Why Blue Zones are the Healthiest Places on Earth l Dan Buettner & Mark Hyman
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2018
- Dan Buettner is a National Geographic fellow, in charge of leading expeditions - he’s essentially a real life Indiana Jones. Having him on my podcast meant we got to discuss all the incredible places he has been and how it has led to his work on Blue Zones, a term he’s coined to designate the healthiest places on earth. Through research and study, Dan and his team were able to identify the 9 commonalities between all the Blue Zones - and those 9 things might surprise you. Tune into this brand new episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy for more!
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Dr. Hyman is a 10 time #1 New York Times bestselling author, family physician and international leader in the field of Functional Medicine. His podcast, The Doctor's Farmacy, is a place for deep conversations about the critical issues of our time in the space of health, wellness, food and politics. New episodes are released every Wednesday here on UA-cam, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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LOVED this conversation. Was adamant to listen to tune in because it was hosted by Dr. Hyman but as soon as I saw Dan Buettner, I knew I had to listen in. Thank you Dr. Hyman for your professional behavior and Dan Buettner for sharing his view so calmly and eloquently.
This was a Great video that I'm adding to my Favorites! It's good to hear all sides and there is no denying the people in the Blue Zones live longer.
What a great informative topic. Greatly appreciated so much! God bless to all of you for keeping us informed.
I enjoyed this discussion. Both of you are very visible on social media including UA-cam and offer very valuable insights. Thank you. What I like the most is the Blue Zones offer a very clear path to health nutrition and none of them are identical to what others are consuming. However what is consistent is the source of the food and water plus a healthy culture. Nobody is reading the latest book or report. They are not researching like I am as well as others because most of us live in an unhealthy culture.
If you investigate the cuisine of blue zones they are mostly low sugar eaters.
This is my least favorite video of Doctors Farmacy. Dr. Hyman talks in other episodes are articles about how grains aren't good for you, and Dan advocates eating lots of grains and beans. I don't do well with grains, and when I eat beans (even prepared "properly) I feel tired, sluggish, heavy and nauseated and sort of like I ate a big rock. It all comes back to the fact that we're all not the same. Some people thrive off vegan diets, others get very sick.
Dan also says about grass-fed beef "nobody buys that". Wow, what a statement to make that is definitely NOT true. I am really lucky to have access to tons of hormone and antibiotic free, free range, grass fed meat where I live. He seems to go to two extremes "omnivores are unhealthy and eat at McDonalds", "vegans are all healthy". Much of my diet is plant based, with a little bit of meat, I don't eat junk food or processed foods. A lot of vegan foods are highly processed foods.
Maybe you have specific gut issues that need to be addressed. SIBO is one that comes to mind based on what you said about how you feel after eating beans and grains.
Ali P I agree! Currently enjoying dans book blue zones. But this podcast goes against a lot of why Dr. Mark Hyman has spoken about.
You have to do a lot of research evaluation on your own to determine what information is most accurate. People who propose certain eating habits usually have done this - at least the reputable ones do. Not all research is quality. There are usually multiple variables that can affect results. You have determine what habits are most effacious. It takes a lot of work. I believe Dan Buttner is right on target about most things. I listen to Dr. Danial Amen as well. He talks about how toxic alcohol is to the brain, kidneys, liver, and mitochondria. We've known for decades alcohol destroys brain cells. In most Blue Zones people embibe of alcohol. Sometimes foods/drinks that people engage in do not prolong longevity, however, people live a longtime despite adverse habits because all the orher habits are so beneficial.
BLUE ZONES ...BECAUSE
ORGANIC FOOD ...NO CLOCK. NO WORRIES.... TAKE A NAP.. IN AFTERNOON..
Hi Mark... Could you please put in your show notes, information on your amazing guests, like websites, Facebook, Instagram, and thing relevant to your interview, like a new book etc. Thanks for all you do Mark, deeply appreciated. Tom Doty
Hopefully, you will be talking to Dr Valter Longo soon. I'm so grateful that you've been doing this podcast. Thank you.
Great work gentlemen. I have personally read books by both of you, and support your work. I would like to see our politicians get on board with the importance of health and happiness in our society. Perhaps a Surgeon General and President who champions wellness as a national security imperative, not something to be ignored.
great interview!
So people in Blue Zones ate meat and/or fish about 3-4 times a week, but he is purposely downplaying that to push his vegan agenda. Not to mention I'm sure they ate plenty of goat cheese, milk, and eggs too, but that's never mentioned either. I think the key aspect to their diet is that they didn't eat any refined sugar, processed foods, or seed oils.
The blue zones are mostly subtropical and tropical weather zones. I agree about these areas ate more meat. One individual who was born and raised in Italian island (a blue zone) said poor people could not afford a lot of meat but were very active and ate like you said, Chris. I agree about the vegan agenda. Grass fed animal products can be regenerative and the animals are moved around the field to get the most nutrition packed grass or fields.
