weight. Do you have any advice?
2:37 Does sugar intake increase risk of Hashimoto's?
3:02 I like to use malted grains. Would these have the same benefits as whole grains?
4:33 My cholesterol is high even though I'm plant based. Doctor says I need to be on a statin. What else can I do?
7:06 Do you agree with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn that complete avoidance of oils in the diet is necessary to reverse plaque buildup in the arteries?
8:56 Are you familiar with the MARC-2 study? Should I give up my Tabata workouts?
9:20 Does long pepper increase absorption of turmeric like black pepper?
10:59 What causes cold sores on the face?
14:04 I have heard that prostate cancer has been associated with fats in the diet. Does that include the plant-based fats such as nuts, seeds, and avocados?
16:35 There's a new study that proves that large amounts of DHA supplements don't reach the brain. Are you aware of this?
17:30 Are animal and dairy products aneugens? Do they conduce gametic cells aneuploidy in pre-pregnant/prenatal/pre-gestational women?
18:55 I have menopause and high LDL after switching to a WFPB diet. What else can I do to lower it?
20:46 Can I exercise while doing 18-6 intermittent fasting?
22:15 You changed your mind on fluoride. What are your recommendations?
23:59 Is natto good for your health? If so, what benefits might it give?
25:02 Is nutritional yeast safe to consume?
25:32 Any research on sumac?
26:15 Your advice about managing menopause symptoms?
27:59 Does eating plant based help with Giant Cell Arteritis?
28:38 If I have my blood checked, what values should I pay particular attention to in order to find out whether I am eating a balanced diet? Should I also test certain minerals or vitamins in particular?
29:48 Upcoming osteoporosis webinar announcement (May 12) + CME credits - Розваги
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Would you recommend using sweet potato powder?
1:42 I was put on medication that caused me to gain weight. Do you have any advice?
2:37 Does sugar intake increase risk of Hashimoto's?
3:02 I like to use malted grains. Would these have the same benefits as whole grains?
4:33 My cholesterol is high even though I'm plant based. Doctor says I need to be on a statin. What else can I do?
7:06 Do you agree with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn that complete avoidance of oils in the diet is necessary to reverse plaque buildup in the arteries?
8:56 Are you familiar with the MARC-2 study? Should I give up my Tabata workouts?
9:20 Does long pepper increase absorption of turmeric like black pepper?
10:59 What causes cold sores on the face?
14:04 I have heard that prostate cancer has been associated with fats in the diet. Does that include the plant-based fats such as nuts, seeds, and avocados?
16:35 There's a new study that proves that large amounts of DHA supplements don't reach the brain. Are you aware of this?
17:30 Are animal and dairy products aneugens? Do they conduce gametic cells aneuploidy in pre-pregnant/prenatal/pre-gestational women?
18:55 I have menopause and high LDL after switching to a WFPB diet. What else can I do to lower it?
20:46 Can I exercise while doing 18-6 intermittent fasting?
22:15 You changed your mind on fluoride. What are your recommendations?
23:59 Is natto good for your health? If so, what benefits might it give?
25:02 Is nutritional yeast safe to consume?
25:32 Any research on sumac?
26:15 Your advice about managing menopause symptoms?
27:59 Does eating plant based help with Giant Cell Arteritis?
28:38 If I have my blood checked, what values should I pay particular attention to in order to find out whether I am eating a balanced diet? Should I also test certain minerals or vitamins in particular?
29:48 Upcoming osteoporosis webinar announcement (May 12) + CME credits
Question. I drink 8 ounces of tomato juice blended can tomatoes - 2 garlic- a teaspoon of amla and fenugreek - black pepper - fresh ginger and Turmeric everyday is this too much
My Sis went vegan recently; she can eat cocoa now and not get migraines. In fact, she doesn't get migraines at all anymore and she lost her belly. She told me she wonders why she hadn't done this 20 years ago.
Well yeah, dairy is the main cause of migraines in sensitive people and they arent rare!
@@Julottt Milk isn't on the list of the main migraine triggers, however; fermented milk products such as cheeses that are high in tyramine can certainly trigger migraines.
@@paulcohen6727 Cheese yeah but peoples sensitive to casein (which are not rare in adults) will get triggered by any significant amount of dairy but cheese concentrate much more casein because cheese is just fermented, salt, dehydrated and salted milk.
Incredible! Remind her to balance her vegan diet so it works, she sticks to it and continues to reap benefits.
Unfortunately we practically all say that!😊
My own experience is that lysine supplementation does indeed clear up cold sores - and very quickly. I can take it before bed & the next day the sore has started to dry up and heal. And I have also had the experience of eating a lot of nuts & getting an outbreak. SO I think arginine/lysine ratio is important. I don't take any stock in meta-analyses from Cochrane Reviews - if that's where the 'lysine doesn't work' thing comes from. No need to worry about lysine reducing endothelial nitric oxide production - it does not block eNOS, just iNOS. There was a small clinical trial in Japan on supplementation with both arginine & lysine (IIRC equal amounts) that found it benefitted mood.