They don’t eat as much sugar like Americans
You didn't hear right. They have fish 2 - 3 x a week and it is about 2 to 3 Oz max. They eat meat as a celebratory food about 5 x a month (on average) again 3 oz max. This is on average. There may be weeks & months where they have far less if any at all. Their diet is 90% plant-based.
@@annemccarron2281 Well if they are eating meat about 5 x a month, that on average is more than once a week, and if they are eating fish 2-3 x a week, that is on average is eating either some kind of fish or meat on average 3-4 times a week, which is what I said.
Crazy watching this after “big fat surprise” 🤣🤣😂😂🤣
Great comments. I bet there is very little fructose and no manufactured seed oils in the blue zones even though they eat carbs. No Captin' Crunch either I imagine.
I follow a plant based diet. Ruminant eats the plant, I eat the ruminant. Perfect!!
Dr. Mark, how do you reconcile the Blue Zone plant-based diet with the benefits of a Keto diet, and would you do a video on how to put those 2 ideas together? (You've spoken about how our diets should be 75% lower-carb plants, plus protein and fat, for example).
The charts I am looking at do not support the statement that the Blue Zones are a plant based diet.
@@StevePohlit1 I KNOW the Seventh Day Adventist’s in California in the blue zone definitely ARE plant based and some are even vegan. They are among the longest lived in the world! I can’t speak for other countries because I haven’t been there.
@@southerngrandma4353 the blue zones cultures are very far from plant-based
in Costa Rica, lard is a huge part of their staple diet
in Sardinia they are literally sheep herders..... which means they consume sheep milk and eat the sheep regularly.
My family is from Okinawa generation after generation, not once was VEGAN EVER A THING. Yes we eat a lot of vegetables but plenty of seafood and meat too. Don’t fall for this bull crap. The dude is invested in “lab grown meat”. He’s trying to line his pockets by pushing this bs vegan agenda
this is top quality information from both gentlemen.
Thank you for this excellent and productive dialogue! Dan had some great ideas if he were King. I sure hope some of them trickle up long before the next Presidential Election!
Onward.
I think his ideas are pretty awesome as well!
One of the most interesting things I've watched all year. Thank you both. Also, when is the new Blue Zone cookbook coming?
Wow, thank you! What a compliment!
What is your opinion on affirmations to heal?
... distracted by the crooked picture....Hyman rocks tho
I think people in blue zones eat what is native to their people. So it's not about Americans eating what other cultures eat in their native country in a different part of the world.
If their longevity was because they stuck to what their grandparents ate... we would see different blue zones with different types of diets that also stuck through generations just not the same as the "blue zones". Yet all blue zones in different parts of the world have a "similar diet" which disproves your hypothesis. (which is great, just doesn't seem to be the case)
Partly yes but also they eat seasonal wheres in the west if we are buying from a supermarket we are eating all year round we should be eating seasonal the social aspect also plays a insane role in longevity it is scary it seems by several studies how been social can immensely extend your life. Been non social it could go the other way
Great interview, It's awesome to see mark opening up to vegans on this podcast.!
Thank you!
Look for the people who still eat ancestral diets, which are high in fat and low in carbs, and you will find longevity.
BS. People in Okinawa ate low fat (7%) and high carb (80-85%) and they have the longest average lifespan in the world.
@@BetelgeizeStar Incorrect, their traditional diet consisted of fish and lots of pork until the last few years. More vegan bullshit.
There is a reason the Okinawan saying "every meal begins with and ends with pork" came to exist.
@@andrewsheppard2404 there’s a difference between plant based and vegan. Small amounts of meat are healthiest, lots of or no meat is not healthy in my opinion.
@@janeeden919That's what the science indicates.
Regarding Okinawa....Sometimes it seems modern researchers come and discover what they want to see, especially those with a plant based bias.
The whole pig was fully utilized in Okinawa. They had no soy bean or olive oil for their stir fries. Those were cooked using lard.
Furthermore, as noted in this overview citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.695.3883&rep=rep1&type=pdf:
"Pigs were first brought into the Ryukyus by Chinese immigrants in 1392, but they failed to become widespread because of a lack of food in the farms of the time.When sweet potatoes were introduced from Fukkien Province in
China, however, the practice of pig breeding spread rapidly, marking the beginning of the meat eating culture.."
When you actually look at these earlier surveys, sweet potatoes were a considerable portion of the "every day diet". But only to a degree since as detailed further below, there were numerous festival days, so "festival day diets" were a large part of Okinawan diets. Okinawan sweet potatoes are also high in polyphenols. The diet in general was a medicinal diet, and pork was an essential component of this approach. They ate the entire pig including all the organs, fat and parts including joints (full of collagen). As previously note, fat (lard) was and is used for cooking vegetables. So the traditional Okinawan diet was not a low fat diet.
Now a problem with a lot of the current research was that it was conducted after World War 2. The occupation and battle for Okinawa not only wiped out over a third of the population but also all the livestock. Needless to note, with war and the subsequent depravity, people weren't very festive. So surveys taken after the WW2 don't fully reflect the dietary patterns of every day and especially festival day diets.
Another problem with post WW2 research like the studies conducted in 1949, like ‘Survey of Japanese People’s Diets,’ weren't specifically done on centenarians. There weren't many alive at that time, but as shown in figure 1 on page six of this study www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/7/25-7.pdf the number of centenarians didn't start increasing significantly until the 1970's and even more significantly until the 1990's. This may be due to a number of things including but not limited to diet .
Now regarding "festival day diets", pork and goat meat were consumed primarily at festivals. However, if you look at the number of festivals celebrated in the link I just provided up above, there were many festival days including numerous days for Festivals for ancestral spirits, Agricultural festivals, Festivals for Warding Off Evil Spirits, and Festivals of Foreign Gods. So, pork and goat may have not been frequently consumed as part of the "every day diet", but pork and goat were consumed frequently as part of the "festival day diet." So given the number of festival days that's a lot of pork and goat being consumed throughout the year especially in January. February and March. So meat consumption wasn't just once or twice a week or month. Meat consumption as part of "festival day diets" was a frequent occurrence.
Nonetheless, as I noted previously above, increased longevity is a more recent phenomena. Plus what would also be interesting to see is data on the height of Okinawans in 1880 versus the height of Okinawans in 2010. Most older Japanese are traditionally short in comparison to other cultures. Though modern Japanese are taller than their ancestors. The difference isn't genes, nope it's the diet that contains more protein. Spinach and steak may have similar "grams of protein". But all protein aren't equal. Steak, pork and goat as well as other proteins has much higher concentrations of essential amino acids.
So, in other words, eating MORE animal protein (meat) may have been directly and partly responsible for the increase in Okinawan longevity as well as most likely an increase in Okinawan height. However, more refined carbs in the form of fast food and high glycemic carbs like rice have also increased the Okinawan rates of obesity. Okinawans didn't traditionally eat that much rice. Using vegetable (soybean oil) oil is also obesogenic as this study notes dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132672 This use of highly processed vegetable oils too is part of the modern American diets that have been more recently introduced to Okinawa post WW2.
Thank you for taking the time to include sources 😍
Thank you.
Thank you also for taking the time to bring a bit of truth to the comments section, something Dan is not renowned for!
I saw a couple who lost over 100 lbs together eating only meat They looked amazing Anyone can live 'blue zoned' anywhere in the world...it's just a question of want
Interesting individual and knowledgeable. Good interview Mark.
Thank you!
to producers: could you guys position those 2 large microphones on the opposite side? They are in front of two speakers obstructing the view. Very distracting. Swapping positions of people and microphones would be super helpful, what do you think?
It's a shame Dan seems to be more interested in following the latest plant-based trends rather than reporting accurately what these people really eat.
Let's just take Sardinia for example:
the villages he mentions with the centenarians are literally shepherd villages!
SHEEP HERDERS.
every single sheep herding society on planet Earth eats sheep ( lamb meat ) and dairy .
Lots of dairy.
Daily.
And lamb meat is extremely fatty! And by the way not any kind of fat, but saturated fat.
oh and it's red meat also
....and you know what that is the reason they ARE healthy.
Love Dan and Blue Zones :)
Too bad it's all propaganda. Visit these places and you will find they eat mostly meat.
@ Mark Bousquet
You should get the National Enquirer to pay you to expose National Geographic by interviewing all those Seventh Day Adventists in Loma Linda California about how much meat they eat. Any other conspiracy theories?
The Loma Linda live no longer than the mormons in same state who eat lots of red meat, bluezone liars chose to cherry pick 7 places out of the 21 places listed and the meat eaters were healthier, and Okinawa and Ikaria eat lots of meat. They have domestic pets or goats and chickens and have dairy daily, celebrations of meat feasts etc. @@someguy2135
sadly these people do not want to see reality they want a Disney world reality and Dan invests in lab meat so there is his motivation. promote a lie to make his business grow. @@MarkVA71
There is a blue zone in canada.i believe it is in yarmouth nova scotia.
Holistic agriculture needs more animals, to reverse desertification, manipulate the climate to our liking, and advance the interests of the animals' genes.................by eating them.
How many blue zones heat their food up in a microwave?