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Sweet potato powder/smoothies seems a bit risky in terms of spiking blood oxalate levels & inducing kidney stones. Better to eat same was as Okinawans - cut up & boil them.
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Natto contains nattokinase, a fibrinolytic enzyme (& yes, it does survive digestion & is bioavailable - M cells in Peyer's patches were found to take up lumbrokinase, a similar enzyme, intact). I feel better when I eat it). Also contains PQQ & spermidine.
This man is amazing.
I cannot wait for his new book.
Whoever’s editing your videos and putting in the efforts of creating time stamps needs some applause! Love it!
Especially with long videos (like on Chef AJ or the McDougall webinars) time stamps are life savers!
I agree! I listen to the entire thing and then go back to take notes. Life saver
Dr. Greger, I love your content, your advocacy. I hope to have you as a guest on my podcast someday.
esselstyn is correct. oil is processed food and not whole food.
Nuts are high in arginine, so too many can set off your cold sores. Lysine balances or offsets arginine levels, so we just add Lysine supplements when we go heavy on nuts, coffee, sun and premenstrual perfect storms……..(holidays in particular).
Cold sores can be triggered by nuts. High arginine level in nuts, take lysine to balance it.
If I eat too many peanuts or chocolate, I get cold sores. Peanuts definitely trigger a cold sore outbreak. Ive found Lysine has helped.
I love your book How Not to Diet! That is a life changing book that works!
Thank you, Dr. Greger!
Thank you so much 👍
Thank you Dr. Greger for all your work on your youtube videos.
Thank u Doc and team for the meaningful work u do ❤
Thank you so much
I was thinking about sprinkling powdered beet greens on food to be able to get beet greens everyday without all the oxalates.
Cold sores come when I'm having stress. I have been using L-Lysine for years 500-1000 mg every 4 to 6 hours apart while awake and until the symptoms subside, sometimes 3 to 4 days. Recently got the Shingles vaccine, 1 shot 2 months apart and have gotten better relief.
Certain reports suggest a higher content of piperine up to 9% in black pepper and 4-5% in long pepper (piper longum).
Another compound, piperlongumine, found in Piper longum (long pepper, pippali), is thought to be a senolytic (gets rid of senescent cells).
The Okinawan fat intake in 1049 chart by Wilcox et al showed fat intake at only 6% and protein at 9% and carb at 85% so at least one source showed the aged ones had a lower fat intake which could be a guide on what is possible in a long lived sustainable human population. Their total calories were 1785 daily in the published chart, but keep in mind they were not very tall people. These were physically active people. . "Data derived from analysis of U.S. National Archives, archived food records, 1949 and based on survey of 2279 persons"
He forgot to mention Amla powder for lowering cholesterol. I make my own capsules of it and take three per day.
He did mention it in passing, after the black cumin seed. 😊
How not to age is going To be available in french too ? ❤
Thoughts on eccinachea tea? Love your work doc ❤ sending love from the UK ❤
Aren't some experts in this field saying that a certain amount of beneficial oils like - olive oil and canola oil are actually beneficial in small quantities?
I have olive oil in small amounts, it is the only oil I buy
For sure...but the question is always: healthy compared to what. Walnuts def just have more nutrition than walnut oil...
...and yeah can't really eat olives or canola flowers, so that oil might be beneficial for people that have no weight problem.
Refer to "nutrition made simple" and " plant chompers" for good videos on oil.
@@dominicmutzhas6002 Remember that I'm talking about those who don't eat any commercial or industrial food - but only a little bit of canola oil, for example.
I recently read an article that lysine actually feeds cancer cells, and as a cancer survivor, I'm afraid to take it now.
Can someone please tell me where I need to go to ask Dr. Greger a question?
Love youuuuu❤❤❤❤❤❤
Cholesterol levels can also be raised from some psychiatric meds, particularly the antipsychotics, also coffee made without using a paper filter contains more of a substance (cafestrol i think) that can raise cholesterol.
I’m a longtime low fat low oil vegan, but last year my cholesterol bloodwork was elevated. I cut back on sources of saturated fat like dark chocolate and processed foods and went back to using a paper filter for my coffee, and my recent cholesterol bloodwork has gone down to the “normal” range, but I want it lower.
Eat oats maybe! Or even get sunlight too I think it helps
advice is a noun ... advise is a verb
The spinal fluid does not necessarily contain all that the brain does, I’d be interested in seeing that spinal tap study regarding DHA
I never get to see the live stream due to my location but I hope you could shed some light on triglycerides. My husband has elevated cholesterol and his triglycerides are through the roof. He is not vegan at this stage but looking at a drastic dietary change to help his health. The only issue is that his doctor told him triglycerides come from carbohydrates and if he goes vegan they will get even worse. He is strongly pushing statins, which we’re trying to avoid. How do we lower his triglycerides with dietary intervention?