Personally, I think what you eat is more important than how you cook it.
none
Dam and I’ve been doing low carb for 18 months
Viva Costa Rica
I agree whole food plant based nutrition should be a large part of the diet. That is vegetables because I prefer low carb high fat.
But, this myth that global warming is caused by the meat production has to stop. Fossil fuels cause global warming, not cows and pigs.
Raising fuel prices won't make people walk more. But I'm not against it. It will accelerate the transition to battery powered transportation. 🙂
And don't teach kids to learn about food and cooking in the place of math. Math is not a bad thing. You want people to eat better, teach them science so they can understand why food is important. Higher educated people eat healthier.
Yes that's true. But the increase of methane doesn't depend on just cows. It's actually less than 20% of all methane production. Most comes from plantbased microbes, and fossil fuel mining.
If we reduce fossil fuels, methane will drop too. If we get global temperatures to lower, less methane will be produced by microbres. It's all going back to fossil fuels. Most methane released into the atmosphere comes from natural sources. We can do something about that, but not a whole lot and it certainly won't have a huge impact on global warming.
And I really don't see why we should focus so much on the animals while we can have a much bigger impact going electric.
Having said that,.. I do believe factory farming isn't the right way to produce meat.
We only need about 50 to 100 grams of protein per day. On an average diet that is about 10 to 20% of calories, on average about 15%. That's lower than what people actually eat. Part of that should come from plantbased food so we really don't need all that much meat. But the world's population is growing so even if we reduce it per person, it won't have much of an effect on total production.
We need to switch to solar/wind energy and electrical transportation.
And along with math teach them critical thinking skills so when the vegan / animal rights activists come along with their propaganda, the kids have the tools to question it.
Well Peter, it's almost as if u'r hinting that 'you can't walk and chew gum at the same time'...This is one of the key M O s of the msm. Either, or,...This or that! C'mon, global warming (if it truly is occurring over sev yrs, which is anything but a consensus ) is caused by multiple factors, the key one is probably the sun as journal Science has reported ! Another is undersea volcanic activity. And one other very important fact that journal Science has reported on: Methane (natural gas) is distributed thruout the solar system. This would make some of our petroleum more ABIOTIC than plant based. The name they gave it a century and a half ago, turns out to be the more appropriate one.
One point on the carbon dioxide reduction problem: Why is it there is little shrift given by the proponents to encourage the mass planting of vegetation of all types? Again, like the msm and Soros, their negatively focused, biased agenda is highly suspect and most thinking folks can see right through it.
melturner84
You are another unlettered unscientific vegan! If it was just cows then that is CARBON NEUTRAL! It is human activities which dig out SEQUESTERED CARBON which has and is altering the climate at a rate not seen in geological history !
Eat bacon lose weight !
Mark Bousquet
Vegans are just followers of a religion! MORE BACON FOR ME!😊
what’s with the laptop?
Fascinating! Can you include links to the person's websites, etc. Please?
Of course! Here is Dan’s website. Thanks for watching!
www.bluezones.com/services/speaking/blue-zones-speakers-2/dan-buettner/
Mark Hyman, MD thank you!!
There's a lot of vegan propaganda on that site. Okinawans eat mostly meat regardless of what Dan says. He's invested in lab grown meat so he has an agenda to push.
Don't try to tell me that our ancestors and their evolution and diet were immoral. On the other hand, our evolution has been accelerating since the agricultural revolution.
Dan nobody is talking about stop, lower or reverse again. We are talking about healthy living
How do i find this App?
Unfortunately, Europe is also producing GMO foods.
L E ...it’s like the sand if you live near a beach,
It gets everywhere.
GMO life is a beach!
Tell your guest to take lunches (packed in glass containers and made ahead of time) to work and let them warm to room temperature instead of popping them into the MICROWAVE, which is bad for any environment! That's what we do.
great interview. It's a sign of the time that someone promoting meat 4 or 5 times a month for life longevity would invest in artificial meat
eat veges !
8:06 - Buettner does admit to being an investor in Memphis Meats which has now rebranded as “UPSIDE Foods.”
Buettner secretly eats meat.
This guy wants me to eat spinach, kale, broccoli? What about my thyroid? Oxalates? Kidney stones? I'll stick to my beef grass-fed and butter. Also, any vegans out there? It cost more oil the ship their food in the winter time thus making more carbon but carbon has been higher in the past. Some say we need more carbon plants like it. So vegans want you to eat plants to save carbon footprint but plants like carbon. I rather do wild berries, eggs, bacon, grass-fed beef, salmon, and potatoes. I forgot raw goat milk. I think the New World Order would love to have population of weak Blue Zone folks. I think the Indians had it made, no disease, live longer, stronger. This is why we had to kill off the buffalo to get rid of the Indians. They were tough.
I agree with so much of this, and I see the wisdom of walking and movement, but there are an increasing number of people who live in vehicles/vans/rvs etc., due to increasing housing costs. As much as everyone else needs to do what they need to do, these people needs to be able to move about in their vehicles (snowbirds/nomads).
And I thank you for shedding light on the lectins issue.
Bet those Blue Zoners don't even deadlift.
grasslands and grass-fed, wild animals, e.g. Ted Turner's bison.
I used to think the same as you so totally get where you are coming form, but after watching documentaries like 'Cowspiracy' and 'Dominion' and learning that we can be much healthier without consuming any animal products (including grass fed/organic), I stopped consuming animal products. Plus, the longest lived of all the bluezones were the full 'vegans' in loma linda california. Its worth checking out man - I can send you information on anything you're not sure about if you like.
thanks, but we have to reconcile all the facts, and there seem to be at least a subset of humans who do poorly on plant foods, and vegan diets. And check out Dr. Terry Wahls' cure of her MS by changing from vegetarian to paleo diet.
The diet that explains all the observed phenomena is the proper diet, and seems to be case by case. And I'm beginning to think that it is not constructive to talk about a universally ideal diet. Different foods have different effects over different time frames. If I was atherosclerotic, I might go low-fat, no vegetable oils. But if I was sarcopenic, I don't think I would eat a low-protein, low fat diet. Now I think each person should monitor their biomarkers and hack themselves. And, frankly, the sickly looking vegans are not healthy when their functional capacity deteriorates as it often does. Compare the micronutrient composition and bioavailability of plants vs. animals. Animals are better in some respects, and, if too much, worse in some respects. I think you have to hit the sweet spot.
@@CraigCastanet I agree with you, I think everyone wants the easy answer but there is none. There are too many factors. We need certain nutrients in ideal amounts but I think a lot of problems come from too much refined foods, not enough exercise, too mannpy pesticides. Too much industry!
Ethics? I'm not sure what is the physiologic diet for humans- experts don't agree. But, whatever it is, it is NOT unethical. I'm glad to see that Dr. Hyman is talking to a vegan(largely), but no push-back on low-fat diets??
Lab grown meat. 😳
Get potato's & cook them yourself, no no deep fry them , whalla!
"Memphis meat? I'm an investor" noooooooooo
Okinawans eat lots of pork and seafood, and prize these foods much more than the plant based foods. They only ate so many carbs because of food shortages during ww2. Legumes and grains aren’t healthy even if fermented, they’re just there for calories, red meat and fat is much more nutritious than any plant and we can actually digest it properly unlike most plants, especially the seed foods(grains, legumes, nuts, seeds)
Okinawa? Really? A 1996 article in Health Magazine by gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira described the Okinawan diet as “very healthy-and very, very greasy.” The whole pig is eaten-everything from “tails to nails.” Local menus offer boiled pigs feet, entrail soup and shredded ears. Pork is cooked in a mixture of soy sauce, ginger, kelp and small amounts of sugar, then sliced and chopped up for stir fry dishes.
Okinawans (as of that writing) ate about 100 grams of meat per day-compared to 70 in Japan and just over 20 in China-and at least an equal amount of fish, for a total of about 200 grams per day, compared to 280 grams per person per day of meat and fish in America. Lard-not vegetable (seed) oil-is used in cooking.
Dan Buettner is referring to the diet of the centurions, not the young people who eat junk.
@@annemccarron2281 I believe you mean centenarians, not “centurions.” Doesn’t Buettner claim to write about the generally prevailing diet in the blue zones he studies? He doesn’t just cherry-pick the diets of people who live to over 100, does he?
Young people? The aforementioned article was from the better part of thirty years ago, and is thought to be reflective of the prevailing and typical Okinawan diet in the decades following the Second World War. That post world war timeframe (and pre 1996) would exclude current young people under 27 or 28 year old, as of 2023, and it would include many of the centenarians to which you allude.
Average american burns less than 100 calories by exercise!
microwaves?
That's what I said!
Jack Nap There are no health concerns with microwave ovens.
If you water plants with microwaved water, they will die. The structure of the water is ruined by microwaving.
that is so true
That shocked me...
That's funny, I see a lot of vegans getting sick in about 10 years on a plant-based diet. Maybe our soil is different in the blue zones. Rice for instance, soaks up heavy metals. A lot of folks with leaky gut can't tolerate greens. Broccoli has only been around for a hundred years. To make matters more interesting, the carnivore diet is saving people's pancreas. I wonder how the Blue Zone people handled insulin problems? You would think the Native Indians hunting Buffalo also lived a long time only on fat. I wonder if the Blue Zone people actually lived longer cuz it's exercise, air quality, microorganisms in soil, also they ate less. Raw beans can kill you.