Couldn't he swap some of his meat eating for soya or quorn, no added carbs, just less cholesterol and saturated fat.
All animal products contain cholesterol and no fibre.
All non-animal products contain fibre and no cholesterol.
Switching over should not only meaning putting less cholesterol in, but also the fibre moving more cholesterol out.
The average person has 5-10 pounds of food stored in their bowels, as it comes of the bottom then we replaced at the top of the bowels.
Shifting this will help him to lose weight and feel better, better mood equals less interest in foods that are bad for him. 80%+ of serotonin is stored in the gut, not the brain as most believe.
So drinking tap water is okay?
Wazzup Doc?
Eating walnuts can induce pemphigus vulgaris, but sores are on inside of mouth, not on outer parts of lips.
I take a dash of “Trikatu” powder every day which has black pepper & long pepper. Thanks for the info at 9:59
What is the best way to submit a question for next month's live Q&A?
I think he does 30 mins on Facebook before 30 minutes on UA-cam, I think most of the questions he answers on here are left over from there
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I missed the live Q & A. Does he have any take on the product "Balance of Nature" I keep seeing comercials on this and was wondering if it is really as good for you as they say
Don't fluoride containing toothpastes adversely affect the gut microbiota?
Maybe if you swallow it
Cold sores on the face?
Not a cold sore.
It would have definitely been a nut allergy.
This person ate 150 grams of nuts, presumably in one sitting. That's around 900 Calories of nuts.
This is an insanely high amount of nuts to eat.....and would be more than adequate to stir the mildest of allergies, especially if they were salted.
The solution? Don't binge nuts.
It was from the high arginine in nuts. Foods high in arginine and low in lysine (nuts, chocolate, coconut, most grains, etc) are known to encourage cold sores. Foods high in lysine and low in arginine help fight them off. I'm guessing that person also had lowered immune system function, maybe because of their diet, as it didn't sound at all balanced.
Heh I could fall asleep to this :D
If your low on calcium, how can you add it to your house without drinking milk products?
Health not house 😅
eat veggies high in calcium...
@@melissameyer6726 Google can the human body digest plant cellulose ?
The answer is no it can't digest from bacteria down in the lower intestinal tract from human beings which is too late to absorb any food so the only two good things that a vegan diet is good for is losing weight and lowering your cholesterol but once that is done you got to get back on animal products that which has vitamin B12.
Vitamin B12 makes all DNA in your body which is the life of your cells for maintaining and repairing your body .
These guys will never tell you but in Genesis 1 verse 26 God created men and women to be hunters and fishers first before Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 verse 7.
People have been eating meat on this planet for thousands and thousands of years and only using plants as emergency purposes as they have lectins goitrogens in oxalates which take away the nutrient value.
If Jesus ate lamb and fish when he was on this Earth that's good enough for me
@TKane Sweet potatoes gave me kidney stones cuz. They're high and lectins...and all those nuts and seeds are anti nutrients for the body.
Even when a bird eats a seed it flies halfway across the Earth and poops it out and it grows a plant seeds are indigestible. for the human body.
We dont need 1000mg of calcium daily, it is propaganda to push dairy consumption, we only need 400-500mg daily on average and the less salt we eat the less calcium we pee out.
Bit finesse must ha a troll hahaha
I bought some Sumac and I thought I got the idea from you. Now, I wonder were I read or heard that.
Chef AJ touts it often.
I bought it because it tastes good on hummus!
People who eat things like powder and sludge...is your powder tested? Is it certified heavy-metals free, etc? I would be very cautious with the immense amount of vegan products out there masquerading as healthy. Just get a potato. Cook and eat. You're welcome.
What do you mean don’t ingest anymore fluoride than you can get away with? What’s “get away with?” NOBODY SHOULD BE INGESTING FLUORIDE. And I know I was yelling.
Hi, Sparkling Cyanide! A very small amount (3-4 mg) of fluoride is needed for teeth and bones, but it is naturally found in some foods, and is either naturally present or added to water in some places. I think what Dr. Greger was trying to say is that ingesting more than the small amount we need is not a good idea. You can find everything on our site related to fluoride here: nutritionfacts.org/topics/fluoride/ I hope that helps!
-Christine Kestner, MS, CNS, LDN, MPH, NutritionFacts.org Health Support Volunteer
Dr. Gregor is not a practicing physician.
Please, take a pause to go to the loo...
Hard to understand what you say as you walk on tread mill.
Wish these questions were screened. Not trying to be mean but most are braindead questions.
The person who claims to eat 3lbs kale, 2lbs sweet potato and (generously) 1lb blueberries has never plugged this into Cronometer. That's a 13% fat diet, not 1-4%.
More like 5-6% in my cron-o-meter which i arleady knew about and which is fine as long as you get the few grams of essential fatty acids need daily long term.
He said some berries, fear of fruits apparently...