Vegans get sick because they don't eat any animal products. The people in the blue zones eat seafood twice a week and land animals five times a month on average which is enough to avoid the problems associated with veganism, People can survive and thrive on different levels of animal products so long as the amount is not zero.
By minutes 2:10 it is quite clear what's in this guy's mind... 😬
No I don't buy this vegies idea , a lot of these cultures had high vegies due to poverty
jaz ok That's right, but they Do live much longer!
There can actually be advantages to a low income if you chose to work hard and eat vegetables instead of meat.
I don't like what is being discussed about what should be done to change living habits. I think this is sti America. I also don't care about what is called political courage to force people to change their behavior by making what is considered unhealthy suddenly unaffordable.
Mark Hyman should not interview someone with such a closed mind ..He wants people to eat his fake meat and claims no one eat grass fed meat ! He lied about consumption of meat in the blue zones and the fact that most are not far from the ocean or sea and their consumption of fish eggs .. . He thinks rice is good for you and LPS is no problem !
rick pytel He said they ate fish 2 times a week and meat 5 times a month, so they are eating small amounts of animal food at least three times a week. They eat mostly plants including greens, grains, beans and tubers, but also eat fish and small amounts of meat. They are not vegan
@@southerngrandma4353 That sounds like a pretty healthy diet to me.
@@almac9203 Me too, that’s how I try to eat
@@southerngrandma4353 Goat's cheese and milk is a very important part of the mediterranean diet too. Lamb is eaten regularly as well. The Asian island of Okinawa consume pork.
meats not the problem, sugar and grain is the problem
I'm not a fan of 'blue zones' I feel it's misleading, for the majority of already over weight and hormone sensitive to sugar in the diet. Vegetarian promotes high carbs and sugar in the diet when most people are already over eating carbs, bad and good. Who's funding blue zones research and marketing? it's all about what drives, and who benefits in people becoming more vegetarian. It's not about health, but about pushing vegetarian, maybe for reasons against the mainstream unsustainable(?) unhealthy, meat industry.
I used to think the same as you so totally get where you are coming form, but after watching documentaries like 'Cowspiracy' and 'Dominion' and learning that we can be much healthier without consuming any animal products (including grass fed/organic), I stopped consuming animal products. Plus, the longest lived of all the bluezones were the full 'vegans' in loma linda california. Its worth checking out man - I can send you information on anything you're not sure about if you like.
@@SergioGarcia-cn2kd I'm not those documentaries are completely unbiased either. I'll check them out though. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about less animal protein and not consuming over cooked meat. I know close to rare is healthiest. And I know eating a huge amount of organic, mostly raw and under cooked veggies as possible daily is good for minerals and nutrients. :)
@@SergioGarcia-cn2kd
hongkong live longest and eat most meat.
@@ORCs-R-Idiots They appear the longest living because of their extremely low rates of infant mortality which takes their average life expectancy right up. Vegans live longer on average, especially whole food plant based vegans. The science is very clear on this. But I'm not sure if you understand what 'vegan' means. Vegans are people who do not pay for, or support animal cruelty. By saying 'vegans are idiots' makes me think you are not against animal cruelty and anyone who is against it is an 'idiot'. Are you for animal cruelty or something?
@@SergioGarcia-cn2kd
Why do you always point out bluezones when talking about longevity and associate diet with it? I can say what you said about infant mortality in bluezones too. In fact I can add that lifestyles of bluezones are the main reasons why they live long. Less stress, physical activity, less drugs, less alcohol, less tobacco...etc.. Now that hongkong has the longest life, you point infant mortality? Why don't you say diet? They are the biggest meat eaters.
Dr. Hyman, perhaps promoting holistic personal chefs like me would be a great way for people who feel that they are too busy to cook for themselves. Investing in yourself by utilizing a chef who is specifically trained to cook healing meals or even teach you how to cook for yourself more efficiently and easily!
I don't agree that meat and cheese causes negative health issues, it comes down to our gut health bacteria, micro biome. I used to eat beans everyday. But I'd prefer to burn fat instead of sugar to prevent health issues long term.
This guy is not very knowledgeable about health and nutrition
-An "Estrogenic" obese body is created ;by sugar , high carbs ,refine carbs , eating too much fat and over eating protein .Sugar is sugar .. fruits , ,refine carbs , fructose (sugar) in fruit . Eating toxic factory food , fast food ,, dairy ,cheese ,milk , , mayonnaise , all salad dressings , peanut butter , whey-protein shakes are all "damaged fats" are toxic to your liver, brain and heart , , all vegetable oils ,,"polyunsaturated fats"" , over consumption of any fat including healthy fats like saturated fats will make you gain weight . Drinking alcohol including red wine are toxic to the liver .The less you eat the longer you will live and healthy you will be . A slow unhealthy liver cannot metabolise process any fats including healthy fats .
The biggest problem with controlling diabetes (insulin) and weight through diet is that people are lazy . You can lead a horse to water but can't force them to drink. Most people rather eat fast food , , wheat , white flour , factory frozen food ,, can food , protein powder and dairy full of casein that destroy the cells in the pancreas and cause cancer and take pills or shoot insulin than to change their shitty eating habits .
We live in an "instant gratification" society full of "lazy people" with zero 0 discipline or work ethic. Sad but true. If you want to lose weight watch your intake of "carbs" , keep your sugar level below 110 by intermittent fasting and eating less .People who eat less live longer . Be careful since the equivalent of 12 teaspoons of sugar happens very quickly. For example:
1 cup of milk equals = 2 teaspoons of sugar *
1 cup of rice (cooked) equals = 9 teaspoons of sugar*
1 banana equals equals = 5 teaspoons of sugar •
1 baked potato equals = 7 teaspoons of sugar •
1 sweet potato = 8 teaspoons of sugar •
1 cup of strawberries equals = 2.5 teaspoons of sugar (low sugar)*
1/2grapefruit = 2 teaspoons of sugar -
Coca cola (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar -
Raisin Bran cereal - 7.75 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) -
Grapes fruit - 4 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) -
Tomatoes - 0.7 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) -
1 Muffin (one chocolate chip muffin) - 4.75 teaspoons of sugar -
Special K cereal - 3 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Corn Flakes -
2.4 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Alpen cereal -
5.75 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Mangos fruit -
3.2 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) -
A cup of seedless prunes has, in effect, 25 teaspoons of sugar ! Scientists find in comparing the sugar levels in the blood after the consumption of a snickers bar that has 8.5 teaspoons of sugar the same as ""two bread slices "" ! .
The sugar equivalent is of 1 large bagel a whopping 12 teaspoons of sugar !...It is beyond what the body , the liver and pancreas can metabolize. We are practically growing "" cancer farms " !.
Lastly, it is worth noting that there are many breads that a single slice of which will raise your blood sugar more than a US Snickers bar (which has a GI of 68/97). to be healthy you must keep your blood sugar below 110 (""everything"" including eating too much protein will raise your insulin .)
Keep your protein portions and meals small , you cannot cheat your body Not even with paleo diet or ketogenic diet will not work for every one . Eating healthy and intermittent fasting is best solution to be slim and healthy for "" Me "" ) find what works for you , do experiment with your self and one day you will hit the solution that works for you ...keep trying !
Only water will not raise "insulin" hormone everything else including protein will raise your insulin , Try intermittent fasting . No carbs no cookies , no baked goods , keep your blood sugar around 110 or under .The less you eat the better you control your insulin hormone and blood sugar and you gain no weight . If you're addicted to carbs and sweets you will not lose weight .Get rid of your addiction and control your "mental health" control your "Cortisol" and "stress" or you not lose weight.
Taking mineral "Magnesium" its good for cortisol and stress.People who are magnesium deficiency have the highest heart disease , heart attacks and Irregular Heartbeat ,(arterial plaque ). Diabetics have magnesium deficiency , elevated blood glucose levels increase the loss of magnesium in the urine, which in turn lowers blood levels of magnesium.” So getting enough magnesium is especially important in diabetes and people who are border line diabetic or over weight .
Before you start eating any meal take three spoons of Apple cider vinegar this will bring down your blood sugar . Eat Salads with no oils , only with lemon or vinegar .If you go to bed late you will not lose weight , if you have sleep Apnea it will be very hard or impossible to lose weight the best go see a sleep doctor . Sleep Apnea is a very serious sleep disorder disease .
Also don't eat fruit if your plan is to lose weight ; all fruit will cause your blood sugar to go up . Fruit sugar called fructose is toxic and will spike your blood sugar and raise your insulin .Fruit should only be eaten by healthy slim people in season.
Every morning drink with warm filtered water mixed with lemon everyday ,detox your liver ,kidneys with water and lemon . natural vitamin C from lime or lemons make your arteries strong and healthy and cleans your liver and kidneys water and lemon (warm) the liver prefer warm water .Try to drink at least a litre of water a day .
For breakfast eat a high protein diet or better don't eat breakfast . Eat no grains ,No baked goods ,No refine carbs ,not nuts ,No lectins ,No beans , eat a Lectin-free diet . If you feel hungry drink a cup of organic coffee with no sugar this will calm down your hunger spams .Coffee will calm down your hunger but don't drink more than one cup a day .The Amino acid called L-Tyrosine is a good supplement to take if your thyroid is slow .Anything you eat should be organic close to mother nature eat nothing from a can or package .No factory food . , Avoid salt (sodium) ,Avoid all Restaurant food is Cooked with MSG and lots of sodium and "damaged" toxic fats .
Eat for your ""blood type" ( Dr. D'Adamo's Blood Type Diet) is a good diet for losing weight .Very important If you eat high protein diet with vegetable high in fibre make sure you take vitamin B-6 , B-12 , choline , Vitamin C 3 grams a day to keep your "homocysteins" low in your blood so you don't get heart disease .Avoid all white flour , beans , corn but eat vegetables . Avoid damaged fats ,no cheese , no frying , no mayonnaise . no salad dressings . No fruit juice , no fruits are very high in sugar . Also over eating too much protein will raise your insulin and cause you to gain weight . Eat small portions do not over eat on protein .
To detox your liver and bring down estrogen eat sulphur vegetables ,Broccoli , cabbage ,onions ,garlic ,Red beets et.. Best supplement for the liver is ;Water with lemon , Trimethylglycine - (TMG) , malic acid and "liopic acid " .
"Excess sugar ""eventually affects every organ in the body, but initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids.
These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs. But then it affects vital organs like the heart and the kidneys.reason two meals a day is so beneficial is because it keeps insulin low and GH high. Insulin is the main hormone in your body that is responsible for fat storage.
Every time we eat a meal ""insulin is raised"" . When "insulin is high" you will not be burning fat or losing weight. GH -"Growth hormone" on the other hand is the main fat burning hormone in your body. Therefore it would make sense that we would want to increase this as much as naturally possible. A combination of "intermittent fasting" and only having two meals a day can increase GH - Growth Hormone drastically. Increasing fat loss and weight loss results dramatically. (If you're over 50 yrs. old and you have low testosterone take 50 mg. of DHEA hormone) and 6 mg. of mineral Boron .
Avoid all soy and flax seeds oils and fish oils supplements , avoid all polyunsaturated oils and food . Soy and flax seeds Though are not a chemical estrogen, but it is a plant-based estrogen, and can throw off your hormonal balance. Eat a anti-estronic diet ,Vitamin B-6 ,100 mg a day its good to take to lower estrogen ; Work out: Studies show that moderate exercise lowers estrogen levels.
A 2013 study also found that aerobic exercise helps the body break down estrogen so it's easier to flush away. Get enough sleep: When you don't get enough sleep, you can not lose weight make sure you go to bed early 10:00 p.m. .. The levels of the so-called "sleep" hormone called melatonin is disrupted and you will not lose weight ! sleep !
Turns out that melatonin hormone has a protective effect against ""excess estrogen" . A 1999 study, for example, showed that melatonin helped block the growth of ""estrogen-induced cancer cells"" . Use a water filter: Public water supplies often contain chlorine, fluoride, and other industrial chemicals that act as xenoestrogens. Use a quality filter to reduce your exposure best book for weight lose ;
The only thing that doesn't raise the insulin hormone is plain water .Go buy this book and read it at least 4 times until all the information in the book is memorised in your brain ; The book by Dr. Jason Fung called ; The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code.../dp/1771641258
video to watch ;
The Case Against Sugar ua-cam.com/video/dQsRJTnwgkE/v-deo.html
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I think the research is in on MICROWAVED FOOD! Eek! NOOOOOO!!!!!
Movement and community. Movement and community. Movement and community. Movement and community. Movement and community.
and no diversity apparently.
Vegan propaganda!!!! Sorry dr disappointing vid. I do believe that a plant based diet is very healthy but not veganism. Some clean protein is healthy. .
He said people in the blue zones ate on average seafood twice a week and meat 5 times a month. That is far from a vegan diet.
@@almac9203 And they keep huge goat herds and sheep for milk cheese and lamb.I think they eat even more animal products than you think.
You can rid your arteries of plaque build up if you become vegan however.
More stupid top-down coercion from a guy that bikes- a very high-risk activity.
There are risks in all outdoor activities. Should that keep you from exercising outdoors?
@@annemccarron2281 Riding with cars on a road? Worse than motorcycles. Do what you like, but bicycles on roads with cars passing by? High risk.
He uses a microwave. 😂
Went to check the recipes he talked about. Sad really sad. I could not eat those due to my insulin resistance and glucose response. This man needs to get educated and everyone eating a LCHF diet is eating a ton of veg, just not beans and stuff that drives our blood sugar into the stratosphere. And personally I am not eating tofu. Just plan slime to me. Yuck! There will be a revolt if they try to stop us from eating meat.
I used to think the same as you so totally get where you are coming form, but after watching documentaries like 'Cowspiracy' and 'Dominion' and learning that we can be much healthier without consuming any animal products (including grass fed/organic), I stopped consuming animal products. Plus, the longest lived of all the bluezones were the full 'vegans' in loma linda california. Its worth checking out man - I can send you information on anything you're not sure about if you like.
You can cook tofu ertsin ways and make it crispy.